Chapter 15: Quan Chengjin Appears Halfway

At 25, she was no longer at an age of frivolous confidence. She couldn't afford to play around.

"Teacher Zhan—"

As Wei Jibei's gentle voice reached her, Zhan Se's mind was still pondering.

Turning her head to glance at the smiling face through the half-open car window, she smoothed her drooping hair behind her ears in a friendly gesture, "Mr. Wei, hello, you didn't go see Wei Cuo?"

"I'm about to. Need a lift?"

"Sure!"

Folding her soaked umbrella, Zhan Se climbed into the car without playing coy.

Wei Jibei wasn't a man of needless chatter. He asked not a single question about her affairs with Emperor Quan. His conversations, neither too slow nor too hasty, revolved around topics filled with little philosophical insights about life, which particularly soothed her unsettled mind at the moment.

Alas, as the unrest faded, curiosity again took hold.

"Mr. Wei, if I may be so bold, do you know what kind of person Emperor Quan is?"