Player of the Uncanny
Chapter 341

Yan Xiao

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"He knows a lot about you-things no one but you, the person who experienced them firsthand, could possibly know."

The river was as still as a mirror, reflecting the clearing sky. Everything was vivid and beautiful.

But Qin Manjiang's heart could not be as calm as the water.

He had lost contact with "Jiang Du" inside his body, and another "Qin Manjiang" had appeared in the real world. Coincidence or fact, the implications were too strong-so strong that Qin Manjiang wondered whether he was overthinking it.

But Yan Xiao's words forced him to accept it.

Jiang Du had left this body and used some method to disguise himself as him. He was playing the role of "Qin Manjiang."

But how had he done it?

Wasn't this body what Jiang Du wanted?

Where could he have found another body to use? And if there really was another body available, would Jiang Du have needed to spend twenty years painstakingly laying plans for his own "resurrection"?

So Qin Manjiang shook his head. "I don't think that's Jiang Du, even though all the evidence points to him right now."

"Why?" Yan Xiao turned his head and asked.

"I don't know. Maybe it's intuition." Qin Manjiang looked at the river and shook his head. "I wouldn't volunteer the fact that there's another person inside me, but the first time he appeared before you, he made no attempt to hide it."

"He's proud. Too proud to stoop to pretending to be me."

Qin Manjiang smiled. "How could someone that proud impersonate someone he looks down on? Especially when he's currently 'living under someone else's roof.'"

Yan Xiao nodded. "I see."

"You understand?" Qin Manjiang was rather surprised.

Yan Xiao neither agreed nor disagreed. Instead, he looked at Qin Manjiang and asked, "What about you?"

His

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