"Because Master Zuo really does have quite a reputation. At least within Phoenix City, it really is considerable!"
Zuo Xiaoduo gave a wry chuckle.
"But why did Gao Qiao'er and Gao Chengxiang come to warn you just now? Were they offering a gesture of goodwill?"
Li Chenglong said, "At the very least, they definitely didn't come to have you read their fortunes or anything like that. They came to tell you that the Gao Lineage already suspects you. We have to acknowledge this favor. We can't refuse to."
Zuo Xiaoduo slowly nodded.
"Or there might be another implication: the Gao Lineage in Capital City... has already taken notice of you, to the point of ordering the Gao Lineage here in Fenghai City to deal with you. Otherwise, there would be no need to send Gao Qiao'er to warn you."
Try as he might, Li Chenglong couldn't make sense of it. "But what I can't understand is... why was Gao Qiao'er the one who came to warn you?"
"Wouldn't that ruin their Lineage's plans? Isn't that contradictory?"
Li Chenglong frowned.
Zuo Xiaoduo said evenly, "It's still a tangle of cause and effect... The Fenghai Gao Lineage still won't act against me right now. That's why they sent a warning. Even the Gao Lineage's younger members aren't necessarily being insincere in befriending me. Even if that's because they don't know what's going on... at least it's genuine."
"You have to understand, if I died now, the Fenghai Gao Lineage would still suffer along with me."
Zuo Xiaoduo said evenly, "The matter of the Dragon-Tiger Ranking's Life-and-Death Arena isn't over yet."
"So the Gao Lineage is even more eager now to sever any connection to whether I live or die. From the Fenghai Gao Lineage's perspective, now that the Capital City Gao Lineage