When Wu Na walked into the dinner party, everyone who saw her thought she was like a celestial maiden descending to the mortal world. They kept showering her with praise.
Seeing the crowd that suddenly surrounded her, Wu Na felt a bit out of breath for a moment. It wasn't until a pair of hands pulled her out of the crowd.
Watching Wu Na leave, the indifference returned to everyone's faces. Their eyes remained empty, and they mechanically returned to their original positions. If an ordinary person saw this, they would probably be startled.
Wu Na looked up at Cruz with a smile. "Thank you."
He gently let go of her hand. His deep, unfathomable eyes were as profound as the boundless ocean. His well - defined features added a touch of reality to his appearance.
She felt her face suddenly start to burn. She immediately turned around. Cruz, who was still indulging in his own act, didn't notice any of this. Monkey Flower in the monitoring room couldn't help but put her hand on her forehead.
"Big brother, look where she's gone. No one's looking at you. Stop acting and chase after her quickly."
"Ah, oh." Hearing the shout in the earphone.
Cruz then came to his senses and found that Wu Na had already walked far away. Looking at her graceful back, he couldn't help but nod.
"I just realized that Wu Na actually has a good figure."
"Don't you even look at who picked out the clothes." Hearing his praise, Yong Shanling became even more confident in her taste.
Looking at the sportswear she had just changed into, she also felt a bit of a headache. There was no way around it. Uncle Shu was like the sky, and his orders couldn't be defied.
Cruz picked up a glass of juice and walked in Wu Na's direction. Of course, Wu Na also saw him walking towards her. There was a bit of anticipation and a hint of self - sigh in her heart.
She anticipated that he would come and chat with her. She sighed at herself for seemingly daydreaming. Since the incident with Jin Yan, she had an inexplicable resistance to men, but she felt different when she met him.
"Hi, seeing that you're still young, you'd better drink juice." After saying that, he placed the glass of juice in his hand in front of Wu Na and casually took the wine glass from her hand.
He took a small sip and then smiled at the stunned Wu Na. This smile really stole Wu Na's soul.
"Not bad, Cruz. Keep it up." Yong Shanling thought there was really something going on between them just by looking at Wu Na's eyes.
Wu Na felt that her gaze was a bit too intense. She patted her face with her hand and smiled as she changed the topic.
"Um, this dinner party seems to be quite long, right? Haha."
"Yeah."
Well, the conversation once again hit a dead end. Yong Shanling looked at the time. It was getting late.
She was sitting on the sofa, muttering something. The puppet that had been sitting in the background with its eyes closed suddenly opened them. A stiff smile appeared on its originally rigid face. If one didn't look closely, they wouldn't be able to tell the flaw.
Yong Shanling's hand seemed to be waving something in the air. A host in a tuxedo then stepped onto the stage to start hosting. She waved her hand again in the air, and there was a murmur of discussion among the people below the stage.
Some people who usually got along well with Wu Na walked up to her one after another and started chatting with her. But no one noticed the slightest sense of discord on her face.
Seeing that there was nothing wrong with Wu Na, Cruz quietly left the venue and headed for the monitoring room.
He pushed open the door and casually sat down beside Yong Shanling. He tugged at his collar. Before a few seconds had passed, Mu Yijie kicked him aside and sat down between the two of them.
Cruz gave him a disdainful look and then asked, "So what's the next plan?"
Yong Shanling grabbed the corner of her clothes. She didn't really want to talk about the next plan. But thinking that Cruz and Uncle Shu might be in danger, her heart was as wavering as a pendulum.
Mu Yijie tightened his grip on her hand and slowly said, "Next, it's time to cast a spell. It will only control people's minds for a while. There won't be any problems."
Cruz yawned and didn't have any objections. "Then let's just get it over with quickly."
When he got up and was about to leave, Yong Shanling finally spoke up. "Can you bear it?"
The man in front of her just smiled indifferently. "You said that if she were really smart, she wouldn't have been tricked by others and wouldn't have come here today."
"But she's really innocent... Why don't we think of another plan? What if we can find some helpers?"
Mu Yijie lowered his eyes. Although he doted on her very much, her naivety and innocence were her only flaws.
"You spent a week on those puppets. Are you willing to waste them in order to please a woman who has nothing to do with you?"
"Ling'er, she's the enemy. She's just a pawn of ours among the enemies. There's no child who grew up in the environment of the underground city who isn't sophisticated."
"Uncle Shu, but I want to be friends with her. Although she's a bit silly, I can see that she's always alone. She's so lonely, just like I used to be..."
Her eyes turned a bit red. She raised her head. She looked exactly like a wounded little white rabbit. In the end, Mu Yijie gave in.
"Then give her one last chance. If she doesn't leave, the plan must go on."
Yong Shanling excitedly grabbed him and gave him a big kiss. She smiled at Cruz who was leaning against the door. "It's up to you!"
At the venue, Wu Na watched as the people around her finally left. She let out a sigh and slumped onto the sofa, feeling a bit weak.
"It seems you're quite popular."
The familiar voice echoed in her ear again, making her sit up suddenly. She waved her hands.
"No, no..."
Cruz looked at her with a bit of amusement as he rested his chin on his hand. "You're a bit drunk. Do you want me to take you home? It's getting late."
The smiling girl lowered her head. After a while, she gently shook her head.
"If something happens next, you still won't leave?" The joking look on his face had disappeared, replaced by an empty and solemn silence.
As soon as Cruz finished speaking, the whole place fell into complete silence. The people who were chatting and laughing stopped talking. Slowly, each puppet lost its smile.
The unprecedented silence made Wu Na feel a bit scared. In the end, she tightened her grip on the sofa.
"I know that all of this is fake."
"Everything has been fake since I walked in through the door."
"Every time Lin Xiaoxiao invited me, she would start to humiliate me from the moment I walked in through the door. She wished I would dress like a country bumpkin. Even if I wore the most beautiful dress, it would become a tattered mess in their hands."
"But that elder sister was different. When she held my hand tightly, I felt something different. So I thought that maybe something different would happen if I followed her."
"The evening dress, the praise, the conversations. All of these are impossible in my life."
"But when I saw someone come up to talk to me, I was filled with joy and trepidation in my heart. Even though I knew they were fake..."
Cruz didn't interrupt the girl. Instead, he continued to listen.
"Do you regret coming here?" At the end, Cruz looked straight into her eyes and asked her.
Wu Na just smiled. "What's your purpose then?"