"Haha, I was joking, just joking. Xu Yi, you didn't take that seriously, did you..."
Xuan Ye Wang forced a laugh. "I didn't expect you to be so devoted. Fine, for your sake, I won't make things difficult for Xu Yanzhi. Though I was eliminated in the competition back then, we're still old acquaintances. Do a good job as Deputy Supervisor, and don't disappoint me..."
Suppressing his disgust, Xuan Ye Wang rambled on. Xu Yi couldn't be bothered to listen and left on his own.
He hadn't gone far when he heard things crashing and shattering inside the hall.
"Why go to all this trouble? Why provoke him? You could've humored him for now and bought yourself some time."
As soon as Xu Yi left the main hall, Huang Mei couldn't help complaining.
Xu Yi said, "You think a piece of trash like Xuan Ye Wang would take me seriously? If he really wanted to let me go, why go to all that trouble to drag me here to the Department of Xuan Du? He clearly wants to kill two birds with one stone and leave no one standing."
Huang Mei said, "I meant humor him, not actually do whatever with that Xu Yanzhi. By the way, who is she? From the name, she sounds like a woman. Don't tell me you—you've already got how many women? I knew you couldn't change your spots. The moment a woman's involved, you lose your head. So that's it—your old weakness for women's flared up again. You just don't want to give Xuan Ye Wang the chance to go after Xu Yanzhi. That's why you're willing to fall out with him right now."
Huang Mei had hit the nail on the head.
It wasn't that he'd developed feelings for Xu Yanzhi. He simply