As dusk settled, the light bathed the magnificent palace in a soft, golden glow.
Jiang Zheyu and Zexun walked outside, just as Yanluo and Hui returned, and the two groups met unexpectedly.
The faint smile on Jiang Zheyu's face slowly faded away.
Seeing these two people inevitably reminded her of that night, when they spoke to her with contempt and arrogance, describing her as a little mouse hiding in the shadows, spying on her.
They are the mice, their whole family are the mice!
Like many aloof and resilient female protagonists, Yanluo's gaze was calm and indifferent. She also saw Jiang Zheyu and Zexun.
Her gaze lingered on Jiang Zheyu for only a moment before shifting to Ze Xun, and she greeted him in a cool voice, "Judge Ze, what a coincidence."
"Hmm, quite a coincidence, a top-level researcher." Ze Xun replied politely, and also greeted Hui, who was next to Yan Luo, "Butler Hui."
The boss of Star Investment is Gray Butler.
The woman next to Yanluo was also extremely tall, with gray hair and a pair of cold, gray-white eyes. As a member of the female lead's harem, her appearance was naturally not bad either. Her features were handsome, and there was a scar on her brow bone that looked like a cigarette burn.
His overall demeanor was extremely aloof and cold.
Ze Xun greeted Hui, but Hui didn't answer him immediately. Instead, Hui looked at Ze Xun with his gray-white eyes, and the air naturally became somewhat quiet.
Just when everyone thought that Hui was giving Zexun face, Hui slowly nodded and said, "It is quite a coincidence, Judge Zexun."
Zexun naturally knew that this person deliberately paused for a while before replying.
However, he was a broad-minded person, or rather, he looked down on such tricks as Hui's. He was not annoyed at all and did not take it to heart.
Yanlu actually had some affection for Zexun because he was a judge of the Supreme Court, and the laws he presided over were very fair. He was also a person with a strong sense of justice. In some lawsuits, he never judged a person based on their status or the level of their spiritual power, but rather based on the perspective of the case and the fairness of the law.
The Court of Justice has many judges, but only a handful are called Chief Justices, and Zexun is one of them.
He treats females without spiritual power the same way he treats females with spiritual power.
This is the point that made Yanluo like her the most.
So when she saw that Zexun was with a female she disliked, her feelings towards Zexun immediately turned sour.
She felt that Zexun should be with females who lacked spiritual power to make his character appear more noble.
So now that Zexun is no different from other male beastmen, also pursuing females with high spiritual power, she feels that the image of Zexun in her mind has been shattered.
Jiang Zheyu is a female with extremely high spiritual power.
Yanlu knew that back then.
Females with high mental strength levels are all so wicked. Taking advantage of the fact that this world uses mental strength levels to determine status, they squander money and harm others without any scruples.
"Where is Grand Justice Ze heading?" Yanlu asked, her expression calm and revealing nothing.
Zexun simply replied with a polite but distant tone, "Let's go to the Stargazing Tower."
Upon hearing this, Yanluo understood that Zexun wanted to take the female next to him to the stargazing tower.
She suddenly felt that Zexun's image in her mind had shrunk considerably. Zexun was no different from other beastmen; he also followed behind these females with high mental strength and tried his best to win their favor.
"Oh, then goodbye." Yanluo's expression turned indifferent.
She must have been blind before to think that Zexun was different from others.
Seeing the cold expression on Yanluo's face, Gray, who was next to her, misunderstood and thought that Yanluo liked Zexun and was jealous and unhappy to see Zexun going out with other females.
He disliked orcs like Zexun who were born into powerful families. They were born into privilege and always carried an air of superiority, as if outsiders could easily tell who was an aristocrat and who came from the slums.
Moreover, when his female master Yanluo spoke to this Zexun, her tone and attitude were somewhat different. How so? Her tone and attitude were much better than when she spoke to him.
These people always have fake, pretentious smiles on their faces, which is really unpleasant to look at.
Zexun was unaware that his politeness and propriety were perceived as hypocrisy and pretentiousness by Hui.
He ignored Hui's increasingly icy gaze and walked out, holding Jiang Zheyu's hand.
After Ze Xun, Jiang Zheyu, and the guards left, Hui looked at Yan Luo with an ambiguous expression: "Heh, still looking? They're all gone. What? Do you like that man's face? Are you sad, upset, or jealous because you saw him dating another female?"
Gray always speaks in a condescending and sarcastic tone.
Yanlu frowned: "What's gotten into you now?"
Hui grabbed Yanluo's wrist: "Isn't that right? Didn't you like that pretty boy just now? You spoke so nicely to him, but why are you speaking so rudely to me?"
"You're hurting my hand!" Yanlu struggled but couldn't break free.
Hui grabbed her hand and pulled her into the palace. Yanluo was forced to jog and follow him.
"Grey, what's wrong with you now!" Yanlu gritted her teeth. "I don't like Zexun, and stop being so suspicious, okay?"
"How come you only have so little tolerance for me, but so much tolerance for that pretty boy?" Hui grabbed Yanluo and dragged her into the room before throwing her to the ground.
He slammed the door shut behind him.
Yanluo felt a sharp pain in her shoulder from the fall, but Hui, that madman, just leaned over to her on the cold floor!
"Yanluo, don't forget who took you in back then?" Gray's gray-white eyes were reddened. "Now that you have a higher status, have you forgotten how I protected you? You're happy to see these male beastmen from the capital, aren't you? Jin Yu, Ze Xun, and the other beastmen, do you think they're better than me? Do you think I'm inferior to them? Do you think that someone from the slums like me doesn't smell as good as their clothes? Hmm? Is that right?!"
The man's cold, icy voice slammed down, revealing his sensitive, insecure, and easily angered nature, prone to emotional breakdowns over trivial matters.
If Jiang Zheyu were here, he wouldn't be surprised at all, because some of the villains in the female lead's harem are just that kind of sickly and sensitive, and the female lead has a strong and taciturn personality, so it's natural for them to have a love-hate relationship.
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