For a moment, both of them look at each other in silence.
For the first time in his life, Xie Lianzhen was put in a difficult situation of being exposed. The feeling was strange – being cornered by someone and forced to answer something that he didn't want to answer. He had an urge to run away from her as far as he could, however…
"Miss, what do you mean?"
Lu Mingshu stood up and moved back. The oppression radiating from her was gone, and Xie Lianzhen felt that he could finally breathe again.
"The noble and gentlemanly you that everyone sees – is that really you?" Lu Mingshu wasn't tall, but because Xie Lianzhen was in a wheelchair, she was able to tower above him. "Alioth Star Lord, do you know that I have a certain strength?"
"What?"