"Why did you suddenly change your mind?" Jiang Wang asked.
Chongxuan Sheng bared his teeth and said bitterly, "I've always been the one bullying others. No one gets to bully me. I can't swallow this insult!"
"Seven Hates has transcended, after all. Consider it giving a transcendent being some face... You're being too impulsive right now," Jiang Wang said.
He urged him gently, "At this stage, our main goal is to get you out of Seven Hates' chosen path, not confront Him head-on. If someone slaps your left cheek, wouldn't it do to just cover your left cheek?"
"Yes, I'm too impulsive." Chongxuan Sheng sighed. "And my face is too big to cover."
Of course Jiang Wang understood that his choice had already been guessed, though he did not understand how it had been guessed... By now, even if mountains collapsed before him, his expression would not change. By all rights, he should not have revealed any clue.
He was not Junior Brother Jingli, with every last emotion written across his face!
He could only attribute it to the fat man before him knowing him too well—and possessing a brainful of brains.
"Do you think Seven Hates' arrangements might involve Shi Si, or my godson?" Jiang Wang asked.
Lou Yue's fall into devilry had naturally been the result of erosion dripping through stone over many years, the cumulative result of countless factors. Yet the blade that had most directly broken him was still the death of his daughter, Lou Jiangyue.
Seven Hates was not an existence bound by particular methods. If He were determined to lead Chongxuan Sheng into devilry, He probably would not act through Chongxuan Sheng alone.
The ferocious look vanished from Chongxuan Sheng's face. This was not the time for self-comfort, and his expression was grave. "That's