Yi Shuyuan threw back the covers and rose. The clothes on the rack flew over on their own. As he reached the door, Hui Mian appeared from nowhere, darted straight onto his shoulder, and tugged at him.
"Sir, don't go out yet!"
"Why?"
Yi Shuyuan was about to ask why, but when he listened closely, the two children outside had reached a crucial point in their conversation-or rather, a point crucial to Hui Mian.
Stoneborn was huddled beside a pillar with Du Xiaolin, speaking with an air of mystery.
"I'll tell you a secret. Do you know who Senior Gray really is?"
"Isn't Senior Gray just Senior Gray? Who is he?"
Du Xiaolin had never heard Hui Mian boast about this before. Stoneborn chuckled.
"Have you heard of the Manifest Holiness True Lord?"
Du Xiaolin's eyes widened at once. Of course she had heard of the Manifest Holiness True Lord. Her master and the elders of her sect had mentioned him back at Taiyin Palace, and she had learned even more after coming down the mountain.
"You mean Senior Gray is the Manifest Holiness True Lord?"
"No, no, no, no! Of course not. Senior Gray isn't the Manifest Holiness True Lord, but he is Great God Yunlai, the foremost great god under the True Lord. That's still very impressive!"
Du Xiaolin covered her mouth. Hui Mian's usual grinning face flashed through her mind, and she compared it to her imagined Mist-Hidden Yunlai, brush in one hand and scroll in the other. Could they really be the same person?
Inside his room, Yi Shuyuan glanced at his left shoulder. Hui Mian wore a satisfied expression.
But Du Xiaolin's very next words outside made Hui Mian stumble on Yi Shuyuan's shoulder.
"Stoneborn, you're lying to me, aren't you?"
Yi Shuyuan could not