Steven, who was ignored even after greeting her, could no longer hold back. He walked forward quickly and then carefully sat down next to Jiang Nuan.

Before he could even get comfortable, he was chased away by Red.

"Get out of the way! Do you think you can sit next to your sister? Sit across from me!"

“…”

Okay, let’s just sit across from each other, as long as we can sit.

Originally, Steven thought that he would never be able to talk to Jiang Nuan again tonight, but fortunately, his father was still very reasonable and gave him fifteen minutes to get to know Jiang Nuan better.

The reason was to prevent him from not being able to cooperate perfectly with Jiang Nuan during the regular meeting, thus avoiding the failure of Jiang Nuan's plan.

So in this short fifteen minutes, Jiang Nuan knew why Steven could recognize her and call out her name, and Steven also knew why Jiang Nuan suddenly became his sister.

"Nuannuan, thank you so much. If it weren't for you, our Constantine family might have disappeared because of Sheng Jinghong's conspiracy."

"You're welcome. This is what I should do. Helping Mom and Dad is also helping myself."

"Dad? Nuannuan, did you just call me dad?"

Bired was sitting nearby and when he heard Jiang Nuan calling him "Dad", he immediately became very excited.

You have to know that Jiang Nuan rarely shows her emotions, and because of her upbringing, she has a natural resistance to overly intimate names.

Therefore, it is almost impossible to hear Jiang Nuan call him "Dad" once.

But today!

He was better than Red! He actually heard it for the first time!

Well, it seems that having my son back is not a bad thing.

Thinking of this, Red looked at Steven with a much kinder expression, and Steven suddenly felt a little flattered.

In the following interactions, Steven felt that Jiang Nuan was indeed as approachable and warm as he had imagined, so he was so angry when he learned that people outside were saying that Jiang Nuan was a brainless and useless princess.

"Nuannuan, no matter what people say about you, don't worry about it. I will help you solve these problems! You don't have to worry about it."

"Huh? What did they say about me?"

"You don't know? It's better not to know. This way you won't be sad."

"Well, let me guess—are they saying I'm a brainless, useless princess or something?"

"You...how do you know?"

A hint of surprise flashed in Steven's eyes, and then his eyes lit up and he grabbed Jiang Nuan's hand.

"Could this be the legendary mysterious oriental power?!"

"No, brother, you misunderstood."

"Misunderstand?"

Jiang Nuan almost spit out a mouthful of tea. It took her a long time to calm herself down. Then she curled her lips, raised her head slightly and smiled proudly.

"That's because of course."

Jiang Nuan could drag out the last word and then say it unexpectedly, which scared Steven.

"I asked my dad to help spread these rumors!"

"Oh, I see. Wait, what?!"

Steven's jaw dropped, and his eyes were full of disbelief as he looked at Jiang Nuan.

He didn't expect that someone would take the initiative to spread rumors that were detrimental to him, but Steven changed his mind and suddenly understood Jiang Nuan's intention.

"Are you trying to use this method to tell Sheng Jinghong that you're back?"

"Well, the princess that Constantine appeared out of nowhere, the princess he picked up from the seashore, seems very similar to Cheng Mu, who fell into the sea and died, and whom he tried so hard to kill."

Speaking of this, Jiang Nuan couldn't help laughing. She seemed to be able to imagine what Sheng Jinghong looked like after hearing the news.

No, it should not be called Sheng Jinghong, but he should be called - Sheng Jingli.

In fact, when she was in the rental house with Sheng Yuxin that day, Sheng Yuxin told her not only to help remove the poisonous insect from Sheng Yuxin's body, but also some unknown things that Xuesha was doing behind her back.

For example, the poisonous insect in Sheng Yuxin's body was planted in her by her nominal father Sheng Jinghong.

For example, the current Sheng Jinghong is actually no longer Sheng Jinghong, but the murderer who killed Sheng Jinghong, the adopted brother of Sheng Jinghong's parents - Sheng Jingli.

If Jiang Nuan had not talked with Sheng Yuxin, she would not have known that Sheng Jingli had such a big ambition. He actually wanted to use the upgraded version of "Crying Blood" developed by Fu Shipeng's branch of the Blood Evil to control the top leaders of various places in order to achieve his goal of ruling the world.

How can such a thing be achieved just by relying on this little "tear of blood"?

Sheng Jingli is still too naive.

......

It was pretty much the same as Jiang Nuan thought. As expected, Sheng Jingli soon thought of Cheng Mu, whom Sheng Yiyi had told him not long ago that she had killed, because of the rumors circulating in Country M.

So, Sheng Yiyi came to the "palace" built by Sheng Jingli for herself.

Sheng Jingli still looked down at her condescendingly.

"Didn't you say that Cheng Mu is dead?"

"Yes, Patriarch, I pushed her into the sea with my own hands. Given the weather conditions at the time, there was absolutely no way Cheng Mu could have survived. I hope Patriarch will understand!"

Of course, Sheng Yiyi also knew those rumors, so she was afraid to tell Sheng Jingli everything she had done and knew before he could question her.

She didn't want to enter that pitch-black cage again.

Sheng Jingli smiled softly, as if he also thought of what Sheng Yiyi was afraid of.

This made Sheng Yiyi, who was kneeling on one knee with her head down and not daring to look at Sheng Jingli, even more frightened. She shuddered subconsciously and then buried her head even lower.

"Yiyi, don't be so nervous, I'm just asking. Since you are so confident that Cheng Mu has been killed by you, then go and check whether those strange "rumors" are true or not."

"yes."

"Yiyi, you know that the regular meeting is about to begin. No one wants anything to go wrong at this critical moment, right?"

"...Yes, I understand, Patriarch."

"Well, go ahead."

After getting permission to leave, Sheng Yiyi nodded and soon disappeared from Sheng Jingli's sight.

Looking at the direction where Sheng Yiyi left, Sheng Jingli narrowed his eyes slightly.

Whenever he thought of Cheng Mu, Sheng Jingli couldn't help but recall the losses he had suffered because of Cheng Mu.

I originally thought that Cheng Mu was just a young girl with no real skills, but I didn't expect that she actually developed an antidote for "Crying Blood", and it has no side effects at all. It is many times more advanced than the antidote they have in-house.

Also, if Cheng Mu hadn't covered up for her master Cheng Shuqiao, the medicinal materials in their pharmacy wouldn't have been stolen by Cheng Shuqiao.

Cheng Mu, you'd better pray that they're not talking about you, otherwise...