Li Tianming had Silver Dust continue relaying information to the Jiang family, telling them not to interfere for now. Then he burst out from underground and appeared once more before the Eighteenth Princess, the Seventeenth Prince, and Jiang Meng.
None of the three had moved, and their expressions had barely changed.
Only the Seventeenth Prince seemed to grow excited. Looking at Li Tianming, he said, "You really did seize his fatal weakness. Otherwise, he would have run off by now. Heh heh."
Li Tianming noticed that the way he looked at the Eighteenth Princess was not the way one looked at a younger sister, but with an incomparably reverent gaze.
What exactly was going on?
Before Li Tianming could speak, Jiang Meng suddenly moved. She silently walked to the Eighteenth Princess's side, wrapped an arm around her slender waist, then looked at Li Tianming with a ghostly gaze and said, "Are you obedient now? Can you listen nicely? Li Tianming?"
Those were Jiang Meng's words!
But neither the meaning of those words nor her actions belonged to her!
"What happened to her?" Li Tianming gritted his teeth.
"Don't worry. What I want is you, not her." Jiang Meng pressed her cheek against the Eighteenth Princess's, then said to Li Tianming in that eerie voice, "As long as you obey, she will naturally be fine. She is merely a minor character, while you are the major character. It just so happens that this minor character can pry loose a major character like you."
"Can you speak for yourself? What exactly do you want me to do?" Li Tianming ignored Jiang Meng and stared at the Eighteenth Princess instead.
Only then did the Eighteenth Princess smile faintly. Parting her red lips, she softly said, "Return to Hunyuan Ji with me. It's that