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"Oh my god..."

Zhang Yu felt a sharp pain in his head, as if he were being pricked with needles.

He stared at the woman in disbelief, as if she were a monster that had escaped from a mental hospital.

Is this woman out of her mind?

How narcissistic!

"Was I not clear enough, or is she selectively deaf?"

Looking at Jiang Luohan's smug expression that seemed to say, "I've seen through you all along," Zhang Yu felt a wave of powerlessness wash over him.

"Could it be that I licked her too hard before, causing her brain circuits to mutate?"

Zhang Yu was practically going crazy.

He'd lived two lives and never seen anyone so self-important.

"Okay, you're awesome, your logic is unbeatable."

Zhang Yu could only grit his teeth and say again, "Jiang Luohan, I'll say it one more time: I have severed all ties with the Marquis's family. We have also broken off our engagement. Don't bother me again."

Jiang Luohan sneered again: "I've said it before, don't play these low-level tricks with me, it's pointless."

Far from being deterred by Zhang Yu's resolute words, she became even more convinced of her judgment that this was nothing more than a more sophisticated form of feigned indifference by Zhang Yu.

The more indifferent and resolute he appears, the more it proves that he can't let go, and the more he wants to get his own attention and regret.

"Since you want to play..."

Jiang Luohan slightly raised her chin, revealing a smile that carried a hint of mockery and control:

"Then I'll play along with you until you realize this trick is useless against me and you've run out of ideas, then you'll naturally come back to beg me."

After saying that, she deliberately turned around in the most elegant way, preparing to leave this ignorant man.

She walked very slowly, her skirt swaying slightly, her waist twisting gently, each step as if she were waiting.

Waiting for Zhang Yu's suppressed, regretful shouts to come from behind;

She waited for him to rush up to her, grab her sleeve, and humbly beg for her forgiveness and to stay, just as he had done countless times before.

One step, two steps, three steps...

The expected pleading and pleas for him to stay did not materialize.

There was complete silence behind him, except for the sound of dripping water coming from somewhere deep within the prison, so clear it made one's heart race.

Jiang Luohan's perfect back view stiffened slightly.

How is that possible?

He... he really didn't call me?

A barely perceptible hint of panic, like a tiny icicle, unexpectedly pierced her inflated confidence.

Could it be... that he has really given up completely?

He no longer fawns over her without any scruples like before?

This thought made her heart sink.

At that moment, she panicked a little.

On the other side, Xiao Fenghua and Xiao Meier's expressions changed slightly. This was different from the information they had gathered. It seemed that Zhang Yu was not as obsequious to Jiang Luohan as the rumors suggested.

At the same time, both of them were slightly pleased, neither of them wanting the man they had just had sex with to fawn over another woman.

Jiang Luohan was somewhat flustered and hesitated whether she should find a way to back down, since she had come with a mission today and did not want to leave just like that.

Just as she hesitated, wondering whether she should soften her stance, a series of unhurried footsteps came from the direction of the prison entrance.

A figure appeared at the end of the passageway and walked in this direction.

Jiang Luohan subconsciously looked up, and when she saw the person's face clearly, she was struck dumb and stood there frozen in shock.

Chen Dongpeng?

The mysterious expert Chen Dongpeng, whom the Yong'an Marquis's mansion had been searching for so desperately to repair the Earth Fire Array of the Alchemy Workshop, actually appeared here.

Zhang Heng has been searching frantically for Chen Dongpeng these past few days, and has even drawn countless portraits of him, which Jiang Luohan has naturally seen.

So she recognized the person at a glance.

Chen Dongpeng appeared to be holding an ancient scroll in his hands, his brows slightly furrowed as he scrutinized the new layout of the prison with a strange expression.

He was clearly also taken aback by the luxurious furnishings inside the prison.

That's right, whose prison is decorated like a palace?

Although Zhou Dongpeng obtained the Zhou Tianxing Evolution Diagram, he was unable to comprehend it, which is why he wanted to seek guidance from Zhang Yu.

He had originally planned to sneak in quietly like last time, but found that there were no guards in the prison, so he simply swaggered in.

Unexpectedly, they bumped into Jiang Luohan, who was about to leave.

Chen Dongpeng's gaze swept over Jiang Luohan indifferently, as if she were just an insignificant passerby.

His gaze went straight past her and landed on Zhang Yu in the cell.

Just as Chen Dongpeng was about to brush past Jiang Luohan and walk towards Zhang Yu—

Jiang Luohan's panicked state of mind instantly calmed down.

She turned around abruptly, her earlier panic and uncertainty instantly replaced by a sense of certainty.

She looked at Zhang Yu, a cold, sarcastic smile playing on her lips:

"Zhang Yu, Zhang Yu, you've got some skills!"

She pointed at Chen Dongpeng, who was looking at her with a bewildered expression, her tone decisive and filled with a sense of superiority that she knew everything:

"Knowing I was coming today, they brought Chen Dongpeng here in advance."

"You were deliberately being so cold to me just now, talking about severing all ties... so you were waiting to give me a 'surprise'?"

She shook her head slightly, making a helpless yet somewhat disdainful expression:

"These kinds of tricks are fine to use occasionally, but if you use them too often, they just seem childish and ridiculous."

She was convinced that all of this was a carefully orchestrated "drama" by Zhang Yu to win her back and please her.

First, ignore her to make her anxious, then let her unexpectedly meet Chen Dongpeng, whom she most wants to see, thus creating a huge psychological gap and surprise.

"Oh,"

Jiang Luohan even took half a step forward, her gaze shifting between Chen Dongpeng and Zhang Yu, as if she were the one in control of the entire situation.

"You've really gone to great lengths for me."

In that case, I will forgive your previous rudeness.

Zhang Yu: "..."

Chen Dongpeng: "???"

Looking at Jiang Luohan's smug face, which seemed to say, "I've seen through everything," Zhang Yu felt a surge of blood rush to his head, and his vision blurred.

He opened his mouth, but for a moment he didn't know where to begin his rant.

Xiao Fenghua and Xiao Meier looked disappointed. They also felt that Zhang Yu did this to surprise Jiang Luohan.

At the same time, he was extremely shocked. Chen Dongpeng was a master of formations, yet Zhang Yu could come whenever he was called.

Their understanding of Zhang Yu's terror was further deepened.

Chen Dongpeng was completely bewildered. He looked at Jiang Luohan, then at Zhang Yu, utterly unable to understand what this woman who had suddenly appeared was talking to herself about.

He was simply encountering a bottleneck in his understanding of the "Zhou Tian Xing Yan Tu" and anxiously came to Zhang Yu for advice. How did it become an act?

An eerie silence fell over the air. Only Jiang Luohan's confident smile stood out starkly and... comically in the stillness.

"Come with me."

Seeing Chen Dongpeng standing still, Jiang Luohan frowned, her tone revealing obvious impatience and an air of self-importance as she gave him orders.

She didn't even glance at Chen Dongpeng, as if he were just an ordinary old servant, and directly ordered, "Don't just stand there, hurry back to the Marquis's mansion with me and repair the earth fire array in the alchemy workshop."

In her view, since this old man was specially arranged by Zhang Yu to please her, he should naturally listen to her and immediately do what she cares about most.

If she knew that she was directing a master of formations and a master of martial arts, I wonder what she would think.