She Just Wanted to Treat Every Man Equally

Ran Zirou forced a wan smile onto her face. "Mm..."

She Just Wanted to Treat Every Man Equally

The female disciple's gaze moved between the two of them, and she gave a knowing smile.

"Junior Sister Ran, are you unwell? Why do you keep leaning on Martial Uncle Bao?"

Ran Zirou covered her mouth and coughed lightly twice, looking frailer still.

"Junior Master's Uncle Bao and I were injured while hunting a Spirit Beast, and then things got a little rough over at Li Zi's... But it's all right. I'm fine."

The female disciple exclaimed in surprise, "Martial Uncle Li bullied you? That's impossible. Ever since she joined the Sect, she's spent every day cultivating in seclusion. She has no grudge against you, so why would she bully you?"

The disciples nearby chimed in.

"Exactly. Junior Master's Uncle Li has focused on cultivation ever since she joined the Sect. She made great progress soon after arriving and has barely come down the mountain."

"Junior Master's Uncle Li is a model of diligence for us disciples, and she's kind, too."

"Right! Last time I told Martial Uncle Li I was hurt, she gave me a Healing Pill without a second thought."

As Bao Yuanwu listened, the head he'd lost to beauty slowly began to clear.

Was his junior sister really the kind of person they described?

[System, so that's how everyone sees me? Do I really cultivate that hard? Why doesn't it feel like it?]

The system replied, [You don't work hard? Tell me, have you had a single idle day since joining the Sect? Haven't you cultivated every day?]

Li Zi shuddered.

She remembered the torment of Fu Chaoqing's medicine not long ago, and the piercing agony of widening her Meridians and undergoing Meridian Cleansing. The thought still made her heart tremble.

It had been pretty hard.

Bao Yuanwu glanced around instinctively, looking for his junior sister.

He hadn't spotted her yet, but her thoughts were certainly lively.

Then, out of the corner of his eye, he saw an eight-year-old girl struggling to poke her head out of a dog hole.

Li Zi's thoughts suddenly leaped with excitement.

[Look! Ran Zirou and Second Senior Brother are holding hands with their fingers intertwined. That's awfully intimate.]

The system said, [Ran Zirou made the first move, too. She knows what she's doing. On the way down the mountain, they'll slip into a cave and do this and that. It gets pretty heated. Just wait.]

Li Zi stared at their intertwined hands. Their fingers curled around each other, brimming with tender affection.

[Maybe Ran Zirou really does care about Second Senior Brother. After all, she's been reborn. She knows he truly loved her in her previous life.]

[Host, that's what you don't understand. The reborn Ran Zirou is a whole new Ran Zirou. She only wants to cultivate and has no room in her heart for romance. She and Immortal Ziyang are complete opposites.]

Immortal Ziyang, who had just arrived to fetch Ran Zirou after learning she was at the Spirit Sword Sect: ...

Why did she hear the system talking about her again the moment she arrived?

Li Zi managed to crane her head out and look toward Ran Zirou, who was already surrounded by disciples.

The whispers around her deepened the sorrow on Ran Zirou's face.

She leaned weakly against Bao Yuanwu, as though she had placed all her hopes on him. It was a sure way to stir every ounce of tenderness in him.

[Wasn't Ran Zirou a lovestruck fool in the original book? She spent every day romancing those men. She was a master of managing her time. Even after being reborn, her personality can't have changed that much, right?]

The system replied, [No. What the book described was only the surface. In her previous life, Ran Zirou really did passively accept those men's kindness. Like a doll, she let them do as they pleased with her. But after her rebirth, she turned completely ruthless. She started taking the initiative and keeping the upper hand with men, taking what they offered without getting emotionally involved. She knows perfectly well that the only thing she can rely on is her own ability. Immortal Ziyang, by contrast, placed that sense of security in men. That's the fundamental difference between them.]

Hearing the system put it that way, Li Zi actually felt a little fondness for Ran Zirou.

She found this kind of heroine, with a whole sea of men in her wake, rather exciting.

If Ran Zirou weren't always coveting her Myriad Flower Divine Bone, Li Zi would genuinely have liked to befriend her.

[Host, I'd advise against trying to befriend Ran Zirou. After what she went through in her previous life, she thinks every resource should belong to her: your Divine Bone, the Spirit Sword Sect's resources, and all those men. She takes it for granted that they're hers. It's a frightening mindset. She even thinks you stole the things your godmother gave you from her.]

Not far away, Immortal Ziyang frowned slightly.

No wonder Ran Zirou had asked about the things she'd given Li Zi the last time she took her away.

So she thought those things should have been hers.

What a joke. Immortal Ziyang had obtained them herself by braving danger time and again. They were hers, and she could give them to whomever she pleased!

Li Zi blinked and looked toward Ran Zirou, who had all but nestled into Bao Yuanwu's arms.

[Does Ran Zirou think Second Senior Brother belongs to her, too?]

[Not just him. She thinks all your senior brothers in the Sect are hers. She even thinks you've stolen the life that should have been hers. That's why she's getting close to your senior brother without a shred of restraint. But they have no relationship at all. They're neither a couple nor fellow disciples, so what's with all this intimacy?]

Li Zi sighed. [So she can take everything she wants and deny it afterward, huh.]

The system agreed wholeheartedly.

In the shadows.

Immortal Ziyang curled her lips in an intrigued smile and said to the Fifth Elder beside her, "The way I see it, going through something like this might not be bad for those disciples of yours."

The Fifth Elder frowned. "Not bad? If someone drains their Primordial Yang, all their cultivation will be ruined."

Immortal Ziyang raised an eyebrow. "But they have little Zi, don't they? She's thinking aloud about every one of Ran Zirou's schemes. If your disciples know Ran Zirou is deliberately plotting against them and still fall for it, then fools like that will lose their Primordial Yang sooner or later, if not this time."

The Fifth Elder frowned in thought for a moment, then sighed softly.

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