“Hiss… Ouch!”
As Gong Shangyu’s delicate fist landed, Gu Qingying immediately cried out in pain, her head already dizzy from the effects of the medicine spinning even more.
“Hmph! Bajie? Who are you calling Bajie? You little brat who talks without thinking and has no respect!”
Gong Shangyu’s cheeks puffed out in anger, her long pink hair almost standing on end behind her.
“I’m your senior sister! I am your second senior sister, Gong Shangyu—the elegant, charming, unparalleled medical prodigy who has captivated countless young men and women! Not some Bajie!”
“Which eye of yours sees me as a pig, huh?!”
The angrier Gong Shangyu got, the more she pinched Gu Qingying’s soft cheeks, then grabbed and pulled them hard toward both sides.
“Did you squeeze your brain out at the gate of death when you were reborn? Or did you leave your eyes back in the womb when you came back to life?”
While tormenting her junior sister’s face, Gong Shangyu glared wide-eyed and scolded furiously.
“Hmph! Look closely! This is my face that can topple a nation, my extraordinary and refined aura! How on earth is this even remotely connected to that pig from Journey to the West?”
“Say it! Say it now!”
Gu Qingying’s cheeks were stretched, her words slurred, but she stubbornly forced out a cold snort through clenched teeth, her gaze deliberately dropping downward before mumbling resentfully to her senior sister.
“Hmph! Fat… fatso…”
That was the spark that ignited Gong Shangyu’s powder keg completely.
Her movements froze instantly as her pink eyes contracted sharply!
“Fat… fatso?!”
Gong Shangyu repeated each word slowly, her voice rising sharply with disbelief.
“Gu·Qing·ying! You little brat! Say that again if you have the guts!”
With that, Gong Shangyu pulled even harder at her cheeks, and the pair of swells on her chest—called “fatso” by Gu Qingying—bounced violently with her movements.
“Hmph! This is called proportionate! Healthy beauty! Perfectly plump and charming! What do you know?”
“You… you skinny little twig without two ounces of flesh on your chest—what’s so good about that?”
“Master… Master wouldn’t like someone like you!”
Gu Qingying, pinched so hard she could barely speak, only managed to protest weakly with muffled sounds.
At the same time, the shock and confusion in her eyes gradually gave way to a more complicated feeling.
After that little test, Gu Qingying was now completely certain that the person before her was undoubtedly their troublesome second senior sister!
Forget everything else—her irritable tone!
Her mysterious and deadly poison skills…
Not to mention her near-obsessive care and concern for her own looks and figure.
And especially her disdain for the name “Bajie”—all of it matched perfectly with their second senior sister…
Thinking of this, Gu Qingying suddenly felt at ease about the strange familiarity she sensed when breaking the secret chamber’s formation earlier.
So it was her.
No wonder that set of mechanisms felt so familiar.
But just as Gu Qingying had that realization, more questions arose in her mind.
Hmm?
Didn’t second senior sister already… get taken down by me?
Oh… right. I’ve been reborn!
But that only made things stranger.
She should not recognize me now, right?
And I remember in my past life, she was a beggar?
Then… how is she here?
And even… doing those things to Master?!
The overwhelming amount of information made Gu Qingying’s already chaotic mind overload completely.
Staring at Gong Shangyu’s furious, slightly flushed face just inches away, she didn’t know how to react and just blinked blankly.
After venting, Gong Shangyu looked at her junior sister’s squashed, silly face and immediately felt much of her anger melt away.
In its place was a bittersweet, almost humorous feeling of reunion.
She released Gu Qingying and lightly flicked her head with an annoyed sigh.
“Hmph! Are you sober now, idiot junior sister?”
Gong Shangyu’s tone was still harsh, but her eyes softened.
“Next time you dare be so disrespectful, I won’t just pinch your cheeks!”
“Gong Shangyu! What are you doing here!”
Gu Qingying covered her forehead, staring in disbelief at Gong Shangyu’s face, which was now wearing a teasing smile.
Gong Shangyu’s pink eyes locked onto Gu Qingying as her rosy lips curled slightly:
“Why can’t I be here?”
She deliberately dragged out the last words, her pink eyes sparkling with cunning like a cat that had just gotten away with stealing fish.
“Hehe~ No way~ No way~ Junior sister, you don’t think you’re the only special one who came back with a cheat system, do you?”
At this moment, even Gu Qingying, as dense as she was, could clearly realize that the second senior sister before her had also been reborn!
She wasn’t alone as a Reborn!
“So, you knew Master and I would come here? You set this web of traps waiting to scheme against me?!”
“The missing persons case in Yangzhou was bait you used to lure Master and me here?”
Gu Qingying was so angry she almost spat blood.
The humiliation from being toyed with by this scheming second senior sister in her past life came rushing back.
“That’s not it.”
Gong Shangyu leaned in slightly, her long pink lashes lowering as her gaze shifted to Lu Li, her voice suddenly softer but stubborn.
“The missing persons case in Yangzhou has nothing to do with me~”
“And… I didn’t expect you and Master to appear before me like this either~”
“Hmph… you fatso! Stop pretending to be a good person!”
Gu Qingying gritted her teeth and snarled at Gong Shangyu.
“If you didn’t cause the missing persons case, then what about the Dungeon and those living corpses inside?”
Gong Shangyu immediately punched her junior sister’s shoulder with a pink fist.
“You unlucky kid, how can you talk to your second senior sister like that?”
“Are you stupid? Can’t you see I’m sending people to capture those living corpses from the South Graveyard and treating the civilians infected by them? I’m investigating the source of those living corpses!”
“On the contrary!”
Gong Shangyu suddenly jabbed a finger into Gu Qingying’s nose, her pink eyes wide open.
“You see me and don’t greet me, then recklessly raise your sword and come to attack me!”
“Hmph… if it weren’t for the fact you’re my junior sister and all of us are Reborn, I’d have already thrown my ‘Seven Days’ Itch Elixir’ at you to make you writhe on the ground, begging me for the antidote for four days straight!”
Gu Qingying was momentarily speechless under the assault but stubbornly glared back at Gong Shangyu. Deep in her eyes flickered a faint, unusual hesitation.
Then she painfully turned her eyes and carefully examined the surroundings again.
She realized the truth might indeed be as Gong Shangyu said.
Those alchemists were cautiously treating the patients’ wounds, and the talismans on the walls seemed more like seals and purifications rather than evil magic…
Could it be… she really had misjudged her?
But when she thought about that pink-haired vixen kissing and touching Master just now, her anger flared up again like a flame.
“E-even if those living corpses have nothing to do with you!”
Gu Qingying stiffened her neck and forced her youthful voice to sound more imposing.
“How do you explain the shameless things you were doing to Master just now, you little beast?”
Upon hearing this, Gong Shangyu’s fierce aura instantly shrank.
A faint, barely noticeable blush and a trace of guilt flashed across her face.
But she quickly recovered, still pretending to be strong, and retorted fiercely.
“I… I was checking Master’s health!”
“Yes! That’s right! Checking his health!”
“What do you know? Master… he was just poisoned by a very complex mixed toxin I concocted! Intimate contact was necessary to accurately assess the poison’s effects!”
“I was saving him! A healer’s compassion! What dirty thoughts are in your little kid brain? Do you think I’m as filthy as you?”
Gu Qingying sneered,
“Oh? Then how do you explain your poisoning Master?”
Gong Shangyu’s delicate face immediately flushed red, realizing she was at fault.
Hastily, she changed the subject.
“Hehe~ More importantly, I think we should have a proper talk about what special abilities your rebirth system actually has~”
Hearing that, Gu Qingying’s little face instantly turned whiter than paper.
Then, tilting her head, she shut her eyes decisively and began to play dumb.
“System? What system? What are you talking about? I don’t know anything~”.