Inside the restaurant.
Feng Rende's face darkened, and a nearly uncontrollable anger rose within him. He even wanted to fling the wine in his cup into Ren Ye's face and snap back with a few equally cutting remarks.
His anger was, in fact, a stress response to having the selfishness, hypocrisy, and false loyalty in his nature exposed in public, one after another. Adults should not communicate this way. Even if neither approved of the other's character, they should not put it so bluntly.
Don't I fucking deserve some dignity?
He was embarrassed, furious, his gaze dark. He wanted to throw wine in Ren Ye's face... all because his negative emotions stemmed solely from his own standpoint, and he was doing everything he could to protect his own interests. Yet he had never considered what he had done when he wanted to use the Ancient Emperor Successor as a "stepping stone." His approach of rushing forward when there was a great opportunity and ducking aside when his life was threatened also infringed on other people's interests.
In truth, the fact that Ren Ye had held back until today before laying things out already demonstrated exceptional emotional stability and broad-mindedness.
But at this moment, Feng Rende did not consider that. Anger merely surged within him as he stared at Ren Ye with a sinister gaze, ready to open his mouth and retaliate.
Whoosh!
Just then, however, Ren Ye looked at him with a smile, raised that cup of farewell wine, and spoke with a double meaning. "This cup honors both our difficult three months together and Brother Lingyun... without him, perhaps none of us would have made it to The Human World Town."
Those words alone instantly suppressed Feng Rende's anger and stripped him of the courage to retort. The Ancient