She stared at the tea leaves bobbing up and down in the cup Hu Ruoyun had just brewed for her, remaining motionless for a long, long time.
"Meng Tianyue... the Meng Family is this impatient to see Zuo Xiaoduo dead? If so, why not send experts to assassinate him directly? Always playing these little tricks... are they trying to settle this as silently as rain moistening all things?"
"If I hadn't known your intentions before, hadn't seen your true faces, perhaps... you could still have kept me in the dark. But now..."
The moment this incident arose, He Yuanyue immediately fixed on her suspect. The Meng Family!
"Lan..."
She instinctively started to call for Sister Lan, only to remember that Sister Lan was now severely injured and recuperating at the Star Shield Bureau. She closed her mouth.
"No matter what, this cannot be exposed right now."
"Once it is exposed, it will only bring the conflict to a head and put Zuo Xiaoduo in even greater danger instead."
"The waters of Phoenix City really are growing murkier and murkier..."
"How did this Bai Family get tangled up with the Meng Family? The Bai Family... has always passed down a tradition of poetry and learning, an upright family... could they have been coerced?"
Zuo Xiaoduo sweated like rain inside the Gravity Room, utterly puzzled. He had no idea what was going on. From roughly the time he arrived at school that morning until now, he had clearly absorbed a considerable amount of spiritual energy, yet he had not felt the urge to break through even once.
Yesterday, his true qi would have stirred at least five or six times by now.
He could not figure it out.
Why was this happening?
If he could not figure it out, he would