Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest

Chapter 337: Chapter 33 Yun Jin cured me as well
 

Xie Ruoxi wasn’t boasting. Even without makeup, she truly was beautiful enough.

Her eyes were large, and although they were single-lidded and prone to tears, when she stared unwaveringly at you, the watery shine within seemed about to overflow, possessing a wonderfully charming allure of immature shyness.

Her nose and mouth were also delicately petite, quite fitting with the current aesthetic preferences for a youthful look, but the most exquisite feature was actually her skin, soft and creamy, smooth and lustrous like jade, just as adorable as a doll’s.

But adorable didn’t mean she was suited to liking me, get it?

“You’re not worthy,” Yan Yu said.

Though he spoke slowly, it was with unwavering firmness, coldness, and finality, leaving no room for reprieve.

“I know I’m not good enough for you,” Xie Ruoxi didn’t show the slightest hint of disappointment, but instead vigorously wiped her tears away and broke into a smile, “But liking you is my own business, you can’t stop me from liking you, can you?”

“Whatever,” Yan Yu continued to say, “I don’t care.”

What responded to him was a lightning-quick kiss.

Xie Ruoxi kissed the corner of his mouth from the side, like a dragonfly skimming the water, fleeting, and then she stood up, whispering to herself:

“Captain, your clone once said that you would only be with the strongest woman, right?”

“Although I used to be quite worthless, I’ll work hard.”

After saying that, she tried again to smile, then hurriedly left.

Yan Yu stared at the closed door for a long while before finally squeezing out a word through his teeth:

“Crap.”

It wasn’t that I was faint-hearted, but just now the aura of Xie Immortal Venerate was too intense—yes, the same intense aura as Secretary Su’s.

How can this thing even be contagious?

Forget it, don’t scare myself. Even if a beautiful no-good transforms, she won’t suddenly become the ultimate form of a gravity mage. Even if she does manage to do what she said, as long as she becomes a hard worker like Lin Ning, I should be thanking my lucky stars!

Yan Yu relaxedly stood up, reaching out to wipe the kissed corner of his mouth.

Hmph, this good-for-nothing’s lips are quite soft.@@novelbin@@

Let’s go downstairs to grab something to eat.

Yan Yu yawned lazily and approached the door to open it, only to see Su Yunjin standing there, giving him a gentle smile.

…Eavesdropping?

That’s not right, if it was eavesdropping, Xie Ruoxi would have discovered her immediately upon leaving the room, unless this young lady had her Invisibility Technique active while squatting by my door… Wow, that’s a bit terrifying, Secretary Su wouldn’t pull that sort of thing.

“What’s up?” Yan Yu asked nonchalantly.

“Did Ruoxi come to see you just now?” Su Yunjin asked with a smile.

Yan Yu: ………

“Yes,” he nodded.

“Oh,” Su Yunjin explained, “I had just come upstairs when I saw her with tears all over her face heading to the bathroom, so I thought maybe Captain Yan you had bullied her again.”

“Why would I bully her?” Yan Yu asked perplexedly.

“Who knows,” Su Yunjin said casually, “For instance, during dinner today, maybe you thought she was getting carried away with the praise and wanted to bring her back down to earth afterwards?”

“Am I some kind of Demon King?” Yan Yu felt embarrassed.

“Nope,” Su Yunjin said lightly.

Ah, come on… How do you manage to express strong affirmation through denial?

“Come in,” Yan Yu sighed and said.

Su Yunjin entered the room and sat down beside Yan Yu’s bed—exactly where Xie Ruoxi had been sitting, giving Yan Yu the subtle impression that “they were taking turns torturing me.”

“So,” she said with a curious expression, “What exactly did you talk about?”

“Sorry, I can’t tell you that,” Yan Yu turned her down.

“So it’s Ruoxi who confessed to you,” Su Yunjin deduced, “and then she got ‘you’re not worthy’ brutally rejected by you, which is why she left crying, and you’re afraid that talking about it would deepen the secondary damage to her, so you don’t want to tell me, right?”

Yan Yu: ………

“You should read fewer detective novels,” he could only maintain a non-committal attitude and countered, “Is this why you were looking for me?”

“No,” Su Yunjin said with a smile, “Can’t I come see the captain for no reason?”

“Of course not, I am very busy,” Yan Yu pretended to leave, but Su Yunjin couldn’t hold back and hurriedly called out to him:

“Alright, alright, no more joking. Let me see how your wound is doing.”

“Hasn’t my injury healed?” Yan Yu expressed confusion.

“It doesn’t heal that quickly.” Su Yunjin helped him take off his clothes and continued to examine the wound with her Divine Sense, kneading and probing, suddenly asking, “Does this hurt?”

“A little.”

“Know why?”

“Because you’re pinching me hard.”

“Not exactly,” Su Yunjin explained, “It’s because the hidden injury here hasn’t fully healed, so when I touch the nerve endings inside with Runescript True Essence, they send out pain signals because the exposed wound is too large.”

“So you are using True Essence to pinch me,” Yan Yu realized.

“I didn’t… never mind,” Su Yunjin was somewhat speechless, “Anyway, this still needs treatment. I will come over at this time every day from now on…”

Before she could finish speaking, the door was suddenly pushed open from the outside, and Xie Ruoxi came in saying:

“Captain! I’m going to fast… huh?”

Her gaze met Su Yunjin’s in shock; the latter still held her pose touching the captain, both speechless.

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After a short while, everyone finally managed to explain the situation.

“So the captain’s injury from the last trip to the Mysterious Realm hasn’t healed,” Xie Ruoxi said.

“Right,” Su Yunjin nodded.

“So you need to treat him regularly,” Xie Ruoxi continued.

“Right,” Su Yunjin kept nodding.

If I trust you, I must be an idiot! Xie Ruoxi scoffed inwardly.

The captain has no tea appraisal skills, can I, the clever Ruoxi, be deceived by you?

“Speaking of which, I think I also have a hidden injury,” Xie Ruoxi said, “My chest was pierced by the White Bone Heart-locking Hairpin.”

“Oh, right,” Yan Yu was reminded by her words and immediately responded, “Ruoxi’s injury is alright, isn’t it?”

“No, it’s not,” Su Yunjin gently explained, “Penetrating injuries are deep and narrow, and as long as you don’t die on the spot, the subsequent healing is not too troublesome.”

“It’s not just a penetrating injury,” Xie Ruoxi denied, “At that time, Sister Zhao used the Treasure Controlling Technique to help me pull out the hairpin, and she might not have been very skilled. Plus, the clone was causing interference on the side, and during the process of pulling it out, it stabbed back in again, so there are also some tear marks… I’ve been feeling a persistent pain in my chest lately, why don’t you check it out for me, Yun Jin?”

“Since she’s still in pain, then you should check her out,” Yan Yu stood up, adjusting his clothes, “I’ll go find something to eat, I was too busy drinking tonight and got a bit hungry.”

Once Yan Yu had left the bedroom, Xie Ruoxi and Su Yunjin faced each other again, both their smiles vanishing.

“Ruoxi, do you also like the captain?” Su Yunjin asked first, her tone calm.

“Mhm,” Xie Ruoxi replied coolly, “Has anyone told you what my clone said?”

“Even if you really feel that way, you have to distinguish between acknowledging it and not,” Su Yunjin hinted, speaking tactfully, “If you don’t admit it, then it’s not really liking.”

“Indeed,” Xie Ruoxi also understood the implication, “So what now?”

“A fair competition?” Su Yunjin asked.

“Alright, a fair competition,” Xie Ruoxi said, “What’s fair in this context?”

“Even though we’re rivals, we shouldn’t be enemies,” Su Yunjin said slowly, “What we need to do is make the captain truly fall for us, not to eliminate the love rival.”

“I agree.”