For the next half month, Ouyang Yanyu did not see Su Jiu again.
Even the small town nearest the Azure Tide Sect had several thousand residents.
This was also the town Lou Sheng had been assigned to when he was searching for Ouyang Yanyu.
Su Jiu had first come here a month and a half ago. Ouyang Yanyu had just returned to the sect then, and she and her Junior Granduncle had planned to try their luck and see whether they could find anything good in the town's Market Quarter.
Who would have thought that instead of finding anything good, they would hear a rumor?
The rumor concerned Ye Wanqing being abused.
At the time, Su Jiu and Chu Luohen had stopped at a tea stall. In one corner, a man and a woman who appeared to be husband and wife were discussing the matter.
After listening, Su Jiu found it rather puzzling. It was not that Ye Wanqing could never suffer abuse, but that Chong Mo could not possibly abuse her to the point of death. Anyone who did not know Chong Mo might well believe it.
Just as those two described him, Chong Mo was a shameless wretch-deranged, with a wolf's heart and a dog's lungs, utterly devoid of gratitude.
But Su Jiu knew Chong Mo would never...
Once doubts arose in her mind, she wanted to get to their root, so she listened a little longer.
To her surprise, she stayed there until the sun went down. Throughout the day, that couple repeatedly brought up the Heavenly Dawn Sect, Ye Wanqing, and Chong Mo, as though determined to tell every customer who came for tea.
Some customers were interested in the grudges and disputes of such great sects and asked the pair to tell the story from