Yu ZiYuan stood beside Jiang Cheng, who had a neutral expression on his face. Before him, sat the sect leader of the Meishan Yu sect, Luo Wen. Although, his wife, Yu HeiYuan had the power of the sect leader in her hands.

The office room was well decorated, with a few swords and arrows on the wall as decorations with beautiful paintings of various parts of YunMeng. The lotus scented incense was a perfect touch for the place coloured in light brown. There were four lights on four corners of the room, lighting up the entire room neatly. There was one desk where there were stacked papers, some snacks and a glass of water. Jiang Cheng sat over the chair behind the desk, while the people from Meishan Yu sect, sat on the several purple sofas in the room. As they were few in number, they didn’t take much space.

Jiang Cheng looked evenly at her as he took a sip of his tea, "I welcome you at the Jiang Sect. Pleased to see you, Aunt, Uncle." he surprisingly gave a diplomatic smile afterwards.

Yu ZiYuan had a really big urge to laugh for some reason. It looked so similar to Jiang FengMian's smile. The man himself had a smiley face to begin with, but she could always tell apart the genuineness of it from a diplomatic smile.

Yu HeiYuan smiled back, "It is also good to see you after many years, nephew. The last time we met, you were just a boy. And now, you are a man running a gentry sect. Ah time flies." She made a nostalgic expression on her face.

Truth be told, her eyes didn’t look entirely fake either. Running a sect had definitely brought some changes in her mindset.

Jiang Cheng nodded, "Thank you, Aunt. It would be a great pleasure to just talk and catch up. But you can understand, the reason I called you, isn’t small talk."

Yu ZiYuan straightened herself slightly. Here goes.

"It's important. Recently, there have been attacks from a strange sect, well, we assume it is a sect, or it may be a group of pact. They have been using resentment energy, and seemed to be after something. Gusu was attacked recently."
"You assume YunMeng would be attacked soon as well?" Yu HeiYuan caught up to him.

A nod.

"There has also been another issue. It's with Zidian, my spiritual weapon. It has been acting strangely. I believe this issue is related to the recent attacks as well." Jiang Cheng put his hands under his chin to hold it up with his elbows.

"And why is that?" Luo Wen raised an eyebrow.
"It's a hunch." Jiang Cheng didn’t give away much, "Anyways, I would like to know the origins of Zidian. Do you happen to know anyone who knows it among the Meishan Yu sect?"

Yu HeiYuan appeared uncomfortable at the mention of Zidian, "I...have no idea. Zidian was given to ZiYuan, so I can't tell. " She looked sideways, as if uninterested in the weapon.

'Oh she really wanted to have it.' Jiang Cheng sighed in his mind. Outwards, he said something entirely different, "We need to speak to someone from the Meishan Yu sect in case they know anything. And thus, we must visit there."

No answer. Yu HeiYuan ballef her fists.

"I see." She answered after what seemed like an eternity, in a rather frail tone.

Quiet. Silence wrapped around the room like a squeezing blanket, suffocating them out.

"May I ask something." Luo Wen spoke up with a slightly hard tone.

"Go ahead." Jiang Cheng tilted his head up a little.

"You said Zidian is acting strangely, what exactly is it doing?" Luo Wen's eyes were sharp and hawk-like, piercing into his soul.

Yu ZiYuan instinctively narrowed her eyes.
"Zidian has been sparking irrationally sometimes for no reason." Jiang Cheng still kept things subtle, "It’s a problem if I can't control the weapon, isn’t it?"

"...Yes." Luo Wen hesitated.
Jiang Cheng stood up, "So, when can I visit MeiShan?" He was talking business here.

Yu HeiYuan appeared uneasy, "When would you like to?"

Maybe she didn’t really like the fact that they were talking about Yu ZiYuan's son having a spiritual weapon like Zidian. Twice the sting.

"Would tomorrow be too soon?" Jiang Cheng smirked.
"Well, it does seem very soon." Yu HeiYuan smiled forcefully.

The purple clothed sect leader eyed the girl standing beside him, the girl nodded.

"Well then, after three days."
"That is certainly better. We would be expecting your arrival." Yu HeiYuan appeared visibly relieved.

'What are you being so uneasy for? What do you know?' Jiang Cheng couldn’t help thinking, tapping his leg with little noise.

Yu ZiYuan kept staring blankly, her mind was a mess of theories.

What is it that kept the mystery? Her sister surely knows something. Besides, she took a bit too much time to visit them. And now she seemed hesitant to let Jiang Cheng go to Meishan. 

That place is his mother's home. He should be allowed with open arms, and yet she hesitated.

Something definitely was wrong. And in MeiShan, definitely.

As soon as Yu HeiYuan and Luo Wen left with their guards, Yu ZiYuan turned to her son immediately, "Something is wrong at Meishan."

"You think so too?" Jiang Cheng eyed her, "She is too hesitant to let us come. They are definitely trying to hide something. Something very important."

Yu ZiYuan narrowed her eyes dangerously with a frown, "It’s more than just that. I believe she knows more than she is letting on in the matter of the attacks as well, not just Zidian."

Jiang Cheng paced around the office room, "What could it be? There are too many things to consider."

The tension grew longer, the theories coiled themselves in their minds. Yu ZiYuan couldn’t pin point anything no matter where she calculated things from.

"There's no point in thinking, Mother. We need to see what happens after we get there in three days." Jiang Cheng massaged his temples. He was feeling tired with the brainwork.

Yu ZiYuan looked up, "No, we will go there tomorrow."
".....What?"

Yu ZiYuan nodded, "We are going there tomorrow. Not as people from the Jiang Sect, but as normal people. In disguise."

There was a moment of absolute stillness, before Jiang Cheng asked with a very confused expression, putting his hands on his hips, "Why?"

Yu ZiYuan put her index finger up, "Simple. They will be prepared to see us three days later. They will definitely make arrangements for us. We won't be able to see the full picture in that way. They will hide whatever they need to hide before we go there."

She smirked, "But, if we go unannounced and disguised, then they won't know. We can see exactly the full picture."

The younger male's eyes lit up, "Of course. Mother, you are an absolute genius." He smirked.

Yu ZiYuan laughed a little, almost bitterly, "If only I could be this genius in my previous life when I was married."
"Oof come on. Don’t bring it up now. We have other things to worry about." Jiang Cheng moved his hands as he shook his head about it.

Yu ZiYuan looked outside the window, her eys spreading to the waters, "Meishan, my hometown. I will be going there after almost a decade and half."

Her smile grew wider, "I wonder what's waiting for us there."

For the better or for the worse, they would find out once they go there.

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A/N: Blue rose represents mystery and unknowns.