"How did you know?"
"She communicated with me telepathically when we first met," Su Yunjin responded, "and asked me to play along with her act."
"Then why wouldn't she communicate with me?" Zhao Yuanzhen huffed indignantly.
"It's probably because you're a bit slow to react, Sister Zhao," Su Yunjin sighed, "Just now, when I told you the truth, didn't you look astonished? At that moment, countless evil ghosts were present. If your expression was even slightly off, it would have been seen through immediately, which would have been bad."
"Even so, you shouldn't have kept it from me!" Zhao Yuanzhen argued weakly, defensively adding, "If it was a feigned surrender, you could have just thrown a note to me, and I'd have known afterwards, right?"
Su Yunjin saw that she was just trying to save face; therefore, she continued telepathically in a calm tone:
