"Hey! What are you looking at? Why are you so absorbed? I want to see too."
Di Qiu'er suddenly appeared beside Jiang Yue. Sensing that his attention had drifted elsewhere, she had a fair idea of what he was doing.
Sharing her Mental Detection, Di Qiu'er noticed the Mad Scientist over there as well, and a look of distaste crossed her face.
Whether as a soul beast or a human, she had always been very particular about cleanliness.
She silently edged two steps closer to Jiang Yue, as though doing so would put more distance between her and that Mad Scientist.
"Why are you watching him when you've got nothing better to do?"
"Is something wrong with him?"
"I don't know. Maybe he just went through the four great tragedies of life."
"The four great tragedies? What are those?"
"A single drop of sweet rain after a long drought, meeting an old acquaintance in a foreign land only to find he's your creditor, a wedding night happening next door, and seeing your name on the imperial examination honor roll only to discover it's someone else with the same name. More or less those."
"Oh, so those are the four great tragedies of life. I'll remember that. All right, stop watching him. I'm hungry! Today, let me, Di Qiu'er, take you around to find something delicious!" With that, Di Qiu'er began "inspecting" the serving windows at top speed. Jiang Yue moved much more slowly, already piecing together the information in his head.
Jiang Yue already had a guess as to the man's identity: Xiao Hongchen, the next head of the Hongchen Family, whose martial soul was the Three-Legged Golden Toad. A born soul engineer, he was also one of the greatest contributors to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy's victory