Tang Wulin left Mo Yuan's office looking utterly bewildered.
"What happened, Wulin? Got turned down again?" Xie Xie asked with concern in the hallway outside.
"Please don't say 'again.' Thanks." Tang Wulin had been pondering what Mo Yuan meant, but Xie Xie's words earned him an annoyed look.
"Oh, come on. It's not the first time." Xie Xie shrugged.
He had accompanied Tang Wulin here many times, and not once had it worked. To be honest, he had no idea why the leader kept refusing Tang Wulin.
Perhaps the leader really had his reasons.
But when Xie Xie glanced at Tang Wulin's dazed face, he grew worried.
Oh no. Did that actually crush him?
He hurried to reassure him. "Don't worry, Wulin. We've all seen how talented you are. The leader must have his reasons. You don't need to be upset."
Tang Wulin glanced at him. Realizing Xie Xie had misunderstood, he explained, "I'm not upset. Mo Yuan just told me something I can't quite make sense of."
He briefly recounted what Mo Yuan had told him.
"Hiss... So does that mean there really is something about your family you don't know?" Xie Xie rubbed his chin. He had met Tang Wulin's father, and the man certainly wasn't a powerful Soul Master.
But the leader couldn't be wrong.
Which meant...
"Why don't you go home and ask your dad?"
"Yeah. I will."
That night, Tang Wulin returned to his home in Eastsea City.
That was right. He had moved, and he had brought his parents with him.
It was one of Anti-Entropy's employee benefits. Mo Yuan thought highly of Tang Wulin, so he had approved a low-cost apartment for him and arranged jobs for his parents at a company under Anti-Entropy.
"Mom, Dad, I'm home."
Tang Wulin opened the