"You mean... I'll be treated as a spy?"
Wu Ming's voice was slightly dry as she blurted out those words, but Kong Deming said nothing. Instead, Xu Tiance looked at her with a very strange expression.
You're the one who said that. We didn't say anything. You imagined all of that yourself.
Wu Ming pressed her lips together and said nothing more, but inwardly, she already agreed with what Kong Deming had said.
Now that Zhang Lexuan had become Shrek Academy's discarded pawn and a traitor, she, the only person to survive the jaws of the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, had become a suspect by association. No... perhaps she was already on the Shrek Inspection Corps' wanted list.
Wu Ming truly felt like crying, but had no tears.
She had only just earned special admission to Shrek Academy through her own strength, even entering its Inner Court, only to run into something like this.
However, Wu Ming had not been at Shrek Academy for long, and she did not yet feel much belonging or identification with it. Joining Shrek Academy had, at most, fulfilled a childhood wish. Since she could no longer return, she did not feel particularly dejected either.
If this place won't have me, somewhere else will!
Wu Ming's expression soon returned to normal. Her eyes shifted as though something had occurred to her, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of her mouth. "Say, you're the Sun Moon Empire's Crown Prince, right? How about letting me join you too?"
At her words, the corners of Xu Tiance's mouth twitched twice, but his brows instinctively furrowed.
Something... isn't right with her!
Although Wu Ming had been portrayed as carefree and hot-tempered in the original novel, surely she could not be this utterly unconcerned? One moment, she had confirmed