439 Loathe killing him (2/2)

”Yes, you are right. What This King previously said was for a particular goal. And that goal has been accomplished. There's no harm telling you,” said Shi Xiaobai.

Dawn was once again surprised. She realized that she could not maintain her perfect state of mind in front of the youth because he would often say things that completely caught her by surprise.

The goal she was eager to know had already been accomplished?

And there was no harm in telling her?

Dawn could not help but say with a deep voice, ”Please tell me your goal.”

Shi Xiaobai smiled. His fake gentle and emotive look returned to calmness. Like a teacher who was explaining an answer to a student, he said seriously, ”This King has a simple goal—This King only wanted to know if you are a girl who was disguising as a male. Your reaction just now has given This King a confirmation, so This King's goal has been reached.”

Dawn was surprised. Her state of mind she had just calmed down was shattered by the blow of the words. She said coldly, ”Why did you use such a shoddy lie to prevaricate me? This doesn't seem like your style.”

Shi Xiaobai slowly shook his head as he said, ”Unfortunately, that was not a lie. And that was the only truth This King had said from just now! That confession and that so-called love, or ten lifetimes are lies as you believed. In fact, to This King, you are a stranger he has met for the first time.”

Everyone was left gasping in silence again. After all that, to pass off a spurious lie that was filled with flaws as genuine, to the point of the person in question being forced to believe in the situation, he suddenly said that all he said was a lie.

The plot reversal that happened was so ridiculous that it was void of logic.

But Dawn remained in silence for a very long while after hearing his words. She began to calm down because she realized that her mental state was already in chaos. If she allowed it to continue, the youth in front of her would be leading her by the nose.

Her eyes turned cold and calm once again. She said in a deadpan manner, ”Interesting. I have to admit that you are special. You are the only existence to date that has been able to make me perplexed. I want to kill you and am eager to do so. But I am unable to do it because you have created a paradoxical riddle filled with rock solid logic. And I thirst to know the answer to your riddle. Then, do you plan on being immediately killed by me after you answer my doubts, or do you choose to face me in silence, surviving to the point of me not being able to suppress the killing intent in my heart?”

Shi Xiaobai pricked his eyebrows and said with a chuckle, ”Such a straightforward goad? Heh, but This King would not fall for such goading. Feel free to ask. This King will answer anything he knows. This King does not wish that the lie would become a fact.”

Dawn stared at Shi Xiaobai for a few seconds. She realized she could not see through the youth at all. Questions filled her mind and she could not be bothered to choose. She simply asked, ”Since everything is a lie and I'm a stranger you met for the first time who you think is a girl disguised as a male, why do you know the ideal woman in my mind? How did you know the name of Lucifer's Sword? Why do you have a copy of Lucifer's Sword in your hand? Why were you able to so confidently reveal that I'm a girl in disguise? Why do you know that my right armpit...”

When Dawn said to that point, she hurriedly shut her mouth. She did not wish to mention it, nor recall the embarrassed look she had just a while ago from her anger.

She fell silent for a moment before saying, ”For now, first answer those few questions.”

Shi Xiaobai chuckled to himself. It looks like she really had many questions. No wonder she was loathing to immediately kill him. However, the answers to those questions were actually very simple.IChooseDogLeading (我选择狗带) when read in Chinese sounds like I Choose Go Die. It was a meme that resulted from a former member of famous Korean boygroup, EXO, TAO (Huang Zitao). At a concert, there was a part in a rap that where he said ””, but due to a mispronunciation, it sounded like he will not easily choose to be led by dogs. This phrase now means 'I'd rather die/I choose death'.