Su Jiu stood on the bank, watching the flower lanterns drift deeper into the moat, unaware that someone was watching her from the bridge.
That person's gaze was almost entirely undisguised.
Su Jiu soon sensed it. She looked toward the bridge and froze for a moment.
"Junior Granduncle?" The crowd was bustling, and she had not infused her voice with spiritual qi, so Chu Luohen did not hear what she said.
Still, he could guess much of it from the movement of her lips.
Su Jiu had been about to go find Chu Luohen, only to discover that he had vanished from the long bridge when she blinked again.
A slightly cool hand settled on Su Jiu's shoulder.
Su Jiu turned around. "Junior Granduncle, why did you come here?"
Chu Luohen gave a slight nod and briefly told her about the situation in the town he had visited.
For some reason, the Heavenly Dawn Sect seemed convinced that Ouyang Yanyu was in the town he had searched, so many of its members were gathered there.
He reasoned that if so many people from the Heavenly Dawn Sect had failed to find her, either she was not in that town at all, or she had hidden herself completely.
Although he and Ouyang Yanyu had met once at the Imperial Treasure Pavilion, he was now disguised, so she might not recognize him. Even if she did, he was merely a stranger who knew Su Jiu as far as Ouyang Yanyu was concerned.
Someone as clever as Ouyang Yanyu would never expose herself to danger just because he appeared. She would only hide herself more deeply.
With that in mind, rather than continuing to waste time in that town, he might as well see whether the others had made any progress.
And since