The teapot on Su Jiu's low table had long since gone cold.
She gazed at the patterns on it, pondering silently. "Have you had any contact with Fellow Daoist Ouyang over these past five years?"
Lou Sheng gave Su Jiu a surprised look, clearly not expecting her to bring up this person out of nowhere.
His lips curled mockingly. "Why would I contact her? That said, she has tried to find me in secret many times, and sent me plenty of Message Talismans."
Su Jiu's eyelid twitched. "Have you never met with her? Or even read the Message Talismans she sent you?"
Lou Sheng looked utterly disdainful. "I don't need to read her Message Talismans to know what they say! A shameless female cultivator like her must have found she couldn't get by in the Heavenly Dawn Sect anymore, so she came back looking for me. This isn't a rubbish dump! How could I let her come and go as she pleases?"
Listening to Lou Sheng, Su Jiu felt somewhat suffocated.
She suddenly felt sorry for the Azure Tide Sect, which True Lord Pinglan had entrusted to Lou Sheng, a man with little more than a few petty clever tricks.
Of course, Chong Mo didn't seem particularly shrewd to her either.
Yet the genuinely shrewd person had been barred from the sect by this blockhead.
Su Jiu couldn't help sighing. "I thought you would at least take a look at the Message Talismans Fellow Daoist Ouyang left you."
By now, Lou Sheng seemed to have noticed that something was amiss.
"What do you mean?"
Rather than answering him directly, Su Jiu asked, "When did you cut off all contact with Ouyang?"
Lou Sheng's expression darkened. He didn't understand why Su Jiu kept bringing up Ouyang Yanyu today, but he still