Ch81 - So… was he going to come and kill him? (2/2)
Xue Ling calmly put away his sword, his expression unchanging and as cold and indifferent as usual. “Master.” Although it was fun and amusing to tease Su Xuanyan, in fact, he didn’t want to see this cheap master at all. After all, although the other party had hidden it deeply, his eyes still revealed something of his inner thoughts. The thing Xue Ling did not want to see most was that kind of gaze, obsessive, and with a hint of greed, as though wanting to eat him whole.
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If the one looking at him that way was his man, perhaps he would tease him a few times and let it pass after the man had no temper left. But this person was not that man, and so Xue Ling had to do more than just that.
Obviously, the other person was coveting something on him, or more simply, he wanted a ‘person’ like him. Once he had reached such a conclusion, after extrapolating, one could more or less guess the identity of this ‘Han Wuzheng’.
But now, they were still in the early stages of the game, and there was no benefit to going against him now, so Xue Ling had to endure it temporarily.
“Your master heard that you have been mixing together with a person from Tianmo Gate these days?”
Xue Ling sneered in his heart as he said, “Nonsense. It was nothing but a random encounter during the path of cultivation where we happened to be killing the same kind of monsters.” He always deliberately hid his whereabouts when he left to do quests. Even the main computer had no right to monitor the players’ daily lives all day long, so he was sure that Han Wuzheng did not know the details about his relationship with Su Xuanyan.
“That is for the best.” It was unclear if Han Wuzheng believed him, but he took a glance at Xue Ling’s sword and continued with some surprise, “My disciple has already forged his life bonded sword?”
“Yes.” Xue Ling nodded and said, “I used the exact spirit stone that master told me to choose.”
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“That’s good. You are extremely clever, and you don’t need your master to give many pointers on your cultivation. As long as you know that the righteous path and the devil’s path are different. For some things, it is better to avoid them if you know perfectly well that you should not do them.”
“Yes, your disciple understands.”
After obediently sending away Han Wuzheng, Xue Ling expressionlessly looked up the information that the system had put together for him relating to the game’s main storyline. Although the main computer was already watching him, it was obvious that it could not harm him right now and could only eye him covetously from the side. As long as it was unable to find any weakness, even the main brain couldn’t do anything to him. This was also one of the reasons he kept Listening to Rain on a Bridge and Thousand Miles Without Pause around.
The protagonist and his party would have absolutely no problem doing some of the things that were inconvenient for him to do himself. Although they no longer had the luck factor that the original string of data had brought them, it was the same as long as Xue Ling was around. The main storyline of the game needed to progress in order to move the game forward and someone had to do it. Xue Ling was lazy, and it was perfect if he simply instructed the protagonists to help out. After all, they had the shining protagonists’ halo on their heads.
After he stirred things up today, the fixed party that Listening to Rain on a Bridge and Thousand Miles Without Pause had created to kill mobs would have no way to continue on. Based on Listening to Rain on a Bridge’s personality, he would definitely not allow himself to accept Thousand Miles Without Pause’s help, since if he did so, when he finally tried to get together with Thousand Miles Without Leave, the objections would be a lot higher. So, after he met the outstanding Xue Ling, he would definitely insist on not forming a party with Thousand Miles Without Pause and choose to level up and adventure on his own. Once they would no longer be party mates, Thousand Miles Without Leave would no longer notice his hardworking attitude, his resourcefulness and bravery. He would no longer be affected by his personality and the plotline where the protagonist gong notices the shou and slowly becomes attracted would begin to change.
That little bit of goodwill had already been lost right from the start, and it would be much more difficult to build up feelings between the two. Not to mention Xue Ling has already locked in a fixed position in their party and would lend them a hand for any major quests. At that time, he would be able to cause even more changes in the two people’s relationship plotline.
If there was no day-to-day interaction, based on Thousand Miles Without Pause’s personality, it would become harder and harder for him to like Listening to Rain on a Bridge.
Wanting to making use of every bit of time in order to plot out the protagonists’ next stumbling block, Xue Ling immediately began to look into how he could ensure that Listening to Rain on a Bridge would pick up the next part of the main quest line and completely forgot about the person he teased and turned on, then sent away.
From within the darkness of the Devil World, the black fog was churning and swirling, making the originally already somewhat frightened white tiger tremble even harder.
His master had not brought him with him when he went out today, so he didn’t know what had occurred. Only, looking at his master’s expression where he wanted to lose his temper but was forcefully holding back, he could be eighty percent certain that it had something to do with that little beauty.
The white tiger had recently fully grasped his master’s temper. If he was in a good mood, it was definitely because that little beauty had also been in a good mood and paid more attention to him, or spoken with him more. If he was in a terrible temper, then it was because the little beauty had not spoken much with him or had talked more with others.
His master was now deeply caught up in the web of love and totally unable to extricate himself. The white tiger felt that it was better for it to just quietly keep its mouth shut. After all, he wasn’t sure about the situation. What if he opened his mouth to speak and accidentally poked the hornet’s nest? By then, even if there was a hundred of him, he would still die.
The Sealed Devil’s purple eyes locked onto a picture shown on the screen for a long time. In reality, he was not very angry. He knew that Xue Ling had sent him away so abruptly because the main computer had been on its way, and even if Xue Ling had not made his move, he would still have had to leave. After all, he had no plans to see the main computer right now. He had no plans to take any unnecessary risks until he was fully assured of success.
There was no day or night in the Devil World, and before he came, there had been not even a hint of any other people’s existence. But the Sealed Devil especially wanted to bring a person to the Devil World.
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How long would he have to wait until the Devil World was properly opened up?
He recalled from the so-called main storyline that it would only occur towards the very end of the story, because opening the Devil World meant that the cultivators and devils were about to start a war.
The war… Another image of a certain person holding a sword showed up in the Sealed Devil’s head.
Only, the picture suddenly stopped and vanished as he suddenly thought of something.
Wait a minute. That was the great war between the devil’s path and the righteous path. Xue Ling was from the righteous path, so… was he going to come and kill him?
The Sealed Devil clenched his fists.
Cooking a frog in warm water – using warm water to cook the frog, the frog will enjoy the process and won’t even realize they’re being cooked. in Chinese BL it’s usually used to mean a slow approach to refer to one character wanting to approach & make a move on another, using subtle/delicate means so that the other person won’t be scared away before falling for them.
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so… blue. balls. again. poor ML :blobsmilesweat:
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