"Thank you for the invitation. I barely ate any lunch—I was waiting for this banquet." Liu Li naturally looped one arm through Chen Xuan's while covering her mouth with the other as she chuckled.
"Hahaha—then the chefs here definitely won't disappoint you." Du Pingzhang said cheerfully. "I still have other guests to attend to, so please excuse me."
She really knew what she was doing.
Chen Xuan had thought he was guiding her into this deal, but unexpectedly, she had been guiding him all along.
"Where did you learn all this?" he asked in a lowered voice.
"Time can teach you anything." Liu Li winked at him. "You didn't think all I knew was how to chop people up, did you? The seal took up most of my years, but even those brief intervals of activation were longer than anything you humans could ever hope to match."
All right, all right—she was an Artifact, after all. Of course she spoke with confidence.
"Shouldn't you tell me why you brought me here now?" she asked.
"I want to confirm something. You don't actually need to do anything—just come say hello with me."
Chen Xuan swept his gaze across the room and quickly found the Arbitration Court agent amid the crowd. Surprisingly, Rin was not the center of attention at this banquet. She sat alone at the bar without even a companion beside her, while every other agency agent had at least two or three people from the local branch attending them. This clearly could not have been the station chief's arrangement.
Since it was not deliberate, it could only mean that she was not particularly interested in this sort of banquet either.
This was a good opportunity.
Chen Xuan led Liu Li briskly behind her and gave a light cough. "Good