The maid, seeing Mu Anxiao remain silent, also began to doubt her own feelings.
Instead, Mu Anxiao stared at the maid for a few seconds before turning around, deliberately looking towards Feng Qishi's group.
The maid, seeing this, asked, "Can she see me?" She then looked down at Jia.
Jia shrugged his shoulders, intentionally letting her guess.
Seeing Jia's ambiguous expression, the maid thought for a moment and then asked, "Are you a Yin Shi?"
"Mm," Jia nodded.
Seeing that Jia was a child, the maid harbored no suspicion and continued, "Then are you here to take me away?"
"Why are you talking so much?" Jia said coldly.
The maid was taken aback and asked, "Are you annoyed with me?"
Earlier, when Jia had approached, the maid had not said a word and had remained gloomy. Therefore, he had thought she was a relatively quiet girl and had felt pity for her.
He had then intended to bring her over to hear Mu Anxiao's opinion.
Who knew... after arriving, Mu Anxiao had started to act strangely. This had instantly overwhelmed Jia.
However, despite this, he respected Mu Anxiao's thoughts and said mildly, "No."
"No, then why..."
"Go and see yourself," Jia interrupted deliberately, intending to confuse the maid's thoughts.
However, as the maid had followed Jia over, she had just happened to see Mu Anxiao turn around. Because of this, she had thought Jia knew Mu Anxiao and that Mu Anxiao could see her.
After all this... she had been overthinking.
"You brought me here just to let me see myself."
"Mm, the Yin Shi who will take you is not here yet. I brought you over only to prevent you from getting lost and becoming a wandering spirit. Now," Jia said, "there's nothing else to do. Since that's the case, go and see yourself."
The maid listened to Jia's arrangements and lowered her gaze.
Jia looked confused: "What, you don't want to see yourself?"
"I don't want to see," the maid said softly.
Jia: "Why? This is your last attachment to the mortal world, aren't you going to look?"
"I want to live," the maid suddenly said.
Jia was stunned.
Over there.
Mu Anxiao stopped behind them and clearly heard the maid's words. She then slightly tilted her head, hesitating whether to speak to the maid.
"What are you thinking about?" Mai Liang asked, coming up beside Mu Anxiao.
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao glanced at Mai Liang and remained silent.
Unexpectedly, the maid happened to see Mai Liang speaking with Mu Anxiao and said, "That's not right."
"..." Jia was startled and looked up at the maid's face.
Subsequently, the maid lowered her head and looked at Jia. "She isn't human, why can Mu Xiao talk to her? Then, by that logic, she," her eyes filled with hope, "can she see me too?"
"Do you really want her to see you?" Jia suddenly couldn't understand the maid anymore.
The maid: "Mm, I hope so."
"Why?" Jia asked again.
The maid thought for a moment and said, "To be honest, the reason I followed you here is because," she looked at Mai Liang, who was standing beside Mu Anxiao, and said, "I just saw you talking to her. But Mu Xiao's actions made me doubt what I saw. However, now I believe my eyes, so I think she must be able to see me." Her tone was firm.
"You can see."
"Why are you so calm?" the maid was surprised.
Jia crossed his arms, glanced at Mu Anxiao's back, and shouted, "Hey, she saw us talking. If you keep pretending, it's probably meaningless." He had been silent initially because he thought the maid hadn't noticed his conversation with Mu Anxiao. Now, hearing the maid say that, he felt there was no need to maintain any mystery.
Mai Liang: "That kid is calling you." She nudged Mu Anxiao's arm.
Mu Anxiao had not responded to the maid for two reasons: first, because there were too many people; second, she was worried that Mu Hua and Madam would see this and use it as an excuse, thus harming Mai Xia.
Before this, she had thought Jia understood her meaning, but she hadn't expected... she had overestimated Jia's intelligence.
Immediately after, she glanced at them and, after confirming they hadn't noticed her, turned sideways to look at Jia and the maid, waving her hand.
Jia: "You want us to leave?"
The maid was taken aback and said, "Why should we leave? You need to help me."
Mu Anxiao's lips curled, and she waved her hand again.
This time, Jia understood Mu Anxiao's meaning and said, "Let's go, it's not convenient here." He shifted his gaze to the maid's face.
The maid looked, then thought about the current situation, and said, "Alright, I'll listen to you."
"Mm," Jia nodded, deliberately waving his arm to send a cool breeze towards them, and walked ahead.
The maid nodded at Mu Anxiao and turned away.
At the same time, Mai Liang, after clearly seeing the maid's face, quickly turned back and exclaimed, "It's this maid."
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao shifted her gaze to Mai Liang's face.
Mai Liang withdrew her gaze, looked up to meet Mu Anxiao's eyes, and said, "In that case, she must know the killer."
Mu Anxiao nodded.
"I'll go take a look," Mai Liang said, glanced at the silent Mai Xia, and turned to catch up with them.
After Mai Liang left, Mu Anxiao turned to look at Mai Xia, who was not interacting with them and deliberately maintaining silence, and took a step back.
Mu Gui thought that once Feng Qishi spoke, Mai Xia would tell the truth. Unexpectedly, after Feng Qishi's words, she fell completely silent. Looking at her, Mu Gui showed an impatient expression, "Are you going to remain silent like this forever?"
Hearing this, Mai Xia slowly raised her eyes to look at Mu Gui, who had turned his attention to her, and said, "Master, I don't understand what you're saying."
"You don't understand? You killed my people and are now playing dumb. What is your intention?" Mu Hua deliberately expressed his sorrow to shift the suspicion away from himself.
Madam, seeing Mu Hua speak, also said, "Exactly. Mai Xia, I always said you liked interacting with people around us. So all along, you were planning this."
Hearing this, Mai Xia still looked at the sarcastic Madam with confusion and said, "Madam, what do you mean? Tell me, what have I planned?"
"You planned for Mu Xiao to enter the palace and steal all the limelight from my daughter. But your scheme, coincidentally," Madam looked down at the maid and then dabbed at the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, "this maid overheard everything, so you used them to kill her. You are too cruel." She shook her head slightly.
Mai Xia remained silent, instead shifting her gaze to the faces of the two servants.
The first servant, seeing Mai Xia looking at him, quickly said, "Yes, that's right, Master. That's what she told us."
Mu Gui, upon hearing this, glared furiously at Mai Xia.
Mai Xia did not lower her head, but stared blankly at Mu Gui. What could she say?
This was the third lie the first servant had fabricated that night.
Therefore, seeing the first servant's blatant lying, Feng Qishi thought for a moment and said coldly, "Life is at stake. Since that's the case, I'll take her away first." He looked at Mai Xia.