Not believing someone required a reason, especially when it came to Liu Shuang, who had just answered the question.
As a clearly established member of the academy, just like Professor Lisha, she was obviously more likely than the others to have crossed paths with him in the character setup.
In other words, even if she was here only because of him, with no prior plan to rescue him or silence him, Liu Shuang should have had a closer relationship with him than the others.
Under those circumstances, her obvious distrust of what he said struck Fu Qian as abnormal.
So why didn't she believe him? Even though the speaker's past record was there for all to see—because he had told her not to believe him.
The first two questions were ones Fu Qian had planned to ask long ago. As for why he'd asked the third, that had been a spur-of-the-moment decision based on the answers he'd received.
Liu Shuang's answer in particular had further reinforced a conclusion he'd reached earlier.
Since the social ties between these people seemed to have been forcibly erased, it was reasonable to assume they were here because of their bonds with Professor Fu.
But could those bonds be more specific than he'd imagined? For instance, could all of them have made some kind of promise to Professor Fu, or even had a conversation with him that they remembered?
And could that be why the ladies believed Professor Fu would never go to the Holy See?
Yes, it was really that simple.
When he saw how readily Liu Shuang answered, that was Fu Qian's first thought.
No one was more likely to deny what they'd said than the person who'd said it. The simplest explanation was that a deeply ingrained line in Liu Shuang's