428: Chapter 428 Little Lolita: I Wasn't Affected

King Feiyun's expression sank completely, turning as dark as the bottom of a pot.

Ziyi's expression was the exact same.

Facing the unkind gazes of the two,

the smug look on Molli's face instantly froze.

"Y-You guys, why are you looking at me like that...?"

King Feiyun stared at her like that for a good while before speaking.

Her voice was very flat, yet it carried an implication that sent chills down one's spine:

"You've also been in contact with Lin Yun."

Molli was stunned:

"Ah?"

Ziyi added from the side:

"And you haven't had little contact with him either."

"At the wedding banquet, you found him to drink twice. In the corridor, you spoke with him, and you even stayed aside to watch the show."

"Although the time you spent in contact with him is less than ours, it must be more than King Xuanyin."

Molli instinctively wanted to refute, but when the words reached her lips, she realized

every single word Ziyi said was true.

She really had been in contact with Lin Yun.

And for quite a long time at that.

King Feiyun looked at her expression of sudden realization,

her face still dark, but her tone carrying a hint of subtlety:

"According to what you just said, you've been in contact so much, then what about you? Could it be...?"

Molli was choked by these words, her entire little face puffing up.

She glared at King Feiyun with wide eyes, her cheeks slightly puffed out as if brewing some words of refutation.

But after brewing for several breaths, she couldn't manage to squeeze out a single word.

Because what King Feiyun said was... right.

Following the logic she herself had just spoken,

in the end she would have to marry as well.

Yet Molli truly didn't feel anything abnormal about herself.

Although she had repeatedly looked at Lin Yun and pondered over him these past two days, it was purely to figure out why Xuanyin ran away.

She didn't have that heart-racing feeling towards Lin Yun either, nor would she repeatedly recall his face at night.

Having figured this out, Molli righteously retorted:

"I wasn't affected!"

King Feiyun and Ziyi didn't speak, only looking at her.

Molli felt thoroughly uncomfortable under their gazes.

She took half a step back, then another half step back:

"I really wasn't affected! I was just curious! What do those looks in you two's eyes mean?!"

King Feiyun finally averted her gaze, her tone plain:

"It means nothing."

Ziyi also turned her head away.

Looking at the two's appearance of "we didn't say anything about you" yet clearly saying everything,

Molli was so angry she stomped her foot in place:

"You two!"

Molli wanted to continue arguing, but looking at their expressions of "go ahead, we're listening,"

she discovered that whatever she said seemed like trying to cover up something.

Molli held it in for a good while, and finally deflated, plopping back down onto the soft couch with her small face scrunched up.

"Forget it, forget it, let's talk about business."

She waved her hand, pulling the topic back on track.

"Anyway, the current situation is like this."

"The two of you can't investigate anything out, and that fellow Xuanyin ran away."

"And Lin Yun can indeed make women who come into contact with him develop good feelings for him."

Speaking up to here, Molli looked at King Feiyun, then at Ziyi:

"And that feeling you have towards him... it comes from the bottom of your hearts, right?"

The two were silent for a moment, then gently nodded.

Molli watched their reaction,

clicked her tongue, and leaned backward,

sinking her entire body into the soft couch's cushions:

"Then this is troublesome."

"If it were controlled by someone using a secret technique, at least we could find a way to crack it."

"If it were poisoned or drugged by someone, at least we could look for an antidote."

"But your kind of... spontaneous 'affection' from the depths of your hearts means that you yourselves have fallen for Lin Yun."

"How is this thing supposed to be resolved? You can't possibly dig out your own hearts, can you?"

King Feiyun and Ziyi's brows furrowed even tighter.

Looking at their expressions, Molli let out a long sigh.

Her little face rarely revealed a trace of exhaustion:

"I'm getting a headache for you guys."

Silence filled the room once again.

After a good while, Molli suddenly spoke, her tone carrying a kind of reckless nonchalance:

"If push comes to shove, why don't you guys just accept it?"

King Feiyun: "Accept what?"

Molli shrugged her shoulders:

"Acknowledge that you've grown to like him. Anyway, there's no way to eliminate it, are you going to run away just like Xuanyin?"

"Xuanyin is a person of the Tianlang Empire, so running away is fine. Can the two of you run away?"

"One is King Feiyun, the other is the grand steward under King Blood Axe. All your belongings are in the Lingyuan Empire, where can you run?"

Speaking up to here, Molli looked at the two with a serious expression:

"If you ask me, since we can't find the cause and can't solve it, why not..."

She paused, as if weighing her phrasing, and finally said with a "whatever happens, happens" tone:

"Why not just do as I said."

"Anyway, you guys have no other way, so just let nature take its course."

"Things will be as they are. In a while, maybe you yourselves will scramble to marry over."

King Feiyun's face became even darker.

Ziyi's face was also dark beyond measure.

Looking at Molli's expression of "I'm out of ideas, you guys just resign to your fate," the two felt both angry and helpless inside.

After falling silent for a good while, King Feiyun finally spoke, her voice carrying a trace of reluctant seriousness:

"I feel that you've jumped to this conclusion way too early."

Molli feigned ignorance: "What conclusion?"

"You said that as long as one stays by Lin Yun's side for a long time, they'll be affected, and then..."

"Wasn't that what Ziyi said?"

King Feiyun's gaze sank:

"Although Ziyi said it, this statement is inaccurate."

"What about King Xuanyin? How many times has she been in contact with Lin Yun?"

"On the arena that day, from beginning to end, the number of times she and Lin Yun had close contact could be counted on one's fingers."

"Yet that very night, she fell."

"If it really were 'being affected only after staying long,' King Xuanyin shouldn't have fallen for it so quickly."

"She must have come into contact with something else to produce such a strong reaction in such a short time."

Speaking up to here, the certainty in King Feiyun's tone made Molli rein in the laziness on her face.

She sat up a bit straighter, thought about it seriously, and furrowed her little brows:

"That makes sense..."

"That fellow Xuanyin was indeed too fast."

"Reasonably speaking, among the three of you, the one with the least contact with Lin Yun was her."

"Yet she tripped the most decisively instead, noticing something was wrong that very night, and subsequently dragging the two of you into the water with her..."

Molli spoke up to here.

She blinked twice, and as if figuring out some key link, suddenly slapped her knee:

"Wait! You guys say..."

"Could that fellow Xuanyin be because of a special Physique?"

King Feiyun and Ziyi's expressions startled, thinking she had discovered something.

Molli began analyzing while counting on her small fingers:

"Look here, that fellow Xuanyin is extremely pretty, her appearance is perfect, right?"

"Her Physique, the Xuanyin Charm Body, is naturally born for playing with charm."

"Her racial Bloodline is the Nine-Tailed Fox imperial Bloodline, the most bewitching kind."

"Her entire configuration is related to 'charm'."

"And then she met Lin Yun."

"As for that brat Lin Yun, you guys also said he's special; his life Origin is overflowing, and it only affects pretty women..."

"Isn't this just a Physique specifically for charming women?"

"Xuanyin is a vixen, and Lin Yun is specifically designed to restrain vixens."

"So the moment Xuanyin bumped into him, she immediately fell for it."

The more Molli spoke, the more she felt her guess was correct, her speaking speed getting faster and faster, her small face glowing with excitement:

"And because Xuanyin herself plays with charm, she is more sensitive than anyone to this kind of influence on the Divine Soul level."

"That's why she noticed something was wrong that very night."

"But she didn't run away in the first instance; she stayed behind and deliberately lured the two of you over to observe."

"She must have discovered something that night before leaving in such a hurry."

Molli lowered her hands, looking at the two, her tone carrying the smugness of "isn't my deduction amazing":

"You tell me, is my line of thought correct?"

The room fell quiet for a moment.

The two did not speak.

Their gazes fell on Molli, as if re-evaluating this little loli who usually only loved to watch the commotion.

After a good while, King Feiyun finally spoke:

"... Continue speaking."

Encouraged, Molli straightened her small waist even more:

"I feel that Xuanyin must have discovered the specific way Lin Yun affected her."

"But she didn't say it."

"She only asked me to contact Lin Yun, saying I'd know once I did."

"This shows that that method of influence can only be felt by someone who has personally been in contact with him. Just relying on words makes it impossible to explain clearly."

"And her not letting me sink too deep shows that she's very clear that once in contact, one will truly sink in, and wanting to extricate oneself will be difficult."

Molli stopped speaking up to here, looking seriously at the two:

"So here comes the problem."

"The two of you have already been affected now, and we can't find a solution."

"Xuanyin ran away, taking the secret she discovered with her."

"Then what do you guys plan to do?"