At this point, Su Ru seemed to have thrown all caution to the wind, and her honest voice entered his ears.
"Why?"
Lin Xuan was greatly surprised. He asked himself whether he had treated her poorly, and if she had not been forced, why would this woman have gone to such painstaking lengths to scheme against him?
"Treat me well?"
When Su Ru heard those words, she seemed to be provoked. Her voice lost its usual quiet gentleness and filled with rage and shrillness, like venomous resentment suppressed again and again suddenly bursting forth. "You still have the nerve to say that? In what way did you treat me well? Back then, your meridians were all crippled and every bone in your body had been reduced to powder. If I hadn't saved you, you would have been fed to the demonic beasts long ago. How could you have your glorious circumstances today?"
"Is that so?"
Lin Xuan's noncommittal voice entered her ears, and he did not refute it. "So what? You did indeed save me, but when have I ever mistreated the few of you? Medicinal pills and cultivation methods, Spirit Tools and treasures—did I give too few of them?"
"Pah!"
Unexpectedly, Su Ru merely showed disdain. Perhaps because they had already torn away all pretense and there was no room left to maneuver, she appeared utterly unrestrained.
"That was nothing more than buying favor. What is there to cherish? If the person I saved had been an ordinary disciple and he could do that much, I would be extremely grateful. But these medicinal pills and cultivation methods, Spirit Tools and treasures—what do they amount to for you, Great Elder Lin? Calling them a single hair from nine oxen wouldn't be wrong."
"People say that for the kindness of a