Su Qingluan looked carefully at the person in front of her and found him very magical.
She had actually met this person once, and strictly speaking, she had received a little favor from him.
So just as Yang and Su Guangfu were whispering about who this person was, Su Qingluan looked him up and down and said thoughtfully, "Mu Xing... Mr. Mu asked you to come?"
"Huh? Is this young man from Mr. Mu's side?" Yang asked in surprise.
Su Qingluan nodded and said vaguely: "Yes, I heard it once."
In fact, Su Qingluan had only half-jokingly asked Mu Xingzhi during a casual chat after their showdown, "I see you here every day reading books, playing chess, drinking tea, and gazing at the stars. You seem so relaxed. It's hard to imagine you doing anything big in secret."
Mu Xingzhi, however, was not annoyed. He simply poured himself a cup of tea in a leisurely and casual manner: "Decision-makers and executors are different."
Su Qingluan immediately thought of the popular settings in various novels: "Could it be that you also have something like 'Seven Secret Guards' or 'Ten Deadpools'?"
Mu Xingzhi paused in drinking tea, but just smiled without saying anything.
Su Qingluan knew that she had guessed it correctly - of course, it was not through any logical reasoning, but just a blind guess, a lucky gamble.
Su Qingluan curled her lips: "Novels... everything in the storybook is actually true?!"
Mu Xingzhi was stunned: "Storybook? What storybook?"
Su Qingluan thought about the titles of many online novels she had read in her previous life when she was in the hospital for treatment and too weak to go out. She could only play with her phone to kill time. She picked out a few of various genres that she had some impression of and talked about them:
"'Rebirth of the Wealthy Family's Bastard's Counterattack', 'The Cold King's Domineering Love, Where Can the Coquettish Princess Escape', 'After Rebirth, the Abandoned Concubine Becomes the Harem's Beloved'..."
At that time, Su Qingluan saw very clearly that when Mu Xingzhi heard the titles of these melodramatic romance novels - and of course, danmei - his expression changed from confusion to speechlessness, and finally... in short, it was a kind of weirdness that could not be described in words.
So the following conversation took place:
"What is 'rebirth'? Reincarnation?"
"No, it's about retaining your memories after death and being reborn as your previous self."
"Then where did my three souls and seven spirits reside in the past?"
“…That’s not important.”
"What's going on with the bastards' counterattack?"
"Live again, see through the scumbags, and rewrite your destiny with the right person?"
"Can a person suddenly change from being incompetent to being able to judge people just by living his life over again?"
“…That’s not important.”
"Why would an official from the previous dynasty meet a concubine from the harem?"
"Why doesn't the head of the family have any objection to the concubine's sons and daughters wanting to split up the family?"
"Why..."
"...Okay, okay, silence is golden." When Su Qingluan said this, she felt that her soul had aged dozens of years in an instant: she just wanted to read a brainless and refreshing story, where did Mu Xingzhi get a hundred thousand questions from?
I didn't realize he was a complainer.
Next, Su Qingluan recounted to Mu Xingzhi the "image of the secret guards in the storybooks," and received the following evaluation: although they were not as omnipotent, they were more reliable than those in the novels themselves.
It was also said that this kind of secret guards are most afraid of having a particularly outstanding appearance - they will not leave any special marks if they are too beautiful or ugly, otherwise they will basically be used as targets for people to shoot.
Su Qingluan suddenly thought of the man who had given her a bamboo hat on a rainy day and whose appearance could not be described in words. He was the man standing in front of her now.
This person was none other than Kaiyang, one of Mu Xingzhi's secret guards, who had met Su Qingluan in the rain before.
To be honest, the reason why Su Qingluan was able to "recognize" him was entirely because she had only met such a person "without any physical features" once in her two lifetimes.
Even if the other people you meet are not outstanding in appearance, they will always have more or less obvious facial or body features.
But the person in front of him was so "unremarkable" in every way that he looked. In a sense, his "unremarkable" appearance could also be considered "uniquely distinctive."
"By the way, since we have the chance to meet, please wait for a moment, sir. I have something to return to you." As he said that, he turned around, lifted the curtain and went to the inner room, took down the bamboo hat that had been hanging on the wall, and handed it to Kaiyang.
Kaiyang took the bamboo hat and looked at Su Qingluan with a puzzled look: "This lady actually still remembers me?"
It was natural for him to remember Su Qingluan. The tasks of a secret guard were very diverse and there were many emergencies, so having a good memory was a basic skill.
What's more, even for people with average memory, Su Qingluan's appearance alone is enough to leave a certain impression on them.
Su Qingluan tilted her head and teased, "Why, I remember you were a rare person?"
I originally thought that the other party would be embarrassed, but I didn't expect Kaiyang to be so straightforward. He admitted directly: "Yes, generally speaking, if someone passes by me, they won't remember me at all. This is especially true when there are many people around."
Su Qingluan thought to himself: With this natural ability to remain inconspicuous, the profession of secret guard is simply tailor-made for people like you, brother!
When Su Guangfu and his wife heard that Kaiyang was from "Mr. Mu's" side, their suspicions about Su Qingluan immediately disappeared, and they acted very confident and let Su Qingluan go with him.
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