Chapter 76: Strange Strategy Progress

Ning Shengsheng didn’t dare move.

Xue Chen’s arms were wrapped tightly around her.

There was no sound for a long time.

“Xue Wuyin, what’s wrong?” She reached out slowly and patted his back. Her voice was gentle and patient.

Xue Chen’s restless heart gradually calmed down. He had hugged her on impulse, but now that he was fully awake, he was unwilling to let go.

He could only remain silent.

Continuing to pretend to be depressed.

Ning Shengsheng patted his back gently, sensing his sad emotions. To distract him, she talked about interesting things happening in the palace.

“Older Brother upset Senior Sister Yun again. Senior Sister Yun was so angry she secretly put itching powder in his tea.”

“When Older Brother went to court, he was scratching left and right. The censors accused him of lacking dignity and uprightness.”

“He was half-dead from anger.”

“After Older Brother found out it was Senior Sister Yun’s doing, he didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Oh right, today Qi Momo urged him to take Senior Sister Yun as a consort soon, but the two of them were coy and seemed very unwilling. If I liked someone, I’d want to be with them every day. What do you think is going on with Older Brother and Senior Sister Yun?”

“Why are they so awkward?”

Because it was too comfortable.

Xue Chen’s taut nerves relaxed, and he slowly became sleepy.

He vaguely remembered that sentence she said.

【If I liked someone, I’d want to be with them every day.】

She always liked to find him.

So.

She likes him, right?

Even if she didn’t like him especially much, there should be a little bit, right?

Thinking like this, threads of sweetness bloomed in his heart. Before falling completely asleep, he thought… he was perhaps getting too addicted to the taste of her.

Later on.

Xue Chen would realize that his feelings for Ning Shengsheng were more than just addiction; they were insatiable.

It was never enough.

“Hm? Asleep?”

Ning Shengsheng didn’t expect the young man to fall asleep just like that.

Wasn’t he the big villain? Wasn’t his vigilance very high?

She deliberately played a prank and poked his waist.

“!!!”

Her eyes widened.

“Wow, so firm?”

Does this kid look thin in clothes but have muscles when undressed?

Rarely seeing Xue Chen at the mercy of others, she pushed her luck, her fingertips poking at his abdomen.

A low grunt.

Her hand was gripped tight by him.

Perhaps because Xue Chen practiced swordsmanship, there were thin calluses on his fingertips. He squeezed her hand too hard.

Ning Shengsheng’s pampered skin hurt a little.

“It hurts a little, let go.”

No one answered for a long time.

Her head rested against his forehead. “Let go!”

“I won’t.”

The young man’s cheek pressed tight against the side of her ear, his low voice drilling into her ear.

A numb and tingly itch.

“You let go!” Her cheeks heated up.

“I won’t.” Xue Chen nestled against her shoulder and chuckled low, “Your Highness, you woke me up.”

“You asked for this.”

The deliberately lowered voice made the already sticky atmosphere even more ambiguous and romantic.

She couldn’t tell; this guy talked so flirtatiously.

“Oh…”

Ning Shengsheng blinked slyly, twisted her wrist, and backhand gripped Xue Chen’s wrist bone.

Pushing with the momentum.

She pushed him against the thick tree trunk behind.

The young man didn’t resist, falling back with the momentum. His sleepy eyes were stained with a thin blush.

The corners of his mouth hooked up slightly.

“What is Your Highness doing…?”

His eyelashes trembled, looking at her with a deep gaze.

“I… who told you not to let go!” Ning Shengsheng was righteously guilty, her eyes darting around.

Her gaze drifted past his collar.

After the commotion just now, the young man’s collar was slightly open, and chest muscles were faintly visible under the green outer shirt.

“?”

He’s been supplementing quite a bit behind her back!

“Good one, Xue Wuyin, you really keep your light under a bushel!”

“What?”

Xue Chen followed her drooling gaze, looked at his own chest, raised an eyebrow and asked: “Like it?”

Duh, who doesn’t like a man with muscles?

“Mhm, mm, mm!” She nodded unceremoniously.

Seeing Ning Shengsheng so frank, Xue Chen couldn’t help but be curious, where exactly did she come from? To be able to say such things without shame.

The words rolled around his mouth and were swallowed back.

He remembered her alcohol tolerance was very poor.

Someday he’d get her drunk and ask clearly.

Actually, Xue Chen inherited his birth mother’s Charm Demon ability and could snatch human memories. But he didn’t want to use this move on Ning Shengsheng. Facing her, he always felt a lot of reluctance.

“Why are you zoning out again?”

Ning Shengsheng climbed off him, tidying her messy palace dress. “Want to eat roasted lamb?”

“Go to my palace, I asked Songgao to prepare it.”

“No.”

Xue Chen looked regretfully at the girl’s slender wrist bones, his gaze moving with her hand movements.

“Why not?” She tidied her sleeves and asked with a frown.

“Got a cultivation method today, preparing to enter meditation to cultivate.” Xue Chen stood up and stretched.

Yawned sleepily.

“Alright then, I’ll ask Songgao to bring it over. Eat when you’re hungry.” Ning Shengsheng waved her hand and walked out of the Pear Courtyard.

She had only come for such a short while.

Xue Chen was recharged with energy, even feeling that Ning Shengsheng was better to absorb than spiritual energy.

Just smelling her scent.

Hugging her.

All exhaustion vanished.

Xue Chen didn’t return to his room. Just as he was about to cultivate, he swept his gaze over a jade pendant dropped on the ground.

Made of white jade, carved with a rabbit in the middle. The rabbit was fat and moist, very charmingly naive.

Presumably Ning Shengsheng dropped it here during their ruckus just now.

Xue Chen picked up the jade pendant.

Put it in his bosom like a treasure.

Immediately after, he closed his eyes to cultivate. He grabbed Xue Heng’s memories and obtained the Heavenly Phoenix Nation’s most traditional and authentic Beast Taming Cultivation Method manual.

If cultivated to the highest level.

Even the Fire Flood Dragon under the magma sea could be used by him.

At that time, he could control the entire cultivation world.

…

On the way back to Zhaoxia Palace, Ning Shengsheng asked the system.

“What’s the progress of Xue Chen’s side quest?”

System: 【Reporting to Host, explored Xue Chen’s background secret and origin of name, progress 50%. Keep up the good work!】

“What about the strategy progress?”

【This… System has no way to tell you.】

“Then how do I know when the strategy is successful?”

【Very simple, if he is willing to die for you, it counts!】

Ning Shengsheng: Speechless.

She didn’t know what to say. No matter how much one likes someone, how could they die for another?

Moreover, Xue Chen is the big villain!

Not a love-brain!

Seeing Ning Shengsheng didn’t notice, the system sighed in relief. It wasn’t that it didn’t want to tell the host.

It glanced at the Villain Strategy Progress: 200%.

Excuse me?

The maximum value is clearly 100%.

When it comes to it, why does it show 200%?

Suspecting its own system was in error, it just sent a message to headquarters today to let headquarters check what was going on.

That’s why it didn’t dare tell Ning Shengsheng.

The system couldn’t help but recall, from which day did it suddenly jump from 60% to 200%?

It’s all its own fault.

The system sighed melancholically.

One moment of inattention, and such a big blunder occurred.

Ning Shengsheng didn’t hear her system’s worry, nor did she know the strange fluctuation amplitude of the strategy value.

Because no one knew.

On just such an ordinary afternoon.

After Xue Chen spontaneously awakened a certain strange attribute, he began the process of self-conquest.