Chapter 547: How Could the Cunning Elysia Possibly Best That Liu Bai?

If Greater Lord Rukkhadevata hadn't entrusted him with something more important, Zhongli would probably have started thinking of an excuse to contact Liu Bai by now.

Zhongli truly felt that, given his current status, there was no need to bother Liu Bai over anything unrelated to official business.

And speaking of finding Venti... Zhongli had actually wanted to tell Greater Lord Rukkhadevata that he didn't know Venti's contact information either.

He didn't even know whether Venti had any communication device—unlike Zhongli, whom people could find whenever they wanted, Venti's whole thing was that if he didn't want to appear, no one could find him.

Fortunately, this counted as official business. After going through the expedited procedures properly, Zhongli successfully found Venti's phone number.

...If he hadn't found it, Zhongli would have had to ask around every tavern one by one.

But all these matters had left old man Zhongli feeling rather displeased—though the main reason was still his own "granddaughter," Hu Tao.

"Jean, you mean? She really is the sort of child who gets stubborn over major matters—not because she lacks the courage to make decisions or change, but because she worries that even one good person might be affected."

Venti seemed to realize that Zhongli was discussing this matter very seriously, so half the frivolity vanished from his tone—leaving the other half behind.

"For her, if someone has to make sacrifices because of change, she'd probably be more than willing for that someone to be herself... She's really the kind of person I'm not good at dealing with."

Venti sounded genuinely troubled as well.

He wasn't good at handling such matters. If he absolutely had to put a number on it, his cunning and political intelligence were, at the absolute bare minimum, somewhere above eighty. Coupled with the information