Bai Xiao remembered the middle-aged woman who brought white ginger lilies to visit Grandma at the Ye Family. With no makeup on and her face lined with wrinkles, she carried the gentle demeanor of a hostess while also possessing the sharp authority of a head mistress.
"Every family has its own mission, and as a child of the Liang Family, I must heed the orders of my elders," Liang Qiu sighed and raised his eyes to look at Bai Xiao. "Bai Xiao, actually I had a chance to succeed. But you came, and I... had to give up."
Bai Xiao stared at Liang Qiu blankly, "When did you see me?"
"The first day you arrived in Qingcheng, when you went to the supermarket to buy things. I lived just diagonally across from the supermarket."
"So that's how it is..." Bai Xiao felt a complex mix of emotions in her heart.
"The three people in the cave were just the Vanguard Team. We had many more people in ambush; it was my order that pulled them back," Liang Qiu said.
