When the man following Su Jiu saw her enter an alley, he naturally followed her in.
But when he reached the corner, he suddenly discovered that the person he had been following had vanished.
Surprise flickered across his face. Before he could react, a longsword glowing blue rested against his neck.
He sighed softly. "Su Jiu, is that you?"
Su Jiu paused, withdrew Purple Ultimate, and stepped in front of him.
Her pupils widened slightly in disbelief. "Mo Yan?"
In a private room on the second floor of a teahouse, Mo Yan stared at Su Jiu with a strange expression for quite some time.
Only after a long while did he say, "So it really is you."
He had wondered why Su Jiu's eyes had always seemed so at odds with her face. She must have been wearing some sort of face-concealing magic treasure back then. Now, she looked much more pleasing to the eye.
In fact, he had been standing not far from Su Jiu in the line to enter the city. If not for her perpetually cool demeanor and those distinctive peach-blossom eyes, he might not have recognized her.
"What brings you here?" Su Jiu took a casual sip of tea.
Mo Yan said, "I thought I should be asking you that. I'm going home. What are you here for?"
Su Jiu paused and stared at him for a while. Mo Yan. His surname was Mo.
Why had it never occurred to her that he might belong to the Mo Household?
"To visit a friend and find something." There was nothing worth hiding about that.
Mo Yan looked out at the street beyond the teahouse. Tomorrow City was as prosperous as ever, but he had no idea how the Mo Household in Nameless City was doing.
"Someone from