“If you’ve got the guts, say it again.” The wolf demon, his pride wounded, pointed at the vine spirit and then turned to Lin Yan, who was still clinging to him, saying in a low voice, “Let go.”
Lin Yan refused. He was worried the wolf demon would impulsively chase after the vine spirit and wouldn’t be able to return. Who would protect him then? So he had to stop him.
“You little punk, what the…”
“That’s a trap. He’s deliberately letting you chase him so he can ditch you. If you lose us,” Lin Yan exclaimed, “you won’t be able to find us, and if you can’t find us, you won’t be able to get back. Are you sure you still want to chase him?” He stared intently at the wolf demon’s face.
The wolf demon paused. “What you’re saying does make some sense, but…” He frowned, his gaze piercing the vine spirit. “If I don’t beat him up, I won’t feel right.”
“You can’t hit him,” Lin Yan reminded him. “Don’t you remember?”
Hearing this, the wolf demon was taken aback again. “Hey, that also makes a lot of sense.”
“It’s good that you think so. So, listen,” Lin Yan said, still holding the wolf demon’s arm, “when we get back, we’ll settle the score properly. Don’t make any rash moves now.”
“Mhm,” the wolf demon nodded, no longer struggling.
However, Lin Yan’s grip on his arm remained. “You promise?” he asked, and then tightened his hold.
“What are you doing?” The wolf demon looked down at his arm, which Lin Yan was deliberately gripping tighter.
“I can’t let go of you.”
“I’ll listen to you. Let go. If they see this…” The wolf demon glanced at Feng Qishi and Mu Anxiao. “They’ll laugh at me.”
Mu Anxiao curled her lips. “You look good no matter what. I’m looking at you.” She then turned to the vine spirit, who was grinning and mocking the wolf demon opposite them. “Is it that funny?”
Hearing this, the vine spirit’s face fell as he looked at Mu Anxiao. “Isn’t it funny?”
“I didn’t think it was funny, you…”
“You lied to me,” the vine spirit interrupted again.
Feng Qishi glanced at Mu Anxiao, then at the vine spirit. “Whatever she says, you say. You’re quite good at changing the subject.”
The vine spirit, fearing he might enrage the wolf demon again and make it difficult to brainwash him later, chose to ignore Feng Qishi and repeated, “You lied to me.”
Feng Qishi was speechless.
“So what if I lied to you?” Mu Anxiao, seeing the vine spirit’s stubborn expression, felt too lazy to offer any more words of goodwill.
“You admit it.”
“I just made you return to your original form, and then you…”
“I helped you, and you treated me like that. What kind of person are you?”
“I just threw you out, you weren’t injured,” Mu Anxiao said, pointing at the vine spirit. “Besides, it was mutual. It’s like you didn’t get the medicine.”
The vine spirit replied, “I wasn’t injured, but I saw a reality clearly.”
“What reality?” Mu Anxiao chimed in, as if agreeing with the vine spirit.
The vine spirit said, “I saw clearly that people like you cannot be trusted. I helped you, and you harmed me. You… deserve to die.” As he spoke, his eyes glowed green, and he spread his arms, manifesting vines.
Mu Anxiao scoffed. “You have the nerve to say that. As if you didn’t get any benefits.” She lowered her gaze to the vine spirit’s still-injured leg and smirked. “Oh, your leg still hasn’t healed, has it?”
“Whether it’s healed or not, I can make you… injured too.” With that, the vine spirit violently swung his vines towards Mu Anxiao.
Seeing this, Mu Anxiao’s gaze sharpened, and she instinctively leaned back. The vines whipped past above her face.
The next second, the vines snapped back.
Mu Anxiao got to her feet, looking at the vines the vine spirit retracted into his hands. She snorted and glanced at Feng Qishi and the wolf demon. “Move aside, you’re affecting my performance.”
Feng Qishi said, “Don’t fight him. There’s definitely a trap.”
A trap?
The vine spirit had never intended to set a trap. He had come purely because he was angered by Mu Anxiao’s actions. Yet now they were all saying he had set a trap.
He was indignant. “What do you mean?”
Hearing this, Feng Qishi looked at the vine spirit. “You couldn’t heal your injuries here, so you came to set a trap for her. You…”
“Which eye of yours saw me setting a trap?” the vine spirit interrupted.
Feng Qishi took a step forward. “Both eyes.”
“Both eyes,” the vine spirit repeated, sneering. “You really are good at talking nonsense. I just came to have a normal duel with her. Do you think it’s funny to say this about me?” He glanced at the wolf demon, who was still being held by Lin Yan.
The wolf demon asked, “What do you mean?”
Hearing this, the vine spirit glanced at the wolf demon and then at Mu Anxiao, who was preparing herself. “Mu Anxiao, what you lied to me about, you know in your heart.”
“I just let you return to your original form, and then…” Mu Anxiao’s eyes flickered slightly. “I just threw you out.”
“Wrong. You lied to me. The wolf demon was there.”
“He is indeed here,” Mu Anxiao said, a little confused about what the vine spirit meant.
The vine spirit replied, “He is here, but…” He gave a wry smile. “Do you think he has any value in being here?”
The wolf demon exclaimed, “Vine spirit, what do you mean by that? Explain yourself clearly.” He glared at the vine spirit, pointing a finger at him.
Seeing the wolf demon’s current state, the vine spirit cast aside his previous fear of the wolf demon and said, “Don’t you think you’re useless right now?”
“Say that again if you dare.” The wolf demon’s eyes widened.
The vine spirit retorted, “I’m telling the truth. You can’t touch me anyway.”
“…” The wolf demon was indeed at a disadvantage, but the vine spirit’s words had also infuriated him. He immediately turned to Lin Yan, who was still holding him tightly, and said, “Let go.”
“Trap,” Lin Yan emphasized.
Upon hearing this, the vine spirit rolled his eyes again. “I haven’t set any traps. Can you stop talking nonsense?”
“…” Lin Yan was startled. He cautiously glanced at the vine spirit, still holding the wolf demon’s arm, and said, “He’s lying to you.”
“I’m not. I just came to seek revenge from Mu Anxiao.” The vine spirit turned his attention back to Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao looked at the vine spirit’s troublemaking face with speechlessness and sighed, having nothing more to say.
Feng Qishi glanced at Mu Anxiao, deciding to wait and see what the vine spirit truly intended to do.
The wolf demon questioned, “You came to seek revenge from her, so why did you provoke me?”
“Brother, you were the one who greeted me,” the vine spirit said helplessly.
“You could have just politely replied to my greeting and been done with it. Why did you have to say so much nonsense? You just wanted to deliberately anger me, didn’t you?” the wolf demon said narcissistically.
Mu Anxiao looked at the wolf demon’s narcissistic expression and helplessly touched her forehead. “Have you two finished talking?”
“No.” They both answered in unison, not looking at Mu Anxiao, their gazes still locked on each other.
Seeing this, Mu Anxiao pursed her lips and took a step back. “Alright, alright, you two continue. I won’t disturb you.” With that, she tilted her head back to look at the night sky.
At the same time, Feng Qishi looked at her, recalling her embrace outside the woodshed earlier. He chuckled softly and tilted his head to look at the night sky with her. “The stars are so beautiful.”
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