Fate's New Ability

As Su Kang saw him going back, he let out a slow sigh. His brother was behaving unnaturally, weighed down by the situation.

He had to find out about Miss Yue's true reason for coming here before it's too late.

Meanwhile, inside her room, Miss Yue sat holding a mirror in her hands. The surface of the mirror shimmered, displaying Su Kang and Su Ting's conversation like a live projection.

Her face was filled with cold expression but a flicker of frustration rippled could be seen in her eyes.

She removed a delicate hairpin from her hair, tapping it lightly against the array embedded within the mirror. A soft chime echoed, and a voice responded.

"Aunt, it will take more time. He has discovered that I was hiding my cultivation level. I don't know what to do next."

Her voice carried an undertone of frustration.

A moment of silence passed before a soothing yet firm voice answered.

"Yue Mei, don't worry. I'm here to help you."

The mirror's projection shifted slightly, capturing Su Ting as he walked back toward his residence. His voice laced with doubt and suspicion.

"Yue Mei, what is your real intention?"

Yue Mei took a deep breath to calm herself, but the situation remained complicated. She had been using a spiritual artifact to keep her true cultivation level hidden.

Normally, even a nascent soul cultivator couldn't see through her, but somehow Su Kang did. This threw a wrench in her plans.

Although she was prepared for this, she didn't want to use other methods. It will be more difficult for the Su family.

Meanwhile, Su Kang sat in his residence, staring at the treasures he had taken from Su Ting.

His thoughts weren't on the items but on the girl who had arrived in their lives unannounced.

"Fate, tell me more about her destiny." He wasn't able to analyse her destiny before.

If he was going to deal with her, then he would need more information about her.

"She has Heaven's blessings. And it has the potential to grow even more in the future."

"If not for roadblocks in her fate, I would have considered her a potential candidate for a Child of Destiny as well."

"This..." Su Kang didn't know what to say anymore. This was more than he had bargained for.

There might be other people behind her, but even she is a strong person.

"There are others like Li Fang in this world?" Su Kang asked with a sigh.

" You could say it's like a puzzle—one shattered into countless pieces and scattered across the world."

"Each piece will be solved or found by the people who are blessed by the heaven. They will compete with each other and pass their pieces to the winning party."

"In the end, a few of them will gather all the pieces and solve the whole puzzle."

Su Kang stayed silent, absorbing the information.

Fate had told him previously that they couldn't be a part of it because they were not into this world when all this planning was done.

"If she's carrying part of this so-called 'puzzle,' then she's a bigger problem than I thought," he muttered.

"I just hope she's here for some treasure and nothing else."

But he wasn't convinced.

For someone of her caliber to travel for months just to visit a barren land like Jiang State—the logic didn't add up.

Fate, sensing his thoughts, spoke again.

"I don't think she's a threat to you or your family," it said calmly.

"Why do you think that?" He inquired further.

"I can see her destiny, and she is not a bad omen for you or your family."

Su Kang was immediately relieved to hear this. He did not want her to cause any trouble for his family.

"Is this a new skill of yours, or did you peek into the future?" He was curious.

"You can say that it's a new ability. Although it feels like instinct or sixth sense to me."

"Good. Now I just have to find the reason why she came here."

He took out his brother's items and started to search for it again. Although he didn't believe it would be useful, because if she wanted to take something from his brother, then it would have been easy for her.

It was dark already, and he found nothing that could be the reason behind all this. He left his residence and went to her place.

But when he arrived at her courtyard, a servant greeted him at the gate.

"Young Master Su," the servant bowed. "Miss Yue has declined dinner tonight. She has entered seclusion for cultivation."

He decided to visit her later. He went to Su Ting's place so that he could ask her everything in detail.

But when he arrived, the servants told him Su Ting was not there.

Su Kang decided to wait for him. One hour later, Su Ting came back. He was surprised to see Su Kang sitting in the garden.

"Where have you been?" Su Kang asked.

Su Ting realised that his brother is misunderstanding him. He

hastily spoke,

"Brother, I didn't go out to socialize. I was having dinner with Miss Yue."

"What? You had dinner with her?" Su Kang asked in a doubtful tone.

"Yes. I thought I might find some clue from her." Su Ting responded.

"When did you go to her courtyard? How much time did you spend with her?" Su Kang asked again.

Su Ting thought his brother was acting weird, but he still answered him.

"I think I was there for 45 minutes. I just came back after leaving her courtyard."

"Did you find any clue from her?"

"No, she just told me that she was hiding her cultivation realm, and she apologised for this. She didn't disclose anything else."

Su Kang's mind sharpened.

"She could have admitted it earlier, but she waited until now? Why?"

Something wasn't adding up.

Why did she eat with his brother and rejected him? Su Kang couldn't help but feel something suspicious about her behaviour.

"Okay. Record everything in this since you met her." Su Kang said using qi to transmit voice silently and handed him a jade scroll and a storage ring.

"Take your treasures back." He said in normal voice.

Su Ting understood his brother's intention and played along with him.

"Brother, there are some gifts that I collected for you. Later, I will send them to you." Su Ting acted as if he suddenly remembered about this.

Su Kang nodded and returned back to his residence. He decided not to visit Bai Yunxi until he solved the mystery of Yue Mei.

The next morning a servant visited his residence to deliver gifts from Su Ting.

He also told him that Su Ting left 15 minutes ago to eat with Miss Yue.

Su Ting made sure that when he received those gifts, Yue Mei couldn't monitor his actions.

She can't keep her eyes on them for a long time. Such artefacts take a lot of qi. She can do something like this occasionally but not forever.

Su Kang took the jade scroll as he injected his spiritual sense and started to see the memory of his brother.

He opened his eyes after a few minutes with a smirk on his face.