"She isn't, she didn't, don't make things up!" Nie Yun opened with a triple denial.
This misunderstanding had gotten a little out of hand...
Nie Yun was rather speechless.
Codename, I told you to get close to the Dawn Grand Duke so you could learn her secrets. What on earth did you say to her?
Yes! I did say that if you wanted someone to share the good stuff, you first had to play the emotional card. You had to raise their affection before they would pass on their skills.
But I told you to play the emotional card, not start talking about romantic feelings!
He immediately opened a new chat window in secret.
"Codename, you've been... getting along pretty well with the Dawn Grand Duke lately, right?"
"Boss, you can drop the 'right.' You have no idea! With my diplomatic skills, which now surpass even my teacher's, we hit it off so well we wished we'd met sooner. All that's left is to burn yellow paper, chop off a chicken's head, and swear sisterhood. We're solid-gold besties, not the fake kind!"
Codename thumped her chest, sounding quite pleased with herself.
Automatically filtering out the unnecessary adjectives, Nie Yun asked another question.
"Then tell me, what exactly have you and the Dawn Grand Duke been talking about?"
To his surprise, Codename immediately grew wary.
"Boss, don't you know it's very rude to pry into two ladies' private conversations?"
"I'm your boss!"
"It wouldn't be appropriate even if you were my dad!"
Nie Yun: "..."
Seeing that a frontal assault wouldn't work, Nie Yun opened Codename's database. After running a search, he discovered... it was actually encrypted!
Nie Yun could brute-force his way in, but Codename would definitely notice during the process.
Seemingly aware of Nie Yun's little maneuver, the Dawn