Chapter 125: Dai Mubai's Innate Talent

Inside the bedroom.

Qin Jian smiled quite comfortably: "I don't mind."

Zhu Zhuqing let out a slight sigh of relief, but she also felt a bit disappointed.

She knew that in Qin Jian's heart, she still hadn't been placed in a particularly important position; otherwise, no one would be willing to have the person they like be engaged to someone else, and to have that person constantly dangling in front of them.

How could she know that Qin Jian had basically already given up on trying to fix things, and knowing that a massive Asura Field was right ahead, was he still afraid of it being even more chaotic?

Perhaps the existence of Dai Mubai could even help muddy the waters...

It wasn't that he hadn't thought about just taking Zhu Zhuqing and joining Tianshui Academy, but firstly, he couldn't answer to Ning Fengzhi and Jian Douluo of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, secondly, he couldn't answer to Aunt Da Wu in the Star Dou Great Forest, and thirdly, with Shui Bing'er at Tianshui Academy, it wouldn't be much better...

In the end, even if he really ran away, he believed that Ning Rongrong would appear before his eyes within a month, and as for Xiao Wu...

Looking at her behavior yesterday, if Qin Jian left without seeing her, the consequences... would be unpredictable.

"Will you really be completely free from your family in the future? Will the engagement with Dai Mubai end here?"

Qin Jian asked a question that made Zhu Zhuqing somewhat nervous.

She hesitated for a long while before saying: "That is just my own wishful thinking; in fact, the family won't let me go so easily, and the engagement with Dai Mubai isn't something that can be easily renounced just by saying so..."

"Unless a new heir is born, perhaps they won't pay attention to me anymore..." Zhu Zhuqing said.

Qin Jian looked at her and said: "Or, be strong enough—strong enough that no one dares to force you."

Zhu Zhuqing nodded, her gaze firm: "I will keep working hard until I completely break free from the family's control."

"But that process is very long; you'd have to reach at least the Spirit Douluo level..." Qin Jian said.

Zhu Zhuqing bit her lip tightly.

"Actually, it's not like there aren't other methods..." Qin Jian suddenly said.

Zhu Zhuqing looked up abruptly: "What method?"

Qin Jian propped up his head and said leisurely: "Although this person Dai Mubai has serious issues with his conduct, his strength is not bad. If you could force him to go back and fight for the throne, I imagine your sister wouldn't have the heart to deal with you anymore, and besides..."

A strange smile suddenly appeared at the corners of his mouth: "Dai Mubai's strongest point isn't his cultivation talent, but something else. If that talent were pushed to the extreme, who knows what kind of result it might yield..."

"What is his strongest talent?" Zhu Zhuqing asked curiously.

Qin Jian grinned at her and said: "Of course, it's... picking up girls!"

Zhu Zhuqing's eyes widened, then she said angrily: "What kind of talent is that?! Filthy! Disgusting!"

"Ahem..."

Qin Jian pressed his hand down and smiled: "Don't be impatient, don't be impatient, listen to me first..."

This was a plan he had been considering ever since he learned that Zhu Zhuqing was the third object of unrequited love.

"Think about it, with Dai Mubai's methods for dealing with women, if he were to hook up with Zhu Zhuyun..."

As Qin Jian spoke, his expression began to turn strange again: "Then you could use Zhu Zhuyun to deal with his older brother. After succeeding, the marriage partner would naturally become Zhu Zhuyun, so the imperial family and your Zhu Family wouldn't suffer any losses, and losing one Zhu Zhuqing..."

He smiled: "What would it matter?"

Zhu Zhuqing's eyes were blank: "It... it can even be like this..."

Qin Jian spread his hands and said: "Although it sounds particularly outlandish, if you think about it, you'll find the probability of success is really not low, because Dai Mubai's methods for dealing with women are really... ahem..."

Seeing Zhu Zhuqing's eyes widen again, Qin Jian quickly stopped.

"I don't think he's that impressive at all," Zhu Zhuqing snorted coldly.

"No, no, no, he is quite impressive, okay?"

Qin Jian shook his finger and said: "Haven't you heard? He thinks three dates in one day is too few. That kind of strength and time management ability is absolutely, definitely top-tier in Dalu."

"Then he still couldn't make me like him..." Zhu Zhuqing continued to question.

Qin Jian laughed: "You have an engagement anyway, you belong to the 'already acquired' category, so why would he need to spend effort?"

Zhu Zhuqing's eyes narrowed: "Do you mean I'm not worth the effort?"

Qin Jian keenly sensed a hint of crisis and immediately shook his head: "It's that he feels he doesn't need to spend effort on you anymore, not that you aren't worth the effort."

Zhu Zhuqing shot him a cold look and said: "Hmph! Men are all fickle like this! Disgusting!"

"Don't paint everyone with the same brush..."

Qin Jian crossed his arms and leaned against the headboard: "Perhaps most men are indeed like that, but there are always some people who are very constant and value relationships particularly highly."

"For example? I've never seen such a person." Zhu Zhuqing curled her lip.

"For example... me."

Qin Jian pointed at himself.

Zhu Zhuqing looked at his listless expression and couldn't help but want to laugh: "Shameless."

How could she know that everything Qin Jian said was the truth, and the listless expression he showed was his true state of mind.

If he were as fickle as Dai Mubai, he wouldn't have any worries at all...

If he had Dai Mubai's methods for dealing with girls, he would probably have become a god by now...

"Qin Jian..."

Zhu Zhuqing chuckled for a moment, then suddenly asked in a low voice: "Why have you thought so much for me?"

She wasn't a fool; she naturally knew that this seemingly absurd yet highly successful plan could never have been thought up by Qin Jian in such a short time.

"I thought of it, so I thought of it. Why so many whys?" Qin Jian shook his head casually.

Zhu Zhuqing turned her head to look at him, her gaze somewhat strange: "It clearly has nothing to do with you..."

"It has to do with me..."

Qin Jian smiled at her and said: "You look so beautiful, so it has to do with me."

Zhu Zhuqing's beautiful eyes blinked and blinked, just like a curious little kitten flickering its eyes.

"I don't believe you're that shallow..." she said with a faint smile.

Qin Jian then said: "Just a moment ago you said men are all fickle, isn't that just being shallow."

"This is my intuition," Zhu Zhuqing said.

Qin Jian smiled: "A woman's sixth sense is always omnipotent..."

He discovered that Zhu Zhuqing's cold and aloof expression looked especially beautiful when it thawed, just like it did now.

"Then... after we enter Shrek Academy, how are we going to force Dai Mubai to leave?" Zhuqing asked.

Qin Jian glanced at her, the corners of his mouth curving slightly: "It's simple; no man can tolerate his own fiancée being lovey-dovey with another man, let alone right before his eyes."

"You mean..."

Zhu Zhuqing was a bit bewildered at first, but she immediately understood, and the look she gave Qin Jian suddenly became strange: "You want to... act with me?"

"What do you think?" Qin Jian laughed.

Zhu Zhuqing's gaze was as if looking at a celestial being: "This trick of yours is clearly even more formidable than Dai Mubai's!"

"I didn't, I'm not, don't talk nonsense."

Qin Jian crossed his arms: "I'm clearly just helping you, don't wrong a good person."

Progress 26/59

(End of this chapter)