On the winding, precipitous mountainside, Xia Buyan prepared to play dirty and push Jiang Miaomiao off the cliff. This was an old staple of palace and household intrigue novels.
The male lead was nearby anyway and would surely save her. Besides, Jiang Miaomiao knew the Wind-Riding Art, so nothing would happen to her.
Xia Buyan formed a hand seal and flicked out a strand of spiritual energy.
Jiang Miaomiao turned to speak to Ning Xiang. "Senior Sister, I've thought it over..."
Then Xia Buyan's spiritual energy landed on Ning Xiang.
Caught completely off guard, Ning Xiang slipped and fell off the mountainside. She summoned the Azure Sea Sword in time, intending to fly back up on it, but a powerful mass of air immediately sucked the sword in.
"Senior Sister!" Jiang Miaomiao shouted from the cliff's edge. Seeing something dragging Ning Xiang down and preventing her from flying back up, she grew anxious and jumped after her.
Xia Buyan: This counts as completing the mission too, right?
Lu Qingchen caught up from behind. "Where's Ning Xiang?"
Oh, I nearly forgot the male lead.
Then Xia Buyan kicked Lu Qingchen off as well.
Xia Buyan dusted off his hands. Mission perfectly accomplished. He really was a born villain.
At the bottom of the cliff, Ning Xiang and Jiang Miaomiao stared at each other.
Ning Xiang thought, Surely this isn't going to trigger another hidden quest?
Sure enough, the next second, Jiang Miaomiao casually brushed aside the vines behind her. "Senior Sister, look! There's a cave here! Let's go take a look!"
Ning Xiang: *Calm down! After falling off a cliff, you either find miraculous medicines and peerless martial arts, or meet a master who passes on a lifetime of cultivation. But what the hell does any of that have to do