"Pfft." Ye Xunzhi laughed. She truly could not help it. Wade's expression changed. "What are you laughing at?"
"Your naïveté, of course." Ye Xunzhi wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.
"When you tell lies, don't end up fooling yourself."
She opened her eyes, not a trace of emotion stirring in them. Every word struck at his heart.
"Is it your lover you love, or your own desires?"
"Granted, perhaps you really did love her very, very much at first. But later, when you discovered you had broken free of fate's shackles and reclaimed your lover, the love in your heart gradually faded, didn't it? What followed was endless desire."
Ye Xunzhi reached a hand toward him, a careless smile on her face.
"Business, politics, the military-your desires were a bottomless abyss. You destroyed the world's rules, depleted Eileen, and the world was destroyed."
Her hand clenched into a fist. "Having survived by sheer luck, you naturally refused to accept that, so you followed her here like a rat from the sewers."
"What you wanted was never your so-called lover, but another round of ambition once Eileen returned. That was why you worked so diligently to help her."
"You didn't just provide Eileen with information, did you? You were probably guiding some of her plans against me from the sidelines, too."
"Stop spouting nonsense! You think you know me so well?"
As though she had struck the darkest part of his heart, Wade's expression darkened.
"I've answered your questions. Now it's your turn to answer mine. How exactly was I exposed?"
He threatened, "Don't even think about running or attacking me. Believe me, injured as you are now, you're no match for me."
"That's true." Ye Xunzhi did not deny it.
She looked at her other injured arm,