Liusu and Dog instantly perked up, their eyes brightening several shades.
Dog glanced at Liusu. Seeing her eager expression, he felt too powerless to mock her. "If she discovered Xi Yue and Minghe, wouldn't that mean she discovered us too? How can you still watch like nothing happened?"
Liusu replied offhandedly, "Aren't you acting like nothing happened too?"
Dog froze. After staring blankly for a long while, he trembled as he pointed at his own nose, horror on his face. "I-I'm just a dog. Qin Yi wouldn't even spare a dog?"
"Huh?" Liusu came back to herself and slapped him hard enough to stagger. "In your dreams."
Dog: "..."
Didn't you see the terror on my face? Why did it look like wishful thinking to you...
Sure enough, mutual understanding between dogs and humans was far too difficult...
Forget it. Watch the show—this was the one thing they could understand together.
Xi Yue True Person had suffered such blatant provocation, as though she were being treated like a soft persimmon. Would she fly into a rage?
Xi Yue did not fly into a rage.
She even knew why Ju Yunxiu had singled her out.
That business of master and disciple serving the same man... Ju Yunxiu had looked as though she wanted to say something outside earlier, but the occasion had been wrong, so she had forcibly held it back. Now that they were on her own turf, entertaining "distant guests," Ju Yunxiu could no longer restrain herself.
Xi Yue did not mind. It was perfectly normal for others to mutter about such matters in their hearts. Asking a few questions outright still counted as being straightforward; hiding it inside and stabbing people in the spine was what lacked all meaning. She had even settled her own pile of old-fashioned