Underworld Player Chapter 121 - Beings from Another Dimension

"How did you know?" said the young girl sullenly.

After trying and failing to get away by strength alone, she had suddenly given up struggling and now resigned herself to being imprisoned.

"My disguise should have been impossible to see through! Even her closest family could never detect the difference, so how did you?"

"Not important right now. Instead, answer me this: why have you been impersonating her time and again?" countered Bai Zhi, turning his attention from the person in the seat across the aisle to the girl sitting in his lap, who was so small that he could pin both her arms to her sides with one arm.

Nothing had prepared him to learn that this was the true form of the supernatural entity that had been haunting him all this time. She had scarlet eyes set in a face so refined she gave off the air of a princess in perfect makeup, and her snow-white hair matched the dress she wore. In short, it was light-years away from how he had expected her to look.

Then again, there was that little boy that Wu Hua had dispatched with his explosive punch... So perhaps it should not have been so surprising.

"What do you mean time and again?! I only ever did it once! This is only the second time..."

The girl squirmed uncomfortably within Bai Zhi's vice-like embrace.

"To think she's so enamored with you, but you so distrustful of her that you even set a trap like this! Are you not ashamed of such despicable, underhanded conduct?"

"Enamored?" Bai Zhi looked quizzically at her. "You must be mistaken. Why should she be... 'enamored', as you say, with me? Every time she's seen me, she can't seem to get away fast enough... How about you tell me about every single time you've approached me in a disguise, down to the date, time and who you disguised yourself as?"

Bai Zhi frowned as he scoured his own memories for clues.

"Including this time, I've only approached you three times! The first was that teacher, Mr. Something-or-other Wong—then you turned me into your house servant!

"The second time was that morning at the b

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