"It was because of Li Pu!"
Shang Xueli said, "Did you really think I was some brainless, respectable girl? I chose to share a room with Hong Qilin to force Li Pu into sharing one with you. Li Pu was steeped in corpse qi. Any normal person who spent a night with him would, even if they weren't infected by it, at least show some abnormal symptoms, like a pale face or an excess of yin qi!"
"But you were just a practitioner. There was no reason you should be unaffected, so that confirmed something was wrong with you!"
"What about at the beginning?" Mo Hechuan asked, somewhat astonished. "Why did you suspect me in the first place?"
"Because when your teammates died, your eyes were far too cold. There wasn't a flicker of emotion in them. There was even a sense that this was how things ought to be," Shang Xueli explained. "That was a world apart from the air you had about you when you were drinking tea at the Pavilion Office and smelled those peaches!"
"Did you think I was deliberately making trouble at the Pavilion Office?"
"No, I was simply responsible for observing every one of you!"
"You can call me an inspector of the Demon-Quelling Office!"
"My job is to oversee and check whether any of you cheated your way into the Demon-Quelling Office, or whether spies from sinister, unorthodox factions have infiltrated our ranks. Your behavior was as different as heaven and earth. Who else would I suspect?"
"Impressive!"
Mo Hechuan applauded Shang Xueli!
But then, rather than caring in the slightest that he had been exposed, Mo Hechuan clapped his hands and said, "Unfortunately, you exposed my identity far too late. You've already walked into my stronghold. From now on, your lives are