Chapter 240
Lin Hui took a half-step back, smoothly sidestepping the lean.
"Excellency Tuyue—I've heard a great deal about you. What could this junior possibly have done to merit such a journey?"
"You carry some interesting secrets." Moving closer, Tuyue sensed his peculiarity immediately.
Her mind-spirit seduction was entirely without effect.
Lin Hui's presence was like a black hole. No matter how much mind-spirit power she directed his way, it slid past him—flowing around him as though he simply did not exist in its path.
Having lived as long as she had, she had thought the world held nothing left to surprise her. Yet sensing something this singular, she felt the old itch stir—curiosity and possessiveness, rising together from wherever they had been buried.
This is a genius who should have been cultivated in my city. How did I let him wander into that bitter woman's territory? That ten-thousand-year-old prude has no instinct for winning hearts—without her two elder brothers propping her up, she would have died in some forgotten corner long ago. And yet here she sits, reaping a fruit that was mine by right.
The thought only sharpened Tuyue's appetite.
No. I'll find a way. The moment he steps outside Black Cloud's range, I'll take the opportunity and run.