Gu Mochou was searching around with her eyes and fumbling with her hands for a ghost defensive item when Jiang Li materialized in front of Zhan Rong. He reverted to his actual appearance and for a split second, he looked very cold and frightening as he cut the rope and carefully removed the tape on Zhan Rong's mouth.
"I'm sorry. I came late."
The voice that came out of his mouth was not loud nor soft, just enough to be heard in that small room, yet it strangely did not alert the villainess. Zhan Rong could not help but give a quick glance to the other woman before wobbly standing up. There was worry in the girl's face when she looked at her pet ghost.
"How did you find me?" she asked softly as she studied this ghost's unusually sullen expression. He did not immediately reply.
There were a few things that did not match what Gu Mochou saw a while ago.
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