Tomb raiding: Those who achieve immortality all have tattoos.

"Those three must be hiding some even more important secret!"

No one questioned Zhang Longban's words.

Everyone was wondering what Chen Yan was hiding.

Zhang Qiling had guessed this.

As Chen Yan sat in his study working on his computer, Zhang Qiling arrived.

Chen Yan glanced at Zhang Qiling as she entered through the door, then looked away and asked, "Did you need something?"

Zhang Qiling closed the door, sat down opposite Chen Yan, and looked at him without saying a word.

Chen Yan paused, shifting his gaze from the computer screen to Zhang Qiling's face: "Is something wrong?"

Zhang Qiling looked at him before asking, "Ninth Brother, it's Changsheng, right?"

After the question was asked, the entire room fell into a deathly silence.

Chen Yan stared at Zhang Qiling for a long while, then laughed, leaned back, and said to Zhang Qiling, "Not bad, only three days, tsk, I can only keep it from you for three days."

Zhang Qiling looked at Chen Yan, her brows furrowing slightly: "Why is this happening?"

"Zhang Qiling, no matter the reason, the Zhang family's rival has always been the Wang family. I'll help you deal with the Wang family, so why do you need to investigate our background?"

Zhang Longban said, "There are no permanent enemies, only permanent interests."

"I will eliminate the Wang family, and everyone who desires immortality. Isn't that a good thing for your Zhang family?"

"Since it's a good thing, why do you all insist on asking why?"

Zhang Qiling looked at Chen Yan, who had a smile on his face but no warmth in his eyes, and suddenly remembered that Chen Yan had said in the meteorite that he had lied to him.

You lied to me.

Chen Yan was taken aback, looking at Zhang Qiling suspiciously: "How did I lie to you?"

"You said you believed me and that you have amnesia."

Chen Yan's lips twitched. He didn't quite understand what Zhang Qiling was trying to say. Was that normal?

As Chen Yan pondered, he looked at Zhang Qiling, tapping his fingers on the table while scrutinizing his expression and face.

After a long pause, Chen Yan finally said, "Zhang Qiling, Lao Jiu and I are brothers, not superiors and subordinates, so there are many things that Lao Jiu doesn't want to talk about, and I don't know them."

"I won't ask him directly."

"So, the reason I first discovered you were missing was because Lao Jiu said the Zhang family patriarch would suffer from amnesia."

"I thought you really had amnesia and ran away, or that you had amnesia when I met you, and then regained your memory and left on your own."

"It wasn't until before I went to the Queen Mother of the West's Palace that Lao Jiu told me that the Zhang family patriarch would be bestowed by heaven, and after that he would have a high fever and amnesia. That's when I found out what was going on."

Zhang Qiling looked at Chen Yan and nodded, indicating that he believed Chen Yan's words.

but.

"But you still lied to me."

Chen Yan looked at Zhang Qiling with a slight headache: "So? I can't lie?"

Zhang Qiling pursed her lips, her eyes shifting slightly as she looked at Chen Yan. Chen Yan calmly said, "Don't pretend, I know you're a sly devil."

Seeing that this tactic was ineffective against Chen Yan, Zhang Qiling withdrew her gaze, lowered her eyes slightly, and said, "I just feel that, Meteorite, after you left, I realized I owe you a farewell."

Chen Yan paused his tapping on the table, looking at Zhang Qiling's downcast eyes.

Chen Yan laughed in exasperation, got up, walked around the table to Zhang Qiling, reached out and grabbed Zhang Qiling's chin, lifting his head to face him.

Bending down to look at Zhang Qiling, Chen Yan said softly with a half-smile, "Little mute, using this kind of trick against me, do you think I'm Wu Xie? Hmm?"

Zhang Qiling looked up at Chen Yan, her mouth slightly open: "I'm telling the truth."

He genuinely felt at the time that he should have said goodbye to Chen Yan.

At least, Chen Yan brought him food for half a month.

It's both reasonable and emotional that we should say goodbye.

However, Chen Pi arrived too quickly, and Chen Yan had already gone down into the tomb, so he didn't have time to look for him.

Chen Yan looked at Zhang Qiling for a long time before saying, "Okay, then remember to say goodbye to me when you leave."

Zhang Qiling paused, then nodded. Chen Yan released Zhang Qiling and turned to walk to his seat: "Little mute."

Chen Yan sat down and looked at Zhang Qiling, saying, "You're right, Lao Jiu is immortal, but this immortality has flaws, just like me and Meng Hu."

"Tigers are of Mongolian origin. The same way that blind people live long lives is how tigers live long lives."

Zhang Qiling was stunned. He hadn't expected that the tiger would use the same method as the blind man.

"His eyes?"

Chen Yan calmly said, "Some things change as they are passed down."

Zhang Qiling remained silent, seemingly lost in thought. Chen Yan continued, "As for me, as you know, I was born with poison in my body and will not live past twenty."

"If it weren't for Lao Jiu appearing and saving me, I would have died long ago."

"That's why the old man never felt my return was abrupt, and he never asked me why I came back."

"Because he knew how my mother escaped while pregnant. He was the one who had Chen Xi escort her abroad with people."

Chen Yan raised his hand, picked up the wine bottle next to him, poured himself a glass of wine, took a sip, glanced at Zhang Qiling, and said, "Chen Xi knows that my mother has been poisoned, which is why Chen Xi was so surprised when I appeared."

"Because for the old man and Chen Xi, my mother will never have any connection with the Nine Gates again in her life."

"Why do you think the old man is so good to me? It's because if my mother hadn't chosen to give birth to me and had instead hit me, she would have had more time to heal the toxins in her body."

"But my mother didn't do that; she kept me."

"The old man probably never dreamed that my mother would give birth to me."

"After all, men and women think differently."

"As for my mother, she lived her life without ever having children, but when she was facing death, she had a child."

"She felt it was a treasure given to her by God."

"So she was willing to die young to give birth to me."

Chen Yan downed the wine in his glass in one gulp, his fingers tracing the rim of the glass as his gaze fell on the agarwood on his wrist. His tone was complex: "If I could do it all over again, I would hope she would choose herself, not me."

"The old man doesn't understand that for a mother, loving her child is a woman's instinctive physiological drive."

"So when he saw the agarwood in my hand, he understood some things. He pretended to be nonchalant and said that he and my mother hit it off immediately, but broke up just as quickly."

"They tried to persuade me to leave the Nine Gates before they knew whether my body had been affected or whether I had any trump cards up my sleeve."