"..."
The room gradually fell silent.
Ye Li asked several more questions in succession.
Cui Wanting answered each one earnestly.
His attitude was beyond reproach, and most of what he said was true.
Yet from beginning to end, he never gave a direct answer.
Cui Wanting gradually began to feel rather pleased with himself.
News that Ye Li could detect lies had already spread throughout the Supreme Clarity Palace and beyond, along with the news of Yu Liang's death.
If I can't lie, then I simply won't answer.
All I need to do is pick out a few irrelevant truths and dress them up with some pleasant words.
What can Ye Li do to me then?
Besides, Cui Wanting was no stranger to this kind of verbal maneuvering.
He had been born into the Cui Family.
When the elders discussed interests and allocated resources, scarcely one sentence in ten ever touched on the heart of the matter.
After hearing enough of it, he had naturally learned the trick himself.
As the saying went, you did not strike a man who greeted you with a smile.
Even if Ye Li had become the Supreme Clarity Palace's Palace Heir, he could not simply attack someone for not knowing how to answer him!
"Cui Wanting."
Lu Wan finally could not listen any longer.
She stepped forward half a pace and rebuked him with a frown:
"The Palace Heir asked whether you've colluded with the local forces."
"You only need to answer yes or no. Why do you keep dodging the question?!"
The smile on Cui Wanting's face stiffened slightly.
He then looked at Lu Wan and said with a faint, ambiguous smile:
"Junior Sister Lu."
"Every word I've said reflects the truth. How is that dodging the question?"
"You-"
Lu Wan wanted to