Of course, Tang Changsheng was not so lacking in tact that he would say that last part aloud. It would hurt too much.
Since she and Tang Changsheng had gotten together, Arabella had done nothing to wrong him.
Tang Changsheng was not so suspicious or extreme that he would feel hurt simply because someone had approached him with a purpose in mind...
After all, what in this world was ever free of other considerations?
If he took issue with anyone who approached him for a reason, he might as well never marry.
Few women would marry a man purely because they liked him. A house, money, bread...
Those things would always matter. In this Material World, something as pure as he might demand probably did not exist.
Arabella had just reached the doorway. Hearing this, she nodded. "Exactly. None of that would be difficult for you, would it, Tang?"
Tang Changsheng smiled. "No. But your Professor Clive doesn't seem to have told me the whole story."
"Master, why do you say that?"
When Ling Xiaoyu asked, Tang Changsheng shot her a sidelong glance. She was not afraid of him, though. She made a face at him instead.
Tang Changsheng thought it would be better to make things clear, for Arabella's sake as well.
"Professor Clive praised my cultivation so extravagantly that he made me sound invincible. I almost believed it myself!" Tang Changsheng said with faint mockery.
In truth, Tang Changsheng knew his own limits. He was still on the first level of the Nine Luminaries Heavenly Heart Method. Although he had subdued Fu Shi and was now nurturing his Heroic Soul, he had made no progress at all toward the final hurdle: sensing the power of the Stars.
So Tang Changsheng did not believe for a moment that the