Volume 1, Chapter 55 – Is She Still a Virgin?

After a brief moment of thought, Lu Zhuxin understood.

The Heavenly Dao’s restorative power the System mentioned actually had no ability to pull the plot back on track at all.

This thing was essentially an invisible cheat the Heavenly Dao gave to the heaven-fated male protagonist.

When the heaven-fated male protagonist was trapped for some reason, preventing the male protagonist’s storyline from developing, the power of the Heavenly Dao would begin to interfere, subtly influencing the people or events around the male protagonist.

Then it would push the plot in a direction more favorable to the heaven-fated male protagonist.

Just like now. Because Song Shixuan was confined under house arrest by Lu Zhuxin in the Fox Palace, the best plot development for Song Shixuan would be for the nine-tailed fox demon who was the Fox Monarch to have old feelings rekindle, then release Song Shixuan from house arrest.

What the Heavenly Dao’s whisper wanted Lu Zhuxin to do was exactly this.

“How disgusting… this thing…” Lu Zhuxin said to the System.

[How about it, Host? What are your feelings now? The despair and terror Ming Zhaoxi suffered back then was ten times, even a hundred times what you’re experiencing now.]

“Ming Zhaoxi…” Lu Zhuxin thought of that red-haired woman.

She said she had broken off all nine of her tails to find Lu Zhuxin.

“Was she also controlled by the Heavenly Dao?” Lu Zhuxin asked.

[When Ming Zhaoxi awakened in the story, when she realized she was merely a character in a story written by someone else, the small world’s Heavenly Dao’s control was ten times more terrifying than now.]

[So, can you understand how terrified and desperate Ming Zhaoxi would have been when, having realized the essential nature of the world, she was still controlled by an invisible force to submit to a disgusting man?]

“Is this the reason she stabbed me seventy-two times?” Lu Zhuxin’s eye twitched.

[Host, you are the creator of this world. Your pen is the will of the Heavenly Dao. Isn’t this reason enough?]

Lu Zhuxin felt she was very innocent. “But even so, the person who destroyed her purity and stole her life wasn’t me. Why should it be blamed on me?”

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“I wasn’t the one who slept with her.”

Lu Zhuxin felt so wronged.

[So you’re saying, Host, you feel wronged only because you didn’t sleep with her?]

Lu Zhuxin’s eye twitched. “What kind of logic led you to that conclusion?”

[Friendly reminder: When the awakened Ming Zhaoxi broke through the dimensional barrier to leave this small world, she was still a virgin.]

“??”

“Ah??!!” Lu Zhuxin shrieked. “Give me back my tears!”

[Do crocodile tears need to be treasured?]

“Wait… how did she manage that? Didn’t you say the Heavenly Dao’s control at that time was ten times stronger than now?!” Lu Zhuxin asked. “I wrote her plot very clearly. If it really followed the plot, how could she possibly have avoided it?”

[Hehe, Host, guess.]

[Is what you wrote necessarily the way you wrote it?]

“Guess my foot!” Lu Zhuxin said irritably. “Then Ming Zhaoxi has even less reason to blame me!”

[Although Ming Zhaoxi used some method to avoid physical harm, the mental torture she suffered was real and unavoidable.]

[So, Host, her grudge and hatred toward you won’t be easily appeased.]

Lu Zhuxin felt her head aching.

However, the System’s words gave Lu Zhuxin a very important hint.

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Ming Zhaoxi seemed to have used some method to circumvent the plot’s development and avoid the result of being harmed.

“Heh…” Lu Zhuxin roughly understood what the System was trying to express.

Don’t defy the Heavenly Dao’s will, just go along with what the Heavenly Dao wants.

The boss has policies, subordinates have countermeasures.

What specifically happens is still decided by the characters on stage.

The Heavenly Dao? Just an emotionless program. What does it know about plot development?

“As long as I proactively follow the plot the Heavenly Dao gives, or make the Heavenly Dao think things have already gone according to the heaven-fated male protagonist Song Shixuan’s wishes, won’t the Heavenly Dao’s interference weaken or disappear?”

[…]

[The System cannot inform you… please explore on your own, Host.]

[All rights of interpretation belong to this world’s Heavenly Dao.]

“So that means it really is like that.” Lu Zhuxin said with certainty.

[…]

The System stopped responding.

Lu Zhuxin chuckled softly, no longer paying attention to this System.

She looked at Song Shixuan before her.

As his creator, she could naturally guess what bad schemes this turtle son was plotting.

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Lu Zhuxin smiled charmingly, her fox eyes curving into crescents with a trace of seductiveness. “So you’re saying, Young Master Song, you quite like these two maidservants of mine?”

“The fox clan’s beauty is naturally enviable to all,” Song Shixuan said. “Within this Fox Palace, the scenery is beautiful, but if one is alone without beautiful companions, this beautiful scenery ultimately lacks some color.”

Lu Zhuxin curved her lips. The smile on the corners of her mouth deepened, but that smile didn’t reach her eyes. “Then, I’ll give you both of these disobedient, sneaky foxes right now.”

“Do you dare accept them, Young Master Song?”

Song Shixuan’s eyes brightened.

Though the nine-tailed fox before him still wore a smile, anyone could hear the dangerous intent in her words.

Song Shixuan, who understood women’s temperaments extremely well, immediately discerned what this nine-tailed fox actually meant to express.

She was saying: If you dare accept them, you’re dead!

She was jealous!

Song Shixuan’s face still wore a warm, refined smile. “What does Your Majesty mean by this?”

“Romantic feelings between men and women should respect willingness. How can they be taken by force?”

“A forced melon is ultimately not sweet.”

Lu Zhuxin felt her fists hardening.

She really wanted to hit someone.

How dare he talk about willingness? Those two fox demons were so enchanted by him they couldn’t possibly refuse him.

Forget it, endure it. After all, he was her own “dear son.”

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“Young Master Song, this Monarch is asking you personally. By saying this now, do you want to refuse to answer this Monarch’s question?” Lu Zhuxin said with a smile.

Song Shixuan’s expression didn’t change.

It wasn’t as if he hadn’t encountered stronger-willed girls before.

When facing such girls, one needed to stimulate them more, break through their proud crown, make them feel they might lose someone important, make them feel panicked. Only then could they become bashful.

Unfortunately, those two beautiful fox demons would suffer for it.

Song Shixuan silently apologized in his heart, then said, “Both maidservant sisters are outstanding in talent and beauty. If they are willing, Song would naturally find it difficult to refuse such a beautiful favor.”

Lu Zhuxin’s face still wore a light smile as she said, “Young Master Song, do you still remember that you already have a betrothed wife?”

Song Shixuan’s expression didn’t change, but his heart surged with tremendous waves.

Very few people in Lingxiao Sword Sect knew about his having a fiancée. Even his younger sister Song Shiyuan didn’t know.

It was a marriage contract arranged by Lingxiao Sword Sect’s Sect Master, Senior Jiang Hongliang, to help him stabilize his position as Young Sect Master.

This engagement hadn’t been made public yet. Currently only the upper echelons of Lingxiao Sword Sect knew about it.

This nine-tailed fox actually knew this. Clearly she had specifically investigated his background!

Why would she investigate him so thoroughly? Pay such attention to him?

Why else?

This nine-tailed Fox Monarch truly had deep feelings for him!