To Slice Water with a Knife

"Sir, I have another question to ask you." Lei Jing displayed a slight uneasiness as she looked at this man that was made of starlight. The good thing was that Shen Lian did not come in the flesh and thus the mood was much more relaxed. Lei Jing looked at him and felt just slightly braver.

"Speak." Shen Lian emphatically and succinctly replied.

Lei Jing took a deep breath and straightened her body. Her beautiful swanlike neck was showing, and her eyes were like water from a cold spring night. She faintly asked him, "Sir, do you treat me this well because you want me to help you, or because you like me?"

Shen Lian replied, "In the end you still managed to ask that question. Let me tell you this. Since you are my student, as long as I have not chased you out of the martial sect, my duty is to teach you. You are not the first person to feel this way towards me."