Chapter 123: Putting a Cat Tail on You

"Dai Mubai, from the moment you abandoned me and left alone, we have had no relationship whatsoever."

Not to mention Dai Mubai's face, which was so ugly it looked like it was about to explode, Qin Jian was also stunned by her words.

Is the power of "No Questions Asked, West or East" really this strong?

He had never expected Zhu Zhuqing to sever ties with Dai Mubai so quickly; after all, it was a marriage contract set since childhood...

Is it just angry talk?

Qin Jian looked at Zhu Zhuqing's expression carefully, then secretly shook his head.

Because her expression was very firm, and what was in her eyes was not hatred or anger, but a sense of relief.

It seemed that Dai Mubai's philandering behavior hadn't just angered her, but had catalyzed her growth, making her decide more quickly what she wanted and didn't want for her future.

"Zhuqing..."

Dai Mubai looked at her and said in a low voice, "Stop trying to anger me. If we really have no relationship, then why... did you come here to find me?"

He thought he had grasped the key point.

"That was only because I hadn't thought it through clearly when I planned to come find you..."

But at this moment, Zhu Zhuqing once again took a cat-like step, walked to Qin Jian's side, gently took his right arm, and the expression on her face seemed to thaw slightly: "As for now, anywhere is fine. Whether it's the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy or the Five Elements Academies, it doesn't matter..."

She tilted her head slightly, met Qin Jian's strange gaze, and said softly, "I am just accompanying him on his training now."

Dai Mubai did not know how he left; his whole person was in a daze, unable to distinguish north from south.

"Click."

Qin Jian also closed the room door, then pulled his hand out from those soft peaks and said very calmly, "Alright, he has already been angered away by you, no need to keep acting."

Zhu Zhuqing raised her beautiful eyes to look at him, the focus in her eyes gradually gathering into his image.

"I wasn't trying to anger him..."

Her expression was firm: "I was very seriously severing ties with him... From now on, I... am just myself."

"Then congratulations to you..."

Qin Jian smiled slightly and walked past her toward the inside: "You should calm your mood first, I'm going to take a shower."

The gaze Zhu Zhuqing turned back to look at him with was somewhat surprised, and somewhat strange.

If he were a veteran of the love scene, he would know that this was the best time to open her heart, because there was a piece missing in it right now.

But Qin Jian clearly had no such intention; this wasn't because he had no thoughts—Zhu Zhuqing knew what was often in his gaze when he looked at her.

He didn't take advantage of her current vulnerability simply because he respected her.

Even if something were to happen in the future, it would be when her state of mind was complete, not like this.

She leaned back on the sofa, her gaze very soft...

Halfway through his shower, Qin Jian discovered that his soul power had increased to level 33.

He didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "I clearly haven't started attacking her yet... This can also increase soul power level? Did she imagine something herself?"

Finally finishing his shower, Qin Jian walked out wrapped in a snow-white bathrobe and decisively threw himself into the soft, large bed.

"Comfortable..."

He let out a sigh of satisfaction.

At this time, Zhu Zhuqing also heard the movement and walked in. She leaned against the bedroom door and said, "There is only one bed, how do we divide it for the night?"

Qin Jian rolled on the bed: "I want to sleep on the bed."

Zhu Zhuqing was full of question marks: "In this situation, shouldn't you men all be very gentlemanly and offer to sleep on the sofa?"

"I think that sofa is quite suitable for a little kitten to sleep on," Qin Jian said, blinking his eyes.

"Little kitten?"

Zhu Zhuqing was clearly stunned for a moment, then reacted to what Qin Jian meant, and a hint of shyness and annoyance appeared on her cold face: "Who are you calling a little kitten?!"

"Of course it's you."

Qin Jian sat up, pulled out something shaped like a leather whip from somewhere, and tossed it over: "Here, if you hang this on your lower back, you'll look even more like one."

Zhu Zhuqing caught it subconsciously: "What is this..."

It felt soft and smooth in her hand, about two feet long, with soft black fur on one end and a leather buckle on the other that could be fastened to the waist.

"Of course it's... a little kitten's tail!"

Qin Jian propped his head up and said with a face full of smiles: "Do you want to try it?"

"Try it?"

The next moment, Zhu Zhuqing whipped the fake cat tail at Qin Jian: "You try it yourself!"

She turned and walked away, also looking like a pouting little kitten.

Qin Jian laughed: "Then I'll try it myself."

He suddenly flipped up, pulled Zhu Zhuqing over without a word, and fastened the fake cat tail behind her waist.

"Alright, perfect."

Looking at the cat tail behind Zhu Zhuqing, Qin Jian's eyes crinkled with a smile.

"Qin Jian, don't go too far, I am not your pet cat!"

Zhu Zhuqing reached out to untie it, but her hands were grabbed by Qin Jian: "Don't be in such a hurry..."

"What else do you want to say?" Zhu Zhuqing knitted her willow eyebrows and said.

She wasn't actually particularly repulsed by this cat tail; she knew from looking at Qin Jian that this was something he liked very much.

But she could wear it herself, yet she couldn't be forced to wear it.

The young girl's self-esteem would not allow her to curry favor with Qin Jian like this...

"This room is quite big, do you want to try running a few laps at full Speed?"

Qin Jian's words caught her attention.

"Why do I have to run a few laps?" she asked.

Qin Jian looked at her, the expression on his face slightly restrained: "I noticed that every time you ran in the Star Dou Great Forest before, you didn't use your full strength. At first, I thought you were conserving soul power... but later I realized that wasn't it; you were unable to unleash your full Speed..."

Hearing him say this, the slight embarrassment and annoyance Zhu Zhuqing felt gradually vanished.

She had a premonition that this cat tail was not just Qin Jian's bad taste, but likely had his own reasoning behind it.

"With your Speed, you lose your balance when running at full power, don't you?" Qin Jian laughed.

Zhu Zhuqing's expression stirred, and she nodded repeatedly: "That's right, I can't run at full speed, otherwise I would..."

"Flip over? Hit a tree? Crash into a wall?"

Thinking of these images, Qin Jian couldn't help but chuckle.

Zhu Zhuqing's face darkened slightly, but she still nodded: "That is the case."

"Then try running now," Qin Jian said, folding his arms across his chest.

Zhu Zhuqing frowned and glanced at the cat tail behind her: "Do you mean that having this can help me maintain my balance?"

"Mm, think about why real cats have such good balance; it's precisely because of the existence of their tails," Qin Jian said.

Zhu Zhuqing's eyes lit up: "So that's how it is, then I'll give it a try."

Qin Jian watched her with anticipation.

"Whoosh!"

The next moment, a black shadow flashed through the room, and Zhu Zhuqing's figure appeared on the other side of the room.

"It really seems to work!"

Following Zhu Zhuqing's slightly excited voice, a storm of black shadows instantly began to flicker throughout the room.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"

Qin Jian could clearly feel that Zhu Zhuqing's Speed was getting faster and faster, until it was almost to the point of being impossible to see clearly...

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(End of this chapter)