"That's your problem." Yue Chen swatted away the hand Yue Ye tried to rest on him and said bluntly, "I don't have time to waste here with you."
"You're so heartless, Master." Yue Ye chuckled. "Why are you so averse to me?" As she spoke, she raised a hand to smooth her hair. "Am I not beautiful?" she asked softly.
Hearing Yue Ye's words, Yue Chen suddenly paused. It did seem that he had been deliberately keeping her at arm's length.
But this woman, whose head was filled with schemes against him, really wasn't someone he could like, however exceptionally beautiful she might be.
"Because you're a demon. Besides, what does your beauty have to do with me?" Yue Chen countered. "Do you think I let you go because of your looks?"
"Of course not." Noticing that his tone had softened considerably, Yue Ye smiled. "And I think I know why you dislike me so much, Master."
When Yue Chen showed no intention of answering, Yue Ye continued on her own. "It must be because, when you inspected my Storage Ring earlier, you saw the cargo I was actually bringing into demon territory on this trip?"
That was one of the reasons. Yue Chen nodded lightly.
"You must think that we Wandering Merchants use absolute neutrality as a front while secretly doing things that harm the Temple Alliance?" Yue Ye shook her head. "It's perfectly natural for you to think that, but you only saw what I was delivering to the demons, not what I was bringing to the Temple Alliance.
"Besides, that Storage Ring is in your hands now, Master. You should know that it held enough supplies to equip an entire demon legion. Its loss was precisely why the Demon God Emperor ordered an internal purge. Quite a