Once, I wanted to be a good person-Chapter 777 - 189. Marry Bai Zhi as soon as possible.
Chapter 777: 189. Marry Bai Zhi as soon as possible.
Upon hearing the voice, Fang Ze involuntarily looked in the direction of the sound. Then he saw a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl sitting on the sofa in the hall.
How to describe the girl’s appearance… it was utterly unremarkable, neither beautiful nor ugly, the type that would be completely indistinguishable in a crowd, the most ordinary kind.
This slightly surprised Fang Ze.
Up to this point, the nobles Fang Ze had encountered were all at least of average appearance, with most of them being handsome and beautiful. Even the person he disliked most, Sima Liu, and his former enemy, Jiang Cheng, could be considered charming based on looks alone.
Therefore, seeing the girl’s plain appearance, Fang Ze was genuinely surprised for a moment.
Upon closer inspection, Fang Ze noticed faint features on the girl’s face that resembled those of Lady Jin and Bai Zhi’s father, so she was indeed their biological child.
Perhaps Fang Ze’s gaze was too direct, or maybe the girl was super sensitive, she glared at him and said, “What’s with that look? Is it strange that I’m not good-looking?”
Hearing the girl’s words, Fang Ze realized his impoliteness and awkwardly retracted his gaze, lowering his head to apologize.
The girl had a good temperament and did not dwell on the matter. She snorted lightly to accept his apology and then said to Fang Ze, “You’re here to see my dad, right?”
“Wait a moment. I’ll call him now.”
With that, the girl brushed past Fang Ze, opened the door behind him, and walked out.
Fang Ze looked through the door that the girl opened and found that outside was not the place he had entered but rather a beautifully decorated, grand corridor, evidently the interior of the Bai Family manor.
The door closed, Fang Ze walked over, tentatively opened the door himself, and saw that outside was once again the area where he had arrived earlier.
Witnessing this, Fang Ze marveled once again at the magical and ubiquitous spatial ability in this world. He then shifted his gaze to examine the secret space.
The secret space wasn’t small and consisted of more than just one room. It was a large building: the entrance led to a luxurious hall, which was roughly sixty to seventy square meters. In the north of the hall was a corridor, and the east side had a staircase, presumably connecting to other rooms and floors.
Considering the unique ability to reach this secret base from anywhere in the world with just a key, Fang Ze didn’t need to guess to understand that this spatial treasure was immensely valuable, possibly more expensive than his entire manor.
Thinking of this, Fang Ze couldn’t help but marvel at the Bai Family’s wealth. Indeed, the legacy of an established noble family with fifty years of history was unfathomably deep. Moreover, this was a family that stayed within its bounds, never expanding outward, and was suppressed by the Commoner Faction in Xida State.
What level of terror would a family like the Galan family in Tuoya State or the Li family in Tang State—families that have ruled a state for decades, possibly even over a hundred years, and have such dominance that even the federation must tread carefully around them—reach?
While Fang Ze was contemplating this, the door opened again, and Bai Zhi’s father, clad in a simple blue and purple outfit, walked in.
He still looked as graceful and amiable as the last time Fang Ze saw him.
Seeing Fang Ze, he didn’t put on airs. He casually gestured to Fang Ze, “Sit,” and then seated himself on the sofa in the living room.
Fang Ze followed him and sat down, then heard him say, “Zhi has already told me your thoughts.”
“Zhi is straightforward and didn’t understand the intricacies, but her aunt and I do.”
He looked at Fang Ze deeply and said, “To put it bluntly, you just want to borrow the Bai Family’s power.”
As he spoke, he leaned back against the sofa to make himself more comfortable, “Previously, many in the provincial government didn’t understand why you chose the weakest Jia family among the seven noble families.”
“Even if they guessed that you didn’t want to be controlled and wanted to dominate the cooperation, they still couldn’t fathom where your confidence came from.”
“After all, though weak, the Jia family has a demigod to anchor it and Mortality-Shedding experts managing its daily affairs.”
“Whereas, at that time, the strongest in your Si family was only a Yang Transformation Peak. The strengths of the parties were simply not equal.”
“Yesterday you brought out the Mortality-Shedding Fruit, raising the Si family’s combat power ceiling and filling the Mortality-Shedding tier gap. Now looking for cooperation with the Bai Family clearly aims to cover another gap: the demigod tier.”
“Thus, with us as your backing and Mortality-Shedding experts in place, the Jia family would lose its negotiating advantage, making the cooperation wholly revolve around you.”
At this point, Bai Zhi’s father looked at Fang Ze and asked, “Am I correct?”
To be honest, Fang Ze never intended to conceal his plans from the Bai Family. Seeing Bai Zhi’s father spell out everything so clearly, he nodded and frankly admitted, “Yes. That’s indeed the case.”
Bai Zhi’s father nodded satisfactorily and continued, “If I’m not mistaken, you only want to borrow our Bai Family’s power, not truly cooperate with us.”
“Because like the other six noble families, our Bai Family is too powerful compared to you now, and such cooperation easily leads to losing control.”
This time, Fang Ze hesitated for a moment before saying, “I do have that concern.”
“But… I don’t intend for the Bai Family to help for nothing.”
“I know that families deal in interests. That’s why I’ve prepared my own terms early on.”
At this point, Fang Ze shared his true thoughts, “Currently, the Si family has three interests coveted by the noble families in the Eastern Administrative District.”
