"If you're trying to provoke me into revealing something, you're wasting your time," Li Hua retorted, though she couldn't quite suppress a shiver at how accurately he'd read her nature.
"Am I?" His smile widened slightly. "Then why does your pulse race when I mention killing? Why do your eyes sharpen at the prospect of violence?" He leaned even closer, his voice barely a whisper now. "Why does your spiritual essence carry echoes of deaths you haven't dealt in this lifetime?"
Li Hua remained still, her instincts warring with the urge to maintain her facade. "You see too much," she finally said, her voice equally soft but carrying an edge of warning.