Chapter 71: 69. Black Hand

When Xu Yuan spoke those slightly mocking words, Liu Ruoxue also realized that he already knew what she had done in the room before.

"How, how did you know?"

Liu Ruoxue's cheeks tinted with the color of dawn, her eyes wide.

"I'm a bit paranoid, so before leaving the room, I usually leave a Memory Stone inside."

Xu Yuan said this with an extremely calm expression.

"Hah, that's not the point."

Liu Ruoxue suddenly realized.

He was deliberately stalling with her.

"The second question, the tea you had me drink earlier, what did you add to it?"

She clearly sensed something was amiss.

After all, since then, the person she thought about was almost always him; even the Master was seldom mentioned.

And even though she intended to force it out later, she did not do so afterward; instead, she allowed it to stay within her body, which felt bizarre no matter how she thought about it.