That night, Annie, Zhuge Qing, Fu Rong, and Zhi Jinhua ended up waiting around for nothing.
They had only been sitting down to rest at the milk tea shop for a little while when, just as the sky was growing dark, Zhang Chulan called them himself. He said they had successfully negotiated with the Tang Sect, but since it was already evening, the other side planned to put them up at the old campus of the Tang Sect Martial Arts School for the night. They would probably get to meet Tang Miao Xing, the current sect leader, sometime the next morning.
He also told Annie and the others over the phone not to worry or keep waiting outside the campus. They were certain there was no danger, so the others could head back to rest or go do whatever they wanted.
Annie was more than happy to hear that!
Without asking a single follow-up question, she turned around, cheered, and hopped into a car to go have fun on her own. Zhuge Qing, Fu Rong, and Zhi Jinhua were left sitting in the milk tea shop, staring at one another in bewilderment.
In the end, Zhuge Qing called Zhang Chulan again to confirm. Once he was sure that the others were indeed safe and the negotiations had gone smoothly, with no complications expected, he gave Zhang Chulan a few instructions and then left as well, somewhat dejectedly. He planned to return to the area early the next morning and wait.
At the same time, Zhang Chulan had no intention of sitting around after hanging up on Zhuge Qing.
While Sister Bao'er and Lu Linglong were off taking a bath together, he thought it over and eventually sought out Wang Zhenqiu, the temp worker from the Southwest Division. He asked him