"Shiyun, are you all right?"
Seeing Qi Shiyun fall silent, Lin Ruoshui grew a little worried.
"I'm fine. I was thinking about the Millennium Snow Lotus matter. How could he fake that?"
Qi Shiyun casually told a lie, then looked at the other person her age whose thoughts she had never sensed.
Before Lianshan Xin, Lin Ruoshui had been the first person her age from whom she had never sensed a single thought.
Everything she knew about Lin Ruoshui's preferences and behavior had been uncovered using Nine Heavens' resources.
This was a victory of power, not talent.
Because she had taken an interest in Lin Ruoshui yet could never beat her, Qi Shiyun had marshaled every resource at her disposal to investigate her. She had discovered that Lin Ruoshui loved doing good deeds and was a textbook saint in worldly eyes.
Yet, judging others by herself, Qi Shiyun always found it strange.
Being canonized after death was one thing.
But were there really saints among the people still alive in this world?
She did not quite believe it.
Yet she had found no evidence in Lin Ruoshui's actions to disprove it.
Today, she had catered to Lin Ruoshui's preferences, and it had worked very well.
So Qi Shiyun began to waver in her opinion: perhaps there really were such purely good people in this world.
But this would not change another of Qi Shiyun's beliefs-Lin Ruoshui definitely had secrets.
Lin Ruoshui did not know what Qi Shiyun was thinking, nor had she noticed that Qi Shiyun was testing her. She simply reasoned quite naturally, "Perhaps the Crown Prince had never seen a Millennium Snow Lotus, and Lianshan Xin bribed someone close to him, so he managed to pass it off."
"That's unlikely. The Crown Prince has eaten plenty of Century