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Faced with that question, even Zhao Changhe began to wonder whether the blind woman had deliberately lent a hand. The timing was just too perfect. She had come conveniently right after Huangfu Qing had suggested a damsel-in-distress scenario.
Even her moves in the fight felt like she had been holding back. She clearly had the upper hand, yet after just a single exchange, she withdrew as if intentionally giving face.
If one had to explain it, one could say she was avoiding entanglement with Piaomiao and the Four Idols, so after missing a strike, she opted to retreat. But was that explanation not a bit forced? The blind woman was no ordinary opponent. Someone like her should have had more than enough confidence to kill her target before reinforcements could arrive. Would she really be that cautious?
Which left one very likely possibility: Ye Wuming and Zhao Changhe had colluded to stage a “hero saves the beauty” act.
The realization left Zhao Changhe dumbfounded. She’s trying to sabotage me!
And it was hard to argue otherwise. In the past, he and the blind woman had worked together. In more than one battle, she had kept Ye Jiuyou pinned down while he handled other threats, and Ye Jiuyou knew this well. Worse still, Ye Wuming had shown more than a little interest in Zhao Changhe’s flirtations with Ye Jiuyou. She did have a motive to play along with such a charade.
If Ye Jiuyou now began to suspect they were still acting in concert behind the scenes, then the progress of the last few days would collapse on the spot.
Truthfully, without Ye Wuming’s meddling, Ye Jiuyou’s failed attempt at deciphering the carving and Zhao Changhe’s timely rescue would have been more than enough to rocket their relationship forward. There was absolutely no need to gild the lily. Now, it looked like he had dropped his pants into a pile of muddy water. How would...
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