Sea of Earth

The question was a sharp one.

He was, in effect, challenging Bai Yating's loyalties.

Bai Yating did not need a moment to think. With a faint smile, she asked, "What if it were you?"

"..."

Zhang Ping fell silent.

Truth be told, if their positions were reversed, he might well stand up for Sun Rong and Gao Yuan. If a leader could not back up his people, how was he supposed to keep leading them?

After that, neither side pressed the matter. Zhang Ping exchanged a few pleasantries with Bai Yating and saw her out.

He stood at the door, watching her ride away on her white elk. Only after she had disappeared into the distance did he close it.

"Is Bai Yating really that pretty?" Cheng Xuejie asked sourly.

Zhang Ping closed his eyes and ordered himself out of his calm state. The next moment, a grin that could have belonged to Zhang Shouzhong spread across his face. After a while, he said, "She's perfect. Don't you think Captain Bai is everything a woman could possibly be? Feminine, independent, strong, intelligent—she doesn't have a single flaw."

"She's too tall. Isn't that a flaw?" Cheng Xuejie shot back.

Zhang Ping sat down on the sofa with a grin and nodded. "She is too tall. That won't do. I'll have to make myself a little taller."

As he spoke, his legs turned into Pure Water and slowly stretched until he stood two meters tall. Cheng Xuejie could only laugh. "Zhang Ping, has the fat guy possessed you?"

"Were you talking behind my back?" Zhang Shouzhong asked. He had just come in carrying an armful of materials, and his eyes fixed ominously on Cheng Xuejie.

Cheng Xuejie heaved a sigh at the ceiling, then turned and went upstairs.

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