About a quarter hour before Eun Jeong and Soyak met.

Eunsong and Eun Jeong were gliding leisurely toward Flower-Haze Hall with lightness arts.

Eunsong stayed close beside Eun Jeong and asked,

“So, what are you planning to do, Eun Jeong?”

“I should go speak to her first, shouldn’t I? To see whether she is solid at the core.”

“…Solid at the core?”

Eun Jeong nodded.

Eunsong let out a deep sigh.

That was this man’s way of speaking.

A person had to be solid at the core, or whatever it was he always said.

It was not as though Eunsong had no idea what he meant.

In the end, that was Eun Jeong’s standard for evaluating “talent.”

And Eun Jeong’s personal measure of “how solid someone was” was reasonably accurate.

It could not be called especially refined.

But at the very least, no one Eun Jeong had called an empty shell had ever turned out to be a decent person.

The opposite, by induction, had also held ...

Chapter 139

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