“Little Junior Sister, I finally found you.”
Liu Zheng quickened her steps.
Jiang Bingbing noticed the anxiety in her eyes and called out softly, “Senior Sister…”
“This time, for some reason, everyone was separated after entering.” Liu Zheng spoke while checking if she was injured.
At this moment, Ling Hanchuan calmly said from the side, “Your senior sister was very worried about you. She came looking for you right after killing the monster beast.”
Upon hearing this, Jiang Bingbing looked up at Ling Hanchuan.
His expression was clear and composed. He had just spoken up for Liu Zheng, who wasn’t good at expressing herself, and he didn’t treat her like a fool or look down on her.
Such a good person was going to be killed by villains.
Jiang Bingbing felt displeased.
Over there, the adulterous couple had straightened their clothes.
Jin Yao walked over, biting her lip, looking pitiful as she said, “Hanchuan, if I hadn’t run into Senior Brother Mo Xuan just now, Yao’er would have almost died under the claws of that fierce beast.”
Jiang Bingbing suppressed the urge to vomit.
She watched the performance of these two scoundrels with great interest.
“Senior Brother Ling, as Yao’er’s Dao Companion-to-be, you are truly irresponsible.”
Mo Xuan threw a heavy accusation at Ling Hanchuan.
He wore a domineering and smug smile as he mocked,
“But Senior Brother Ling is always busy practicing swordsmanship and handling sect affairs. I heard he even forgot Yao’er’s birthday last week. It’s no wonder he doesn’t care much about her safety now.”
“Yao’er, I’m sorry, I…”
Jiang Bingbing watched as Ling Hanchuan’s eyes filled with remorse.
She knew this upright and principled senior brother was about to be framed by these two scoundrels.
She bit her lip and came up with an idea.
“Senior Sister…”
Jiang Bingbing tugged at Liu Zheng’s sleeve.
“Little Junior Sister, what’s wrong?”
Everyone’s attention was drawn to her. Jiang Bingbing hid behind Liu Zheng and said innocently, “Senior Sister, kiss…”
She tiptoed and pouted her lips.
Liu Zheng was stunned, leaning back slightly, her expression gradually turning serious. “Little Junior Sister, who taught you this?”
“Huh?” She tilted her head and repeated, “Taught?”
Her little junior sister’s mind was like that of a child. How could she suddenly say such things? Thinking that someone had taught her little junior sister such nonsense, Liu Zheng felt anger rising but feared scaring her.
Suppressing the fire in her eyes,
she patted Jiang Bingbing’s head and asked gently,
“Why did you suddenly want to do this to your senior sister? Did someone do this in front of you or teach you?”
Jiang Bingbing had been waiting for this question.
Out of the corner of her eye, she glanced at the adulterous couple who were plotting murder. The two of them were so nervous they were sweating profusely.
She felt immensely pleased inside, but on the surface, she still wore a foolish and dazed expression. Pointing at Mo Xuan and Jin Yao, she said slowly, “They… were just kissing…”
Her red lips mimicked Jin Yao’s pout.
As soon as these words fell,
they shocked all four people present!
Jin Yao’s face turned red and white alternately. After a long while, she glared at Jiang Bingbing and said fiercely, “Senior Brother Ling, don’t listen to her nonsense. How can you believe the words of an idiot?”
Liu Zheng, who had originally planned to watch from the sidelines, was displeased upon hearing this and said coldly, “My little junior sister never lies.”
Although Ling Hanchuan was the main character in this big scandal,
his expression changed the least. After a brief moment of disbelief flashed in his dark eyes, he fell into deep thought.
Just as Liu Zheng had said, Junior Sister Jiang had a low intellect, her heart was like that of a child, and she would not lie.
It was very clear.
His fiancée had been with someone else behind his back.
Compared to anger, Ling Hanchuan felt more confusion. He wondered why the girl who had come from the same small town as him would do such a thing, and he also wondered why, if Jin Yao did not wish to marry him, she hadn’t simply told him so.
Ling Hanchuan was not one to force anyone.
The atmosphere at the scene remained tense and deadlocked.
Ling Hanchuan remained silent, while Jin Yao persisted in her sophistry, weeping pitifully as if pouring out her grievances.
Mo Xuan stood to the side, lost in thought.
Jiang Bingbing clung to her senior sister’s sleeve, her round eyes filled with the fear of having said something wrong.
Of course!
The fear was all an act!
In reality, she couldn’t have been more excited!
Mo Xuan said, “Senior Brother Ling, Junior Sister Jiang must have misunderstood. I haven’t seen Junior Sister Jin Yao in half a year, and we aren’t close. How could we have done such a thing?”
“Perhaps when I rescued Junior Sister Jin Yao earlier, we were too close, leading to Junior Sister Jiang’s misunderstanding.”
Jin Yao quickly nodded in agreement. “Senior Brother Mo Xuan is right! We aren’t close at all!!”
Yet their explanation was utterly feeble.
Seeing Ling Hanchuan still silent, Jiang Bingbing decided to add fuel to the fire. She poked her head out and dropped a bombshell.
“Huh? If they haven’t seen each other for half a year and still undress and kiss, then Bingbing wants to undress too! I want them to kiss me!!”
Pointing at Jin Yao with her left hand and wiping the drool from her mouth with her right, she made as if to pounce forward.
Liu Zheng was so startled that she quickly pulled her back.
“Little Junior Sister, you mustn’t! That’s something only frivolous people do.”
“Oh~” Jiang Bingbing pouted and shrank back.
“Liu Zheng, you!!” Jin Yao was furious. Knowing she could no longer hide the truth, she decided to throw caution to the wind. Turning to glare at Ling Hanchuan, she shouted angrily, “So what if I’m frivolous? Even though you’re my fiancé, you spend all your time cultivating. You’ve never cared about my affairs or given me any opportunities.”
“Mo Xuan gave me rare treasures to aid my cultivation and stayed by my side when I was lonely and vulnerable.”
“He is dozens of times better than you!”
Her words were shocking to the core.
Ling Hanchuan, who had always been a man of few words, gazed at the woman’s flushed face, red with anger.
After a long pause, he spoke sparingly, “I will explain to the sect leader. Our engagement is hereby annulled.”
“What?” Jin Yao was stunned.
Watching her expression shift from shock to furious madness, Jiang Bingbing wished she weren’t playing the fool so she could say something.
At that moment, the senior sister finally couldn’t hold back any longer.
“This farce ends here. The path of cultivation requires enduring loneliness and relying on oneself. Relying solely on elixirs to boost your cultivation will only lead to stagnation. Moreover, that’s no excuse for two-timing. You could have explained things clearly to Senior Brother Ling before getting involved with Junior Brother Mo Xuan.”
Jiang Bingbing: Oh ho ho, Senior Sister is speaking for me!
“What do you know?” Jin Yao’s face flushed with shame and embarrassment, her once-beautiful features turning hideous. “You’re the head disciple of Jade Immortal Peak, of course you lack for nothing—high-level techniques, resources. I’m just a rogue cultivator in the sect. If I don’t rely on others, how will I ever get anything good?”
“Without good things, I can’t grow stronger!”
Hopeless.
Jiang Bingbing felt this drama was becoming dull.
Ling Hanchuan’s expression tightened as he gripped his sword. “Jin Yao, Junior Sister Liu Zheng’s cultivation comes from day after day of hard work, not from Immortal Lord Qingxue.”
He didn’t want to dwell on this any longer.
Turning to Mo Xuan, he said:
“My engagement with Jin Yao is over. What you do from now on is none of my concern. I won’t attack a fellow disciple within the Sword Tomb, but during the sect competition, my sword will show no mercy.”
“Junior Sister Liu, Junior Sister Jiang, we part ways here.”
Ling Hanchuan cupped his hands in farewell and left, his steps carrying the decisive swiftness of a swordsman.
This senior brother of the sect was indeed upright and honorable.
Jiang Bingbing had not saved the wrong person!
If someone like him were framed, allowing Mo Xuan to become the sect leader, it would spell disaster for the Sword Sect.
Mo Xuan, with a grim expression, roughly pulled Jin Yao away.
Liu Zheng took Jiang Bingbing’s small hand and pointed at the retreating figures of Mo Xuan and Jin Yao, earnestly advising, “Their character is very poor. Little Junior Sister, you must never learn from them.”
The two figures in the distance paused for a moment.
Jiang Bingbing pursed her lips and pouted, nodding vigorously, “Mm-hmm! Big bad guys! Bingbing won’t learn from them!”
Mo Xuan and Jin Yao: “…”
They hadn’t gone far yet—couldn’t you speak a little quieter?!