Leaving aside how delighted everyone in the convoy was after Luo Fan successfully brought An Xiaoran back.
Elsewhere, in a café beneath the Sequence Alliance building.
Shi Chonghu, one of the Thirteen Councilors, was sitting in a corner of the café.
A short while later, a beautiful woman with delicate features entered the café and sat down across from Shi Chonghu.
"Councilor Shi, what did you want to discuss, asking me to meet you here at a time like this?" the beauty asked directly after sitting down across from Shi Chonghu, her manner brisk and decisive.
"Luo Fan was missing for quite some time, and now he's returned to the Sequence Alliance. Did you know?" Shi Chonghu asked, looking at the beauty before him.
"Oh? Really? He's back?"
At this, the beauty across from Shi Chonghu raised her eyebrows slightly. A trace of reproach flashed in her eyes as she said, "That fellow didn't even say hello to me after arriving. He doesn't have me in his heart at all."
After hearing her words, Shi Chonghu fell silent for a moment before asking somewhat cautiously, "Councilor Lin, everyone says you and Luo Fan are a couple. Could there actually be some truth to it?"
But upon hearing Shi Chonghu's question, Lin Wanqing did not answer directly. Instead, she frowned, her expression clearly showing some displeasure.
"You specifically asked me out for coffee just to ask about my relationship with Luo Fan? Isn't that a little too tiresome?"
With that, Lin Wanqing looked completely uninterested in continuing the conversation and rose to leave.
"Councilor Lin, wait. Don't leave just yet."
Seeing Lin Wanqing get up to leave, Shi Chonghu immediately called out, then continued, "Although people have always been saying that you and Luo Fan are very likely a couple, I