Qian Renxue's Breaking Point
"You—how did you get here?!" Qian Renxue's voice suddenly split.
After removing her disguise, her voice was no longer the gentle and refined prince's voice from the daytime, but her original voice, so sharp that it startled even herself.
"Miss, what happened?"
Upon hearing the sound, Qian Jun Douluo appeared at the door to inquire.
The Demon Subduing Douluo standing nearby wanted to go in, but he didn't dare to.
The main problem is that Qian Renxue Qian Renxue is a girl. If she weren't wearing any clothes, the two of them going in would be in big trouble.
Qian Renxue wouldn't say anything, but Great Enshrined Qian Daoliu would definitely have objections.
"N-nothing!" Qian Renxue's voice came from the bathroom, trembling slightly despite her efforts to suppress it. "No one is allowed in! Get out! All of you, get out!"
The Qian Jun Douluo and Demon Subduing Douluo outside the door exchanged a glance. Both were Titled Douluo- level powerhouses with incredibly sharp hearing. They had clearly heard the scream "How did you get here?" followed by a "Little Guga" from the bathroom. But since their young master had said not to go in, they absolutely could not. The two silently took ten steps back, keeping their eyes down and pretending they hadn't heard anything.
In the bathroom, Qian Renxue's knuckles turned white as she gripped the bath towel tightly, her phoenix eyes fixed on the two heads peeking out from the hole in the floor.
One of them was Jiang Lan, her high ponytail covered in mud, a mud stain on her cheek, her expression a mixture of embarrassment, guilt, and forced composure.
The other one was Doro, whose big purple eyes were staring at her intently, their gaze filled with innocent admiration, "Wow, this older sister is so beautiful!"
"Would you believe me if I said I came to fix the water pipes?" Jiang Lan asked cautiously, clinging to the edge of the hole.
Qian Renxue's response was a sharp palm strike.
She pressed the towel against her chest with one hand, and with the other hand she gathered Angel Soul Power. A golden blade of light pierced through the air, grazing Jiang Lan's scalp and blasting a crater the size of a bowl into the half of the earthen wall behind him that he hadn't yet managed to dig through.
The soil fell down in a rustling sound, and Doro was so frightened that he quickly shrank back into the hole, only peeking cautiously out from the edge of the hole with his two eyes sticking out.
"I don't believe you!" Qian Renxue's composure and shrewdness vanished in an instant.
She was so angry that she trembled all over, and her long golden hair rippled across the water.
"You dug a tunnel into my bathroom, claiming you were there to fix the pipes? What kind of plumber crawls out from underground with a shovel in the middle of the night?"
"These water pipes are buried underground, so repairing them from above or from below makes no logical difference," Jiang Lan said, spouting nonsense with a straight face.
Qian Renxue: "..."
Seeing that Qian Renxue remained silent, Jiang Lan prepared to leave, saying, "Goodbye, Auntie."
"Aunt--?"
Qian Renxue's voice suddenly rose three full notes, and the water in the bath was shaken by the Soul Power surging from her body.
She held the bath towel with one hand and grabbed a wooden ladle from the edge of the pool with the other, then threw it at the pool.
The wooden ladle traced a perfect parabola in the air, accurately hitting Jiang Lan's forehead before he could retract it, making a crisp thud.
"Call me Uncle during the day! Call me Auntie at night! Do you even know who I am?!" Qian Renxue was trembling with anger, wishing she could immediately put on her clothes, drag this Evil Penguin Cub out of its hole, and give it a good beating.
But she was only wearing a bath towel, so she didn't dare to stand up, let alone be beaten.
"I know, you're Uncle Xue Qinghe, and also this pretty auntie." Jiang Lan rubbed her forehead, which was red from being hit with a wooden ladle, and said innocently, "I knew you didn't like women, Uncle. Turns out you're a woman yourself. So it's understandable that you don't like women. You like men, I understand, I completely understand."
"You don't understand anything!" Qian Renxue completely exploded, throwing all notions of composure, shrewdness, and infiltration plans to the winds.
She now had only one thought: to catch this talking-nothing penguin chick and teach him a lesson about the dangers of loose tongues.
She picked up another piece of soap from the edge of the pond, but before she could throw it away, she heard a rapid rustling sound coming from the cave entrance.
"Bye-bye, Auntie! You keep washing! No need to see us off!" Jiang Lan's head quickly shrunk back into the hole.
Doro also retreated, with the two small Little Icefire Dragons bringing up the rear. The Fire Dragon sprayed a small ball of flame into the pool, making the surface even hotter.
This is considered an apology to Qian Renxue.
The Ice Dragon spewed a cloud of icy mist, which froze into a thin layer of ice at the cave entrance.
This can be considered as fixing the floor for Qian Renxue.
Then the two little ones tumbled and crawled back along the tunnel, their speed as if they were being chased and trampled by a hundred Titan Giant Ape at the same time.
Qian Renxue, wrapped in a bath towel, rushed to the cave entrance. Looking down, she saw only a dark cave and melting ice on the cave walls.
The hurried sound of shovels digging soil came from afar, growing farther and farther away, until it finally disappeared deep underground.
She slowly straightened up, the edge of the bath towel loosened slightly from her earlier movements, and she subconsciously pressed it down, her phoenix eyes fixed on the hole, her chest heaving violently.
She infiltrated the Heaven Dou Empire and remained undiscovered for many years, even fooling the Xue Ye.
Today, her bathroom was breached by a penguin chick digging a tunnel, her true appearance was exposed, and it was accompanied by a "Bye-bye, Auntie" greeting.
Qian Renxue slowly turned her head to look at the bronze mirror. In the mirror, her long golden hair was messily plastered to her cheeks, her face was covered with water droplets, and her expression kept jumping between shame and indignation and disbelief.
She closed her eyes briefly, and when she opened them again, there was no longer any anger in her phoenix eyes, only calm.
"Qian Jun, to Jiang Mo."
"Your subordinate is here!"
"Go to Honey Snow Ice City on Vermilion Bird Street immediately and bring the owner Jiang Lan, here to me. No, invite him here. In the gentlest way possible, invite him back to the Crown Prince's Residence for tea."
Qian Renxue paused, then gave herself a gentle yet chilling smile in the bronze mirror, "I must thank him properly for fixing my water pipes."
The Qian Jun Douluo and the Demon Subduing Douluo accepted their orders and departed, their figures silently disappearing into the night.
In the bathroom, Qian Renxue, wrapped in a bath towel, stood beside the still-steaming cave entrance.
She stared at the dark bottom of the cave for a long time, then slowly squatted down and touched the thin layer of melting ice at the edge of the cave entrance with her finger.
The ice melted into water droplets on her fingertips, Sisi, but the fire in her heart burned ever brighter.
Repairing water pipes?
Who needs two plumbers for a plumbing repair?
The one with the flame sprayer is for welding water pipes, and the one with the ice sprayer is for patching leaks; they have a pretty complete set of tools.
Qian Renxue stood up, walked to the clothes rack, her fingers lingered on the edge of the bath towel for a moment, and suddenly remembered that the pair of large purple eyes that had peeked out from the hole were staring straight at her, and her hand movements involuntarily quickened by three points.