The Past
"This is way too absurd!"
"Master Qu, do you think there's any chance this is a scheme?"
Lian Yutong's expression was extremely strange.
She looked utterly unconvinced.
To be honest, if those words had just come from anyone other than Master Qu—even if that person had been her fiancé—Lian Yutong would have thought he was lying to her. She might even have suspected that he had defected.
But the person who had said those words was Master Qu.
A senior who could never, ever betray the Devil Race.
Even so, Lian Yutong still found Master Qu's conclusion almost impossible to believe.
It sounded like a damn dream.
How could something like this possibly be true?
No matter how much Lian Yutong turned it over in her mind, she couldn't think of what Nangong Hongye could gain by defecting to the Devil Race.
Admittedly, Nangong Hongye would gain some benefits by defecting. But most of those benefits would be nothing but trash to him.
As the young master of the Kirin Clan, if Nangong Hongye wanted something, wouldn't the entire clan spare no effort to get it for him?
When an ordinary person defected, it meant they couldn't get by in the other camp.
After all, most people wouldn't betray their own people and leave their homeland unless they were driven to the very end.
And surely no one had the ability to drive Nangong Hongye away.
So why would Nangong Hongye defect?
After struggling with the thought for a long while,
Lian Yutong finally couldn't hold back. She turned her eyes to Qu Zhenhong and said, her face full of exasperation, "Master Qu, don't you think this might be a scheme between Nangong Hongye and Bi Fan?"
At her words, Master Qu looked at her with a faintly