CHAPTER 152: 152: I KNOW YOUR SILLY IDEA.

The atmosphere on this side was warm and sweet, while over there it was like a bomb explosion. Such a stark contrast made Xu Ruoxuan so angry she wanted to vomit blood three feet away, wishing she could throw those two out.

Just as she was about to make a move, the maid suddenly pushed a cart with dishes into the room.

"Miss Xu, your dishes are ready."

Xu Ruoxuan noticed that the maid clearly moved the jade pendant at her waist before turning to serve the dishes.

Isn’t that jade pendant her second senior brother’s? In her anger-clouded mind, she suddenly remembered the instructions her second senior brother had given her. She glared hatefully at Jiang Nuo and his wife, sitting down in a huff.

Fine, if I don’t throw them out, I don’t throw them out! Just wait, when the Puppet Bowl is set, I’ll make you both suffer!

The dishes were served one by one, making Xu Ruoxuan feel some heartache. Three people, more than twenty dishes, it was almost like a Manchu Han Imperial Feast. Her second senior brother was truly indulgent; after all, this was Spirit Food that couldn’t be bought with money!

She continued glaring at Jiang Nuo and his wife.

The couple acted as if they didn’t notice. Jiang Nuo even picked through the dishes with his chopsticks, serving a small bowl to his wife.

"Wife, try this and see how it tastes. If it’s not good, we can switch to something else..."

"Hmm!"

"Wife, how’s the taste?"

"Average."

"It seems their food is just average. I’ll find a better place to take you next time."

Xu Ruoxuan scoffed on the side: Hah! This is Spirit Food, do you think it’s common street food, so easily found? Just having it to eat is a blessing, and you’re still being picky.

Can Spirit Food not be tasty? They can’t even lie properly.

With such a huge table filled with food, they barely ate anything. Most of it was wasted. Xu Ruoxuan felt a deep heartache, but since it was all touched by others, she couldn’t eat what others had already eaten, could she?

The more she thought about it, the more unhappy she became, and the more she wanted to glare at Jiang Nuo and his wife.

"Alright, you’ve eaten enough. Can I have a few words alone with Jiang Nuo?"

Xu Ruoxuan just wanted to complete her mission quickly and leave. She really couldn’t stand this couple any longer!

"What’s worth listening to between you and me?" Jiang Nuo refused, "Besides, haven’t you apologized yet?"

"Just a few words alone with you, why are you talking so much nonsense?" Xu Ruoxuan frowned.

"You’re here to apologize to us today, Miss Xu. Did you forget? Please have a better attitude. With your attitude, do you expect us to forgive you? You really have the nerve, don’t you? Oh, I forgot, your face is thicker than a city wall, so there’s nothing you can’t do without shame, huh? Did you already arrange with some paparazzi to take a few shots of us entering and leaving the restaurant together to prove that you apologized to us?"

"Jiang Nuo, don’t go too far!" Xu Ruoxuan gritted her teeth in anger, "If it weren’t for... Do you think you’re so important that I’d treat you to a meal? You’re just an ordinary human with a good-looking face, what’s so great about that? Do you even know who I am? I..."

She almost shouted it out, then suddenly remembered the instructions from her second senior brother: not to casually reveal cultivation matters to ordinary people, or the Cultivation Alliance would cause trouble. Just thinking of those meddling old men gave her a headache, so she had to hold back.

"Fine, I can have a better attitude, just let your wife leave so we can talk a few words alone."

Jiang Nuo was unwilling: "You want my wife to leave so I can be alone with you? Haha, won’t there be news tomorrow about ’Jiang Nuo and Xu Ruoxuan’s secret meeting’ or ’Jiang Nuo has an affair with Xu Ruoxuan’? I don’t want to be tangled up with you; if I’m going to be tangled up, it should be with my wife."

Going through so much trouble just to talk to him alone? Who would believe that?

Jiang Nuo didn’t think he was a god who could avoid all accidents, so he still needed to be defensive.

"You’re unwilling, and you think I’m willing? Just tell me directly; you’re such a big man, why act like an old lady?" Xu Ruoxuan looked at him with disdain, "Are you a big guy, and still afraid I’ll do something to you?"

"Trying to provoke me? Too bad it doesn’t work on me." Jiang Nuo was about to say more, but Mu Qiuniang tugged at his hand, "What’s wrong, wife? Tired of staying? Okay, we’ll leave right away."

"No, I’ll wait for you outside."

"You really trust me to be alone with this woman..." He didn’t even trust himself, okay?

This woman dared to kill someone in public, who knows what might happen in just a few minutes alone with her?

Mu Qiuniang hooked her fingers with his: "Since she wants to be alone with you, let’s grant her wish. Don’t worry, you’re my husband; would I let anything happen to you?" Her finger touched his wedding ring, triggering a certain Defensive Array.

"Alright, I’ll do as my wife says." Jiang Nuo turned his head and said to Xu Ruoxuan, "It’s my wife who wants me to talk to you alone, otherwise I wouldn’t bother being in the same room with you alone."

After being angry for so long, Xu Ruoxuan couldn’t help but show a hint of a smile on her face: "Alright, alright, as long as you talk to me alone for a bit..."

Mu Qiuniang glanced at her lightly, especially at the small bag at her waist, then calmly left the room.

"Alright, my wife is gone, what do you want to say? Go ahead." Jiang Nuo leaned his back against the chair, speaking in a particularly arrogant manner.

"No big deal, I just have a special gift for you, as an apology for how I treated your wife the other day. It’s something money can’t buy; take a look..." Xu Ruoxuan took out a jade bottle, slightly larger than a thumb, from the pouch at her waist and handed it to him.

"Such a small bottle? Perfume?" Jiang Nuo pinched the small item with a disdainful look.

"Of course not, why would I give you that as a man?"

"Then what is it? Poison? Couldn’t win you over, so now you want to kill my wife, or poison me? You didn’t poison today’s dishes, did you?" Given his wife’s skills, she should have been able to tell if it was poisoned, right?

Jiang Nuo was a bit conflicted. Why didn’t he think of this before? If she really poisoned, and he casually agreed to a meal with someone who almost became a murderer, wouldn’t he be falling into a trap?

"I would need you to give me the chance to do that anyway, just open it and see what’s inside, then talk to me."

He thought she was going to say bad things about his wife, but instead, she handed him something like this. If it was poison, it wasn’t, so what else could it be? It couldn’t be that such a small thing was an antique, could it?

Jiang Nuo pulled out the stopper on top. As soon as he did, something shot out from inside, directly hitting his forehead.

Puff—

The Defensive Array activated, and the Puppet Child bowl directly hit the Barrier, the rice-grain-sized thing left a bit dazed.

He was startled and felt something sliding down from his forehead, landing on the tip of his nose.