Transformed into a heartthrob's simp, every day is a battleground.

Chapter 364 Impossible

The fact that Master Gao chatted with Yan Xun late at night naturally became known to the other players.

The maid in Gu Jia's room was just as calm as he was, which made Sun Zhao, who had come to visit, quite uncomfortable.

He glanced at the maid who, like Gu Jia, had no expression, and coughed. "Aren't you going to react?"

Gu Jia's maid didn't speak, but Sun Zhao's own maid whispered a few words to Sun Zhao—

In short, Gu Jia has no background; he was found while fleeing from war. He is dull-witted and stutters when he speaks. Not to mention he is tall, the master doesn't like him at all.

His maid also came to terms with reality and decided to lie down with Gu Jia, so no matter who Master Gao questioned, the master and servant didn't care much.

Sun Zhao: ...Wow! There's this setting too?

"I wonder what questions Yan Xun will ask," Sun Zhao said.

Gu Jia glanced at Sun Zhao, then gestured for the maids to leave. Once the maids were out of the room, Gu Jia said, "I feel something is amiss."

"What's strange about it?" Sun Zhao asked.

“As soon as we entered the instance, we knew that the thing that Master Gao worshipped was in his room,” Gu Jia said. “How come the clue that Yan Xun got from Gao Ruiyun was that the thing was in the ancestral hall?”

When Yan Xun found out who the esteemed person was enshrined in the ancestral hall, they "remembered" that when they first entered the Gao family, they had also gone to the entrance of the ancestral hall to pay their respects to that person, but they were unable to go inside.

Although Gu Jia and Sun Zhao were not present, they learned about the layout of the ancestral hall and the gnawed offerings from Gao Wen and others.

"Yan Xun must have met the madman that Li Wu mentioned."

With no outsiders around, Gu Jia no longer needed to stutter when she spoke.

“Yan Xun must have discovered something. Maybe that madman is still in the ancestral hall, or maybe Yan Xun followed him back to his residence,” Gu Jia said.

Sun Zhao understood Gu Jia's meaning.

Their initial plan was to have Yan Xun enter the ancestral hall first, and then go to find the madman who was imprisoned in the Gao family.

Yan Xun was mostly away from responding in the ancestral hall when he was looking for the person from the Gao family who was imprisoned. But the problem was... Lou Yanchuan, who was in the way.

Sun Zhao was speechless when he thought of this. He looked at Gu Jia and asked, "Did Lou Yanchuan secretly take on a mission behind our backs?"

"Otherwise, why would they always be causing trouble?"

Although each of them received a task to lower the favorability of other players, who is Lou Yanchuan? He's not some newbie who's just starting out in a dungeon, someone who has to complete every task he sees.

“He has items that force him to leave the instance,” Sun Zhao couldn’t help but complain. “Besides…”

"Would it help if he lowered his favorability rating?"

“I think Gao Ruiyun is very rational and completely unaffected by provocation,” Sun Zhao said. “Everything others do is wrong, but everything Yan Xun does is right.”

“Li Wu did nothing, yet he was still scolded by Gao Ruiyun.”

Sun Zhao wanted to complain again when she talked about this, "We are really unlucky."

He pondered, "Do you think Lou Yanchuan and Yan Xun really don't get along?"

“I heard that the two of them were also at odds in the last dungeon map. I saw them in the meeting room before, and they were constantly bickering with each other.” The more Sun Zhao spoke, the more he felt that he had seen through the truth.

"Does Lou Yanchuan just want to make things difficult for Yan Xun?" He stroked his chin. "...I remember the first instance where they encountered each other. They can't be holding a grudge until now, can they?"

Gu Jia was silent for a few seconds, then said, "No."

"No?" Sun Zhao didn't believe it. "Then what is it?"

“You can’t exactly say Lou Yanchuan has a crush on Yan Xun, can you?” Sun Zhao said, laughing out loud. “Is he a primary school boy? Does he just bully whoever he likes… hahaha…?”

His laughter gradually faded, and the smile on his face slowly disappeared. After three or four seconds, Sun Zhao's smile vanished completely. "No way?"

Gu Jia looked at Sun Zhao expressionlessly, "How...how...would I...know?"

Sun Zhao pondered, "That's true." He looked at Gu Jia, "I think you're a cultivator of the ruthless path, how would you understand these feelings of love and affection?"

Gu Jia: "..."

“But if you ask me, Lou Yanchuan is not a good man!” Sun Zhao said critically in the tone of a family member – she couldn’t tell at all that Lou Yanchuan was the guild leader of her own guild.

"Look at our Yan Xun, he's handsome and tall," Sun Zhao praised. "He's incredibly reliable when it comes to missions. He may seem unapproachable, but he's actually warm-hearted..."

"Look at Lou Yanchuan, he never tells the truth. He seems cunning and treacherous, and he is very insincere. Although he is good-looking, once you see through his true nature, you will know that he is just good-looking on the outside. Not to mention that there is a huge age difference between the two of them."

Sun Zhao usually couldn't recall Lou Yanchuan's suspicious age, but now that he was being picky, it became Lou Yanchuan's "crime of death."

“I think Lou Yanchuan is old enough to be Yan Xun’s grandfather,” Sun Zhao commented. “Can you calculate how much of a generation gap there is between them?”

"I didn't know that I was seen this way in your heart."

With the sound of the door being pushed open and the maids trying to stop them, Lou Yanchuan appeared before the two of them with a smile.

Sun Zhao: "..."

Gu Jia: "..."

He slowly walked over to the two of them and sat down, casually touching the teapot on the table. "Why is it cold?"

"Change the tea to hot tea," Lou Yanchuan ordered. "I think the Third Concubine drinks too much cold tea, that's why she likes to say such sarcastic things. She can't stand seeing others do well."

"Holy crap!" Sun Zhao exclaimed in shock.

Where exactly did Lou Yanchuan learn his domestic power struggle rhetoric?

He wanted to retort, but he couldn't bring himself to say the same thing as Lou Yanchuan, so he could only rage helplessly, "Mind your own business!"

"Hehe, I was just saying, don't take it to heart." Lou Yanchuan looked at the hot tea that the maid quickly brought and poured a cup for Gu Jia and Sun Zhao respectively. "Here, have some hot tea to warm yourselves up."

"Did you secretly poison him?" Sun Zhao asked suspiciously.

Gu Jia picked up the glass and drank it all in one gulp.

He looked at Lou Yanchuan, "What did you two talk about?"

"Who?" Lou Yanchuan feigned ignorance.

"Yan Xun." Gu Jia reverted to her stuttering, halting manner in front of others, only able to utter a few words at a time.

"You mean the Seventh Concubine?" Lou Yanchuan poured himself a cup of hot tea. "We didn't talk about anything."

“He was just curious about my experiences before I came to the Gao family,” Lou Yanchuan said. “We talked about that.”

He then looked at Sun Zhao and said, "I didn't expect you to have so many grievances against me?"

“This is my anger at your 'old cow eating young grass',” Sun Zhao couldn’t help but say.

Lou Yanchuan still had that same smiling expression, "Then you're overthinking it."

"Huh?" Sun Zhao asked, puzzled. "Did I misunderstand?"

Lou Yanchuan didn't say anything, but took a sip of tea and changed the subject, "Ah, I didn't expect the master to actually chat with Yanxun tonight."

"I wonder what they'll talk about."

"You think it's impossible for you two, right?" Gu Jia suddenly asked.

Lou Yanchuan shook his head. "I don't understand what you mean." He looked at Gu Jia. "Are you talking about me and Master Gao?"

"It's definitely impossible for me and Master Gao to be together."