White Moonlight Changes Color

The rain seemed to have lessened somewhat.

Chu Huai Xu, having been a game companion and virtual male model for so long, ranking second on the must-try list, had long grown accustomed to them coveting his body.

Encountering lustful women often enough, one's mindset inevitably shifts.

"Heh, women," he sneered inwardly.

A cultivation cauldron?

Is that what you want?

At first, when Chu Huai Xu saw this woman holding an oil-paper umbrella, his heart stirred with slight surprise.

After all, who knew if there were any female contestants in the Patrol Office?

But upon closer inspection, he found her face oddly familiar.

And the more he looked, the more familiar she seemed!

She was definitely an NPC he had encountered in "Borrowed Sword"!

When she spoke, even her voice felt familiar, and a suspicion began to form in his mind.

Of course, none of that mattered now.

The current situation was what truly counted—was she trying to drain him?

A top-tier cultivation cauldron?

Him?

"Damn, do I reek of male model energy that strongly? Did she spot me as a model at a glance?" Chu Huai Xu began to doubt himself inwardly.

Had he really been in the trade too long, his aura tainted?

Could she smell the dust and wind of this profession from so far away?

In truth, what baffled Chu Huai Xu most was that lines like these usually came from the mouths of male-riding demonesses. If the woman before him was truly who he thought, how could she utter such shocking words!

"Could it be... that those rumors about her are all true?" Chu Huai Xu felt he might be about to uncover a massive scandal.

A scandal involving one of the most important female characters in "Borrowed Sword"!

"Don't think I can't recognize you just because you're wearing a veil," Chu Huai Xu thought to himself.

"One of the four [World Protagonists] in 'Borrowed Sword'—Han Shuangjiang!"

Every game has its own story content and background.

Since there's a story, there must be protagonists.

In some main storylines, these [World Protagonists] often play pivotal roles, driving the tides of the era forward.

Many people love to complain about ancient costume dramas, where anyone can just cover half their face with a veil and everyone fails to recognize them.

But in reality, you can still tell apart someone familiar even when they're wearing a mask.

Han Shuangjiang, true to her name, was born on the day of Frost Descent, one of the twenty-four solar terms.

She is not only a World Protagonist of "Borrowed Sword" but also one of the most beloved female characters among players.

Among the four World Protagonists, she is the youngest.

Yet, paradoxically, she exudes the strongest "sisterly aura."

A mature older sister type, noble, cold, and elegant.

Paired with those strikingly proportioned long legs, she makes certain degenerates can't help but shout, "Sister, step on me!"

They're truly afraid she might step on them, and they'd still shove it in their mouths.

Based on her figure, the eyes visible above her veil, and her voice, Chu Huai Xu was now one hundred percent certain she was Han Shuangjiang.

In an instant, his mind flashed back to that earth-shattering scandal discussed by countless people on the game forums.

When that incident was first exposed, some threads had tens of thousands of posts arguing back and forth!

Since "Borrowed Sword" is a game with high freedom, many important pieces of information require players to explore on their own.

And some players, from sources unknown, claimed that Han Shuangjiang had been sold into a brothel as a child, raised from a young age to be the next top courtesan.

The childhood of such people is certainly different from ordinary folks.

Their curriculum would definitely include music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, but it would also absolutely include physiology and hygiene lessons, and those would take up a significant portion.

Everything a high-level technician should learn before starting work, they would have mastered in theory.

They know everything, and they can do everything.

They can make you... very comfortable.

To put it simply, they possess an inner allure.

Once these girls reach a certain age and their bodies develop accordingly, they begin a life of applying what they've learned.

And in the Xuanhuang Realm, whether in the Mirror Kingdom or the Moon Kingdom, sects all have their own industries.

It's just that in the Mirror Kingdom, industries pay less tax to the imperial court and more to the sects.

The Moon Kingdom was the opposite.

Under normal circumstances, places like these brothels were mostly the property of sects like the Joyful Sect or the Union Joy Sect.

Sometimes, even low-level cultivators from these sects might suddenly feel a surge of playfulness or need quick cash, and go clock in shifts at those places.

At times like that, mortals would genuinely embrace the pursuit of "dying under peony blossoms, a ghost still romantic," waving banknotes and spending money to beg them to drain them dry, scrambling to become cultivation cauldrons without even fearing a shortened lifespan.

Word had it: the experience of a cultivator working a shift was truly amazing.

In the year before Han Shuangjiang was about to be pushed out as the Top Courtesan, by a stroke of luck, someone from the Joyful Sect discovered her cultivation aptitude was unexpectedly good, and took her back as a candidate for Saintess.

Then, a change occurred.

The Joyful Sect was a subordinate sect of Spring Autumn Mountain, one of the Four Great Sects of the Mirror Kingdom.

Spring Autumn Mountain was as renowned as the Dao Sect, overwhelmingly powerful.

As a subordinate sect, the Joyful Sect had committed multiple major taboos.

First, tax evasion!

Second, it didn't just evade taxes—in private, it also ran rampant without regard for the law.

For example, it had agreed to only provide half-service to mortals, yet dared to secretly offer full service, harming the very foundation of their bodies—an extremely vile offense!

Thus, its superior sect revoked its legal sect "business license," and it was directly branded as a heretical path.

These dual-cultivation sects, in essence, focused on finding a dao partner, then advancing together, mutually serving as cultivation cauldrons, plucking yin to supplement yang—you pluck mine, I supplement yours.

This wasn't against the rules.

But once the gap in cultivation between the two grew too large, the weaker one would completely degenerate into a cultivation cauldron, their foundation damaged!

As for low-level cultivators dealing with mortals, as long as they didn't go too far, at worst it would leave them weak for a few days, just harming the kidneys.

But some of the Joyful Sect's transgressors were too greedy.

—How dare you secretly add extra time!

After this scandal exploded, the Joyful Sect was disbanded from then on; some cultivators were sentenced to prison, others fled.

As a Saintess candidate, Han Shuangjiang had only just been taught the sect's signature technique, "Joyful Entanglement," a few days prior, and her theoretical level had risen considerably compared to her time at the brothel—a promotion from vocational to academic.

Later, no one knew what happened, but she managed to escape the sect.

Both upheavals, she had narrowly escaped disaster.

Only that temporarily "useless knowledge" kept increasing!

The stunning beauty left like that, becoming the Yellow Moonlight for many young men in the sect—someone they could never see again, only keep in their hearts.

"When this melon first broke, I didn't believe it either," Chu Huai Xu thought as he stood in the rain.

"But now you open your mouth and say 'cultivation cauldron' right away—it's hard for me not to believe."

Wasn't that just incriminating herself!

Back then, if this had been confirmed, her popularity among male players

—wouldn't it have skyrocketed!

A woman of contradictions—could you handle that?

Han Shuangjiang looked at the fox-faced, handsome man before her, a hint of confusion in her heart—why had I inexplicably blurted out my true thoughts?

Yet she had to admit, heaven had indeed given this Fox Face an impeccable exterior.

The Joyful Sect didn't lack handsome men and beautiful women.

But if this man went there, he'd probably crush the male disciples outright!

Still, after the words left her mouth, Han Shuangjiang felt embarrassed for herself.

Little did she know, Chu Huai Xu was eagerly savoring the gossip and wouldn't dream of judging her for it.

After all, you never actually took the job—I was a real male model.

But the look in his eyes as he regarded her carried a hint of amusement.

Meeting that amused gaze, realizing she had misspoken, Han Shuangjiang silently mocked in her heart:

"Heh, men."

Just as the two stood facing each other in silence, a soft laugh came from the nine heavens above the rainy night, followed by a voice descending from on high:

"Oh, why is there a fool still getting soaked in the rain?"

As the voice rang out, Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang both jerked their heads up, staring into the night sky.

Someone was treading on air as they came!

The next moment, not a single drop of rain fell on Chu Huai Xu anymore.

But it wasn't that the rain had stopped.

No, you could also say the rain had stopped!

Within this range, every raindrop falling from the sky had frozen in midair!