After hearing Zhao Yunhui's analysis, Huang Xiao had to admit that she made a great deal of sense.
Yet deep down, he simply could not accept the suggestion that Jiang Ying had designs on him. After all, Jiang Ying had helped him so many times, and he felt nothing but gratitude. He believed this was merely an elder's concern for a junior.
"Junior Sister, I believe Senior Jiang isn't that sort of person. Besides, what could he possibly want from me? The Seven Spirit Blades? If he knew I had the Seven Spirit Blades, he could have taken them long ago with his strength," Huang Xiao said, shaking his head.
"Senior Brother, I'm only telling you what I think. You'll have to judge the particulars yourself. Still, I also feel Senior Jiang isn't that sort of person, and that he truly is worried about your safety. That anxious expression of his couldn't have been feigned. If even that was an act, then all I can say is that his disguise was utterly flawless," Zhao Yunhui said with a smile.
"Xin'er, don't let your imagination run wild either," Huang Xiao told Zhao Xin'er.
But Zhao Xin'er still shook her head. "That's right, my sister is absolutely correct. Senior Jiang Ying truly is worried about you and cares about your safety, Brother Huang. But he is definitely not an old friend of your late master's."
"Xin'er, what makes you say that?" Huang Xiao asked with a frown. Had anyone other than Zhao Xin'er said this, and had she not sounded so certain, he would not even have bothered listening.
"Back on Everlasting Spring Mountain, after you were knocked off the cliff, you certainly couldn't have known what happened afterward," Zhao Xin'er said.
"Did something else happen afterward?" Huang Xiao hurriedly asked.
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