Volume 3, Chapter 265 – Later, Someone Resembled You by Three Parts, and I Lost My Composure

“What’s wrong?” Bu Lianshuang looked at Lu Zhuxin, puzzled. “You don’t seem very happy. Do you not want me to kill the men who try to marry you?”

Lu Zhuxin rubbed her forehead in exasperation.

How was she supposed to explain to this little wolf that a great demon of the Eighth Realm was actually dreading having to wake up early for cultivation training?

Just thinking about early mornings sent a flood of unbearable memories from her previous life surging back all at once.

“Your current identity is my personal maidservant,” Lu Zhuxin said tiredly. “Going around killing people on a whim will bring trouble down on me.”

“I…” Bu Lianshuang paused. “I’ll do my best to avoid being found out. I won’t cause you trouble.”

“Don’t!” Lu Zhuxin said quickly. “I appreciate the sentiment. But don’t forget what you promised me before coming here.”

Bu Lianshuang recited, “Within the Chi family, I follow your orders in all things.”

“You’re here to help me, not to make a mess,” Lu Zhuxin said. “No acting on your own. Understood?”

Bu Lianshuang nodded. “I understand. I won’t take independent action.”

“Only… could you tell me what exactly we’re here at the Chi residence to do? So I can prepare myself and actually be of use to you.”

“Absolutely not!” Lu Zhuxin cut her off immediately.

If this girl actually knew the full plan, what then?!

“I’d already be grateful if you didn’t add to my problems!”

“If you truly want to help me, then follow Qingluo like a good girl, learn what needs to be learned, play the role of a personal maidservant properly, and don’t let anything slip. Everything else is none of your concern.”

Bu Lianshuang’s expression stiffened slightly at that.

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She felt a little wronged.

She only wanted to help. She had no other intention.

So why was her fox lady so guarded against her?

She had already signed that incredibly one-sided Dao contract.

She had already made her feelings plainly known.

She had already willingly taken the risk of sneaking into the Chi family alongside her.

She had done all of that. And still, not even a flicker of affection was in the fox lady’s eyes?

The more she thought about it, the more the tip of her nose began to sting, moisture gathering at the corners of her eyes.

But Bu Lianshuang pressed down the heaviness rising in her chest and said to Lu Zhuxin, “I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have pried into the fox clan’s affairs.”

“I won’t ask again. Whatever you say, I’ll do.”

“Good.” Lu Zhuxin said. “By the way, didn’t Qingluo take you away? Why are you here?”

Bu Lianshuang pressed her lips together. “I saw Chi Xiyan take you off alone, and I was worried something might happen to you, so I looked for a chance to follow.”

Lu Zhuxin raised an eyebrow. “And Qingluo?”

Bu Lianshuang lowered her head slightly. “She’s probably… still looking for me.”

Lu Zhuxin pressed her palm to her forehead, at a loss for words.

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She was starting to wonder whether letting Bu Lianshuang follow her into the Chi residence had been more trouble than it was worth.

“Stop lingering here,” Lu Zhuxin said. “If Qingluo can’t find you, she’ll go tell Chi Xiyan.”

“Chi Xiyan was already giving me looks over you just now.”

“If another incident gets kicked up on top of that, I don’t even want to think about what kind of face she’ll make at me.”

“I’m sorry…” Bu Lianshuang said. “I really did cause you trouble.”

“That’s exactly why I keep stressing to you: don’t act without my orders.” Lu Zhuxin said. “Since you know you did wrong, stop wasting time standing here. Go do what you’re supposed to do.”

“…” Bu Lianshuang bit her lower lip. “I’ll go find Qingluo and say I got lost just now.”

It was a stupid excuse, but a universal one.

Lu Zhuxin couldn’t be bothered to deal with it.

After Bu Lianshuang left, the system’s voice sounded in her mind.

[Host, your attitude toward Bu Lianshuang seems a little too harsh.]

“Too harsh?” Lu Zhuxin said. “She’s the one who attached herself to me.”

“If she can’t endure this much, what kind of Heaven-Mandated female lead is she?”

The Bu Lianshuang of the original novel had endured far more than this. Enduring it, succeeding through it, that was how she had earned the fortune befitting a Heaven-Mandated female lead.

[Host, do you genuinely intend to pursue Bu Lianshuang’s conquest seriously?]

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Lu Zhuxin spread her hands. “Why? Are you here to give me advice? I thought an assist system wasn’t allowed to interfere with the conquest process.”

[This is not interference. It is merely a small question from the system. Host is free not to answer if she dislikes it.]

“Ha.” Lu Zhuxin gave a light laugh. “Why are you so concerned about Bu Lianshuang’s conquest progress?”

[Host, the system has no such intention.]

[The system is simply puzzled by the completely different attitudes you hold toward your two Heaven-Mandated female leads.]

“Listen to yourself.” Lu Zhuxin laughed softly. “Both are Heaven-Mandated female leads I need to conquer, yet you’ve never once asked about Chi Xiyan’s conquest progress.”

“Isn’t your attitude toward these two female leads completely different as well?”

[Host has misunderstood. From the system’s perspective, your approach to Chi Xiyan’s conquest more closely resembles a traditional host’s method. Everything is proceeding on track.]

[However, your approach to Bu Lianshuang’s conquest appears quite passive.]

[The system exists to assist the host and improve the host’s conquest success rate. That is the reason for this question.]

Oh, interesting.

This system was considerably more capable than Ming Zhaoxi had ever been.

If it were Ming Zhaoxi, she could never have come up with such a reasonably coherent response this quickly.

That big fox would have just raged and threatened to activate mute mode.

“So you think I’m being too passive about Bu Lianshuang’s conquest.” Lu Zhuxin said. “What if I just take her to bed tonight?”

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“She’s my personal maidservant now. I can do whatever I want with her, can’t I?”

[Host, Bu Lianshuang is your Heaven-Mandated female lead. How you choose to treat her is entirely your freedom. The system has no right to interfere.]

“Ha, and here I thought you’d be urging me to hurry up and sleep with her,” Lu Zhuxin said lightly. “After all, body first, feelings second is also a valid conquest strategy.”

“Establish a physical connection first, then let that physical connection develop into emotional attachment.”

“Isn’t that more or less how every overbearing CEO story goes?”

[…]

[Host, the system has no right to interfere with your specific methods. It only wished to ensure you were moving in the right direction.]

[Since the host clearly knows what she is doing, the system naturally has nothing further to say.]

The system fell silent and spoke no more.

Lu Zhuxin watched Bu Lianshuang’s retreating figure, her fingers trailing lightly across her own chin.

“The resemblance is real.”

“It really is.”

“To think there is actually someone in this world who resembles you by three parts.”

“Qu Qingtang.”