Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Has a Reason (Part 2)

Fang Ran froze slightly. The moment Mu Cheng looked into his eyes and turned the question back on him, he wondered if someone with intuition like hers—

might have already guessed something, so he smiled and asked again.

"Then Sister Cheng Zi, do you have one too?"

As if her earlier quiet seriousness had been an illusion, Mu Cheng rested her folded hands on the table and lazily slumped over them again the next second, looking away as she muttered.

"Not telling you."

Hey. Don't tell me you said all that before, only for your own life to have been completely peaceful.

As Fang Ran could not help thinking that, he saw Mu Cheng look toward the people still discussing things over there. Her eyes returned to their listless state as she recalled absentmindedly:

"When I joined the Night Bureau, the Young Master was already there. Aside from the Magician, the Spellcaster, and Resurrection Jie, he was one of the earliest members to join voluntarily. I'd always wondered why someone like him, who loved freedom and hated being restrained, would do that."

"Come to think of it, the Young Master was always the most invested in everything happening in the Bureau. I used to think it was just because he had nothing better to do."

Hearing Mu Cheng, one of the more senior members of the Kid Group, mention this, Qing Ning, who had picked up another donut but had yet to take a bite, also thought about everything concerning the Young Master since she had joined the Night Bureau.

As for Fang Ran, who had only met the Young Master a few days ago, he was astonished to hear this. From their first meeting, the Young Master had left him with an unforgettable impression of being a wealthy, carefree