“Ask away,” Su Mu sneered, imitating Tang Nai by propping her chin on her hand.
‘Anyone can play dirty. This woman never said we had to tell the truth…’
“First, I have something to add. I get one chance to lie. Since you can sense lies anyway, that’s only fair to me.”
Su Mu was startled, ‘How can this woman be so shameless? And how does she know I have this ability?’
“Second, I am making a declaration. If I lie, you are not allowed to press for details, nor are you allowed to ask strange questions just to mock me. If I catch you lying, I will hit you.”
“I object!”
Su Mu crossed her arms in a large X in front of her to express her dissatisfaction, but Tang Nai only chuckled.
“Objection overruled. I make the rules.”
Tang Nai pulled out a shockingly large Black Inflatable Hammer with “10t” written on it and placed it on the floor beside her.
It should have landed weightlessly, but it let out a heavy “thud”, making Su Mu shrink back.
It took her a long moment before she spoke timidly.
“You broke the floor…”
“I paid for this floor. You step on it every day, so I should be charging you for wear and tear.”
Tang Nai huffed and raised the hammer again.
Su Mu immediately shut her mouth obediently.
Though her lips were sealed, she was cursing the woman out in her heart.
‘Tang Nai, you monster—!’
“Fine, I will ask. In the future, how many women did you mess with in total? Do not make excuses; I only want names.”
“I—”
“Thud!”
Su Mu became completely honest.
Protecting her head with one hand, she answered pitifully, “Buren.”
Tang Nai merely stared at Su Mu silently before pointing in the direction of Ye Wanqing.
“Including this one, there should be at least two, right?”
At those words, Su Mu’s face flushed red as she rushed to defend herself.
“No way! I only see her as a friend. She was the one who suddenly attacked me…”
“Oh, so there really is another one. It’s Little Lando.”
Tang Nai nodded thoughtfully.
Su Mu watched her, dazed, and only realized after a long while that she had been tricked into giving up information.
“You… fine! It’s my turn!”
Su Mu originally wanted to ask, ‘Are you a demon?’ but she realized Tang Nai would definitely take the opportunity to answer that as a question.
She had to swallow her pride and formulate her first real question.
Where should she start?
Then, she remembered the question that had been lingering in her heart for a long time and finally let it out.
“Is it because of her Authority that I have gone unnoticed by people since I was a child?”
Tang Nai pondered for a moment, a hint of surprise flashing in her eyes.
“Yes.”
Hearing this, Su Mu did not know whether to feel relieved or depressed.
‘So I wasn’t the problem. I wasn’t just someone who could be easily ignored… But why did she do it?’
“Now, my second question,” Tang Nai said, “What stage have you and Luo Jialan reached? Do not push your luck!”
Seeing Tang Nai raise the hammer again, Su Mu gritted her teeth in anger but refused to back down an inch.
“Hit me if you have the guts! When my mom wakes up, she will definitely spin you around like a top!”
‘Heh, she is not far off.’
Tang Nai took a silent glance at Su Ya, put away the air hammer, and spoke indifferently, “It seems you have slept together more than once, but you are still too embarrassed to talk about it.”
Su Mu’s blue eyes widened in total disbelief, ‘How did she figure that out too?’
Tang Nai tilted her head and spoke seemingly at random, “Do not worry. I quite enjoy the innocent and passionate love of young girls. For the most part, I will not cause trouble for you. I might even give you a few nudges. At a critical moment, I might prepare some fun things for you. For example, let me think… locking you both in as soon as you enter, leaving only a rubber ball that requires two people working together to grind out a key…”
Su Mu’s eyes went lifeless as she slumped onto the sofa.
‘Is this woman even human? How can she think of such things and say them without any burden on her conscience?’
Did she still remember the night Su Mu and Luo Jialan parted ways?
At that time, Tang Nai had generously opened some private areas on the second floor of the Coffee Shop for them.
Su Mu had originally thought it would just be some inappropriate scenes or items, but when she arrived, she realized that theory really had to be combined with practice…
A room you absolutely could not leave until you satisfied the other person!
This woman had even upgraded the original concept.
A single session would only grind out one key fragment, and nine fragments were needed to synthesize the key.
And the last fragment…
The previous fragments were already together, the pencil case was together, and the New Year’s Eve was together…
“My turn.”
Su Mu was already numb, no longer trying to estimate Tang Nai’s bottom line.
She guessed the woman probably did not have such a vague concept as a “limit.”
“Has she been trying to suppress the awakening of my abilities?”
The corners of Tang Nai’s eyes curved as she revealed a faint smile.
“Yes.”
Su Mu’s spirits lifted.
Her hypothesis was correct.
The reason Su Mu asked such an unconventional and seemingly unrelated question was to verify other ideas.
For instance, whether she had possessed extraordinary abilities from a young age, and if Su Ya was the lock restraining her.
Su Mu still remembered the fragmented images she saw in the third Memory Point.
She had lifted that human trafficker, intending to crush him like a watermelon, and Su Ya had arrived just in time to stop her rampage with a mere touch.
Not only that, but after she woke up, she briefly lost her abilities.
Later, not long ago, during the time Su Mu almost died from a lack of Dark Magic Power, she had once again briefly lost her perception of magic after Su Ya touched her.
It allowed her to breathe, but she lost her powers as well.
Lu Shan had also mentioned losing all abilities after being touched by Su Ya.
This was definitely no coincidence.
Su Mu could already guess the general idea.
Su Ya most likely possessed an Authority that could suppress the abilities of others.
Now, she had not only confirmed this point but also two other things: she possessed some kind of innate, powerful ability that needed to be restrained, and Tang Nai had known all along.
“A good question. I am curious how you will guess Ye Wanqing’s Authority later,” Tang Nai praised.
“But next is my third question.”
Su Mu’s lip twitched as she began to build up her mental defenses, ‘This person is definitely going to…’
“Ask!”
“Do you feel more comfortable using a boy’s body or a girl’s body?”