When gods fight, mortals suffer.

Shen Xizhou closed his phone and pushed his untouched, now completely cold cup of tea toward Jiang Yang.

"Don't be so obviously angry, or people will notice. Here, have a couple of sips of cold tea to calm down."

His expression was calm and composed, giving the impression that he was about to attain enlightenment on the spot!

Jiang Yang's eyes widened suddenly. "What? You've changed your mind? Today it's your turn to persuade me. Usually, I'm the one who does the ideological work for you."

At this point, Jiang Yang narrowed his eyes, sensing something was wrong, and reached out: "Give me your phone, let me see who you were chatting with just now? The sun must have risen in the west! It's amazing!"

When he gets excited, he inevitably speaks too loudly, makes big movements, and even blurts out a phrase in English with a regional accent.

The deans who were arguing all turned to look at the two of them at once.

Jiang Yang's spine stiffened instantly, sensing something was wrong. Sure enough, he was unlucky enough to be called on the next second.

"Judge Jiang, you and Judge Shen are having a very heated discussion. Come on, share your thoughts so we can all hear them together?"

Jiang Yang, "..."

His face was contorted with pain as he kept giving Shen Xizhou meaningful glances, begging him to save him.

Shen Xizhou, with his ears focused on his nose and his nose on his mind, completely ignored it.

Having no other choice, Jiang Yang could only grit his teeth and stand up, making a few ambiguous remarks while trying to please both sides, using glib tongue to avoid offending anyone.

The deans found it amusing but also shook their heads.

After the meeting finally ended, Jiang Yang grabbed Shen Xizhou and yelled, "Why didn't you help me? Ahhh, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been called out, you ungrateful bastard!"

Shen Xizhou stood up and patted him on the shoulder. "You're almost forty. You should work on your emotional management and use your brain more. Do you think we were doing something underhanded? Why did the boss call you but not me?"

"Why?"

"I won't be working for the district court tomorrow, Jiang Yang. Do you think the president still needs to ask me for my opinion?"

Even after Shen Xizhou had gone quite a distance, Jiang Yang was still saddened by his indescribable expression...

The latter quickly put these trivial matters aside, and while going downstairs, opened the chat window with Chu Yuan.

On the screen, those identical little yellow round face emojis all seemed a bit more vivid than those posted by others.