Chapter 4694 — Don't Think I Don't Know
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"Idiot!" Xia Qianqian stamped her foot in speechless exasperation and shot a glare at this dense young fool who had no feel for romance. How could a girl bring herself to repeat such words? She could only change the subject: "That veiled girl just now—if I'm not mistaken, she should be a disciple of the Eastern Continent's Morning Pride Academy. Is Brother Ling an old acquaintance of hers as well?"
"I don't know. They didn't seem like it. All I know is that Brother Ling's two confidantes are Wang Xinyan and Huang Xiaotao, and both of them are at Morning Star Academy," Qi Wenmo said with a shake of his head.
"Is that so? But somehow I felt there was something rather intimate between the two of them. If they'd only just met, things wouldn't progress that fast, would they?" Xia Qianqian said, puzzled. It had not been blatant, but there had been distinctly flirtatious little gestures between Huo Yudie and Wei Zhao just now—that could not escape her eyes, and what was more, it had looked as though Huo Yudie was the one taking the initiative!
"Really?" Qi Wenmo started, then caught on belatedly, and could not help saying with envious admiration, "Brother Ling is something else—absolutely brilliant. He's even won over a beauty of the Eastern Continent. No wonder peerless girls like Wang Xinyan and Huang Xiaotao follow him so devotedly. Tsk, tsk!"
"Oh? From your tone, it sounds like you're quite envious?" Xia Qianqian turned to look at Qi Wenmo and said in an odd voice.
"Well, any man would—" Qi Wenmo answered on reflex; only when he sensed the killing intent did he come to his senses, and for once his mind worked quickly: "—never possibly be like Brother Ling! A figure like him comes along once in a few thousand years. How could I compare? One is enough to satisfy me—I could die without regret!"
"Hmph, that's more like it." Xia Qianqian curved her lips in a faint smile. Though she was still disguised, the charm revealed in that instant left Qi Wenmo utterly dumbstruck—a beauty to topple a city and overthrow a state was no more than this.
Seeing his expression, Xia Qianqian lowered her head bashfully and muttered under her breath: what a blockhead...
Meanwhile, Huo Yudie had followed Wei Zhao some distance when, after holding it in for a good while, she finally could not restrain herself: "Hey, once we find the Thunder Mystic Vine, you're not going to kill me, are you?"
Wei Zhao, walking ahead to clear the way, stumbled at those words, so startled was he by this girl's wildly fanciful line of thinking. What on earth was she going on about?!
Wei Zhao turned back and cast a speechless glance at this girl whose head was clearly full of who-knew-what, then said with a teasing grin, "If I were to kill you, I'd ravish you first and then kill you..."
"Ah... is that so... Then could you just ravish me and not kill me?" Huo Yudie blinked and said.
"Pfft! Cough, cough, cough!" Wei Zhao choked on his own breath. A moment ago he had merely thought this girl's thinking eccentric; now he was utterly astounded by her.
Ravish without killing? Was that an answer any normal girl could come up with? Surely the proper course was to prefer death to dishonor, as Xia Qianqian had done just now? Or were the people of the Eastern Continent simply different, raised from childhood to believe that preserving one's life mattered more than one's reputation?
"Hmph, don't think I don't know. You're not the sort who kills at random. If you were really that bloodthirsty, you'd have killed Ren Zhongyuan and the others long ago!" Huo Yudie said with absolute certainty.
True enough, Wei Zhao had indeed been decisive in his killing just now—against those three from the Snow Sword Sect he had cut them down without blinking. But those men had deserved death a thousand times over; even Huo Yudie herself would have done the same. (To be continued..) I752