[2] The Whole Family Is Insanely Eavesdropping on My Thoughts

Chapter 473: Windchaser's Matching Collar

The two locked eyes coldly, tension crackling between them.

The gathered crowd felt the immense pressure weigh down on them, making it difficult to breathe.

No one knew what had happened between them to turn them against each other so suddenly.

Palace Master Jin Huan spoke lazily, "It seems I am different from True Monarch Yao Guang. After all, she was the one who got stabbed."

Yao Guang sneered, "Oh? And yet, you dare not reveal your filthy intentions!"

Murderous intent flickered in both their eyes.

The auction manager, eager to smooth things over, approached with an obsequious smile. "Our next item is the highlight of the event. I hope the two of you will show some restraint."

Yao Guang sat back down, absentmindedly holding a yellowed painting scroll.

"Who stabbed High God Yao Guang? Was it you?" Xie Yu Zhou, ever the gossip enthusiast, eagerly inquired.

Lu Chao Chao widened her eyes. "He tried to set me up!"

"Back then, I wanted us to become sworn siblings, but neither of them agreed."

"Later, Yao Guang challenged me to a duel."

"She instructed me to meet her at Without Folly Cliff under the moonlit willows, so we could settle things once and for all."

"At that time, the Heavenly Dao was on the verge of collapse. I was restless."

"So, I arrived early—only to find him setting up a formation on the cliff!"

"He arranged flower petals in strange patterns and muttered incantations—I was sure he was activating a secret technique!"

"We were old friends, yet he dared to plot against me!"

"Furious, I stabbed him on the spot and sent him tumbling off the cliff. The next day, I performed my sacrifice."

Lu Chao Chao still fumed at the memory.

It was infuriating!

[I saw you as a friend, yet you schemed against me! Good thing I was alert, or things could have gone terribly wrong!]

Xie Yu Zhou shuddered, cautiously asking, "What kind of flowers? What formation?"

Lu Chao Chao thought for a moment. "Red flowers, arranged in a heart shape. Must've been some wicked ritual! He even lit candles all around!"

Xie Yu Zhou: ...

Recalling how he once mimicked her behavior as the Pleasure Palace Master, he suddenly felt secondhand embarrassment.

[I copied her, meaning I tailored my actions to her preferences.]

[And she wanted him to be her 'brother'...]

Xie Yu Zhou: ...

Seeing her clear, innocent gaze, he let out a deep sigh.

"I pity them," he murmured, speechless.

[Being smitten with her is like falling for a stone.]

[Inside and out, completely oblivious.]

[She's only four this life. No chance of awakening to such things.]

"Now, the main event of the auction—I'm sure everyone has already guessed what it is?" The auctioneer's soft voice sent a ripple of excitement through the crowd.