Volume 10 Chapter 93 Hooking Up

From the touch of her hand in mine, she was thinner than I expected for somebody blessed with the body of a seductress. Instead of letting her “weapons” distract me, I gently raised her hand to interlock our fingers, fingers raised toward the ceiling.

“What… is this about?” I could see the thin silver needle that was as visible as the moon in the dark room between our index fingers.

Unbothered, she frigidly, yet dimpling, replied, “How do I know if I can still trust you when you’ve been gone for so long? For all know, you might’ve switched sides.” The suspicion and aloof - perhaps condescending - tone was obvious to me.

Ah Neath’s idea had a fatal flaw: she didn’t know her Princess Consort and Baimu’s secret communication method. It was only natural for the Princess Consort to be alarmed when I welcomed myself into her room. Of course, I went along with the suggestion for my own reasons as well as because I disagreed with Ah Neath’s conjecture that her two enemies weren’t familiar with each other.

Ah Neath was oblivious to her Princess Consort’s plots for so many years. Therefore, the information she acquired, in addition to how she acquired it, had room for error.

Judging from the Princess Consort’s attitude toward Baimu just now, I confirmed they weren’t intimate to the point that they could unconditionally trust each other, but they weren’t as distant as Ah Neath assumed.

Taking a guess of how Baimu would respond, I flicked a villainous grin. “I could never bear to harm you.”

She let me pull her in close by the waist. Notwithstanding her barely-there attire, she maintained her regal demeanour. Her condescending attitude was the type that’d ignite a man’s desire to conquer her so that he could prove himself. As opposed to calling it a trap waiting to be sprung, it would be more apt to consider it a trap that actively baited its prey in.

When I instinctively stopped my hand, her lips preened. “You’ve grown more audacious, I see.