Admitting Feelings

"Do you like Shen Jie Li?"

Xue watched the young woman's face heat up but she shook her head, her voice was slightly strained as she tried to keep her voice serious and also authoritative. "M-Master Xue this is not a good method to extract information from me."

And so his way of information gathering was actually quite obvious to the young woman before her, and of course it would—he was no expert in subterfuge or anything of the like. If anything, he worried that his expressions and emotions were quite apparent on his face, but he still needed to press on. 

If not for useful information but out of his own interest.

"You could have still answered no first, why are you denying it?"