Chapter 168: Mistress, You’ve Changed (Sixth Update)

But it only lasted a second until Ye Wenxin saw that blank face.

“Was it the great-grandpa who taught you to do this?” Given Fairy Fengya’s personality, it was impossible for her to make such a heartwarming gesture, and the only possibility was the great-grandpa inside the necklace.

Fairy Fengya paused, seeing Ye Wenxin pointing at her necklace while asking this. But this was her biggest secret that she never told anyone, and she did not know how Ye Wenxin was aware there was a person inside.

Ye Wenxin’s eyes showed no ambition or greed, just curiosity, so Fairy Fengya faintly responded, “It’s a great-grandmother.”

“That makes sense; you’re a female lead, after all.”

Ye Wenxin had a sudden realization, then immediately said some nonsense that Fairy Fengya could not understand. But thanks to that gesture just now, Ye Wenxin stopped making a fuss. She just squatted on the floor looking at Fairy Fengya, who was also looking at her.

Both of them felt that the other was a very strange person.

“What is a ‘simp’?” Fairy Fengya finally spoke. Ye Wenxin’s strange terms floated around in her mind, but she was most curious about the explanation for this ‘simp’.

“Um… you don’t need to know.”

“Am I this ‘simp’? But it doesn’t seem so,” asked Fairy Fengya again. Ye Wenxin completely averted her gaze.

Fairy Fengya got up slightly. “Ye Wenxin, answer me.”

Ye Wenxin could only express it euphemistically: “It’s someone who knows the other person doesn’t like them but keeps shamelessly chasing after them.”

Fairy Fengya nodded, but she instantly felt something off, there were many things that could be deduced from this. “Do you think I’m a simp?”

Ye Wenxin’s heart sank even further. Fairy Fengya’s recent behavior indeed made her look a bit like a simp, but this was Fairy Fengya, after all. Just one encounter with her, could be turned into a story that could be told for hundreds of years.

Seeing Fairy Fengya still staring at her, Ye Wenxin added, “Haha, Master, you’re so funny. It won’t be enough to say I love you.”

Fairy Fengya leaned in closer. She was discovering more and more of Ye Wenxin’s potential for nonsense. Despite telling her that they would become Dao companions in the future, Ye Wenxin’s behavior seemed to exceed the norm.

Playing ambiguously with not just one, but various partners. Even if she relied on the Iceborn Constitution, it was still too presumptuous.

Zhu Ling: Mistress, teach her a little lesson!

Zhu Ling: Mistress, do your best!

Great-grandma began being inappropriate again, probably angry about being called a ‘great-grandpa’, she was encouraging Fairy Fengya to cast aside every constraint of the mundane world to discipline Ye Wenxin.

Let her lack reverence! Let her not understand the importance of respecting the teacher and their teachings!

“Oh? You love me?” Fairy Fengya repeated Ye Wenxin’s jesting words. Ye Wenxin’s eyes looked everywhere but at her.

“Mouth full of lies. I’ve said this before; never forget reverence.” Fairy Fengya moved away and sat back in the chair, as if that intimate distance earlier was just a dream.

But if it was really a dream, Ye Wenxin felt it was a bad one.

Seeing Fairy Fengya start to adopt the air of a master dissatisfied Ye Wenxin. “Master, you always say ‘have reverence’, but is this ‘reverence’ useful? Can it make me strong?”

“No, it’s the basics of cultivating one’s moral character.”

“Then I don’t need moral character; I have an enviable constitution and foundation, and I have an incredible master like you; what do I need to be reverent to?” Ye Wenxin understood that Fairy Fengya was trying to assert her authority as a master, but as a 25-year-old brat, how could she possibly compete with an aunt in her fifties? How could she compete with her life experience and eloquence?

“To immortality, to everything respectable, to your master.”

Fairy Fengya stated earnestly, each word coming from the bottom of her heart, but Ye Wenxin burst into laughter. “Then I really have no reverence; in life, everything depends on one’s own efforts.”

She thought of her journey, from being a miserable extra to becoming Demon Lord Gu Qingcheng. She was inherently a villain and, naturally, could not fear such abstract things. If she truly needed to fear anything, she would only fear the strong, and use it to make herself even stronger.

“As for you, Master, I only have admiration for you; absolutely no fear.” Ye Wenxin met Fairy Fengya’s eyes. To her, Fairy Fengya was just a martial maniac, constrained by traditional thinking.

Fairy Fengya fell silent for a moment; Ye Wenxin thought she understood, but then heard her say, “Aren’t you Long Qingyue’s simp?”

“……”

Ye Wenxin felt that Fairy Fengya was a typical example of applying principles universally, but why did she keep holding on to this matter?

She and Long Qingyue were best friends, and simping for one’s best friend was quite normal. But it was different with Fairy Fengya; she was her enemy. Although the urge to kill was there, it dissipated as she became more familiar with Fairy Fengya’s character.

Ye Wenxin suddenly realized that she did not want to kill Fairy Fengya anymore, even feeling that they had an equal friendship. There was some disdain, but seeing Fairy Fengya still made her quite happy.

“Mm, I still think Long Qingyue is better.” Nevertheless, Ye Wenxin was unwilling to tell Fairy Fengya her true feelings, so she nodded seriously.

Making Fairy Fengya emotional was an interesting yet challenging task, and Ye Wenxin found it amusing to see her subconsciously reaching for the Cold Soul Sword again.

“Wenxin.” Fairy Fengya’s tone changed, as she called her name for the first time.

Her voice was pleasant, and it seemed she was deliberately suppressing some emotions; just this one sentence tickled Ye Wenxin’s ears.

There was a saying on Earth, ‘Your ears are pregnant’, which Ye Wenxin always thought was exaggerated. But hearing Fairy Fengya call her name, Ye Wenxin was momentarily stunned. Fairy Fengya had already grabbed her collar and pulled her in.

“Never forget our future positions.” With this said, she pressed her lips against Ye Wenxin’s.

It was a brief kiss, like a dragonfly touching the water, but this time, her heart was racing. Not Fairy Fengya’s heart, but hers. Ye Wenxin had kissed many people before; on their lips, cheeks, but she had never felt so shaken.

This was not her first time with Fairy Fengya either; their first kiss had not been romantic at all, just a melodramatic scene for prolonging life, mouth to mouth.

She even kissed Fairy Fengya once because she wanted to give her the Spring Return Pill.

And even on that high platform for testing aptitude, she openly kissed Fairy Fengya.

But now, with just a light peck from Fairy Fengya, Ye Wenxin felt incredibly shaken.

“Huh?” Ye Wenxin uttered, incredulity written all over her face.

“Zhu Ling said you wanted this,” Fairy Fengya said calmly, as if the person who had just performed that action had nothing to do with her.

Not only that, but Fairy Fengya completely brushed off the matter.

Zhu Ling: Mistress, you’re emotional again.

Zhu Ling: Mistress, you’ve changed. You lied.

Zhu Ling: Mistress―

Fairy Fengya: Shut up.

Zhu Ling: …

Great-Grandma stopped talking, but she also realized, this person called Ye Wenxin was indeed where Fairy Fengya’s Tribulation of Emotions lay.

Otherwise, Ye Wenxin would not have shown up at Fairy Fengya’s crucial moment, and could not have broken her Qi Deviation.

However, Great-Grandma had a premonition that on this slow journey, Fairy Fengya might lose her original intentions because of this Tribulation of Emotions. As the former Fairy Zhu Ling, now just a necklace, Great-Grandma hoped that Fairy Fengya would not follow in her footsteps. She did not want her to become the second Fairy Zhu Ling.

After all, in this world, nothing was harder than matters of the heart…

“Ah, I knew you could never be so clever. Alright, Master, you can go now.” Ye Wenxin suddenly realized, feeling grateful that it was Great-Grandma who had figured out the reason for her sighing.

Though she had not had the chance to savor that feeling yet, her life felt complete. She cheerfully escorted Fairy Fengya away, but then suddenly remembered that she had been fooled again.

Just a pat on the head, just a kiss, and she, the mighty Demon Lord Gu Qingcheng, was fooled like this! Ye Wenxin held her head and squatted on the ground, wondering if she had been kicked in the noggin by a donkey…

Finally, Baili Mu woke up and saw Ye Wenxin still staring outside the door. Baili Mu realized her body was sore all over and understood that history had repeated itself.

“Ouch, it hurts…Ye Wenxin, did your lover knock me out again?!”

Ye Wenxin, face still red, replied embarrassedly, “No, it was Fairy Fengya who came to see you!”

“Bullshit! Your lover knocked me out! I’m going to beat you up now, until your sweetheart dares to come out!” Baili Mu was really angry. She jumped off the bed and chased Ye Wenxin barefoot, ready to punch her.

Ye Wenxin could only dodge Baili Mu’s attacks and shout, “It really was Fairy Fengya!”

“If Fairy Fengya really came, I’ll eat my books today!”

But Baili Mu did not believe whatever Ye Wenxin said……

In the distance, that white-clad figure suddenly heard Ye Wenxin calling her name and halted. Looking again at the source of the voice, and listening to Ye Wenxin’s helpless tone, she knew Ye Wenxin was spurned for speaking the truth again.

Thinking this, that usually indifferent face showed a trace of a smile…

So beautiful, but alas, there was no one around to appreciate it.

Fairy Fengya: Great-Grandmother?

Zhu Ling: Ahem, Mistress, please call me Zhu Ling.

Fairy Fengya: Zhu Ling, why are you suddenly so quiet?

Zhu Ling: Weren’t you the one who told me to shut up, Mistress?

Fairy Fengya: You may speak now.

Zhu Ling: Mistress, lying is bad.

Fairy Fengya: Mm, I know.

Zhu Ling: Mistress, never forget reverence.

Fairy Fengya: Mm, I know.

She was staring into the distance, letting the breeze flutter her hair. As for whether she would develop a new way of thinking regarding reverence, no one knew.