Beauty Brings Trouble

Hearing the teasing words, Jiang Nannan froze. She turned to see two girls: one looking at her helplessly, and the other looking at her with a trace of jealousy.

The girl looking at her jealously was a petite girl with white hair. She was Xu Yanxue, Xu Xingyu's nominal sworn younger sister, who had entered Shrek Academy ahead of them. She was also the ruler of the Far North, the Snow Empress.

The purple-haired girl wearing a thoroughly helpless expression was her close friend Dugu Yanran. She was pointing all around them. Following the direction of her finger, Jiang Nannan discovered that countless people were watching her and Xu Xingyu.

They included, but were not limited to, freshmen who had just arrived at Shrek Academy and students from its outer academy. Without exception, they all looked at the two of them with envy, jealousy, and resentment.

Or rather, they were looking at Xu Xingyu with jealousy and hostility. Like members of the FFF Brigade protecting world peace, nearly every onlooker had a raging fire burning in their eyes.

Only then did Jiang Nannan realize how improper her current position was. She quickly let go of Xu Xingyu and acted as though it had never happened.

Unfortunately, that was like covering her ears while stealing a bell. Besides, Jiang Nannan's bold actions and flushed face had long since revealed that her relationship with Xu Xingyu was certainly more than a simple friendship.

Xu Xingyu sighed inwardly. After a few years apart, this girl has become so alluring. Fortunately, I've had a beauty of Gu Yuena's caliber at my side ever since I was little. Otherwise, I wouldn't be confident I could keep my wits about me.

What surprised Xu Xingyu, however, was that he seemed to have seriously underestimated Jiang Nannan's charm. In the original story, Jiang Nannan was known as the number one beauty of the outer academy, but that was about all that had been written about her.

Thus, sensing the hostility from so many people, Xu Xingyu felt utterly helpless. In his eyes, after all, the two of them were just close friends. When had there ever been such an intimate scene between them?

And why were there freshmen among those hostile gazes?! They had only just arrived at the academy! They didn't even know Jiang Nannan, did they? Was it really necessary to want to burn someone to death just because they saw a beauty fall for him?

What Xu Xingyu didn't know was that, while Jiang Nannan's beauty was indeed part of the reason, he himself was also partly responsible for the current situation.

Some people were indeed furious because the school beauty they had been painstakingly pursuing already had someone she loved, but others had been drawn in by her charm.

Ever since Jiang Nannan had absorbed the Immortal Moon Jade Rabbit Soul Spirit Xu Xingyu provided, evolving her Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul into the Supreme Yin Jade Rabbit Martial Soul, her Supreme Yin Jade Body had unconsciously begun to give off a faint fragrance.

The fragrance did no harm to the human body, and even had some ability to counteract poison.

If one had to point out a problem, it was that the fragrance Jiang Nannan unconsciously released carried a certain bewitching quality.

Once someone smelled it, they could easily fall into a mildly bewitched state; if they remained under its influence for a long time, however, mild bewitchment would turn severe.

And someone under severe bewitchment was basically no different from a hardcore simp.

Fortunately, at Shrek Academy, freshmen and older students alike had some degree of Soul Power cultivation. Unless they were truly smitten, they would not fall into a severely bewitched state so easily. Thus, most students were only mildly affected.

Combined with Jiang Nannan's reputation in the outer academy, as well as her looks and charm, it was hardly impossible for so many people to be hostile toward Xu Xingyu now.

That was why those gazes even included the hatred of some girls!

Thinking of this, Xu Xingyu felt that campus life might be a little difficult from now on.

But difficult or not, when water came, earth would dam it; when soldiers came, generals would stand against them. He wouldn't stir up trouble, but he wasn't afraid of it either. If someone really had nothing better to do than make trouble for him over this so-called beauty who brought disaster, Xu Xingyu could guarantee he would give them an unforgettable lesson.

While Xu Xingyu was thinking, the purple-haired girl who had spoken earlier addressed the crowd still watching. "All right, what are you standing around for? Get moving!"

As soon as she finished speaking, three purple Soul Rings lit up, and a little emerald-green snake appeared on her shoulder. At the same time, emerald-green mist streaked with cyan lightning gradually wound around her body.

Sensing the purple-haired girl's unfriendly presence, everyone shuddered, snapped out of their bewitched state, and began to leave, each going about their business.

Just as Xu Xingyu found the purple-haired girl somewhat familiar, Xu Sanshi suddenly lunged at her and shouted, "Xiao Yanyan! My lady wife, here I come!"

The girl called Xiao Yanyan showed no surprise. Instead, she sighed softly, stuck out a foot, and sent Xu Sanshi flying with a kick. "Sanshi, how many times have I told you!? Don't call me that at the academy!"

After recovering, Xu Sanshi immediately put on the face of an abandoned puppy and said with tears in his eyes, "How can I do that? Xiao Yanyan is mine! If I back down here and my wife runs away, what am I supposed to do?"

"Sigh, I really don't know why I chose you." The purple-haired girl rubbed her head as though it ached. "You're so unserious every day. Don't you get tired? Or think it damages your dignity?"

Xu Sanshi gave a soft snort. "As long as it's for my wife Yanran, what do being tired and dignity matter!"

Meanwhile, Xu Xingyu, who had been watching from the side, was puzzled by the purple-haired girl. After all, there had been no description of her in the original story.

In that case, she might have been a passerby in the original story. But if so, why was she so close to Xu Sanshi?

Had he found someone else to take Jiang Nannan's place in that so-called second Martial Soul Awakening ceremony?

But judging by the way they acted, probably not. After all, if that were really how they had met, the two of them shouldn't have been so harmonious, should they?

Xu Xingyu didn't have much time to consider it, however, because a cold voice sounded beside his ear.

"That felt nice just now, didn't it? After all these years, she's grown quite a bit too, hasn't she?"

"Yes-wait, Yan Xue, listen to me!"

Xu Yanxue looked at Xu Xingyu with a smile. It was clearly so beautiful, shining like the first light of dawn, so why could Xu Xingyu feel only the cold of the Far North?

Just then, Jiang Nannan, who could no longer bear to watch from the side, linked her arm through Xu Xingyu's and said, "What? Little Xingyu and I haven't seen each other in so long. Can't we be a little affectionate, my dear little sister Yan Xue?"

Looking at Jiang Nannan holding Xu Xingyu's arm, Xu Yanxue cursed inwardly. At the Spirit Contract Pagoda, she was clearly like a shy little rabbit who didn't dare get too close to Xu Xingyu. How did coming to school make her so bold?!

With that thought, Xu Yanxue forcibly hooked her arm through Xu Xingyu's free one and petulantly pinched his waist, making him wince slightly.

"Of course you can, Sister Nannan, but Brother Xingyu looks a little tired to me. Why don't you let go of him first and let him get some proper rest? As his younger sister, I'll be sure to take good care of him."

"Hehe, so I'm burdening your brother by holding him, but you aren't?"

"Little brother Xingyu!" "Brother Xingyu!"

"Who do you choose!!!!"

Seeing the looks in their eyes, Xu Xingyu, who had been through this many times before, understood at once that he had unwittingly triggered another Asura field.

So, what price would Xu Xingyu have to pay this time to break free of this crisis and escape this new Asura field?