Mountain Lord's laugh was hearty and uninhibited, shaking the entire building. The tea sets on nearby tables rattled and jumped.
Nearly everyone nearby changed expression, and even Mora's angry voice was mostly drowned out. When she later slammed the table in fury, it carried no intimidation at all.
"Hey, what the hell do you mean?"
Ronan glanced at her. Before he could respond, Mountain Lord answered for him after finishing his laugh. "I thought that when you came to the Great Golden Triangle, you'd already made up your mind."
"He invited me here!"
"That doesn't mean you should be excluded from the Information Chain Network." The more Mountain Lord spoke, the more justified he sounded. "Come on, everyone basically knows about your problem. What, are you afraid of losing face? The fact that you managed to stay peaceful and steady last night was already giving you plenty of face."
"Heh heh. After coming down from the mountain, Mountain Lord wants to become a guard dog now? A Red-Eyed Gambler and a guard dog—are you in such a hurry to pair up this kind of 'gambling mutt'?"
Now it really felt like Mora and Mountain Lord were about to come to blows.
Yet Ronan did not seem worried in the slightest. After pulling Mora into the Information Chain Network, he specifically asked, "Aren't you going to try the Character Cards?"
Mora blurted out, "What kind of devils and monsters..."
Amid another wave of Mountain Lord's laughter, she abruptly stopped. She suddenly clutched Wen Huilan tightly beside her, seeming as though she wanted to knead the unfortunate actress she had dragged over into her own body.
At Wen Huilan's shoulder hollow, she took a deep breath, then shifted slightly until their foreheads pressed together. The wide-brimmed hat covered both their heads, and