Volume 1, Chapter 14 – She’s Lying to You!

Song Shiyuan left in a disheveled state.

Lu Zhuxin stood in the courtyard, watching the sword sect junior martial sister’s back as if she had lost her soul, unable to help the smile that tugged at the corner of his mouth.

“Little Shiyuan is really fun to play with.”

[Host, what’s the point of deceiving her like this?

As soon as she regains her composure and thinks carefully, she’ll discover there’s no evidence at all to prove what you just said.]

The System’s cool female voice transmitted from within Lu Zhuxin’s mind.

Lu Zhuxin smiled. He was in a good mood, so he magnanimously answered the System’s question.

“Of course I know Song Shiyuan isn’t that stupid.”

“Right now she’s just suffering from the impact of my beauty, so her consciousness is temporarily unclear and she’s fallen into a mental trap.”

“Give her some time to recover and naturally she’ll understand.”

[…]

The System was rendered speechless by Lu Zhuxin’s narcissism.

“Of course, I also won’t expect that a few sentences will make this little girl lose trust in Song Shixuan.”

“What I need to do is plant a seed of doubt in her heart.”

“As long as this seed isn’t cleared away for a while, occasionally watering it and fertilizing it, sooner or later it will bear the fruit I want.”

Lu Zhuxin cupped his face with both hands, smiling like a villain.

“So.”

“Now let that girl doubt, let her worry, let her slowly lower her mental defenses in confusion.”

“That’s my opportunity.”

[Is it necessary to go to such great lengths for Song Shiyuan?]

The System couldn’t quite understand.

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[She’s already your female consort. If you just forcibly took her body now, wouldn’t that be simpler?

With that girl’s temperament of not tolerating even a grain of sand in her eyes, she wouldn’t have the face to seek out Song Shixuan afterward, would she?]

“…”

Hearing this, Lu Zhuxin fell into a brief silence.

[What is it? You haven’t thought of this method before?]

“No, of course I’ve thought of it.” Lu Zhuxin said. “I thought of it from the very beginning.”

“But this method can work against others. Only against Song Shiyuan am I unable to predict the outcome.”

[?]

The System produced a question mark.

“Song Shiyuan, this female lead, is a bit special.”

She was the female lead who appeared earliest in the original text but only joined the harem group in the later stages.

She was also the only female lead in the entire text who grew up alongside the male protagonist Song Shixuan.

Her temperament was upright, she was warm-hearted, she hated evil like an enemy, her talent was powerful, her disposition resilient. Facing difficulties, she became braver with each setback.

She was a natural-born sword cultivator.

She was powerful and independent.

Unlike the male lead Song Shixuan, she didn’t have beauties from various factions actively delivering opportunities and resources to her.

Everything she had was obtained through her own efforts.

Song Shiyuan was also a female lead who got the protagonist template.

Put in another novel, she would definitely be a proper power-leveling phoenix-proud-of-heaven type.

[Then why would such a powerful and independent female lead ultimately be willing to actively become the woman of that stallion Song Shixuan? And be willing to share one husband with dozens of women, sleeping in the same bed together?]

“Damn system, shut up quickly. You’re very annoying!”

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Lu Zhuxin was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

“The two things in this world that least need logic are love and smut.”

“Understand?”

[Tsk tsk…]

Lu Zhuxin was too lazy to bother with this damn system.

He continued his train of thought that had been interrupted.

The current Song Shiyuan was still in the early-to-middle stages of the plot and hadn’t fully grown yet.

Moreover, although the World-Ending Fox Monarch, this big villain, didn’t have much presence in the plot, her strength in the setting was also among the heavenly king level batch of villains.

That’s why she could so easily handle Song Shiyuan, this female lead without protagonist halo protection.

But if Lu Zhuxin truly forced himself on Song Shiyuan…

Lu Zhuxin was very worried that this female lead in a stallion novel would transform on the spot into an angst novel female lead.

With Song Shiyuan’s temperament of becoming braver with each setback, using force would only push her further away.

“So I can’t use force.”

Lu Zhuxin said.

“Of course, there’s another reason I don’t want to use force.”

“I’m not actually a woman! I don’t understand what women are thinking!”

Lu Zhuxin’s face showed grief.

“Being slept with by a female fox demon as a female consort versus having your body taken by a man. For Song Shiyuan, is the significance the same?”

“I can’t be certain of this.”

“Of course! If I were still using my original male body, then definitely I’d just go straight in with one strike. Where would all these twists and turns be needed!”

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[…So the Fox Monarch’s identity is actually limiting your performance, is that it?]

“Ahem…” Lu Zhuxin coughed lightly. “Forget it, I’m an advocate of pure love.”

“I don’t do this kind of scummy behavior of forcing girls.”

[…Pure love? You actually have the nerve to say that.]

Lu Zhuxin ignored her.

The System also fell silent again.

Not long after Song Shiyuan left, several small fox demons who had earlier played the roles of vicious fox ladies carefully emerged.

They looked at Lu Zhuxin with somewhat anxious gazes.

“Your Majesty…”

Although their earlier behavior had been done according to Lu Zhuxin’s instructions…

They didn’t know whether their acting had satisfied Her Majesty.

After all, the one before them was the Fox Monarch. To really make them act as vicious female supporting characters, facing Her Majesty’s face, how could they have the guts to genuinely bully anyone?

If they used too much force and Her Majesty took it seriously and got angry, wouldn’t they be even worse off?

“Your performances were quite good.” Lu Zhuxin saw through these small fox demons’ timidity and commented, “Although there are still some flaws, it’s enough.”

Seeing that Her Majesty wasn’t angry, the several small fox demons finally breathed a sigh of relief.

“Then Your Majesty, what next?”

“What next?” Lu Zhuxin turned his head slightly, looking in the direction Song Shiyuan had departed.

“Hehe, of course while little Shiyuan hasn’t regained her senses yet, we go add more fuel to the fire.”

…

Song Shiyuan didn’t know how she had returned to her room.

In her mind, it was all filled with the words the small fox demon had said earlier with such an innocent face.

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That person colluding with the Fox Monarch was really surnamed Song?

Could it really be Shixuan?

Shixuan had been separated from her and the martial brothers and sisters from the very beginning… Was it because of this?

Was it because he actually hadn’t been captured?

“No! That’s not right! Song Shiyuan, how can you think this way?”

“As a sword cultivator, don’t you know what fox demons are like?”

“Fox demons are the most cunning and sinister race! What they most enjoy doing is toying with people’s hearts!”

“Throughout history, how many sword cultivators have been deceived by fox demons’ temptations, their lifelong talents lost in tender embraces?”

“Lingxiao Sword Sect’s rules strictly forbid sword cultivators from contact with fox demons.”

“That’s a lesson bought with the blood and tears of generations of sect elders!”

“That small fox demon who just took human form and seems pure, she’s also a fox demon.”

“She’s lying to you!”

“Her every word is a lie!”

“Her behavior is suspicious!”

“Her purpose is impure!”

“Every single sentence she said, every single word.”

“Must not be listened to!”

“Must not be believed!”

“Must not be thought about!”

“She’s lying to you!”