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Weng Yan looked at Zhan Yan, hesitated for a moment, and said, “Let’s exchange contact information. You can reach out to me if you run into any problems.”

Although this young man would most likely survive even if he awakened a supernatural power, it was best to be safe just in case.

Zhan Yan still wanted to ask him more about what happened twenty-six years ago and Candle Dragon, but Weng Yan felt this wasn’t something ordinary people should know, so he simply ignored the topic.

Coincidentally, Luan Jin, the third Luan son, came knocking on the door.

Earlier, just as he was about to find Yu Xia, he was interrupted by the commotion on stage. When he turned his head again, Yu Xia was no longer there.

He scrambled all over the venue looking for her, only to be unexpectedly caught by his eldest brother. Luan Hong asked him to pass a message and bring the old master over to handle some matters.

Luan Jin was a bit reluctant. Couldn’t he just find a servant to pass the message?

But his brother shut him down with one sentence: “It’s not like you have anything important to do anyway.”

Under his brother’s gaze, Luan Jin really couldn’t bring himself to say he was busy looking for a stand-in for his white moonlight, so he had to interrupt his search and come pass the message.

Since Old Master Luan had business to attend to, Weng Yan didn’t plan on staying any longer either. He needed to go back and reassess his own cultivation issues.

Old Master Luan conveniently assigned the task to Luan Jin: “Zhan Yan is my friend, help me entertain him. It’s not like you have any proper business to do all day anyway.”

Luan Jin: …

No! Dad! I do, I do! Very important business! I’ve been single for over a decade and just met someone who looks exactly like my white moonlight!

“Do you have something else to do?” Old Master Luan looked at him with a majestic gaze.

“No,” Luan Jin said.

The banquet wasn’t over yet, so Luan Jin brought Zhan Yan back to the party. With matters weighing on his mind, he kept looking around the whole way, absentmindedly chatting with Zhan Yan on and off. Zhan Yan didn’t mind at all, holding his plate and picking out the Western pastries he liked along the way.

As they walked, Zhan Yan suddenly heard someone discussing his mother’s company.

“…Right, you don’t need to doubt our Shoude Company’s judgment. Go back and check, which project have we invested in that ever lost money?”

The voice sounded a bit familiar.

Zhan Yan turned his head to look. Ban Weidong! Wasn’t this the creep who tried to poach Matthias, whose luck had been continuously declining, and who had been secretly keeping tabs on his mom for years?!

What did he mean by that? Did he jump ship to Shoude Company?

Ban Weidong was still warmly inviting the person: “I know a nice club nearby, shall we head over there to discuss the details later?”

Zhan Yan had already found the gossip thread:

[Ban Weidong discovered a client of Shoude Company at the banquet and decided to impersonate a Shoude Company employee to snatch the client away.]

Zhan Yan: …

He walked over with a smile: “Huh? What a coincidence, Mr. Ban. Aren’t you holding a high position at Dajun Group?”

Ban Weidong’s expression didn’t change. “Ah, I just changed jobs a little while ago.”

“Is that so? How come I wasn’t aware of it?”

Ban Weidong looked at Zhan Yan who had suddenly popped up. No matter how he looked at him, he found him familiar, but he just couldn’t remember who he was for a moment. However, this didn’t affect his performance. In their line of work, one had to be thick-skinned!

He remained calm and secretly began to throw shade: “Forgive my poor eyesight, which family’s young master are you? There are many people your age over by the dance floor, why don’t you go have some fun?”

This young man looked like he hadn’t even graduated yet; holding a plate of cake, he shouldn’t be interfering with formal business discussions.

Zhan Yan: “My mom is the founder of Shoude Company.”

Ban Weidong: …

Client: …

Luan Jin: “…Pfft!”

Ban Weidong felt he could still salvage this!

“Sorry about that, I just joined recently and have only just finished meeting the official employees.”

“Oh my, Mr. Ban’s memory! We’ve met before.” Zhan Yan gave a half-smile. “When you were trying to poach Matthias a while back, I happened to be right there.”

Ban Weidong’s eyes clouded with confusion for a second, and then he remembered.

That young man following behind Matthias back then! He had thought he was a translator hired by Matthias!

So he was trying to poach someone right in front of the boss’s son?!

Ban Weidong felt completely unwell. His facial expression couldn’t hold up and completely crumbled.

Ban Weidong retreated in massive defeat and hurriedly left.

Zhan Yan acquired a client.

Luan Jin had watched the drama unfold and was highly entertained.

He threw an arm over Zhan Yan’s shoulder: “You get busy, I’m taking off. Come find me if you need anything.”

Saying that, he walked away with brisk steps.

The intimacy was for outsiders to see. Although he, the third Luan son, didn’t handle business, he could still represent the Luan family to some extent. By showing a good relationship with Zhan Yan and backing up his dad’s little friend, no one could say he didn’t entertain the guest well, right?

He took the opportunity to leave and go find his white moonlight stand-in!

Zhan Yan glanced at him rather hesitantly, not knowing how to remind him.

Before he could figure it out, Luan Jin had already slipped far away with quick steps.

…Then forget it. He figured that with Luan Jin’s personality—needing to rehearse in private for over half an hour before daring to approach—now that the initial impulse had passed, he wouldn’t be able to say anything about stand-ins anyway.

The client carefully scrutinized Zhan Yan, his eyes growing brighter and brighter.

Zhan Yan looked at him in confusion.

“It’s nothing,” the client smiled. “I originally had an appointment to negotiate with your company next week; we’ll just proceed according to the reservation.”

The client had no intention of pulling him into a negotiation and amicably said goodbye.

After walking to a corner, the client immediately called Luo Luoluo: “Hello, Miss Luo? Yes, it’s me.”

“Didn’t you say earlier that we hadn’t found a suitable endorsement image? I think your little boss’s physical appearance fits perfectly!”

“And it saves money! He shouldn’t charge for shooting a commercial for his own family, right? This money can be completely saved and used elsewhere!”

…

Zhan Yan was completely unaware that he had been targeted to “save money.” He left with the stone and a bunch of packed desserts—arranged by Luan Jin. He had recalled Zhan Yan constantly poking Western pastries onto his plate along the way and figured he really liked eating them.

He was quite proud of himself—Look how thoughtful I am!

Luan Da was rendered speechless by him. You’re packing leftover kitchen pastries for an important guest you met for the first time?

Luan Jin argued plausibly. This is what it means to not treat them like an outsider.

He was in a fairly good mood now. After parting with Zhan Yan, he quickly found Yu Xia.

He found her alright, but he was too embarrassed to mention the stand-in thing to her, so he stammeringly just made friends.

Making a friend was fine too! This way, he wouldn’t have to agonize over whether finding a stand-in was a betrayal to his white moonlight; simply looking at her and reminiscing was acceptable as well.

There were quite a few packed pastries. Zhan Yan ate the ones that wouldn’t survive transportation and saved some cookies, palmiers, and the like to bring back and share with his roommates.

In the evening, Zhan Yan first took out the stone and let the Gossip System continue its slow analysis. He then logged onto the chaofan forum.

Regarding the Candle Dragon matter, Zhan Yan had never tried directly asking Lingyu and Luowang. These two administrators most likely knew what was going on. But there was no news related to Candle Dragon on the entire forum, which indicated that this matter had been deliberately hidden.

Zhan Yan didn’t know to what extent they had gone to hide it. If they had specifically used extremely strong methods to cover it up, only for him to easily dig it out… he was afraid they would start using extremely strong methods to investigate him in return. What if the Gossip System couldn’t withstand it?

But now he had an excuse. If an ordinary person like Old Master Luan could dream about it, then he could dream about it too!

Moreover, his dad was Chongming Demon King! Even if his identity was actually dug up, he still had his dad! Nothing to fear!

Before going into the forum’s private messages to ask Luowang, Zhan Yan first took a stroll through the general discussion area.

A trending post had appeared in the discussion area.

{Lin Yuan! If you have the guts to log onto the forum, then have the guts to stop hiding! I know you’re in the mortal realm!}

The poster was a glaringly new verified main account: Wan Yan.

Now everyone on the forum knew that the person Ghost King Wan Yan had been making a fuss searching for over the past twenty-plus years was Ghost King Lin Yuan. Gossip enthusiasm instantly skyrocketed!

4L:
What what? So Ghost King Lin Yuan has been hiding from Ghost King Wan Yan this whole time?

12L:
Did they have a falling out?

17L:
Doesn’t look like a falling out. If they really fell out, Ghost King Wan Yan wouldn’t be searching this earth-shatteringly.

18L:
So Ghost King Lin Yuan is unilaterally hiding from Ghost King Wan Yan? I smell gossip!

21L:
@Boss Wan Yan, why don’t you first tell us what you did to Ghost King Lin Yuan? That way we can help you come up with some ideas.

22L:
Speaking of which, how did Ghost King Wan Yan know that Ghost King Lin Yuan had logged into his forum account?

23L:
Let’s try @Lin Yuan

24L:
It didn’t turn blue. The @Lin Yuan account hasn’t been registered yet, it’s empty. This means Ghost King Lin Yuan doesn’t have a verified main account. If he logged onto the forum, he could only have used an alt account.

27L:
But making an alt account is too easy. How does Ghost King Wan Yan know which account belongs to Ghost King Lin Yuan?

32L:
No, can you guys gossip about something proper? Why exactly is Ghost King Lin Yuan hiding? And why has Ghost King Wan Yan been searching for over twenty years?

35L:
He chases, he flees; even with wings, it’s hard to escape…

Zhan Yan was also very curious!

But after reading through the entire thread, he didn’t see anyone who knew the inside story. Zhan Yan had no choice but to open the Gossip System.

Using both Ghost Kings’ titles as keywords, Zhan Yan managed to find out how Ghost King Wan Yan knew Ghost King Lin Yuan had logged onto the forum.

He had previously caused a ruckus at the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau. Although he was suppressed by Tianshi, Tianshi couldn’t stay there all day to suppress him, so the two sides negotiated terms.

The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau used backend administrator privileges to confirm that the Mount Chaofu administrator’s account had logged in recently. Then, Ghost King Wan Yan opened a verified account and began searching the forum for the ghost.

Scrolling further back, it was entirely filled with various gossip threads like [Ghost King Wan Yan failed to find Ghost King Lin Yuan again and is very unhappy.]

He definitely wouldn’t find it just by scrolling like this. Zhan Yan started swapping out various keywords, combining them with fuzzy search to pinpoint the information.

After making various attempts, the gossip thread changed:

[Loading…]

Zhan Yan: ?

You’ve actually got quite a bit of an attitude?

Was it annoyed that he was searching too much, or was this piece of gossip genuinely complex and needed time to load slowly?

Zhan Yan waited a while and saw it was still stuck, so he tagged this gossip thread, threw it into his favorites folder to wait for it to slowly load, and then went to ask Luowang about Candle Dragon.

Administrator Luowang: [How do you know about Candle Dragon ?]

Approaching Science: [I dreamt about it.]

Administrator Luowang: [?]

Approaching Science: [Is there a problem?]

Administrator Luowang: [Generally, people who can dream about it do so before their supernatural power awakens. You’ve been awakened for so long, how are you only dreaming about it now?]

As for this supernatural power… Zhan Yan had always been very unsure whether the Gossip System could actually be considered his supernatural power. After all, he had never heard of an awakened supernatural power user who couldn’t even open the Yin-Yang Eye.

But that didn’t stop him from using it. As long as it was useful, it was fine. Furthermore, he often flipped through gossip threads right in front of his dad; if there was an issue with this ability, his dad definitely would have noticed long ago.

Approaching Science: [I’m not sure either.]

Luowang couldn’t figure it out either.

However, she suddenly remembered another matter.

Administrator Luowang: [You should be able to view the hidden wanted posters now, right?]

Administrator Luowang: [Besides the wanted posters, there are also some other tasks in there, including ones related to Candle Dragon .]

Approaching Science had previously helped catch Garbled Anomaly No. 2. Since he had this ability, he had the capability to confront those with suspected information-type pollution.

Approaching Science: [I can’t see them.]

Administrator Luowang: [Then I’ll grant you the permissions now.]

Lingyu was probably too busy and had forgotten about this.

After the permissions were granted, a new section appeared in the forum’s task area. Zhan Yan clicked in, and the very first one was the wanted poster for Deep Shadow.

Before he could look closely, “I Just Saved the World!” sent him a private message, urging him about the task of finding a healing-type supernatural power user. The tone was just as domineering, cool, and arrogant as usual.

Zhan Yan: Heh.

Approaching Science: [You’d better speak more politely to me from now on!]

Approaching Science: [I’ve already obtained your hidden wanted poster. Annoy me again, and I’ll report you to earn points!]