Volume 2, Chapter 146 – It’s Time to Settle Accounts, Lu Zhuxin

An aura-concealing talisman personally drawn by the Venerable Saint?

Lu Zhuxin nearly wanted to curse out loud.

Qu Qingtang, you stupid idiot, what have you been doing?

Can’t you even handle something this simple?!

I told you to persuade Song Shiyuan to leave, and what exactly did you do?

An aura-concealing talisman? What kind of business requires something like that?

What exactly did Qu Qingtang have Song Shiyuan go do that couldn’t see the light of day?

Lu Zhuxin had a very ominous feeling.

But now wasn’t the time to think about this problem.

“You seem surprised.” Song Shiyuan gently pinched Lu Zhuxin’s chin.

“From the moment I decided to wait here for you both, I never planned on returning alive.”

“I originally thought Qu Qingtang would be with you.”

“It seems my luck is truly excellent.”

Song Shiyuan’s hand slowly moved down along Lu Zhuxin’s fair neck, the sensation and warmth transmitted from her neck made Lu Zhuxin’s body tremble lightly. The skin touched by Song Shiyuan inexplicably conveyed a tingling sensation.

Lu Zhuxin raised her hand to cover her chest, her heartbeat accelerating beyond control. Being in her heat period, her body craved touch.

This was truly terrible.

Was there no other solution?!

Lu Zhuxin reached out and grabbed Song Shiyuan’s hand.

“Shiyuan… please don’t do this…”

“Everything from before was my fault…”

“Aren’t you the one who likes me most?”

“Didn’t you say you’d protect me?”

Lu Zhuxin held Song Shiyuan’s hands.

Her calves were bound by red rope, leaving her collapsed on the ground.

Yet on that pure and adorable little face, she still wore a placating smile.

“You won’t… hurt me…”

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“Right?”

Song Shiyuan quietly watched Lu Zhuxin’s performance.

“Axi, you little liar.”

“Do you remember? When I first met you, you had this exact expression on your face.”

“Innocent and pure, pitiful and vulnerable, full of deceptive charm.”

“When did I start liking you?”

“Perhaps… I started liking you from the very first time we met.”

“I liked your purity, I liked your innocent romanticism, I liked… this face of yours.”

Song Shiyuan cupped Lu Zhuxin’s small face, applying slight pressure with both hands. Under the pain, Lu Zhuxin’s expression became somewhat distorted.

“Shiyuan… please don’t do this?”

Tears squeezed out from the corners of her eyes, her voice trembling.

“I… I’m scared…”

Song Shiyuan held Lu Zhuxin’s face in both hands, laughing softly.

“Look, what a beautiful face this is.”

“Listen, what a sweet and melodious voice.”

“Just as Liu Funing said, the fox demon clan are all natural-born liars, actors, social butterflies.”

“Fickle, honey-tongued with daggers behind their words, living up to their reputation.”

“And you are the outstanding one among them.”

“Even now, you’re still thinking about how to deceive me.”

Lu Zhuxin froze slightly.

Song Shiyuan released her small face and reached into Lu Zhuxin’s sleeve to snatch away a talisman.

Crooked and unformed incantations were scrawled across it.

Song Shiyuan picked it up and casually glanced at it.

“Tsk… that’s it?”

“Can you not even draw talismans properly?”

Song Shiyuan gave it a light squeeze in her hand, and the unformed talisman turned to smoke in her palm.

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“I told you, didn’t I? No one will discover what’s happening here.”

“There’s no way you can escape from this place.”

Song Shiyuan bent down close to Lu Zhuxin.

“Lu Zhuxin, oh Lu Zhuxin…”

“Do you know how much pain you’ve caused me by deceiving me all this time?”

“You must think I’m very foolish.”

“Like a puppet on strings for you to toy with?”

“I cried for you, I smiled for you.”

“My heart broke for you, my spirit withered for you.”

“And you sat in the shadows laughing at me.”

Lu Zhuxin shook her head with difficulty.

“I didn’t…”

“I really didn’t…”

“I never thought that way…”

Song Shiyuan laughed lightly. She tightened the rope in her hands.

“Lies will eventually be exposed one day.”

“Tonight, all the pain I’ve suffered…”

“I’ll recover it from you, one by one.”

“Lu Zhuxin, it’s time to settle accounts!”

Lu Zhuxin felt her heart grow ice cold.

She felt like she had lifted a rock only to drop it on her own foot.

Damn heat period!

If only she could use even a bit of her cultivation, she wouldn’t have fallen to such a state.

What to do? What to do?

Many of the fox demons’ secret techniques required cultivation to support them.

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Without cultivation, she couldn’t use any spells at all.

The distress talisman had already been discovered by Song Shiyuan.

The formation disc for Fox Palace had been cut by Qu Qingtang. It needed time to repair, and a new formation disc hadn’t been delivered yet.

Qu Qingtang’s natal wooden sword required a massive amount of true essence to activate, so it also couldn’t be used right now.

What about Hu Mei’er?

After the previous incident, Lu Zhuxin worried that Hu Mei’er might encounter similar dangers, so she specifically arranged for her to leave Fox Palace and prepare for the plan together with Hu Xian’er.

Lu Zhuxin had planned to deal with Qu Qingtang alone.

Originally, everything should have gone smoothly.

But why did Song Shiyuan suddenly appear?

And why, of all times, when Lu Zhuxin didn’t have a shred of cultivation left?

Lu Zhuxin discovered she truly had no options left.

“System!! Are you there?! Quickly help me think of something!”

[Host, don’t panic! You can think of another way to notify Qu Qingtang!]

“If I had the ability, I would have called her over already!”

Lu Zhuxin cried out to the System in her heart.

“Can’t you help me out and go notify Qu Qingtang for me?!”

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[I’m sorry… Host, I can’t do that right now.]

‘The System’s permission restrictions prevent me from making contact with anyone other than the Host at will, otherwise I’ll be subject to punishment and monitoring from the surveillance system.’

Lu Zhuxin bit her lip.

“Can’t do it right now” meant it wasn’t impossible forever.

At least, she had done it before.

So there really were restrictions.

[Ding… System has not… detected danger… cannot understand the Host’s request.]

No danger?

There was no killing intent on Song Shiyuan.

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So… Little Shiyuan was still that Little Shiyuan.

Lu Zhuxin gently bit her lower lip.

She shifted on the ground, slowly moving closer to Song Shiyuan.

Then she gently rubbed Song Shiyuan’s cheek with her fluffy fox ears.

Her big, fluffy tail swayed left and right behind her.

“Shiyuan… I know you like me.”

“Please…”

“Forgive me for the mistakes I made before, okay?”

“I can apologize to you!”

“As long as you can forgive me, I’ll do anything!”

Lu Zhuxin completely lowered her posture, obediently prostrating herself on Song Shiyuan’s body. That pitiful appearance would make anyone feel compassion. Like a pet that had done something wrong, acting cute and submissive, craving its master’s forgiveness.

Lu Zhuxin knew that the upright, justice-loving junior sword sect disciple couldn’t bear this kind of thing most of all.

As long as she lowered her posture enough and looked pitiful enough, no matter how angry that upright sword sect junior was, she wouldn’t be cruel to her!

Lu Zhuxin understood Song Shiyuan far too well.

“Please! Please!”

“Shiyuan~~!”

“Just forgive me this once, okay?”

Song Shiyuan looked at Lu Zhuxin’s cute and obedient appearance, her eyes darkening.

She swallowed, her breathing growing heavier.

That’s right…

Back then, she had thought, what would it matter if her little fox demon really was that nine-tailed great demon?

She wanted to see her pressed beneath her, tail wagging in supplication, crying out in pleasure.

Such a scene was…

Exciting.