81: Are you testing me with this?

“Well… if it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have provoked your Revered Master! So, in the end, it’s because of you that I got beaten!” Chen Xuan said.

He knew what kind of personality Zhou Jingqi had in the setting—single-minded in her pursuit of the Dao, with no distractions.

There was almost nothing that could make her emotional, just like the last time the engagement was broken off; she showed no change in expression from beginning to end, except when Chen Xuan pointed at her.

So he decided to deliberately act like a scoundrel to anger her, to make her mad at him.

After all, the current Zhou Jingqi was still in her youth, the easiest stage to get into her heart, so he couldn't miss this opportunity.

Little did he know, it was precisely because he had grabbed Zhou Jingqi's foot in the spring water that day, creating a ripple in Zhou Jingqi's heart, that Zhou Jingqi would give him the chance to act like a scoundrel; otherwise, she probably wouldn't have bothered with him.

“This, how can this be my fault!” Zhou Jingqi widened her eyes, speaking with an incredulous expression.

“Why can’t it be your fault? If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have come to this godforsaken place! And I wouldn’t have met your Revered Master, and I wouldn’t have been beaten by her! So, all of this is because of you!” Chen Xuan said righteously.

“Nonsense! This is simply nonsense! This is your problem, you can’t blame me!”

“Nonsense? How is this nonsense? It’s clearly a fact! If I didn’t like you…” He deliberately paused here.

“You, it’s useless even if you like me, I don’t like you. I only want to Cultivate properly and Breakthrough to Soul Transformation!”

“Breakthrough to Soul Transformation? Why is your ambition so low?”

“This… is this ambition still low? Don’t you want to know where those Cultivators who Breakthrough to Soul Transformation go?”

“I don’t want to know, I only want you.”

“Dream on! Someone like you… someone like you with no ambition, it’s absolutely impossible for me to have any relationship with you!” Zhou Jingqi’s chest heaved with anger.

“Then are you going to cut ties with Jingyi too?”

“You… despicable! You definitely don’t like Jingyi, do you!”

“Don’t like Jingyi? Why wouldn’t I like her? Jingyi is beautiful, lively, cheerful, and cute, and she especially likes me. Who wouldn’t like a girl like that?”

“But you already, already have so many wives and concubines!” Zhou Jingqi gritted her teeth.

“So what? I still love Jingyi, and I will marry her and bring her home, let her have a bunch of babies for me, who will cling to you, their great aunt!”

“Ah ah ah ah, you, you dare!”

“Why wouldn’t I dare? Anyway, there’s no possibility between you and me, so it’s quite nice for my children to call you great aunt, isn’t it?” Chen Xuan said mischievously.

“Chen Xuan, I’m going to strangle you!” After hearing that, Zhou Jingqi directly pounced on him, grabbing Chen Xuan’s neck, intending to make him regret it on the spot.

And Chen Xuan, after the girl pounced on him, pretended to be unsteady, then directly fell down, with Zhou Jingqi directly—

The distance between the two was incredibly close. Zhou Jingqi could clearly feel Chen Xuan’s breath and even smell a faint fragrance on him.

Hmm, it wasn’t Chen Xuan’s scent.

She froze for a moment, then her face flushed red, and she quickly released her hand from Chen Xuan’s neck, trying to get up from him.

However, Chen Xuan tightly held her hand, not letting her leave.

Zhou Jingqi tried to break free with force but found that Chen Xuan’s hand was like an iron clamp, impossible to escape from.

She glared angrily at Chen Xuan and shouted, “Let go!”

Instead of letting go, Chen Xuan extended his other hand and pulled Zhou Jingqi into his embrace.

Zhou Jingqi’s body instantly stiffened, her face turned crimson, her heart pounded, and she was completely stunned.

She had never been so intimately close to someone of the opposite sex before, and for a moment, she didn’t know how to react.

Chen Xuan leaned his face close to Zhou Jingqi’s ear and whispered, “Jingqi, you’re really so cute, I really like you.”

“Ugh, you pervert, if you don’t let go, I’m going to hit you!”

“Just for a moment, okay? Perhaps this is the only chance I’ll ever have to embrace you in this life, please don’t refuse me, okay?”

Zhou Jingqi wanted to refuse, but no sound came from her throat.

‘No, I didn’t expect him to love me so deeply! But I…’ Zhou Jingqi was incredibly conflicted.

No matter what, Chen Xuan was still the first male she had intimate contact with. It was absolutely impossible for her heart to remain unmoved.

And Chen Xuan, seeing Zhou Jingqi unresponsive, secretly rejoiced, knowing that his deep affection had worked, so he embraced Zhou Jingqi even more boldly, whispering in her ear, “Jingqi, will you be my wife?”

Zhou Jingqi’s face grew even redder, her heart pounded faster and faster, and she fell into a strange state.

She wanted to break free from Chen Xuan’s embrace, but she felt weak all over and could only let Chen Xuan hold her tightly.

Seeing that Zhou Jingqi still didn’t respond, Chen Xuan decided to intensify his offensive.

Zhou Jingqi suddenly trembled violently, her entire body stiffened, her mind went blank, and she completely lost the ability to think.

‘Still so naive, although not stupid, but too little experience, easily angered, wasn’t this just simply and easily taken down!’ Chen Xuan thought proudly.

However, just as Chen Xuan was about to taste the fruits of victory, there was a sudden knock on the room door.

“Wuwuwu, stop talking, Chen Xuan, I’m willing! I’m willing to have a bunch of babies for you!”

It was Zhou Jingyi.

Chen Xuan and Zhou Jingqi inside the room also froze. They quickly released each other and sat up from the bed.

Zhou Jingqi’s face was flushed, and she whispered, “It’s, it’s all your fault. What do we do now?”

“How did Jingyi come over? And how did she know about our conversation?”

“I… I took the Sound Transmission Stone and came over to test you for Jingyi!” Zhou Jingqi’s face turned even redder.

“You, you… you use this to test a cadre? To test a gentleman like me?” Chen Xuan was furious. Didn’t that mean his confession to Zhou Jingqi was heard completely?

“Bah, if you’re a gentleman, then there are no villains in this world!” Zhou Jingqi retorted indignantly, extending her jade foot to kick Chen Xuan.

At some point, her shoes had been taken off.

Chen Xuan took advantage of Zhou Jingqi’s attack, counterattacked fiercely, and then went to open the door.