Haha, I Nearly Fell for Their Scheme Again!

Xu Tianran looked at the smile on Jiang Ming's lips, feeling somewhat puzzled.

This man had refused his recruitment, yet he was smiling so happily. Why?

As someone skilled at analyzing people's minds, Xu Tianran instinctively sensed that something was wrong.

Given the current situation, Jiang Ming was his enemy—and a formidable one at that!

An enemy smiling meant something unfavorable to him had happened!

But... Radiant City was peaceful at the moment.

Xu Tianran looked toward Radiant City's urban district. There was nothing unusual there, and if something had happened, someone would certainly have reported it to him.

Suppressing his doubts, Xu Tianran looked at Jiang Ming again and said gravely, "Jiang Ming, I hope you will reconsider. If you are willing to pledge yourself to me, then when I unify the continent in the future, I may be able to preserve Shrek Academy as it is now."

The meaning behind those words was clear. Only if Jiang Ming pledged himself to the Sun Moon Empire would Xu Tianran preserve Shrek Academy when he unified the continent.

If he refused, then the day the Sun Moon Empire unified the continent would be the day Shrek Academy was destroyed!

Neither Xu Tianran himself nor the various classes of the Sun Moon Empire would allow Shrek Academy to continue existing.

Thousands of years ago, the Sun Moon Empire had failed to defeat the Three Great Empires originally belonging to the Douluo Continent and turn the Douluo Continent into the Sun Moon Continent. Shrek Academy had been a major factor in that failure!

Xu Tianran could not possibly allow a force capable of affecting the Empire's rule to continue existing.

"Heh, Your Highness the Crown Prince, you may be thinking too highly of yourself. I already said it: at this stage, at