Chapter 14
“Get on.”
Her long boots stood steadily on the blade. A light breeze stirred the hair at her temples as she reached a hand out to Gu Chufu.
The ornaments on her body chimed softly. Gu Chufu grabbed that warm, soft hand at once, wrapped her arms around Shen Jingjun’s waist, and pressed the side of her face against Senior Sister’s soft back.
A faint medicinal fragrance drifted to the tip of her nose.
Gu Chufu held on a little too tightly. She could feel the sword beneath her feet faintly tingling. Damn it. This sword couldn’t conduct electricity too, could it?
Fortunately, she had stuffed several layers of insoles into her shoes. As a modern person, this was a habit Gu Chufu had brought with her from the modern world… Although the original body was not exactly short, who would refuse being a few centimeters taller?
Not only did this make her taller, it also protected her from electricity.
“Your coursework has regressed a great deal lately, Chufu. Don’t only think about food.”
“Have you already forgotten what happened with Elder Ruocao last time? If Zekun Jun had been there today, I might not have been able to protect you either.”
The voice that came from ahead was not especially stern. It could even be considered gentle. But only now did Gu Chufu truly experience just how much faster Shen Jingjun’s sword flight was compared to her turtle-speed riding.
As expected of Master’s eldest disciple. Even while flying through the air at such high speed, Shen Jingjun did not move at all. Her fingers were forming a spell seal, and she even had the spare energy to lecture her.
“Senior Sister, I know I was wrong… Can you fly a little slower?”
Fine. She was genuinely scared.
“Senior Sister… Senior Sister~”
Her tone carried a pitiful, pleading lilt. Gu Chufu felt that Eldest Senior Sister was simply making things difficult for her. She was only a modern person, after all. This speed was seriously beyond standard limits.
Gu Chufu hardly dared look down. The grand and magnificent buildings of the sect flashed past one after another. The glazed tiles looked about the size of mahjong pieces.
“Stop shouting. If you keep calling out, I’ll throw you down in a moment.”
The cool female voice ahead answered her.
Gu Chufu was so frightened that she swallowed a huge gulp of air straight into her stomach, filling her mouth with wind.
It choked her so badly that physiological tears sprang to her eyes.
Why was she so fierce!
It seemed Senior Sister still minded the fact that she had trespassed on Yuman Peak. Gu Chufu tightened her grip on the belt at Shen Jingjun’s waist.
“Senior Sister, are you…?”
Before she could finish speaking, because she had pulled too hard, she tore off the tassel Shen Jingjun had originally tied at her waist. Attached to it was a round jade pendant, white and emerald green blending together beautifully.
…It was over. Now there was really no explaining this.
One wave had yet to settle, and another had already risen.
“Gu Chufu, have I been too gentle with you lately?”
“Is that why you keep pushing your luck again and again?”
Clearly, Shen Jingjun had been thoroughly provoked. She drew in her sword and stopped on a barren mountain. Gu Chufu had no idea which peak this wild, buildingless mountain belonged to.
The moment her weak, trembling legs touched the ground, Gu Chufu finally felt as if she had gotten her life back. When she had flown slowly up the mountain earlier, she had not felt this way at all.
That had been like riding a sightseeing cart in the modern world.
Black boots stepped into the wild grass, crushing the tender green blades beneath them. Gu Chufu leaned against a rough tree trunk and dry-heaved several times.
Both hands braced on her knees, she only felt the world spinning around her.
Her entire body swayed as if she might collapse.
“Should I call you Gu Chufu, my junior sister… or is there someone else inside this body of yours?”
In an instant, cold light flashed before her eyes. A sharp sound tore past her ears, swift as thunder and impossible to dodge.
The blade glowing with purple lightning lifted her chin. Gu Chufu was forced to raise her head. Nervously, she swallowed. The edge of the sword scraped the skin beneath her jaw, and a faint line of red showed beneath her skin.
Shen Jingjun’s eyes were cold, yet her lips curved into a smile.
At this moment, she did not look like the eldest senior sister of a righteous sect. She looked more like a murderous demon, her entire body filled with killing intent, her eyes full of provocation.
“Who exactly are you?”
“If you don’t tell me, don’t blame me for being impolite… I never expected that Master, who dotes on you so much, failed to notice that the soul inside this body has changed.”
“What kind of evil technique did you use to seize my junior sister’s body right under my nose?”
She pressed closer step by step. Gu Chufu was forced back until she was tightly pressed against the tree trunk. The rough bark dug uncomfortably into her back.
Now she was truly done for. How had she been seen through by the native female lead right after transmigrating? What transmigrator was as unlucky as her?
Was she about to become a ghost beneath the female lead’s sword, her soul struck by lightning until she turned into a charred lump?
Truly, she had died before even achieving victory. Why was her fate even more miserable than Zhuge Liang’s?
No. She really had to think of something fast.
The female lead’s gaze looked more unfriendly the longer it went on. Gu Chufu’s legs were weak with fear, but she forced herself to stay calm.
Since the female lead had already seen through that she had transmigrated into this body and taken over the original owner’s shell, Gu Chufu could only take a desperate risk. In the original novel, although the female lead tolerated her junior sister in every way and their relationship was good in the early stage, the more the second female lead grew up, the more spoiled and unreasonable she became.
Although the author had not described it in detail, the relationship between the two should already have begun deteriorating before they met the male lead.
Starting from that point was the safest option.
“Senior Sister, then do you think the current me is better, or was your previous junior sister better?”
One sentence made Shen Jingjun freeze in place.
Seeing that this move had worked, Gu Chufu continued speaking.
Her body unconsciously leaned forward, and her fingers hooked around Shen Jingjun’s wrist. Her gesture was frivolous and teasing.
“Besides, I also know that the sect leader intends to find a good marriage for you, Senior Sister… You definitely don’t want to bear children for the young sect master, do you?”
Shen Jingjun was a peerless genius of her generation. How could she endure such humiliation? Marrying as someone’s wife and becoming a mother would inevitably damage her cultivation and harm her foundation.
Childbirth was also a gate of death that women struggled to cross.
She might even lose her life because of it.
Taishi Jian pestered her every day and had even gone to beg his father about it.
“Senior Sister… As long as we cook the rice before it’s done, then have Master make the decision and help the two of us become Dao companions, I imagine the sect leader wouldn’t want to cruelly break apart a pair of lovebirds, would he?”
Gu Chufu said this in an extremely shameless tone, full of confidence. This was the first half of the plot before the male lead appeared. Taishi Jian was also the second male lead of The Sect’s Number-One Chosen One, and like her, he counted as a vicious male supporting character.
Because he had taken a fancy to the female lead’s moon-hiding, flower-shaming, fish-sinking, goose-startling beauty, he clung to her relentlessly and tried to seize her by force. Naturally, in the early stages, readers hated him so much their teeth itched. Gu Chufu’s own character happened to be his female version: she had taken a fancy to the male lead’s sharp brows, bright eyes, handsome face, and heroic bearing, so she also clung to him relentlessly… and so on.
Of course, Gu Chufu knew the female lead would never dual cultivate with her.
But the reason she said this was merely to make the female lead consider using her as an excuse. That way, Shen Jingjun could evade the sect leader’s iron order.
After all, the two of them were both Fairy Yunjin’s disciples. If they were truly in love, then with their shared master standing between them, it would not be easy for the sect leader to interfere and forcibly demand a wife for his son.
As expected of someone with real ability.
Shen Jingjun withdrew her sword behind her.
Turning her back, she said gently,
“Let’s go, Junior Sister. You were just complaining that flying was tiring, so we’ll walk down and rest for a while.”
She completely brushed aside the conversation they had just had.
Gu Chufu knew that she had successfully persuaded the female lead.
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