Now Jiang Lai acts completely according to her own temperament. She doesn't give face to anyone, and Little Buding suspects she is deliberately going against him by relying on the temperament of the original owner.
"Enough with the nonsense. Talk about something serious. How do you plan to deal with the mermaids? They clearly respond to kindness rather than force. How can you possibly get their secrets by tormenting them all the time?"
"I can. Once tormented, they'll comply."
As she spoke, Jiang Lai got up and walked into the monitoring room, watching the surveillance playback from last night. The section where Ren Yan sneaked in had all turned into fuzzy snowflake images, evidently interfered with by the mermaids.
"I knew you'd want to know. Now you realize you need me, don't you?"
Saying this, Little Buding directly helped her restore the parts of last night's footage that were blocked, with a slightly frivolous and arrogant tone.
