Huang Xiao stared blankly at Zhao Yunhui. He had yet to recover from what he had just felt. Since the princess herself had said so, there could be no mistake.
"What is it?" Zhao Yunhui asked, noticing his strange expression.
"Princess, why are you telling me all this?" Huang Xiao asked. "The Scripture of Great Peace is a cultivation method everyone in the Jianghu wants. Aren't you afraid I might..."
"I believe you," Zhao Yunhui said, gazing intently at him.
Zhao Yunhui stared at Huang Xiao for so long that he grew embarrassed and hurriedly looked away.
The corners of Zhao Yunhui's lips lifted slightly, and a trace of triumph appeared on her face. It soon vanished, however, and she said, "Actually, you were part of the reason I discovered its secret."
Hearing this, Huang Xiao understood what she meant.
"If not for that casual reminder you gave me, I would never have taken it into my head to look through those three scriptures at the bookshop. Naturally, I would never have discovered the Scripture of Great Peace either," Zhao Yunhui said.
She had chosen to tell Huang Xiao for two reasons: first, she trusted his character; second, he deserved some credit for her obtaining and discovering the Scripture of Great Peace.
Of course, important as these two reasons were, deep in Zhao Yunhui's heart, there was a third. At the very least, she already regarded Huang Xiao as the person foretold by her divination. Moreover, she had become inexplicably entangled with him time and again. Remembering how he had stumbled upon her stark naked earlier, she felt not only embarrassment and vexation, but also a secret inclination to give him her heart. Was this not Heaven's arrangement?
"Congratulations on obtaining the Scripture of Great Peace, Princess," Huang Xiao hurriedly