Taking Your Girlfriend to Save a Beauty—Is Something Wrong Here?

"Brother Xia, just tell Xun'er~ Why do apples fall when they ripen...?"

"Uh... first, you need to know what gravity is. Gravity is..."

On a small path in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, Gu Xia failed to withstand Xun'er's coquettish assault. Left with no choice, he began explaining the truths he had learned after being "tortured" by his physics teacher all those years...

At that moment, neither of them noticed that someone had blocked the road back...

As Gu Xia and Xun'er walked down the trail, they discussed the truths and essence of the world. Since discussing the essence of the world required their full attention, neither of them noticed that a clichéd melodramatic scene was unfolding right in front of them...

After passing through a small grove, Gu Xia and Xun'er suddenly came upon the following scene:

Three or four black-clad figures with indistinct faces had cornered a lively, delicate fourteen-year-old girl in a long purple dress beneath a tree...

Then the following conversation took place:

"No, what do you want? Help..."

"Hahaha, she really is the little beauty the Young Master has taken a liking to. Just that voice alone tells you how wonderful it'll be when the Young Master throws her onto his bed..."

"Hehe, isn't that right? If the Young Master hadn't already claimed her, I'd want to take this little beauty right here..."

"That's enough from you two. She's the Young Master's woman. If the Young Master finds out you dared entertain improper thoughts about her, don't blame this brother for not helping you..."

"Don't be so stiff. We're only talking... Besides, wouldn't you be tempted by a beauty of this caliber?"

"Not tempted, because I know the Young Master has taken a liking to her..."

"...True. Cauldrons chosen by the Young Master are basically dead already..."

"Ah, what a pity..."

After the last black-clad man finished speaking, they closed in again on the lovely girl, who could only cower trembling beneath the tree...

"No, no, no... Why did this have to happen to me...? Don't come any closer..."

Having heard every word of the black-clad men's conversation, despair appeared on the girl's tender, lovely face. At this final moment, the person who surfaced in her mind was the handsome youth from several months ago, the one who had similarly driven her into a corner but had only robbed her purse...

If I'd known something like this would happen, I should've just let that beast have me back then...

The girl had already closed her eyes. As those lewd laughs drew closer and closer, despair filled her heart more and more...

Crack...

The dry snap of breaking wood rang out abruptly, and the atmosphere of hopelessness suddenly fell silent...

Silence... The black-clad men surrounding the girl, along with the girl herself, all looked toward the source of the sound...

There, in the direction everyone was staring, a young man and a young woman were hunched over, apparently trying to quietly turn around and leave.

Looking closely, the broken branch had split into two pieces and lay peacefully beneath the young man's shoe...

Gu Xia: "Uh... just carry on. Don't mind us..."

Xun'er: "Yeah, yeah. We're just passing by. Please continue..."

Black-clad men: "..."

After a moment of silence, one of the black-clad men spoke.

"Brother, do you think we look like idiots?"

If their faces had been visible, they would undoubtedly have been covered in black lines...

Gu Xia: "You do... No, no, no! You don't, not at all!"

Having accidentally voiced his true thoughts, Gu Xia suddenly realized that this was not the sort of occasion where one could tell the truth. He hurriedly corrected himself, making Xun'er beside him cover her face.

This boyfriend of hers was good in every way,

except that his overly straightforward nature still hadn't been completely fixed... "Then what do you think we look like?"

At that moment, another black-clad man stepped forward and fully unleashed the aura of a Seven-Star Dou Ling. He cracked his knuckles, asking in a cold tone with the air of some underworld boss...

"Uh... you look like... like..."

Yet Gu Xia seemed completely unable to feel the black-clad man's pressure as he continued seriously considering the question.

Suddenly, a handsome, popcorn-eating husky entered Gu Xia's field of vision. Inspiration flashed through his mind, and he answered the black-clad man's question with great confidence...

"You look like single dogs! How about it? I didn't get it wrong this time, right?"

Gu Xia felt that he was truly too smart. He had even come up with such a fitting comparison. He was so pleased with himself that he put his hands on his hips!

In an instant, the air froze once again. The men who had been planning to kill them to silence them were all stunned. Then they looked at the bubbly-beautiful girl beside Gu Xia, then at the lively girl who seemed to have been staring at Gu Xia all along.

Suddenly, their Dou Ling cultivation no longer felt so appealing. Waves of soul-warping jealousy gradually welled up within them...

Just as the black-clad men were so jealous that they were about to grab scythes and torches to roast this traitor to the FFF Club, the girl in the purple dress who had been staring at Gu Xia suddenly cried out in a resentful yet delighted voice...

Girl: "Ah, you're that beast!?"

Gu Xia: "???"

Xun'er: "???"

The men in black flipped the table.

"Huh? It's you. What a coincidence!"

Hearing someone call him, Gu Xia instinctively looked toward the owner of the voice. He discovered it was the little rich girl who had peeped at him on the cliff before! Then, ignoring the black-clad men whose minds were still rebooting, he walked over to the girl in the purple dress.

"Uh... what was your name again?"

Only after arriving in front of her did Gu Xia realize that he did not even know her name. Somewhat embarrassed, he scratched the back of his head and awkwardly looked at the girl slumped on the ground...

"Hmph, you took something so important from me, yet you don't even know my name. You really are a beast!"

The girl's resentful gaze, paired with a voice carrying a hint of joy and coyness, made it seem as if there were some extraordinary story between them...

Then, before Gu Xia could answer, he felt waves of killing intent coming from behind him. It made even someone at the Dou Di level feel a chill down his spine...

Xun'er: "You'll explain this, won't you, Brother Xia? 'Nuclear (﹡???﹡) kindness'..."

Gu Xia: "..."

"Uh... would you believe me if I said there's nothing between us?"

Facing Xun'er, who had somehow teleported behind him and was constantly emitting black mist with a face full of "smiles," Gu Xia felt an enormous amount of pressure!

As he made his sophistry... ahem, explanation! Not only Xun'er, but even the black-clad men, who had somehow sat down together and started eating sunflower seeds, shook their heads. Only their eyes were exposed from their wrappings, and they looked intensely interested...

"What do you think?"

"Uh..."

"Who are you? What gives you the right to meddle with my beast...?"

At that moment, the girl in purple also stood up. Her lively eyes spun slightly, and the little devil in her heart suddenly emerged. She directly wrapped herself around Gu Xia's arm and confronted Xun'er head-on...

"Oh... Brother Xia, she says you're hers. Aren't you going to explain this to Xun'er?"

Xun'er looked at the purple-clad girl hugging Gu Xia's arm, while he wore an expression of "enjoyment." Behind her, the black mist once again condensed into the phantom of a Prajna, gazing at Gu Xia with great "tolerance"...

"Xun'er, calm down! Let's put the hatchet away first, okay...? You have to believe me, I can explain!"

After breaking free of the purple-clad girl's grip, Gu Xia turned around just in time to see Xun'er pull an incredibly shiny hatchet from her storage ring...