How could Lin Fei fail to read between the lines of Jian Yao’s words?
He could easily guess why she had invited him to take refuge within her family estate one moment and was rushing him out the next. Yesterday, keeping him was likely motivated by the hope of obtaining that fox pelt. Today, she was pushing him away because she had realized the pelt was not actually in his possession. There was no need to keep him—a lightning rod who had thoroughly offended the powerful Feng family—under her own roof.
This was the Cultivation World: a place of survival of the fittest, where interests reigned supreme.
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