Girl, there's something wrong with you

"Hello."

"Azhi, I'm back."

"Ah, I'm sorry, I forgot, I shouldn't call you that... Anyway, I'm almost downstairs. I'm afraid you'll be worried, so I want to tell you."

Cheng Jinyang hung up the phone and heard Cheng Xinnan, who was driving next to him, smiling and asking:

"Is Xing Yunzhi usually very strict?"

"That's not true." Cheng Jinyang smiled sheepishly, "We are just living together. At least we have to say it."

"I see." Cheng Xinnan nodded and said casually, "To put it this way, I'm a little envious of her for having such a good fiancé like you."

Cheng Jinyang's ears pricked up: Well, green tea quotations?

However, Cheng Xinnan did not continue the discussion on this topic. He just brushed the hair beside his ear and continued:

"Take a good look at the algorithm I gave you when you get back. Jiankang City has not been very peaceful recently. If you can't go out in the next few days, it's best not to go out as much as possible."

Cheng Jinyang looked stern and asked:

"It's not peaceful? Sister Xinnan, you mean..."

"It's just those old problems." Cheng Xinnan looked at the road ahead and sighed, "Refugees, gangs, aristocratic families, spies... when did they ever settle down?"

The car stopped at the edge of Cheng Jinyang's residential building. Cheng Jinyang opened the door and got out of the car. He saw Xing Yunzhi standing at the door of the building, looking over with arms folded, and smiled angrily:

"Are you finally back?"

"Ahem." Cheng Jinyang was a little embarrassed, "I met my cousin today and she took me to buy clothes."

"Then why didn't you answer the phone!!!" Xing Yunzhi burst out in anger and rushed over to get angry. When her eyes fell on Cheng Xinnan who got off the car in front of her, she suddenly forced back her anger and said softly, "Don't do this next time. I’m here, Jinyang. I can’t contact you all day long, do you know how worried I am?”

Cheng Jinyang:? ? ?

"Is this the cousin you're talking about?" Xing Yunzhi looked at the eldest sister walking opposite and asked with a smile.

Her smile was warm and kind, and Cheng Jinyang looked a little familiar.

By the way, Wang Wanrou seemed to like to fake smile like this last time. So is this the standard skill of the eldest lady of the aristocratic family?

"Are you Ah Zhi, Jinyang's fiancée?" Cheng Xinnan greeted her with a smile.

Xing Yuanzhi:! ! !

She looked at Cheng Jinyang with a smile, her eyes filled with icy coldness, as if she was saying "Ah Zhi?"

Cheng Jinyang quickly smoothed things over:

"Ahem, let me introduce you. This is my cousin, Cheng Xinnan, and Yuan Zhi, you can call her 'Sister Xinnan'; this is my fiancée, Xing Yuanzhi, Sister Xinnan, you can call her 'Yuan Zhi' Bar."

"I'm sorry, Yuan Zhi." So Cheng Xinnan put his hands together, blinked and apologized, "I took your Jinyang home to buy clothes today."

"Haha, it's okay." Xing Yunzhi said politely, "I'm just angry that he didn't answer my call all day."

"How about Sister Xinnan come up and sit down?" Cheng Jinyang sent out the invitation at the right time, "It's not a good idea to stand here."

"No!" Xing Yunzhi shouted in her heart.

"Okay." Cheng Xinnan smiled like a flower.

Xing Yuanzhi:………………

damn it.

She couldn't help but cursed in her heart.

Cheng Jinyang returned home with the two girls carrying large and small bags of clothes. He put down his clothes and diligently brought his cousin slippers. Xing Yunzhi patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile:

"Jinyang, the clothes you need to change have been placed in the bathroom for you~"

Being looked at by her with such gentle eyes, Cheng Jinyang was also a little frightened. He turned to Cheng Xinnan and said:

"Sister Xinnan, I'm going to take a shower first, and you guys can chat outside."

"Okay." Cheng Xinnan blinked.

So Cheng Jinyang went to take a shower. In the living room, Xing Yunzhi opened the refrigerator and asked:

"What would you like to drink, tea? Buttermilk? Coffee?"

(Author's note: The buttermilk of this world is a boxed room temperature yogurt)

"Ordinary tea is fine." Cheng Xinnan replied, "Thank you."

Xing Yunzhi took out the tea leaves, made her a cup of tea, and then sat down next to her:

"Sister Xinnan, are you from the Cheng family in the capital city of God?"

"Yes." Cheng Xinnan's smile did not change.

"That's it." Xing Yunzhi also smiled and said, "Today at noon, because I couldn't contact Jinyang, I asked a friend to look for him."

"After checking, he told me that Jinyang and you were shopping at Xinjiekou. I didn't know who you were at the time, so I asked my friend again, and he said..."

Cheng Jinyang was taking a shower in the bathroom when he suddenly heard a conversation outside. He couldn't help but quietly went to the door to eavesdrop.

"...He said that there is no female member named 'Cheng Xinnan' in the family tree of the Cheng family in the city of God." Xing Yunzhi said slowly.

Cheng Xinnan's expression did not change when he heard this. He just brushed the leaf stems from the water with the lid of the teacup, took a calm sip, and then said with a smile:

"Yuan Zhi, this friend you are talking about is [Diwang], right?"

Xing Yunzhi's expression changed slightly.

Although the Cheng and Xing families are in the same family, and information about the underground network is also limitedly shared with the Cheng family, ordinary family members should not have access to this level of information.

"It's normal." Cheng Xinnan continued, flipping the lid of the cup casually, "[Diwang] is the biggest intelligence dealer in Jiankang, but it is not the strongest one. Many intelligences are classified internally. For example, if you go If you search the core members of the Cheng family in the capital city, you will definitely not be able to find them.”

"I know all the core members of the Cheng family in the city of God." Xing Yunzhi said lightly.

"Oh? Do you know the people from [Tianluo] too?" Cheng Xinnan asked with a smile.

Xing Yunzhi was slightly startled.

If the Xing family's [Underground Network] is a refuge for smugglers and intelligence dealers, then the Cheng family's [Tianluo] is a gathering place for killers and dead soldiers.

Before the fall of the divine capital of Luoyang, the [Tian Luo Di Net] jointly established by the Cheng and Xing families was even more prestigious in the dark world than the royal family's East and West Second Factory, and was an important pillar for the family to compete with the imperial power.

Nowadays, because families with the fifth surname have also established their own intelligence agencies and assassination teams, the prestige of [Dragnet] has also declined. However, for those families with the fourth and fifth grades, it is still a terrifying existence that is enough to stop children from crying at night.

"Are you... from Tianluo?"

"I'm not looking for him for official reasons." Cheng Xinnan shook his head, "I just came to take care of him as a favor from his deceased parents. But you... Qingfeng of the Xing family, why don't your Xing family break off the engagement?!!!"

She looked at Xing Yunzhi with a sneer, and the malice radiated out undisguisedly, making Xing Yunzhi's face turn slightly pale.

"Why do you want to break off the engagement?" She gritted her teeth and looked back at Cheng Xinnan, "This is the engagement that Uncle Qinghe made with my father before he was alive..."

"In the past, Qinghe was kicked out of the house by the Cheng family. Ever since Xie Guyan waited at the door of your Xing family for several days, but you never came out, the relationship between him and your Xing family has been severed!" Cheng Xinnanhan said He said in a loud voice, his eyes as if there were a thousand sharp knives, "What shame do you have, after the death of uncle and aunt, you are so shy that you want to come over to fulfill this engagement that should have been annulled long ago?!"

Xing Yunzhi was silent after hearing this. She only knew that Uncle Cheng Qinghe was expelled from the family because he married a woman from a commoner family against the family's wishes.

However, according to what Cheng Xinnan said, there seems to be a hidden secret... If Aunt Xie Guyan was really an ordinary civilian woman, it would be impossible for her to come to the Xing family to cry and beg. In that case, she would have been beaten up by the security guards with sticks.

The Xing family chose to stay behind closed doors, indicating that they refused to help Cheng Qinghe, but it was inconvenient to explain it directly to Xie Guyan. So what is the identity of this aunt, so that the Xing family can only refuse to see guests?

Of course, she will keep these things in mind and figure them out later when she returns to her clan. However, as Cheng Jinyang's fiancée, now being provoked by this cousin who came from nowhere at her own home, Miss Ah Zhi must not show weakness!

"If we really want to say that we have to cut ties with each other, wouldn't it be true that the Cheng family who kicked his father out of the house did a more extreme job than the Xing family who didn't provide any help?" She asked sharply.

This time it was Cheng Xinnan's turn to be silent.

"That's right." She showed a malicious smile, "The Xing family in Hejian... and the Cheng family in the capital are actually not good people."

"Miss Yunzhi, let me give you a piece of advice: if you really want to stay by Jinyang's side in the future..."

"...Then you have to be prepared to sever ties with your family, just like...his father did."