"Professor Fu, do you think I need to talk to my mother?"
The rumors brought by Liu Shuang were certainly astonishing.
After finishing her account, she gave him a little time to think before quietly asking what Fu Qian thought.
Even as she spoke, she kept looking into the distance and didn't turn to face him.
In fact, she had been distracted throughout their walk, a stark contrast to her usual sharpness.
So if he thought it necessary, would she still go and ask?
With a quiet sigh, Fu Qian understood her reaction completely.
Ji Liushuang hadn't asked because she'd misunderstood the relationship between him and Ji Xue.
On the contrary, with things suddenly taking such an unexpected turn, she was clever enough to see the logic clearly.
In this situation, a misunderstanding that had already been unlikely would have been dispelled once and for all.
That particular item seemed unusual to Ji Xue in every way.
And if he really had some special relationship with her, why would he suddenly ask Ji Liushuang to find the item, without ever having mentioned it before?
That only showed that he knew little about what had happened back then and had no reason to avoid the subject.
Of course, the time he'd bluffed Ji Liushuang earlier had already become false history when the mission started over.
And although the arrangement involving the corrupted Sword Heart had created a certain psychological suggestion,
after spending this time together and getting to know her superior better, Student Liushuang should have already formed some vague conclusions subconsciously. This had simply confirmed them further.
She just needed a little time to adjust.
"No need. I believe that thing isn't in your mother's hands anymore, right?"
People had to learn to grow up. Especially on the path of