"The Earth Spirit's target was you, wasn't it?" Xuan Liu shrugged. "There's nothing worth coveting from that old woman."
"What do I have that's worth coveting?" Xin Huohuo's heart pounded. 'If the Earth Spirit is that royal consort who died a tragic death, seeking revenge because I look like her mortal enemy... how did she know about me before she even saw me?'
This was the story she'd told Bei Mingyuan, since she couldn't reveal the secret of the Water and Fire Seal. But now that the investigation had progressed this far, there were obviously inexplicable holes in the story. 'Would he dig deeper and start suspecting things? Even if he didn't learn about the Water and Fire Seal, he had to know she was lying, right?'
