To Su Jiu, Yu Jin was a stranger, after all, and she remained somewhat wary of him.
"Why us?"
Yu Jin lowered his head and smiled. "Our Yu Household may not be a sect, but we are still the foremost aristocratic clan on the Spiritflight Continent. Naturally, we should seek out those who seem most valuable as partners."
Though many people in the world bore the surname Yu, when it came to the Yu Household of the Spiritflight Continent, there was only one that people recognized. Su Jiu raised an eyebrow, but she was not surprised in the slightest. With the Yu Household's wealth and enormous population, having a couple of gifted disciples was hardly enough to astonish her.
As far as she knew, the Yu Household's abundant resources could even rival those of a second-rate sect. Every year, quite a few people went there to study under a master, some even changing their names to do so.
Su Jiu smiled faintly. "How exactly would you like us to cooperate, Fellow Daoist Yu?"
Yu Jin smiled as well. "By exchanging the information we already have, of course."
"Let's hear it."
Silence fell over the tearoom once again.
Su Jiu secretly ground her back teeth. He talks about exchanging information, then clams up as soon as he's said it. Not a shred of grace. Old fox.
Yu Jin, meanwhile, thought, Everyone says Su Jiu is good-hearted by nature, resolute and upright, but that doesn't seem entirely true. Look at how perfectly she's measured her words, without letting a single hint slip. I haven't even learned a thing about the person she wants to rescue, yet she's already trying to snare a white wolf with empty hands. This Miss Su's scheming mind is probably no less deep than mine.
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