City's Tricks Are Deep (Please Keep Reading!)

"Here, have a taste."

Jiang Qianhai smiled as he handed the roasted rabbit to Xiao Wu, a demon seeming to lurk beneath that smile.

"If you're going to kill me, then kill me! Sister Xiao Wu isn't afraid to die! But you can't humiliate me!"

Xiao Wu glared at him. Making a rabbit eat rabbit was no different from forcing a person to eat human flesh... probably.

In any case, she, Xiao Wu, would never eat rabbit even if she died!

"Eat it, and I won't kill you."

"You'd better keep your word!"

Tears in her eyes, Xiao Wu bit into the crispy-skinned rabbit meat, apologizing nonstop to the rabbit in her heart.

I'm sorry, little rabbit. Sister Xiao Wu was forced by a demon. Sister Xiao Wu only wants to survive. I really don't want to eat rabbit.

I'll remember you. If Sister Xiao Wu manages to live, I'll definitely find a blessed place with good feng shui to bury your fur and organs.

Crunch~

"Mmph, munch munch."

While apologizing inwardly, Xiao Wu suddenly felt emptiness beneath her mouth.

"Huh? Why is it gone?"

Looking at the rabbit with only its skeleton left, Xiao Wu froze.

She subconsciously licked her lips, then her expression suddenly shook.

What was I just doing!

"It's over. I'm not clean anymore..."

Just as she was doubting her entire existence, that familiar aroma once again reached her mouth.

Subconsciously biting down, Xiao Wu chewed while furiously denouncing Jiang Qianhai.

"You're a demon, munch munch, actually making me, ah-woo, munch munch, making me eat rabbit. Do you, munch munch, have any idea this is the same as you eating a person, gulp!"

"Aren't you eating it pretty happily?"

Jiang Qianhai's words made Xiao Wu snap back to her senses.

"Am... am I?"

"..."

Xiao Wu fell silent for a moment, then looked pitifully at Jiang Qianhai. "You have to keep your word. You said you wouldn't kill me!"

"What did you come here for? I remember you're usually following behind Tang San, aren't you?"

"There are only three girls in the academy. Is it wrong for me to come play with them?"

Xiao Wu did not reveal her undercover mission. She knew that if she said it, this demon would definitely make a move against the three of them!

Jiang Qianhai looked at her suspiciously, making her feel increasingly guilty.

"My sixth sense tells me you're lying, and that your intentions aren't pure!"

Xiao Wu's heart lurched, and she hurriedly waved her hands. "H-how could that be? I'm a girl, after all. How can I always stay together with boys? Right?"

"You panicked."

Jiang Qianhai stared at Xiao Wu with dead-fish eyes. Just as she could not help wanting to flee in panic, Jiang Qianhai shifted his gaze away.

"You can make friends, but if I find out you've done anything bad, I believe you won't want to know what I'll do."

As soon as he said this, Xiao Wu gritted her teeth and agreed. As for what she would do when the time came, she would decide based on the situation.

If she was careless and Zhu Zhuqing noticed something off about her, then told Jiang Qianhai...

Oh-ho. Straight to game over.

She could only swear an oath in her heart.

I, Xiao Wu, will never forget today's humiliation! Just you wait, Jiang Qianhai! I'll get my revenge!

From today onward, she would forget her mission and sincerely befriend Zhu Zhuqing. From then on, she would infiltrate deep behind enemy lines and wait for a chance to backstab Jiang Qianhai!

After all, the friend I, Xiao Wu, am making is Zhu Zhuqing, not you, Jiang Qianhai!

After that, Jiang Qianhai did not bother with that old rabbit. He believed Zhu Zhuqing would handle it properly.

Having finally passed Jiang Qianhai's hurdle, Xiao Wu immediately let out a sigh of relief. Then she headed toward the place where Zhu Zhuqing was cultivating.

Very quickly, she found Zhu Zhuqing, who was carrying the Mystic Heavy Ruler on her back while using soul skills.

"Zhu Zhuqing!"

Xiao Wu walked up with a smile on her face.

Seeing Xiao Wu come looking for her, Zhu Zhuqing frowned. Not knowing what she wanted, she immediately asked directly.

"Do you need something from me?"

With her hands behind her back, Xiao Wu chuckled. "Look, in Shrek Academy, there are only three girls—you, me, and Ning Rongrong. You two are always together, and I want to join you too. After all, I can't really play with that group of boys on my own. It's very lonely."

At that moment, Xiao Wu's eyes looked as sincere as they possibly could. It wasn't entirely just polite talk, either; she really did have that thought herself.

But Zhu Zhuqing narrowed her eyes, then said, "Your motives aren't pure!"

Xiao Wu: !!!∑(Дノ)ノ

She was that sure?

Jiang Qianhai had relied on instinct, but when it came to Zhu Zhuqing, she had actually stated outright that Xiao Wu's motives weren't pure.

Why?

She didn't understand.

"Why would you say that?"

Clinging to a shred of luck, Xiao Wu asked.

Zhu Zhuqing said, "I guessed. But judging from your expression just now, I guessed right."

Xiao Wu was shocked again. Was everyone outside playing this dirty now?

Was this kind of psychological warfare really something a bunch of ten-year-old kids were supposed to be playing?

Xiao Wu said, unwilling to accept it, "I can't believe I was exposed so quickly. But your heart is so dirty, using a trick like that to bait me."

"So your intentions really are impure!"

Zhu Zhuqing's gaze instantly turned sharp. The two times just now had both been probes, and sure enough, she had probed it out directly.

Xiao Wu: щ(゜ロ゜щ)

So it could get even dirtier!

Whoosh—

A gust of wind struck her head-on. Zhu Zhuqing suddenly made her move, the tip of the Mystic Heavy Ruler stopping right in front of Xiao Wu and scaring her so badly she nearly squatted down on the ground.

Zhu Zhuqing shouted coldly, "Talk! What is your purpose in approaching me!"

Xiao Wu swallowed and fell into inner turmoil. Whether she said it or not, this matter wouldn't end well; in fact, saying it might get her killed even faster.

As for fighting back? She would be washed away in the next second if she did. After all, Jiang Qianhai was still not far away.

Run? Could she get away?

As heaven and man warred inside her mind, Xiao Wu finally slumped to her knees, unable to stop herself from regretting taking this mission.

What was wrong with these two people!

One suspected her based on a sixth sense, and the other was like some undercover spy.

What was the point of plotting anything against this? Forget it. If she died, she died!

"I came to ruin the love between you and Jiang Qianhai. If you want to kill me, then kill me!"

But the pain she had imagined did not arrive. Instead, Zhu Zhuqing's voice rang out again.

"Kill you? Did I ever say I was going to kill you?" Zhu Zhuqing slung the Mystic Heavy Ruler back onto her back again. "Keep talking. Who ordered you to come ruin the relationship between Jiang Qianhai and me?"

Xiao Wu stayed silent.

Zhu Zhuqing smiled lightly.

"Let me guess. Tang San? He should be involved. Maybe not just him, either. Someone who doesn't have a good relationship with us... there's also Yu Xiaogang, right?"

Xiao Wu's face instantly turned ashen.

She had been seen through!

"Why can't it be something I wanted to do myself? Is it not allowed for me to be unable to stand seeing you two being lovey-dovey?"

Zhu Zhuqing gave her a meaningful look, the meaning being: with that brain of yours, you could think that far?

She continued asking, "Are you willing to die for those two?"

Xiao Wu thought back on the six years she had spent together with Tang San, but when it came to this mission, that made her much less certain.

"Probably... maybe... willing, I guess."

"So that means you don't want to die."

"Uh... if I can avoid dying, I'd still like to live."

"Then give me a reason that can make me spare your life."

Xiao Wu's face fell, and she gritted her teeth.

"Um, when you reach rank 90, can I give you a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and soul bone?"

Thanks to Bouquet Under the Starry Sky for two monthly tickets! Thanks to Diao Da Xiao Cai Zhen Sun Huang and the Others Are All My Wives for one monthly ticket!