Frank Discussion

The president in the silver mask stared silently at Zhang Yuanqing, his gaze beneath the mask as deep and unfathomable as a still pool.

Zhang Yuanqing met his eyes without changing expression.

A long silence fell over the room. Neither spoke. The clamor and honking from outside occasionally drifted in as the two faced each other wordlessly.

Suddenly, the president chuckled.

"Why would you think I'm your uncle? Though he is quite outstanding."

Other than that family black sheep himself, who else could say something so shameless? Zhang Yuanqing rolled his eyes. "The day you arranged to meet me at Grandmother's house, I started to suspect it. Celestial Master Zhang even guarded against members of the Carefree Organization and never revealed his real-world identity, yet you knew everything about his wife and child. You even knew where his mother-in-law lived. That wasn't reasonable. Why would he trust you? But if you were his brother-in-law, then it all made sense."

Mr. President retorted, "Foolish. Have you forgotten the dog from Songhai?"

Zhang Yuanqing said, "True, you might have learned Celestial Master Zhang's identity for other reasons, just like the dog did. But what about my mother?

"Chen Shu was such a headstrong, self-assured ordinary woman, yet she took my dad's avatar abroad to work for you? Why would she trust you unconditionally? And the World Salvation Society that you painstakingly built—you were willing to hand it over to an ordinary woman to manage. During the battle for the Light Compass, you spent every last resource you had to seize a core fragment, only to give it to my dad.

"I don't believe you two had no special relationship."

This time, Mr. President did not refute him. "Go on."

"I'd been deeply puzzled for a long time over why Little Doubi was