"Brother Xia, just tell Xun'er~ Why do apples fall when they're ripe...?"
"Uh... First, you need to know what gravity is. Gravity is..."
On a path in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, Gu Xia had been unable to withstand Xun'er's pleading. He had no choice but to explain the truths he'd learned after being "tormented" by his physics teacher all those years ago...
At that moment, neither of them had noticed that someone had blocked the road back...
As Gu Xia walked along the path with Xun'er, they discussed the truths and nature of the world. Since discussing the nature of the world required their full attention, neither of them noticed the clichéd, melodramatic scene unfolding ahead...
After Gu Xia and Xun'er passed through a small copse, a scene suddenly appeared before them:
Several black-clad men whose faces were hard to make out had cornered a fourteen-year-old girl in a purple dress beneath a tree. She was as lovely and fresh as a flower...
Then the following conversation took place:
"No, what are you going to do? Help..."
"Hahaha, no wonder the young master took a fancy to this little beauty. Just her voice alone tells you what a wonderful time the young master will have when he throws her onto the bed later..."
"Heh, isn't that the truth? If the young master hadn't already called dibs, I'd want to have my way with this little beauty right here..."
"That's enough. She's the young master's. If he finds out you dared to get any ideas about her, don't expect me to cover for you, brothers..."
"Don't be so stiff. We're just talking... Besides, faced with a beauty of this caliber, aren't you tempted?"
"Not tempted. I know the young master has his eye on her..."
"...Fair point. A cauldron the young master takes a fancy to is basically already dead..."
"Ah, what a pity..."
After the last black-clad man finished speaking, they closed in again on the lovely girl, who could only cower beneath the tree, trembling...
"No, no, why did this have to happen to me...? Don't come any closer..."
The girl had heard every word the black-clad men said. Despair showed on her delicate, dewy face. At this final moment, the person who came to mind was the handsome young man who had cornered her in much the same way a few months ago—only to rob her purse...
If I'd known this would happen, I should've just let that beast have his way with me back then...
The girl had already closed her eyes. As the lecherous laughter drew closer, her heart sank deeper into despair...
"Crack..."
The sharp sound of dry wood snapping rang out of nowhere, and the atmosphere of hopelessness went quiet in an instant...
Silence... The men surrounding the girl, along with the girl herself, all looked toward the source of the sound...
In the direction they were staring, a young man and a young woman were crouching down, trying to sneak away...
On closer inspection, the broken twig lay in two pieces beneath the young man's shoe...
Gu Xia: "Uh... Just carry on. Don't mind us..."
Xun'er: "Yeah, yeah, we're just passing through. Carry on..."
Black-clad men: "..."
After a moment of silence, one of the black-clad men spoke.
"Brother, do you think we look like idiots?"
If they could've seen their faces, they'd surely have been covered in black lines...
Gu Xia: "Yeah... No, no, you don't! Not at all!"
Gu Xia had accidentally said what he was thinking, then suddenly realized that this was not the kind of situation where he could be honest. He hurriedly corrected himself, and Xun'er beside him could only cover her face.
This boyfriend of hers was perfect in every way,
but he still hadn't managed to completely fix that dense, straight-guy mindset... "Then what do you think we look like?"
Another black-clad man stepped forward. His Seven-Star Dou Ling aura flared, and he cracked his knuckles, asking in a cold voice like a gang boss...
"Uh... You look like... like..."
But Gu Xia acted as if he couldn't feel the black-clad man's oppressive aura at all, and seriously considered the question.
Suddenly, a handsome, snack-munching husky came into view. Inspiration struck, and he answered the black-clad man with complete confidence...
"You look like a bunch of single dogs! How's that? I got it right this time, didn't I?"
Gu Xia thought he was a genius. He'd come up with such a perfect metaphor! He was so damn awesome he could barely help putting his hands on his hips!
In an instant, the air froze again. The men, who had been planning to kill the witnesses, all stared blankly. They looked at the beautiful girl beside Gu Xia, then at the lively girl who seemed to have been staring at him all along.
Suddenly, their Dou Ling cultivation didn't seem so appealing anymore. A wave of sourness, sharp enough to turn their gender inside out, welled up from their hearts...
Just as the black-clad men were so bitter they were about to grab their giant scythes and torches and barbecue this traitor to the FFF League, the girl in the purple dress, who had been staring at Gu Xia, suddenly cried out in a voice full of both resentment and delight...
Girl: "Ah, you're that beast!?"
Gu Xia: "???"
Xun'er: "???"
Black-clad men: "(╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻"
"Hey? It's you! What a coincidence!"
Hearing someone call out to him, Gu Xia instinctively turned toward the speaker. He saw the little rich girl who had secretly watched him from the cliff back then! Ignoring the black-clad men, who were still trying to get their heads back in the game, he walked over to the girl in purple.
"Uh... What was your name again?"
Only after coming over did Gu Xia realize that he still didn't know her name. A little embarrassed, he scratched the back of his head and looked awkwardly at the girl sitting on the ground...
"Hmph. You took something so important from me, and you don't even know my name. You really are a beast!"
With that resentful gaze and a voice tinged with delight and coyness, it sounded as if there was more than meets the eye between them...
Before Gu Xia could even answer, he felt waves of murderous intent behind him. Even he, a Dou Di, felt his butt clench and his whole body shudder...
Xun'er: "'Nuclear (﹡???﹡) kindness.' You're going to explain yourself, right, Brother Xia?..."
Gu Xia: "..."
"Uh... Would you believe me if I said there's nothing between us?"
Faced with Xun'er, who had teleported behind him at some point and was wreathed in black smoke with a "smile" on her face, Gu Xia felt the pressure bearing down on him...
As he stammered out his excuse... Ahem, his explanation! Not only Xun'er, but even the black-clad men—who had somehow gathered together and pulled out sunflower seeds to snack on—shook their heads, leaving only one eye visible through their wrappings. They looked thoroughly entertained...
"What do you think?"
"Uh..."
"Who are you? What gives you the right to boss around my beast...?"
At that moment, the girl in purple stood up too. Her bright eyes shifted slightly as a little devil popped into her heart. She immediately wrapped an arm around Gu Xia's and faced off against Xun'er...
"Oh... Brother Xia, she says you're hers. Aren't you going to explain yourself to Xun'er?"
Xun'er watched the girl in purple cling to Gu Xia's arm while he wore a look of pure enjoyment. The black smoke behind her gathered once more into the phantom of a wrathful deity, which regarded Gu Xia with "tolerance"...
"Xun'er, calm down! Why don't we put down the cleaver first...? You have to believe me. I can explain!"
After breaking free of the girl in purple's embrace, Gu Xia turned around and saw Xun'er pulling a gleaming cleaver out of her Storage Ring...
←To be continued.
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