Chapter 3213 — Han Jingyi's True Origins

"True enough, but that Limit-Breaking Qi-Gathering Pill isn't so easy to refine either. I've been squandering my energy in too many places lately, and I've had no time to research pill refinement," Kang Jingming said.

"Refine it slowly, then—once this thing kills Wei Zhao outright, it saves us the trouble. Only, the pill-cauldron business is doing rather well at the moment. If Wei Zhao dies, there'll be no one left for us to counterfeit. So don't refine it too fast; wait until his side has just about finished its upgrades, then do away with him. Without Wei Zhao backing them, the Liu Group will have nothing left to fear—we can simply go and seize it by force," Patriarch Xuanchen said.

"That makes sense. Then I'll go look into it," Kang Jingming said with a nod.

After Wei Zhao finished all of this, he returned to his room. Han Jingyi had slept for a while and now woke up. Looking at Han Jingyi, who wore Liu Jinghan's face, Wei Zhao did not even know what to call her anymore.

"Jingjing, are you Liu Jinghan or Han Jingyi?" Wei Zhao looked at Liu Jinghan—sleepy-eyed, adorable, and utterly guileless—and found it very hard to connect her with that shrewd, capable, brilliant young businesswoman.

"Both! Liu Jinghan's childhood name is Jingjing too. Jingjing even dropped you hints, but Brother Wei Zhao never thought in that direction!" Han Jingyi said. "And there's the car I drive—Han Jingyi's car and Liu Jinghan's car are exactly the same, and Brother Wei Zhao wasn't even curious about that."

"Honestly, I was curious. I even imagined the two of you as one person. But your looks are too far apart, and your voices are different too. By the way, how did you change your voice?" Wei Zhao asked, somewhat curious.

"Changing my voice is easy! Don't forget, Jingjing even invented a grade-one automatic pill cauldron—what's so hard about inventing a voice changer?" Han Jingyi said, as though it were only natural. "As for my looks... actually, Jingjing was wearing a Thousand-Silk Mask!"

As she spoke, Han Jingyi wiped a hand across her face, and the face that had been Liu Jinghan's became Han Jingyi's! Looking at the familiar features before him, Wei Zhao sighed and said, "This is much easier on the eyes. Liu Jinghan is a beauty too, but I still think Jingjing looks better."

"It's all the same anyway!" Han Jingyi said indifferently. "Whatever appearance Brother Wei Zhao likes Jingjing to have, Jingjing will have!"

"Jingjing, are you deliberately acting cute in front of me? Liu Jinghan doesn't have your personality at all, does she?" Hearing Han Jingyi's voice, Wei Zhao could not help but smile.

"It's Liu Jinghan that's the act!" Han Jingyi shook her head. "Actually, this is Jingjing's true personality. Jingjing doesn't much care for business matters; Jingjing prefers researching science and technology."

"All right, but your rank as a pill refiner should have been there all along, shouldn't it? How did I never notice?" Wei Zhao asked.

"Huh? Actually, when Jingjing is in Liu Jinghan's state, I never hid my cultivation rank at all. But from the look of it, Brother Wei Zhao simply never thought along those lines, did you?" Han Jingyi said, a little puzzled. "Though Jingjing never made a point of showing it off either—maybe Brother Wei Zhao just overlooked it."

"That must be it!" Wei Zhao indeed had never thought along those lines before. The Liu family was no cultivation clan; in Wei Zhao's impression, there were no cultivators in their family, and he had not thought much of Liu Jinghan back then either. So now, thinking about it, he had probably simply overlooked this point. But what puzzled Wei Zhao most, the question he had never been able to work out, was this: "Jingjing, why did you deceive me? Why did you appear at my side as Han Jingyi? Of course, I don't mean that you had some scheme in mind—after all, everything you've done for me has been without payment: helping me research pill refinement, helping me research the grade-one automatic pill cauldron, all of it, asking nothing in return. But you could perfectly well have come to see me as Liu Jinghan!"

"Actually... it was Jingjing's teacher who told Jingjing to hide her identity and secretly help Brother Wei Zhao," Han Jingyi said. Since she had already revealed her identity, she might as well tell Wei Zhao everything—this too was something her teacher had permitted: if it ever came to the point where there was no other way, she could tell Wei Zhao the truth.

"Your teacher?" Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback. He had not expected Han Jingyi to have a teacher. Anyone who could teach a disciple as formidable as Han Jingyi was certainly no ordinary person—most likely a very formidable scientist.

"Yes, my teacher. His name is Sun Jichuan, and he is a very formidable scientist. Jingjing has studied with him in secret since she was small, but even now, Jingjing has only learned a few superficial things. Jingjing isn't as clever as her teacher. If Brother Wei Zhao were to study, he would surely surpass my teacher," Han Jingyi said.

"Pff—" Hearing Han Jingyi's words, Wei Zhao choked and gave a dry laugh. "Jingjing, you think far too highly of me. Now that I know you're Liu Jinghan, you acting this cute is a little hard for me to get used to..."

At Wei Zhao's words, Han Jingyi's expression suddenly turned somewhat gloomy. "Jingjing isn't acting cute. This is what Jingjing's teacher said. Teacher said Brother Wei Zhao is the most formidable person, and told Jingjing to assist Brother Wei Zhao well, that in the future we are to accomplish a great thing together! And besides, Jingjing already told you—it's Liu Jinghan that Jingjing puts on as an act. The Jingjing now is the real Jingjing."

"Your master... knows me?" Seeing that Han Jingyi spoke in dead earnest, Wei Zhao stopped dwelling on the matter and instead asked, somewhat oddly.

"Actually, I should say that my master knows your master. There is considerable history between the two of them," Han Jingyi said.

"Oh? He knows my master? Then does he know where my master has gone?" Wei Zhao was instantly shocked and asked hurriedly.

"He knows, but Jingjing doesn't," Han Jingyi shook her head. "Teacher didn't tell Jingjing. Besides, Jingjing hasn't seen her master for many years. He only instructed Jingjing that he and Brother Wei Zhao's master, along with some others, had gone off together to accomplish a great thing, and told Jingjing not to worry—to study quietly at home, and once her studies were complete, to make ready to go and help Brother Wei Zhao."

"So that's how it is. Then why didn't you... come find me before?" Wei Zhao nodded and asked. (Please follow Yuren's official WeChat account, ID yuren22; Yuren shares the latest news at any time!)