The Girlboss Begs For Remarriage

Gus laughed. "Haha. I definitely wouldn't lie to you, Mr. Lawrence."

Suddenly, Frank found Gus' attitude toward him weird. After all, Gus should be on the Soranos' side and therefore hostile toward Frank. After all, half the reason Zam Sorano was killed was because of Frank. And yet, Gus was not showing any enmity toward Frank now if anything, he was exceedingly polite, even kind, as if he were just an ordinary younger man.

"How did you sustain your injury, Mr. Zeller?" he asked nonetheless.

Gus smiled. He could tell that Frank's question was clearly loaded and simply admitted, "I was ambushed one night, leaving my organs and meridian nexus in pieces. Thankfully, someone saved me from the ruins."

"Someone saved you?" Frank repeated softly.

"Yes." Gus' gaze turned distant in recollection. "It was a young girl... a kind one. She fed me a golden pill that saved my life, even helping me improve to Ascendant rank."

and cultivation was saved, I was struck by Hundred Bane Sect's Every Flavor Palm. Whenever

All Gus had to do was

happened that his antidotes were used

that, Gus was smiling. "I have a question of my own, Mr. Lawrence. If I'm not mistaken, you'd be interested in asking why I bailed you out when Willy brought us to

solemnly, candid since

Mystic Sky Sect," Gus said quietly and sighed after a moment of silence while leveling a troubled look at Frank. "Like a lot of other families and factions, the Soranos sent me to South Sea and partook in the siege of Mystic Sky Sect. I believed what I

as I helped pillage the archives and was backstabbed. I was at the mercy of fate, but a girl-an apprentice of Mystic Sky

and shaking his head, Gus explained, "At that moment, I understood that I had been lied to. Mystic Sky Sect and their apprentices were no evildoers, but individuals of valor and compassion. Heck, when I asked why she'd save me, she told me that I looked pitiful