"Just one sentence."
Li Tianming pursed his lips, then said gravely, "Before you take these five drops of colored crystal back, if you intend to hand them over to the Maiden Rites Palace, you'd better make sure whose hands the five drops you gave them before are in now."
The Seventeenth Prince froze. "Isn't that nonsense? Of course they're in Baisha's hands. Something that important is protected by all ten of them together—who could possibly snatch it away? Besides, nobody else even knows those colored crystals exist."
"Don't worry about that. You only need to confirm whether those five drops of colored crystal are still there. If you can promise me that, I'll give them to you," Li Tianming said.
"...Fine!" The Seventeenth Prince committed those words to memory and nodded heavily.
At this point, he had yet to receive the remaining five drops of colored crystal, so he still regarded Li Tianming with suspicion. Then, when Li Tianming decisively placed the remaining five drops in his palm and he confirmed they were genuine, he looked at Li Tianming with entirely different eyes.
"Didn't you insist on it to the bitter end at first? Why did you suddenly change your mind?" The Seventeenth Prince found it unbelievable. He knew Li Tianming was not afraid of him at all.
"Couldn't help it. Your infatuation moved me," Li Tianming said.
"Cut the crap! There must be something in it for you," the Seventeenth Prince said suspiciously.
"Other than knowing a few secrets, what benefit do you have that could possibly tempt me?" Li Tianming asked.
That left the Seventeenth Prince stunned for a moment. Then, deeply embarrassed, he lowered his head to look at the genuine colored crystals in his hand before looking at Li Tianming again. At last, he gritted his