Ronan had no intention of heading to the "Relay Station" right away.
After finishing his exchange with Snake Tongue and seeing that the discussions between the two sides in the conference room would take a while longer, he simply continued slacking off. He contacted Zhang Yingying and asked about the current direction of public opinion in the Inner World. To be honest, the direction of everyone's discussion was not quite to his liking.
"Shouldn't the focus be on the Jin Buhuan Incident, or at least the Wilderness? Why is everyone talking about the banquet?"
In response, Zhang Yingying sent him a cold-smile emoji. "If you want to shape public opinion, don't be so high-profile yourself! You had so much fun yesterday, so don't blame people online for saying weird things."
"What fun? Didn't you notice that I got your Boss put through hell?" Ronan felt deeply wronged, but as soon as he typed those words, he realized something was off.
He had barely twitched his lips before Zhang Yingying replied, "I noticed. But if Boss went that far to straighten someone out, it can only mean that person went completely overboard in certain matters. Otherwise, why would Boss waste her time getting angry with you?"
Well, that was not entirely unreasonable.
There was considerable resentment in Zhang Yingying's next message. "But in the eyes of most spectators, what they saw was something else... Don't you know this kind of thing hits serious public discourse the hardest?"
Ronan felt even more wronged. "Was I the one who made the first move last night?"
"You wanted to make the first move?"
"..."
Ronan had no way to explain it to Zhang Yingying, especially when he thought of the strange "Weak Year Rings" between her and Sun Jiayi. After hesitating for a long