After Crossdressing and Provoking Long AoTian

Ye Chenyan finally broke free of Tianji Zi’s restraint and swiftly snatched the carved wooden doll back, turning away. “It’s just something from when I was little. There’s nothing worth looking at.”

“He...” Tianji Zi was still grinning and about to run his mouth, but Ye Chenyan covered it in one move.

Ye Chenyan turned back with a smile. “We’ve finished looking here. Let’s go somewhere else... Hm?”

A streak of white lightning flashed past everyone’s eyes. With a series of “squeak squeak” cries, it burrowed headfirst into Ye Chenyan’s arms.

A trace of helpless amusement appeared on his face. “Lightning, what’s wrong?”

The snow ferret’s fur was sleek and glossy. It opened a pair of beady little eyes and nimbly pawed at his storage ring, letting out a string of pitiful “squeak squeak” sounds.

Yu Qingtang reacted. “Did it smell the Thunder Spirit Grass?”

Ye Chenyan raised a brow, grabbed Lightning by the scruff, and lifted it {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} up. “Well, look at you. So you didn’t come because you missed me. You came because you were greedy.”

“You heartless thing.”

“Squeak—” Lightning’s beady eyes shimmered wetly, and its cries were enough to soften anyone’s heart.

Behind it, a delicate shout rang out. “It learned that from you!”

A pretty young girl in pink strode through the door, glaring at Ye Chenyan. “You came back and didn’t even tell me. You’re a heartless thing too!”

Yu Qingtang’s eyes widened slightly. Presumably, this was Guiyi Sect’s legendary Little Junior Sister, the pearl in Sword Sovereign Tianyi’s palm, Li Ling’er.

“What rare spiritual grass are you so reluctant to feed Lightning?” Li Ling’er lifted her chin and threw over a storage pouch with a sachet hanging from it. “This young lady will buy it!”

Ye Chenyan laughingly tossed the storage pouch back. “Who needs your money?”

He took out the Thunder Spirit Grass and handed it to Lightning. “Let me see if you’ve been raised skinny.”

“How could that happen!” Li Ling’er planted her hands on her hips. “This young lady has been raising it with great care. I even folded a little collar flower for it out of spirit-gathering gauze. Prodigies from other sects might not even receive treatment like that.”

Ye Chenyan looked strangely at the light pink gauze hanging around Lightning’s neck and could not help laughing.

“What are you laughing at!” Li Ling’er glared at him, then suddenly turned around and sized Yu Qingtang up and down with an unfriendly expression. “So you’re that lying—”

Ye Chenyan picked up the teapot on the table and stuffed it into her mouth in one move, smiling. “Little Junior Sister, you must be tired from the journey. Have some tea.”

“Peh!” Li Ling’er wiped her mouth in exasperation. “Who drinks tea straight from the spout! And this tea... after you left, did anyone even change it? Don’t tell me it’s tea from a month ago?”

Ye Chenyan guiltily looked up at the sky. “Uh...”

Li Ling’er stretched out a trembling finger in disbelief. “You... I’m going to tell my father!”

“Hey, hey, hey!” Tianji Zi hurriedly reached out to stop her. “Ling’er came at just the right time. Martial Uncle has something to ask of you.”

He jerked his chin toward Yu Qingtang. “He’s new here. Take ‘Miss Yu’ around for a stroll.”

“Me? You want me to take him around? I...” Li Ling’er was furious. She clenched Tianji Zi’s sleeve, gnashing her teeth. “I’ll take him around the King of Hell’s palace!”

“Wait!” She abruptly reacted. “Miss Yu?”

She mouthed, “You still haven’t exposed him?”

Tianji Zi smiled and shook his head, then pointed at Ye Chenyan, shook his head, shrugged, and spread his hands, all in one smooth motion.

Li Ling’er looked as though she had something to say, then stopped, and suddenly whipped her head around to look at Yu Qingtang.

Yu Qingtang took a step back. Alarm bells rang wildly in his heart.

He remembered that, in the original work, Miaoyin Xian and Little Junior Sister Li Ling’er did have this kind of shura field scene. The readers quite liked it.

But he did not particularly want to act it out.

Yu Qingtang cleared his throat. “There’s no need to trouble Miss Li...”

“No trouble!” Li Ling’er lifted a hand heroically and smiled. “You’re Biehe Sect’s Little Junior Sister, and I’m Guiyi Sect’s Little Junior Sister. Since we’re both Little Junior Sisters, I’ll take you around.”

“Please, Little Junior Sister Yu.”

Yu Qingtang: “...”

The visitor had bad intentions.

He secretly looked at Ye Chenyan. Ye Chenyan smiled, pulled Li Ling’er aside, and instructed her, “No fighting.”

“Don’t worry.” Li Ling’er stylishly rubbed her nose and sneered twice. “I’ve always relied on wit.”

Ye Chenyan frowned, wanting to speak and stopping himself.

“Go on, go on.” Tianji Zi looked like someone who never minded a spectacle getting bigger. “As it happens, I also have something to discuss with my disciple.”

“Leave it to me!” Li Ling’er was full of ambition. She waved at Yu Qingtang. “Follow me. I’ll show you Guiyi Sect’s hospitality!”

Only once they had walked far away did Tianji Zi put away his smile, shake out his clothes, and sit cross-legged. “How was your investigation on this trip?”

Ye Chenyan withdrew his gaze and sat across from him. “This person...”

He lowered his eyes and carefully considered his wording. “His cultivation is passable. His character...”

He uncomfortably looked away. “Acceptable.”

Tianji Zi waited for a while, then leaned closer and asked, “That’s it?”

Ye Chenyan gave him a sidelong look. “What else do you want? I haven’t even asked you yet. Didn’t you say you would personally see whether he was an otherworldly evil demon or not? What exactly were you doing?”

“Exposing my old secrets, watching me make a fool of myself. Whose side are you on?”

“Ha, and now you’re blaming me?” Tianji Zi found it funny. “I said long ago that this person’s origins are a mystery. Even the Fate-Severing Star Chart cannot reveal his depth. Presumably, he is not a person of this realm.”

“As for an otherworldly evil demon...”

He snorted softly. “Across three thousand worlds, there are always people from outside watching us like prey. Only those with malicious intentions are called otherworldly evil demons. If he has no wicked schemes, then he is only a wandering soul that mistakenly entered this world. If he is not evil, then naturally he cannot be called a demon.”

“Weren’t you the one who said it back then?” Ye Chenyan raised a brow. “You said I was a born supreme, the Ziwei Emperor Star with a host of stars surrounding the moon. But ever since I met him once in childhood, my fate suddenly changed, and all those supporting stars collapsed and scattered...”

“That’s right.” Tianji Zi reached for the teapot, then remembered something and pulled a wine gourd from his robes instead. “Judging by the abnormalities on you, he truly does resemble an otherworldly evil demon stealing your fate.”

Ye Chenyan took a deep breath. “One moment you say he is, and the next you say he isn’t. Can you actually be certain or not?”

“I cannot.” Tianji Zi looked perfectly righteous. “It is precisely because I cannot be certain that I told you to meet him and judge for yourself.”

“If he truly is the one stealing your fate, then a single meeting back then already had such tremendous power. After traveling with him all this way now, wouldn’t you have narrowly escaped death nine times out of ten?”

Ye Chenyan frowned, looking thoughtful.

Tianji Zi smilingly nodded. “But from what I can see, your complexion is rosy and your bearing calm. Even your spiritual power seems to have grown a few degrees more refined... It seems this journey was carefree, pleasant, and thoroughly enjoyable—”

Ye Chenyan stared at him expressionlessly.

“All right, all right, I won’t tease you.” Tianji Zi took a drink. “Tell me yourself. How was it?”

Ye Chenyan propped up his chin and looked away. “...There were some fortuitous encounters.”

“As expected.” A sharp light flashed through Tianji Zi’s eyes. “When the two of you meet, those supporting stars are bound to be drawn over.”

He deliberately asked, “Judging by your attitude, I suppose you overwhelmed him the entire way and seized all that fate back?”

Ye Chenyan’s expression turned strange. “Seized...”

He looked somewhat uncomfortable, but still answered honestly. “Rather than saying I seized it, it would be more accurate to say he delivered it to my door himself. Rare heavenly treasures, opportunities, precious artifacts—he seems to have... intentionally given them all to me.”

“Oh?” Tianji Zi grew interested and knowingly asked, “Then his character is quite noble. Why is it only acceptable?”

Ye Chenyan smiled without warmth. Suddenly, he pulled a book from beneath the table and slapped it in front of him. “What do you think?”

The book fell open, landing precisely on Yu Qingtang’s page. In the portrait, the qin cultivator in blue robes played beneath the moon, drifting beyond the world as though standing alone outside mortal dust. Beside it was a four-character appraisal: Bright Moon, Clear Wind.

There was nothing wrong with the portrait itself. The problem was the book.

This was not the rumored Nine Provinces Beauty Ranking, but the complimentary Nine Provinces Young Masters Ranking Ye Chenyan received every time he bought from them as an old customer.

He still remembered that day. Little Junior Sister had secretly taken this Nine Provinces Young Masters Ranking and was flipping through it when he caught her in the act.

At that time, he had been standing behind Little Junior Sister, met the gaze of the face in the portrait, and suffered a bolt from the blue. All his hopes had turned to ash.

—Even now, throughout the entire Guiyi Sect, the only three people who knew Yu Qingtang’s true identity were him, Little Junior Sister, and Master.

Ye Chenyan smiled without warmth, lifted Yu Qingtang’s portrait, and asked Tianji Zi, “Noble character?”

Tianji Zi held back a laugh. “Cough.”

“Hmph.” Ye Chenyan snapped the book shut. “If he truly is an otherworldly evil demon, then for the safety of this realm, I will naturally... But if he is not.”

Ye Chenyan lowered his eyes and looked at the booklet.

Tianji Zi raised a brow. “Oh?”

Ye Chenyan suddenly schooled his expression and lifted his chin. “Then this is a personal grudge, and it still deserves a conclusion.”

“Oh—” Tianji Zi smiled meaningfully. “Then did you give him the betrothal letter?”

“I did.” Ye Chenyan crossed his arms. “Since he told me to propose once I grew up, I went. What of it?”

“Nothing.” Tianji Zi’s eyes curved with his smile. “I am just reminding you not to tell the sect master about this. He still doesn’t know I forged his handwriting, and I don’t want to end up in the Discipline Hall at my age.”

“I know.” Ye Chenyan stood, then suddenly asked him, “Did you see clearly? He... truly is male?”

Tianji Zi’s hand paused around the wine gourd, and he looked at him. “You traveled with him all this way and couldn’t tell?”

Ye Chenyan curled his lip, turned to leave, then turned back again. “Then is there any chance he has a sister who looks exactly the same...”

Tianji Zi looked at him wordlessly.

He set down the wine gourd and abruptly assumed the dignity of a master, solemnly patting Ye Chenyan’s shoulder. “You are still too obsessed.”

“Think of Whatever Peak’s motto—mortal flesh and bones will ultimately become a handful of yellow earth. Wealth beyond measure, poverty and ruin, whatever, whatever.”

“Learn to let go.” He lifted his head and poured wine into his mouth. “Male or female, also whatever, whatever.”

Ye Chenyan smiled and pressed the wine gourd into his mouth. “That cannot be whatever.”

“Mmph—cough!” Tianji Zi choked and coughed. “Rebellious disciple!”

Ye Chenyan turned and walked out.

“Hey—” Tianji Zi called after him while wiping his mouth. “Where are you going?”

“To find him.” Ye Chenyan’s face was dark. “I’m afraid Little Junior Sister will raise him to death.”

“Heh.” Tianji Zi shook his head in amusement. “Let’s see how long that mouth of yours stays stubborn.”

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