If she hadn't known this was a game, Cunlü would genuinely have suspected that he had gotten mixed up with some evil god in real life.
Of course, that was impossible.
So all these schemes were, in fact, taking place right under the Spacetime Company's nose.
Although Meng Young Master's behavior suggested that he intended to exploit some leverage over the Spacetime Company... Cunlü wasn't stupid. She understood why he was looking for A Deer.
If A Deer really suffered a mental breakdown in real life because she had been fooling around with an evil god in the game, then it wouldn't matter how outstanding the Spacetime Company's technology was, or how much its advantages outweighed its drawbacks.
The public would only see one thing: "You hurt someone."
What's more, Meng Young Master was plotting openly... even if the Spacetime Company saw through his intentions, all it could do was conceal A Deer's real-world identity more carefully.
But if A Deer herself got greedy and stepped outside, then...
Although Cunlü's expression barely changed, she couldn't help thinking back over A Deer's personality.
That girl had been a natural-born manipulative flirt, and later she had cultivated herself into a lotus-flower pu'er tea aged for years in a cellar.
After all these years of playing, her fragrant lotus in the game was practically blooming shoulder to shoulder with the sun, yet no one knew her real identity.
Actually, there was probably one person who knew.
Her mentor, Perfect Baldhead.
But although Baldhead looked like a big, straightforward fellow, in truth, no one could ever pry the secrets he kept in his heart out of him.
Not even Xue Yunfeng.
Even if everyone suspected he knew... Xiao Liuliu must have had good reason to feel so comfortable letting such a lotus-flower flirt stay