A Chance Encounter with Dai Mubai, So Disgusting It Made Her Vomit!

Zhu Zhuqing snorted coldly from the side:

"I, Zhu Zhuqing, don't want to be with you!"

"If I didn't owe you two lives, and if I didn't repay this favor, I wouldn't feel right."

"I'm only following you now so I can find a chance to repay you. Don't get any ideas."

"Once I've repaid you, I, Zhu Zhuqing, will leave immediately!"

"Oh? This big kitty has quite a sense of loyalty." Lin Ye shrugged.

"In that case, let's go together, big kitty."

"Don't call me big kitty!"

"Alright, big kitty."

"Lin Ye, you!"

Zhu Zhuqing instantly looked helpless, but the corners of her lips could not help curving upward slightly.

"Let's go. The fight just now made too much noise. The surrounding soul beasts must have been alerted."

"If we keep dawdling and attract a pack of thousand-year soul beasts or stronger, it won't be fun anymore."

After saying that, Lin Ye headed toward the edge of the forest without looking back.

Zhu Zhuqing bit her lip and glared at his back for two seconds before finally taking a step and following him.

They hurried onward, and the sky gradually brightened.

When the first ray of morning light pierced through the canopy and fell across their faces, the two finally left the borders of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Before them lay a small town.

The town had been built along the forest's edge. The streets were lined with simple inns, restaurants, and general stores.

Among the passing pedestrians, quite a few wore sabers or swords at their waists, carrying the dusty air of long travel.

This was a supply station for soul masters entering and leaving the Star Dou Great Forest, where all manner of soul-hunting Rogue Cultivators and small groups gathered year-round.

Lin Ye looked around and noticed a fairly clean restaurant at the street corner. Then he spotted a general store across the street.

"Big kitty, go order something to eat at that restaurant first."

Lin Ye pointed toward the street corner.

"I'll buy a few things across the street and come find you in a bit."

Zhu Zhuqing frowned. "Buy what?"

"Some weapons and equipment, of course. They might come in handy later."

Lin Ye answered casually, his gaze sweeping over several daggers and pieces of leather armor hanging outside the general store across the street.

"Don't just stand there. Go eat."

Seeing this, Zhu Zhuqing did not ask further. She merely said flatly:

"Come back early."

The moment she said it, even she froze.

Why did that sound like a wife telling her husband to come home early after he went out to buy groceries?

Pah, pah, pah!

Zhu Zhuqing, what are you thinking?

You've known each other for less than a day!

A trace of awkwardness flashed across Zhu Zhuqing's face. She quickly turned and headed for the restaurant on the corner, walking a little faster than usual.

Lin Ye watched her retreating figure, the corners of his lips lifting slightly. He said nothing and turned toward the general store across the street.

He did not really care much about weapons.

What he truly wanted was a storage-type soul tool.

Something like Tang San's Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges.

They would be going to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in the future. It was a long journey, so he could not carry everything in his pockets.

Besides, if he picked up anything good along the way, having nowhere to put it would be troublesome.

Inside the restaurant, Zhu Zhuqing chose a seat against the corner wall.

It was her habit.

With her back against the wall and a wide field of vision, she could see everyone entering and leaving through the door.

Three days of fleeing for her life had given this twelve-year-old girl the vigilance of prey.

She ordered four dishes and a soup.

The food arrived quickly.

The steaming dishes were set before her, their fragrance wafting straight into her nose.

Zhu Zhuqing's stomach suddenly cramped. She had not eaten a proper meal in almost three days, and that chicken leg from last night had not been nearly enough to fill her.

But she did not pick up her chopsticks.

She was waiting for Lin Ye.

One minute.

Five minutes.

Ten minutes.

The dishes were starting to go cold, but Lin Ye still had not come.

Zhu Zhuqing's brows drew tighter and tighter as her fingers unconsciously tapped against the tabletop.

He couldn't have... left, could he?

The instant that thought surfaced, Zhu Zhuqing herself was stunned.

Since when had she begun worrying about someone she had known for less than a day?

But then she thought again: if Lin Ye really had left...

No. He definitely wouldn't!

Zhu Zhuqing bit her lip and forced the thought down.

That man's mouth was unbearably irritating, but he was not that kind of person.

She could not explain where that certainty came from.

Maybe it was when he pulled her into his arms last night and blocked that wave of light for her.

Or maybe it was when he stood in front of her and cursed at those three assassins.

Just then,

a sudden commotion erupted at the restaurant entrance.

"Oh, Brother Dai, slow down a little~"

A sickeningly coquettish female voice drifted in from outside.

Zhu Zhuqing instinctively frowned and looked up.

The person who entered was not Lin Ye.

It was a blond-haired boy.

He looked around thirteen or fourteen, tall and sturdy, with sharply defined features. His blond hair was especially eye-catching in the morning light.

Judging by looks alone, he could indeed be considered handsome.

But his eyes were frivolous and unfocused, and a roguish smile hung at the corner of his mouth. He gave off the air of a spoiled young master from head to toe.

His right arm was wrapped around a heavily made-up woman. She wore revealing clothes and clung to him like a piece of sticky candy.

Behind him followed a chubby little boy dressed in red.

His round face wore a... how should one put it? A sleazy grin that made people want to punch him on sight.

The three swaggered into the restaurant.

Zhu Zhuqing's pupils suddenly constricted after just one glance at the blond-haired boy.

That person was Dai Mubai.

He was also her fiancé in name.

Though they had only met two or three times, she could never mistake that distinctive blond hair and the aura of the White Tiger Martial Soul.

Zhu Zhuqing's fingers tightened involuntarily, her nails digging into her palms.

Three years.

A full three years.

While Zhu Zhuyun had oppressed her in every possible way in the Star Luo Empire, while assassins had hunted her down.

While she had fought desperately to escape her Lineage and nearly died in the Star Dou Great Forest.

What had Dai Mubai been doing?

The answer stood right before her.

Holding women in his arms, indulging in lust all day long!

"Brother Dai~"

The woman spoke in a coy voice.

"You were really so strong last night~ My legs still hurt even now~ You're so awful~"

Dai Mubai burst into laughter and directly gave the woman's ass a squeeze.

Beside him, the chubby boy in red, Ma Hongjun, wore an expression of envy, jealousy, and resentment.

"Boss Dai, could you stop showing off in front of me? A single guy like me can't take this kind of stimulation."

Listening to those words, Zhu Zhuqing felt her stomach churn.

She was not heartbroken.

She was disgusted.

Disgusted to the extreme!

Zhu Zhuqing took a deep breath, suppressed her surging emotions, lowered her head, and used her long hair to hide her face.

She did not want anything to do with this person.

However.

As Dai Mubai walked farther inside with the woman in his arms, his gaze casually swept across Zhu Zhuqing in the corner.

After only one glance, his footsteps stopped.

That figure.

Her black leather clothes were stained with dirt, yet they tightly outlined curves that could only be described as explosive.

A head of jet-black hair fell over her shoulders, revealing half of a delicate, cold, beautiful profile.

Her entire body radiated an icy aura that warned strangers to stay away.

Dai Mubai's eyes immediately went blank.