Chapter 302

Sitting inside the grand hall, Qiushu wore a smile, yet there was not an ounce of mirth in her heart. She had guessed that once Di Zhongan finished paying his respects, he would take the initiative to seek her out to "talk business." As it happened, she had the exact same intention. Precisely because of this, when she had followed Qiu Reng and discovered that he had placed the ancestral temple of the Di clan within a "secret realm"—one that her own Qiu lineage had fought for and obtained with the desperate sacrifice of all their family's efforts and connections—she had been somewhat startled. Still, in her view, this was of little consequence; Qiu Reng was clearly going to stand by her and Xiaoki, meaning that secret realm would sooner or later belong to Xiaoki! What truly bothered her was that she had failed to seize the initiative. Before that door, Di Zhongan had used a single, offhand remark to completely expose all her intentions!