Chapter 247 Meeting old friends again
In the silent night, in a room, the candlelight flickered slightly, reflecting a beautiful face. She was dressed in a white brocade dress, but her whole body exuded a cool and mature style, and her beautiful eyes were full of temptation.

The dazzling candlelight made the beauty on the bed open her eyes involuntarily and turn her head to look at the suddenly burning candle.

I saw a blurry figure sitting at the table, holding a wine glass in one hand and resting his cheek with the other, looking at me.

When she saw who it was, the beauty on the bed was shocked and exclaimed, "Who are you?"

"Don't waste your energy! The sound won't be able to be transmitted!" The man chuckled after taking a sip of wine.

"Are you Nie Feng?" The woman looked up and down at the man in front of her and asked.

"Uh...is my disguise so bad?" Xiao Yan felt speechless. How come he could recognize everyone he met at a glance?
"Haha, I can't think of anyone else other than you who could have walked into my room without anyone noticing and remained so calm. After all, I was the one who gave you the map of the palace. If you didn't have the map, you would have a hard time finding my residence even if you spent three days and three nights looking for it." Yao Ye stood up and walked to Xiao Yan. After looking him up and down, he said, "Should I continue to call you Nie Feng? Or Xiao Yan?"

"Call me whatever you want, I think you should know why I'm here!" Xiao Yan said in a flat tone.

"I know what you want to ask, but half a year ago, as soon as my great grandfather came out of seclusion, he took away my power. Now I have no power at all. Moreover, my great grandfather doesn't let me ask about anything he does, and he doesn't tell me. His temperament has also changed a lot, and I can't even understand him anymore." Yao Ye said helplessly.

"So you know that it was your great-grandfather who did it?" Xiao Yan looked at Yao Ye with gloomy eyes.

"Don't look at me like that, I'm just guessing! But didn't you know that your family would be captured? Why are you so anxious now?" Yao Ye naturally knew about Xiao Yan's little tricks.

"I'm confused. How do you know that I'm Xiao Yan? It seems like I've never exposed myself on my own initiative!" Xiao Yan really wanted to know whether it was because of his exposure that Jia Xingtian attacked the Xiao family, or whether it was the people from the Soul Palace who asked Jia Xingtian to do it.

“I have to say, you hid it very well indeed! But more than a year ago, the great elder of the Mitel family, Mitel Tengshan, went to Wutan City. After he came back, he began to provide many conveniences to your Xiao family, including settling your people. Although he did it very covertly, how could he hide it from me? There is no wall that is impenetrable. As long as we go to Wutan City to inquire, we can easily recognize you, because the pills you refine are so easy to identify. This is also the loophole you left!” Yao Ye looked at Xiao Yan and said.

Xiao Yan naturally knew that his identity could not be hidden for long, but he did not expect it to be exposed so quickly.

"It seems that this identity cannot be hidden for long!" Xiao Yan said with a helpless smile.

"Unless you don't take any action, don't refine medicine, and don't reveal your talent, it will be easy to guess that it is you. After all, there are not so many evil geniuses in the Jia Ma Empire!" Yao Ye smiled as he looked at Xiao Yan, who was dressed so flashy.

Not taking action? Is it possible? Whether it is the Alchemist Conference or the competition with Nalan Yanran, it will be exposed sooner or later.

Even if Xiao Yan did not participate in the Alchemist Conference, it would not work; Nalan Yanran's current strength was estimated to be at least a Great Dou Shi or even a Dou Ling;
Unless Xiao Yan deliberately lost the game and left the imperial capital in disgrace, everyone would definitely discover Xiao Yan’s extraordinaryness.

"Forget it!" Xiao Yan sighed helplessly. This kind of situation had actually been anticipated long ago. Unless others were fools, they would be exposed sooner or later. It was just a matter of time.

"It seems that your great grandfather chose to take action against the Xiao family because of me." Xiao Yan smiled helplessly. "You are wrong! If it was really your great grandfather who took action, it was definitely not because he found out that you were Xiao Yan, so he took action against your Xiao family. There must be other reasons. Is it because your great grandfather has always wanted to win you over, or I took the initiative to deal with you! With your great grandfather's cautious character, he will not take the initiative to provoke you." Yao Ye said seriously.

"I really want to know. Wutan City is thousands of miles away. How did you know that something happened to the Xiao family? Aren't you restricted by your great-grandfather? It's unlikely to alarm you with such a small matter!" Xiao Yan glanced at Yao Ye, wanting to hear her answer.

"You actually discovered it! Yes, I do have a group of people under my command who help me to gather information, and I also found out some information about your father, but why should I tell you?" Yao Ye looked at Xiao Yan with a sly smile.

"Tell me, I will help you kill your great-grandfather and help you regain power!" Xiao Yan looked up at Yao Ye and said.

"Haha, help me regain power? I'm afraid you want me to help you control the Gama Empire!" Yao Ye said disdainfully.

"You can choose not to do it!" Xiao Yan raised his eyebrows, looked at Yao Ye, and said lightly.

"Do I have any choice?" Yao Ye laughed at himself, as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world.

"No!" Xiao Yan said seriously.

"I will help you control the Gama Empire and tell you the whereabouts of your father. I only ask you to spare my great-grandfather's life when the time comes!" Yao Ye suddenly slumped in the chair like a ball that had all its strength drained away.

"That depends on whether he knows what's good for him!" Xiao Yan said lightly, touching Yao Ye's chin.

"Then where is my antidote?" Yao Ye said, with tears of unwillingness in his eyes.

"Antidote? I thought you asked someone else to make the antidote for you! That's why I didn't make it for you!" Xiao Yan scratched his head, indicating that he had forgotten.

"You! You are a devil!" Yao Ye stood up and looked at Xiao Yan with anger on his face.

Yaoye could never forget the scene when the poison in his body took effect. There was no pain, no struggle, only despair.

It is really terrible to have your hair turn white overnight and become an old lady full of wrinkles, especially for a woman like her, it is a hundred or a thousand times more terrible than death.

“You are the only one who can guess my thoughts, so I can only treat you like this! Otherwise I will be worried! But don’t worry, as long as you cooperate well, I will naturally not let you get angry again. Instead, I will give you unexpected rights and status! With your original intelligence and talent, you can only show off your power in this small Jia Ma Empire, but I can give you more!” Xiao Yan admired the woman in front of him for her mind and appreciated her beauty, but for a woman who put power first, Xiao Yan naturally had to use some means to control her.

(End of this chapter)