Ye Tian returned with a dark expression on his face. Xiaoqian and Yu Xiao came back from Tianjiao’s place and noticed that Ye Tian looked quite off. You could say he was troubled, but his troubles were tinged with a shade of romance. Yet to say he had a romantic encounter, it was a helpless one.
“What’s wrong? Did you encounter some tricky issue?” Xiaoqian asked with a sly grin.
“Yeah, and it’s a really tough one.” Ye Tian slumped on the sofa, like a boneless octopus.
“Tell us about it, maybe we can suggest something.”
“You? Suggest something?” Ye Tian sank further, “I don’t believe it. Are you just planning to hear out my troubles and then go off to celebrate?”
“You can say it or not, but do you think I won’t know if you don’t?” Xiaoqian looked scornfully at Ye Tian.
“I’ll say it, I’ll say!” Ye Tian hated this tactic of Xiaoqian the most. Why did she always like to practice such strange skills, prying into people’s hearts and digging out their secrets for her own amusement?
So, Ye Tian told Xiaoqian all about his encounter with Liu Yunyun, hoping to share his pain with her. Nᴇw novel chapters are publɪshed on Novᴇl_Fire(.)net
“Isn’t that simple?” After hearing what Ye Tian had said, Xiaoqian immediately gave him a look that screamed ‘idiot’. “You normally think on your feet pretty quickly, so how come you lose your head when you see a beauty?”
“What do you mean?” Ye Tian was puzzled.
“Are you not a member of the Sixth Group?”
“Weren’t yesterday’s events related to the Sixth Group?”
“That settles it then. If there’s a problem with wrapping up this situation, why are you worrying here on your own? You should be going to Zhang Liang!”
“You have a point there.” Ye Tian suddenly perked up as if invigorated, and jumped off the sofa, “Xiaoqian, you’re really smart! I’m going to see Zhang Liang!”
“Idiot!” Xiaoqian couldn’t help but comment as Ye Tian dashed out the door.
“Don’t you all think that Liu Yunyun’s appearance was very odd? How did she know where Ye Tian would be?” Yu Xiao, who had been silent till then, finally spoke up.
“You have a point.” Now, Xiaoqian also started to doubt the authenticity of the matter.
Ye Tian now was already in Zhang Liang’s office, not hesitating at all to state his purpose.
“So you mean that I should take over the wrapping up of this work?” Zhang Liang’s expression never changed.
“Yeah!” Ye Tian said, swinging his legs on the coffee table, “Of course it’s up to you, you know that I was in the Barrier and it might seem like I wasn’t hurt, but actually I have sustained an internal injury, no idea when I will recover.”
“I think you might have already recovered.” Zhang Liang noted the evenness of Ye Tian’s breathing.
“Uh…” Ye Tian faltered, “I know I was negligent, I shouldn’t be overly confident, but I did contribute, right?” Actually, Ye Tian didn’t do much, but he still shamelessly took credit for it since he had been in the Barrier and no one knew exactly what had happened inside.
“No one said you didn’t contribute.”
“Even if my contributions and errors could offset each other, this work in the end is concerning the entire Sixth Group, not just me alone.” Ye Tian was somewhat making far-fetched excuses.
“So, what do you suggest we do to wrap this up?” Zhang Liang asked Ye Tian.
“Find that Liu Yunyun, and it would be best to destroy the recordings, but most importantly, I promised her to let her meet the faux Li Guang.”
“Faux? Where are you going to find one?”
“I’ve thought it over on my way here, the fewer people know about this, the better. Of course, Tianjiao would be the best choice, but his current mental state isn’t appropriate, so I thought it best to come to you.”
And so, Zhang Liang was dragged into the mess by Ye Tian. In a few days, Ye Tian called Liu Yunyun to meet.
Meanwhile, Xiaoqian and Yu Xiao investigated Liu Yunyun’s identity thoroughly. There were no breaks; she was a journalist with the City Evening News, who had been employed for several years yet was still clueless about many things.
Xiaoqian also discovered, if it weren’t for Liu Yunyun’s father being a well-known tycoon, she would have been fired ages ago for her level of competence. Xiaoqian lamented once more, how reliable it is to have a wealthy father.
Actually, transforming Zhang Liang into Li Guang was very simple using a low-level Illusion Technique, though the effect wouldn’t last very long.
To make it more convincing, Ye Tian purposefully didn’t allow Zhang Liang to look too much like Li Guang, just a slight resemblance.
“Wow! It really does look alike!” Liu Yunyun immediately picked up her phone to take a picture, but Ye Tian quickly stopped her.
“Now that you’ve met my friend, could you delete that recording first?” Ye Tian asked.
“Why the hurry? Why does your friend not speak? And why can’t I even take a photo of the sign?” Liu Yunyun was somewhat displeased.
“It’s just not right!” Ye Tian said awkwardly, truly feeling distressed because he was almost at his limit, desperately wishing he could just force this woman to delete the recording.
“Alright then!” Liu Yunyun shrugged, took out a small camera from her bag, and deleted everything in the presence of Ye Tian and Zhang Liang.