The Side Character Who Wins by Doing Nothing

To be honest, Xie Ningyuan hadn’t expected Ye Zhiyao to say something like that.

He was stunned for a moment, then he laughed.

He looked at Gu Jue. "Oh? So, are you planning to accept her proposal and kill me?"

Gu Jue was also stunned. He looked at Ye Zhiyao in disbelief, as if he didn’t recognize her.

"Cousin, do you have any idea what you’re saying?"

Ye Zhiyao was hysterical. "If I don’t kill him, I’ll die! Cousin, we’re family! Don’t you hate him too?"

"You know it, don’t you? He’s always coveted Lu Sangjiu!"

"Just now, I saw Lu Sangjiu run toward the river with my own eyes. And now he’s all damp... what do you think happened between them?!"

Gu Jue’s face instantly turned deathly pale.

Xie Ningyuan raised an eyebrow but didn’t refute Ye Zhiyao.

But just then, a soft, sweet "Xie" clearly reached everyone’s ears.

Xie Ningyuan shuddered at the call. With an incredibly complicated expression, he turned to see that "Lu Sangjiu" had appeared at some point.

She walked to Xie Ningyuan’s side, sweetly took his arm, and then looked at Gu Jue as if he were a stranger. "Xie and I have already consummated our relationship. Gu Jue, let’s get a divorce."

Xie Ningyuan: "..."

’If he weren’t one of the people involved, even he might have believed it.’

Of course, this imposter was obviously a fake from the start.

It didn’t matter how much she looked like Lu Sangjiu; her personality and temperament weren’t similar in the slightest.

But he still didn’t explain, only gazing at Gu Jue with a placid expression. "Do you also think something happened between us?"

Gu Jue’s face was ashen, as if he had suffered a tremendous blow.

However, Xie Ningyuan’s words suddenly brought a flash of clarity to his mind.

"No... I don’t believe it. My wife is absolutely not that kind of person!"

His expression grew firm. Word by word, he said, "As long as we are not divorced, she would never do something like this!"

"Lu Sangjiu" stared haughtily at Gu Jue and cursed, "Would I have done this if I couldn’t stand you anymore? You forced me to do this!"

"The one I love is Xie, not you! You should give up now!"

Her ugly and vicious expression, however, only made Gu Jue grow calmer.

"You are not her."

"She... is the woman with the brightest smile I’ve ever seen, the most gentle and kind, and also the most intelligent and decisive."

"She would never become as ugly as you."

Xie Ningyuan: "..."

’While I’m relieved he finally came to his senses... he must really have some misunderstanding about Lu Sangjiu, right?’

’Forget the other things, but calling her gentle and kind... That’s a tough one to judge.’

But precisely because of Gu Jue’s conviction, the fake "Lu Sangjiu" disintegrated into ashes in a fit of rage and vanished before their eyes.

At the same time, Gu Jue finally began to recover his own true memories.

In his final moments before leaving the Illusion Realm, he heard Xie Ningyuan’s voice.

"If you’re smart enough, don’t let her know we were in the same Illusion Realm."

After Gu Jue left, Xie Ningyuan had also intended to leave.

But unexpectedly, after seeing two people vanish before her eyes one after another, it was as if a switch had been flipped in Ye Zhiyao.

She stared at Xie Ningyuan in terror. "Demon... You’re a demon!"

"Don’t come near me! Don’t come near me!"

Xie Ningyuan, who had no intention of going near her: "..."

He gave Ye Zhiyao an annoyed glance and couldn’t help but ponder the possibility that if he killed her in the Illusion Realm, her real body would never wake up.

But before he could finish considering it, she unexpectedly let out a shriek and suddenly woke up on her own.

Xie Ningyuan watched in astonishment as Ye Zhiyao’s figure disappeared. It took him a long while to come to a conclusion.

’It seems... she was scared awake by me.’

’Am I really that scary?’

He was speechless, but what was done was done. Xie Ningyuan helplessly pinched the bridge of his nose. ’Forget it... I’ll figure it out after I get out.’

After getting out, Gu Jue ultimately chose to lie to Lu Sangjiu.

As for Ye Zhiyao, after she got out, she refused to recall any of her various embarrassing actions inside the Secret Realm.

Xie Ningyuan wouldn’t take the initiative to tell Lu Sangjiu either, so the truth was thus concealed.

Only Gu Jue and Ye Zhiyao, who knew the truth but couldn’t speak of it, were left to break down internally.

Fortunately, they didn’t encounter anything so disgusting after that, only dangers they had to face head-on.

Although they had to suppress their true strength, with the power of all four of them, they still cleared the way quite smoothly and finally arrived in front of the wooden cabin.

It looked like a very ordinary cabin, like countless ones inhabited by mortals.

But in fact, with just a single glance, Lu Sangjiu could faintly sense that this place was extraordinary.

How to describe that feeling... It was as if a Dao rhyme flowed through the air, making the originally ordinary cabin extraordinary.

And the feeling that Dao rhyme gave her was familiar.

She didn’t know how the others felt, but in any case, everyone stood there in a tacit understanding. For a long while, no one spoke or moved.

But Lu Sangjiu was, after all, still thinking about Gu Jue’s sword scabbard. She had to force herself to look away and survey the lake nearby.

The book said that a powerful seal at the bottom of this lake bound the Fengming Sword Scabbard here.

If one tried to break it by force, the power required would inevitably cause this small world to collapse.

In that book, Ye Zhiyao had used the life-saving item Bai Heng left for her to help Gu Jue retrieve the sword scabbard. She got the scabbard, but the small world collapsed.

Of course, neither she nor Gu Jue died; they just suffered injuries of varying degrees.

’I wonder if there’s a safer way to get out of here besides making it collapse.’

’After all, I know I’m not the male or female lead. I don’t have that kind of plot armor.’

’What if I’m unlucky enough to die inside when the small world collapses? That would be such a raw deal.’

Considering this, she didn’t immediately mention the Fengming Sword Scabbard at the bottom of the lake. Instead, she just said, "This little cabin is rather peculiar. Shall we go in and have a look?"

Everyone had more or less noticed that the cabin was unusual, so naturally, no one objected.

This was especially true for Ye Zhiyao, who had been hoping to find some treasure in this small world all along.

They had just gone through countless hardships and dangers on the way here but had come up empty-handed. This was her last hope.

’This place looks so special. There must be something good inside, right?’

She impatiently walked to the front and pushed open the cabin door.

With a CREEEAK of the opening door, the three people following her also got a clear view of the scene inside.

This... was really just an utterly ordinary wooden cabin, covered in dust from long disuse.

At a glance, there really didn’t seem to be anything valuable.

Ye Zhiyao scanned the room, then roared in a fit of frustration, "This is impossible! How can there be nothing here?"

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