Chapter 5: The Ragdoll Cat Spiritual Body
Confirming that she had dodged the first assassination attempt, Xie Qiang’s tense and fearful heart finally relaxed.
She let out a sigh and sat at the edge of the bed, her small hands happily patting the spot next to her. “Commander Sen, sit down. I’ll perform the purification for you.”
To her surprise, Sen Ji’s attitude was exceptionally cold. “No need. I’ll just stand!”
Xie Qiang was startled by his sharp tone.
Sen Ji’s stiff and icy demeanor was not what she had expected. She originally thought that after she apologized, the tension between them would ease; now it seemed she had been too optimistic.
Xie Qiang lowered her eyes, a look of dejection crossing her face. “I’m not trying to suck up to you on purpose. It’s just that my back shoulder is injured, and I can’t keep my hand raised to purify you for long.”
“If you insist on standing, then I…” Xie Qiang bit her lip, her voice taking on a slightly pouting edge. “Then I’ll just stand to purify you too. I suppose I deserve it for what I owe you.”
Seeing her like this filled Sen Ji’s heart with an indescribable irritability.
It was happening again. He was clearly the victim, yet she looked so aggrieved it was as if she were about to cry.
Closing his eyes, Sen Ji knitted his brows tightly before finally taking a large stride and sitting on the edge of the bed.
However, he sat nearly half a meter away from Xie Qiang.
Xie Qiang blinked, the dejection and grievance on her face finally dissipating. she let out a chuckle, her cat-like almond eyes curving into crescents as she said softly, “I knew it. Commander Sen is someone who’s hard on the outside but soft on the inside.”
She leaned down to take Sen Ji’s hand.
Unlike during the day, Sen Ji was now wearing black leather tactical gloves, with only a semi-circular cutout on the back of the hand exposing a small patch of skin where veins slightly bulged.
Xie Qiang gave a small “hmm.”
Did this mean she was only allowed to touch this tiny bit of skin for the purification?
Although she really wanted to grumble that this man was incredibly difficult to serve, she remembered that this was the mess created by the original host. Xie Qiang had no choice but to swallow her dissatisfaction and poked her index finger onto the spot.
Since you’re only willing to show a bit of skin, I’ll just use one finger to purify you then~
She could hold a grudge too!
Concentrating her mind, Xie Qiang began to transmit her mental power.
Because she was only touching a small area of Sen Ji’s skin, the mental power she sent in this time was like a stream of water, gently boring into his spiritual sea.
Upon entering, it felt like falling into a cold, damp, deep sea. Xie Qiang’s mental power condensed into a small Ragdoll cat. The kitten’s paws landed softly on the surface of the spiritual sea, creating ripples.
It licked its little paw, its beautiful glacier-blue eyes surveying the surroundings with curiosity.
The area was surrounded by a forest shrouded in bottomless black mist. Within the forest, faint sounds similar to the crawling and hissing of Zerg could be heard, which was quite terrifying. Between the little Ragdoll cat and the misty forest, a tall, transparent barrier stood, hindering further exploration.
Behind the kitten, a massive golden tiger with white stripes merged into the black mist. It looked down at the soft little Ragdoll cat from above, its eerie green tiger eyes flashing with a fierce, predatory light.
Sensing something, the Ragdoll cat turned its head.
But it saw nothing.
“Meow?” The Ragdoll cat tilted its head in confusion. In reality, Xie Qiang also tilted her head, looking puzzled.
Strange. She clearly felt something staring at her just now.
Shaking her head, Xie Qiang continued to focus.
Inside the spiritual sea, the Ragdoll cat tentatively raised a paw and poked the transparent barrier in front of it, easily shattering it.
The moment it stepped into the forest, the surrounding black mist receded like a tide. The Ragdoll cat held its head high and began to diligently purify this contaminated spiritual sea. Its fluffy, plush tail brushed gently over the flowers and grass in the forest, causing the petals and leaves to sway and tremble.
In reality, Sen Ji was struggling to suppress the slight trembling of his body. He pressed his lips into a tight line, his clenched fists turning his knuckles white.
He had thought that by limiting the skin contact with Xie Qiang, he could avoid a strong physical reaction. But the moment that little Ragdoll cat broke into his spiritual sea, he found it difficult to suppress the impulse of the golden tiger spiritual body within him to pounce on the cat.
And there was also the desire for his tiger ears to pop out so Xie Qiang could pet them to her heart’s content.
Sen Ji gritted his teeth and turned his head away, forcing himself not to pay attention to that soft, small Ragdoll cat in his spiritual sea.
It was said that the form of a spiritual body resembled the personality of its owner. How could someone as cold-blooded and heartless as Xie Qiang possess such a cute and well-behaved Ragdoll cat spiritual body?
It was as if it were telling him that Xie Qiang was truly sorry for her past actions and wanted to make amends.
If that were true, wouldn’t the humiliation he had endured for the past few years become a complete joke?
Sen Ji hardened his heart, telling himself he must never forgive Xie Qiang.
Meanwhile, Cang Jiu stared at the two people performing the purification. He leaned back slightly, his hands propping up his body on the bed, while his long legs in straight, slender military boots swung slightly from side to side.
The young man narrowed his eyes.
Hmm~
Looking at this, did she really want to repair her relationship with Sen Ji?
But Cang Jiu believed more in the saying that “it’s hard to change one’s nature.” The old Xie Qiang didn’t care about pleasing Sen Ji at all; the only person she spent all her effort trying to obtain was him, Cang Jiu.
So, rather than believing Xie Qiang wanted to make amends to Sen Ji, he believed she was trying to get his own attention through this unusual behavior.
If that were the case, he had to admit she had succeeded.
Cang Jiu leaned back further, his gaze drifting seemingly inadvertently over the wardrobe before he forced his way into the subtle atmosphere between Xie Qiang and Sen Ji. “Your Highness, have you offended anyone recently?”
Hearing this, Xie Qiang couldn’t help but show a bit of embarrassment. “I suppose you could say I’ve been offending people all along.”
In the Third War Zone, there wasn’t a single Sentinel who didn’t dislike her.
Speaking of this, Xie Qiang couldn’t help but think of the Sentinel who was supposed to assassinate her. In the novel, the villainess had fired a shot at Wu Zao’s leg, which delayed things until Sen Ji arrived to save her.
Afterward, the villainess had locked Wu Zao in the water prison and tortured him continuously until the Inspector, who was on sick leave, returned to his post…
Wait!
Xie Qiang’s eyes suddenly widened.
She remembered she still had an S-class Sentinel guard being punished in the water prison!
Patting her head in frustration, Xie Qiang quickly let go of Sen Ji’s hand and stood up. “Commander Sen, I just remembered there’s something urgent I need to handle. Come to my office tomorrow, and I’ll purify you again!”
With that, she ran out of the bedroom anxiously.
Cang Jiu tilted his head and watched her back, letting out a soft “tsk.”
His intention wasn’t to make Xie Qiang leave.
He wondered what could be so urgent that it would make her leave him behind and run out so hurriedly.
It couldn’t possibly be for another Sentinel, could it?
Beside him, Sen Ji gave him a cold look and suddenly asked, “Did you kill the person in the wardrobe?”
Cang Jiu raised an eyebrow. “Oh? So you noticed?”
“The sound of a throat snapping is so obvious, it’s hard not to notice.” Sen Ji said coldly.
Only someone like Cang Jiu would directly snap someone’s neck without asking a single question.
Cang Jiu shrugged, his silver-blue fox eyes filled with amusement. “The person was able to hide their presence and had a knife in their hand. It’s obvious they were here to assassinate her. Why keep such a person alive?”
Sen Ji frowned. “If you killed him, how are we supposed to investigate who’s behind him?”
“Ah, that’s right!” Cang Jiu exclaimed in surprise, his face immediately filling with regret. “Sigh, I’m still too young and inexperienced.”
Sen Ji: “…”
“Since it’s your fiancée who caused the trouble, I’ll leave the body to you to handle.” Cang Jiu stood up, stretched, and waved an arm at Sen Ji. “Bye-bye, I’m going back to sleep~”
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