Chapter 98: The Ninety-Eighth Day of Slacking Off
Seeing Wen Ying’s dismissive expression, Lin Yu struggled to furrow his brows on his swollen face. After pondering for a moment, a different speculation gradually formed.
“Could it be… your taking the Great Strength Pill has nothing to do with me?” Lin Yu asked slowly.
Hmm?
Wen Ying raised her eyebrows with interest.
Unexpectedly, Lin Yu could actually reflect in time and recognize the facts?
“Then it must be… Xiao Ying, I know a person’s luck is limited. You are afraid of losing, right?” Lin Yu sighed softly, his tone deepening. “Xiao Ying, don’t eat it anymore, okay? If, if you just want to win…”
The fist in Lin Yu’s sleeve clenched again, but in the next moment, it relaxed.
He had made up his mind.
“I can help you.” Lin Yu lifted his bun-like swollen face, revealing determination through his slit-like eyes. “Xiao Ying, as long as you don’t harm your body anymore, no matter what you want me to do, I am willing. I can do everything in my power to help you win.”
Wen Ying: “…”
Lin Yu probably felt he was being deeply affectionate.
Deeply affectionately expressing that he would do everything in his power to help her mess things up.
Because she was too speechless, Wen Ying really had nothing to say.
“Could it be, I guessed wrong again…” Lin Yu tried hard to frown again.
Disgusting was disgusting, but for some reason today, Lin Yu seemed a bit smarter.
Perhaps the previous “No. 1 Fan carrying the train” incident (a metaphor for carrying the burden/being a simp) made him learn from his mistakes and finally increased his IQ a bit?
“Then, Xiao Ying, are you… still angry with me?” Through Lin Yu’s slit eyes, a hint of tenderness could vaguely be seen. “Xiao Ying, if… if it makes you feel better, hit me. I won’t offer any resistance.”
Saying that, Lin Yu closed his two slit eyes.
“I have never been angry with you,” Wen Ying said to the big swollen-faced Lin Yu, arms crossed.
At most, it was disgust, amusement, and annoyance. No matter what, there wouldn’t be an emotion like anger.
“Xiao Ying, you mean…!” Lin Yu opened his eyes with effort, bursting with unprecedented light.
“However, since you requested it—”
Wen Ying channeled energy into her hand, raised a fist, and with a “Bang,” punched Lin Yu in the stomach.
Before Lin Yu could retract his excited expression, his whole body flew into the sky like a spaceman with a “Whoosh.”
The wind whistled past his ears, and the scenery flashed before his eyes. Lin Yu felt he was flying so high, so fast…
Watching the white dot disappear into the horizon, Wen Ying clapped her hands and finished her previous sentence: “Since you requested it, I can’t very well refuse, right?”
Originally, Wen Ying had planned to punch him directly back to his dilapidated courtyard.
She just hadn’t expected Lin Yu to be so proactive.
So she just went with the flow.
Wen Ying shook off the goosebumps caused by Lin Yu’s disgusting behavior, closed the door, and turned to walk back into the room.
[Congratulations Host, you have completed the additional mission! Reward: Mysterious Gift Pack. Open now?]
[Open it.]
It was probably just a mountain of trash anyway; what difference did opening it make?
[Congratulations Host, you have obtained one portion of Scum Brand Tofu Dregs. Scum Brand Tofu Dregs, they just smell so good!]
Wen Ying: “…”
She didn’t know if it was her illusion, but why did she feel like this was product placement?
Although it was trash as always, this time the trash was a bit special.
Compared to those useless spirit stones, at least this was edible.
[As long as there are scumbags in the world, Scum Brand Tofu Dregs will never run out. Does the Host plan to store this item temporarily in the system or extract it directly?]
If it was tofu dregs that would never run out…
It sounded somewhat interesting.
[Extract it directly.]
She didn’t feel safe leaving it with the system.
Undoubtedly, there was something wrong with the system.
It was just that since the system resurrected, it seemed to have become well-behaved.
But she didn’t know if this system’s disguise had become more exquisite, or… if there was another reason?
Wasting energy thinking about things she couldn’t figure out was pointless.
When everything became clear, the mystery would naturally be solved.
Wen Ying walked around the screen and looked at Shen Linfeng, who was still sleeping soundly.
When a mute starts speaking, what does that mean?
A medical miracle?
Wen Ying gave a low laugh.
Actually, this wasn’t unexpected for Wen Ying.
The mysterious seal, the anomaly in Ping’an Town—Shen Linfeng had many secrets to begin with. Pretending to be mute might have been the easiest of his many disguises.
But, why?
Pretending to be mute didn’t bring any benefits.
It couldn’t be that Shen Linfeng just wanted her to pity him, so he deliberately pretended to be mute.
If not that, then it was… concealment.
He was concealing his voice.
The reason for concealing it was nothing more than… not wanting her to recognize him.
Those two murmurs just now were very soft, and with Lin Yu’s interruption, Wen Ying hadn’t heard them clearly and didn’t remember them now.
regardless, Shen Linfeng had hidden it for so long; exposing it now was definitely not his intention.
That meant the sentence just now was indeed uttered unintentionally in his deep sleep.
But…
Why was it her name?
Before, Wen Ying could explain Shen Linfeng’s excessive obedience as having ulterior motives.
But if he called out her name even unintentionally…
Could it be that everything Shen Linfeng showed before wasn’t deliberate, but sincere?
But why?
After all, they had only spent a few days together. Wen Ying really couldn’t think of a reason for Shen Linfeng to treat her so sincerely.
On the bed, Shen Linfeng slept peacefully.
There was even a slight smile at the corner of his mouth, making his already extremely good-looking features appear even more handsome.
Wen Ying’s eyes moved slightly.
Since she couldn’t figure it out—
Then she wouldn’t think about it.
Wen Ying spread her hands and chose to give up thinking.
Anyway, being liked by a handsome guy wasn’t a terrible thing.
Wen Ying stroked her chin.
She had been single for so many years anyway. How about giving dating a try? If it didn’t work out, they could just part ways amicably.
Wait until… Shen Linfeng wakes up.
…
With the bed occupied by Shen Linfeng, Wen Ying simply stayed up all night.
To neutralize the irritation from reading the melodramatic bad-ending novel and being disgusted by Lin Yu, Wen Ying chose to read a storybook written by Ziwei for the latter half of the night.
Although Ziwei’s titles were a bit like clickbait, the content was good.
There were no clichéd plots filled with plot holes like in older stories, nor were there annoying scenarios where the male and female leads broke up and got back together, creating misunderstandings for the sake of misunderstandings. It was refreshing when it needed to be, and sweet when it needed to be. Wen Ying read it with a great mood.
The match where Wen Ying defeated Wen Meng was already the Round of 16 in the Trial of Immortals.
Which meant, after the last battle, the Trial of Immortals had eliminated everyone down to just eight people.
And among the remaining disciples of the Xun Xian Sect were Wen Ying, Xu Huang, and Long Musheng.
Xun Xian Sect was indeed worthy of its home-field advantage, having so many people left at the end.
Actually, it wasn’t strange. Among the many sects, Xun Xian Sect had the most protagonists.
Other sects had at most one or two male or female leads, but Xun Xian Sect had at least dozens. By this ratio, it was normal.
Since they had entered the final stage of the competition, to better create suspense, the competition was paused for a day. Ostensibly, it was to let the disciples entering the final competition rest well.
Since she had some free time, Wen Ying went to Elder Nang Ge’s place to check on Wen Meng.
Although the one who intended to harm Wen Meng was definitely Xu Huang, judging purely by the result… Wen Ying was indeed half the cause.
She had been careless about the broadcast gymnastics matter.
Actually, the reason everyone did the exercises together at that time was indeed, as some disciples said, because she controlled everyone’s minds.
Of course, the main reason was that the broadcast gymnastics itself was too magical.
With Wen Ying’s cultivation, when she was too immersed in the broadcast gymnastics, the beats she shouted out unconsciously became a spell for mental control.
That was what led to the scene of everyone doing exercises together.
Only Xu Huang, because she was too immersed in her own goals and didn’t watch Wen Ying’s movements or listen to her voice with excessive seriousness out of curiosity like the others, wasn’t affected.
After all, Wen Ying didn’t do it on purpose. As long as one didn’t look seriously, the control ability wasn’t that forceful.
Wen Meng was closest to her, so naturally, she was affected the most deeply.
Added to Xu Huang’s puppet string manipulation, the extreme tug-of-war between mind and body caused Wen Meng’s current condition.
In the previous fifty-plus reincarnations, because Wen Ying succeeded in counterattacking every time, she had indeed never encountered a situation where Wen Meng was truly hurt this badly.
Wen Ying went to Elder Nang Ge’s place not just to see Wen Meng’s condition.
If Elder Nang Ge really couldn’t heal Wen Meng, Wen Ying did intend to heal her.
With her cultivation, curing Wen Meng’s injuries should be a piece of cake.
But if asked for the reason she planned to go heal Wen Meng, it wasn’t entirely because her injury was related to herself.
The one who truly hurt her was Xu Huang; simply doing broadcast gymnastics wouldn’t cause harm to Wen Meng.
She wanted to treat her just because she wanted to. Actually, there wasn’t much of a reason to discuss.
If there really had to be a reason, it could only be that Wen Ying didn’t want to see Wen Meng completely ruined by Xu Huang because of this.
In the previous reincarnations, although Wen Meng was the heroine, she had never truly done anything improper to her, the second female lead.
This was probably just simple compassion.
Author’s Note: Shen Linfeng spoke before, and surprisingly no one mentioned it hhhh. It seems no one noticed. There will be another update later.
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