"Even if I find Set with your help, based on the information you just gave me, isn't Thor still by his side?" Zhang Heng asked.
"That's why I came to you," Isis said. "I believe that if it's you, you'll definitely find a solution, won't you?"
Zhang Heng did not answer immediately.
Isis blinked. "I know what you're thinking. Taking me down would be much easier than dealing with Set and Thor at the same time, right? But unfortunately, I had my maid lead that little Succubus away not only because I didn't want her hearing our conversation."
"I'm not that familiar with her either," Zhang Heng said flatly.
"Mm, then are you familiar with R'lyeh's master?" As Isis spoke, she set the hair dryer in her hand on the bar counter, then picked up a bunch of grapes.
As soon as she said that, an eerie silence fell over the reception room.
After a moment, Zhang Heng stared into Isis's deep blue eyes, as unfathomable as the sea, and asked in a low voice, "What do you know?"
"I only know... what I ought to know," Isis said. "You've read my story, so I'm sure you've also heard how people judge me. In some tales, they describe me as a greedy woman who would stop at nothing for power. But you should know that before that, my husband had just been murdered by my brother. I fled into the wilderness with my son and nearly died more than once. It was then that I realized the importance of power."
"What are you trying to say?"
"What I'm trying to say is..." Isis plucked off a grape with two fingers and put it into her mouth. "I'm not actually as insatiably greedy as you think. I'm no different from other