Huo Yushen did not remind her as he had before that she could not say such things. He merely said, "I didn't think it through. Let's call it a temporary secret base."
Xia Chujian gave Huo Yushen a strange look and said, "Marshal Huo, you've become quite easygoing these days. What's put you in such a good mood?"
Ever since she had killed Qiu Zining in front of Huo Yushen last time, Xia Chujian had stopped addressing him as "you" in the honorific form.
Only when she was upset and being sarcastic would she use the honorific again.
Huo Yushen had long noticed this change, but he had said nothing.
Deep down, he felt that being addressed as "you" was better than the honorific.
"You" implied equality and closeness.
The honorific, on the other hand, drew a line between intimacy and distance.
Seeing her speak this way, Huo Yushen lowered his eyes in thought and roughly understood what she meant.
When he had first met Xia Chujian, he truly had not regarded her any differently from anyone else.
But neither had he looked down on her.
He simply disliked socializing. Aside from work matters, he would not speak unless he had to.
Who would have thought that his entanglement with this girl would grow deeper and deeper? Without realizing it, his cold, stern, ruthless, taciturn nature had melted away before her.
Now, hearing that long-unheard honorific, Huo Yushen found it deeply strange.
He said mildly, "...I didn't mean anything else by it. I just felt that a small asteroid probably wouldn't satisfy you."
Xia Chujian: "..."
Even she herself might not have been aware of such thoughts.
Most of the time, she simply did whatever she instinctively wanted to do.
For example, taking over that small asteroid and planning to