Phoenix’s face turned purple instantly, and her fists clenched tightly.

Nianyang continued to provoke her, "What a pity, the beautiful mentor doesn’t fancy you. You don’t have the looks of my grandaunt. Even if you exert all your effort to plaster a human skin on your face, you can never hide your ugliness..."

"You bitch, shut the hell up!" Phoenix roared in rage, Nianyang’s words seemed to remind her of some unpleasant memory, twisting her once delicate face, Nianyang could even see the ugly visage beneath the wrinkled human skin.

If an average person saw this, they’d probably be scared half to death.

Yet Nianyang watched Phoenix’s face with keen interest, sighing sympathetically, "Clearly you’re already an old woman, yet you strive to appear youthful, if you don’t have the beauty mentor’s skills, then don’t dream of retaining your youth..."

"I told you to shut up!" Phoenix was so angry that the veins on her forehead protruded, her mouth forming a sharp and venomous smile,

"Not bad, even at this point, you’re still so sharp-tongued, just like that bitch Chu Lan, I truly despise this side of you!"

"What you hate, is what you can never obtain, claiming it’s hatred, but isn’t it just because you can’t have it."

Even at her lowest, Nianyang maintained a calm demeanor, as if nothing could affect her.

But Phoenix, the one supposedly in control, was nearly livid with rage as she reached out to strangle Nianyang’s neck, sneering, "Don’t think I don’t know, you’re deliberately provoking me, trying to buy time for your little lover to rescue you. Let me tell you, stop dreaming. No one can find this place, and your little lover? Right now, he’s probably indulging in another woman’s embrace. You should just give up."

Nianyang’s face turned slightly pale, pressing her lips together in silence, Phoenix’s words reminded her uncontrollably of the scene she saw yesterday, which was truly heart-wrenching.

But Phoenix was wrong about one thing, she never even considered that Li Tingyan would come to rescue her.

That man, he probably knows nothing now, still tangled with Yin Tang, while she has already completely lost hope in him, and she has no intentions to return alive this time.

Phoenix saw Nianyang’s silence, knowing she had hit Nianyang’s sore spot, and got excited.

She displayed a wicked witch-like smile from fairy tales, baring her teeth as she approached Nianyang, "Why aren’t you talking? Aren’t you good with verbal sparring? Are you heartbroken because your man betrayed you? You pity me, but how much better are you? Betrayed by the man you love, pitifully cast out, you truly are a failure. I’m embarrassed for you."

Nianyang bit her lip, her gaze coldly meeting Phoenix’s narrow, sinister eyes, casually giving a light smile, "So what? At least my man and I used to love each other passionately. We may not have a future, but at that time, we truly and solely loved one another. But you, you love in vain, the one you love never looked at you. In the eyes of the man you love, you are just a filthy pest. Who between us is truly more pitiful?"

"Bitch!"

Phoenix, overwhelmed with anger, kicked the chair, causing Nianyang to fall to the ground with it, dazing her with pain, yet not a sound escaped her lips.