27 Romance Genre Switch, but is Feng Shiyao the Female Lead?! (1/2)
”Welcome back! Brother Shu, you took so long!” Feng Shiyao's greeting to Shu Yidan was like a wife greeting her husband home after a late night.
”I am back… Yeah, some matters happened and it took a little more time.” With the earlier comparison, Shu Yidan's greeting was like a man fresh from cheating on the wife with a secretary.
It was a small bedroom but it was Shu Yidan's bedroom. It was almost bare of decorations. A bed, a cupboard and some chairs and tables, all a similar shade of white.
On the bed, a little girl was soundly sleeping. Seeing Xiaoyi's content expression like a cat who was full, Shu Yidan was nonplussed.
”She gave you trouble?” Shu Yidan asked with a wry smile.
”Not at all…” Seeing Shu Yidan raise his eyebrows, Feng Shiyao hastily amended, ”Actually, she challenged me, we sparred 8 times and… she only went to sleep after she won the 9th time…”
”Heh, I know it is shameful to lose to a peak Qi Refining cultivator… But don't forget, she is the Sect Master's disciple. Her bloodline descends from Sword Immortal Mountbatten, and the Sword Intent she inherited from him can chop through Dao Domains like butter…” Shu Yidan said with a smile. 'Anyway, it is good that you lost in 9 spars. This idiot beat a Nascent Soul to death by battling for 3 days and nights, it would be terrible to return to a spar…'
”Anyway, her ability to disregard ranks in cultivation during battle is too much, you don't need to worry. It is lucky for me that my 5-year long preparations for facing her were enough…” Shaking his head, Shu Yidan ended.
”Wait, you knew of her and had been preparing for that encounter?” Feng Shiyao said with a shocked expression. Suddenly, the matter of his 5-year seclusion made sense.
”I didn't exactly know of her. It was more of a… premonition. Every person has a gut-feeling of some sort, right? Sometimes they are true, sometimes they are false. The Sect Master was wandering the world so it wouldn't be surprising if he chanced on a good seed…” Shu Yidan licked his dry lips for a moment before returning, ”And with the Sect Master's guidance, it would only be natural for that seed to be able to mature, perhaps having the ability to match me or surpass me. All sword cultivators are battle-focused and can leapfrog above their cultivation to some extent, after all.”
”So you entered seclusion on a mere feeling? Well, that feeling was completely true, so I can't fault you…” Feng Shiyao spoke with a pout. She couldn't help but resent being shunned for half a decade.
”No, you absolutely can fault me. Because I kept away from you believing a premonition of my own as well.” Shu Yidan's words turned Feng Shiyao's face pale. ”Actually, all those years back when we first dual cultivated… I had the feeling that your body was seized by the Yin-Yang Conception Gate's Nascent Soul Sect Master.”
”Well you certainly aren't a body being puppeted around by a Nascent Soul. I am sorry for my wrongful mistrust of you.” Saying this, Shu Yidan kneeled before her and bowed.
”W-wait, get up! Don't kneel before me!” Feng Shiyao said in a panicked tone.
”I'll kneel until you forgive me!” Shu Yidan said with firm tone, and only when Feng Shiyao said those magic words did Shu Yidan raise himself.
”…You shouldn't kneel like that.” Feng Shiyao said with a whispering voice.
”Eh, who is gonna tell on us? We are Dao Companions, after all. We aren't husband and wife like the mortal world, we are equals. Moreover, your cultivation is currently higher than mine!” Hearing Shu Yidan's reply, Feng Shiyao couldn't speak a word back.