Bullied by Junior Sister

“So that’s what happened…”

Gan Tang nodded in understanding.

“It’s so late, why haven’t you gone to cultivate yet?”

Having finally convinced Gan Tang, Lu Qiancha placed her hands on her hips and looked up at her.

“I wanted to ask what you and Master talked about.”

Gan Tang paused, then continued in a slightly wheedling tone, “And I wanted to eat sweet cakes with Senior Brother.”

“Sigh, you’re just like when you first came to the mountain. You haven’t grown up at all.”

Lu Qiancha shook her head helplessly, then sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion. “I won’t have any. You should hurry up and go cultivate.”

“Oh.”

Gan Tang responded, her attention gradually focusing on Lu Qiancha… or more precisely, on the big, fluffy tail swaying gently behind her.

Gulp. “Senior Brother, can I touch your tail?”

Gan Tang couldn’t help but swallow, her big eyes blinking, full of timid eagerness.

“Go ahead, touch it. Just go back to cultivating after you’re done.”

Lu Qiancha said dismissively.

To her, it was just a tail.

Touching it was no big deal; it’s not like she’d lose a piece of flesh.

“Whoopee! Senior Brother is the best!”

Gan Tang cheered and moved behind Lu Qiancha.

Her cool fingertips touched the tail tentatively, and its soft, thick texture immediately captured her heart.

‘This texture… was way better than any stuffed tiger or small animal she had ever touched!’

‘Ooh…’ Gan Tang couldn’t help but let out a sigh of satisfaction, her eyes narrowing into happy crescents.

‘She had been thinking about raising a spirit cat on the peak, but now it seemed completely unnecessary!’

‘And she could pet this one whenever she wanted!’

Infatuated with the sensation, Gan Tang’s touch quickly shifted from tentative to skilled.

Her entire palm rested on the tail, stroking gently from base to tip along the natural grain of the fur, again and again.

An expression of pure enjoyment spread across her face.

But Lu Qiancha, on the other hand, was in agony.

Her body, seated on the cushion, instantly tensed up.

An indescribable, peculiar electric current shot up from her tailbone straight to the top of her head!

It was numbing! And itchy! And it carried a strange… thrill?

At this moment, she had no mind for cultivation.

She deeply regretted her earlier magnanimity.

‘But the words had been spoken. Wouldn’t taking them back damage her credibility as a senior brother?’

At this thought, Lu Qiancha could only grit her teeth and forcibly suppress the jittery sensation that was about to explode within her.

Yet, without realizing it, a blush crept onto her cheeks, and her body began to tremble slightly.

Just then, Gan Tang grew playful.

Her fingers slid down the fur to the very tip of the tail, and she couldn’t resist giving the small, cute tip a gentle squeeze.

“Ngh~!”

A delicate cry slipped unguarded from the little wolf cub’s tightly pressed lips.

Lu Qiancha whipped her head around and said, her voice soft and trembling, “Don’t… don’t touch it anymore. The tail… the tail is very sensitive!”

“Oh.”

Gan Tang disappointedly withdrew her guilty hands.

When her gaze shifted from the tail to Lu Qiancha’s face, she froze.

“Senior Brother… why are you crying?”

Looking at Lu Qiancha, the corners of whose eyes were pitifully red, Gan Tang couldn’t help but ask.

“I’m… I’m not. Just got some sand in my eye, that’s all.”

Like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, Lu Qiancha snapped her head to the side, her voice carrying a soft, trembling quality she herself didn’t notice.

After speaking, Lu Qiancha reached out and hugged her big tail to her chest.

Then, she raised her large, glistening eyes to glare at Gan Tang with wariness and accusation—a look that perfectly mirrored one you’d give a villain who had just bullied a small animal.

Seeing Lu Qiancha’s expression, Gan Tang’s panic grew exponentially.

Only a single, bolded, red thought remained in her mind: ‘What do I do? I made Senior Brother cry! Seeking help online, it’s urgent!’

In her panic, Gan Tang’s eyes fell upon the food box on the table.

She carefully took out a piece and offered it to Lu Qiancha as if presenting a treasure. “Senior Brother, want a cake?”

Lu Qiancha looked hesitantly at the sweet cake.

She sighed softly, released her tail, and reached out with her little paws to take it, giving her junior sister a way out of the awkward situation.

However… Lu Qiancha quickly faced a new problem. She didn’t have hands, only paws!

She couldn’t hold the cake at all!

‘Forget it, I’ll just hold it and eat. I need to finish this quickly and get back to cultivating.’

Giving up, Lu Qiancha spread the small pads of her two front paws and clumsily held the sweet cake.

Lu Qiancha fumed inwardly.

She took a huge, fierce bite of the cake, her cheeks puffing out as she chewed vigorously, as if trying to vent all her grievances and shame on the food.

Meanwhile, Gan Tang watched Lu Qiancha with sparkling eyes, her heart filled with a single thought—‘Ooh~ Senior Brother is just too, too, too cute!!! I want to pet her all over, from head to tail!!’

“Alright, the cake is eaten. Hurry back and cultivate now.”

After finishing the cake and letting out a small hiccup, Lu Qiancha waved a paw at Gan Tang, signaling for her to leave.

“Ah… oh, okay! You should rest early, Senior Brother.”

Gan Tang readily agreed and walked out of Lu Qiancha’s hut.

If she had stayed any longer, Gan Tang was afraid she might not have been able to resist pouncing on her…

“Hehe…” A silly grin hung on Gan Tang’s lips as she emerged from the hut.

She had made up her mind.

Her new goal was to pet her senior brother from head to tail!

Gazing at the moonlight on the lake, Gan Tang had never felt that life could be so wonderful.

Having seen her junior sister off, Lu Qiancha finally let out a sigh of relief and slumped weakly onto the table.

Gazing at the moonlight by the window, she had never felt that life could be so hopeless.

After resting for a while, Lu Qiancha gradually regained her strength.

She had intended to continue cultivating, but she couldn’t help but think about all the things that had happened that day.

Distracting thoughts swarmed her mind, making it impossible for her to calm down.

‘Perhaps today is not a good day for cultivation.’

Lu Qiancha sighed, pushed herself up from the cushion with difficulty, and shuffled step by step to her bed.

She flipped herself onto it, and her consciousness quickly drifted into a deep sleep.

When she opened her eyes again, it was the next morning.

But the thought of last night’s events still gave her a headache, as if from a hangover.

The spiritual energy in her body had been mostly replenished through unconscious absorption, but Lu Qiancha still felt it necessary to prepare some Spirit-Recovering Pills.

Having made up her mind, Lu Qiancha donned a new set of robes, then activated the Myriad Phantoms Mirage Art, reverting to his appearance as Lu Qiancha.

“Good morning, Senior Brother!”

The moment he opened the door, a figure in blue and pink threw herself into his arms.

“Gan Tang, you weren’t waiting at my door the moment you woke up, were you?”

Faced with such a coincidence, Lu Qiancha asked, somewhat speechless.

“Hee hee.”

Gan Tang didn’t give a direct answer, but her brilliant smile was proof enough.

Lu Qiancha shook his head helplessly, then gently pushed Gan Tang away and said to her, “Didn’t you sign up for the training assembly? It’s so late, why haven’t you left yet?”