"Playing dumb?" Dao Wushuang paused with his cup halfway to his lips. "Do I look like the kind of person who'd do that?"
"Don't you?" Hua Yunfei shot back.
"I'm honest, reliable, and have my head on straight. I've never been one to play dumb," Dao Wushuang said with a straight face.
"Huh, why does that sound so familiar?"
The Peach Tree raised an eyebrow. Hadn't he heard that from someone more than once?
He looked at Hua Yunfei.
If he remembered correctly, whenever Hua Yunfei tricked some naive young man or woman, he'd say exactly that.
The other people from the Kaoshan Sect said similar things whenever they did something like that, too.
People from the Black Hand Organization were honest? Who'd believe that?
Xia Qiuer giggled to herself without joining in. As she drank, she secretly watched Hua Yunfei and Dao Wushuang over the rim of her cup.
"Seems your apology isn't all that sincere either."
Hua Yunfei gave a cold laugh, tipped back his cup, and drained it. Then he set it down on the table with a heavy thunk.
"How could that be? I came all this way to apologize in person. How much more sincere can I get? I'd never do this for anyone else—not even Wuji or Kong Xuan," Dao Wushuang said.
"So I should thank you, then?" Hua Yunfei asked.
"No need." Dao Wushuang filled Hua Yunfei's cup and offered it to him. "Just forgive my junior sister for being so immature, Brother Fei."
"She's already an Overlord. Even if she hasn't been around long, does she really not know right from wrong? Does she truly not understand, or did someone send her to test me?"
Hua Yunfei looked Dao Wushuang up and down, his words laden with implication.
"You've got me wrong."