So you’re a woman too

“Awake? Comfortable?”

Seeing Su Wanqing awake, Chen Xueli, who had been holding her, didn’t say much.

She didn’t mind her Master sleeping with her head on her chest; on the contrary, she quite liked this feeling of being relied upon.

To avoid waking Su Wanqing, she had remained completely still after waking up, simply holding her and admiring Su Wanqing’s beautiful sleeping face.

At times, overcome with emotion, Chen Xueli almost couldn’t resist kissing her Master’s forehead, giving her a good morning kiss like in folk tales.

This was the first time Chen Xueli realized that her Master, usually so aloof, could have such a disheveled sleeping posture.

However, this added a touch of cuteness to her Master’s cold exterior, making her image in Chen Xueli’s heart a bit more real.

Originally, in Chen Xueli’s eyes, although she knew Su Wanqing was sharp-tongued but soft-hearted, outwardly cold but inwardly warm, she still maintained the image of an ethereal fairy untouched by worldly matters.

But after this intimate interaction, she gradually realized that her Master was not as perfect as she had once imagined.

“!”

Upon waking and seeing Chen Xueli’s face so close, Su Wanqing immediately sat up, staring blankly at her disciple, who was lying on her side with a smile.

Chen Xueli’s smug expression was as if she had caught Su Wanqing’s little secret.

Suddenly realizing she was still lightly dressed, she immediately pulled clothes from her storage artifact and put them on.

Last night, under the influence of alcohol, Su Wanqing had lowered her guard significantly regarding Chen Xueli’s boundaries.

Now that she was sober, that surge of shyness immediately welled up in her heart.

“Is it that big of a deal?”

“Weren’t you perfectly fine being hugged by me last night?”

“Why, after one night, are you like a heartless woman who pulls up her skirt and pretends not to know anyone?”

“It’s not the same as last night!”

Su Wanqing immediately retorted Chen Xueli’s suggestive words.

She hastily put on her clothes, like a heartless woman fearing responsibility after a one-night stand, and simultaneously urged her exhibitionist rebellious disciple to dress.

“Hurry up and put on your clothes.”

“Alright, alright, alright.”

Although Chen Xueli outwardly agreed, compared to Su Wanqing’s frantic haste, even buttoning her clothes incorrectly, she dressed slowly and deliberately.

By the time Su Wanqing had been fully dressed for quite a while, Chen Xueli had only just put on her lower garments.

Her upper body was still only in a dudou, as if she was deliberately doing this to show off her figure to her Master.

Of course, she didn’t know that the two of them had long since seen each other naked, and even less that their relationship was more intimate than she imagined.

In fact, Su Wanqing didn’t feel much shyness looking at Chen Xueli in her dudou; at least, she could tolerate it, and there was no particularly strong reaction in her heart.

However, to avoid suspicion, after Su Wanqing finished dressing, she didn’t watch Chen Xueli dress. Instead, she turned around and waited for the other party to finish dressing before looking back.

“Let’s go.”

Seeing that Master wasn’t looking at her, Chen Xueli also quickened her movements.

After she was dressed, the two left in unspoken understanding.

Tianjian Pavilion was not far from here, roughly a three-hour journey.

Although flying with a sword was fast.

Unless they were traveling far or in an emergency, the two, who were already accustomed to walking in Tianjian Pavilion, would choose to walk.

“Master, I’ll be leaving first.”

“Mm.”

Su Wanqing nodded, watching Chen Xueli leave.

But after only a few steps, she called out to her.

“Wait!”

“Hm?”

Chen Xueli turned her head at her Master’s call, looking at Su Wanqing, whose actions and expression were somewhat awkward, not knowing what she meant.

After about a minute, Su Wanqing finally managed to utter a word.

“Take care.”

“Mm, I will.”

With that, Chen Xueli left again. After watching her disciple disappear from her sight, Su Wanqing walked back up the mountain.

She didn’t know why she felt reluctant just now.

When she called out to that rebellious disciple, the words in her heart kept contradicting each other, reluctance and resentment equally split.

In the end, thousands of words converged into two: “Take care,” which made Su Wanqing even more confused about her own feelings.

Could it be that a part of her was truly conquered by that Chen Xueli, allowing the other party to take advantage and occupy an important place in her heart?

Otherwise, why would she suddenly feel reluctance and worry?

With a “slap,” to stop herself from becoming strange and to clear her head, Su Wanqing harshly slapped herself.

The pain on her face indeed made her much more sober, or rather, allowed her to hypnotize herself with a clear conscience.

“It would be better if she died—”

Su Wanqing couldn’t remember how many times she had said this phrase, but it was many times.

Each time, however, she failed to stick to it.

Saying this was a way for her to self-hypnotize with a clear conscience.

Su Wanqing didn’t immediately go back to report to the sect leader but returned to her own Qiongxiao Peak.

As a cultivator, her minor external injuries healed quickly.

With the aid of Chen Xueli’s medicine, the scratches on her body were almost gone, but her internal injuries still needed recuperation.

Having walked with her disciple all this way, Su Wanqing now urgently needed to rest.

After all, this kind of thing wouldn’t make a difference if it took another day.

“Phew—finally back.”

Looking at the familiar sights on the mountain, Su Wanqing let out a long breath, sighing that there was no place like her own small nest, no matter how golden or silver another place might be.

Moreover, for the next two months, she would be alone on the mountain, which could be considered a period of peace and quiet.

The only thing that would require her to descend the mountain would be the new disciple selection assembly a month later.

However, she would merely be going through the motions, acting as a mascot, and letting new disciples see her, the number one beauty of Limeng Yunzhou.

Although the outside world already knew she didn’t take disciples, many disciples still signed up for Tianjian Pavilion just to catch a glimpse of her.

To avoid disappointing those disciples, she and the sect leader had agreed that she would attend every year, and be dressed as elaborately as possible, serving as Tianjian Pavilion’s signboard.

However, she had only superficially agreed.

Her attire remained no different from her usual wear; her mere attendance was already a great gesture of respect.

Of course, those disciples who came for her also implicitly understood that she didn’t take disciples.

Even if someone fortuitously made it into the top three, they would still choose someone else as their master.

For their true future, very few would choose Su Wanqing, who cultivated an unpopular path.

Coupled with her inherently unapproachable and distant appearance and temperament, it made others even more hesitant to get close. After all, a cold beauty was merely for appreciation.

Unless someone had a very specific fetish, virtually no one would willingly face an icy block.

Upon returning to Qiongxiao Peak, Su Wanqing didn’t immediately go back to her own room.

Instead, she went to Chen Xueli’s room to check on the little calico cat named “Nini.”

Thankfully, the little calico was healthy and well, and her food hadn’t been finished.

After all, Su Wanqing had added a lot more food for her before she left.

“Meow~”

Upon seeing Su Wanqing enter the room, Nini recognized her and immediately pounced into her arms, continuously rubbing her head against Su Wanqing’s body, expressing her longing.

“Heh~”

Su Wanqing completely shed her usual aloofness, constantly caressing Nini’s head and stroking her fur.

Because she would be the only one on the mountain for the next two months, Su Wanqing no longer avoided it and simply kept Nini in her room.

“Ah—”

“Finally, I can get some good rest.”

Su Wanqing lay on her bed, holding the kitten.

She looked at the red string on her wrist and the crimson mark, sighing at all the events of the past month.

Everything felt like a dream.

Although she wanted to live for herself, to change the plot and not be manipulated by the Heavenly Dao, this wasn’t what she had expected.

All the changes were merely manifestations of those lesbians craving her body.

Only the Ning Yuer storyline was the sole change she had made, and her only hope so far.

“Forget it, forget it. What’s done is done, no need to dwell on upsetting things.”

The more she thought, the more annoyed she became.

Finally, Su Wanqing gave up.

She lay on her back in bed, holding the kitten, and suddenly noticed something she usually overlooked.

She gently hooked Nini’s nose with her finger and chuckled teasingly:

“So you, little one, are also female. No wonder you’re so clingy normally.”