Because You're Not Good-Looking

[Fifteen years old, after a year of in-depth exchanges with Bai Heng, you have figured out all of Jingliu Shifu's preferences and are ready to commit patricide and betray your master. If you succeed, Jing Yuan will call you Shifu Gong next year; if you fail, Jing Yuan will be burying you next year.]

[Your swordsmanship has not been neglected during this time either. In addition to condensing Sword Intent, you have even managed to control sixteen flying swords simultaneously. This is something that Jingliu Shifu couldn't do back then. However, Jingliu Shifu didn't praise you for it, after all, the lifespan of a short-lived species is not comparable to that of a long-lived one. You can't have hundreds of years of accumulation like she does.]

[The progress of cultivating the Dual Cultivation Sword Arts is also obvious. You can barely achieve the combination of swords, exerting 80% of its power. In the process, you find that Jingliu Shifu doesn't seem to mind unintentional physical contact.]

[As time passes day by day, you find that you are already taller than Jingliu Shifu. But knowing that the lifespan of a short-lived species is like a fleeting firework, you prepare to find an opportunity to confess your feelings. However, before that, Wuxia Feiguang also talked to you about related matters one day.]

[Wuxia Feiguang: "Do you have someone you like?"]

[Bai Heng: "?? How did you know?? You didn't come to Sword Champion Manor to spy on me, did you??"]

[Wuxia Feiguang: "No, I guessed."]

[Bai Heng: "Then your guess is quite accurate. Oh, right, I remember you're a girl, right? How about we meet up after I confess my feelings? I'm in the Sword Champion Manor of the Xianzhou 'Luofu'."]

[Wuxia Feiguang: "No need, I'm very ugly."]

[Bai Heng: "It's okay, I'm not good-looking either."]

[Wuxia Feiguang: "Then I don't want to go even more."]

[Bai Heng: "???"]

The night is as cool as water. Jingliu looks at the communication information between the two, her slender fingers twirling a white porcelain jade cup, and she drinks the clear wine in the cup.

"Not good-looking..." She suddenly chuckled and looked towards the moon in the sky.

But thinking that the boy who hugged her leg a few years ago and heartlessly said he wanted to be her child bridegroom is about to steal her best friend, she really has an unspeakable melancholy.

[At the end of the year, during the Lantern Festival on the Xianzhou 'Luofu', lanterns and decorations are everywhere in the paradises, filled with a lively festive atmosphere. Bai Heng is preparing to confess his feelings today and has prepared some gifts.]

[In the first half of the Lantern Festival, you follow the Five Kasas of the Cloud, tasting various snacks, guessing lantern riddles, and releasing sky lanterns on the Xuanye Avenue of the 'Luofu'.]

[In the second half of the night, you stand on a city tower and look out into the distance. When fireworks rise above the city, you take the opportunity to hold Jingliu's small hand and say, "Shifu, I like you..."]

[Faced with this sudden confession, the other party is stunned, but does not withdraw her hand. Just when you think you have succeeded, Jingliu draws the Zhilí Sword.]

[The next day, you fought from the city head to the city tail last night, and you are covered in injuries, lying in the Alchemy Commission for a whole day. You never thought that the price of this patricide and betrayal would be so high, but you didn't give up.]

[That night, you also shared this with that online friend you've never met.]

[Bai Heng: "I was rejected."]

[Wuxia Feiguang: "Oh, not surprisingly."]

[Bai Heng: "You don't even know who I confessed to? How is it not surprising?"]

[Wuxia Feiguang: "Because you're not good-looking."]

[Bai Heng: "..."]

[Wuxia Feiguang: "Tell me, who did you confess to?"]

[Bai Heng: "Shifu..."]

If you think this book is good, remember to add it to your bookshelf to avoid not finding it next time.

[Wuxia Feiguang: "Normal, it's inherently against the natural order for disciples and masters to be together."]

[Bai Heng: "But ever since I moved into Sword Champion Manor, I've been strictly demanding myself to be a child bridegroom."]

[Wuxia Feiguang: "...Okay."]

[Bai Heng: "Hey, why don't you give me some advice? I haven't planned to give up yet."]

[Wuxia Feiguang: "From what I know, a woman like Sword Master will never be moved unless you beat her."]

[Through a conversation with an online friend, you finally understand that Bai Heng's saying about beating her and then carrying her home for a wedding night is not a joke.]

[Sixteen years old, at a frequency of once a month, you confess your feelings to Jingliu Shifu. But the price is that Jingliu will fight you mercilessly that day, which causes you to spend several days in the Alchemy Commission almost every month. After a while, the alchemists of the Alchemy Commission are quite familiar with you.]

[However, with the increase in age, your reputation as a young genius and your outstanding appearance have brought you a lot of peach blossoms, but you are not very interested in them. This really verifies the saying: You can't meet someone too stunning when you are young.]

[Seventeen years old, perhaps inspired by this, you have gone from being able to withstand only a few dozen moves from Jingliu Shifu at the beginning to being able to hurt her now. You firmly believe that if you are given another five years, you will probably be able to defeat this undefeated legend in the Cloud Knights.]

[Eighteen years old, you have finally reached the age to join the Cloud Knights. Yingxing specially crafted a 5-foot long sword for you, and you named it "Lihun."]

[As a rare short-lived species in the Cloud Knights, you follow Jingliu Shifu to the front line, annihilating the undying abominations of Abundance in the sea of stars. Perhaps because you harbor hatred for the abominations of Abundance in your heart, in the process of killing the abominations of Abundance, you practice the path of The Hunt and become a follower of The Hunt.]

[In a conflict with the Wingweaver, an Abundance abomination, Jingliu was injured by a creation of the Calamity-Bringer Shuhu, an Emanator of Abundance. Bai Heng deliberately gave you the opportunity to apply medicine to her.]

In the camp, the candlelight reflects Jingliu's beautiful figure.

Bai Heng gently tears open Jingliu's blood-stained clothes on her back, revealing a piece of snow-white fragrant shoulder and neck. He carefully applies the Alchemy Commission's wound medicine to Jingliu's wound.

Jingliu just lowers her head and remains silent.

After a long time, she suddenly opens her lips slightly and says:

"Now that abominations created by the Calamity-Bringer Shuhu often appear in the Luofu, we need to be more vigilant to prevent the abominations from wreaking havoc on the Xianzhou."

"Understood, Shifu," Bai Heng replies casually.

He is still carefully applying the Alchemy Commission's special medicine.

There is another silence, until Jingliu pursed her lips tightly and opened her mouth again:

"Aren't you going to do something?"

Bai Heng was taken aback. "Huh?"

Jingliu took a slight breath and said, "For example, if you took advantage of my injury and defeated me, maybe I would have agreed to your request?"

Upon hearing this, Bai Heng said righteously, "Senior Sister Master, do I look like the kind of person who would do that...? Draw your sword."

A rare smile appeared on Jingliu's face as she said, "Opportunity knocks but once. You didn't seize it yourself."