Qing Dai felt utterly stifled.
He looked at Ma Ran as if he were mentally unstable, opened his mouth, but didn't know where to start.
The prepared lines and painstakingly crafted evidence were completely dismissed by Ma Ran's one sentence.
He wanted to refute but didn't know where to begin.
If Ma Ran hadn't responded with such a reckless answer, but instead tried to clear the suspicion on him, Qing Dai would have been more than ninety percent certain of leading him astray, thereby gaining control of the narrative and turning defense into offense.
But Ma Ran didn't do that.
The sentence "The problem is, I am the True Demon" left Qing Dai utterly bewildered.
Only now did he realize that Ma Ran's achievement wasn't merely due to brute strength.
His strategies and calculations are hard to describe, but this ability to pierce through appearances and directly touch the essence truly made Qing Dai's scalp tingle with anxiety.
