After traveling through time, the four best friends were all targeted by the boss

According to the place Xiao Ma said, Qiao Yi and Meng Yin quickly arrived at the mansion.

Meng Yin waved the door knocker, and after a while, someone came to open the door.

It was Xiao Ma who opened the door. In the moonlight, he recognized that the girl in front of him was the one who came to him to ask questions in the afternoon.

"Girl, it's so late...are you really here?" He said with a wry smile, glancing at her side. She didn't bring anything with her. Did she come here specially for the inspection?

Meng Yin curled her eyebrows and said, "Sorry to bother you." She pulled down her mask, and Xiao Ma's eyes widened.

In the inner courtyard, Gu Huai sat on a stone bench with a book in his hand.

Hearing the footsteps, he didn't even raise his head, but said calmly: "Didn't I tell you not to come to this yard?"

Meng Yin looked around. The whole yard was very clean, except for some messy flowers and plants. It was obvious that they had arrived in Taoyuan City not long ago.

"Gu Huai." Meng Yin spoke and walked inside.

Hearing the sweet female voice, Gu Huai thought he had misheard.

He suddenly raised his head and saw Meng Yin walking towards him slowly, her goose yellow skirt flying up with her steps.

"Miss Meng!?" Gu Huai stood up, "Why...you..."

He suddenly thought of something, sat down again, and said with understanding: "Oh, right, they came here, so you naturally came too."

Meng Yin stood one meter away from him and asked, "Gu Huai, you didn't get smallpox, did you?"

Gu Huai shook his head: "No, my body has always been like this."

He watched Meng Yin walk up and sit on the stone bench, and suddenly remembered that when he first met her, she was lively and alert, but now she was more stable.

Meng Yin looked at him calmly, his face still as pale as ever, but fortunately his lips were rosy and his eyes were clearly black and white.

"Gu Huai, why are you in Taoyuan City?" She asked straight to the point, "Also, those children today... were they saved by you?"

Gu Huai didn't expect that she would come to ask these questions on purpose, and couldn't help but be a little surprised: "I just came to secretly check the goods in Taoyuan City, and those kids helped me. Later, I saw them being chased and beaten, so I helped them. I didn't expect that smallpox would spread in Taoyuan City later."

Meng Yin tapped the stone table with her fingers. She saw that his eyes were not evasive and his tone was quite sincere. Combined with what Xiao Ma said, she believed that he was not lying.

That being said, Gu Huai arrived at Taoyuan City very early. Judging from his neither humble nor arrogant attitude, what happened tonight probably had nothing to do with him.

She was a little surprised. She didn't expect Gu Huai to be so kind.

"Miss Meng came here... just to ask me this?" Gu Huai asked hesitantly.

Meng Yin nodded and then slowly shook her head: "More than that."

She looked at him steadily, as if she wanted to see through him, and asked, "Gu Huai, are you related to Yi An and Mr. Han?"

Gu Huai paused, obviously stumped by her straightforward question.

"Were you involved in the Wushan incident?" she asked again, without even blinking, for fear of missing any of his subconscious expressions.

The two looked at each other for a long while before Gu Huai pursed his lips and chuckled, "Miss Meng, are you asking on behalf of Gu Ling?"

Meng Yin lowered her eyes: "Not entirely."

Her main purpose was to know whether Gu Huai would become a major obstacle.

From the very beginning when she knew that he and Gu Ling had a conflict, she tried to reconcile their relationship to see if she could do it without any violence or bloodshed.

Judging from the fact that Gu Huai saved those children today, he should not be a person who committed a heinous crime.

"What would you do if I told you that I had contact with them?" He suddenly spoke, bringing Meng Yin back to her senses.

"I did cooperate with them, but the matter of Wushan has nothing to do with me. As for Xiaoyao Sect, I have never had any contact with it." He said, "I went to Xiaoyao City in advance because of business matters."

Meng Yin's eyebrows jumped, and she clenched her hands unconsciously: "Really?"

Gu Huai nodded, his expression normal: "Really, I know Yi An was tricked by Yi Qing and Miss Tao, and there is no need to lie to you now."

After saying that, he smiled mockingly: "I joined them thanks to Gu Ling."

Meng Yin raised her eyes suddenly: "What do you mean?"

Gu Huai looked at her reaction just now and frowned slightly.

It seems that Meng Yin really cares about Gu Ling.

"When we were in Ziyang City, Gu Ling disguised himself as me in order to avoid being exposed." As he spoke, he glanced at Meng Yin's wrist, which was not wearing the wristband he had given her.

"The time Yi An and I met you and Miss Tao on the street, he was the one who persuaded me to join them."

Meng Yin's eyes flickered slightly. So it was her words that let Gu Huai know that Gu Ling had disguised himself as him!

"So that person wasn't you..." Meng Yin thought about what happened in Ziyang City, "I was wondering why it felt wrong."

Gu Huai sneered and said, "Miss Meng, don't you think he is simple?"

"How is that possible!" Meng Yin immediately retorted. How could she not know that Gu Lingdan was not simple?

Realizing that she had overreacted, Meng Yin coughed twice and said, "I know you hate him, but you don't have to get involved with Yi An and the others, right?"

She leaned forward slightly, frowning, "What if they just want to use you?"

Gu Huai smiled gently and said to Meng Yin in a joking tone: "Miss Meng, are you so sure that I am not taking advantage of them?"

Meng Yin gripped the edge of the stone table tightly: "Isn't this like trying to get the skin of a tiger?"

"I don't want to be a lobbyist, I just think...you and Gu Ling are cousins, there's nothing you can't talk about nicely, right?" She added a few more sentences.

Gu Huai shook his head slightly and stood up. "It seems that Miss Meng still doesn't understand him. If he sees you and me together now, I think he will kill me without hesitation."

Meng Yin fell silent. This was indeed a good thing that Gu Ling would do.

But it was precisely because of this that she came alone to persuade Gu Huai, because she felt that Gu Huai's crime did not deserve death, and she also wanted to make Old Han lose the help of Gu Huai and the forces behind him.

"Miss Meng, don't worry. When Yi'an asked me to join them, I told him that I would not do anything that would harm others. I just want to get my things back, that's all," he said.

"But, aren't you standing against us together with them? Aren't you afraid that Gu Ling will attack you?" Meng Yin grasped the key and asked immediately.

Gu Huai looked at her frowning eyebrows and clear eyes, chuckled and asked: "Miss Meng, are you worried about me?"

Meng Yin pursed her lips, "I just tried to explain it to you with reason and appeal to your emotions."

She stood up and sighed, "Think about it yourself. The main reason is that I don't want to see Gu Ling attack his own brothers." She looked up at the moon and estimated the time. "And I don't think you need to fight him forcefully."

Gu Huai's eyes were obscure: "Miss Meng, are you so sure that I can't beat him?"

Meng Yin was a little speechless, "Can you please stop being so stubborn?"

"You just said that you were afraid that they would take advantage of me. Are you so sure that I'm not the same as them?" He ignored Meng Yin's words and spoke to himself.

Meng Yin was really helpless. She waved her hands and was about to speak when Gu Huai suddenly stepped forward, grabbed her chin with two fingers, and changed the subject.

"It's so late, Miss Meng comes to see me, aren't you worried about what I might do?"

This action surprised Meng Yin a little. In her eyes, Gu Huai was quite polite, but he actually did such a frivolous thing to her.

Of course she was not afraid. With Gu Huai's physique, it would not be a problem for Qiao Yi to deal with him.

Meng Yin slapped his hand away and was about to say something when Gu Huai suddenly dodged and a dart came at the position where he was just now at an extremely fast speed.

The dart was stuck in the tree trunk, making a sizzling sound. It must have been poisoned.

Meng Yin secretly cried out inwardly that something was wrong and looked up to see Gu Ling standing on the roof with his back to the moonlight.

Meng Yin couldn't see his expression for a moment, but she was sure that Gu Ling was going to kill him now!

"Oh, what a rare guest." Gu Huai said with a smile, but his eyes were exceptionally cold.