Gu Yu greeted them, naturally found herself a seat, and sat down. Then she pulled Zhu Li over and had her sit quietly on a child-sized stool.
"How did it go? How did it go?" The moment she sat down, Gu Yu impatiently pressed for answers.
Of course, seeing how calm everyone looked, she had already guessed the answer. Asking again now was merely to put her mind a little more at ease.
"Not bad." Chen Xi recounted everything that had just happened, along with the backup measures she had arranged, to Gu Yu.
Before Gu Yu could speak, however, Phyllis beside her voiced the question on her mind first.
"Lady Marsha, does Candidate Gu Yu know your true identity as well?"
Chen Xi nodded. "Yes. Actually, if we're being precise, Gu Yu is my disciple."
"What are you talking about?" Gu Yu was baffled. As she replayed Phyllis's words from earlier, she suddenly understood.
"Huh?!" Gu Yu looked at Chen Xi excitedly. "Boss, you told Senior Phyllis the truth?"
"Yes." Chen Xi confirmed it again.
To prevent an information gap between the two from causing Phyllis to misunderstand, Chen Xi wanted to give Phyllis a straightforward and reasonable explanation of her background in front of Gu Yu.
"The reason I deliberately assumed the identity of Marsha was entirely because of faith."
"I discussed it with Ademos. Appearing with Marsha's appearance and temperament would earn purer and greater faith." Chen Xi explained calmly.
Hearing this, Gu Yu understood how much Phyllis knew about the truth, allowing her to gauge how she should speak with her and avoid revealing too many inconsistencies.
"A conclusion reached together with Lord Ademos?" Phyllis pondered.
Naturally, she did not doubt the truth of Chen Xi's words. After all, who would think that a powerful sixth-rank