It looked like her dog training days with the young man as her dog and she as a master were a complete success.
The two were entangled on the dance floor, seemingly conversing in a normal manner under the sparkling and glistening lights of the chandeliers above their heads. But in fact, only the two protagonists knew what they were talking about.
The undercurrents appeared to have gone turbulent behind the scenes.
...
Time passed. It was later in the night, and the banquet was over.
With the exception of a few encounters with Yue Ran, Cheng Ying spent the majority of his time with the patriarch of the Cheng family in order to network with more influential people of high standing. In the end, after exerting quite an effort, the young man managed to break free from the grasp of the old man and insisted on sending Yue Ran back home.
