Reborn with Consumption System

Chapter 979: Chapter 397: No Need for Me to Step In

Han Lie and Tang Xintian both had their hairs standing on end. They immediately turned their heads and exchanged a look.

At the same time, Sister Da Tang gave the inside of Han Lie’s arm a vicious pinch, and Han Lie lightly bumped Sister Da Tang with his elbow...

Their reactions were almost exactly the same.

But who knew if their secret signals were even on the same frequency; anyway, the alarm had been pulled.

Under the gloating "let’s see how you die" looks from Kidney-Deficiency Boy and the others, Brother Lie pulled his arm out from where it was still wedged in Tang Xintian’s embrace and "surprisedly" turned his head.

"Baby, why are you only here now?"

After calling out all intimate and sweet, he took a step back, and his Oscar-level acting skills burst out naturally, looking exactly like "I’ve been waiting for you forever."

Yep, our Brother Lie knows how to throw people a bone; his quick wit deserves a full score.

The outer circle of people who had no idea what was going on all thought Han Lie and Pan Ge had arranged to meet here long ago, just hadn’t been able to come together because of something.

Tang Xintian silently gave Dog Lie a thumbs-up.

Then, just as Best Actor Lie was about to lift his paw to hold Pan Ge’s little hand, he saw a pretty face smiling even more dazzlingly than usual.

Oh crap, melon skin!

Little Bottom Pan was really mad!

People might call the wrong name, but nicknames never miss.

"Black-bellied White Lotus" was the dark nickname Xi Luting gave her, and it really nailed her true personality.

Pan Ge was a girl with a huge goddess persona. Normally she appeared to the outside world as quiet and ladylike, her smiles shallow and faint, warm yet with a bit of distance.

Except when she was alone with Han Lie, she almost never laughed out loud; just curling her lips was already "very happy."

But when she put on that flawless Li Yi smile, the more teeth she showed, the more pissed off she was inside.

One, two, three, four, five, six...

Good lord!

That whole top row of neat white little teeth—six were showing!

Black-bellied White Lotus Furious Pan completely ignored Han Lie. Her small hand stayed in her jeans pocket as she looked straight at Tang Xintian first thing.

Her smile was perfectly appropriate. She lightly parted her shell-like teeth and called out...

"Sister?"

Obvious questioning tone, ending rising up.

Sister Da Tang had been caught on the spot; her momentum instantly crashed to rock bottom. Her smile went dry, and her voice was weak as hell.

"Wow! Little Sister Pan Ge, you’re even prettier than I imagined, eh..."

Totally not Tang Xintian’s usual style; anyone with a brain could see what was going on.

But this was Pan Ge’s first time interacting with Tang Xintian. Smiling with narrowed eyes, she carefully sized the other woman up.

And the more she looked, the angrier she got.

Tang Xintian and Pan Ge were two different kinds of beauty, but definitely on the same level.

Assuming normal styling, the two were neck and neck, each with her own strengths, like plum blossoms in winter and orchids in spring.

But today...

Tang Xintian was wearing a pink trendy jacket, a little tank top underneath, a long skirt on the bottom, and her makeup and hairstyle were tailor-made. The impact value was dialed up to explosive.

Meanwhile, Pan Ge had just come back from the villa where she’d been accompanying Empress Zhao to supervise wall demolition. She wasn’t exactly blackened with dust or anything that dramatic, but she was barefaced and dressed like an ordinary college girl...

In comparison, the effect was downright brutal.

So Pan Ge’s smile only grew brighter. "No, no, you’re the beautiful one, Tian Tian-jie... Mm, you and my boyfriend really match today, a talented man and a beautiful woman... Oh right, he didn’t disappoint you, did he?"

What kind of passive-aggressive crap was that!

Tang Xintian, after all, had a very strong psyche. The fear of being caught on the spot faded quickly, and at those words her brows twitched slightly as a bit of temper rose.

What are you so proud of?

We’re just mutually taking bullets for each other. You can use him, but I can’t?

"No, no, Lie Lie is my little brother. We’re family—what’s there to be disappointed or not disappointed about? Just like you and Little Xi, right?

No need to act so distant, making it sound like you’re business partners or something...

I’ve always known about you two; it’s just a pity I never found a chance to give you my blessings in person. Today is really such a coincidence~~~"

The rhythm + tone + meaningful gaze—Sister Da Tang really cranked the hinting up to max.

I know your little secret, so you’d better behave and stop making a scene!

She thought Pan Ge would get it, and naturally soften.

Instead, Pan Ge’s smile completely froze.

Pan Ge’s pupils shrank to pinpoints, sharp as knives, stabbing hard into Han Lie’s face.

You son of a bitch!

How dare you?!

Huh?!

That thing between the three of us and that other thing, you actually told an outsider?!

Showing off how awesome you are, is that it?!

Fvck!

Pan Ge practically exploded on the spot.

Originally, she’d just wanted to lightly knock these cheating dogs around a bit, keep some face, and not let outsiders laugh at her.

As for Han Lie cheating on her... she really didn’t want to deal with it, and couldn’t.

Every time she was the first to raise the white flag, and adding in Xi Luting didn’t raise their combat power by much either. The bastard asking for it every two days already had her wanting to die; what was there to "manage"?

For a woman with a cleanliness fetish in relationships, a boyfriend cheating is a huge deal.

But in reality, most women, faced with someone like Han Lie, simply cannot hold onto that kind of "cleanliness."

He lets you cry it out when you’re mad, then coaxes you with a few sweet words, throws money around on gifts, and after repeating this a few times, "tacit acceptance" is basically inevitable.

Status, power, money, vanity, being pleasured to the point of seeing stars...

Dog Lie can practically fulfill every life experience women dream of. Aside from a very few dumb girls, who would bear to fight him for real?

Anyway, Pan Ge had long since thought it through—so long as he marries me, and doesn’t slap me in the face right in front of me, as for the small stuff, this princess is already prepared to turn a blind eye.