Chapter 171: Junior sister, aboveboard
After Xiaodie left, Pei Lianxue obediently went to warm the bed. She stood on the side of the bed in the bedroom, her big watery eyes staring at Ye Anping, who was now sitting at the desk. She blinked occasionally, lost in her thoughts.
Ye Anping took a moment to adapt before completely emptying his mind and focusing his energy and attention. With his right hand holding the brush, he moistened the tip of his nose with body fluid and lightly tapped the inkstone. Standing tall, chest raised, and eyes lowered, he wrote the first nine characters on a blank sheet of rice paper:
“Shadow Moon Sword Sect” Strategy Plan.
Then he wrote three lines.
Eldest lady of Shadow Moon Sword Sect, Yun Yiyi, in the middle stage of the foundation building.
Second young lady of Shadow Moon Sword Sect, Yun Jiujiu, in the late foundation building stage.
Third lady of Shadow Moon Sword Sect, Yun Xi, in the middle stage of foundation building.
After writing this, Ye Anping put the brush back on the pen holder and stared intently at the content on the paper, deducing it in his mind.
If following the game’s timeline, the Moon Shadow Sword Sect and the “Emperor Sect” plots occur simultaneously, but the world has changed.
Yun Xi appeared in Chilong Mansion and almost died under the red snow created by the demon cultivator. Yun Yiyi sent a jade slip to the Hundred Lotus Sect, hoping that he, the young master of the Shadow Moon Sect, would come to marry her. In the game, once players received the rumor “Yun Tianchong, the leader of the Moon Shadow Sword Sect, is about to leave seclusion,” the Sword Sect mission would begin, and players could receive tasks from the Moon Shadow Sword Sect.
Although Ye Anping had not heard this news, he had a vague feeling that this matter might be brought forward due to the butterfly effect. In the Moon Shadow Sword Sect’s plot, players could choose three storylines, corresponding to the three Yun sisters. Three different endings significantly influenced the survival of the Moon Shadow Sword Sect and the rewards players received.
The three endings were:
“One person dies.”, “Two people die.”, “All three are destroyed.”
The specifics of who dies depended entirely on which storyline the player chose. In the game, most players would choose to keep “Yun Jiujiu” alone until the end because the rewards were the most generous in this ending. But if you wanted to ask who was the most popular among the three sisters, it was “Yun Xi.”
It sounded contradictory. Players of the vital party account for the majority, so this result was understandable. In the game, players could only follow the officially set route.
This world was not a game. No matter from the perspective of profit or empathy, Ye Anping wanted to have a perfect “full life” ending. Moreover, the “full life” ending should also positively help the following main plot.
The incident at Chilong Mansion showed that he could not follow the regular plot development, but choose a shortcut and refine a more perfect process through the intelligence in his mind.
However…
“Tsk…”
Ye Anping frowned deeply. After going through dozens of plans in his mind, he found that if he wanted to implement these plans, he lacked a key trump card.
He needed someone to accompany him. And this person, preferably a man, must be intelligent enough, know how to adapt to circumstances and be able to execute any order given by him without fail. His combat effectiveness should be alright, and his cultivation level must be in the middle stage of foundation building or above. Most importantly, this person needed to be obedient and loyal and could not betray him.
…
Ye Anping was looking for candidates in his mind, but after thinking for a while, he suddenly realized that the people he had met this year were all “peach blossoms,” and Liang Zhu was the only one who was a “heather flower.”
Although Liang Zhu met most of the conditions, he had to put a question mark on “obedience and loyalty.”
“You are given money to do things, but if you don’t have enough money, you will take advantage of it.”
He dared not use Liang Zhu regarding the Moon Shadow Sword Sect. Ye Anping scribbled on the paper and wrote dozens of names, but in the end, without exception, they were all crossed out with a streak of ink.
“Huh – is it possible that one of the three daughters of the Moon Shadow Sword Sect must die? Then who will die? In terms of benefits, losing Yun Xi is the biggest benefit. Then… it is decided that it is Yun Xi?”
After muttering this, Ye Anping frowned, suddenly feeling a little painful. He felt as if he was being tortured by his Dao’s heart at this moment:
“Do you have the right to decide the life or death of others?”
He couldn’t answer the question.
At this time, Ye Anping felt that the spiritual energy in his meridians began to surge, and his chest felt heavy, and he immediately reacted, “Not good!”
“The Dao heart has fallen!”
“Something is going to happen!”
Ye Anping quickly cleared his mind, but it seemed too late. The next moment, a sharp pain radiated from the dantian in his abdomen. He gritted his teeth tightly and thought about how to deal with his inner demons.
“…Hiss–”
At this moment, a pair of hands wrapped around his neck from behind, trying to pull him up from the chair.
Pei Lianxue’s voice came to her ears:
“Senior brother, go to bed~. I’ll do it again when you get up tomorrow~.”
After hearing this voice, Ye Anping’s expression condensed, and suddenly he felt the severe pain in his Dantian dissipate completely, replaced by the suffocating feeling of being strangled tightly around his neck.
“Ah…”
Pei Lianxue got off the bed at some point, got behind him, and strangled his neck as if she wanted to force him onto the bed.
“Junior sister, stop pulling. My neck will break. I’ll go to sleep right away!”
Pei Lianxue raised her eyebrows and said, “Not immediately, now!”
“Okay, okay! Go to sleep now! Go to sleep now…” Ye Anping didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, but he was also glad that the junior sister’s strangulation had indeed cleared his mind.
Fright and sudden suffocation could indeed cut off a person’s thinking. After seeing that Ye Anping agreed, Pei Lianxue returned her hand, returned to the bed, pulled away the quilt, got in, supported the quilt, and slapped the bed board, pouting and urging, “Hurry up!”
Ye Anping looked at the plan on the table, turned it over, and buried it with miscellaneous books. Then he walked to the bed, sat down, took off his shoes, and lay down on it. Pei Lianxue pulled down the quilt and squeezed into his arms without saying a word.
“It’s been a long time coming.”
“How long?”
“I have recited Ye Anping silently one thousand two hundred times.” Pei Lianxue complained with a puffed face, “You are still sitting there…”
Ye Anping relaxed, raised his sword finger, extinguished the candle on the table, then squeezed his hand under Pei Lianxue’s shoulder and took her into his arms.
“Go to sleep.”
“Well… Senior brother, did the sect master and his wife say anything today?”
“What did you say?”
“It’s just… I slept with my senior brother, so… do they agree?”
“Silly girl.”
Ye Anping shook his head helplessly and hit her. No wonder this girl was so worried when she came back today. Was she afraid that Ye Ao and Kong Yulan would not allow him to be with her?
After hesitating, Ye Anping asked, “If they don’t agree, what will you do?”
“If they disagree, do it secretly. If they agree, do it openly.”
“…Puff–”
Ye Anping couldn’t hold back and was amused by the junior sister’s words. But Pei Lianxue couldn’t laugh. She looked at him with watery eyes and asked, “So… Do you want to do it secretly?”
Ye Anping rubbed her cheek and reassured her, “Don’t worry, it’s fair and square.”
“Hmm… Hehe—”
“Good night.”
