CHAPTER 169: CHAPTER 158: CHANGING IDENTITY (SUBSCRIPTION REQUEST)_2

Who can withstand this?

However, at this moment, Chen Weiran was relatively calm.

Even if sometimes his hands were not clean, he knew his limits.

Moreover, Chen Weiran did not dare to be overly extravagant, he was simply driven by greed alone.

He knew there were many people like him around.

Everyone was the same, so the Celestial Capital Department wouldn’t come looking for him over such matters.

The Celestial Capital Department always turns a blind eye, otherwise, if they took everyone away, who would be left to work for them without any profit?

"Let’s leave now then."

"Stay for a meal, Song Datian."

"No need."

"Alright, take care."

Watching the two people leave the Celestial Capital Department, Chen Weiran returned to his bedroom drenched in sweat.

He rubbed his hands vigorously and quickly assessed the situation.

"Yuchi is no simple character, he can even bring the Celestial Capital Department into this, far more than I had previously judged."

"He is truly cunning and calculating!"

"Also, as long as there are no monsters in Jiangzhou City, I’m confident I can handle this."

"Just worried there might be monsters in Jiangzhou City, if that’s the case, I might end up in a passive situation."

After thinking it over.

Chen Weiran was still certain there couldn’t be monsters in Jiangzhou City; Song Bei’s judgment must be wrong.

An obvious problem, like lice on a bald head, no one in their right mind would joke about such a matter.

Monsters!

This is a fundamental ideological issue.

Helping monsters is equivalent to betraying the people, equivalent to treason; the consequences are predictably disastrous.

...

Leaving the Celestial Capital Department, Song Yinghan lazily stretched, her white dress tightened, showcasing her infinite allure.

She slightly loosened her muscles and breathed a sigh of relief, looking at Yuchi staring at her: "Why do you keep staring at me?"

"Because you’re beautiful." Yuchi replied directly.

"Shallow." Song Yinghan said indifferently.

"Haha, my nephew would certainly like you very much when he sees you." Yuchi laughed.

"Haha, I’m difficult to pursue." Song Yinghan responded.

"He likes challenges." Yuchi added.

"But neither you nor he have seen me, how can you be sure he would pursue me?" Song Yinghan asked puzzled.

"He likes to explore in the dark." Yuchi said calmly, "My nephew has a very assertive nature."

"More assertive than me?" Song Yinghan.

"Not necessarily, but how would we know without trying?" Yuchi said, "Just afraid you’ll give my nephew a hard time."

"I wouldn’t stoop to that level."

Song Yinghan changed the subject: "Let’s talk about something practical. You didn’t deceive me regarding the matter in Jiangzhou City."

The two walked along a noisy alley.

"Is that so?"

"That’s what my nephew told me, people need to have basic trust in each other." Yuchi said with a smile.

He was fervently building a rapport so that when he meets her in person later, there wouldn’t be any awkwardness.

"Basic trust? What is that?" Song Yinghan asked uncomprehendingly.

"It’s simple, it means I don’t want to kill you, and you don’t want to kill me either." Yuchi, "That’s basic trust."

Song Yinghan was visibly hesitant.

After a while, she said:

"Such trust seems somewhat cheap."

"Haha, you could contact him, since he has my Celestial Capital Department’s token, he could join us."

"Then I could take him to the Celestial Capital Department to undergo an assessment, and if he passes, he’ll become one of us."

"Then he would understand that basic trust isn’t so simple."

Yuchi laughed and cried at this, "My nephew doesn’t have any cultivation talent."

Song Yinghan was surprised, "He has no talent?"

Walking on the edge of the crowd, asking about the aroma of some food around.

She became more curious about Yuchi’s nephew whom Song Bei mentioned.

Can someone with no talent think of so many things? How did he gather these clues?

"He doesn’t." Yuchi, "And he once said something noteworthy."

Song Yinghan glanced at Yuchi: "What did he say?"

Caught her interest, Yuchi said seriously: "He said trust is difficult to exist in a situation of unequal strength."

"Lasting trust is built on mutual fear."

"Only through mutual fear can trust even be mentioned."

In essence, it meant Song Yinghan couldn’t lower herself to communicate with him, so she inherently struggled to inspire trust.

Song Yinghan was immediately displeased upon hearing this, "That’s an unfair generalization."

"I don’t know, you could try convincing him sometime."

Yuchi looked at a road bustling with commoners ahead, suddenly asking:

"Or does Miss Song believe that despite holding a high position, she can befriend someone like my nephew who has no cultivation skills?"

"Can you trust my nephew?"

"If you yourself can’t manage to do that, how can it be possible to persuade him?"

Yuchi almost blatantly rubbed Song Yinghan’s nose in it with his provocation.

Song Yinghan didn’t see this as a taunt.

She simply judged according to her own reasoning:

"I don’t need to prove anything to him. If he truly gets the opportunity to interact with me, he will realize that trust transcends anything."

"Strong cultivation or weak, more gold and silver or less, neither matters."

"Trust sometimes is akin to a confidant."

"Can it transcend different species?" Yuchi pressed.