There was no mirror in front of Jiang Xiao, but he knew that his face would not look very good now.

But even facing his stinky face, Zi Yan's expression was still calm, as if he could not notice Jiang Xiao's displeasure at all. He smiled slightly, and then his small nose wings twitched slightly, and a hint of surprise appeared: "Zhuhe 21 years? Mr. Jiang is really not bullying me, and the wine in the house is really good." As he said that, regardless of whether Jiang Xiao was still standing in front of the door, he did not give an invitation to enter, and gently slid past him and walked towards the living room. He didn't know whether his towering chest was intentional or unintentional, gently rubbed Jiang Xiao's body, bringing a gust of fragrance.

If it were a daily routine, other women would have acted like this towards Jiang Xiao, it would have been almost as obvious as it could be. But Zi Yan, the woman... was definitely not that simple.

Jiang Xiao slowly closed his eyes and heard the crisp sound of high heels behind him stepping on the floor, towards the wine cabinet, and Zi Yan's voice came from behind: "I'm sorry, I'm not used to taking off shoes at other people's houses. But I think Mr. Jiang wouldn't mind, right?"

Jiang Xiao's face suddenly disappeared. When he opened his eyes again, he had already changed into a calm smile, slowly closed the door, turned around and walked towards the living room.

Zi Yan stood in front of the wine cabinet and had already picked out the bottle of bamboo crane that Jiang Xiao had just poured. He turned his fingers gently, opened the bottle cap, and was about to pour it into an empty cup, but Jiang Xiao walked to his side and reached out to gently block the bottleneck of the wine.

"What? Mr. Jiang isn't that stingy enough to even be stingy with a glass of wine, right?" Zi Yan raised her eyebrows and glanced at Jiang Xiao with a smile.

"Just a glass of wine, why? But..." Jiang Xiao could no longer find any unpleasantness just now, but a gentlemanly smile: "If you even deprive the honor of pouring wine for a lady, I will be too disappointed. After all, no matter what, this should be the responsibility of my master."

While speaking, Jiang Xiao had already opened the small refrigerator next to the wine cabinet, picked up two pieces of ice with a tweezer, and fell into the cup with a "ding" sound, and then the clear golden wine poured into the cup.

Jiang Xiao handed the wine glass back to Zi Yan, then picked up the glass of wine on the coffee table, sat down on the sofa, raised the glass to Zi Yan, smiled at him, and then took a sip: "Please sit down, the uninvited guest at night, the beautiful lady Zi Yan."

Zi Yan looked at Jiang Xiao's movements with great interest, laughed silently, raised her glass at Jiang Xiao, drank a sip, and sat down on the sofa opposite Jiang Xiao: "Good wine. I am really surprised by Mr. Jiang's gentlemanly demeanor. I wonder if Mr. Jiang is like this for every girl? Or... Is I receiving special treatment?"

Jiang Xiao smiled faintly and did not answer positively: "What I am more interested in is... Does Ms. Ziyan also have the habit of visiting every man in the middle of the night? Or... am I the one who is unique?"

Jiang Xiao’s answer made Zi Yan laugh again: “Mr. Jiang is indeed an interesting person. I haven’t seen such an interesting person for a long time… but I think… the answer you want to know more in your heart now should be… my purpose?”

Jiang Xiao shook the wine glass in his palm and nodded slightly: "Since you have already asked, I probably don't need me to ask again, right?"

His face, which had just smiled lightly, suddenly became serious: "Let's all be more straightforward. Lady who calls herself Ziyan, what do you want from me?"

"What do you want...get...? No." Zi Yan's smile just now gradually faded away, putting the wine glass on the coffee table, and changing it to a serious expression: "At least at the current time node, there is nothing worth my acquisition on you. My purpose is to try to contact you and establish some...connections to ensure that when you need it, you can find me, no matter where you are. That's all."

"When I need it?" Jiang Xiao smiled: "I think what you need is not what I think, right? If that's true, I would be very happy to have such a beautiful lady who is willing to satisfy my needs at any time."

Zi Yan also smiled: "I believe that the need in your mind, Mr. Jiang, is not the meaning you imply. Although I know very well that you cannot be considered a man who is pure and greedy in terms of women, I think that now, with your intelligence and experience, you will no longer have such misunderstandings."

She paused, poked her upper body forward slightly, and her eyes suddenly became sharp: "Mr. Jiang must have never revealed to anyone what the magic you performed was, right? Then...what if I tell you, I know everything? I mean, everything, including what you know, and... you still don't know."

Jiang Xiao lowered his head and looked at the slowly melting ice in the wine glass. His pupils shrank slightly, cleverly avoiding Zi Yan's gaze. When he raised his head, he had recovered his calm smile just now: "Of course. No magician will reveal his magic techniques to others. After all, no one wants to smash his job."

"Mr. Jiang." Zi Yan frowned slightly and shook her head: "I have said that I know more than you know, and even more than you can imagine. So there is no need to continue this meaningless disguise. I am not asking you or testing you, but telling you something you need to know."

Jiang Xiao did not continue to speak, but just looked at Zi Yan quietly and waited for her to continue talking.

"I have asked someone to check your resume." Zi Yan smiled and stretched out her finger and pointed her head: "Jiang Xiao, 24 years old, unmarried, dropped out of college. Four years ago, he started his amateur magic performance when he was still in college. He had never had any performance or study experience before. Three years ago, he dropped out of college and then embarked on the path of a professional magician, and the magic he performed was never completed by anyone. Even in the IMA of the International Magicians Association, some old-school magicians have doubts about your performance, but no one can reversely introduce your performance techniques. Soon, you become famous and have almost become the hottest magician now."

When Zi Yan told the story, Jiang Xiao just sipped the wine in the glass. After she finished speaking, she shrugged her shoulders and refused to comment.

"Of course, those old-school magicians at IMA cannot reversely introduce your performance techniques. Because—" Zi Yan smiled: "You have never used any techniques at all, and what you performed is not magic at all! So... If you look at it from the perspective of IMA, Mr. Jiang Xiao..."

She raised her head, blinked at Jiang Xiao, and smiled hurriedly: "You can be called a liar."

"Oh?" Jiang Xiao smiled faintly: "So, are you here to fight against counterfeiting?"

"No, of course not." Zi Yan shook her head and smiled: "Even if it is really necessary to fight counterfeiting, it is still an IMA business and has nothing to do with me. Besides... how could they judge what you did on the stage like me?"

"So, what did I do?" Jiang Xiao's heart was shocked again. Does the woman in front of him really know... his ability? But there was still no sign of calmness on his face.

"After noticing you, I, and some... companions, have carefully read all the videos circulating on the Internet since your debut. The abilities you can use now are just a little bit of simple momentary movement, and both distance and time are extremely limited - of course, I mean the lower limit deduced from all your performances - and this ability is just a prelude to "awakening". Your abilities are still in a state of ignorance and are not fully opened. And when you really open it, you will understand what a powerful population of 'we' is."

Zi Yan stretched out her fair and slender right hand, swayed gently in front of Jiang Xiao, and smiled and said, "Even if it is used to perform magic, it will be far more amazing than what you can do now."

As he said that, Jiang Xiao watched Zi Yan's right hand change rapidly. Countless tiny white feathers grew on her hands, covering the entire skin surface in an instant. At the same time, the shape of the hand was also twisting and changing.

In just a few seconds, Zi Yan's original right hand disappeared, and replaced it with a white dove!

The white dove flapped its wings twice, tilted its head and stared at Jiang Xiao twice, flew up from Zi Yan's wrist, and then flew twice in the living room, and landed on Jiang Xiao's shoulder.

"this……"

Even no matter how calm Jiang Xiao was, his breathing could not help but become slightly heavier. The weight of his shoulders, the touch of his claws, and the cooing sounds from time to time proved that this was by no means a fool.

Zi Yan just now did not use any of the common cover props in magic performances. Jiang Xiao watched how her right hand turned into the pigeon bit by bit. Now Zi Yan's right hand has disappeared without a trace, only to his wrist, but there is no wound on his skin, only the bare Bai Jie's wrist, as if she was born with one hand.

The pigeon landed on Jiang Xiao's shoulder and did not fly away. Instead, he stopped obediently, stretched out his head and gently combed Jiang Xiao's hair with his sharp bird beak.

"It's just a coincidence. The ability I have happened to be just like you, is also very suitable for performing magic. And... it's also a magic that will never be found." Zi Yan laughed, and did not see any movement. The pigeon flew back again and landed on her wrist. A few seconds later, it turned into her right hand again, as if it had never appeared: "It's just... people in the academy will not do such a move. Hiding themselves deeper is a more beneficial choice for ourselves and the population."

Jiang Xiao keenly captured a word mentioned in her words - the Academy. But he did not ask questions, just waiting for Zi Yan to continue speaking.

While talking, Zi Yan carefully paid attention to Jiang Xiao's expression: "Although you really haven't really learned from a magician, you have been very interested in magic since you were a child, and have also seen many related tutorials and videos - although it is only the most simple and already decrypted kind. With these alone, of course, there is no way to truly learn magic that is enough to perform on stage and shock all audiences, but it is enough to let you understand how to use disguise to wrap your abilities and play the role of a magician."

Jiang Xiao tried hard to calm down his mood: "Continue."

"I have to admit that you have all the talents to be an excellent magician - performance ability, stress resistance, calm mind... If you can get the guidance of a teacher, it's just... these performances don't make any sense in front of me." Zi Yan's eyes wandered on Jiang Xiao's face: "But don't be depressed, that doesn't mean your performance is not good enough, but just because..."

Her eyes suddenly flashed, and her voice changed from the ease just now to solemnity: "It's just because 'we' are the same kind."

"Same kind?" Jiang Xiao smiled: "Biologically speaking, although there are gender differences, we are indeed all humans. The animal world, the Chords, Mammals, Primates, Human Family, Human Genera, Homo Homo sapiens - although I haven't finished college, I still have this kind of biology knowledge in high school."
Chapter completed!