Gathering!

Fairy Flower Street.

Ouyang Xiuyah stood where she was, her gaze fixed on a modest-sized residence. She watched it in silence for a while before looking away and setting off again.

"Hey, hey, why are you so distracted?"

Du Mei walked backward for a few steps, catching up with her friend. She muttered, sounding a little displeased:

"Come on, perk up. We're about to visit my grandmaster.

"With you looking like this, how can I introduce you to him as my good friend, someone with a real talent for making devices?

"And then I'll kneel and ask him to consider taking you as his disciple?"

Ouyang Xiuyah tugged at Du Mei's hand, looking a little embarrassed as she answered honestly:

"I just passed a friend's house and got distracted."

The residence she had been staring at was a property Jiang Yan had bought in Yehuai. He had left without selling it, but to anyone familiar with the place, it still stirred a sense that things had changed beyond recognition.

"Who is it? Which friend?" Sure enough, Du Mei was instantly intrigued and eager to get to the bottom of it.

Ouyang Xiuyah pressed her lips together and said softly:

"That was Jiang Yan's residence in Yehuai."

"Oh?" Du Mei gave an awkward laugh, looking a little uncomfortable. "So that fellow used to live here. It's pretty close to our Baiyang Academy."

"He was once a disciple of the academy, so it makes sense that he lived nearby," Ouyang Xiuyah explained.

"I see." Du Mei nodded, then suddenly looked at her friend and smiled with a wistful sigh:

"No wonder that fellow was willing to give you so many good things. Seems the feeling of missing someone goes both ways."

Ouyang Xiuyah turned her head away and ignored Du Mei's wild