Dian Mu's expression remained unchanged as she looked coldly at Wang Ye, still extending the sword in her hand toward him.
Wang Ye did not take it. He merely looked at Dian Mu with a smile at the corner of his lips.
The scene abruptly fell into a stalemate.
After a long while.
Lei Gong, who had been lying on the ground, suddenly sat up and sighed softly. "Stop acting. This kid saw through it."
Dian Mu came back to her senses, looked at Lei Gong with concern, then walked to his side and helped him up.
Energy surged through Lei Gong's body, and his wounds healed in the blink of an eye.
"I have to say, the affection between you husband and wife is commendable."
"To keep Dian Mu alive, you deliberately pretended to be mad, seeming to betray her at the critical moment and turn against her completely. Then you had Dian Mu kill you, so I might think she still had some value and spare her."
"That was why you suddenly said at the end that you had a heart."
"Even if I had not intended to spare her before, after hearing that, I would probably have had to consider whether to let her live."
Wang Ye looked at Lei Gong and praised him. Then his gaze fell upon Dian Mu. "And this one is clever as well. After realizing your plan, she rationally did not start crying about how you two should die together and waste your painstaking efforts. That was what surprised me the most."
"Maybe I watched too many TV dramas before Eternal Night."
"Normally, people suddenly become stupid at times like this. They shout, 'I'm not leaving! You're my only one! If we die, we die together!' Then they get the man killed,