Zuan was taken aback: "Who's looking for me?"

After what happened yesterday, it was not surprising that people from various families in the capital came to him to establish friendly relations. Although he did not return to his own residence, he received a lot of messages, which he simply asked Qin Wanru to handle on his behalf.

Qin Wanru was, after all, a duchess, so these tasks of welcoming and seeing off guests were not difficult for her.

Although she appeared to be in a difficult position and told Zuan to go back and handle it himself, Zuan could sense her barely suppressed joy.

Who among the aristocracy doesn't want to hold their head high and be respected?

The most powerful regent right now is her son-in-law. Many of the top families in the capital would never normally give the Chu family a second glance, but now they are trying to approach her with the most sincere goodwill. Although she knows that the other party may not be sincere, it feels really good to be able to show off in the top circle of noble ladies in the capital.

She had even started planning her triumphant return home, leaving her mahjong friends in Mingyue City utterly astonished.

Those families will indeed go to the former Shenhou residence to look for him, but it's unlikely they'll come to the academy. This is a quiet place for academic pursuits, and since its establishment, it has refused visits from powerful and influential people.

“A little girl, she seems to be someone’s maid,” Jiang Luofu said. “When asked which family she belonged to, she wouldn’t say. She looked a bit disheveled, so we let her in first to see if the chief priest wanted to see her.”

"Let's go check it out." Zu An was a little curious, so he told Zheng Dan and Yan Xiangu, and then went to the mountaintop cabin.

Soon, Jiang Luofu and Qi Yaoguang brought the maid up.

The maid was quite pretty, but her hair and clothes were a bit messy, as if she had no time to care about them.

"Who are you, and what do you want with me?" Zu An asked in a friendly manner. He always remembered that he had once been an ordinary person, so he didn't put on airs with this little girl.

The young maidservant glanced at Jiang Luofu and Qi Yaoguang with some embarrassment.

The two women seemed unable to decipher the meaning in her eyes. This girl's origins were unknown. Although the priestess's cultivation was at the divine level, they were still worried about the two of them being alone together. Moreover, they were both very curious about the girl's background.

Zuan said, "They are all on our side, so feel free to speak."

Jiang Luofu and Qi Yaoguang rolled their eyes at him simultaneously. When did we become one of your own?

But then I thought about it again, and we're all from the same college, so it makes sense.

Left with no other choice, the maidservant said, "The Princess Consort sent me to deliver a message; she wishes to see the Regent."

After yesterday's events, all those associated with the Prince Dai's Mansion and the Meng family have been detained, so Meng Chan naturally cannot come in person.

However, given her large and wealthy family, she could easily send a maid to deliver a message.

Zuan frowned: "I won't see him!"

Come to think of it, many things in the past were orchestrated by that woman, so what's there for me to talk about with her?

The maidservant immediately became anxious: "Your Highness, the Princess Consort said that she has something there that you would be very interested in."

She had never encountered such a situation in all these years. Her mistress was a standout in the capital's aristocratic circles, both in terms of appearance and status. Whenever she wanted to see someone, that person would rush over excitedly. She herself had received a lot of courteous treatment from those people, some seeking advancement in their careers, and others harboring ill intentions towards the princess's beauty...

But I've never been completely uninterested before.

Fortunately, the princess had anticipated this possibility and gave her some special instructions.

“Not interested.” Zu An didn’t think Meng Chan had anything that interested him; he figured she was just making a show of getting a meeting with him.

Before the maid could say anything more, Zu An casually waved his hand, using a gentle force to throw her off the mountain: "Show her out!"

Soon, the disciples guarding the foot of the mountain rushed forward and took the maid away.

A hint of surprise flashed in Jiang Luofu's eyes. The control she had displayed was simply unbelievable. She had thrown a person directly from the top of the mountain to the bottom, and the key was that she hadn't hurt the person in the slightest. Even if her teacher were alive, he wouldn't have been able to do this.

Little did she know that after the previous great battle with the Meng family, in which countless experts were killed, including even Earth Immortals, Zu'an's experience bar had surged dramatically. Although she hadn't yet broken through to level 75, she was already very close.

Let alone the old chief priest, he could even put up a fight against Zhao Hao in his prime.

Qi Yaoguang, however, was more concerned about something else: "That Princess Consort is a famous beauty in the capital. I remember she once competed with the current Crown Princess for the position. Countless princes and noblemen admire her. Why aren't you interested in such a beauty seeking you out?"

Zuan said irritably, "I'm not a superficial man who judges by appearances..."

Before he could finish speaking, he noticed that both women were looking at him with strange eyes. After all, the women around him were all beautiful, so his words were not very convincing.

“She harmed the Qin family and the Murong family. I not only have a blood feud with her for killing my father, but I also brought her maternal and paternal families to ruin. Do you think she can have any good things with me?” Zu An had no choice but to say.

“If you’re worried about that, you don’t really need to,” Jiang Luofu explained. “People from top families rarely let personal emotions influence their thinking. Ultimately, they look at their interests. The hatred of killing one’s father is not a big deal. In history, many emperors killed some ministers, but the descendants of those ministers were still loyal and served them. Even if there are deep-seated hatreds between families, as long as they can come together in the future, they can become very close.”

Zu An was taken aback: "It can be like that?"

Although he had been a king in the Yin Ruins for many years, he was more like a primitive tribal leader back then, and his concepts of nation and country were not yet mature. He was indeed not as familiar with these things as those who had lived in large families since childhood.

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