Beyond Saving

All of a sudden, it seemed like a rather inexplicable question.

It was asked lightly and abruptly, as though he were asking where something had been put, slipping into their lightly amused conversation like a sheet of paper.

Xia Yao's slender silhouette was reflected in Fang Ran's pupils. As she asked about some trivial matter with a faint smile, the Libra Card activated soundlessly.

After Shui Lianxin had suddenly noticed that her "safety measures" had failed, he had begun wondering whether his senior had remembered what happened before as well.

He had questioned his own heart more than once. Even after realizing that the name on that slip of paper was still merely three characters to him, with no figure appearing in his mind, he still asked the question now.

After learning from Midnight about the consequences of ordinary people becoming involved in a scenario,

he had even spent a long time considering exactly what to ask. Even the Libra Card could make inaccurate judgments because of the ambiguity of language,

so he ruled out every possible option that could lead to misunderstandings and inaccurate answers.

In the end, he could only ask it so directly.

"Squares?"

The moment Xia Yao instinctively revealed surprise and confusion at those words, Fang Ran pretended to be very curious as he kept watching her expression.

People always showed some unnatural signs when they lied. That was perhaps especially obvious with him.

Hearing Fang Ran's abrupt question, Xia Yao froze for a moment before looking at him with puzzled confusion.

"What squares?"

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Truth

There was no hesitation in her gaze. Rather than being caught off guard, she seemed to finally relax, making Fang Ran suddenly feel like someone with compulsive tendencies confirming that they had locked the door after leaving home.

But when