Chen Wei's heart bobbed up and down with anxiety.
If he couldn't answer, or his fabrication gave him away, wouldn't all his work on this assignment go to waste?
After turning the matter over in his mind,
Chen Wei decided to retreat in order to advance, using Buddhist rhetoric as his shield.
Putting on the air of an enlightened monk, he sighed. "Sister-in-law, let's not bring up those old days. Ever since I, Old Sun, went to the Western Heaven, I've attained the four great emptinesses. All those worldly affairs, grudges, and passions of the past have long since slipped from my memory!"
His answer was watertight, neatly kicking the question back to her.
"Really?" Madam Iron Fan narrowed her lovely eyes slightly and parted her red lips. "You've even forgotten Sweetie?"
Sweetie?
Chen Wei was startled. Sun Wukong got up to that sort of thing?
But since she had offered him an answer herself, why wouldn't he take it? To shore up his lie, he climbed right up the conversational ladder she had handed him.
"Ah!"
"Calling you Sweetie back then was all for the sake of borrowing the Banana Leaf Fan! I was only playing along!
"Sister-in-law, to tell you the truth, the one who really wanted to call you Sweetie was Brother Bull! When I took his form back then, I merely said it in passing, voicing the tender words Eldest Brother was too embarrassed to say himself! Haha!"
Chen Wei gave two dry laughs, congratulating himself on his quick reactions.
Yet before his laughter faded,
he felt a chill down his spine as an aura shot straight at him from the side.
It came from Yang Chan.
Danger again!
Chen Wei's heart lurched. Right in front of Yang Chan, he had been calling a still-alluring female