After chatting for a while, Mu Nujiao learned Asharaya's real name.
"Asharaya. What a distinctive name." Mu Nujiao had a vague feeling she had heard it somewhere before.
"Your name is lovely too. Which poem in the 'Nian Nu Jiao' form does it come from?" Asharaya clearly knew something about Chinese poetry.
"Nostalgia for the Red Cliffs."
"A magnificent poem. Your name lives up to it."
"Yours is no less impressive."
The two traded compliments, leaving Zhou Sining unable to join the conversation. Just then, Zhao Manyan called.
He asked whether anything strange had happened in the exhibition corridor that day. An exhibit had been stolen.
Zhou Sining and Mu Nujiao had been in the corridor at the time.
"Nothing strange happened." Zhou Sining glanced at Asharaya and changed the subject. "What was stolen?"
"A Sin Stone representing Impartiality."
"Oh, I saw it. I thought the woman who cast that stone was seriously disturbed."
"Who knows? I don't know enough about it... All right, if you didn't notice anything, there's nothing to be done." Zhao Manyan soon ended the call.
Meanwhile, Mu Nujiao and Asharaya quickly agreed on a time to set out.
As their conversation drew to a close, Zhou Sining remembered something and asked, "You said this morning that you'd seen me in the Ancient Capital. When was that?"
Before the Ancient Capital Cataclysm, Zhou Sining had been far from famous.
After the Ancient Capital Cataclysm, Han Ji had kept him well protected.
Even if everyone in the Ancient Capital had seen his Demonization form, only Han Ji and a few others had actually known who he was.
How had Asharaya seen his face and recognized him without him noticing?
"That's part of the information I intend to give you, so I'll keep it to myself for now."