Ji Rui stared at him, asking concernedly, "What's the matter?"
Yang Sheng knew he couldn't avoid Ji Rui's questioning, thought for a moment, and decided to be straightforward, "There's a bit of a situation at home, I need to go back and handle it."
Ji Rui knew a little about Yang Sheng's family matters. Years ago, Yang Sheng had a big falling out with his family over Chu Ran, which is why he left the Yang Family in a huff. The financial and influential power of the Yang Family and the Ji Family are quite comparable. However, the power dynamics between these two families are split between the south and the north, with very little association.
Curiously, for all the years Yang Sheng had been at the Ji Family, no one from the Yang Family had ever intervened, and it seemed that not many in high society knew that Yang Sheng was a son of the Northern Yang Family. Thus, Ji Rui assumed Yang Sheng had completely broken off from the Yang Family.
