Qi Xia looked at the little boy kneeling on one knee before him, his face showing not a trace of expression.

The people around them were somewhat puzzled at this scene. Zheng Yingxiong was currently removing the crown from his head and placing it against his chest, appearing to be submitting to Qi Xia.

Chen Junnan was obviously still angry, his expression clearly showing he wanted to curse someone out, while Qiao Jiajin beside him kept reaching out to pull him back.

“Why are you kneeling?” Qi Xia asked.

Zheng Yingxiong slowly raised his head, his eyes unusually complex. In a certain moment just now, he had felt that the scent on this man before him didn’t seem like that of a human.

“I… want you to help me save someone.”

“What’s the point of me helping you?” Qi Xia asked again.

“I don’t know if I’ll be of any use to you, but I’ll also do my best to help you,” Zheng Yingxiong said with complete seriousness.

“You’re of no use to me,” Qi Xia said coldly, his gray-white pupils piercing toward Zheng Yingxiong like needles. “Go back to your place.”

“You were the one who called me here!!” Zheng Yingxiong stood up with a sudden movement. “Why are you lying?”

“What…?”

“The scent on your body is so heavy, it’s about to drown this entire city…” Zheng Yingxiong said somewhat anxiously. “Do you really not need us?”

“I called you here…?” Qi Xia frowned slightly, reaching up to touch his forehead. “It seems my memory is still somewhat lacking… Strange, how did Chu Tianqiu manage to do it…?”

Seeing Qi Xia’s somewhat strange appearance, everyone didn’t know what to do for a moment.

“Ha…” Qi Xia suddenly revealed a smile. “Not difficult… I’ll just go ask him…”

“I’m leaving,” Qi Xia said.

“Oh…” Earth-Monkey held his cigarette in his mouth, sizing up Qi Xia all the while.

“Stop them,” Qi Xia said in a tone that brooked no refusal.

Earth-Monkey held his cigarette, staring blankly as he swallowed, then nodded.

Qi Xia turned around and walked toward the door on his own, while everyone behind him just stood there in a daze.

“Damn it, Old Qi… you stop right there…” Chen Junnan rolled up his sleeves and took a few steps forward. “Make yourself clear before you leave…”

Earth-Monkey came to his senses at this moment, hurrying to stand up and run forward a few steps, grabbing Chen Junnan by the arm.

“Hey…” Earth-Monkey said hoarsely, “Let him go.”

“Old Monkey, this has already become a personal matter between him and me…” Chen Junnan looked extremely agitated. “At first, this young master thought I’d been deceived, then found out I hadn’t… That happiness hadn’t even fucking passed yet… and he tells me I was deceived after all… What does this brat take me for? A sucker?”

“I don’t know about your personal matters with him,” Earth-Monkey scratched the stubble on his face. “But he told me to stop you… that’s also a personal matter between him and me.”

“You fucking…” Chen Junnan gritted his teeth. He simply couldn’t break free from Earth-Monkey’s grip. “Old Monkey… you saw it all… I worked my ass off for that brat, but he sold me out… Are you really going to do his bidding?!”

Earth-Monkey listened, then silently nodded as if pondering something, but his hand still didn’t let go.

Qi Xia remained silent for a while, then pushed open the door and walked out of the gambling den.

“You…” Chen Junnan nodded after seeing this. “Fine, fine, fine… Old Monkey, I don’t blame you. Let go now, and once we’re out of this gambling den, it won’t be your concern anymore. This brat has been deceiving me all along, I must make him give me an explanation…”

After hearing this, Qiao Jiajin slowly walked forward a step and said, “Junnan Zai… do you want to calm down first?”

“Old Qiao! What’s there to calm down about?!” Chen Junnan shouted. “Have you been confused by this monkey? It’s not just this young master—you’ve been deceived too!”

“Junnan Zai… think carefully…” Qiao Jiajin said doubtfully. “What exactly did The Liar deceive you about?”

“Isn’t it a lot?!” Chen Junnan held up one finger and said, “First, seven years ago he told me he found a way out and had me trap people in a room for seven years, then he fucking disappeared. Tell me, what does he mean by that?”

“Well…” Qiao Jiajin scratched his head. “You see… what The Liar said was ‘I found a way out,’ not ‘I’m leaving right now’… So the facts prove he didn’t leave either…”

“Yes! He didn’t leave! He went to…” Chen Junnan stopped halfway through, turned to look at Earth-Monkey, then changed his words. “But so what? No matter what he went to do, he didn’t take you with him! This brat fucking promised me! Even if he was just going to ask for directions, he should’ve fucking pulled you along…”

“But after asking for directions, didn’t he come back?” Qiao Jiajin smiled. “Junnan Zai, maybe this was all part of The Liar’s plan. He didn’t deceive us.”

“You’re really too optimistic, kid…” Chen Junnan let out a breath. “But Old Qi has always been an ‘Unfortunate’… After he came back, he lost all his memories. We don’t even know where those years of asking for directions led him…”

“Junnan Zai, haven’t you always known that The Liar is an ‘Unfortunate’…?” Qiao Jiajin smiled. “So we still don’t know what the situation really is. You can’t just decide that he deceived you.”

“Fine, fine, fine…” Chen Junnan, seeing he was about to be persuaded by Qiao Jiajin, said patiently, “We’ll set that matter aside for now. What about just now…? We clearly agreed to start everything over, and this young master risked his life trying to help him… Tell me what he just said?”

“Just now…” After hearing this, Qiao Jiajin also froze for a moment, then smiled with relief. “No matter what The Liar said just now, didn’t this little brother say he was lying? So we just shouldn’t listen to what he said and stay here.”

“You…” Chen Junnan looked at those clear eyes of Qiao Jiajin’s and was at a loss for words for a moment.

Tiantian walked over to Zheng Yingxiong’s side at this time, reached out to pat his head, and called out, “Yingxiong, why do you say Qi Xia was lying?”

“I can smell it,” Zheng Yingxiong answered expressionlessly. “When anyone is lying, the scent on their body becomes heavy. The scent on Qi Xia’s body has always been unusually heavy, even permeating this entire city. He was clearly lying just now.”

Everyone looked at Zheng Yingxiong and noticed that even the child’s way of addressing Qi Xia had changed.

“A heavy scent permeating the entire city?”

Several people looked at each other in confusion. Speaking of heavy scents… the air in this city had indeed reached an extremely terrible state, but could this actually be because Qi Xia was lying?

Or rather… did this come from this child’s “Spiritual Scent”?

“Kid…” Chen Junnan asked with furrowed brows, “Does your nose… ever get it wrong?”

“No,” Zheng Yingxiong said. “The other party is definitely lying. I just don’t know where exactly he lied.”

After hearing this, Chen Junnan lowered his head in thought for a while, then suddenly revealed a smile. “If that’s the case… then this young master definitely needs to follow him and see.”