Heaven's Will was hard to defy, and the human heart impossible to fathom.
Le Yu always fell again in the same place where he had fallen before. Back in Dongyang, he thought he had seen through the mediocre carnivores of the Silver Blood Society and the fallen people who needed salvation. And now, he thought he had seen through Ming Shuiyun.
The former had repaid him with blades and raging fire; the latter, with silence and resolve.
In truth, Le Yu could not even grasp his own heart, much less anyone else's.
Ming Shuiyun was merely an inexperienced young girl, not a foolish child. Humans were highly sensitive to social distance. When Le Yu deliberately distanced himself from her, she naturally felt as though she had offered a warm cheek to a cold butt. Then Le Yu took it for granted that she would despise him.
Perhaps Qin Leyin's appearance truly made it impossible to stay angry at him after seeing him. Perhaps Ming Shuiyun realized she could only play the game using Qin Leyin as her starting character. Perhaps his sarcastic remarks were simply too effective... Or perhaps Ming Shuiyun had never been willing to believe from the start that Qin Leyin was heartless.
The more unwavering Ming Shuiyun was now, the more astonishing their first meeting had been.
Someone had once pulled her out of an abyss ten thousand zhang deep in a single, thunderous flash. Even if the person reaching out to her had been a vampiric demon with darkness on his back, she would still have grasped his hand without hesitation.
Besides, she still had an ace up her sleeve. Even though Le Yu possessed the Ice-Blood Physique and was immune to the mental influence of Radiance, they were still nominally master and servant, Sword Master