Calculating Human Nature by Hand, Herding Pigs with a Stick; Qingyuan's Wild Card, Cao Erzhu

"Do you know Xu Xiaoshou?"

Cao Erzhu absolutely dared not say those words aloud.

His quota for talking to strangers had already been completely exceeded today. How could he expose such important information again? No matter how foolish Cao Erzhu was, he knew that once he asked that question, the enemy would gain a great deal of information about him.

For example, he knew Xu Xiaoshou, though he did not actually know him...

For example, it was actually August who knew Xu Xiaoshou, but who was August? The girl across from him probably did not know either...

Uh, none of that seemed important?

It really was not important!

What mattered was that this witch could use special "patterns." She was the sort of person Father had said was very clever.

What she could think of would definitely be far more than what he could.

The more he said, the more mistakes he would make. Say nothing, make no mistakes.

After springing to his feet in alarm, Cao Erzhu condensed a thousand words into one word that he believed was imposing and majestic: "Get lost."

There was something wrong with him... Yu Zhiwen felt that her conclusion could not be mistaken.

But just as she was about to speak again, the big man opposite her abruptly became exceedingly imposing and added:

"Or die."

His voice was still muffled and booming.

Though his aura was powerful, it did not truly match the domineering force of those words. He even had the incongruous air of a child secretly wearing an adult's clothes.

Yu Zhiwen's Star Pupils shifted, yet she detected not the slightest danger from Splendor.

In other words, this person still did not have the least bit of killing intent toward her.

—A verbal threat? "I know Xu Xiaoshou. He is my