Chapter 351

Xavier instantly deflated.

Renee was indeed not like ordinary women. She was way too smart. She could easily see through him. It wasn't as easy as he thought.

Never mind the other stuff—Xavier had spent the entire evening running around the dock, and he couldn't even find Renee. Defeated, that was when he finally went to Stefan to gather some intel.

Feeling a little awkward, Xavier tried to change the topic. "Stef, what are you doing? You're holding a bamboo tube. Are you performing a magic trick?"

Stefan ignored Xavier and started to focus on shaking the bamboo tube.

After five or six shakes, a bamboo stick fell to the ground.

The old man picked it up and read the text on the stick, and a complicated expression emerged on his face.

"What are you looking for, young man?" he asked.

"I want to know if she and I still have a chance," Stefan said coldly.

Needless to say, by 'she,' he was referring to Renee.

The old man let out a long sigh. "The breeze comes and goes; the beginnin