Heavenly Journey City's south gate.
Slightly apprehensive, Gu Chenfeng rode a military horse out to the city gate under a soldier's guidance.
At a glance, he spotted Zuo Yutang waiting there, expressionless, clad in black light armor and astride a fine black horse, her figure tall, slender, and voluptuous.
Hiss, she really came looking for me!
Gu Chenfeng was startled, but since she had come right to his door, he could only steel himself and ride out through the gate.
Seeing the soldier return with Gu Chenfeng, Zuo Yutang looked him up and down a few times.
Before he could speak, Zuo Yutang turned her horse around.
"Follow me!"
Gu Chenfeng froze, hesitated briefly, then followed her.
One behind the other, they arrived at a quiet grove not far outside the city.
Zuo Yutang swung down from her horse.
Seeing this, Gu Chenfeng dismounted as well.
Unexpectedly, Zuo Yutang turned straight around and stepped right up to him.
Her impressive assets nearly collided with Gu Chenfeng's chest.
What's going on? Without a word, she's trying to bump chests with her superior? Gu Chenfeng was startled.
"Are you really Li Zicheng? Were you the masked warrior on the Blackwater City battlefield that day?"
Standing mere inches from Gu Chenfeng, Zuo Yutang opened with two questions in succession.
He had failed to evade her after all. She had come to settle the score.
"Ahem..."
Gu Chenfeng's mind raced.
Then he deliberately put on a flustered expression and spoke with guilt written all over his face.
"O-of course I am. I came to gain experience in the army at the arrangement of my Lineage elders. I only concealed my identity because I didn't want special treatment.
"But... the achievements on the Blackwater City and Heavenly Journey City battlefields were all mine. That is