Chapter 11
During the day, Yun Ningqing left Mingguang Peak, and when she returned, she held a jade slip and explained to Ji Linglu all sorts of major and minor events outside Qingxuan Sect but within the cultivation world, allowing Ji Linglu to know the affairs of the world without taking even a single step outside.
Yun Ningqing’s voice was like jade striking jade, clear and pleasant to the ear. And because the student before her was her own precious darling who did not love studying, it carried a few more traces of tenderness. If one did not listen to the content and simply listened to her speak, it was indeed a pleasure.
In one ear and out the other. Knowledge slid past like running water. Ji Linglu could only focus on admiring Yun Ningqing’s moist, bright-red lips as they opened and closed, her mind filled entirely with how wonderful they would feel after she kissed them. Her eyes reddened just thinking about it, and she could only rub them in unsatisfied frustration.
Eating only vegetarian food and having tasted meat were simply two completely different states.
Ji Linglu admired herself very much right now. She really could endure.
She did not want to listen to some rotten matter about which Venerable had fought which Zhenren for three hundred rounds. She only wanted to plunge headfirst into Yun Ningqing’s arms and become a little ostrich.
Yun Ningqing had predicted her restlessness in advance and pressed a finger against her eager little head. “No cheating. Listen carefully.”
Ji Linglu sighed reluctantly, her expression terribly aggrieved.
The system was delighted by the sight. Little thing, so there is someone who can control you after all.
Serves you right!
This was the silent and tacit exchange between them.
—Yun Ningqing would not force Ji Linglu to accept missions and leave the sect for training, but Ji Linglu had to understand the changes in the cultivation world’s situation, lest after leaving the sect, she knew nothing at all and was left completely blind.
Once one became a cultivator, especially a disciple or student of a major sect, life was not only cultivation and fighting. There were also all kinds of worldly relationships and social dealings. At the very least, one had to remember the names, appearances, and other information of various powerful experts and their descendants and disciples, as well as whether the relationships between different forces were cooperative or hostile, and how they affected the cultivation world. Otherwise, going out and provoking a powerful enemy right away would not do.
On this point, Yun Ningqing’s worries were very farsighted. She understood Ji Linglu far too well and knew that once Ji Linglu was released outside, she would deal a major blow to the cultivation world.
In her previous life, even before Ji Linglu became Yunzhong Jun, her reputation in the cultivation world had already been quite poor. Although she did not like taking the initiative to stir up trouble, unfortunately, she had a face that looked far too noble, and her nature was arrogant and conceited. She did not like looking people directly in the eye, ordinary people could not enter her sight at all, and when she spoke to outsiders, her words naturally carried mockery. It was very easy for her to drive people mad with anger until they wanted to duel her.
However, Ji Linglu had an extremely good opinion of herself and had no intention of changing at all. In the Mingguang Peak lineage, only she and Senior Sister remained, with no third person. Yun Ningqing was already gentle enough. If Ji Linglu were not a little more fierce, Mingguang Peak and the two Senior and Junior Sisters would probably have long since been swallowed whole by others.
Was that bullshit protagonist gong not approaching her Senior Sister with this exact idea in mind?
That ghostly thing was also a creature helping the tiger commit evil!
Kill!
Ji Linglu’s eyes reddened again. This time, merely rubbing her eyes could no longer suppress the hostility and killing intent in her heart. She could only close her eyes, pick up Yun Ningqing’s hand, and place it against her own temple.
“Listening is making my head hurt. Senior Sister, rub it for Lulu.”
The system became obedient in one second. Although it did not know what the vicious host had thought of, the subtle atmosphere in the air was obviously wrong. Its code shivered from fright, and it did not even dare make any jokes. It did not want to draw Ji Linglu’s attention at all.
Although it had never had any other host before, it now dared to assert that Ji Linglu was definitely the most moody and unpredictable host in its system career, bar none!
Under Yun Ningqing’s fair hand, Ji Linglu’s expression gradually eased.
Having raised such a delicate and fussy Junior Sister, Yun Ningqing could be called a master of all trades when it came to miscellaneous skills. Otherwise, she would never have been able to satisfy Ji Linglu’s various strange and unusual requests.
Behind every troublesome Junior Sister was a Senior Sister who had worried herself sick.
The system gave this famous painting of Yunyin Continent a title—A Mad Dog Chained with Iron Links.
“Senior Sister, keep talking.”
Yun Ningqing stopped talking about those difficult, obscure things and instead switched to gossip from the cultivation world, wanting to help Ji Linglu relax a little.
She spoke of how the Palace Master of Xuanbing Palace had made a close friend despite their difference in age, and they regarded each other as intimate confidantes; how the daughter of Fuyao City’s City Lord insisted on running away from home and fooling around with a lowly concubine-born daughter; how Zhenren Zixia’s disciple had gone down the mountain for training, only for both herself and her storage ring to be seized by thieves…
Ji Linglu frowned. She felt that something was wrong. Her intuition was frantically warning her that among these people, there was definitely someone connected to the Battle of Baima Pass. But she simply could not recall the key point.
The system carefully observed Ji Linglu’s expression and could not help becoming smug. [Didn’t you say you were going to trouble the protagonist gong? I didn’t expect that a sister-obsessed brain like you would actually have a bit of ambition. Unfortunately, this system is still one move ahead!]
[—I already blocked your memories related to the protagonist gong.]
Let’s see how Ji Linglu could use the protagonist gong to threaten it now!
“Idiot.”
Ji Linglu sneered. “Has it ever occurred to you that from beginning to end, I knew you had left traces behind?”
“That precious bitch of yours is nothing more than an unknown nobody right now. Mingguang Peak has nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine steps. Even if she climbed, she still could not reach me and Senior Sister. You would definitely hide her away carefully to prevent me from killing her to vent my anger. Am I wrong?”
Besides, why would she remember such a petty person? With that time, she might as well strengthen her relationship with Senior Sister!
[Ah? Aaaaaah! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!]
It lost again!
The battle-lane system and host were still locked in fiery combat today!
The system stubbornly insisted, [You got one thing wrong! As the Vicious Female Supporting Character Reform System, this system’s main goal is to reform the vicious female supporting character and make the relationship between the vicious female supporting character and the protagonist shou into positive, healthy family affection and friendship. It does not include protecting the protagonist gong’s safety!]
A system could lose, but it could not lose momentum.
In truth, the system itself felt rather guilty. Although that was what it said, as a system from the Main God Space’s plot-maintenance category, if the progress of reforming the vicious female supporting character remained far out of reach, perhaps the Main God would assign it to the protagonist gong’s side to help her pursue the protagonist shou…
But at least that had not happened yet!
The system itself was also acting against its will. The vicious host did not know how to show the system even a little understanding!
But was the vicious host not a little too smart? She looked violent-tempered, obsessive, and insane, as if all her joy and anger showed plainly on her face, but in truth, she was extremely shrewd. Even when she secretly discovered something wrong, she remained perfectly calm.
Would it, the protagonist gong, and the protagonist gong’s confidantes all added together be a match for the host?
No, that was not right either. It and the host were not enemies. It was not the one in a hurry to marry a wife and become Mingguang Peak’s daughter-in-law. It would be better to let the protagonist gong worry about that alone.
Just as Ji Linglu was about to retort again, a warm finger landed between her brows, pressing against her cinnabar mole and gently smoothing away the crease between her brows.
“You’re so young. Why are you frowning?”
Ji Linglu immediately climbed up the pole. “I don’t want to listen to all these messy, rotten matters. I want Senior Sister to kiss Lulu.”
A helpless look flashed through Yun Ningqing’s gentle amber eyes. She did not say yes or no, merely leaned down and brought herself closer to Ji Linglu’s face.
Between them, their breaths mingled.
“Be good. Close your eyes.”
Ji Linglu subconsciously obeyed, not even having time to ask whether Senior Sister was calling her “good girl” or telling her to obediently close her eyes.
Once her sight was gone, her hearing, smell, and touch were magnified endlessly. The faint, elegant fragrance of spring tidings in snow on Yun Ningqing’s body, her shallow breathing, the soft rustling of her clothes rubbing together, and Ji Linglu’s own fast, vigorous heartbeat all became deafening…
Until the next instant, when damp lips kissed her eye.
At the same time, the system’s inhuman scream rang out.
[Beast! Hurry and let go of that protagonist shou!]
Ji Linglu spread both hands to show her innocence. After opening her eyes, she looked at Yun Ningqing before her with a bright, mischievous smile.
She said nothing, but the mockery was overwhelming.
It would have been better if she had not done that. The moment she did, the system collapsed even more!
Could it not tell that the protagonist shou had taken the initiative to kiss the vicious host? It simply could not accept such a painful fact!
The system wished it could grab the protagonist shou by the shoulders and shake her, telling her to stop spoiling a two-hundred-something-year-old giant baby!
Yunzhong Jun certainly had faults, but Yun Ningqing had led Yunzhong Jun down a path where Senior Sister was no longer merely Senior Sister, and wife was not yet wife. Did Yun Ningqing have no fault at all? She was gravely mistaken!
Soft-heartedness was an illness!
“Qingqing.”
Yun Ningqing lowered her eyes to look at her, as if asking what was wrong.
“Nothing. I just wanted to call you.”
In truth, the emotions in her heart were surging too violently, shaking her internal organs until they trembled. She could only rely on a bit of outside force to vent them faintly.
“Senior Sister is here.” Yun Ningqing reacted a beat late and realized that the Qingqing Ji Linglu had called was this intimate “Qingqing,” not the other “Qingqing.” She patted Ji Linglu’s smug head, lowered her lashes, and swallowed a sigh. “Lulu is a little bad egg.”
Ji Linglu smiled innocently and brilliantly, yet her phoenix eyes faintly carried a sharp edge. Her aura spread outward, and the look she gave Yun Ningqing could not hide that sense of being determined to win.
The system had to admit that the vicious female supporting character was far too outstanding in appearance. If she stood together with the protagonist gong, the person everyone noticed first would absolutely not be the protagonist gong.
“Qingqing.”
“Mm.”
“I don’t want to leave Mingguang Peak, or leave you.”
As long as Ji Linglu wanted, everything belonging to Yunzhong Jun could be picked back up at any time. But the ordinary, gentle time she spent together with Yun Ningqing was a treasure that no number of Yunzhong Jun inheritances could ever exchange for.
Once she left Qingxuan Sect and reclaimed Yunzhong Jun’s inheritance, she would inevitably encounter that big bitch and many little bitches afterward. After all, there were still bitches watching greedily from the side, waiting to replace her and take possession of everything on Mingguang Peak. Just thinking about it was annoying. It would be better to crush them to death early.
“Then Senior Sister will accompany Lulu.”
[Bzzzt—] The system tenaciously drew Ji Linglu’s attention and asked curiously, [Aren’t you afraid others will say that you’re already so grown up and still not weaned, that you even need Senior Sister to protect and escort you when you leave the sect for training?]
Ji Linglu was very disdainful. “Face? What use is such an inconvenient thing!”
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