Chapter 178

Her body went stiff, and she instinctively looked away. She did not want him to see her current expression.

“But have you ever considered that it’s precisely because I’m Yi Jinli that I was able to make your old schoolmate kneel and apologize to you when she humiliated you earlier? With me around, you no longer needed to worry yourself with anybody else’s attitude toward you. I can easily make those who look down on you to humble themselves in front of you,” he said ever so casually.

“So what? That kind of power is not mine to begin with.”

“Why isn’t it good? I can let you abuse my power. What do you think?” He lazily leaned on the back of the chair, looking at her as if he was discussing the weather.

Ling Yiran looked at him. No matter how she tried, she was unable to read him. She thought that when she had gone to beg him the other day, the way he rejected her meant that they would now move on with their lives separately. She thought that they would no longer have any contact wit