Wei Liuying arched her eyebrows. She was sure that the 'talk' that Yang Xian mentioned wouldn't be a peaceful talk between the two parties like what he said on the surface. There was no way that they would trust those people so easily.

"Alright. I'll depart tomorrow morning."

"Take half of the soldiers with you. The rest will come with me." Yang Xian tapped the table while his eyes glinted in ruthlessness. "If they dare to try harming the citizen, eliminate them as quickly as possible."

"Understood."

"Now, shall we visit Shi Yan first?"

Wei Liuying's eyes lit up when she heard that they were going to meet with Shi Yan. The reason why they came here in the first place was to help Shi Yan.

"Is he alright?"

"Yes, he's totally fine."

"That's good."

Back when Wei Liuying first arrived in An You City, she didn't dare to ask about Shi Yan's condition in fear that she wouldn't be able to take it. But after seeing the soldiers were not as tense as before, she could guess that the situation was not that bad. There were some losses, though.

There was no doubt that some people would be grieving.

Yang Xian proceeded to lead Wei Liuying to an inn. There were several of Shi Yan's men there that Wei Liuying recognized. After all, Shi Yan only had a few people whom he could trust around him.

"Where's Yan?"

"Young Master Shi is resting inside, Strategist Yang," one of the men replied politely.

Nodding his head, Yang Xian gave hand gesture for them to open the door. They quickly opened the door without any delay. If one didn't know better, they might even think that these men were Yang Xian's men and not Shi Yan.

The room where Shi Yan stayed was an ordinary inn's room with simple furniture. It was made of wood and only covered in thin skin carpet that didn't look that good. Shi Yan himself was sitting on his bed while holding a book in his hand. Some parts of his body was bandaged but his complexion was normal.

When he heard the door opened, Shi Yan raised his head. "Oh, Yang… I mean, Strategist Yang and Strategist Liu."

The men quickly closed the door again while Yang Xian shook his head. "You don't have to be so polite with me."

"Heh, sure. I don't like such formalities anyway."

"How's your wound?" Wei Liuying asked.

Shi Yan grinned and pointed to his neck. "Aside from this, the rest are mostly bruises. It'll heal in a few days, so it's nothing much."

"That's good."

"But you're almost late. I can't believe that…."

Kicking the edge of the bed, Yang Xian effectively stopped Shi Yan from spouting nonsense. He glared at Shi Yan. Even though he disliked it when Shi Yan was spouting unnecessary things, he wouldn't want to lose his friend. There was happiness and relief in his eyes that didn't match his annoyed expression.

"It's already good enough that I managed to come in time. There's an ambush before I can reach your place," Yang Xian said as a matter of fact. Internally, he knew that if it was not for Wei Liuying leading half of the soldiers, he would never be able to reach Shi Yan in time.

At that time, what greeted them would be nothing more than cold corpses.

Shi Yan shut his mouth and sighed. He nodded solemnly. "You should stop bringing trouble to my door, Yang Xian. Do you know that this is already…."

"I'm the one cleaning up the mess too, so you don't have to worry that much."

Not knowing what else to say, Shi Yan finally shut his mouth. He couldn't refute what Yang Xian told him and based on the slightly harsh tone that Yang Xian used, Shi Yan knew that the latter was still upset.

Or more exactly, angry because of some reasons.

Wei Liuying scrutinized Shi Yan's wounds and could see from it that Shi Yan was actually quite lucky. None of the injury seemed to hit his vital point, allowing him to act normally even though he was completely bandaged.

"What do you plan to do now, Yan?"

"I'm going to return back to trade, of course." Shi Yan grinned. "Just a little setback like this couldn't possibly stop me from my quest of creating a kingdom of fortune!"

Seeing Shi Yan still excited as usual, relief washed over Wei Liuying's heart. She had been worrying about what would happen to Shi Yan and whether he would be fine after this or not. But it seemed that she was thinking too much.

He didn't look any different than usual.

Shi Yan looked at Wei Liuying and grinned. "Are you concerned about me, Liu Ying?"

"Yes."

Thinking that Wei Liuying would not admit to it, Shi Yan was taken aback a bit. If it was Yang Xian, he would never admit that he was worried about Shi Yan and chose different wording to express it.

But since the one he asked was Wei Liuying, the answer was completely different.

"That's… well, you don't need to worry so much. As you can see, I'm already used to get attacked from time to time," Shi Yan replied with a grin. "But there's no point in dwelling over things that had happened. I just have to keep on looking forward."

Yang Xian shook his head lightly. Someone like Shi Yan would never think too much about what had happened because he treated the past simply as the past. He would not let anything burden his mind and just continued on living his life.

That way, Shi Yan didn't look like he had any burden in his mind whatsoever.

Wei Liuying smiled. "I'm just glad that you're fine, Yan. If something happens to you, I'm not sure what I'm going to do to those tribes."

"Heh, I didn't know that you're thinking about me that much. You can't possibly have fallen for me, right?"

"Dream on. With that feminine face of yours, I will never fall for you."

"Ouch!"