Yan Fei's voice came from across the table: "You know Xiang Ling, right?"
The sound made Mu Xian's mood, which had clearly improved, worsen again.
Mu Xian withdrew his finger, ignoring Yan Fei's question.
The cold shoulder caused Xiangling's forced smile to appear on Yanfei's face, and a hint of bitterness slowly crept into her smile.
"Is there some misunderstanding between us?"
Mu Xian raised his gaze, then quickly lowered it again.
“There’s no misunderstanding,” Mu Xian said. “I’m just disgusted by some guys who keep spouting legal theories.”
Yan Fei wanted to retort immediately, but before she could finish speaking, she saw Mu Xian raise his gaze at her.
His gaze was cold and indifferent, his black pupils seemingly capable of swallowing him whole.
Yan Fei closed her open mouth again.
"sorry."
Yan Fei didn't know why she had to apologize, since he was the one who had spoken rudely first.
But Yanfei had a feeling that if she spoke her rebuttal, she would tear open something that was already difficult to mend.
But why is that...?
"Um, would you like some juice?"
"A juice made from a mixture of hook fruit and grape juice, a juice I specifically found in Mondstadt during my culinary training."
"Thank you."
The familiar yet unfamiliar conversation made Yan Fei, who was lost in thought, glance over inadvertently.
The boy took the cup from Xiangling, his similar face displaying a completely opposite expression of indifference.
Hold the cup with your right pinky finger supporting the bottom of the cup, and tap the bottom of the cup lightly with your pinky finger.
This was a subconscious little action of Mu Xian's, but in Yan Fei's memory, only one person had ever done this.
Yan Fei's heart tightened, and her gaze towards Mu Xian changed as a certain guess slowly surfaced in her mind.
"I remember it's been a long time since I last visited Grandma Ping."
Yan Fei concealed the turbulent emotions in her heart and turned to look at Xiang Ling as usual.
"Xiangling, I'll go with you to see Grandma Ping today. I have some important things to tell Sister Ganyu at Yujingtai."
"By the way, Yao Yao should be there too."
Yan Fei looked at Xiang Ling, but her attention was focused on the corner of her eye.
Yu Guangzhong and Mu Xian were drinking their juice when they looked at their right hand holding the glass, as if they had realized something.
Mu Xian removed his right pinky from the bottom of the cup, but he had lost his appetite...
...
The raging lightning was suppressed within the blade by an even more violent force.
The blade pressed down slowly with unstoppable momentum, but was steadily blocked by a heavily damaged katana.
The one wielding the katana was a blond young man. The two were evenly matched, but the downward force of the blade was being slowly eroded.
Just as he was about to deflect the downward-pressing blade, the young man let out a muffled groan and suddenly grabbed his right shoulder, as if suppressing some kind of pain.
Then, the blade descended, and the already battered greatsword shattered completely, the golden youth being completely engulfed in lightning.
Like the first breath after escaping suffocation, the white light in her vision grew brighter, pulling Gan Yu out of the nightmare.
Gan Yu looked around and saw that she was lying on a soft grass, surrounded by two or three sweet flowers, as if they were trying to envelop her.
The sun shone brightly, a gentle breeze blew, and the sweet fragrance of flowers filled the air; everything seemed exceptionally peaceful and beautiful.
"How could you fall asleep like that? You still have so many things to do."
With self-reproach in her voice, Gan Yu stood up, dusted herself off, and headed toward Liyue Harbor.
Since the Emperor abdicated, Gan Yu's workload has increased day by day, but rather than dreaming of nightmares, Gan Yu prefers to devote all her energy to her work.
Gan Yu doesn't like working, but her busy work schedule leaves her no time to think about other things.
This is a small hill next to Yujingtai, and the hill is even within the boundaries of Liyue Harbor.
As Gan Yu descended the hill, her mind quickly filled with busy work plans.
The reassignment of the Stratorock Abyss miners, the implementation of discussions with Mondstadt, and the maintenance plan regarding the leyline anomaly...
As the secretary of the Seven Stars of Liyue, Gan Yu does not belong to any of the Seven Stars, but her work during this period was arranged by Tianquan.
There's definitely more and more work to do.
As Gan Yu pondered, the nightmares she had dreamt of before kept resurfacing in her mind.
The nightmare filled Gan Yu with panic, a panic even more terrifying than the mountain of case files piled up on her desk.
The sense of panic in her heart made Gan Yu quicken her pace, wishing she could immediately return to Yuehaiting and bury herself in her work.
"Master!"
The sound made Gan Yu stop in her tracks and look at the girl climbing up the Jade Capital Terrace in the distance.
As if sensing something, Gan Yu looked in the other direction.
An elderly woman withdrew her complicated gaze from herself and turned to watch the girl running towards her in the distance with a smile.
“Ah Ping…”
Gan Yu murmured, the sense of panic in her heart urging her to walk over.
He took a step, but turned back halfway.
Looking at the Moon Sea Pavilion behind her, and then at the old woman not far away, Gan Yu turned around and walked towards the Moon Sea Pavilion.
Just as Gan Yu turned around, Mu Xian climbed up the steps to the Moon Sea Pavilion.
After glancing at the old man not far away, Mu Xian looked away and then walked to another corner of the Jade Capital Platform.
Chapter 38 His identity was easily exposed.
Mu Xian knew this woman named Granny Ping; she had been there since Mu Xian first arrived in Liyue Harbor.
It was the same eleven years ago, it was the same five years ago, and even now, Grandma Ping's appearance has not changed.
They used to be carried halfway into the mortuary, but they outlived the old master of the mortuary until he died.
If it weren't for the rumors about the Hall of Rebirth, Mu Xian wouldn't have wanted to come here.
Perhaps it was because Grandma Ping always gave Mu Xian a feeling similar to Zhong Li, so unless necessary, Mu Xian did not want to have too much contact with her.
After all, Zhongli alone made Mu Xian feel terrible.
Mu Xian simply found a place to sit down and waited for the group of people in the distance to finish their boring conversation.
Meow~!
I heard a familiar meow, and when I turned around, I saw the little yellow and white tabby cat.
This kitten has many names; in Liyue, it's called "Fa Cai" (meaning "Get Rich").
Fa Cai saw the person who used to take such good care of it. It came up from behind Mu Xian and affectionately rubbed against the back of Mu Xian's hand that was on the ground.
In Fa Cai's memory, whenever he looked like this, a large hand would gently rub his head.
Slowly, Fa Cai squinted his eyes and adopted an expression of enjoyment.
But the familiar caress didn't come. Looking at Mu Xian with some confusion, Mu Xian pulled his right hand away from Fa Cai.
"I said so."
Mu Xian wiped the back of his right hand: "If you leave again, don't come looking for me, and I won't acknowledge you anymore."
He tried to get rich by trying to get close to her, but Mu Xian dodged him.
“I know you can understand.”
Mu Xian spoke up, glancing at Fa Cai: "Stay away from me."
Meow...
He leaned closer to Mu Xian and let out a wronged sound, then shrank back.
But it didn't leave; it sat obediently next to Mu Xian.
The fortune bird didn't come any closer, but instead made meowing noises from time to time.
Mu Xian ignored Fa Cai beside him, looked up at the sky, and felt a little irritated.
The investigation into the rumors surrounding the Hall of Rebirth was gradually making progress, but Mu Xian always felt that things were going too smoothly.
Why would the General Affairs Department be so cooperative in helping him find Aja's position?
After finding Aja, why did Aja cooperate with him without any struggle?
Moreover, this incident actually involves a faction in Liyue collaborating with the Fatui and providing them with funds.
After much thought, Mu Xian realized that all this trouble was simply to reduce the business of the Rebirth Hall and make his master feel stifled for a few days.
The price, however, was that the Fools exposed their secret cooperation with a certain force.
Spreading the rumors throughout Liyue overnight would require a considerable amount of Mora, which the Northern Bank could afford.
They could have kept this hidden agenda a secret, or even used it to further interfere with Liyue's economy.
Why go through all that trouble just to affect the business of the ancestral hall?
To destroy the Hall of Rebirth and thus interfere in Liyue's funeral industry?
joke.
Not to mention the traditions that have been passed down since the war between demons and gods.
Even if the rumors cause the Hall of Rebirth to lose business, the angered hall master can easily accept funding from the Seven Stars of Liyue again.
Although Muxian didn't know why her sect leader refused Seven Stars' funding after becoming the sect leader, for Liyue, the importance of the Hall of Rebirth was no less than that of any of the Eight Gates.
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