"Oh dear, why are you people always so stubbornly blind?
I've worn my tongue out trying to persuade you countless times! Don't you understand?
Clinging to life is far better than dying!"
Ying Ming Hao once again unleashed his inexhaustible eloquence, as though determined to exhaust every persuasive word he could think of.
Words poured from his mouth like a river, his tongue blossoming with lotus flowers as he spun dazzling tales, until Jin Bei, Zhao Xu, and the others were so thoroughly hoodwinked that their heads spun and they could no longer tell north from south.
Meanwhile, Xuan Chengzi remained unmoved. Holding his head high and puffing out his chest, he declared, "Hmph, don't think I don't know what you're scheming!
My condition is simple. As long as Jiang Zhiqing agrees to spend a carefree month with me, everything else is negotiable!"
His gaze was firm and resolute as he spoke, as though he would never rest until he got what he wanted.
At the same time, Lin Yong, Wang Teng, and the others chimed in, each making outrageously excessive demands of their own.
Faced with this situation, Jiang Zhiqing and the other female Heavenly Prodigies turned livid with anger, but their lowly standing left them afraid to show even the slightest resistance.
After all, they had no say whatsoever in this group. If they rashly spoke up now, they might actually anger Jin Bei, Zhao Xu, and the others and be forced to serve those loathsome men.
At that thought, bitterness and sorrow welled up in Jiang Zhiqing's heart. She understood all too well that this was what it meant to have no control over her own life!
No matter how desperately she struggled, she could never break free of the shackles of fate.
After all the