Chapter 462: A choice to make a deal
Her longing for life lent the Fairy's question a note of caution and inner struggle.
Qin Xiaoxia had already stirred her desire to live. After reading about her, he had known she was hardly the sort to face death calmly. He had chosen her after careful consideration in Pipi's dream.
Naturally, Qin Xiaoxia had made up the claim that she would die tomorrow. She certainly would not die that soon, but he had not exaggerated all that much. Her soul could hold out for less than another month at most.
As a true master of the essence of souls, the psyche, and mental will, he could say that with certainty.
"Of course. I revealed myself because a few interesting ideas suddenly occurred to me."
"What ideas?"
This time, the Fairy asked her follow-up very quickly.
Qin Xiaoxia looked at her with a smile.
"I thought you would want to know who I was first."
Before the Fairy could speak, however, Qin Xiaoxia went on by himself.
"Unfortunately, even if you asked, I couldn't really tell you. Hahaha..."
The Fairy should have been angry at being teased like this, yet somehow she could not muster any anger. It was not merely because she feared death, but because...
His smile was utterly false. There was something distinctly discordant about it, an eerie sense of displacement, as though he were trying desperately to produce a smile.
Qin Xiaoxia's Thoughtform raised a hand and swept it over each side of his face, smoothing away his expression.
The process was profoundly unsettling. Especially when the right side had gone blank while the left still smiled, the Fairy's heart involuntarily raced.
Once both sides had been smoothed out, that disturbing smile finally disappeared, and his face returned to