"I, um, I..."
Ji Hanxing stammered for ages without coming up with an excuse. Sure enough, one lie needed a whole lot more lies to cover it up.
"Little Star, are you lying to me?"
Yan Jinyue's deep, resonant voice suddenly sounded beside Ji Hanxing's ear, startling him into a shudder. His hand shook too, and he hurriedly looked down at it. He was holding a kitchen knife!
Huh? Where was his knife?
Ji Hanxing stared blankly at his empty hand. Where had that great big kitchen knife gone?
"You dared to zone out while holding a knife?"
The knife was already in Yan Jinyue's hand. When he had leaned closer just now and seen Ji Hanxing spacing out with a knife in his hand, he had casually taken it from him.
Only then did Ji Hanxing breathe a sigh of relief.
"How could you scare someone like that?"
Ji Hanxing turned to settle the score with Yan Jinyue.
"Weren't you just feeling guilty?" Yan Jinyue gazed steadily at Ji Hanxing. "You still haven't answered my question, Little Star."
"I spent ten years gutting fish at RT-Mart. That's how I learned. Would you believe that?" Ji Hanxing offered a hollow smile as he spouted nonsense.
Since he couldn't explain it anyway, he might as well make something up.
Yan Jinyue nodded. "Yes. I'll believe anything you say."
He knew perfectly well that Ji Hanxing had simply made up that excuse, but Yan Jinyue had also made his position clear: as long as Ji Hanxing said it, he would choose to believe him.
So when would this little star open his heart to him and tell him the truths beneath his lies?
Yan Jinyue's words stunned Ji Hanxing. He said he would believe anything Ji Hanxing told him?
Ji Hanxing met