A flurry of thoughts raced through Jiang Lan's mind. He was truly shocked and shaken. 'Emperor Xia probably isn't testing me,' he thought. 'This must be real.'
After all, in the original plot, Jiang Ruxian was meant to appear much later, but the memories he had implanted for the Liu Clan contained no information about Jiang Ruxian still being alive.
'Even if Emperor Xia wanted to test me, she wouldn't be foolish enough to use someone who was supposed to be dead.'
In other words, things had taken an unexpected turn.
"What have you learned?" Jiang Lan quickly composed himself and asked calmly.
Jiang Ruxian's early appearance had completely disrupted all his plans.
With his current strength, he was no match for Jiang Ruxian. In the original plot, she was already invincible from the moment she appeared.
Even the overpowered original protagonist, Lin Fan, was like a mouse before a cat when he encountered her, forced to flee in disgrace.
