"I thought you had a clear head, but you're just as stupid as the rest."
The man drained the water in his teacup, then gave a mocking laugh.
"Do you still not understand why you came here?"
Yang Qing shook his head without hesitation.
Since someone was willing to clear up his doubts, why should he waste any thought on it?
Better to save his brains for something else.
"You should at least know how you survived, shouldn't you?"
Yang Qing smiled when he heard the man's question.
So that was what he was after, coming all this way.
Still, looked at another way, the man's demand was reasonable enough.
Since ancient times, even the kindness of a single drop of water was to be repaid with a gushing spring. How much more so a life-saving kindness?
Although the man had merely pushed the flames aside, he had saved Yang Qing all the same.
The only question was how he intended to collect on that favor.
Seeing Yang Qing smile, the man opposite him merely glanced at him before lowering his gaze to the cup in his hand again, as though something on it held his attention more firmly.
After that brief smile, Yang Qing's expression returned to normal. "Why not tell me what you have in mind?"
The man was surprised that Yang Qing still had the presence of mind to turn the tables on him. But that surprise lasted only an instant. He raised the cup in his hand toward Yang Qing.
"First, fill my cup."
This cup had appeared only after he arrived; it had not been there before. Nor was there anything else here with which to refill it.
The man, however, seemed unconcerned. He simply held the cup out before Yang Qing, a glimmer of