The car moved smoothly along. The atmosphere inside was strangely tense, but Bai Yuanzhao noticed nothing and focused on driving.
In the passenger seat, Sun Jiajia stared at Huang Tian through the rearview mirror. Her gaze was so intense, so obvious, that she seemed wholly unconcerned he might notice and take offense.
There's something wrong with this woman, Huang Tian thought.
Leaving aside whether a normal woman would dare stare so openly at a man she had just met, the fact that Bai Yuanzhao and Sun Jiajia had gotten together was startling enough.
He came from the White Family of Jade Prefecture, was young and wealthy, and was decent-looking besides. Sun Jiajia was neither pretty nor poised, and her family was plainly ordinary. There was clearly no Lineage marriage involved—so how had the two of them ended up together?
Had he grown so used to delicacies from mountain and sea that he simply had to try a plain side dish for a change?
After a moment's thought, with that burning gaze still fixed on him, Huang Tian willed an illusion onto Sun Jiajia, intending to make her confess everything. But when the illusion reached her, her expression did not change. She felt nothing—not even enough to furrow her brow.
At my current strength, almost no one on Canxing can break free of my illusions, let alone do it as effortlessly as she did. Huang Tian's thoughts stirred. So it's an extraordinary object!
Sun Jiajia possessed an extraordinary object!
One of its properties was immunity to attacks on the mind and will. That was why his illusion had failed.
Not only that, it probably had the power to affect other people's minds and souls. Bai Yuanzhao was quite possibly under its control.
As Huang Tian considered this, he took out his