As Xie Xin’s question registered, he realized the matter had become directly related to him.
"..."
Xie Xin: "Why aren't you speaking?"
The wolf demon sighed, glanced at the dagger, then at Xie Xin opposite him, and said, "I don't know either of you well. If you speak like this, it's probably not right."
"How is it not right?" Xie Xin pressed.
The wolf demon looked helplessly at Xie Xin, who was determined to get some answer, and sighed, "Let's put it this way, just tell me, do you know me well?"
"Yes."
"Where do we know each other from?"
"We just know each other. So you choose me, or you choose her." Xie Xin insisted.
The wolf demon’s reply was simply to make Xie Xin understand that he was rejecting her, but she didn’t seem to hear him at all.
Helpless, he took a sharp breath and said, "I won't choose you."
"Then you'll choose her," Xie Xin pointed at the dagger beside her.
The wolf demon: "Neither of you. I won't choose anyone." With that, he glared at both of them and turned to leave.
Lin Yan glanced at both of them and followed the wolf demon.
Xie Xin’s body stiffened.
The dagger calmly looked at Xie Xin’s face and said, "Hello."
Hearing this, Xie Xin finally looked at the dagger and asked, "Who exactly are you?"
The dagger stepped forward, meeting Xie Xin’s eyes, "This morning I almost took your life. You've forgotten me now. Xie Xin, you really have a good memory."
Hearing this, Xie Xin was confused. "..."
"It's me." The dagger extended its hand, clenched its fists a couple of times in front of Xie Xin, then turned to chase after the wolf demon.
Xie Xin's eyes sank, staring intently at the receding back of the dagger. He muttered, "Who exactly is she?" As he said this, he furrowed his brow and turned into the mausoleum gate.
After a while.
Xie Xin, following the wolf demon and Lin Yan, stopped in a dark alley. The wolf demon faced the wall, sensing the demonic energy of the dagger behind him, "Can you stop following me?" He didn't turn around.
Conversely, Lin Yan turned sideways to look at the dagger.
The dagger: "You are the master I chose. I will not give up."
"I am your..." Before he could finish, the wolf demon reached out and supported himself against the moss-covered wall, taking a deep breath. "I just rejected you. You really don't need to be like this."
Lin Yan, seeing the wolf demon’s obvious pretense of being deep, did not expose him.
The dagger: "You rejected me because of that woman. I know."
"I truly rejected you. I'm not like Mu An Xiao; I don't need any weapon as an aid."
"So she's not strong."
"What do you mean?" The wolf demon repeated, removing his hand from the wall and turning to face the dagger.
Then, the dagger stepped forward to Xie Xin, "What I mean is, only the weak, like her, need weapons."
"You know that too," the wolf demon said, wiping the dirt on his hands onto the dagger's shoulder.
The dagger looked down at its shoulder, then back up at the wolf demon, "You doing this is probably not good, is it?"
"..." The wolf demon glanced at his palm again, then rubbed the dirt on his hands onto the dagger’s shoulder a couple more times, "Do you know what this means?"
"What does it mean?" The dagger cooperated with the wolf demon.
Lin Yan looked at the two of them, speechless.
The wolf demon: "I don't need you. Get lost."
"You will regret it."
"If I use you, then I will regret it."
"You..." The dagger uttered a word, then inadvertently turned its head to look at Lin Yan, who was staring at them, "You are him."
Lin Yan: "..." Did he not understand what the dagger meant?
Seeing the dagger's expression, the wolf demon suddenly remembered the dagger's relationship with the fake Lin Yan.
So, he deliberately walked to Lin Yan's side, looked at the dagger with disdain, and asked, "What do you mean?"
"He's the owner of that body, right?" The dagger looked at the wolf demon.
The wolf demon: "No."
He knew that if that were the case, with the dagger's treacherous nature, she would definitely go back to report to the fake Lin Yan. Then, the fake Lin Yan would surely have a sense of crisis, and afterward, the fake Lin Yan would definitely come looking for Lin Yan. So, to prevent such a thing from happening, he had to protect Lin Yan.
"No?"
"Do you have a problem with your eyes?" The wolf demon deliberately leaned forward to look at the wall behind the dagger, "Look over there."
Hearing this, the dagger frowned and quickly turned its head in the direction the wolf demon was pointing.
Immediately, while the dagger’s attention was diverted, the wolf demon quickly snapped his fingers in front of Lin Yan’s face.
The next second, Lin Yan instantly transformed into someone else.
"..." Lin Yan didn't react, but quietly watched the dagger observing the wall, and he smirked.
The wolf demon glanced at Lin Yan, "See?"
Hearing this, the dagger turned back to look at the wolf demon, "What exactly are you making me look at?"
The wolf demon: "A gecko."
"A gecko?" The dagger repeated, its mouth twitching. "You're really quite boring." As it said this, the moment it shifted its gaze back to Lin Yan, it frowned.
The wolf demon: "What's wrong?"
"Why did the face change?" The dagger said, strode up to Lin Yan, then tilted its head up to meet Lin Yan’s eyes, "How could this happen?"
Lin Yan looked calmly at the dagger, "Why are you looking at me?"
The wolf demon: "He has a generic face. Tell me, does he still look like himself now?"
The dagger swallowed, slowly shifting its gaze from Lin Yan’s face, "Not anymore."
"..." The wolf demon turned his face slightly towards the outside of the alley.
"You really don't want to be my master, do you?" The dagger was still trying to find an opportunity.
The wolf demon shook his head slightly and uttered one word: "Go."
To prevent the dagger from becoming suspicious, Lin Yan looked at her coldly, saying nothing.
The dagger: "..." She pouted and turned to leave.
After the dagger left, Lin Yan looked at the wolf demon, "What did you turn me into?"
The wolf demon: "..." He suppressed a laugh, pointed his finger at the wall, and a mirror with a red light appeared on the wall. "Go and take a look."
Lin Yan glanced at the wolf demon, stepped up to the mirror, and looked inside, frowning. "This isn't me." He looked at himself in the mirror, with a face full of stubble and a large mole, feeling uneasy.
The wolf demon: "If this were you, do you think that dagger would let you off?"
Lin Yan looked at the wolf demon behind him through the mirror, "Who is she?"
The wolf demon: "A fake. She belongs to her master."
Lin Yan hadn't thought much about the dagger’s identity earlier, but now, hearing the wolf demon’s words, his heart suddenly clenched, "Since that's the case, why didn't you capture her?" He turned to look at the wolf demon.
The wolf demon thought Lin Yan would object to him. Seeing Lin Yan’s agitated expression now, he was taken aback. "What do you mean by that?"
"..." Lin Yan just stared quietly at the wolf demon, letting him figure out the logic himself.