The thing I love most in my life is showing off

"Who said you could leave?"

A faint voice came from behind, causing Lin Qingxue to freeze mid-step.

She turned around.

Only to see Ye Shu leaning against a large tree, a piece of foxtail grass dangling from his mouth, looking at her with a roguish smirk.

"Where are you in such a hurry to go, Miss Lin?"

"You..."

Lin Qingxue was momentarily stunned.

"Weren't you just lying there like a dead dog with your face buried in the water? How are you standing there perfectly fine now? And... and looking like a total hooligan?"

"A hooligan?"

Ye Shu was so annoyed he actually laughed.

Damn it. He had taken advantage of her turning her back to pop three healing pills, forcibly suppressing his injuries to strike this carefree and uninhibited pose just to salvage some face.

And the result was being called a hooligan?

But thinking about what he was going to say next, Ye Shu couldn't help but want to laugh, so he decided not to hold her slip of the tongue against her.

"Miss Lin, why are you leaving so soon?"

"Don't you want to chat?"

He leaned against the tree, casually chewing on the foxtail grass.

Seeing him like this, Lin Qingxue didn't get angry. "I have nothing to talk about with a lecher like you. Anyway, I've already beaten you, and you've made a Heavenly Oath. I can leave whenever I want, and you can't stop me."

With that, she stepped forward to leave.

But perhaps because she had taken a beating earlier and had pitifully begged Ye Shu for her life, she felt she had lost too much face.

The more Lin Qingxue thought about it, the angrier she got.

Finally, she turned around, walking backward while pulling down her lower eyelids with her fingers, making an exaggerated funny face at him. Sticking out her tongue, she taunted, "Blehh! Defeated loser! Come hit me if you dare!"

"Use that ghost possession move from earlier and come hit me!"

"Oh~"

She exaggeratedly held up four fingers, making a gesture.

"I almost forgot, you just swore an oath that as long as I won, you'd let me go. Now that the oath is established, even if you're gnashing your teeth in anger, you can only watch helplessly as I leave!"

The more Lin Qingxue spoke, the more smug she became, as if venting all the frustration of being one-shot earlier and reveling in the elation of her total victory now. Her small face was filled with the pride of a winner.

Watching Lin Qingxue's sudden shift in character, Ye Shu's mouth twitched.

He glanced at Xiaobai next to him and whispered,

"This isn't right, is it? Isn't she supposed to be an avenger who returned through rebirth? She's acting like a three-year-old child."

"Don't you think it's cute?"

Xiaobai, however, looked as if it was only natural. She puffed out her chest and said in a tone of feigned maturity, "A female lead needs to have her quirks, of course! Who would like someone who only knows how to fight and kill with a deadpan face all the time? She definitely has to be sweet and spicy, capable of fighting but also acting cute."

"Look at that face, that figure."

"Setting aside the fact that she just tried to kill you, doesn't your heart flutter even a little bit?"

Hearing this, Ye Shu took a careful look at Lin Qingxue.

Earlier, he was too busy figuring out how to survive to really look. Now, at first glance, the young girl had a charming figure. Her pink dress accentuated her snow-white skin, and her round cheeks were slightly flushed with pride. Looking puffed up yet somewhat mischievous, she was indeed... quite cute.

But the key issue was... he couldn't just set that fact aside.

"At most, she's just material for a plaything..."

Ye Shu commented while stroking his chin.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Xiaobai looking as if she had seen a ghost. Her big eyes were wide open, and her small mouth was agape enough to fit an egg.

"How... how could you say such a thing?!"

"You're the protagonist!"

"Hurry up and throw those wicked thoughts away!" Xiaobai yelled as she jumped onto Ye Shu's shoulder, grabbed his neck, and shook him back and forth. "If you really dare to act like a villain and do bad things, I will..."

"I will slit my own throat and go to heaven!"

She swore solemnly, her small face filled with grief.

As if she would truly die to prove her resolve should Ye Shu dare to walk down an evil path.

Ye Shu was highly amused by her.

On the other side, Lin Qingxue saw Ye Shu staring at her, then suddenly shaking his head, sometimes grinning foolishly, and sometimes looking serious.

She assumed he had lost his mind from being so infuriated by her.

"Hmph! I knew I made him mad."

Lin Qingxue muttered inwardly, in an incredibly good mood, unable to hold back a smug smile on her face.

"Whatever, making a run for it is more important."

"When I get back, I'll figure out a way to kill this wicked lecher so that the sin he committed by killing my senior brother in my past life can never be repeated in this one!"

Thinking of this, Lin Qingxue no longer hesitated.

She made one last funny face at Ye Shu, patted her own bottom, then turned around and channeled spiritual energy into her legs.

"Stinky lecher, this lady is leaving~"

However, before her voice even faded, a faint chuckle came from behind her.

"Miss Lin, when did I say you could leave?"

Hearing this, Lin Qingxue's footsteps abruptly halted.

Reason told her that she could leave since she won, but an ominous premonition in her heart made her feel that things weren't so simple.

She hesitated to take that step.

Eventually, Lin Qingxue slowly turned around.

"You already lost! No cheating!"

She saw Ye Shu leaning against the tree, looking up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle, and saying with a melancholic expression, "My absolute favorite thing to do in this life is to utterly crush people right when they think victory is within their grasp!"

"Poser..."

Looking at his pretentious expression, Lin Qingxue curled her lips disdainfully. "I'm the one who won, and you've already sworn an oath. If you forcefully stop me, you'll be blasted to dust by heavenly lightning!"

Even though she already faintly sensed something was wrong.

That didn't stop her from acting tough.

No matter what, the one who lost was Ye Shu, and the one who won was her!

The advantage is mine!

"Miss Lin." Ye Shu shook his head, somewhat amused. "I only said I'd let you go if there was a victory, but I never specified who had to win for you to leave."

"You have to stay until..."

"...until I beat you."

As soon as these words came out, Lin Qingxue was dumbfounded.

At this moment, she felt like the sky was falling. Why was there such a shameless guy in this world?!

Bastard!

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