Yun Ying's voice was trembling.
Su Ji watched him latch onto the loophole in his words like a hawk, ready to dig deeper, and cursed inwardly.
This kid—his mind moved fast. Even now, he wouldn't let a single slip go.
Yet Su Ji's face betrayed not a hint of unease.
He simply looked at Yun Ying calmly, the way one might look at a child who didn't know any better.
"Naturally."
He didn't deny it.
Yun Ying's heart clenched. He stared at Su Ji, his voice slow and deliberate: "If you were there, why didn't you save her?!"
Su Ji didn't answer right away.
He merely turned his head and glanced at Su Jiu, who was still nibbling on a steamed bun.
Then, he shifted his gaze back to Yun Ying, his tone carrying an indescribable complexity.
"I was planning to save her."
"You saw what happened last night. Two Nascent Soul–stage Blade Sect cultivators—one guarding the Moon-Gazing Pavilion, the other chasing after you."
Su Ji spoke unhurriedly.
"My plan was simple: help your master first, take out the one guarding her together."
"Once one was dealt with, the remaining one wouldn't be a threat."
"But just as I was about to make my move..." Su Ji paused, a perfectly timed look of helplessness crossing his face.
"Your master stopped me."
"She said she could sense that the one chasing you was about to catch up."
"She said you two wouldn't last long enough for us to finish off the one on our side."
"She told me to come save you first."
"She also said..." Su Ji's gaze landed on Yun Ying's bloodless face.
"She asked me to tell you: go to the place she instructed before, and live well."
"Don't even think about revenge until you reach the Mahayana stage."
Su Ji finished and let out a long sigh—one laden with the weariness of someone who had seen too much of the world.
"She didn't have to die."
"But she traded her chance to live for yours."
Su Ji looked at Yun Ying, his eyes calm as still water.
"So it's not that I refused to save her."
"It's that she gave up on herself."
The words hung in the air.
The steamed bun Yun Yao had swiped from Su Jiu fell to the floor with a soft patter.
She stared blankly at Su Ji, then at her junior brother. Those almond-shaped eyes, once bright, now flickered with confusion and... pain.
As for Yun Ying—
The hands clutching Su Ji's ankle had already slackened.
He just knelt there, head bowed, motionless.
After a long moment.
He slowly raised his head.
His delicate face no longer held the madness of before.
Only a heartbreaking stillness remained.
"I understand."
Yun Ying's voice was hoarse and rough.
He rose to his feet, carefully straightening his robes.
Then, under Su Ji's slightly surprised gaze, he bowed deeply and solemnly.
"Thank you, Senior."
"Your life-saving grace—Yun Ying will never forget."
"Before today, my eyes were clouded. I offended you in many ways. Please accept my deepest apologies."
He paused, lifted his head, and a spark of light reignited in his eyes.
"I won't let my master down."
"As for your great kindness—when I become a great cultivator, I will repay it a hundredfold."
He bowed once more.
This time, Su Ji didn't step aside. He accepted the bow.
Yun Ying straightened up and turned to Yun Yao.
He reached out, gently wiping away the tears on her face and the grease at the corner of her mouth.
"Senior Sister."
Yun Ying's voice had returned to its usual warmth.
"Let's go."
"Huh? Go... where?" Yun Yao still hadn't processed it.
"To the place our master told us to go."
Yun Ying took her hand and walked to the door. He paused, glanced back at Su Ji.
"Senior."
"This Chaotic Star Sea is full of all kinds of people, and we two are nobodies—too small to be of any help to you."
"Here is some spirit stone—savings we've gathered. Please accept it as a token of our gratitude."
He pulled a bulging storage pouch from his chest and set it on the table by the door.
Without another word, he led a still-dazed Yun Yao away, out the door and gone.
Su Ji watched the two silhouettes vanish beyond the threshold, then glanced at the storage pouch on the table. He couldn't help but curl his lips.
He walked over, picked it up, and weighed it in his palm.
"Tsk."
"Heavier than I thought."
"That kid—he's way more street-smart than his silly senior sister."
"He even tried to keep me at arm's length... didn't reveal where their master told them to go."
"But that's a bit too clever for his own good."
"If I really wanted to harm him, he couldn't have stopped me anyway."
With that, he tossed the pouch out the door.
"Keep it for the road."
...
Su Ji watched the two figures fade into the end of the corridor. Only then did he stroll to the window and push it open.
A gust of cold wind, laced with snowflakes, rushed in.
He stared at the gray horizon in the distance.
And let out a long, heavy sigh.
"I'm just too kind-hearted."
Behind him, Su Jiu paused mid-bite on her steamed bun.
She looked up, her fox-like eyes giving Su Ji a flat, unimpressed stare.
"Senior Brother, you're just upset that they didn't give you more."
"Nonsense!" Su Ji declared with righteous indignation. "Do you think I'm the kind of person who's blinded by money?"
"Yes." Su Jiu nodded without a moment's hesitation.
Su Ji: "..."
He couldn't shake the feeling that he was losing all authority as Senior Brother in front of this little girl.
"So where do we go now?" Su Jiu walked up beside him, following his gaze out the window.
"First, we wander around this Chaotic Star Sea and let the wounds heal fully."
"Then..." Su Ji's eyes grew distant and deep.
"We head somewhere... we need to be."
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e school belle recognized by the whole school, a genius girl from the kendo club. She also has a hidden identity, the youngest legendary demon hunter. Chen Shuo just transmigrated and found himself turned into a weak, helpless little vampire. He was caught by Su Xiyen and taken home at the very beginning. Since then, Chen Shuo's life creed only had two items. "First, classmate Su Xiyen is always right." "Second, if classmate Su Xiyen is wrong, please refer back to item one." Many years later, Chen Shuo, who had turned back into a human, led a pair of twins to appear in front of all the vampires to share the secret of how he turned back into a human. "It's simple, I tricked a female demon hunter into becoming my wife!"
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
