"What do you mean, 'there's something going on between us'? We're best bros!" Hua Yunfei corrected him righteously, slinging an arm around Dao Wushuang's neck.
"Speaking of which, you're clearly a cold beauty now. What's with that brain of yours, and who taught you to think that way?" Hua Yunfei shot back, looking at her strangely.
"What are you getting at?" Jiang Ruoyao furrowed her brow.
"You look perfectly normal, all icy and aloof. But could it be that, behind closed doors, you know more than anyone?" Hua Yunfei said.
"Don't talk nonsense!" Jiang Ruoyao immediately denied it.
"She's flustered," Dao Wushuang added.
"She really is." Hua Yunfei nodded. "That expression, that reaction—they're usually what you see when someone's been hit right in the heart of their little secret and is scrambling to cover it up."
"Exactly," Dao Wushuang chimed in.
The two of them looked Jiang Ruoyao up and down, grinning with knowing smiles.
"You two... you're in cahoots!" Jiang Ruoyao said. Being stared at by both of them at once made her feel terribly uncomfortable.
"That's not being in cahoots. It's being kindred spirits," Hua Yunfei corrected her again.
"Exactly," Dao Wushuang played along.
"I'll cut you both down!"
Jiang Ruoyao summoned the Blood-colored Killing Sword and lunged at them.
"There are countless Heavenly Prodigies beneath the heavens. My friend and I take up eight tenths; everyone else can split the remaining two. No matter how exceptional others may be, in our eyes, they're still nothing we can't defeat!" Dao Wushuang laughed.
He raised two fingers and caught the thrusting Blood-colored Killing Sword between them.
"Sister Yao, calm down." Hua Yunfei chuckled. As Dao Wushuang caught the Blood-colored Killing Sword, he stepped forward and seized Jiang Ruoyao's wrist. "If I accidentally hurt you, I'd be heartbroken. Wushuang would