Book 4: Near Blood - Chapter 18: Suspicion (1/2)

Su Chen awoke early in theand made himself presentable

One of the Sand Race servants came over and said, “Prince You, Sir Culler has invited you to breakfast”

“Got it I’ll be right over,” Su Chen replied

Upon arriving at thehall, Su Chen saw that almost everyone was present

The Sand Race had adopted the Arcana Race’s habits when eating They sat around extre, while ornate candlesticks and fine eating utensils decorated those tables Crystal lah above them

Culler was technically half the owner of this place, so he sat at the head of the table To his left was Zhu Xianyao, and his right was ehed and beckoned him over “Prince You, please co directly at the seat to his right

That spot originally belonged to Zhu Baiyu, but after Zhu Baiyu had left last night, that seat had opened up

Su Chen pretended to act tilanced at Zhu Xianyao

Zhu Xianyao said faintly, “If he tells you to sit, then sit”

Su Chenacross from Zhu Xianyao From here, he could see her exquisite appearance quite clearly She no longer had thataura froiving her a unique attractiveness that was hard to resist

This was the first woluo in terlances at Zhu Xianyao

“It seems like Prince You likes this seat a lot,” Culler said with a smile “But now that you mention it, it seems like no one has told me why Sir Zhu isn’t here anymore?”

Su Chen felt his heart ju suspicious

These past few days, the Zhu Clan had been scouring West Laina Castle for the Spirit Race’s secret stashes Even though they did their best in trying to avoid the eyes and ears of the Sand Race individuals, they weren’t inani?

Now that Zhu Baiyu had suddenly disappeared, Culler’s suspicion only grew stronger, which hy he had purposefully brought it up this

Zhu Xianyao remained expressionless “This is the Zhu Clan’s business We don’t need to report our every move to Sir Culler, do we?”

Culler continued to ss to the Sand Race and you are all staying in iveall over the castle, but you haven’t asked a single thing about the Blackrock Gold Mine This isn’t the attitude of people interested in doing business, is it?”

Even though Culler looked like he was crude on the surface, it was obvious from the way he spoke that he wasn’t an idiot

This made sense How could the Sand Race Leader’s personal attendant be an idiot?

Zhu Xianyao maintained her cooal Pall should know this as well As for e’re alalking around in the castle…… well, we should give Sir Culler a straightforward explanation”

“Please, I’d like to hear the details,” Culler said calmly as he carefully cut into the beef in front of him

“Does Sir Culler reo?” Zhu Xianyao asked

“Of course He’s still locked up right now”

“He was an assassin sent by ht be more than one of thes have been happening in Castle Garrison If , my sister’s people have already arrived We need to defend ourselves against this, so we have hout the castle,” Zhu Xianyao replied

When Su Chen heard this, he nodded to hiood excuse

The best way to make a lie more believable was to link it up to events that had occurred and would occur in the future Zhu Xianyao’s reply was obviously not off-the-cuff and had been prepared since a long ti flustered