After a moment of meeting her gaze, Bai Xiaochun suddenly gave Xue Fuyao a faint smile. Her previously calm, rippleless eyes came alive, as though she had become an entirely different person.
At the sight, Xue Fuyao felt a bone-chilling dread spread through her entire body.
Judging by her experience in her previous life, this woman was far from ordinarily dangerous.
She was like a venomous snake lurking in a dark corner, ready at any moment to inject the deadliest venom into the prey she had marked.
While they waited, Wang Zheng came over.
"What are you doing over here, being so sneaky?"
As soon as Wang Zheng arrived, he squeezed Chu Yunzhe out of his spot beside Xue Fuyao. Chu Yunzhe did not get angry; he merely glanced at him before looking away.
Xue Fuyao took it all in.
In her previous life, rumors had said Chu Yunzhe and Delusion City's young city lord were very close-closer than brothers, though they shared no blood. It seemed those rumors were true.
She did not conceal what had just happened, either. She recounted the matter involving the Bai Family and took the opportunity to ask Wang Zheng about them.
"How much do you know about the Bai Family?"
Wang Zheng was, after all, Delusion City's young city lord. He was bound to know more than they did.
Sure enough, upon hearing Xue Fuyao's question, Wang Zheng chuckled and lowered his voice. "You've asked the right person. I really do know a few things about the Bai Family."
"What things? Stop keeping us in suspense and tell us," Chu Yunzhe urged.
Wang Zheng cleared his throat. "You know the Bai Family's main lineage is in the Eastern Continent. The Bai Family here in the Southern Continent is called a collateral branch, but