Chapter 10 Dao Companion
After we came back from the secret realm that day, I did not know if it was because I had gone a step deeper with Qin Ruoyi, but I could see more words.
Even the top of my own head started to have scrolling subtitles and a quest progress bar.
I had only one quest: correct the plot.
I twitched my mouth.
The so-called plot should have been that Qin Ruoyi was supposed to cut me down, but I lived, and everything after ran off the rails.
But correcting it would be the same as telling me to die.
I shut my eyes and pretended I had not seen it.
But when I shut my eyes, my head was full of Qin Ruoyi's face.
And Qin Ruoyi seemed to have changed her nature. She ran to my cave to find me every day.
Before, she had been proud and cold, but every day of hers had been hot-blooded.
Either she was challenging people above her level, or she was going into secret realms alone for treasure.
Or she would suddenly enlighten and advance again, and I would get so jealous I would pick fights with her like crazy.
And now?
She sat on the bed in my cave and asked for a status.
No. I had been faking it...
She was taking it as real?
"So, what are we now?" Qin Ruoyi's dark hair tangled with mine as she asked, her tone too light, like she did not care.
"What what relationship? Senior and junior sisters, obviously." I mumbled around the spirit fruit she had given me.
Ai. A forbidden love. It was embarrassingly awkward.
Qin Ruoyi frowned. She reached out and pinched the soft flesh at my waist. She did not look pleased with my answer.
"You just finished Dual Cultivation with me."
"..."
"Do not say it, all right? If Father finds out, he will beat you to death. Can we just leave it like this?" I said, half true and half not. "If you keep asking, you will not look cold anymore."
I was a professional at baiting, a career master at sitting on the fence.
No one who confessed to me ever got a status.
"I know you do not love me." Qin Ruoyi's eyes lowered. Her voice was thin.
"..." So she was trying to provoke me.
Your feelings are not that cold either. Are you even still cultivating the Path Of Emotionlessness...
The subtitles were cursing me too.
But my face was thick. I was used to it.
...
Late at night.
Fine sweat covered Qin Ruoyi's face. One hand locked on my chin, forcing me to lift my head and look at her.
Her eyes were dark. She looked like she was holding herself down when she asked again. "Jiang Ling, what are we?"
I gripped her hand, speechless, and even my voice shook. "Do, do you have to ask, ask at a time like this..."
【我女出息了，总算没有被狗妹拿捏了，呜呜呜。】
【早上好好问你不说是吧？还得是女主。】
【还是那句话，VIP 不给看？】
My hands went weak on her. I could not take it. I could only give in and shout.
"Dao Companion! We are each other's Dao Companion, happy now!"
Qin Ruoyi looked satisfied. She gave me a proper finish.