She Even Knew How to Charm Men

He had only just returned, and already someone was calling him stingy?

Then Li Zi's affected cry rang out from below.

"Ah!" Li Zi found a comfortable position on the ground and lay there, her eyes brimming with tears.

"Sister, how could you do this to me? What did I ever do to offend you? You even came to my Cave Abode to beat me."

The moment she finished speaking, the courtyard gate was pushed open again.

Two male disciples stood side by side, like a pair of mountains.

Both radiated killing intent. The pressure of the Golden Core Stage surged from them, making the two people in the courtyard catch their breath.

Second Senior Brother Bao Yuanwu specialized in Body Tempering. He was tall, with sharply defined muscles and a rugged, resolute face.

Third Senior Brother Yu Lin looked more like a carefree young gentleman. His features were gentle and handsome, with a beauty that blurred the line between masculine and feminine.

Both wore worried expressions. "Rou'er, don't be afraid. We're here to protect you."

But when they saw the scene in the courtyard, they froze.

She Even Knew How to Charm Men

They had returned to the mountain a few days earlier.

They had long heard that their Master had taken in a new junior sister, and both had looked forward to meeting her.

When they received the Spirit Pigeons sent by Ji Zheng and Fu Chaoqing, their descriptions had given them a rough picture of their new junior sister.

She was only eight, a little girl with a difficult past, fragile and tender.

So they had decided to spend longer training at Cragstone Mountain, gathering more Spirit Medicines and beast cores for her as gifts for their first meeting.

Full of anticipation, they had thrown themselves into hunting Spirit Beasts.

Until they rescued a girl.

She was breathtakingly beautiful, kind, and innocent—the goddess of their dreams, someone they wanted to protect for the rest of their lives.

After spending several days with her, they had come to pity her deeply for what she had been through.

They had also learned that Ran Zirou had been driven out of the Spirit Sword Sect.

Ran Zirou had been an Inner Sect disciple of the Spirit Sword Sect, but because she offended Li Zi, the Sect expelled her. They even claimed to have found her birth mother, using that as an excuse to send her to the Hehuan Sect.

Ran Zirou had cried and said she didn't like the Hehuan Sect. She couldn't learn anything there, and her Cultivation hadn't improved at all.

That tearful account alone

had utterly destroyed the image of their new junior sister they had built in their minds.

They imagined her as sharp-tongued, vicious, jealous, spoiled, and overbearing.

When they learned that their junior sister had summoned Ran Zirou, they rushed in, sick with worry that she was being bullied.

But...

The instant they opened the gate, both men were stunned.

Besides Ran Zirou, there was another little girl in the courtyard.

She looked only eight or nine years old.

She was delicate and lovely, with slender willow-leaf brows and a slight figure. Now she lay half-sprawled on the ground, tears shimmering in her almond eyes. That frail, helpless look...

Sharp-tongued?

She was biting her lip, her tears trembling on the verge of falling. She was as soft as jade and as delicate as a flower.

Vicious and jealous?

Her eyes were like clear springwater, pure and limpid. Where was there any trace of viciousness?

Jealous? Even less likely!

Their junior sister had already reached the Sixth Level of Qi Refining, while Ran Zirou was only at the Third Level of Qi Refining. Besides, their junior sister was no less beautiful than Ran Zirou. What did she have to envy?

Spoiled and overbearing?

She was the one being bullied! How could she be overbearing?

Ran Zirou, on the other hand...

She looked coldly at the girl on the ground, the frightening venom in her eyes not yet faded.

Was this really the goddess they knew?

"Rou'er, what..." Bao Yuanwu stared at the scene in disbelief. "What are you doing?"

Something seemed to shatter in his eyes.

Yu Lin was equally dazed. Even the hand waving his folding fan had gone still. "Rou'er, are you bullying her?"

Ran Zirou panicked and hurried back a few steps. "She's faking it! She's at the Sixth Level of Qi Refining. I couldn't possibly hurt her. She's putting on an act!"

That was true.

Their junior sister was already at the Sixth Level of Qi Refining. Rou'er couldn't hurt her.

This junior sister of theirs was rather scheming.

Suddenly, they heard a clear female voice.

[The way they look at Ran Zirou is practically dripping with longing. System, have those two already fallen captive to her charms?]

Then came the sound of electrical static.

[Yeah. They've been with Ran Zirou for a while now. She's been filling their heads with tales of what a vicious woman you are every day.]

Li Zi thought, [A vicious woman? I'm a delicate little white flower. Look at these tears about to fall. Look at my innocent, guileless eyes. How pitiful, how lovable.]

The System replied, [Host, please don't. I'm getting a little nauseous.]

Bao Yuanwu and Yu Lin exchanged a glance.

The voice just now definitely hadn't been Ran Zirou's.

Which meant it could only be...

Their gazes fell involuntarily on the little girl on the ground.

Li Zi hadn't opened her mouth.

Had they heard her thoughts?

This junior sister of theirs was interesting.

Yu Lin had been about to help Ran Zirou, but when he reached her, he turned and helped Li Zi up instead.

"Junior Sister." He smiled gently. "You probably don't know me yet. I'm your Third Senior Brother, Yu Lin, and he's your Second Senior Brother, Bao Yuanwu."

With tears in her eyes, Li Zi said, "Hello, Senior Brothers."

As he helped her, she took the opportunity to squeeze Yu Lin's arm.

[Oh, so smooth and soft. He smells nice, too. No wonder several men later begged Ran Zirou to give Third Senior Brother to them. She didn't know the first thing about cherishing a beauty. She really did ruin his Cultivation and hand him over. How terribly Third Senior Brother cried.]

Yu Lin went numb.

What in the world was all that?

Ran Zirou would ruin his Cultivation and hand him over?

To men?

But when Ran Zirou saw Yu Lin help Li Zi up as soon as he arrived, she felt her blood boil.