Chapter 453: The Overt Scheme

Just the thought of having to ‘march to the execution ground” after dinner, Bai Yi found even a table full of delicious dishes as tasteless as chewing wax.

Her two blond twin-tails drooped limply to the sides, like seedlings about to be scorched to death under the sun, wilted and listless, completely lacking their usual vitality.

During the meal she kept stealing glances at Mu An and Hongyi out of the corner of her eye, and from time to time launched a pitiful ‘wronged-face attack,’ trying to soften their hearts.

But unfortunately, she failed.

The two of them didn’t pay the slightest attention to how she acted up, and that sent Bai Yi’s heart plunging to rock bottom, fear and chill +1+1+1+1……

Actually, Mu An wasn’t completely ignoring Bai Yi.

At the very least, he would occasionally glance at the emotion rewards popping out of her, then shift his eyes away in contentment.

Who wouldn’t like a gold mine that automatically spits out coins?

But Bai Yi’s ‘princess syndrome’ was no joke, she was exactly the type who would bloom the moment you gave her a ray of sunshine, so you had to find chances to ruthlessly press her down every now and then.

Fortunately, Mu An only intended to give Bai Yi a mild lesson so she wouldn’t get too arrogant.

Otherwise, she’d probably be going into high-intensity training on an empty stomach right about now.

By the way, because of Bai Yi’s earlier outburst, Tong Ziran, the timid one, was so scared she disconnected.

Now sitting next to Mu An was the second-in-command, Tong Ziyin, whose small face was cold and somewhat unapproachable.

Only when she occasionally looked at Mu An did a strange warmth flicker in her eyes.

“Just tire her out until she sleeps like a corpse.”

As Hongyi stood up, Mu An suddenly sent her a voice transmission.

Tire her out… until she sleeps like a corpse?

It was obvious who he was talking about!

And why he wanted her tired to that point, there was a lot of subtlety inside that……

Thinking of this, Hongyi swept a glance at the girl still sitting primly beside the man.

Back when the girl’s ‘main and alt accounts’ (personalities) switched earlier, Hongyi had keenly noticed the aura on her had grown much stronger.

Her cultivation was at least late innate stage, maybe even at the grandmaster level!

That was terrifying!

Not long ago, she was only at mid-Huajin stage.

Now she’d directly pulled some kind of unknown multi-level jump, her cultivation multiplying and skyrocketing in one leap?

In an instant, Hongyi’s competitive spirit was inevitably ignited.

Her mission to stay by Mu An’s side was to protect the safety of the girls in the villa.

But now, among those she was supposed to protect, there was someone with cultivation higher than hers.

Didn’t that mean she was ‘useless’?

This was an unprecedented workplace crisis!

And her intuition told her that Tong Ziran’s change must be related to Mu An!

So tonight, for her one-on-one training session with Mu An, she had to work even harder!

In that short span of time, Hongyi thought through a whole lot.

She silently nodded to Mu An, then prepared to take Bai Yi back to the room for training.

She even resolved to increase the training intensity as much as possible to reach the ‘tire her out until she sleeps like a corpse’ goal faster!

After all, the less time Bai Yi wasted, the more time she would have to train seriously with Mu An…

“Please! Can’t we negotiate just a little more?”

“At worst, from now on I’ll get bowls and chopsticks for Sister Ning’er and the others!”

“Not only will I fetch their bowls and chopsticks, I’ll pour their tea and serve their water, and even push their backs at those times if needed…”

Before her ‘execution,’ Bai Yi pitifully tried to grab Mu An’s arm, hoping to get his forgiveness at the last moment and have him withdraw the order.

After all, increasing the training intensity would probably cost this weak, useless homebody half her life!

But… her hand only got halfway before she couldn’t help shivering, as if some ferocious hunter had locked onto her.

Looking closely, Tong Ziyin was staring straight at her.

More precisely, she was staring straight at Bai Yi’s little hand that was about to touch Mu An’s arm.

Seemingly frightened by that terrifying invisible chill, Bai Yi’s face suddenly turned pale, and she sheepishly withdrew her hand.

‘What the heck… these two jerks only know how to bully this young lady—men bully me, women bully me too!’

‘So angry! This is just infuriating!’

‘Sure enough, you can’t sleep in the same bed and produce two different kinds of people!’

The girl silently grumbled in her heart.

[Under the ‘oppression’ of you and Tong Ziyin, the young girl feels wronged inside and complains like crazy. Emotional fluctuation +25. Congratulations, you have obtained the rewards [Proficiency +3500], [Book · About How This Pitiful Princess of Mine Is Now a Tiger Fallen to the Plains Being Bullied by Dogs, Constantly Bullied by a Bad Man and His Group of Beautiful Confidantes. This Tragic, Miserable, Heartbreaking, Tear-Jerking, Inhuman, Utterly Atrocious Matter]!]

Mu An: “……”

What kind of push is this…

“Ahem, setting that aside for now, serving tea and water is something you should be doing anyway.”

“Of course, if you behave well…”

Mu An swept her a glance.

Bai Yi heard that and thought there was hope, her beautiful eyes instantly reignited with a glimmer.

But the man’s next sentence plunged her back into the abyss.

“Forget it, you were definitely cursing me in your heart just now, so even if you perform well now, it’s useless.”

“You’d better just go train! After all… I’m doing this for your health!”

Mu An smiled faintly.

Bai Yi: ???

“I didn’t! I’m not! Don’t talk nonsense!”

“I’m the person in the world who respects you the most. How could I possibly curse you behind your back!”

[Even if I really did, you couldn’t possibly hear it, bleh bleh bleh……]

The girl launched gave a triple denial.

You could say that for the sake of avoiding high-intensity training, this girl was practically about to ‘throw away her dignity.’

Of course, she considered this just necessary perseverance, not disgraceful at all.

As the saying goes:

If a person has no shame and a tree has no bark, they can be invincible in the world!

‘I, Bai Yi, am invincible and accept no objections!’

[From the girl’s perseverance, emotional fluctuation +20. Congratulations, you have received the reward: [Double Feedback Card for Cultivation Transmission *1 (Transmission limit: 100 years)]!]

Mu An casually glanced at the reward.

This time it was just a double feedback card for cultivation, and it had a transmission limit.

It was nothing compared to the previous tenfold feedback card without any limit.

Which made sense, if another ten-times feedback card showed up again, then with Mu An’s current terrifying store of over two thousand years of cultivation, it might jump straight to over twenty thousand years in one go.

Human civilization has only been around for a few thousand years—if he really got ten thousand-plus years of cultivation, he’d probably become an immortal on the spot and ascend right then and there.

Mu An shook his head, pressing those thoughts down for the moment.

Then, meeting Bai Yi’s expectant little gaze, he gave a playful smile.

“Since you’re the person who respects me the most, does that mean whatever I say, you have to do?”

“Right now, I’m telling you to go train with Hongyi. Are you going or not?”

If she went, the training was inevitable and nothing would change.

But if she didn’t go, she’d be very reasonably labeled as ‘not respecting’ him.

And she might even face greater retaliation. like the training volume doubling or something.

So, this move made her ‘wrong no matter what,’ inside and out?

A top-tier open plot, through and through!

“……”

[I #@@#￥%……]

For a moment, the girl was stuck between advance and retreat. Her face flushed red, and inside she was practically cursing Mu An up to the heavens.

“Waaah… how can there be someone in this world who bullies people this much! Goodbye, mama—tonight I set sail…”

[From the girl’s depressed and angry emotional fluctuation +20. Congratulations, you have obtained the reward [Plot Fragment *1]!]

In the end, Bai Yi was dragged into the room by Hongyi, looking completely dead inside.

From the looks of it, she was still alive, but her soul seemed to have left her body a while ago……