The following afternoon, Ruizhou City.
After fleeing back inside the pass, Xie Jinhuan finally felt most of his worries ease. But fearing pursuit, he dared not lower his guard. He slipped into the city and found an inn, where he booked two rooms while Big Ice Lump quietly carried Fairy Bu upstairs.
After one fierce battle after another, all three bore the marks of combat. Xie Jinhuan put down their belongings and brought up several buckets of water.
"Do you want to wash first?"
Nangong Ye laid the Demoness properly on the bed.
"You wash first. I'll clean her up."
Xie Jinhuan actually rather wanted to bathe with Big Ice Lump, but they couldn't leave Sister Bu unattended, so he went to the room next door first.
Splash-
Soon, the sound of splashing water drifted over.
Nangong Ye sat beside the bed. Her nerves, taut for days, gradually relaxed, and she began silently pondering whether Xie Jinhuan was pretending not to have seen through her or genuinely believed Qixia True Person had taught her all this...
With the boy's intelligence, he couldn't possibly have failed to connect it to some extraordinary possibilities.
But she was Momo's master. If the boy had recognized her, he ought to have been shocked, unable to accept it, and bitterly regretting what he had done. How could he act so normal, as though nothing had happened...?
As these thoughts ran wild, Nangong Ye grew increasingly restless. Seeing the Demoness sleeping the moment her head touched the pillow, she felt an inexplicable flame of anger rise within her!
After all, when the two of them had entered the Vermilion Bird Mausoleum last year, this Demoness hadn't done her job properly. She had withdrawn early and made off with the Phoenix Feather Grass.
As a result, Nangong