This deep understanding someone might possess of him was unsettling... Terrifying to an extent, something that Wang Xiao would never agree to...
He never truly believed that Anran, the girl he considered insignificant in the grand scheme, could pose any real threat.
Yet, the possibility that she had perceived layers of his psyche he hadn't acknowledged opened a new realm of unsettling possibilities about himself that he had never admitted existed.
As these thoughts spiraled, Yin Yue's voice cut sharply through the silence, pulling him from the edge of his introspection. [Xiao... I never said it, but people don't get angry at natural disasters for the destruction of their homes.]
"Why...?" Wang Xiao's voice was a low murmur, his eyes narrowing as the truth in her words struck a chord within him.
