If it had been any other woman, Fang Zheng would definitely have assumed this was just an excuse to keep him overnight for her own enjoyment. But Ji Yanran truly lived up to her reputation—she actually intended to talk with him by candlelight through the night...
Look, she had even set out the candles!
"Young Master Fang's ideas are truly remarkable. Everything you say is something Yanran has never considered before..."
"It's simple. You only need to look at things from a different angle."
Fang Zheng did not particularly intend to do anything with Ji Yanran. If she had wanted to offer herself to him, that would have been one thing, but if she merely wanted an exchange of minds, he did not mind that either.
With anyone else, Fang Zheng might have been somewhat cautious. But although Ji Yanran was one of the main heroines in A Step into the Past, she had been an insignificant figure in actual history. No matter what Fang Zheng told her, she could not change history.
So Fang Zheng did not mind finding someone to chat with.
"Look at things from another angle?"
"That's right. Like cats and mice."
Fang Zheng took a sip of wine and smiled at Ji Yanran.
"From a human perspective, cats catching mice is perfectly natural, even a good deed. Mice steal grain, ruin crops, spread disease—they are practically the source of all evil. So from humanity's point of view, it would be best if every mouse died out."
"That is indeed true... but what is wrong with that?"
Ji Yanran's large eyes were filled with a thirst for knowledge as she looked at Fang Zheng, like a child eagerly absorbing every lesson.
"Nothing is wrong with it, of course. But what I just said was only from