"Didn’t you say this move would work?"
"Who knew there was still an option where they’d just directly cooperate with us..."
"Tch!"
[Reminder: It was His Highness the Prince who proposed wanting to play the rescued princess...]
"Tch you too, shut up for me!"
The Prince crawled out of the cage, her anger intimidating everyone around. Then she tidied her slightly messy hair—when she was locked in the cage just now, her hair had been even neater than Keke’s.
Only when she stood up now did it get a little messy.
The Prince’s face was ice-cold, completely unfazed. She turned and sat up on the table, lifting her snow-white chin arrogantly from on high, crossing one long leg over the other.
Her hands rested on the black stockings over her legs. Although, when she came out of the cage, the wires had snagged and torn a bit, revealing a sliver of fair skin, they still couldn’t cover up her nobility and elegance. She hooked a finger through the rip in the black fabric, the elastic digging faintly into her flesh; the matte black traced out a perfect leg line. The Prince snorted coldly, radiating confidence and arrogance:
"You saw through it from the very beginning?"
"Of course."
Jiang Si let out a cold laugh. "Such crappy acting—if I’d just lowered my head and handed over the Miracle Seed, you would’ve immediately declared I failed the assessment and decided I wasn’t a reliable partner, right? This kind of test is way too low-level."
The driver was dumbfounded. "Saw through my ass you did!"
He panicked.
Some people don’t react much when they get crushed in strength, but once they’re crushed in brains, they immediately start getting anxious.
The clearest example is magic tricks. Some competitive audience members, once they realize they can’t see through a magician’s technique, will get extremely angry and desperately want to expose the trick.
Jiang Si understood that very well, because that’s exactly how he was as a kid.
But he’d grown up; these few in front of him clearly hadn’t.
After getting their intelligence steamrolled by him, they all instantly showed that urgent, wanting-to-save-face posture.
And as the victor, Jiang Si naturally wasn’t going to get anxious along with them.
This bunch of idiots had no idea how convoluted trial arcs in NovelPhoenixs could get, how many twists and meta explanations there could be; if you’re not careful, you’ll fall right in.
Not to mention, some trials are literally Daoist Masters playing chess, great beings throwing out bait!
And every NovelPhoenix protagonist can pinpoint the flaws in those trials with laser precision.
And Jiang Si was no exception.
Handing over the Miracle Seed to save the Prince sounded simple, but just using your brain for a second told you—
There was no way it was that simple!
Jiang Si had long since thought to the second layer: although rescuing the Prince would help him gain trust, if he lost the Miracle Seed, what good would their alliance even be?
Besides, he and the Prince weren’t familiar at all. That so-called engagement contract was meaningless. No one gets hypnotized into sincerely becoming a married couple just because they signed a piece of paper.
The biggest problem between them was the lack of trust.
So what needed to be shown here was his absolute pursuit of the road to Full Bloom and his unwavering conviction!
Only then could the Prince confirm their interests were aligned, only then could she trust him!
Truly reliable relationships are maintained by利益; as long as he showed a firm, absolute pursuit of利益, there was no way the Prince would throw him away.
Therefore, being willing to abandon the Prince and only cooperate with whoever could provide Full Bloom was the correct choice.
Easy clear!
Such a twisty line of thought—if not for his deep study of NovelPhoenixs, it would’ve been hard to come up with.
Now, seeing those few looking so flustered and exasperated, he couldn’t help but let out a mocking smile.
A bunch of short-sighted Lower Cultivators.
Still, he did need the Prince to help him find a method for a flawless road to Full Bloom.
He wasn’t actually going to strip them of all face. Compared to that Hong Mian from the Disaster Strategy Bureau, Jiang Si considered himself far more versed in social niceties. Giving the other party a way down at a time like this made later negotiations much easier.
"Not sure whose dumb idea this was. It was pretty stupid, but Miss Prince’s performance was still decent."
The Prince said with a smile that didn’t reach her eyes, "It was my idea."
"..."
How was she still tearing herself down like this?
No sense of reading the room at all.
Jiang Si felt he really didn’t know how to communicate with someone who couldn’t talk properly, but he still very maturely added, "It hasn’t gotten to the point of being incurable yet."
"Hmph."
She tilted her head slightly, no longer hung up on that, just staring at his neck and lips for a while.
"Had fun with Zi Yuan, did you?"
"It was alright."
The veteran driver covered his face.
Bro, you’re getting everything wrong, bro!
Cheating is one thing, but at least cheat with some professionalism.
In front of Zi Yuan, just play the good boyfriend so you don’t get killed; in front of the Prince, play the good fiancé and coax your fiancée, okay?
Where’s the sweet talk? Give her a little. With the goodwill level you’ve got, a couple of lines and she’d be yours.
This Prince even tried to create a scenario for you to play the hero and save the beauty...
If you’re going to be a scumbag, at least have some professional ethics! Don’t half-ass it like this!
Yet the Prince’s expression just turned a little awkward, and she still didn’t say much. She only gave a dismissive nod. "Then go spend the rest of your life with your Zi Yuan!"
Jiang Si thought it over. "Can’t do that."
Not just the veteran driver—even the other Old World members who originally weren’t interested in their business were starting to get restless listening to this.
"Holy shit, do you even know how to talk? Would a couple of nice words kill you?"
"Prince, you must’ve had it way too easy before, yeah? Now you’re actively looking for someone to cultivate a masochist streak with you?"
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