Chapter 123 – Hard (2/2)

Her tone resembles that of an older sister speaking to a younger sister.

Qi Qiqi doesn't find this inappropriate, but instead feels a kind of deja vu.

In fact, Xia Xue watched Qi Qiqi grow up, watched her grow into a slender elegant girl from a baby crying for food.

“You used to like to put on a mature expression. Yet you're clearly very young, and don't even have any wrinkles. It's really funny when I think about it now.”

Xia Xue laughed in spite herself. It is not a laughter of contempt nor ridicule, but purely a laughter of amus.e.m.e.nt.

“What?!” Qi Qiqi pouted, “That sounds really vulgar…”

“Vulgar?” Xia Xue played with her hair as per usual, “That's called honest advice is unpleasant to hear!”

So is she going to hold this argument all the time to express the legitimacy of her words? Qi Qiqi breathed heavily.

But anyway, did I really change? Qi Qiqi thought in a daze.

Perhaps I really did? She isn't sure. But as the saying goes, a bystander sees things clearer. Maybe Xia Xue has seen her change clearly.

The only thing that made her hesitate is that she doesn't know whether Xia Xue is being be sarcastic or not.

“You have a tendency of self-abuse.”

Qi Qiqi was taken aback. This remark was too sudden.

“I don't! What a nuisance, why would I say such a thing?”

“I mean…”

Xia Xue's smile reveled some helplessness and melancholy.

“You didn't have to come.”

“Why?”

Qi Qiqi's expression suddenly froze.

“Don't you dislike it?” Xia Xue paused and propped her head up with another hand, “You dislike Martial Demon Realm Trial by Fire, don't you?”

“There isn't anything to dislike or not to dislike.”

Qi Qiqi remained silent for a long while before finally speaking.

“Um, there isn't.”

She repeated, as if speaking to herself.

The girl lied, deceiving herself.

In fact, she dislike, really dislike Martial Demon Realm Trial by Fire, because she once witnessed “h.e.l.l” in Martial Demon Realm.

“Oh… really?”

Gazing at Qi Qiqi profoundly, Xia Xue's beautiful eyes appear to have seen through the other party.

Qi Qiqi knows that the other side must have seen through her.

“Older Sister Xia, you knew? But I'm Merak Temple's Temple Master…”

As a leader of a sect, she cannot be guided by likes and dislikes.

The overall situation is what matters. Tightly bound by this chain, she often has the illusion of suffocating.

She is first Merak Temple's Temple Master, and only then herself… It has to be this way, otherwise how could one take on such a large sect?

“Hard-headed.”

Xia Xue looked away unenthusiasticly and sighed imperceptibly.

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