The Book

"You what?"

She sharply turned around as she looked at him with disbelief, exhibiting a stronger reaction for the first time since Wu Long entered the office.

"I came back since I finished the goal of my travel, which was on the Wood Spirit Continent"

He shrugged his shoulders as he approached her under her gaze, bent down and as he picked up the book with the right hand, dusted it off with the left before presenting it to her with the right hand in a relaxed pose.

She looked at him with slightly widened eyes, then turned down to look at the book, and back to his face.

"And the Wu Family let you go?"

"There is no more Wu Family"

His voice was calm and steady, without any change in emotions as if he said "The weather was nice".

Her eyes widened even more as she could not see any signs of lying either earlier when he talked about the trip being already in the past or now about the Wu Family being no more.

"Did you..."