Was he really that easy to persuade?
One dared to say it, and the other dared to believe it. A horror movie plot had suddenly turned into wholesome family entertainment?
Even Fu Qian could not help but sigh deeply at the abrupt turn of events.
He had to admit, lying there without even needing to move his eyelids and watching the whole show unfold was quite pleasant.
It gave him the relaxed feeling of, "I've fought all my life. Can't I enjoy myself for once?"
Relaxed as he was, though, the act could not be too fake. The harmony between them still felt far too forced.
Neither the candle discoverer from Camera Two nor Xing Fei II, who had frightened people from behind, seemed like particularly naive characters. That only made the exchange feel increasingly strange.
Under normal circumstances, it was almost impossible for such a conversation to reach such an amicable outcome.
Even if they came up with some bizarre setup where the intruder had long admired Xing Fei and would never do anything to harm her, it would still be difficult to make Xing Fei believe him.
Yet that seemed to be exactly what had happened...
Even as Camera Two continued rotating its view and walked step by step behind Xing Fei before leaving first, there was no further arguing or fighting.
Xing Fei seemed unusually confident in the other party's promise—but why?
As the saying went, every anomaly was a corner of the causal chain exposed.
As an academic, Fu Qian was not displeased at that moment. On the contrary, his curiosity had been piqued.
He did not merely raise a question; an answer came to him at the same time—
If all the known factors combined still seemed insufficient to explain it, did that not prove