The guy's smile was a little perverse.
Was he playing Dracula here...?
There was no denying that Liu Yin had a rather sinister presence. Perhaps he had spent so long in prison that even his looks and bearing had changed. He was the sort of person whose appearance alone could easily inspire fear.
But Wang Yang had always been unflappable. He glanced at Liu Yin and gave an odd smile of his own.
"You're delighted already? We've barely even started. I'm a pretty decent fellow, Chief Clerk. Get to know me slowly, and you'll generally find yourself more and more delighted. If one day you aren't, then you'll have to look to yourself for the reason..."
"Get to know?"
"As in, spend time together."
Liu Yin studied Wang Yang, his tone sincere. "You truly are interesting, Young Master."
Wang Yang looked back at him. "Anyone who can call someone else interesting can't be all that dull himself."
Liu Yin's gaze sharpened, as though he were trying to see straight through Wang Yang. "Since you're so interesting, Young Master, you must believe in being flexible?"
When someone tried to probe your thoughts with a question, and you did not want to let him, the best approach was to avoid answering directly and throw the question back at him.
So Wang Yang asked, "How so?"
Liu Yin said, "Stubbornness is dull, rigidity is dull, and never changing is dull. Only with change and flexibility does life become interesting."
Wang Yang immediately asked, "Can the law be flexible too?"
Liu Yin considered this for a while before answering solemnly.
"Sometimes, even the law must bend. I may be unwilling, but there is no alternative."
Something seemed to occur to him after he said that. His gaze grew distant, and he reflected:
"Everything between