An elderly man pushed open the interrogation room door and walked in.
He wore a smile, the wrinkles on his face deepening, yet they did not make him look unpleasant in the slightest. Instead, they gave him an air of kindness.
Combined with his gentle gaze and well-fitting clothes, he looked like the benevolent elder people often spoke of.
However, Qin Ran regarded him warily.
In Qin Ran's Perception, the man had appeared suddenly.
Simply put, Qin Ran could only detect him if the man wanted him to know he had arrived.
That alone was enough to make Qin Ran treat him cautiously.
"My name is Rosde Lanchi. I have come to see you with no ill intent."
"I came to plead on behalf of my proud yet incapable granddaughter!"
"I hope to receive your forgiveness!"
The old man came before Qin Ran and gave a slight bow.
"Granddaughter?"
"Tali Lanchi?"
Qin Ran was taken aback, then immediately understood.
Still, the fact that the other man had come to plead for forgiveness was somewhat beyond Qin Ran's expectations.
When the man had appeared, Qin Ran had originally assumed he was something like Tali Lanchi's trump card.
After all, that sudden manner of appearing had been filled with threat.
Therefore, Qin Ran looked at him suspiciously.
"That's right, the granddaughter who gives me such a headache."
The old man nodded with a bitter smile.
"Although she has received guidance from certain people on the Mystery Side, the environment she grew up in determined that she would never truly understand the Mystery Side."
"I hoped her training on the West Coast would allow her to fit in, but unfortunately..."
"She completely failed to understand my intentions."
The bitter smile on the old man's face deepened.
Yet Qin Ran remained utterly unmoved.
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