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 follow him inside.
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 came too?
Although Yan Xiao had mentioned over the phone last night that Zhong Xueran had safely escaped a targeted attack, 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 really is someone named Yu Zeming in the police database. He's a Taoist, but his history is strange."
"This Yu Zeming was originally an orphan. With no one to raise or discipline him from childhood, he grew up badly behaved, spending his days hanging around the county towns surrounding Fu City, committing petty theft and refusing to mend his ways despite repeated correction." Xia Nan frowned slightly and continued, "The strange thing is, when he turned thirty, he suddenly seemed to become a different person. He went to Funiu Mountain, northeast of Fu City, and became a Taoist."
"You can't become a Taoist just by deciding