Xueke looked at Qian Renxue's familiar, gentle features and could no longer feel even a trace of the warmth and affection from before. There was only bottomless unfamiliarity and... danger.
She could not stop herself from backing away until there was nowhere left to retreat.
Her breathing quickened, and her eyes filled with wariness, fear, and a trace of pain at having been deceived and betrayed.
Seeing Xueke look as though she were facing a formidable enemy, Qian Renxue stopped several steps away from her.
The moonlight happened to illuminate half her face.
Looking into Xueke's eyes, which were filled with terror and accusation, she sighed softly. "Sure enough... you have one too."
Qian Renxue had come today to see whether Xueke had a Notebook and whether she knew her true identity.
Qian Renxue was not afraid of anyone else.
Now, Xueke could be considered to know her true identity.
She raised a hand and rubbed her eyebrows.
She should have said she was not going. Otherwise, Xu Fan would not have exposed so many of her secrets all at once.
She felt a trace of annoyance.
Xu Fan's big mouth had truly disrupted quite a few plans and caused her a great deal of extra trouble.
But all of this was her own fault as well.
Fortunately, she had at least figured out... what exactly had happened between that woman and her father.
Hearing Qian Renxue admit it, Xueke looked at that familiar yet unfamiliar face before her, and tears immediately welled up, glittering in the moonlight.
Her voice choked with sobs as she questioned her in broken fragments. "You... why did you... why did you do this? Why... did you impersonate Crown Prince Brother? Why... did you deceive all of us?"
Most of all, why had she treated