I Really Do Want to Die...

[The system's voice rang out... Attribute panel activated.]

[Name: Jiang Lin]

[Realm: Peak Cave Mansion Realm]

[Skills: Unlimited Blade Works: I am the Bone of My Sword (Initiate), Return My Beauty Fist (Half-Initiate), Sun Moon Dual Cultivation Great Art (Proficient but Incomplete), Dragon Gate Swordplay (Half-Complete)]

[Notoriety Points: 2,000.]

[Constitution: Always able to attract villain events and protagonists.]

The system's voice slowly rang out in Jiang Lin's mind. His consciousness gradually recovered, and red firelight reflected across his eyelids.

"Who are you?"

"Who are you?"

"You fox spirit, why are you getting close to my Jiang Lin? Are you after his body?!"

"I'm his Senior Sister. It's only right that I take care of him!"

"Senior Sister? I think you don't just want to be my Jiang Lin's Senior Sister, do you?"

"So what if I do?! What's it to you?!"

"Little Lin is mine!"

"Yours?! What gives you the right to say he's yours?"

Faintly, what sounded like an argument drifted into his ears, but his consciousness was too hazy, and Jiang Lin simply couldn't make out what they were saying. Besides, it was far too noisy.

He blearily opened his eyes and saw two pairs of long legs swaying back and forth in front of him. His head spun...

"Stop moving... Stop arguing..."

Slowly closing his eyes and enduring the dizziness, Jiang Lin spoke weakly.

But Jiang Lin's voice was simply too soft, quickly drowned out by the two girls' squabbling. After a while, the two girls froze slightly, then turned toward the feeble Jiang Lin and hurriedly pounced on him, embracing him.

"Little Lin! Thank goodness, you're all right. Thank goodness!"

"Junior Brother, you scared me to death. I'm sorry, it's all my fault, all my fault..."

He felt his breathing grow difficult. Before long, he became short of breath and oxygen-starved, then fainted once more.

If the two girls hadn't noticed in time that Jiang Lin had stopped struggling and hurriedly separated, it would almost certainly have become a murder case.

"Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?"

When he opened his eyes again, Jiang Lin found himself leaning against a wall. The surroundings appeared to be a cave, with a pile of firewood burning inside... and two girls staring at him.

He remembered that he seemed to have woken up once before... but perhaps he hadn't...

"You're awake."

The girl named Lin Qingwan looked coldly at Jiang Lin. With her slender hand, she tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. Perhaps it was because of the firelight, but Senior Sister Lin's face seemed somewhat flushed.

"Mm... I'm awake..."

Looking at the cold Lin Qingwan, Jiang Lin swallowed and thought that he might be about to die, though it wasn't as if he had never died before...

"How are you feeling, Young Master Jiang?"

On the other side, another woman asked softly.

Taking a close look at the girl's face, Jiang Lin found that she wasn't particularly breathtaking, and her figure wasn't especially impressive either. Yet she was clean and delicate, standing with the graceful poise of the girl next door and giving off a spring-breeze warmth.

"I feel fine..."

He shook his head. Other than his head feeling a little cold and his Spiritual Power having been drained dry, everything was quite all right.

However...

"Where is this?"

Looking at the two girls and the cave, Jiang Lin recalled what had happened before. He only remembered provoking all the major sects, after which more than a hundred people had flown toward him, intent on taking his head.

And he had already been prepared to die once.

But he hadn't expected to be knocked into the Secret Realm by the two girls.

Judging from the situation, it seemed that the two of them were Senior Sister Lin and this girl.

But why had Senior Sister Lin saved him? And why had this girl saved him too? Did he know her?

Know her my ass.

Wait! Could this girl be the protagonist?!

"And who are you, miss?"

"This is a cave within the Bewildering Secret Realm. Because the environment here differs from the outside world, Young Master Jiang had no preparations when he entered and fainted from acclimatization. This young lady and this older sister carried you here.

"Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Cai Xie. I'm merely a Wild Mountain Cultivator. When Young Master Jiang stood with his sword suspended before all the sects, you were dashing beyond words, and this young lady was captivated by your heroic bearing. When Young Master Jiang was in danger, I didn't think too much about it and simply embraced you and charged into the Bewildering Secret Realm with you."

"Th... Thank you..."

Jiang Lin's head was still somewhat muddled. What was going on? Captivated by his heroic bearing? Wasn't he just courting death in front of all the major sects? He could actually have fangirls?

Though... it seemed that some girl really had shouted that she liked him.

"There's no need to thank me, Young Master."

Hearing Jiang Lin's thanks, the girl smiled with clear, graceful charm.

Lin Qingwan glanced at the girl beside her, who was pretending to be as gentle as the girl next door, and curled her lips disdainfully.

She really couldn't understand what this woman was thinking. She had argued so fiercely with her when Junior Brother Jiang had been unconscious, shouting "Little Lin is mine!" over and over. Her looks were even enough to make Lin Qingwan feel somewhat inferior, yet she deliberately concealed her true appearance, bound her chest, and met Jiang Lin with only an ordinary face.

And she had actually called her "older sister," too?!

What did that mean?! Was she saying Lin Qingwan was older than her?!

Especially when she saw the way Jiang Lin and that woman were "exchanging flirtatious glances," the more she thought about it, the angrier she became. An untraceable fire seemed to be trapped in her chest.

"Jiang Lin! I have something to ask you!"

Suddenly, Lin Qingwan rose to her feet and pointed her sword at Jiang Lin's chest.

"Why did you fake your death and deceive me? And why did you humiliate me at the inn? You said that being born into the Demonic Sect left you no choice. Was that true or false? Or have you been deceiving me all along?!"

Faced with Lin Qingwan's sudden interrogation, Jiang Lin slowly closed his eyes and let out a soft sigh...

At the same time, the woman using the alias Cai Xie, whose real name was Jiang Yuni, shot the little girl beside her a speechless glance.

She had just been calling him "my Junior Brother" every other sentence, and when Little Lin first woke up, she had shamelessly thrown herself at him. Now she had started acting tsundere and aloof instead. She wanted to beat Jiang Yuni like this? She was far too green.

"Senior Sister, although I don't know what happened, I truly had no choice. Please forgive me. However, it wasn't because I was a disciple of the Sun Moon Demonic Sect. On the contrary, although there are some scoundrels among our Sun Moon Sect disciples, for the most part, our people are simple and honest. Please don't take your anger out on us, Senior Sister Lin."

Jiang Lin took a deep breath and struggled to stand.

"I, Jiang Lin, take responsibility for my own actions! To die beneath Senior Sister's sword has always been my dearest wish..."

As he spoke, Jiang Lin moved to ram himself onto the sword point.

"Don't! Young Master Jiang, don't!"

Just as Jiang Lin's chest was about to strike the sword point, Cai Xie fiercely wrapped her arms around him.

"No! Miss Cai Xie! This has nothing to do with you. Please don't stop me!"

"No!"

"Miss Cai Xie! Please let go of me..."

"No! I won't!"

"Let go."

"No!"

"Let go!"

"No! If Young Master Jiang dies, Cai Xie won't go on living either!"

For a moment, the cave became just like a melodramatic romance drama, with Lin Qingwan looking exactly like the great villain.

Especially the girl named Cai Xie—tears had already soaked the back of Jiang Lin's clothes.

Hearing Cai Xie's declaration that if he died, she wouldn't live either, Jiang Lin was completely dumbfounded.

What kind of farce was this...? Miss, we'd only met once. Was this really necessary...?

And besides...

I really do want to die...