"It's not that." Chen Xi raised her eyes to meet hers.
"Oh?" Lin Yue mused.
"Which part isn't? The planning? Or..."
"Your fake love."
Lin Yue crossed her arms haughtily. "You didn't think I wouldn't figure it out, did you? From the moment my consciousness awakened in this Regression, I was already going over every moment we'd spent together."
"You don't just have Rain Lord as your Legend. Like me, you started out with a secret Legend of your own."
"And that Legend can grant you special powers that are completely different from one another."
"Plus, it wasn't hard to guess what the prerequisite was."
"My affection for you," she said with conviction.
"Every time our relationship took a step forward, you suddenly gained some inconspicuous new ability."
"Maybe there was room to explain it away before, but stealing the Legend Husk proved my theory beyond a doubt."
"Of course, you can keep blaming those extra abilities on being a Succubus."
The shadows behind Lin Yue seemed to come alive, surrounding Chen Xi like a nest of snakes.
Empowered by her domain, the volume of shadow she could control had increased dramatically.
"And that Director was you, too."
"The timestamps don't add up. When you first messaged me in the first loop, it was already twenty seconds past 9:30."
"In the second loop, you still messaged me at the same time, but the seconds didn't match at all."
"The instant it turned 9:30, you sent me a message."
"I was waiting by my phone, so that memory stuck with me."
When Chen Xi saw the shadows lunge at her, she had no time to answer. She could only slash at them with her sword.
The tide crashed against the shadows, easily destroying Lin Yue's attack.
Seeing that the shadows were