Why Choose? I Want Them All!

"So you're Lin Mo?" After briefly looking Lin Mo over, Dugu Liuli's eyes shifted.

Her enchanting voice, ethereal and melodious yet laced with seductive charm, sent a shiver through Lin Mo's entire body!

Enchantress!

Lin Mo grumbled inwardly before answering, "Yes."

Dugu Liuli giggled. "Perhaps you don't know me, but that's all right. I can introduce myself."

"My name is Dugu Liuli, captain of the Enforcement Hall's White Tiger Squad."

"Do you know why I came here today?"

Lin Mo feigned bewilderment and shook his head.

"Hehe, playing dumb won't work with me."

Dugu Liuli said, "About a month ago, you killed Zhu Fan of the Azure Dragon Squad, didn't you? That's precisely why I'm here."

"A servant killing an Inner Sect Disciple, and a disciple of the Enforcement Hall at that-that's no small matter."

"If we don't deal with this seriously, won't you servants turn the heavens upside down in the future?"

Faced with Dugu Liuli's accusation, Lin Mo took a deep breath and countered, "Captain Liuli, you say I killed a disciple of the Enforcement Hall. Then forgive this old man for daring to ask: do you have conclusive evidence?"

"Or did anyone witness it firsthand?"

Dugu Liuli smiled teasingly, then leaned closer, trailing the long nail of her index finger across Lin Mo's face. "Oh my, from the sound of it, have I wrongfully accused you?"

"But that's all right. We don't need evidence for Servant Disciples."

"..."

Lin Mo was tongue-tied, utterly at a loss for words.

Then Dugu Liuli lightly waved her delicate hand and ordered, "Take this old servant back to the office's interrogation room. I'll question him thoroughly and see whether his mouth really is that stubborn."

"Yes, Senior Sister Liuli!"

Lin Mo considered it, then ultimately chose not to resist.

He knew that with his cultivation at the foundation establishment middle stage, he had no ability to resist Dugu Liuli and her people.

Rather than struggle uselessly, he might as well save his strength.

Most importantly, as long as Shangguan Wuqing could come and get him out,

going with Dugu Liuli to the White Tiger Squad Office would certainly be much safer than staying in his own little nest.

And so it went.

Dugu Liuli's people escorted Lin Mo back to the White Tiger Squad Office.

On the way back, Dugu Liuli deliberately avoided the people from the Vermilion Bird Squad Office.

Dugu Liuli knew full well that if her senior sister Shangguan Wuqing learned she had arrested Lin Mo,

Shangguan Wuqing would probably storm straight over to the White Tiger Squad Office to get him out.

The interrogation room at the White Tiger Squad Office.

Lin Mo sat in a chair, his hands and feet bound with ropes that secured him to it.

Though they weren't much use, at least they made him look the part.

"Now that you're sitting here, is there anything you'd like to say?" Dugu Liuli asked, pacing around Lin Mo.

"Yes."

"Mhm~ Are you going to admit you killed Zhu Fan of the Azure Dragon Squad?"

"I request to see Captain Shangguan Wuqing of the Vermilion Bird Squad."

Hearing this, Dugu Liuli immediately stepped in front of Lin Mo and lifted his chin with her long nail, teasing, "Want Senior Sister Wuqing to come rescue you? Dream on."

"Look at me and listen."

Dugu Liuli gently exhaled, and Lin Mo instinctively looked into her beautiful, heart-shaped purple eyes.

Then a faint pink glow appeared in Dugu Liuli's lovely eyes.

The instant that pink light flickered, Lin Mo's consciousness slipped into a brief haze, as though he were drifting above the clouds, half dreaming and half awake.

In the next breath,

scorching pure yang energy instantly coursed through Lin Mo's entire body.

Lin Mo's sturdy frame shuddered, and he immediately snapped out of his daze.

Dugu Liuli, who was using her Charm Art, had yet to notice.

Following her plan, she questioned Lin Mo. "Tell me, what is your relationship with Senior Sister Shangguan Wuqing?"

"Father and daughter."

"Father and daughter... wait, father and daughter?!"

Dugu Liuli froze briefly, then immediately caught on.

Lin Mo was watching her with a teasing expression, seemingly mocking how clumsy her Charm Art was.

"How could this...?" Dugu Liuli's eyes widened, her face filled with disbelief.

With her cultivation, how could she possibly fail to charm a mere Lin Mo?

But to conceal her embarrassment, she could only leave it unmentioned and change tack. "Hmph, even if you don't tell me, I know anyway."

"You and Senior Sister Wuqing are dual cultivation partners, aren't you?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Mo knew Dugu Liuli was guessing, though she was right.

So Lin Mo remained silent, giving no reaction to Dugu Liuli's claim.

"Don't want to admit it? That's all right too."

Dugu Liuli's red lips curved upward. "Tomorrow, I'll spread the news about you and Senior Sister Wuqing far and wide. What do you think all those senior and junior brothers secretly in love with her will think?"

"Even if I don't kill you, I doubt you'll live to see the next day. Hehe."

"No, wait..."

Lin Mo's expression darkened. Why are you so wicked, woman?!

"Captain Liuli, you... what exactly do you want this old man to do?" Lin Mo had no choice but to give in and ask.

If Dugu Liuli really spread the news about him and Shangguan Wuqing far and wide, he probably wouldn't even know what had killed him!

"Admitting it now?" Dugu Liuli asked smugly.

"Yes, this old man admits it. It is indeed as you said." Lin Mo could only nod in acknowledgment.

"Wouldn't it have been better to do that from the start?"

Dugu Liuli's delicate hand slid across Lin Mo's face. "Normally, according to sect rules, any servant who kills an Inner Sect Disciple must be thrown into the Tower of Self-Cultivation and Self-Immolation."

"But I can give you a chance to live. All you have to do is promise to cut off all contact with Senior Sister Wuqing from now on and practice dual cultivation with me, and I'll let you off."

"What do you think? Hehe, you wouldn't be losing out either."

Dugu Liuli might not even have realized it herself yet.

Not only had her Charm Art failed to charm Lin Mo, she had instead been charmed by his pure yang sacred body.

When Saintess Su Yu had come to speak with her during the day, she had indeed intended to arrest Lin Mo and execute him.

But the moment she first laid eyes on Lin Mo, she immediately abandoned that idea.

"..."

Dugu Liuli's words were beyond Lin Mo's expectations, yet they made sense.

Well, there we have it. Even against Dugu Liuli, a Foxfolk girl skilled in Charm Art, the pure yang sacred body was still working its magic!

After considering it for a moment,

Lin Mo did not immediately agree to Dugu Liuli's demand. Instead, he asked, "Captain Liuli, do you and Captain Wuqing... have some sort of grudge?"

As far as Lin Mo was concerned, why did he have to choose between Shangguan Wuqing and Dugu Liuli?

Couldn't I have them all?