Tian Xingwen did not believe there was anything wrong with his judgment, and yet this Shopkeeper Zhu had allowed himself to be seized, while also contradicting the loopholes that had appeared.
A possibility suddenly occurred to him: his judgment had not been wrong. The mistake lay with Shopkeeper Zhu himself.
Regardless of whether something had happened to Senior Brother Su, if the other side wanted to lure him out, perhaps they likewise did not want to risk themselves and personally come over to deceive him.
The enemy's transformation art probably truly had not reached that level of brilliance. If they were even slightly careless and he saw through them, the plan would have already ended before it even began.
For safety's sake, the most suitable course for the enemy would have been to set their sights on the real Shopkeeper Zhu. What these enemies needed to do was capture Shopkeeper Zhu, then alter his memories.
There might not even have been any incident of Senior Brother Su going to find him. They only needed to place a prepared jade slip on Shopkeeper Zhu, take him to some remote place in the market, quietly wake him, and let Shopkeeper Zhu be in some kind of reasonable state!
Or perhaps an enemy really had transformed into Senior Brother Su's appearance. With Shopkeeper Zhu's ability, upon meeting him, he really might not have been able to tell whether the other party was true or false, and the matter Shopkeeper Zhu had come over to speak of was simply something he had experienced personally.
In that case, from Shopkeeper Zhu's point of view, after he and Su Nanzi quickly left the shop together, when the two of them were about to reach that stretch of woods, the fake Su Nanzi only had to pretend