...
Seeing his discomfiture, Qian Renxue was in a good mood and continued to translate for him slowly: "Can't answer again?
That means that no matter how heartless you say you are, when it really comes down to it, you just can't stand by and watch me die."
She moved closer, her voice low and dangerously seductive:
"One last question.
If I suddenly pounced on you and kissed you forcefully, would you be angry?
Would you hit me?"
"Cough cough cough—!"
Xuan Hao nearly choked on the tea he had just drunk.
He stared wide-eyed at Qian Renxue, completely bewildered by the woman's thought process.
"See? You still can't answer that."
Qian Renxue sat up straight, looking confident and as if she had seen through everything, and drew her conclusion for him:
"Then I'll say it for you. You'll be angry, but you will never hit me."
"Although you are a ruthless bastard who will stop at nothing, you will be merciless and ruthless when it comes to a life-or-death struggle, or even when you spar with me in the past.
But that's because of the specific logic of 'fighting'.
Apart from that special situation, in our usual interactions, you are actually reluctant to really hurt me."
Qian Renxue picked up her teacup and took a sip.
"And there's one more crucial point.
If I were to force a kiss on you, there's a very important prerequisite—"
"With your current terrifying cultivation level, and with your personality that refuses to suffer even the slightest loss, if you truly don't want to, who in this world can force you?
Who can get close to you?"
Qian Renxue stared intently into Xuan Hao's eyes and said, word by word, "So, if I really succeeded in forcibly kissing you, it wouldn't be because I forced you.
It only means... that you were willing in your subconscious! You just couldn't take the initiative because of your own 'heartless' persona.
So, deep down, you even secretly hoped that I would take the first step and take the initiative!"
"..."
Xuan Hao stared blankly at Qian Renxue's logically rigorous, even impeccable, reasoning, completely numb.
He couldn't help but reach out and, with a hint of annoyance, touched Qian Renxue's forehead:
"You don't have a fever, are you sick?"
Qian Renxue slapped his hand away, rolled her eyes at him, and looked on with a smug satisfaction at having won back the argument:
"What? You can't refute me when I analyze the problem entirely according to the set of realistic logic you taught me yesterday?"
Xuan Hao has one extremely infuriating trait: in his dealings with people and analyzing problems, he always follows his own absolutely rational and ruthless logical loop.
Moreover, in this logical deduction process, he completely blocks out any emotional interference.
However, this absolutely rational logic is also his greatest weakness.
If someone throws a tantrum or tries to express their love to him, he can use a thousand reasons to completely belittle them.
But once someone figures out his true intentions, uses his own logic to refute him, question him, and even arrives at a conclusion that he himself cannot deny...
He wouldn't act like a rogue and try to overturn his own theory.
He'll only be stumped by his own logic, speechless, and then feel guilty.
Seeing Xuan Hao's embarrassed and guilty expression, wanting to refute but unable to speak because he was trapped by logic, Qian Renxue finally felt a long-lost sense of relief.
Of course, Qian Renxue was also well aware that it was an extremely difficult, even dangerous, thing to completely suppress Xuan Hao, this freak, with words and logic.
First of all, this bastard's underlying logic is extremely rigorous and ruthless.
Ordinary people who follow his line of thinking will only find it impeccable and unable to find any loopholes to refute it.
Secondly, during the exchange, one must, like she did just now, press forward relentlessly, ask questions continuously, and firmly grasp the initiative in the dialogue.
Once you stop and give him back the opportunity to "reason," letting him launch into a long-winded speech, you'll never win an argument with him in your lifetime.
However, Qian Renxue knew even better that if she wanted to defeat Xuan Hao with logic, the above two points were just techniques.
The most crucial prerequisite was that this bastard had to be "willing" to reason with her today!
Xuan Hao is definitely not the kind of person who would throw a tantrum or act like a thug to overturn what he said yesterday when pushed to the limit.
However, this does not mean that he is a polite person who only talks to you about reason, no matter when or where.
On the contrary, this bastard harbors an extremely violent and ferocious nature deep down!
He will only patiently sit down and play a game of logical deduction with you if he doesn't want to resort to force to solve the problem and genuinely feels that he is "in the wrong" or "not in the right."
If you're reckless and simply want to logically win against him or suppress him, and your words are filled with strong aggression and malice...
He absolutely won't waste a single word on you.
The only way he'll respond is to punch you in the face until you shut up!
In Xuanhao's worldview, not everything can be explained by reason, nor does everything need to be explained by reason.
To give the most extreme example.
If one day, Na'er is bullied outside, even if she suffers only the slightest injustice.
When Xuanhao learns of this matter, he will definitely not act like a fair judge, but will instead investigate the cause and course of events to determine whether Na'er has done anything wrong or should bear some responsibility.
He doesn't care about right or wrong at all!
Whenever Na'er is bullied, Xuan Hao's only action is to fight back without hesitation!
Regardless of who bullied her or whether they were in the right or not.
At this moment, if anyone dares to stand up and try to argue with him about right and wrong using so-called "righteousness" or "morality," Xuan Hao will definitely pin that so-called rationalist to the ground and beat him to death!
This is Xuan Hao, a madman who is so protective of his own that he is unreasonable and can completely abandon all worldly logic for the sake of the people he cares about.
But now.
Faced with Qian Renxue's series of aggressive questions and her logical loop that clearly contained elements of "sophistry," Xuan Hao did not lose his temper or walk away.
Instead, he was truly speechless.
What does this tell us?
Qian Renxue held her teacup, concealing the smile on her lips.
This precisely demonstrates that Xuan Hao himself is guilty on this issue!
The only explanation for why he was willing to sit here and let her set him up step by step, ultimately choking him with her logic, is that deep down, he simply couldn't be truly heartless towards Qian Renxue!
The reason he deliberately kept his distance and even said so many hurtful things to her in the alley yesterday to drive her away was not because he really hated or loathed her.
It's because he's too clear-headed.
He was well aware that there was a huge and irreconcilable contradiction between their respective survival logics and their understanding of power and emotions.
Or to be more precise, given Xuan Hao's survival principle of only seeking his own happiness, he currently has no way to reconcile this contradiction that will inevitably bring trouble and pain.
Since he couldn't reconcile the two, he simply chose to cut the Gordian knot and avoid touching the issue from the start.
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