Although the candlelight wasn't very bright, on a night like this it was still enough for the people in the room to see clearly who was standing at the door.
"It's you!"
There was some surprise in Yun Ran's tone, but also a trace of "just as I expected."
The Nine-headed Ferocious Beast stared bright-eyed at the man walking in; this was the first person it had ever been unable to see through.
Even back then, that guy from Qingfeng Temple who'd forced it to seal itself, hadn't given it as complicated a feeling as the man before it now.
The man's figure paused for a moment, but in the end he still stepped inside, a hint of apology on his face.
"Well, I sensed you were over here, so I came to take a look. I didn't think I'd end up startling you anyway."
That easy familiarity in his tone was enough to make even the Nine-headed Ferocious Beast, sealed for so many years, believe that this man really was an acquaintance of Yun Ran's.
