After a long while, Yuwen Tuo finally calmed down. He took a deep breath, but the shock in his heart refused to subside.
"Ning Ke, you're a demon? And the Demon Lord's daughter?" Yuwen Tuo stared at Ning Ke. Even though she had tacitly admitted her identity, he still wanted to hear the answer from her lips once more.
Was Ning Ke truly a demon? Was she the Demon Lord's daughter?
"Yes."
Ning Ke nodded slightly, admitting it. She was a demon, the Demon Lord's daughter. That was a fact no one could change.
"I..."
Having received her answer, the shock in Yuwen Tuo's heart was beyond words.
He was shocked to the extreme.
After a long time, Yuwen Tuo had no choice but to accept this fact. Thinking back on his encounter with Ning Ke, he felt that it was very likely all a conspiracy.
Yuwen Tuo said, "Ning Ke, was our meeting a conspiracy from beginning to end?" Yuwen Tuo was deeply unwilling to admit that his meeting with Ning Ke had been a conspiracy, something planned long ago.
But now that he thought about it, wasn't it exactly that? A demon, the Demon Lord's daughter, appearing in the Human Realm and getting robbed by a few bandits? How could that be possible? His act of playing the hero and saving the beauty had been a conspiracy, through and through. Yuwen Tuo had never suspected that their meeting had been arranged beforehand, that it was a conspiracy—until Ning Ke's identity was exposed.
She was a demon.
The Demon Lord's daughter.
"Yes."
Now that her identity had been exposed, Ning Ke knew very clearly that many things would come to light along with it, such as her meeting with Yuwen Tuo.
Ning Ke admitted that her meeting with Yuwen