Chapter 171

Perhaps because QingWu's glare was particularly unfriendly, Xiao Chenyuan had restrained his amusement slightly.

The two of them put on a show of discussing serious matters for a while. That shadow cat's tail-formed substitute still had to be sent back to Nanling as a target dummy.

As for the cat's claim that it was "protecting" Xiao Chenyuan, and that its attacks on the Crown Prince and the Seventh Prince were to help him recover some mysterious "treasure"—they would take that with a grain of salt.

The cat couldn't explain its own origins, nor could it clarify what this so-called "treasure" was. Other than making things even more convoluted, it seemed to serve no real purpose at all.