Volume 3

184 Stuck Between the Stone Doors

That individual was Gaoqin Jiuye.

Gaoqin Jiuye was first surprised to see me, and he looked rather shocked as he realized that it was Li Wen beside me. Frowning, he asked, “Why’re you here? And you’ve even gotten involved with her.”

Right. Although ‘gotten involved’ did not sound too good, that phrase described this situation quite perfectly, since I couldn’t really ‘get involved’ with her in reality. (T/n: The Chinese character used here for ‘getting involved’ is gao, which is usually used to describe the situation when a man and a woman ‘get involved’ with each other.)

I couldn’t be bothered to answer Gaoqin Jiuye, and I asked him, “Why’re you here then? I thought you had left much earlier to save them. It’s already been a day now and you’re still here? I think it took me only about an hour to arrive here from the entrance.”

Gaoqin Jiuye sounded a little exasperated as he responded. “Please, that’s because you took the path that I took earlier, of course...