Chapter 111: 111 I might be the daughter of Jimo Xiao_1
Hua Zhuo’s pupils dilated; she was completely unable to comprehend the current situation.
As an S Rank Spirit Card Master, she was actually suppressed by an A-Level Spirit Card Master in terms of spiritual power!
Little did she know that Wen Jiang’s spiritual power was incomparably strong and unmatched. However, the issue was that she relied on spiritual energy to create and use Spirit Cards, so spiritual power was not always important to her, unlike these other Spirit Card Masters who needed spiritual power to suppress others.
Coming across someone as unreasonable as Wen Jiang, it was natural that trouble would arise.
And at the moment Hua Zhuo felt the urge to control Wen Jiang, the Cang Xing Die in her mind also began to stir.
The surrounding magnetic field became chaotic. The environment of Imperial City couldn’t withstand the appearance of an SSR Rank Card Spirit, causing Hua Zhuo to subconsciously try to suppress the Cang Xing Die.
She was suppressed by Wen Jiang, and a choking sensation rose in her throat. Seemingly perceiving her suffering, Wen Jiang sat back down, and the spiritual power pressing down on Hua Zhuo suddenly disappeared.
A trace of shock flickered deep in Hua Zhuo’s eyes as she looked at Wen Jiang. "You... what rank are you exactly?"
She was doubting Wen Jiang’s rank.
"A-Level."
It’s just different from the A-Level you all understand.
Wen Jiang smiled faintly. "I just asked if anyone similar existed. I didn’t expect you to get so agitated."
"..."
Hua Zhuo didn’t know what to say.
The girl before her was starting to make her wary.
She still spoke up, "With such strength, why would you want to join Mount Flower?"
Hua Zhuo recalled taking over the Jimo Family’s affairs. The situation was, in fact, far more severe behind the scenes than what was publicly known. Regardless of how vigorously the Jimo Family’s enterprises developed, their lack of nobility support was an overt fact.
All decline would eventually be guided by time.
With Song Ji eagerly watching everything, Hua Zhuo’s only means now was to safeguard the Mount Flower Association.
She brought back Du Zhaiyue and Sheng Hongying from abroad to partner up, and even tolerated the Song Family twins’ entry into Mount Flower, all for the sake of achieving good results in the competition.
Wen Jiang was such a person that, even if she was A-Level, if she were just like *that woman*, she would bring great trouble to Mount Flower.
Hence, why Mount Flower?
The shock and disbelief in Hua Zhuo’s eyes faded, leaving only a trace of numb fatigue.
"Because the first to find me was Mount Flower," Wen Jiang lifted her chin slightly, her tone filled with a matter-of-fact, cheeky smile. "It wasn’t me who sought them out."
No matter what Hua Zhuo was afraid of, her recent act had offended Wen Jiang. Considering the other party was the Jimo Family’s manager, she would let it slide this time, but she also intended to convey an ambiguous message to make her opponent somewhat uneasy.
It wasn’t her who wanted to find Mount Flower; Mount Flower had actively sought her out.
Hua Zhuo fell silent.
She could only think of one term: karmic entanglement.
Her fingers clutched tightly onto the wheelchair armrests, betraying a hint of her anxiety.
Ironically, as an S Rank Spirit Card Master who prided herself on being free of danger, she didn’t have a single bodyguard by her side at the moment.
Hua Zhuo closed her eyes briefly, gathered all her emotions, and still asked, "What is your purpose? What do you want to gain from Mount Flower?"
Wen Jiang stood up abruptly. "You ask a very good question. Beating around the bush is pointless with you. I just want to know, what is your relationship with the Jimo Family, and what is your relationship with General Jimo Xiao?"
To be able to take over the management of the Jimo Family after the demise of Jimo Xiao, despite being an outsider by surname, her relationship with Jimo Xiao mustn’t be simple.
There was no public information about these matters, and Wen Jiang couldn’t accurately deduce her relationship with Jimo Xiao.
Hua Zhuo didn’t expect her to suddenly bring this up. After a moment of silence, she said, "Jimo Xiao was my senior brother."
She had trained in the military alongside Jimo Xiao under the guidance of the same master, so he was her senior brother. Their bond was very strong, not romantic, but akin to family. That was why she was willing to protect everything for the Jimo Family.
The atmosphere suddenly fell silent.
Hua Zhuo couldn’t figure out the meaning behind Wen Jiang’s question. After a long while, she heard Wen Jiang slowly say, "General Jimo Xiao once had a daughter who went missing, didn’t he?"
Hearing her mention this, Hua Zhuo couldn’t help but feel surprised. Thinking of the missing child, she subconsciously looked towards Wen Jiang.
She had some unpleasant suspicions in her heart.
Unexpectedly, the next second, Wen Jiang slowly turned around, her lips curving into a smile. "It seems I am General Jimo Xiao’s missing daughter."
"..."
"PFFT!" Zero Egg exploded. "No way, Host, you just blurted it out like that? Huh? We don’t have any evidence!"
Moreover, it had imagined returning to the Jimo Family would be fraught with difficulty. Why was the Host revealing her trump card so easily? What if Hua Zhuo really thought there was something wrong with her and wanted to get rid of her?
"I can’t find a reason to conceal it, especially since my goal is the Heritage Card of the Jimo Family."
Wen Jiang’s objective had always been very clear. Previously, she had no way to reach the higher-ups. Now that Hua Zhuo had come to her on her own initiative, and it was evident that the other party harbored suspicions about her, the problems Wen Jiang had demonstrated were already numerous enough. Rather than let someone like Hua Zhuo continue to ponder and suspect, it was better to lay all her cards on the table.
"You—"
Hua Zhuo was utterly stunned by the series of revelations today.
She instinctively looked at Wen Jiang’s face. Perhaps because Wen Jiang was from another world—though this body’s face was identical to her original one—the subtle changes in temperament made a huge difference. As she became more like her self from her previous world, it actually diluted the points of resemblance to the Jimo Family.
At that moment, Hua Zhuo felt that Wen Jiang seemed to resemble her late senior brother’s wife, but she couldn’t be sure.
After a long while, Hua Zhuo muttered, "Impersonating nobility is illegal."
Wen Jiang raised her elegant, fine eyebrows, a hint of playfulness in her expression. "It’s just a matter of genetic verification. I’m sure you have your ways. I’m only voicing a suspicion. I appeared in the slums nineteen years ago; an ordinary child wouldn’t have survived that."
Besides, the task of obtaining the Jimo Family’s Heritage Card didn’t seem like something the System would assign if it were just randomly malfunctioning.
Hua Zhuo had once imagined what it would be like if her senior brother’s child was still alive. But she hadn’t expected the arrival to be somewhat... rash.
Wen Jiang herself didn’t seem certain. So why was she suddenly so suspicious? Had she encountered something?
Hua Zhuo could see there were issues, but if Wen Jiang truly was the child of the Jimo Family, this matter would be of great significance to them.
The Jimo Family would have an heir, albeit one who arrived under very strange circumstances.
No, she couldn’t be certain yet.
Because of her suspicions that this child was connected to *that woman*, Hua Zhuo really couldn’t harbor any positive feelings. She gripped the armrests of her wheelchair tighter and said, "Come with me to the hospital."
Wen Jiang nodded readily.
"Okay."