Su Yan looked at his gloomy demeanor.
She tried to explain,
"I didn't."
Situ Xiu's tone was cold,
"You didn't deceive me?"
After a pause, Su Yan said,
"I did deceive you."
Hearing her admit to deceiving him, Situ Xiu felt an urge to strangle her right then and there.
He gripped her arm tightly,
"You saved me on purpose, got close to me on purpose, said you liked me on purpose, to lower my guard.
Used your status as a guard to enter the Imperial Palace and reclaim your own identity.
What a brilliant scheme, Empress."
His tone was calm, but every word he uttered was filled with a cold menace.
He was probably so angry that it was the first time he didn't refer to himself as 'me' and instead used 'I'.
Su Yan was taken aback.
She shook her head,
"I didn't deceive you."
Clearly, he seemed to have misunderstood something.
He pinched her chin, his cold lips curling slightly,
"Oh? Is that so? Which sentence didn't deceive me?"
He suddenly smiled,
