Sun Tao looked utterly disappointed. It hadn't been that long, yet Lin Wei had changed so much. Her perspective was now completely aligned with that of the Xiao father and son.
"Lu Ren, Gu Haoming..." Xu Yang smiled.
Others might not know, but he did. The reason they'd taken this mission was due to some shady business.
A place like the Hundred Medicine Hall, which specialized in collecting medicinal ingredients, was rife with opportunities for graft. He knew that those two, along with Hu Fengyi, had been sent to cooperate with the Hundred Medicine Hall's Shopkeeper and embezzle some of the herbs.
They had sent him, an outsider, to join a team of three insiders. 'It's a good thing I'm not the meddling type,' he thought, 'or I'd have been silenced long ago.'
