"He said he had long been looking forward to meeting you. His Majesty not making use of you was basically trying to find death." Chang Geng wrote concisely. In a brief second, he had already begun to string this chain of events together.

That's right. At first, Gu Yun was only pretending to be a fragrant master to board the ship.

The fragrant master, boatmen, and the Dong Ying ship escorts were all the same. Although they also needed to pull these people to their side, they remained to be minor characters at the end of the day. Why must their leader want to directly meet with him?

Either their identity had already been exposed, or the monk's people had some way, somehow, forged a false identity for Gu Yun.

Immediately, Chang Geng remembered Gu Yun's smile after a brief moment of surprise upon hearing the leader wished to meet with him. His heart sank - did he already know at that time?

After a year, he no longer had to tilt his head up to look at Gu Yun. The boy's specially made iron wristband had, of course, already become unwearable. He even felt that if Gu Yun took off all his armor, he could hug the man with one arm.

However, the great distance between them that could never be caught up once again emerged in the heart of the young boy.

Gu Yun did not look back; he nodded indifferently.

The middle-aged man put his hands together: "Just now it was mostly because these Dong Ying people did not know their manners, but Master Zhang and I do not know each other either, seeing that your eyes and ears were inconvenienced, although I had soon received the recommendation letter, I was still ignorant to your exceptional skills. Haha, this time I truly was able to open my eyes - Qing Xu, pour Master Zhang a cup of wine to express my apology."

Chang Geng briefly conveyed the middle-aged man's nonsense to Gu Yun. But before he finished writing, a person from the feast had stood up. It was the woman dressed in white, who they had encountered on the way here.

She poured a bowl of wine with a blank expression - not a cup, but a whole bowl.

The woman then slowly walked over, she did not say a word, handing it straight to Gu Yun.

The scent of tranquilizer, combined with the smell of sea breeze, grazed their noses. Although she was only a musician whose job was to be an entertainer, there was no hint of charm or flirtation in her manners; she bore with her a certain kind of coldness and appeared somewhat distant.

Gu Yun reached out and took the wine bowl from the woman's hand and seemed to bend down slightly to sniff it.

He first revealed a smile then whispered a 'thank you'. Chang Geng didn't have time to stop him when Gu Yun had already downed the entire bowl.