Ruan Jiaojiao looked at Pei Huaiyu, who now seemed like a complete stranger. She was filled with disbelief; while the Pei Huaiyu in her eyes had always been cold and detached, he had previously hidden a certain indulgence toward her. Yet, these paranoid words of his now made her feel as if she had plummeted into an ice cellar.
"I have thought about it carefully. Instead of letting you act as you please, it would be far more reassuring to keep you right under my nose. After all, I fear you are incapable of speaking more than a few words of truth."
Ruan Jiaojiao took a deep breath. She felt that the strange, paranoid, and sensitive state Pei Huaiyu had fallen into was, to a large extent, her own fault.
Chapter 60