In a pavilion somewhere unknown, the Demoness Sister of the Vengeful Ghost Sect and Wu Meng seemed to be drinking and talking with someone.
A ravine separated Ren Ye's Thatched Cottage from the pavilion, and there was still some distance between them. Mist swirled around the pavilion, as though a formation had sealed it off, allowing the Little Bad King to make out only the outlines of the three figures, not their faces.
But Ren Ye had an excellent memory and an extremely nosy streak. He studied the figure beside the Demoness and Wu Meng. The longer he looked, the more familiar the person seemed.
Familiar...
Had it been someone close to him, Ren Ye was confident he could have identified the person instantly from their movements alone. After all, before Old Liu's "death," he had given a very precise assessment of Ren Ye's eyesight and memory-an expert at spotting causes.
I didn't recognize him at first glance. That means I must have seen him before, but haven't spent much time with him.
He stood there in a daze as surging memories flooded through his mind.
Soon, he abruptly raised his head. "It fits. Everything fits...!"
"That figure looks a lot like... Long Yuqing's Wife's Second Brother—Yang Mingyuan."
"Holy shit! Is it him?!"
The more Ren Ye thought, the more alarmed he became, and the more alarmed he became, the more closely he studied the figure in the mist.
That person... really did look exactly like Yang Mingyuan!
But hadn't he been abducted? Why would he be sitting there drinking with the Vengeful Ghost Sect's Demoness and the strongest ADC on the server?
Could the Nine Li Continent have some strange customs that required treating prisoners like their own fathers?
Utterly shocked, Ren Ye involuntarily recalled fragment after fragment of