He blinks for a moment, eyebrows scrunching before he laughs and shakes his head. Well, in his defense he was rusty with playing at innocent.
"Honestly I'm not. I am Wu Ye of the Jiumen, but the current Jiumen isn't into grave robbing as it was before the Republic. Lao Jiumen were robbers and warlords but in the end those skills transferred over to the preserving and reacquiring antiques lost back then. I inherited the position from my grandfather by sheer accident since my uncles are always trying to keep me out of the whole mess."
He spreads his hands out as if helpless about the way fate has played with him. Which it has; he would have never gone after any of what he did if the Wang and the traitorous Jiumen had not pushed him.
"I still have shitty luck. I can walk into a well-documented empty tomb that's been turned into a tourist trap and still trigger a broken trap and fall head first into danger. My uncles thought I'd be safe taking a walk to a temple in Tibet where I'd be translating books. Yet here I am."
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"Honestly I'm not. I am Wu Ye of the Jiumen, but the current Jiumen isn't into grave robbing as it was before the Republic. Lao Jiumen were robbers and warlords but in the end those skills transferred over to the preserving and reacquiring antiques lost back then. I inherited the position from my grandfather by sheer accident since my uncles are always trying to keep me out of the whole mess."
He spreads his hands out as if helpless about the way fate has played with him. Which it has; he would have never gone after any of what he did if the Wang and the traitorous Jiumen had not pushed him.
"I still have shitty luck. I can walk into a well-documented empty tomb that's been turned into a tourist trap and still trigger a broken trap and fall head first into danger. My uncles thought I'd be safe taking a walk to a temple in Tibet where I'd be translating books. Yet here I am."