The little room had no lights. It was pitch-black, with only the somewhat unnatural breathing of the two girls audible, and no other sound.
After a long while, Xiao Juzi finally could not hold back any longer and tentatively asked, "Miss, are you asleep?"
"No!" Nie Qianyu answered decisively. "How could I possibly sleep?"
"Me neither, Miss. The moment I close my eyes, I see Great Hero Ren... Great Hero Ren killing people."
"Sigh, a few days ago, those people killed eight guards right before our eyes, and then those people were slain by some unknown senior master. Yet even all that bloodshed was not as shocking as Great Hero Ren's killing today. Not to mention you—even I, though I had been prepared, was still caught off guard. I... I truly never imagined that he was so powerful..."
Nie Qianyu's voice grew softer and softer. Xiao Juzi let out a long sigh. "Miss truly has eyes like torches, able to see through that fellow's true face. I, on the other hand, was fooled terribly by him. I even ordered him around to do servants' work. Who knows whether he has remembered it in his heart."
"Pah!" Nie Qianyu could not help but spit. "You want him to remember, but he would have to find it worth remembering first. If he had not wanted to do it, then even if you talked until your lips cracked, he might not have lifted a finger."
Then she murmured, "Xiao Juzi, do you think we have some affinity with him?"
"Affinity?" Xiao Juzi sounded somewhat flustered. "Miss, you mustn't speak nonsense about such things."
"Look, we had just saved a Heroine and been delayed, then only a few days later we ran into him. And... all those crazy things you said were heard by