The next day.
At nine thirty in the morning, Qin Manjiang went to the Riverside tearoom as agreed.
Abyss... no, Yi Yu had driven him there.
But this time, Yi Yu did not go inside with him.
After all, Yan Xiao had only invited Qin Manjiang, not him.
When Qin Manjiang entered the tearoom, he saw four people already waiting there.
Xia Nan, Shen Hai, Yan Xiao... and Zhong Xueran.
She was here too?
Although Yan Xiao had mentioned over the phone last night that Zhong Xueran had escaped a targeted attack unharmed, Qin Manjiang did not know exactly what had happened.
Still, Qin Manjiang had something to tell Yan Xiao as well.
"There's something wrong with that Taoist."
As soon as Qin Manjiang sat down, Yan Xiao got straight to the point.
He took out a file, placed it on the coffee table, and said, "The Returning Soul Ghost Story that Qiao Ziruo, Mei Sijun, and you encountered was a setup."
Qin Manjiang's gaze shifted slightly. Was it that Old Taoist?
He picked up the file from the coffee table and examined it carefully.
"I dug up this information last night," Xia Nan said. "There is indeed someone named Yu Zeming in the police records. He's a Taoist, but his history is very strange."
"This Yu Zeming was originally an orphan. He grew up with no one to raise or discipline him, had poor character, and spent his days hanging around the county towns surrounding Fu City, committing petty theft and refusing to mend his ways," Xia Nan continued with a slight frown. "The strange thing is, when he turned thirty, he seemed to suddenly become a completely different person. He went to Funiu Mountain, northeast of Fu City, and became a Taoist."
"You can't become a Taoist just