By moonlight, Jiang Lin climbed in through the window. Seeing the sleeping girl still lying on her side in bed, Jiang Lin had changed back into the same women's clothing before returning to the inn. The previous outfit had been drenched in blood by Xiao Xueli and was no longer wearable.
After touching up the feminine makeup on his face, Jiang Lin lay back down on the bed.
The moonlight shifted quietly. Just as Jiang Lin, truly exhausted, had fallen into a sound sleep, the girl beside him stirred her long eyelashes. A pair of eyes like black agate slowly opened.
Rising up, Lin Qingwan wrinkled her little nose and sniffed Jiang Lin's hair, then sniffed his neck.
There was the scent of another woman! And those clothes looked new, too!
The girl angrily furrowed her pretty brows and bit straight down on Jiang Lin's ear.
"Fuck!"
Jiang Lin cried out in pain, jolting awake from his dream, but immediately reacted and covered his own mouth.
From the corner of his eye, he glanced at his Senior Sister beside him. She was sleeping face-down on his shoulder. He had no idea what she had dreamed about to bite his ear just now.
She hadn't bitten very hard, but it was itchy and quite uncomfortable.
"Senior Sister... Senior Sister..."
Jiang Lin called softly, but received no response. He gently pushed at his Senior Sister's little head, only for her arm to lock around his neck...
In the end, Jiang Lin gave up...
During the latter half of the night, Jiang Lin woke four or five times in total. It wasn't only his ear—his neck, shoulder, and even face had all been gnawed on by his Senior Sister. Jiang Lin truly wanted to get out of bed, but his Senior Sister had him locked in place. It wasn't until past the middle of Chou Hour that he finally fell sound asleep.
"Senior Sister Lin, Junior Sister Jiang, it's time for us to go take the test. Senior Sister..."
At dawn, a female disciple of Dragon Gate Sect called out from outside. Jiang Lin opened his eyes groggily, and as soon as he came to, he saw Lin Qingwan lying on his chest like a little cat, gazing at him.
The girl wore a faint smile. Her dark hair had come loose but still draped neatly over her slender, delicate back. Her eyes blinked again and again as she stared at Jiang Lin, as though she could never get tired of looking at him.
"Senior Sister... it's time to get up... Junior Sister Jiang..."
The female disciple of Dragon Gate Sect outside continued calling. Inside the room, Jiang Lin and the girl gazed at each other. For some reason, Jiang Lin felt rather flustered.
"Elder Sister Lin... I... I'll go open the door..."
Jiang Lin spoke in a fake feminine voice and rose to open the door.
"Oh? Is Junior Sister really planning to open the door like this?"
Lin Qingwan remained sprawled atop Jiang Lin, looking at him. Her gentle voice was like a little devil whispering in his ear.
"What does Elder Sister Lin mean? Jiang Xin doesn't quite understand."
Jiang Lin looked as steady as an old dog on the surface, but inside, he was panicking like mad.
"You don't know?"
Lin Qingwan smiled faintly and slipped her slender hand inside Jiang Lin's collar.
Jiang Lin followed the girl's shameless hand downward and looked. Fuck! My chest...
No, wait... My buns had been eaten by me last night! I'd forgotten to find something to replace them!
"Elder Sister Lin... I..."
"Senior Sister... Senior Sister... are you there? Senior Sister..."
Cold sweat had already sprung onto Jiang Lin's forehead. Just as he racked his brains for an explanation, the female disciple outside continued calling.
"I'm here. Junior Sister Jiang and I are already up and doing our makeup. We'll be down shortly."
"Well... Senior Sister, you should've said you were up. Then I'll go downstairs first and wait for you and Junior Sister Jiang."
"Mm."
As the light footsteps faded away, Jiang Lin looked at the girl beside him, who still wore a smile, and grew increasingly flustered.
"What does Junior Sister Jiang want to explain to me?"
"Senior Sister..." Jiang Lin silently squeezed out two streams of tears. "What if I said that I've been flat-chested since childhood and was mocked for it, especially by my older brother, so I felt a little inferior and used buns to cover up my shortcoming? Then last night, I accidentally got hungry and ate those two buns. Would you believe me?"
"I believe you, of course I do." Lin Qingwan's thoughts stirred, and a bronze mirror flew past the Dressing Table before landing in her small palm.
She raised the bronze mirror before Jiang Lin. In an instant, the cold sweat on Jiang Lin's back had already soaked through his clothes...
In the mirror, all the makeup Jiang Lin had painstakingly reapplied last night had been washed away. When he lifted the covers and looked at his clothing, he realized that he was wearing nothing but a pair of briefs... His eight-pack abs, trained to the extreme until they had become one seamless whole, were exposed to the air...
He touched his throat and found that the black silk ribbon collar he had used to conceal his Adam's apple was gone, too...
"Well now... Junior Brother Jiang." Lin Qingwan pinned Jiang Lin down onto the pillow. "Are you actually human or a ghost?"
"Senior Sister, I think I can still explain this."
Lin Qingwan lifted her sleeve and gently wiped the cold sweat from Jiang Lin's forehead. "Mm, you can explain it. However, according to the sect rules, you stole the Dragon Vein and deceived your fellow disciples, so your Senior Sister has prepared something for you."
The girl gestured lightly toward the floor with her eyes.
In front of the bed, a Washboard had appeared at some point.
"Beast! Brute! Hentai!"
Inside a room at an inn, a girl finished regulating her injured condition and exhaled a deep breath of foul air. She then hugged a pillow to her chest, raised her little fists, and repeatedly hammered the pillow...
"All right, all right. It's not as though you were merely kissed? You're a girl, after all. This sort of thing was bound to happen sooner or later."
Inside the girl's body, the voice of a Mature Woman Type entered her mind.
"What do you mean, 'merely'? Senior Sword Spirit, that was Xueli's first... first... Argh! I'm so mad! What do you mean the Sun Moon Divine Sect only attacks the heart and doesn't kill? What do you mean there are distinctions even among people from the Demon Sect? He was lusting after my body! He was despicable!"
The girl named Xiao Xueli grew angrier the more she thought about it and continued venting her fury on the pillow.
"All right, all right. He actually humiliated you last night, so we'll turn that humiliation into motivation! He's a Sword Cultivator, too. When the time comes, challenge him to a duel and chop his head off!"
"Ah... Senior, wouldn't killing him be going too far? Besides, you were the one who promised him that he could make one request. After all, he... he saved... saved me..."
"Hehehe... Looks like our little girl has fallen head over heels."
"Senior!!!"
"All right, all right. We definitely have to teach that fellow a lesson. If you don't run into him, then so be it. But if you do, give him a good beating."
"Mm!" The girl clenched her little fists tightly. "I'll definitely beat him black and blue!"
"Actually, Xueli, that person seems pretty decent. We do need revenge, of course, but we can't cast aside everything else. Xueli, you don't really have feelings for him, do you..."
"No, Senior. I'm grateful that he risked his life to save me, but I also hate his rudeness toward me. Besides, taking revenge for the sect is my only wish right now. Cultivating diligently is my entire life. As for matters of love, I have no heart for them anymore."
"Mm, good. As expected of my disciple. During this Sect Grand Tournament, in that Secret Realm, once you find my true body, that will be the true beginning of our revenge."
"Yes, Senior!"
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