Ye Xiwen did not say much and walked straight in. Though he found it somewhat strange, he did not think much of it. If Yao Qian had truly clashed with the Shadowfang Poison Crocodile Clan for his sake, that would have been absurd, completely against common sense!
He did not even know her, nor was he so devastatingly handsome that she had fallen for him at first sight.
Ye Xiwen entered the Yangzhu Auction House with the Wang family group when Wang Mengyu's voice suddenly came from behind him.
"I heard Fairy Yao likes Jian Wushuang very much!"
That was all she said. Her face remained calm, as though she had said nothing at all.
Ye Xiwen suddenly understood. So that was it—she loved the house and its crow. Jian Wushuang had stepped in to protect him earlier for some unknown reason, and that was why Yao Qian had spoken up to help Ye Xiwen now.
Yet this chain of events left Ye Xiwen feeling rather helpless, seized by a deep sense of powerlessness. The Crocodile Crown Prince suspected him of being connected to E'Xiangtian's death. He said he would kill him, and so he would kill him. There was no reason for it, just like crushing an ant beneath one's foot. Did that require a reason?
Perhaps it had been crushed by accident. Perhaps it had been crushed simply because it was displeasing to the eye. A mere suspicion was enough to strike!
And Jian Wushuang had helped him simply because he wanted to. There seemed to be no convincing reason either. Perhaps he simply found Ye Xiwen pleasing to the eye, or perhaps he found the Crocodile Crown Prince displeasing. That was all.
Yao Qian had also helped him merely because of Jian Wushuang!
All of this gave