Chapter 022: The Heroine Is Far Too Good at Flirting with Men

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

Just then, Li Zi's affected cry of surprise came 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 do to offend you? You even came to my cave residence to beat me."

No sooner had she spoken than the courtyard gate was pushed open again.

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

Both radiated killing intent, their Golden Core Stage auras unleashed in full. The two people in the courtyard found it hard to breathe.

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 was more like a dashing young master out enjoying the world. His features were soft and handsome, almost androgynous.

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

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

Flirting with Men? The Heroine Was Far Too Good at It

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 spirit-pigeon messages from Ji Zheng and Fu Chaoqing, the descriptions had given them a rough picture of their junior sister.

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

They had decided to train on Cragstone Mountain a while longer, gathering extra Spirit Medicine and beast cores as gifts for their first meeting.

Filled with anticipation, they had fought Spirit Beasts with even greater vigor.

Then they had rescued a young woman.

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 felt deep sympathy for her circumstances.

They also learned that Ran Zirou had been cast out by the Spirit Sword Sect.

Ran Zirou had been an Inner Sect disciple of the Spirit Sword Sect, but after offending Li Zi, she had been expelled. The Sect had even claimed to have found her birth mother and used that as an excuse to send her to the Hehuan Sect.

In tears, Ran Zirou said she did not like the Hehuan Sect. She could learn nothing there, and her cultivation had not improved at all.

That tearful account

utterly destroyed the image Bao Yuanwu and Yu Lin had formed of their junior sister.

In their minds, she had become sharp-tongued and mean, vicious and jealous, spoiled and overbearing.

When they learned Ran Zirou had been summoned by her, they rushed over in worry, afraid she would be bullied.

And yet...

The instant they pushed open the gate, both were stunned.

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

The girl looked only eight or nine.

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

Sharp-tongued and mean?

She was biting her lip, her tears poised to fall. She truly looked as soft as jade and tender as a flower.

Vicious and jealous?

Her eyes were like clear springs, pure and limpid. Where was the slightest trace of malice?

Jealous? Even less likely!

Their junior sister had already reached the sixth level of the Qi Refining Stage, while Ran Zirou was only at the third. And their junior sister was no less beautiful. What did she have to envy?

Spoiled and overbearing?

She had been bullied! How could she be the overbearing one?

Then they looked at Ran Zirou.

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

Was this still the goddess they knew?

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

Something seemed to shatter in his eyes.

Yu Lin looked dazed too. Even the hand waving his folding fan had gone still. "Zirou, were you bullying her?"

Ran Zirou panicked and hurried back a few steps. "She's pretending! She's at the sixth level of the Qi Refining Stage. I couldn't hurt her at all. She's doing this on purpose!"

That was true.

Their junior sister was at the sixth level of the Qi Refining Stage. Zirou could not hurt her.

This junior sister of theirs was rather scheming.

Suddenly, they heard a clear female voice.

[They're looking at Ran Zirou like their eyes are drawing silk threads. System, have those two already fallen captive to Ran Zirou's tender charms?]

The crackle of electricity followed.

[Yes. They've spent some time with Ran Zirou, and she's been filling their heads with stories about what a poisonous woman you are.]

Li Zi thought, [A poisonous woman? I'm a delicate little White Lotus. Look at my tears, about to fall but not quite. Look at my innocent eyes. How pitiful, how lovable.]

The system replied, [Host, please stop. I'm starting to feel sick.]

Bao Yuanwu and Yu Lin exchanged a glance.

The voice just now definitely had not been Ran Zirou's.

That left only...

Their gazes drifted to the little girl on the ground.

Li Zi had not opened her mouth.

Had they heard her thoughts?

This junior sister 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 tear-filled eyes, Li Zi said, "Hello, Senior Brothers."

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

[Oh, so slender 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 how to cherish a beauty at all. She really did destroy his cultivation and hand him over. Oh, how terribly Third Senior Brother cried.]

Yu Lin went numb.

What on earth was all this?

Ran Zirou would destroy his cultivation and hand him over?

To men?

Seeing Yu Lin help Li Zi up the moment he arrived, Ran Zirou felt her blood boil.

Rankings

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Transmigration into a Book

Female Supporting Character Fiction

Immortal Fantasy

Cannon Fodder