“Senior Sister, didn’t you sneak several glances at Senior Sister Su during dinner just now?”
“…No. I simply wasn’t used to the food here, so I was pondering life. Besides, aside from your Senior Sister Su, I also looked at the others. So your so-called ‘sneaking glances’ are completely groundless.”
“Then Senior Sister, why were you pacing back and forth in front of Senior Sister Su’s door earlier?”
“Because none of you had come out of the bathhouse yet. I was thinking about how to distribute the sugar-coated hawthorns to all of you.”
“Senior Sister, you’re really good at reading from the script. You couldn’t answer earlier, but now you’re directly using Senior Sister Su’s own words.”
“…You’re supposed to be explaining yourself to me right now, not questioning me. Tell me exactly what you were thinking and why you spread such rumors. If you change the subject on me again, I’ll make you test my medicine!”
“Ow ow ow— Senior Sister, stop pinching my face! I was wrong, I was wrong!”
“Keep explaining!”
Xia Liu withdrew her hand with an expressionless face.
She looked at the girl before her, whose watery eyes were already brimming with tears from having her soft cheeks pinched, and showed absolutely no mercy.
Xia Liu had never bothered to remember most people’s names.
She believed that in interpersonal relationships, it was enough to only care deeply about a few individuals.
Within the sect, the number of people whose names she could recall was barely over a dozen.
Starting today, that list would have one more name added to it.
Ji Xing… an outer sect disciple who joined the Qingyun Sect a year ago.
She was the seventy-sixth disciple of Elder Liu, a talisman cultivator, and the type who wasn’t particularly dedicated to cultivation but possessed some innate talent.
She had already asked clearly.
The other girls only had a vague understanding of the matter.
Ji Xing had argued with them for quite a while about whether she and Su Zhan were actually dao companions, but they couldn’t reach any conclusion.
Eventually, one bold girl suggested they simply ask the person herself directly.
One dared to suggest it, and the others dared to follow through.
And so, the group of girls had crowded over to Xia Liu’s door together.
Facts proved this was an extremely bad idea.
After hearing the full explanation, although Xia Liu’s expression hadn’t changed much, the chilling aura radiating from her body was very real.
Even though she wasn’t an offensive cultivator, her Nascent Soul realm cultivation was more than enough to pressure this group of Qi Refining stage girls until they could barely breathe.
Fortunately, among these girls, only Ji Xing was a real troublemaker.
Xia Liu silently recited the Mind-Calming Incantation several times to barely suppress her emotions.
However, listening to Ji Xing’s evasive, rambling explanation was starting to make her angry again.
Did this girl not understand her current situation at all?
Xia Liu could tell—this idiot simply lacked proper discipline.
Give her even the slightest good face and she would immediately push her luck.
If it weren’t for the other junior sisters present, she would have pressed this little brat down on the bed and given her bottom a good spanking.
Under Xia Liu’s threatening glare, Ji Xing finally stopped dodging the issue and honestly explained her entire train of thought from beginning to end.
Many of the details left Xia Liu feeling utterly helpless.
The other girls listening on the side wore expressions of “Huh? There was more to it? You can interpret it like that?” and secretly gave Ji Xing a thumbs-up, only to be fiercely glared back into line by Xia Liu.
Several minutes later, after Ji Xing finished mumbling through her full explanation, Xia Liu stayed silent for a long moment before finally making her decision.
“Once we return to the sect, I’m confiscating all of your storybooks.”
“Wha—!? Nooo! Senior Sister, you can hit me or scold me all you want… but please don’t take my storybooks! Elder Liu’s daily assignments are so heavy I feel like I’m dying every day. Those books are the only things keeping me alive back in the sect—”
“Beat me instead, Senior Sister! I really know I was wrong this time. I won’t do it again. Please forgive me just this once—”
Ji Xing immediately hugged Xia Liu’s leg and started crying pitifully.
Halfway through her act, she paused to secretly check Xia Liu’s expression, then shook the leg even harder and continued wailing.
The other girls watched in astonishment.
This girl truly had no sense of shame whatsoever.
Elder Liu was often troubled by Ji Xing’s “dead pig doesn’t fear boiling water” personality and had eventually stopped bothering to discipline her.
However, Xia Liu was having none of it.
She kept her face cold, making her attitude clear—there was no room for discussion.
Seeing that Xia Liu was unmoved by either soft or hard tactics, Ji Xing stood up straight and prepared to try something new.
Suddenly, a thought struck her.
She stopped her fake crying and asked curiously.
“Senior Sister, I just realized something. You never actually denied that you were troubled because of Senior Sister Su. Does that mean there really is something between you two?”
“You really can change your expression in an instant…”
Xia Liu covered her face, completely speechless.
“It’s truly a waste that you don’t cultivate illusion techniques.”
“Senior Sister, are you changing the subject again? Ow ow ow! I was wrong, I was wrong—”
Ji Xing started spouting nonsense again.
Xia Liu immediately reached out, grabbing the girl’s soft cheeks with both hands and pulling them outward.
The girl bared her teeth in pain and begged for mercy.
“I am changing the subject. Do you have a problem with that?”
Xia Liu let go and said expressionlessly.
“No, no! Senior Sister Xia is wise, valiant, intelligent, magnanimous, elegant, and unparalleled! It must be that Senior Sister Su did something wrong to make you so troubled. Senior Sister Su is so bad— Mmph mmph! Mercy! Mercy!”
Ji Xing shook her head vigorously.
She raised one hand beside her face as if swearing an oath of loyalty.
In her panic, she blurted out another piece of nonsense, and her poor tender cheeks that had just been released were once again pinched and mercilessly kneaded.
“What exactly are you troubled about, Senior Sister? Although we don’t know the full story, if you’re willing to tell us, we might be able to pool our ideas together and actually help you resolve it.”
“Yes, Senior Sister. The most important thing right now is to solve your problem. Punishing Little Xing can come later.”
Seeing that Ji Xing never learned her lesson no matter how many times she was punished, the girls who had come with her finally couldn’t stand it anymore and gently tried to persuade Xia Liu.
“It’s not anything major. I simply made a mistake, and now I don’t quite know how to face Senior Sister Su.”
Xia Liu sighed.
After all the commotion from this little clown, the knot in her chest had actually loosened quite a bit.
At least this girl’s goal of helping her relieve her worries had been achieved.
Pinching these soft cheeks and listening to those sweet pleas for mercy really does stop you from overthinking.
And honestly… the texture feels pretty good…
“What kind of mistake could it be? Just apologize and it’ll be fine. It’s not like you ruined Senior Sister Su’s chastity,”
Ji Xing muttered while rubbing her reddened cheeks.
“Besides, if it really was something like that, shouldn’t you just take responsibility toward Senior Sister? It’s not a bad thing at all.”
Although she called it muttering, her voice was perfectly audible to everyone in the room.
“You!”
Xia Liu immediately became furious.
She really shouldn’t have softened up.
This girl literally didn’t have a single proper thing to say in her mouth.
What do you mean by already assuming I ruined Su Zhan’s chastity!?
“Aaaah! I didn’t say anything!”
Seeing that she was about to get disciplined again, Ji Xing let out a strange shriek and hurriedly retreated several steps, hiding behind the other girls.
Xia Liu advanced with a murderous aura.
One of the girls quickly grabbed her hand to calm her down.
“Senior Sister, don’t be angry! I have a plan!”
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