Chapter 975: Two Women Fighting Over Su Yang

"Oh!"

Su Yang didn't know how to reply either.

He couldn't very well say, "He, he already knew, did he?"

"You won't be angry, will you?" Liu Mengyun asked in a low voice. "I just wanted to know your attitude, that's all!"

"Not angry!"

Liu Mengyun's candor instead made Su Yang feel that he was being somewhat despicable.

After that, neither of them said much.

Su Yang was the type who wouldn't make small talk just for the sake of it, and Liu Mengyun happened to be the same.

So they really did just go out to feel the sea breeze.

Only when it was nearly midnight did Liu Mengyun gently lean against Su Yang.

The two young men and women were heading back to the villa in the middle of the night.

Lying in bed, Su Yang tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep no matter what.

His relationship with Liu Mengyun could be considered settled.

Yet he always felt that things had happened a little too suddenly.

But missing just one night of sleep didn't have much effect on Su Yang nowadays.

When he got up the next day, he was still a bright and spirited handsome young man.

Even at breakfast, they acted just like usual.

For some unknown reason, the two of them tacitly agreed not to make the matter public.

Only Su Yang's gaze would drift toward Liu Mengyun from time to time.

Su Yang didn't know if it was because "beauty lies in the lover's eyes," but he felt Liu Mengyun seemed even prettier.

Xia Na didn't notice anything unusual.

Sovereign Jiazi, on the other hand, clearly sensed that there seemed to be some kind of… thing between Su Yang and Liu Mengyun.

Sovereign Jiazi's perception was, in fact, quite sharp.

Sitting in the office, Liu Mengyun ran in to pour tea for Su Yang and Sovereign Jiazi. Seeing Liu Mengyun walk to the doorway, Su Yang wanted to call out to her, but when he opened his mouth he called out "Deputy Liu."

The truth was, he didn't know what to call Liu Mengyun.

Call her by her full name?

It didn't seem intimate enough.

Call her "Mengyun"?

Too intimate—Su Yang couldn't bring himself to say it.

But calling out "Deputy Liu," he still felt it wasn't quite right.

Hearing Su Yang call her, Liu Mengyun stopped walking, turned around, and asked in confusion, "City Lord, is there anything else?"

Seeing Liu Mengyun in her military uniform, all prim and proper, expression cool and detached—completely unlike the woman of the night before—Su Yang felt a surge of heat rising in him!

"I may need to go out for a bit. I've contracted a beast companion and want to go out and cultivate for a while!"

"Is it that Twin?"

"Yes!"

"Don't worry!" Liu Mengyun said in a very formulaic tone. "Mount Dajiao City has me."

"What if City Lord Su needs to take me along?"

Sovereign Jiazi, sitting to one side, suddenly interjected.

That's right!

Sovereign Jiazi did it on purpose.

Liu Mengyun's rank was high and she hid her emotions well, but in this area, Sovereign Jiazi still saw through her.

She just felt that this couple was a little… odd.

"There's no need, is there?" Liu Mengyun frowned. "The City Lord is going out to cultivate. Your being there would hinder his improvement."

Sovereign Jiazi said casually, "But his mission is to monitor me!"

"You can monitor yourself on his behalf, as long as you just stick with me!"

Liu Mengyun didn't really believe there could be anything between Sovereign Jiazi and Su Yang.

They'd known each other a short time, but Liu Mengyun had already seen Sovereign Jiazi's character.

A proud woman like that should be incapable of casting aside her grudges and submitting to Su Yang.

But she still didn't want Sovereign Jiazi getting too close to Su Yang.

Other women, she could more or less tolerate a little—only this island nation's sovereign was unacceptable!

"Is your strength up to it?" Sovereign Jiazi said with a low laugh. "I'm a King-Rank Mid-Grade Beast Tamer!"

Sovereign Jiazi's thinking was actually very simple.

It was to build a good relationship with Liu Mengyun.

But a rational, cold, domineering woman like Liu Mengyun had long since grown wary of her. To win her favor by ordinary means was almost impossible.

Sovereign Jiazi figured: first propose following Su Yang out, to stir up Liu Mengyun's jealousy, then take the chance to defeat Liu Mengyun head-on.

After defeating Liu Mengyun, she would then slightly acknowledge Liu Mengyun's strength, praise her by saying she was indeed capable of monitoring her, and then give up on going out with Su Yang. That should earn Liu Mengyun's respect and good will.

First defeat Liu Mengyun in strength, then make concessions!

Expressing good will from an equal, or even superior, position—that was the best way to win the favor of a domineering woman like Liu Mengyun!

Sovereign Jiazi believed that adopting a weak posture, wagging one's tail and begging, would hardly move Liu Mengyun.

That's why this scene came about.

Liu Mengyun bent down and set the kettle by the wall; the temperature in the office began to drop.

Sovereign Jiazi regarded Liu Mengyun with an elegant, unhurried air.

A smile tugged at the corner of his mouth.

Liu Mengyun had taken the bait, just as expected!

Next, he had to defeat her!