No strange things are allowed to evolve!

Snow King paused for a moment, then squinted and nodded with a light smile: "Okay."

"Then let's go to your hotel, you can use facial recognition."

"Okay."

Chapter 293 President: Maru!

Anyone who has ever eaten with someone of the opposite sex knows this.

Unless things have progressed to a certain point and some barrier has been crossed, people will subconsciously maintain their composure when dining together, especially in slightly more formal settings, not at home or at a roadside stall.

This applies to both men and women.

This is the current state of the Snow King.

Although her worries and anxieties disappeared, all her senses, which had been waiting in line for processing, returned to her body. She was actually quite hungry, but she still ate in small bites.

She didn't look like she was eating; rather, she looked like she was trying to count exactly how many strands of pasta were on her plate.

However, Jiang Shu was more uninhibited.

He twirled a large chunk with his fork and then gnawed on it like he was eating a marshmallow, getting his mouth full of sauce.

"The food here is so much better. I have no idea what they were eating at those hatcheries. The goblins' food was the most bizarre. They cooked mushrooms and fish with their innards still inside together, and nothing else. It was like corpse water. It was not only awful to drink, but I almost hallucinated from it..."

This is, of course, an exaggeration.

With the Heart of the Wilderness, he could eat raw mushrooms from Yunnan without any problems. However, the Heart of the Wilderness doesn't block out taste, so it really is unpalatable.

If you calculate the time, he hasn't had a proper meal for almost a week, so he's been constantly hungry.

Snow King listened quietly as he rambled on about the incubators he had experienced on the first day of special training, occasionally smiling.

Under Jiang Shu's influence, she gradually relaxed and stopped being so cautious. Instead, she ate heartily as if she were alone.

Seeing this, Jiang Shu also felt a sense of relief.

Finally, I'm not pushing myself so hard anymore...

"Sister!" Jiang Shu raised her hand, completely disregarding the stares of the surrounding diners, and shouted to the waiter, "Add more dishes!"

Seeing that people around them were looking over, Xue Wang awkwardly tugged at Jiang Shu's sleeve.

"Keep your voice down, everyone's looking this way."

Jiang Shu didn't care: "Let them look. We spent money just like them, and even more than them. Why should we be afraid of being looked down upon? Who's looking down on whom?"

Snow King slowly withdrew his hand.

It wasn't actually money that was spent.

Moreover, she wasn't afraid of being looked down upon; she just wanted to remind Jiang Shu that it was best not to affect others.

They are no longer eating in the cafeteria on the upper floors.

Although the food there was plentiful, the rumors and curses surrounding blueberry dipping sauce were somewhat beyond Jiang Shu's expectations.

Now, whether you know Jiang Shu or not, everyone knows that there is such a person, and that he has such a messy situation. Whenever Jiang Shu appears, he will attract malicious stares.

Not to mention that Snow King is with them now. If the two of them appear in public together, Snow King will likely suffer an undeserved disaster as well.

So the two of them arrived at the area below that was open to ordinary people, and now everyone around them was an ordinary person.

Although Xue Wang was naturally indignant that Jiang Shu had encountered such a situation, upon further reflection, she felt that it was precisely because of this incident that her relationship with Jiang Shu was able to progress further.

She could clearly sense that, for some reason, Jiang Shu no longer seemed to maintain that deliberate distance from her.

Therefore, for a moment, Xue Wang didn't know whether he should find a way to help Jiang Shu get justice and take revenge on the person who spread the rumors, even if the person was Bo Ya's brother, or he should find an opportunity to thank the person properly.

In short, those who can afford to eat fine food here are all wealthy and influential, and are all respectable people. Jiang Shu's behavior naturally appears somewhat undignified among these people.

However, the Snow Queen is capable of winning over her own heart.

After thinking about it, she felt that she couldn't be a spoilsport, and besides, if she were to remind someone of this, wouldn't that prove that she was actually a very superficial person?

This absolutely cannot be done!

So after only a slight hesitation, she decided to set aside her manners and embrace the wild, not even considering whether she could win or not, and simply joined.

"Add more dishes!" she shouted even louder than Jiang Shu.

This shocked the manager on duty.

What's wrong with you, Miss? Have you gone astray?

But as an ordinary steward in the lower levels of the underground hall who only had the chance to come into contact with someone like the Snow King by chance, she dared not say anything and simply served him.

Seeing that the last time the strawberry milkshake caused trouble and ended up accidentally entering [Lies Town], and that she didn't even have a chance to eat the delicious meal, she was able to make up for it in this way today, and Jiang Shu was in a great mood.

"How is it? Not bad here, right?" he asked Snow King.

Snow King felt something was off.

This is the cafeteria she's eaten at since childhood. Asking this question is like asking a person with paralysis from the waist down: How is it? Is the wheelchair especially comfortable today?

I don't know, I can't tell.

"Hmm...it's pretty good. The environment is nice, and the food is delicious."

They still cooperated.

"If you like it, I'll take you to eat here every day from now on," Jiang Shu said with a smile.

So that's what it meant...?

Snow King nodded happily: "Okay, sure."

"Then get me a card that doesn't need to be topped up. I feel a bit bad about always having to use my face to pay for things. I'll treat you next time."

"Ah? Oh, okay."

After several rounds of meals, the two were full and satisfied.

Seeing Jiang Shu playing with the only "free meal card" that the manager had just given him, Xue Wang suddenly asked.

"But what about my father?"

She asked with some concern:

"He finally started to like you. What if he develops a bad impression of you because of this? Even if you can tell him the truth and explain it to him properly, it would probably hurt Bo Ya. After all, although he is a rebel, he is someone Bo Ya considers like a younger brother."

It seems that, just as the chairman said, he really only told Jiang Shu about intercepting the list of rebels, and didn't even tell his beloved daughter.

That's why the Snow King was in a dilemma, worried that if he explained to him, the other party would definitely investigate and find the rebels, and wouldn't care about his purpose in coming to the temple. This was obviously a sacrifice for Boya.

That's the kind of person Yuki-Oh is. Even if it's something she dreams of, she'll hesitate if the price would be hurting her friends.

“That’s alright,” Jiang Shu comforted her. “There’s no need to explain anything to him. I believe he can investigate it himself. If he didn’t even have the ability to distinguish right from wrong, how could the Holy Temple be as powerful as it is today? So, trust your dad.”

This wasn't entirely a consolation; Jiang Shu genuinely thought so too.

As the president of the Holy Church, he could easily tell whether something was true or false by using his brain. At the very least, he could get someone to investigate it thoroughly with a few words.

He had no doubt that the other party could prove his innocence.

The key issue is actually with Snow King.

If she changes her opinion of Jiang Shu because of this, then what the president thinks will not matter. He is a person whose values ​​follow his daughter's, and everything is based on the will of the Snow King.

If the Snow King is disappointed in Jiang Shu, he certainly won't help Jiang Shu in return. On the contrary, he would probably be happy to see it happen. In this way, the advantage that he has finally gained in the Holy Temple will be lost.

Conversely, he would help Jiang Shu clear her name in order to protect Xue Wang's reputation.

Fortunately, Xue Wang ultimately chose Jiang Shu firmly, even more firmly than Jiang Shu had imagined, so the result was obvious.

“That makes sense.” After Jiang Shu said that, Xue Wang suddenly understood: “Father would not be as easily influenced by the outside world as I am. It’s probably because I’m too young.”

At this point, Snow King felt a pang of guilt once again.

"I already said it's okay."

Jiang Shu was also somewhat helpless.

Snow Queen is good in every way, except that she is too prone to self-blame. Even the smallest things can cause her to suffer internally.

It must be due to her upbringing that she has become accustomed to measuring herself by the standards of people like her parents. She thinks too much and carries too much burden, which is why she has always lived a very tiring life.

But who can become an extraordinary person overnight without going through a growth process?

Just as Jiang Shu was about to say something to encourage Xue Wang to be more cheerful and confident, his phone suddenly rang.

After glancing at the caller ID, Jiang Shu laughed and said, "Look, speak of the devil, and he appears. Your dad called me."

As she spoke, Jiang Shu answered the phone under Xue Wang's curious gaze.

"Hello? Uncle, what's wrong?" Jiang Shu asked with a smile, trying to appear as friendly as possible, since the two had only recently reconciled.

Suddenly, a voice on the other end of the phone, filled with a mixture of grief, disappointment, and accusation, demanded: "I've called you several times during the day, why didn't you answer?! How could you do this?! How dare you hide something like this from us?!"

"Uh..."

Jiang Shu was taken aback.

I took the phone away from my ear, looked at the screen, and made sure I hadn't connected the wrong phone.

This...this isn't right, is it?

What happened to the promise that they should know better than you that you've been wronged?

Do the people in charge of the church also believe everything they hear?

Seeing Jiang Shu's puzzled expression, Xue Wang asked in confusion, "What did he say?"

"Uh... I don't know, the signal was bad, I didn't hear clearly."

"Oh."

The person on the other end of the phone clearly heard Xue Wang's voice.

"You two are together?" the president asked in a low voice.

“Yes.” Jiang Shu brought the phone back to her ear.

"She doesn't know about this?"

“I know,” Jiang Shu replied, “but she definitely knows it’s a rumor.”

He paused, then added somewhat irritably, "Would she be the kind of person who wouldn't trust me when it really matters?"

Snow King roughly guessed what the two were talking about.

This made her extremely embarrassed.

How could he be the one defending himself in front of his father? It should be the other way around...

And even though I had my own doubts...

Thinking of this, she lowered her head gently in shame.

There was silence on the other end of the phone.

The president knew that Jiang Shu was mocking him for not being as discerning as Xue Wang in distinguishing right from wrong.

He sighed deeply and did not refute.

He was just a little surprised.

So Xiaoxue wasn't affected after all?

It's really rare. That child always cares a lot about what others think. Although he is very firm on important matters, he is easily swayed on some trivial matters.

Sometimes, a single word, a single expression from someone else can make her worry that she has done something wrong, causing her to doubt her abilities and her choices.

But unexpectedly this time...

The president felt relieved.

Although I'm very unwilling... there's nothing I can do about it now...

Soon, Jiang Shu heard him change his tone and say lightly, "Don't worry, I was just joking with you. Don't worry, I've already found out, and someone will help you debunk the rumors soon. These rumors will dissipate quickly."

"..." Jiang Shu asked with a hint of doubt, "Really? You really checked?"

"Of course, whether it's your marital history, medical examination report, your general itinerary, or even hotel check-in records, these things are not too difficult to find out."

"hiss..."

Jiang Shu was genuinely surprised this time.