Jiang Zheyu shook hands with the female lead, and then they parted ways.
"Your Highness, I'd like to familiarize myself with my speech for the stage." Yanluo seemed unwilling to say much more to Jiang Zheyu. After shaking hands, she turned around and sat down in an empty seat, intently studying the personal terminal.
Even if Jiang Zheyu was slow to notice, she could still sense the female lead's indifference towards her.
Did the female lead recognize her? Otherwise, there's no way to explain why the female lead was so cold to her.
However, remembering what the female lead had just mentioned about the speech, she quickly looked at Jin Yu: "Your Highness, do we need to prepare a speech for going on stage?"
Nobody told her anything, and she didn't prepare any speech.
“You don’t need to prepare.” Jin Yu’s gentle gaze fell on her, putting her at ease. “At that time, Sister Zheyu can just stay by the Star Emperor’s side.”
Jiang Zheyu was relieved to hear that he didn't have to speak.
"Sister Zheyu, you should rest here for now," Jin Yu instructed. "I'll go check ahead and come back to take you out when it's time."
Jiang Zheyu nodded: "Okay."
So Jiang Zheyu poured herself a glass of warm water in the spacious lounge, and thinking that there was another person there, she also poured a glass of water for the female lead.
Jiang Zheyu didn't say anything, but politely placed the water she had filled next to the female lead. Actually, as a reader, she still liked the female lead.
"What are you pretending to be kind for?" Yan Luo slightly raised her eyes to look at Jiang Zheyu, her sarcasm now completely undisguised. "Have you forgotten about the time you attacked me with your mental power in the arena?"
Jiang Zheyu paused, then looked at Yanluo: "You knew it was me that day?"
Yanluo suddenly stood up and looked down at Jiang Zheyu: "Yes, it's all thanks to you. Thanks to your mental attack, I had an inspiration and was able to develop a reagent to reduce the beast transformation value."
Jiang Zheyu's mouth moved, wanting to say that the other party was talking nonsense. There was clearly no one in the novel who attacked her with mental power, and the female protagonist was also able to develop a reagent to purify the beast transformation value.
So is this a compliment or a mockery?
The female lead was half a head taller than her when she stood up, and she was so close to the female lead that she could only look up at her.
After she noticed, she silently took a few steps back and looked at the female lead: "You kicked me back then too, and my arm was bleeding profusely. We're even now."
Yanlu merely glanced coldly at Jiang Zheyu before looking away, seemingly unwilling to say anything more to her, or perhaps disdaining to say anything more to a weak and useless female like Jiang Zheyu.
One minute she liked the female lead, but now she says she doesn't like her anymore.
Because she lacked mental power as a child, the female protagonist suffered greatly in this interstellar era where a woman's mental power level determines her social status. She was insulted and bullied by females with higher mental power levels. It was because of this hatred and abuse that she vowed to create a reagent to reduce her beastification value.
Jiang Zheyu can understand that the female lead has a prejudice against females with high mental strength because of childhood trauma, but who can understand Jiang Zheyu?
In the novel, it seems that the female protagonist encounters females with high levels of mental strength who are all vicious, so Jiang Zheyu didn't feel anything was wrong when she saw the female protagonist punishing them. She even felt quite satisfied when she saw the female protagonist slap the face of the females who had bullied her in the past.
However, I'm not too happy that this vicious female has become me.
Forget it, I'd better stay away from the female lead.
A sharp pain shot through Yanluo's head, causing her to sway heavily. She slammed her hand on the table to steady herself, accidentally knocking the glass of water off the table with a loud bang. The glass shattered into pieces, spilling a large amount of water.
She braced herself on the table with one hand and covered her head with the other, looking extremely pained.
Jiang Zheyu was startled by the loud noise and took a step back. Seeing the female lead's pained expression, she said dryly, "Don't try to extort me. I didn't do anything."
And she remembered that the female lead wasn't like that.
They wouldn't intentionally hurt themselves to frame others.
"Heh, your mental attack last time left a wound in my mind. Are you satisfied now?" Yanluo stared at her with cold eyes.
Jiang Zheyu paused for a moment. So it really was because of her, and she really wasn't trying to extort money from her.
"Let me take a look." Jiang Zheyu can heal damaged mental energy. Although the female protagonist does not have mental energy, her mind was damaged due to a mental attack. She wanted to see if she could help heal her.
As she spoke, she approached again and grabbed the female lead's wrist. Yan Luo glanced at her coldly and suddenly tried to shake off Jiang Zheyu's hand, but stopped halfway.
Jiang Zheyu blinked gently. The female lead's reaction was so strong that it startled her. Fortunately, she had mental power, so the female lead probably couldn't move now.
Just surrender obediently!
"Let go!" Yanluo said through gritted teeth.
She found herself unable to move, realizing that she might be being suppressed by the mental power of the female in front of her.
Those unpleasant memories came flooding back.
Several females with mental powers surrounded her, suppressing her with their mental power and then torturing her.
Her eyes turned dark and deep.
Jiang Zheyu paused, looking at the female lead's murderous eyes, which were indeed quite frightening.
However, she still held the female lead's hand and closed her eyes, trying to see if she could discover anything.
Sure enough, she discovered that in the darkness, there were several sharp spiritual energies gathered together, resembling shards of glass.
They gathered right where Yanluo's head was.
Moreover, those mental energies did indeed feel familiar to her.
Those were fragments of residual mental energy from her mental attack!
Jiang Zheyu's heart started racing. She... she really could see spiritual energy!
She tried to withdraw her mental energy, and sure enough, the sharp mental energy, which was like a lens, gradually softened and eventually dissipated.
After all the spiritual energy from the sharp fragments dissipated, she opened her eyes and saw a look of confusion and bewilderment on the female protagonist's face.
What puzzled Yanluo was that her headache had really stopped.
Jiang Zheyu silently released Yanluo's hand, took a few steps back, and moved a distance from the female lead before releasing the mental power that had been suppressing her.
Yanlu frowned slightly, surprised that her headache had gone away so quickly, whereas it usually lasted for quite some time.
However, she didn't think it was Jiang Zheyu's doing; she could only attribute it to the strange headache that had shortened the time.
"Are you alright?" Jiang Zheyu asked quietly.
Yanluo merely frowned and glanced at her, without replying, and quietly sat down, closing her eyes to rest.
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