Tang San gave a bitter laugh. He knew full well that the moment Rong Nianbing asked that question, he already had his answer.
"Rong Nianbing, if I said I never plotted against you, you would believe me now. But I still have to say it—I didn't."
Then Tang San cast a resentful glare at Lan Hong. He simply could not understand where Lan Hong had come from or why he knew so much.
By all rights, some of these matters should have been known to no one but himself.
Before Lan Hong, he felt as though he had been seen through completely, an immensely uncomfortable feeling. Lan Hong's overwhelmingly powerful strength, impossible to resist, also filled him with a deep sense of helplessness and fear.
At that moment, Tang San heard Rong Nianbing say, "If it had been before, I would have believed you without question. But now, I need to think carefully."
Rong Nianbing recalled certain details from his time with Tang San. Once the seed of suspicion had been planted, the collapse of trust was only a matter of time.
Besides, Tang San himself was far from clean. As long as Rong Nianbing thought back over the details, there would surely be plenty of clues.
Lan Hong had no intention of stopping. He looked at Chang Gongwei and said, "Chang Gongwei, as a powerhouse at the God King realm, you are a True God to those in the lower realms. Would you use a child only a few days old to threaten a mother?"
Chang Gongwei was somewhat stunned by Lan Hong's sudden question and instinctively replied, "How could I ever do such a thing? Using a newborn child to threaten a mother—forget a God King, no decent human being could do something like that."
After saying that,