Time to Get the Hot Pot Ready

"How can you do this? Don't forget that I saved your life! If it weren't for me, you would have died at the bottom of that cliff!"

Seeing that Ning Ziteng refused to budge, Jia Tong grew frantic.

Had she left that matter alone, it would have been fine. Bringing it up only made Ning Ziteng's anger surge.

He paused for a moment without speaking, and Jia Tong mistook his silence for a guilty conscience. She continued:

"I'm telling you, if you have any conscience at all, you'll help us with this and give us some silver so we can leave. Otherwise, I'll make sure everyone in Capital City knows you're an ungrateful, white-eyed wolf!"

This time, Ning Ziteng actually laughed in anger.

He slowly walked up to Jia Tong and looked down at her, his presence oppressive.

"You say you saved me, do you? But as I recall, when I fell off the cliff, a tree happened to break my fall, so I wasn't seriously injured. And when I woke up and saw you, you didn't seem to be trying to save me. You seemed to be searching for the taisui I was carrying."

Ning Ziteng explained in a low voice.

Naturally, he had learned this from Jiang Nuan's inner thoughts.

The panic on Jia Tong's face made any further verification unnecessary.

"Y-you... how did you know?"

As soon as the words left her mouth, Jia Tong hurriedly covered it. Hadn't she just confessed without being pressed?

Jia Tong's husband had already cursed her inwardly as an idiot countless times.

"E-even if I didn't save your life, we still have all those years of friendship from growing up together!"

Seeing that guilt-tripping him wouldn't work, Jia Tong tried playing on their old affection.

"Spare me. Plenty of people grew