Zerg: Cold and aloof Major General, stop pretending to be innocent, I have a headache!

"Are you kidding me?" Aesop withdrew his hand to his side and looked Bernd at him strangely.

If he remembered correctly, the other party hadn't treated this female insect very well outside before, so why did it suddenly become protective of its food?

"Who's joking with you?" Bernd didn't care at all about the other party's status; no matter how high the male insect's status was, it didn't matter.

In terms of mental strength, he was on equal footing with his opponent, so he naturally didn't care.

"Stay away from Lan." He glared at Aesop with annoyance, giving him a cold look: "Do you know that uninvited guests are considered thieves?"

Tell me, is there something you've got your eye on in one of our things?

"........." Aesop was taken aback at first, but then he laughed out loud, his big eyes wide open, looking at him with an innocent expression: "Why would I be interested in your things?"

"What do royalty lack? I really just came up to say hello because I saw you three old friends here."

Jiang Xu finally witnessed what it meant to turn on someone faster than flipping through a book—he had a perfect example right in front of him.

He took a few steps into the house: "Aren't you going to check on your female insect?"

"What are you looking at?" Aesop looked at him blankly and spoke the devil's words in an angelic voice: "If it dies, just get another one."

"There are so many female insects anyway, one more Julian won't make a difference."

"........." Such values ​​reappeared before Jiang Xu.

He was speechless.

If Bernd only talked about it, then Aesop had already put his ideas into action.

The doubt in the other person's eyes didn't seem feigned; he genuinely believed it.

"Well, you can go change now." Bernd pulled Lan back into the chair, not even bothering to glance at the male insect again: "You've said your piece, you can leave now."

It would be impolite of you to continue getting in our way.

"Are you trying to kick me out?" Aesop pouted slightly, looking at Bernd with a wronged expression.

"We're kicking you out. Hurry up and leave our private room! If you stay here, I'm afraid I won't be able to swallow the food I ordered later."

Looking at Bernd, who showed no respect for the other party, Jiang Xu suddenly found him particularly pleasing to the eye today.

He looked at Aesop, who was still standing still, and said, "Your Majesty Aesop, didn't you hear what Lord Bernd said?"

Or do you want us to ask you to leave?

"......." Aesop, who originally wanted to continue pretending to be innocent, frowned and glanced at Jiang Xu, and the innocence on his face vanished instantly.

"It seems that you gentlemen are unwilling to pay me any attention." His voice was much lower, no longer as clear and innocent as before.

"Lord Aesop, you flatter us. It's just that we're having a private gathering today, so it's really inconvenient to entertain you," Zoe, who was standing by the railing, said as she entered and stood next to Jiang Xu.

His tone was much gentler than the previous two insects, but every word was polite and distant, and the meaning never deviated from the core intention of the three insects—to ask him to leave.

"Hmph." Aesop glanced at them coldly. "Fine, let them go. I don't want to stay anyway."

"Take care." Bernd smiled upon hearing this.

"No need to see me off." Jiang Xu quickly followed up with those two words.

This sound made Bernd, who was sitting down, glance at him and secretly give him a thumbs up from behind.

"Hmm, this is the first time they've been so in sync," Bernd thought to himself.

After Aesop left, it became much quieter both upstairs and downstairs.

Bernd was still uneasy, so he went behind the curtain, lifted a corner to look at the departing male insect, and watched it walk down the stairs before letting go and sitting back down in his chair.

"That pervert is finally gone." He looked at Jiang Xu and Zoe and said with relief.

Jiang Xu didn't say anything, but reached out and patted his shoulder: "Not bad."

Then, Zoe patted him on the shoulder on the other side and praised him, "You were really cool today."

Bernd was speechless for a moment, his gaze shifting back and forth between the two of them. After a long while, he slowly uttered two words: "Sick."

He's been criticizing Aesop for a long time now; if he wanted to praise him, he should have done so long ago. What's the point of saying it now?

Moreover, he feels great just because he doesn't like Aesop now, okay!

"I really mean it," Jiang Xu said after sitting down next to Fei.

"Uh—what do you mean?" Bernd instantly realized, "Were those previous lines just a lie?"

Jiang Xu looked at his wide-eyed, astonished expression and thought helplessly, "This guy is quite serious."

"It's all the truth."

"Really?" Bernd asked, somewhat skeptical.

Zoe couldn't stand it any longer, so she raised her hand and tapped Bernd on the head. As Bernd clutched his head and glared at her, Zoe said, "Why are you talking so much?"

Bernd endured the pain without speaking, but his eyes were full of complaints.

"Speaking of which," Zoe changed the subject, "I've recently noticed a small business complex called Mido that's rapidly emerging in the south."

Is that the new company you started?

He picked up the tea in front of him, smelled it, but didn't drink it immediately. Instead, he played with it in his hand.

Jiang Xu raised an eyebrow, a knowing smile on his face: "Where did you get this information?"

"Of course I have my own channels." With such a large family like the Alvis family, how could they not notice such a commotion in the capital? Zoe looked at him and continued to remind him, "Many insects have already noticed this new business district."

"It's nothing." Jiang Xu said calmly, completely unconcerned about the insects' stares. "They'll find out sooner or later."

Zoe chuckled: "I was worried you'd be upset if you couldn't do it, but it seems I was worrying for nothing."

He recalled that when he first took Jiang Xu to rent an office, he wasn't actually very optimistic about his project.

Unexpectedly, in just a few months, Jiang Xu has made it a resounding success.

"This proves that I made the right choice with the insects." Jiang Xu was mostly responsible for making plans, while Yu Heng and his few insects were the ones who actually carried them out.

"Speaking of which, it's been so long since I've seen them. I haven't run into them in ages."

It's time to find an opportunity to go and see his parasite partners.

Jiang Xu kept his word and made an appointment with Yu Heng the day after the gathering. However, Yu Heng sent him an address he had never seen before.

That same day, he went directly there according to the location provided by the other party.

"Wow—it's my older brother!"

An unexpected insect chick appeared in front of him.

"........." Jiang Xu calmly looked at the house in front of him. This place was actually not far from his home.

It belongs to the same area, but it is hidden behind a group of small villas and is part of a relatively dilapidated residential area.

The houses are scattered throughout the area, interspersed with narrow paths of varying widths.

He was standing in front of the most dilapidated house.

He glanced at the wall, which was over a meter high and had collapsed more than halfway due to years of disrepair.

Jiang Xu looked at the wall closest to him, which was only about the same height as the insects inside.

At this moment, the little insect had already passed through the empty door frame and was running straight towards him, excitedly calling out, "Brother, brother!"

Jiang Xu took a deep breath, a thought that he hadn't previously considered flashed through his mind, and glanced at the single-story brick house inside the wall.

He breathed a sigh of relief, bent down to pick up the baby insect, and sat it on his arm, asking in a slightly gentle voice, "Is this your home?"