Today's fourth update: Chapter 3496! 4/4!
"What is it this time?" Xu Kun asked calmly, knowing full well that the two girls had taken the bait.
Sometimes, when you wanted something, you couldn't reveal your true intentions. It was like seeing the person you liked with her best friend. Rather than rushing to show goodwill to your crush, it was better to feint in one direction and strike in another—tease her best friend first, make her feel displeased, create a sense of disparity in her heart, then launch a heavy offensive against her!
That was how you got twice the result with half the effort!
"The two of us wish to go to the Phoenix Race to attend the ceremony..." Xu Buwan said uncertainly, unable to read Xu Kun's attitude and lacking confidence.
She had already prepared herself to be mocked.
After all, as prisoners, they wanted to go to the Phoenix Race's ceremony? Was that some kind of joke?
"I guarantee that after the ceremony, I will obediently return to the Huang Race and accept your orders. I... I swear in the name of the Xu family, in the name of my Mother Goddess!" Xu Buwan did her best to make assurances.
Yet Xu Kun neither agreed nor disagreed. His calm expression was beyond what she had expected.
By ordinary reasoning, Xu Kun had only just made the two of them the Huang Race's trump cards for what came next. Letting them go to the Phoenix Race now would be like sending meat buns to a dog—gone for good.
Even if Xu Buwan made the promise herself and even swore in the name of Nan Nan Ma, what she personally intended was her own business. Once she went to the Phoenix Race, how could the Phoenix Race possibly