Chapter 2556: Search
The Goddess of Wu Mountain smiled. “Not really. I merely sensed a formidable power hidden inside her body. She should have no problem protecting herself.”
“A formidable power?” The Mermaid Queen was stunned. The Fiend races’ Saintess’ cultivation should be beneath mine, but the knowledge and composure she displayed...
Zu An remained calm, as if he had already known that.
He hadn’t doubted Yumen Beiqing at the start. The way she hadn’t hesitated to sever ties with the Fiend races for him greatly resembled Xie Daoyun. But as he spent more time with her, he'd noticed so many anomalies that it was clear something was amiss. If he was that dense, he wouldn’t have survived skirting around death for so many years.
For instance, he had followed Yumen Beiqing’s information to locate Pei Mianman’s whereabouts, but the latter was nowhere to be found, as if she had never appeared in those places. After he thought about it, there was only one possibility: The information he'd received from that town was off.
He'd initially suspected that Xie Daoyun was misleading him out of jealousy, but he quickly rejected that conjecture. Having known Xie Daoyun for years, he knew better than anyone else that she was an educated, sensible, and gentle young miss. She wouldn’t do something like that.
Subsequently, more and more details popped up that further convinced him that she wasn’t the real Xie Daoyun.
For instance, while the two of them were getting steamy, he'd tried using some secrets that only he and Xie Daoyun knew to test her. Despite Yumen Beiqing’s best attempts to impersonate Xie Daoyun, she clearly didn’t know about these secrets. That had also made him realize how even when the two of them were getting passionate, Yumen Beiqing still exuded inexplicable coldness and even hatred toward him.
He couldn’t understand why a woman would submit to a man if she hated him. And if she truly hated him, why did the system not pick up on her rage? Sometimes, he'd wondered if he was reading too much into it.