The one at Xie Mingyi's side was, in truth, none other than Chen Xu!
Yet though Chen Xu's reputation was vast, his rise to fame was but recent, and he seldom appeared before the masses.
Thus, while the whole world knew the name of Chen Xu, those who had truly seen his countenance were but few.
Xie Mingyi, however, had once seen a portrait of Chen Xu sent from Yunjiang Prefecture.
But alas, the painter's rendering was more impressionistic than lifelike. Though Xie Mingyi had looked upon it, he could not match the figure in the painting to the youth before his eyes.
Or perhaps, Xie Mingyi could hardly have imagined that Chen Xu, searched for desperately by so many not long ago, now stood quietly by his side.
Indeed, Xie Mingyi was the last disciple of the Great Scholar Li Yanqing.
In fact, Li Yanqing's whole school was seeking Chen Xu.
Feng Yuanbai had learned of the upheaval in the Jade Capital only upon receiving a transmission from a disciple of Li Yanqing's lineage.
