Chapter 244

244 HARD SLAP IN THE FACE

It might be true that Bai Chen was too naive, and maybe he was too blinded by his love, but he didn’t even care about that as he felt that he saw a hint of guilt in Wu Jinhai’s eyes when the man finally revealed the reason behind his lies all this time.

It probably seemed like Bai Chen was an easy person because he could easily forget how Wu Jinhai had lied to him from the start, and that was why he didn’t tell the man right away that he had indeed forgiven the man’s sins because he was too in love with him.

Maybe Wu Jinhai’s head would only grow bigger if the man knew that he was so in love with him, right?

Now, Bai Chen couldn’t help but think that he was like a high school girl who fell in love with a boy for the first time. Two things were wrong, while one thing was right in the analogy he just used. The wrong thing was how he even described himself as a high school girl when he wasn’t even a girl and was older than the girls in high schools. Meanwhile, the right thing about the analogy was how he first fell in love with a man, and that was why he was too blinded by his love now.

Bai Chen realized that love could make people stupid. Originally, he thought that it was ridiculous to think that people could indeed lose their sanity just because of love, but after he was introduced to love after transmigrating to this world, he had to admit that he was included in the group of ridiculous people because of love.

“When did you learn the truth that the Immortal Elder had died?” Without looking at the older man, Bai Chen responded to the man’s explanation.

Even if Bai Chen didn’t publicly say that he had forgiven how Wu Jinhai dared to lie to him since the beginning, how he didn’t immediately scold the man after the man revealed the truth about him was like a sign that he was no longer angry about how the man lied to him.

Wu Jinhai was smart, and perhaps he could read the sign, and that was why he smiled handsomely at the man sitting next to him before answering the man’s question, “I found information from one of the books in Wenxue Pavilion.”

How Wu Jinhai casually answered his question managed to surprise him, and Bai Chen once again looked at the man in red. “What? You found that information from a book in Wenxue Pavilion?” He asked in disbelief. “But only once did you visit the pavilion, right? And at that time, you were sleeping soundly while I was busy reading a book, so I bet you didn’t even read the book then.”

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Bai Chen was taken aback by what Wu Jinhai had just said as the memory was still vivid in his head. The Wenxue Pavilion was like a study room in his palace, but it was temporarily used as a storage room by Bai Renshu when the library in the Rongyao Imperial Palace was renovated. That was why many important books and documents were kept in Wenxue Pavilion, but Bai Chen was sure that only once had he brought Wu Jinhai into the pavilion.

Furthermore, the person holding the pavilion key was Bai Renshu, and Bai Chen returned the key to the older man after he managed to find enough information from the pavilion.

So, how did Wu Jinhai manage to find information about the Immortal Elder in the Wenxue Pavilion? Bai Chen couldn’t believe what Wu Jinhai had just said to him, and that was why he continued to stare at the man with his blue eyes filled with disbelief.

Seeing his reaction, Wu Jinhai chuckled before replying, “In the end, you are still naive, Bai Chen.” He suddenly mocked the Werewolf Prince. “It is true that only once did you take me to enter Wenxue Pavilion, and at that time, the pavilion was very dusty as it was locked from the outside for a long time and did not let anyone clean it. Back then, I told you to wait for me inside the pavilion when I went outside to find some clothes to cover our mouths, but you didn’t know that I managed to retrieve the key that was still on the door before making the copy of it, right? I managed to make a copy of the key, and I used the key to enter the pavilion when you weren’t paying attention.”

Bai Chen gasped when he heard the man’s long reply. “You are a thief, Wu Jinhai!” He immediately snapped at the man in red, and he once again looked annoyed after hearing the man’s confession.

He really didn’t expect Wu Jinhai to do such a thing to achieve his goal. Back then, Bai Chen even praised the man for being a good servant as the young man even took the initiative to look for clothes to protect his nose and mouth from the dust, but it turned out that the man had left him alone in the pavilion so that he would get a chance to make a copy of the key that was still hanging on the pavilion door.

Bai Chen gritted his teeth as he felt his head suddenly boil from what Wu Jinhai had just said, but then he could see how the man suddenly stretched out his hand before using it to tug at his chin to stop him from grinding his teeth.

“Stop grinding your teeth like that,” Wu Jinhai said. “You might accidentally cut your tongue if you keep grinding your teeth just to suppress your anger. If you’re mad at me, then you can slap me in the face instead of punishing yourself.”

Wu Jinhai suddenly sounded like a gentleman, right? He was even willing to accept punishment, and Bai Chen was in obedient mode this time as he, without hesitation, started to raise his hand before using it to slap Wu Jinhai hard and mercilessly in the face.