Four Split Personalities

Even though that made absolutely no sense, considering Ji Xiaoge’s looks and Dabus’s bad impression of Heavenly Dao, somehow it... kind of made sense.

"Well then, we’ll be going first."

Heavenly Dao elegantly ignored Dabus, nodded to Motan and the others, and said, "As for the progress, since Miss Yege is with you, let her report to you all at any time. That way it’s also convenient to communicate whenever needed."

Ji Xiaoge nodded hard, then let out a little "hehe" and waved to Motan and the others. "Then we’ll see you in a bit!"

Then she quickened her pace and left the training field together with Heavenly Dao.

’Don’t take off the hair clip.’

At the same time, a message from Mor popped up in Ji Xiaoge’s chat window.

The girl froze for a second, then turned her head and mischievously winked at Motan in the distance, replying: ’What? Afraid I’ll be too pretty and Teacher Tian will fall for me?’

’No.’

’Liar~’

’I can’t lie. Not even in messages.’

’I don’t believe you. Lie to me right now, lemme see!’

’And then get strung up and beaten by Anthony in the exhibition match later?’

’Tch, you sure have a ton of excuses.’

’I’m just worried you’ll cause a commotion, that’s all.’

’You never reminded me like this before!’

’If I did, it’d never end, would it?’

’You’re dodging the point o(￣ヘ￣o＃)’

’Forget that. If I’m not mistaken, you’re probably thinking of...’

’How are you trailing off even in text! Mm, but you probably guessed right, hehe.’

’Is this really okay?’

’You think it’s not too appropriate?’

’Not exactly...’

’Then I’m just gonna decide on my own, okay.’

’Mm.’

’Oh, right right! I learned a whole bunch of kaomoji from Wang Yu! Wasn’t that one just now super on point! It’s just a pain to type, hard to imagine on the fly!’

’Watch where you’re walking, don’t trip.’

’Are you looking down on me or looking down on my wings?’

...

Ten minutes later

Isaac Academy, beside the artificial forest

"We’re far enough."

Heavenly Dao suddenly stopped and said to the winged beautiful girl walking beside him, "Is there something you want to say to me, Classmate Night Song?"

"Yah!"

Ji Xiaoge let out a little yelp on reflex, and said in surprise, "Teacher Tian, how did you kno—"

"Because you’re not the kind of girl who can hide things."

Heavenly Dao pushed up his glasses and gave the girl in front of him a probing look. "So, what exactly is it?"

Ji Xiaoge stared blankly for quite a while, then awkwardly scratched her cheek and asked very bluntly, "Um, it’s nothing that big actually, I just wanted to ask if Teacher Tian knows that Dabus might, uh... kinda... like that Teacher Chen."

"Why are you asking that?"

Heavenly Dao raised his brows, not directly answering her question.

"Because... uh... this... how do I put it..."

Ji Xiaoge frowned in mild distress, her pretty brows knitting, wings flapping absently as she spoke, "I just feel like you might be the type who looks really sharp on the surface, but when it comes to feelings you’re a bit slow on the uptake and can’t see what’s going on. Mm, so that’s why some misunderstandings happened between you and Dabus. I was thinking, if you knew the cause of those misunderstandings..."

"The cause?"

Heavenly Dao chuckled and cut her off, shrugging. "Isn’t the cause obvious? It has nothing to do with me, and nothing to do with Little Chen. It’s just that Jarvis is way too full of inferiority."

Ji Xiaoge’s eyes went wide. "Inferiority?"

"Yeah. Inferiority."

Heavenly Dao nodded slightly and said breezily, "Because of his inferiority, he targets me in everything—me, who in terms of family background, résumé, way of dealing with people, and work ability is above him in every way. Because of his inferiority, he preconceives himself as the weaker one, stewing in his own anger and grievance. Because of his inferiority, he always avoids appearing in the same place as me, yet subconsciously keeps doing similar work, trying to prove he’s not worse than I am. All of it, every last bit, comes from Jarvis’s inferiority complex."

Ji Xiaoge fell silent for a while when she heard this, then raised her head very seriously, meeting Heavenly Dao’s gaze. "No. The Dabus I know is not the kind of person you just described, Teacher Tian. I... really can’t agree with what you just said."

"You know Dabus, Classmate Night Song."

Heavenly Dao shook his head and said softly, "But the one I know is Jarvis. I’m not saying only I, his colleague in real life, can see his true side and the online friend you know as Dabus is fake. But at least from where I’m standing, at least in my understanding, Jarvis is indeed riddled with inferiority. And the ’misunderstanding’ you just mentioned comes from that same inferiority."

Ji Xiaoge stomped her foot and clenched her little fists. "That’s not it. The misunderstanding I was talking about is actually because..."

"Because Jarvis harbors feelings of love toward Little Chen?"

Heavenly Dao casually picked up the sentence and smiled at the dumbstruck Ji Xiaoge. "Classmate Night Song, you didn’t honestly think I couldn’t tell, did you?"

Ji Xiaoge dazedly nodded. She really had thought this Teacher Tian hadn’t noticed.

"Watch fewer dramas."

Heavenly Dao sighed and shook his head. "You have no idea how obvious Jarvis is. I’m not blind and my brain hasn’t been eaten by zombies. Of course I can see it. But, Classmate Night Song, think about it carefully: the fact that Jarvis still hasn’t confessed to Little Chen, and started targeting me in everything after I transferred here—doesn’t that count as a kind of inferiority?"

Ji Xiaoge opened her mouth, but couldn’t force any words out.

"He preconceives that if he confesses, he’ll probably be rejected. He preconceives that Little Chen will look down on him."

Heavenly Dao took off his glasses, pulled out a handkerchief and gently wiped them as he said calmly, "Next, he preconceives that in every aspect he’s far inferior to me, and assumes no normal woman would pick Jarvis over Tian Xingdao. Based on that, he develops hostility and resistance toward me. If that’s not inferiority, then what is it?"

Ji Xiaoge blinked twice, hunched her shoulders and asked in a small voice, "You... really knew all that?"

"More or less."

Heavenly Dao smiled and spread his hands. "At the very least, the fact that Jarvis likes Little Chen is something he could never hide from anyone."

"Then why do you still..."

Ji Xiaoge stopped halfway through her sentence, then suddenly clapped her hands together hard and exclaimed, "Ah! I get it! Actually, Teacher Tian, you’re Teacher Chen’s distant cousin on her mother’s side, right? Not super close blood relatives but definitely the kind that could never get married!"

Heavenly Dao’s face froze and he reflexively let out a, "Huh?"

"Mm-mm! That explains everything!"

Ji Xiaoge bounced happily and said with a grin, "So you’re only hard on Dabus because you hate that the iron won’t turn to steel! Deep down you also want Dabus and Teacher Little Chen to end up together! And because you and Teacher Little Chen are cousins, it’s totally natural for you two to act a bit close normally, like occasionally going out to see a movie or something together! So that’s how it is!"

"That is absolutely not how it is."

Having finally recovered, Heavenly Dao shook his head helplessly. "You girl, isn’t your imagination a little too wild?"

This time Ji Xiaoge was completely dumbfounded. "It’s not?"

"It’s not."

Heavenly Dao shook his head and said solemnly, "Little Chen and I don’t have a shred of blood relation, we’re not some distant cousins. In fact, before I transferred here, I didn’t even know she existed."

"Uh, this..."

With her deduction having failed, Ji Xiaoge instantly went into Petrification mode. After quite a while, she finally let out a deep sigh. "I see, now I know..."

"Know what?"

"There’s only one answer left..."

"What answer?"

"That you, Teacher Tian, just like Dabus, also like Teacher Chen."

"No."

"Eh?"

"I said, no."

"Huh?"

Chapter 1200: End

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