Chapter 51: Yun Fei’s Teasing

“Right. I’ve had some feelings for you all along. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have looked so free of guilt after taking advantage of you.”

‘Oh? Going for the direct approach now? Mu Lingxi, I underestimated you. You actually have that kind of courage! Well, this works for my plans too, though it seems my original plan to seize the initiative has failed…’

‘But that’s fine! Taking the initiative is simple. I’ll just tease her more in the future, and that dominant position will naturally come back to me.’

“So… Yun Fei, are you willing to accept it? My feelings?”

Mu Lingxi clasped her hands together, her slender fingers trembling slightly from nervousness.

Her ice-blue eyes looked at Yun Fei earnestly and expectantly.

Seeing Mu Lingxi like this, Yun Fei couldn’t help but feel a twinge of guilt and remorse inside, but she quickly suppressed it subconsciously.

She pretended to be stunned by Mu Lingxi’s directness, her eyes widening.

Then, meeting Mu Lingxi’s eager gaze, she slowly averted her eyes to look elsewhere.

“I… How can you be so blunt? Aren’t you embarrassed? Saying such mushy things late at night… but…”

“But?”

Yun Fei deliberately paused here, secretly observing Mu Lingxi’s expression.

‘She’s a bit nervous~ Her feelings are so easy to read, unlike me. I can act a whole play~’

“But I’m only accepting your feelings for now. However, we can live as a couple from now on. I’m going to thoroughly examine your heart, you know~”

As she spoke, Yun Fei suddenly leaned closer to Mu Lingxi, extended her right index finger, and gently tapped her on the chest.

Her eyes narrowed slightly, looking both seductive and dangerous~

This series of actions caused Mu Lingxi’s brain to short-circuit.

After it rebooted, her already fair and lovely face suddenly flushed bright red.

“You… I…”

Mu Lingxi gradually became tongue-tied.

She truly hadn’t expected Yun Fei to be so skilled at this right now!

It made her chest feel itchy, and her heart too.

“It’s getting late today, and we have class tomorrow!”

Pushing Yun Fei aside slightly, Mu Lingxi jumped off the roof as if fleeing for her life, ran back to her room, slammed the door shut, and locked it.

“C…Class? Has her mind gone fuzzy already? There are only two days of classes per week. Yesterday was one, and today I was unconscious all day.”

Yun Fei shook her head, dismissing it as something Mu Lingxi said in her panic.

After all, she hadn’t received any news about having class tomorrow, and there was nothing on the spirit talisman either.

At that moment, the Magic Mirror’s voice rang out, trembling slightly as if afraid.

“Your Highness… you seemed like a different person just now… You haven’t been possessed or had your body taken over by something strange, have you?”

Yun Fei tilted her head.

“A different person… You mean my teasing act just now? That goes back to when you were still in Mother’s hands. You should remember the time Mother sent me to infiltrate the Old Nobles’ banquet. To make my plan smoother and to test her new pill—you know, my Nether Realm Purple Fire is a Yin-type fire—that pill was supposed to enhance the Yin nature of the Nether Realm Purple Fire for about a month. But because the Yin nature was too strong, it briefly turned me into a girl for over a month. That was an unexpected side effect for Sister Bai, so she jokingly called it the Gender-Swapping Pill.”

“That time, after Sister Bai saw my transformation, she went with the flow and taught me some skills that my male self shouldn’t have mastered. Like what you just saw. That teasing method helped me a lot during that banquet, providing plenty of convenience for infiltrating the underground criminal den beneath the banquet hall~”

“Oh… So it was that incident. No wonder Your Highness was so smooth with that routine just now.”

That incident was widely circulated among the Demon Realm’s upper echelons and made some of the dissenters quiet down and stop their little schemes.

After all, Yun Fei had exposed the Old Nobles’ most shameful secrets back then.

No one dared to provoke such a Young Lord anymore.

Thanks to the Magic Mirror’s words, Yun Fei was reminded of that infiltration mission.

Back then, she had also infiltrated using her current female body.

The Gender-Swapping Pill’s effect was indeed good (though its original purpose wasn’t gender-swapping).

That time, Bai Yuetong spent some time teaching her the details and helping her adapt better to the female body.

Thinking about it, for some later, more important missions where she needed to strengthen the Nether Realm Purple Fire, she also took that pill and operated as a girl.

So, was her current situation perhaps because some higher power grew tired of her switching back and forth and used some inexplicable force to make her swallow that Yin Essence of Heaven and Earth?

Mother said it was fate.

The Nether Realm Purple Fire belongs to Yin and is naturally more compatible with a female body.

Her original form had actually limited the fire’s potential.

‘Sigh! Thinking of this, Yun Fei suddenly wondered if her inexplicable act of swallowing the Yin Essence of Heaven and Earth wasn’t the work of some higher power, but interference from the Exotic Fire?’

Considering this, Yun Fei felt a wave of cold, Yin energy emanate from the Exotic Fire source in her abdomen…

Alright, seems I guessed right.’

After figuring it out, a wry smile mixed with relief appeared on Yun Fei’s face.

‘If it weren’t for Sister Bai’s pill, I’d probably still be wallowing in sadness over not being able to change back!’

Shaking her head, Yun Fei also jumped down from the roof.

She glanced at Liang Yin’s silent, still back, sighed helplessly, and returned to her room.

—

Far away, somewhere else, the figure of “Jiang Qing” gradually materialized on an icy plain.

As she looked up, she happened to meet a pair of gloomy eyes.

At first, those eyes held a hint of killing intent, but after仔细观察, it turned into surprise.

“Oh? So it’s the esteemed Third Void Apostle, Jerylgad. Long time no see, how have you been?”

The voice was slightly hoarse, laced with an unpleasant, cold laugh.

Jerylgad narrowed his crimson eyes, observing the pale, bloodless man before him.

“You? Skanloven? Weren’t you missing? Along with that Elf Princess’s unit. How did you end up in this Xuan-Demon Middle Realm?”

“Hmph! I was tricked by that Princess. But she’s not dead either; she fell into this world with me. And you? What happened after I disappeared that forced you to use such a weak body to converse with me? The Third Void Apostle, the Adjudicator most valued by our Master, how have you fallen to such a state?”

“…Heh. This is the Master’s plan. You know this Xuan-Demon Middle Realm is quite mysterious. Even the barriers of its original upper realm, the Light Realm, could hardly stop our assault, yet this mere Middle Realm’s defenses are so tight! The traces of the lower realm (Mortal Realm) also seem to be hidden by it. I had to pay the price of my own body and part of my power to enter in this form…”

“Is that so… You urgently need to recover your strength now, don’t you? How about we cooperate? Not long ago, an organization in this world that worships The Void found me and elevated me to the position of High Priest. You could join too. Not a bad deal, is it?”

“An organization?… Fine. Having an organization will make it easier to arrange future plans. They can do the work. What’s it called?”

“Pure White Night… But keep an eye on that Bishop. I can’t see through him, whether it’s his strength or his schemes.”

“…Understood. Lead the way.”

—

The next morning, at the breakfast table, Liang Yin, who had gotten up very early, had neatly arranged the breakfast received from the delivery student and was quietly waiting for Yun Fei and Mu Lingxi to come out of their rooms.

“Senior Liang? You… Ah, thank you for your trouble. How is your recovery?”

Yun Fei, as usual, intended to go to the courtyard gate to fetch the meal, but instead saw Liang Yin had already retrieved and set up portions for all three of them.

“Junior Yun, thank you for your concern. I’m fine now. I’ve been catching up on the coursework I missed over the past six months, so I’ve been getting up early.”

Yun Fei sat down at the stone table, picked up the bowl of spirit rice porridge, and drank it down in one go.

Soon, Mu Lingxi also walked over, found the remaining bowl, and drank it.

But every time Yun Fei looked at her, she would avert her gaze, trying hard not to make eye contact.

‘Is this woman, Mu Lingxi, just being coy? Was the aftereffect of my little move that strong? She hasn’t recovered even after a night?’

To break the strange atmosphere among the three, Yun Fei spoke up.

“By the way, Senior, since we’re living in the same courtyard, I think we should change how we address each other. Calling you ‘senior’ all the time feels too distant. And you don’t need to keep calling us ‘Junior Yun’ and ‘Junior Mu’ either. You can call me Yun Fei. As for Mu Lingxi, you can call her Lingxi. She won’t mind.”

Liang Yin was slightly taken aback upon hearing this. After a moment of hesitation, she nodded.

“Alright. Yun Fei, and… Lingxi. You can call me… Sister Yin. I was always the younger sister before. Now that I finally have a chance to be an older sister, it’s actually a bit embarrassing…”

Liang Yin couldn’t help but scratch her head, offering a slight smile to the two.

“Sister Yin, your smile is very pretty~ You should smile more often in the future!”

Seeing Liang Yin smile, Yun Fei expressed her sincere admiration, while her gaze subtly flickered to the side, secretly observing Mu Lingxi’s expression.

However, to Yun Fei’s slight disappointment, Mu Lingxi’s face showed no particular expression.

She just tightened her grip on her chopsticks, paused for a moment, and then continued eating.

Seeing this, Yun Fei couldn’t help but pout.

‘No obvious reaction is no fun. This perpetually cold, icy face can be such a hindrance sometimes!’

“Smile more… You’re right. One must always look forward… Thank you, Yun Fei. I feel much better now.”

“No need to thank me, just a casual remark~”

Yun Fei stuffed a large steamed bun into her mouth, puffing out her cheeks adorably.

Mu Lingxi, sitting beside her, was momentarily stunned by the sight, but it lasted only an instant.

Ironically, Yun Fei didn’t notice it this time.