Le Zhengyue spoke, his gaze turning to Jiang Nannan. But her eyes were still filled with confusion—or perhaps distrust. She had never seen anything like this.
Meeting her gaze, Le Zhengyue remained perfectly calm.
He wasn't in a hurry to act on his own ideas. Instead, he waited in silence.
He didn't go on about how extraordinary his status was, either. After briefly introducing the two guards with him, he politely asked Jiang Nannan if he could come in and sit for a while.
The young man spoke very politely.
And when she saw the two thugs hanging by the doorway, Jiang Nannan felt a little instinctive goodwill toward Le Zhengyue. So after a brief silence, she stepped aside.
Seeing the cramped, somewhat dilapidated home, Le Zhengyue didn't seem to mind at all. He calmly sat down on a box-like chair, then beckoned to the people behind him.
One of the guards silently acknowledged him, then went out and bought a tableful of sumptuous dishes.
As the dishes were set out one after another, a rare trace of longing appeared in Jiang Nannan's eyes.
She had memories, but she hadn't been reincarnated; she merely possessed those memories. So although she had seen many luxurious, even incredible things,
she was still only this young herself, and her understanding of them remained limited. Now, as she saw all kinds of delicacies laid out on the table, she couldn't help longing for them.
Seeing the longing in the girl's eyes, Le Zhengyue didn't seem to mind at all. "Go ahead and eat, Miss Jiang Nannan. I came here especially to see you."
"Your mother is inside, right? Ask her to come and eat with us."
Le Zhengyue's voice was gentle and courteous.
Jiang Nannan looked at him. In every way, he was completely different from Xu Sanshi.
He wasn't as rough as Xu Sanshi, nor as indifferent—or flirtatious.
The young man's gaze was gentle from beginning to end, and Jiang Nannan felt a great deal of goodwill toward him.
Truthfully, Xu Sanshi wasn't bad in any respect. In fact, he was nowhere near bad.
Setting aside his status and background, both his character and his views on love were actually far more upright than Le Zhengyue's.
It was just that women naturally felt little affection for a man who fawned over them—or, rather, they simply didn't care that much. They knew he loved them, so they didn't pay him much attention.
In that kind of situation, when a man was still in the stage of fawning over a woman, if she met another man who was somewhat different from him and didn't fawn over her so much,
she would develop a certain amount of goodwill toward him. And that was exactly the role Le Zhengyue was playing now.
Hearing Le Zhengyue's words, a trace of embarrassment showed in Jiang Nannan's eyes. Still, she turned and called for her mother, and the three of them sat down together to eat.
Mother Jiang's eyes held a hint of puzzlement. She had never met this handsome young man before, but after glancing at her daughter, she still said nothing.
The three of them ate in peace, while elsewhere, at the Mysterious Underworld Sect—
A vast mansion stood in silence.
Xu Sanshi sat in a luxurious chair, exhaustion in his eyes.
"Butler, still haven't found Jiang Nannan?"
"She's right here in Tianxuan City. It shouldn't be that hard to find her."
Xu Sanshi's voice carried unmistakable irritation. Beside him, the old butler wiped the sweat from his forehead, his eyes clouded with confusion and hesitation.
He didn't know who Jiang Nannan was, but he had already looked into this so-called Jiang Nannan.
With their power, how could they not think of using their ties to the City Lord Mansion to find someone?
But once they had found her, Xu Sanshi's father had repeatedly stopped his son from going to see the girl.
They didn't know much about what kind of person she was. But ever since Xu Sanshi had woken up, he had insisted on devoting all their efforts to finding Jiang Nannan.
This had naturally aroused his father's curiosity—or, rather, his suspicions.
So even though they knew where Jiang Nannan was, they hadn't gone to see her. Instead, they had secretly sent people to watch and observe the woman called Jiang Nannan.
In this situation, the butler had no choice but to pretend they hadn't found her. "Reporting to you, young master, we really haven't found this girl named Jiang Nannan yet. We've already begun searching the whole city. We should find her in a few days at most."
The old butler's face was full of helplessness. Xu Sanshi looked at the old butler who had always cared for him and waved a hand. "All right, you can go. Have them bring me my meal, then tell Xiao Cui to come over."
Xu Sanshi paused for an instant when he mentioned Xiao Cui, a strange look in his eyes.
He had always been a natural womanizer, a lecher—or perhaps that was simply the nature of the Mysterious Underworld Turtle, which was even more flirtatious and lustful than a dragon. How could he possibly have only one woman in this life?
It was just that Jiang Nannan had been his first woman, and she was exceptionally beautiful, so he had kept pursuing her relentlessly.
But after the two of them got together—or, rather, after Huo Yuhao left—he hadn't been devoted to Jiang Nannan. He had secretly kept a few concubines and the like; Jiang Nannan simply hadn't found out.
But now that he had returned, with a mature soul inside him, he understood women and relationships inside and out.
Hearing Xu Sanshi's words, the old butler wore a complicated expression.
Ever since the young master had woken up half a month ago, he had started taking women without discrimination.
Originally, they had been required to find a virgin. Only after taking her virginity could they proceed with Martial Soul Awakening and bloodline fusion.
But now, their young master was looking for this girl named Jiang Nannan while also getting involved with many of the maids they kept around to warm their beds.
Yet after it happened a few times, the young master would order him to send the women away, even telling them to leave Tianxuan City.
The butler simply couldn't understand this. His mind couldn't even keep up with the logic.
But Xu Sanshi truly didn't care about any of that.
As dish after dish was brought to the table, a beautiful woman came over as well.
She was a young woman. As soon as she walked over, she plopped down in Xu Sanshi's lap. Xu Sanshi didn't hold back; he looked at the beauty in front of him and began running his hands over her.
The scene unfolded quite naturally. He ate as he teased the beauty in his arms.
What he didn't know was that a video recorder sat silently in front of him, capturing every last one of his amorous antics.
Only after the whole thing was over did the Angel Guard Squad captain stand quietly in place.
He didn't know what his young master meant, but he had still recorded the entire video.
Seeing that Xu Sanshi's behavior had matched his young master's guess exactly, the Angel Guard captain wore a strange expression. But as someone who had received professional training, he naturally paid it no mind.
He leaped down from the roof. Some guards who had been lying in wait outside the Xu Family quickly locked every door to the Xu residence, then formed a ring around it.
As the captain of the guards left, more than ten ninth-grade Soul Cannon shells came crashing down from the sky.
Any one of those Soul Cannon shells could have destroyed the entire city. Now that all of them had struck the Xu Family at once, the terrifying devastation they caused was beyond what ordinary people could imagine.
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