Chapter 480 - Proper Palace Intrigue (19) (2/2)
A cold light flashed in Ming Jin’s eyes as he stared at Shi Sheng.
After a moment, he leaned in slightly, his handsome face magnified in her view, and he spoke in a gentle voice, “As long as I wish it so, you won’t be.”
‘Yo, so capable ah!’
Ming Jin suddenly felt his whole body stiffen a bit. He looked at the hand that was grabbing onto Shi Sheng. A small red dot had appeared on his wrist at some point.
Shi Sheng kicked Ming Jin away and threw him onto the make-up table, causing its contents to come clattering to the floor.
Shi Sheng held him down with one hand on his chest, not using much force, yet Ming Jin was unable to move the slightest bit.
“So Miss Zhuang prefers to use force.” Ming Jin showed no sign of being worried by his current predicament as he continued flirting with Shi Sheng fearlessly.
Shi Sheng reached out to grab his undershirt. “Yep. Do enjoy, Sir Ming.”
……
Ming Jin looked at the window that had been shut on him, as well as his own body, which had been stripped nude save for his underwear…
‘She was actually unmoved by a beauty such as me? And even chased me out like this?’
Zhi Yuan charged out from the shadows and took off his own cloak to drape it over Ming Jin.
“Master, she actually dares to treat you like this! I’ll kill her now!” Zhi Yuan’s face was filled with rage.
Zhi Yuan wasn’t as tall as Ming Jin, so the latter looked quite funny wearing the former’s cloak.
Ming Jin stopped Zhi Yuan, though his limbs were still a bit hard to move. “Zhi Yuan, remember: no one is to touch her.”
“Master!” Zhi Yuan hastily cried in a low voice. ‘Master really took a liking to this woman?!’
“Do you know of anything that can allow one to make things appear from nowhere?” Ming Jin changed the topic.
Zhi Yuan angrily glared at the window before speaking, “No.”
Ming Jin looked thoughtfully at where the red dot on his hand had been, but had since disappeared.
“Master, why are you asking?” ‘Only an immortal should be able to make things appear from thin air, right?’
“Nothing.” Ming Jin shook his head.
‘She doesn’t seem afraid of revealing her uniqueness at all.’
That arrogance and unbridled manner caused Ming Jin’s heart to throb. ‘What does she care about?’
Ming Jin pondered this question slowly in his mind.
The scene from that day at the Hall of Proclaimed Peace appeared very clearly in his mind.
‘She said she wasn’t afraid of death, nor did she care about the Zhuang Clan. Then what does she care about?’
“Zhi Yuan, if someone doesn’t have anything they care about, then what are they living for?”
Zhi Yuan, “…” ‘Master, how am I supposed to answer such a high-level question like that?’
After struggling for a while, Zhi Yuan finally replied, “Probably because they don’t want to die.”
Not being afraid of death didn’t mean wanting to die.
Ming Jin blinked. “Zhi Yuan, I have something very important to do right now, so I’ll hand the other matters to you to manage.”
“Master…just what are you planning?”
Ming Jin’s gaze gentled. “I want to become the person she cares about.”
Zhi Yuan, “…” ‘Master has simply gone mad! It’s all because of that Zhuang Qiong! Aaaah! Master, just what do you like about her?!’
……
Shi Sheng summoned her sword back, her expression dark as she poked the ground.
System was so scared it didn’t dare to even breathe… Of course, given that it was able to breathe in the first place.
But Shi Sheng merely kept poking the ground and didn’t do anything world-destroying.
By the time System came to, its host was already lying on her bed and about to fall asleep.
[……] ‘So just what was Host doing just now? Poking the ground to vent? Impossible. Host always hacks people when she gets angry—how could she suddenly switch to poking the ground?’
System was rather apprehensive.
#Host is scarier when she keeps quiet than when she loses her temper#