Marriage Alliance with Jiang Shu?

"Who else could it have been if not someone from the Ethereal Star Alliance?"

Bei Ye was gravely wounded and unconscious. Forcing himself to speak the name of the person who had nearly beaten him to death, he identified one of the Ethereal Star Alliance's experts.

Bei Jue shook her head. "Someone impersonated an expert of our Ethereal Star Alliance and injured a genius of the Nine Universes Merchant Alliance. That expert has been carrying out a secret mission elsewhere during this period. Only we know that he is not here."

Jiang Shu sat upon an ornately decorated throne. Hearing this, he leaned back, and immense pressure immediately spread from his body, making even Bei Jue feel strained.

"That is merely your side of the story."

"Compared to the Ethereal Star Alliance, I naturally trust Bei Ye's words more."

"If the Ethereal Star Alliance did not do this, you could simply have made the truth known. Why issue a challenge?"

Jiang Shu frowned. To him, time was the most precious thing. He did not wish to waste so much of it on a matter like this.

The pressure around him grew increasingly intense, making Bei Jue nervous.

So she simply told the truth.

"If you had not been so strong, I naturally would have gone along with the scheme, defeated you, and appropriately held back your Nine Universes Merchant Alliance from entering the inner region of the Star Ruins Realm too early."

"But I was wrong. You are far stronger than I imagined."

"What I said is true. Otherwise, there would have been no need for me to hold back then."

"Someone wants to provoke a conflict between us and reap the fisherman's profit. Rather than maintain this needless hostility, why not temporarily set it aside and find the true