Huh?!
Shi Tiexin froze.
No, no, wait! That wasn't what I meant to say!
That wasn't the word I was thinking of! How did I just blurt out what was in my heart?!
Within the Martial Heart Zen Lotus, Tiexin Shi slapped his face with a smack. "Bro! I'm begging you, bro! You're wearing my face right now! You can pat your ass and leave, but I still have to spend the rest of my life here! As a high-ranking official in the police system, I can't—at the very least, I shouldn't—die of social embarrassment to this extent, right?!"
Just as Shi Tiexin was about to explain, his entire body stiffened in the next instant. He felt an incomparably sharp, bone-piercing gaze nail him in place. Ling Xingjian stared at him with utterly sinister eyes, sending Shi Tiexin's Gaze Value soaring step by step until it burst past the limit in the blink of an eye. Amid the rapidly rising buffs, Shi Tiexin felt thorns at his back, cold sweat covering his body.
I'm dead, I'm dead, I'm dead!
The woman before him covered her mouth and giggled, trembling like a flower branch in the wind, her curves heaving. "Who would have thought Your Excellency was such an open and forthright monk who had broken his vows? You're a thousand, ten thousand times better than those hypocritical wastes who hide and cover things up. This humble woman truly admires you so much."
"Those who have left the household do not speak falsehoods. This humble monk has always been a gentleman with an open heart, bright within; there is nothing I cannot say before others." Shi Tiexin answered smoothly on the surface, but inside, he was already panicking badly.
Using his mind arts, he quickly reviewed his recent behavior and discovered