Chapter 154: The girl's dōjutsu, a false alarm

"Is she bluffing me?"

Uchiha Gin, playing dead, remained motionless on his cold, stiff face. Even though his heart was already churning, how could a professional actor be broken by a single sentence?

"Mr. Gin, do you think I'm bluffing you?"

???

It's over. Did little Zhili awaken a mind-reading system at the same time she opened her Mangekyō? She knows exactly what I'm thinking now.

"I was very sad just now, Mr. Gin~"

It seems the girl didn't awaken a mind-reading system. Uchiha Gin immediately breathed a sigh of relief; that was almost another poison point.

Seeing Uchiha Gin still pretending, the girl wasn't in a hurry to expose him. Instead, she looked relaxed and continued to stroke Uchiha Gin's curly hair.

"Wow~ it feels so good. I've wanted to do this for a long time!"

Six years ago, Uchiha Zhili, who first saw Uchiha Gin, was deeply attracted by his curly hair, which was different from ordinary people. But the always cautious girl could only bury her little thoughts deep in her heart. Every time they met afterward, she only dared to imagine it in her heart.

"Sure enough, Mr. Gin, as long as you persist, dreams will eventually come true, right?"

After messing up Uchiha Gin's hair into a bird's nest, the girl leaned into his ear and whispered softly.

He only felt a warm breath accompanied by the girl's unique fragrance, leaving a shallow mark on Uchiha Gin's face.

"Heh~ still pretending?"

The girl looked at the unmoved Uchiha Gin and chuckled, her eyes full of awkwardness.

Seeing that her words received no response, the girl extended her mischievous little hand, brushed across Uchiha Gin's nose, flowed downward, brushed over his chest that had no rise and fall, didn't stop, and continued downward.

"Mr. Gin, I couldn't tell, you've been secretly working out!"

The girl's teasing voice rang in his ear. Her pair of little hands pressed tightly against his lower abdomen, and her soft fingertips rhythmically played the piano on his bulging eight-pack abs.

"If you don't respond to me again, then I won't be polite~"

Even though his abs were already tense and hard, Uchiha Gin, as a professional actor, still lay there without changing his expression. He was gambling—gambling that the girl was just acting crazy toward his corpse because she was overly sad.

After all, for the Uchiha, these things are all basic operations.

"Mr. Gin, then I'm going in~"

The girl's smile didn't diminish. Since Uchiha Gin enjoyed it, she would go with the flow.

He felt the girl's warm little hand brush across his lower abdomen, skillfully undoing the last line of defense on his lower body.

"No way!!!"

Uchiha Gin's terrified voice exploded in the girl's mind. The intense mental shock made Uchiha Zhili dizzy. Fortunately, the girl had just awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, and her mental power had greatly increased; otherwise, in the past, she would have definitely rolled her eyes and passed out.

Hearing the familiar voice ringing in her mind, Uchiha Zhili's hand movements stalled, and a look of disappointment flashed in her beautiful eyes.

Tsk! Just a little bit more, otherwise I would have won!

"Mr. Gin, not planning to keep pretending?"

After withdrawing her mischievous little hand, Uchiha Zhili's gaze returned to indifference, and she began to communicate with Uchiha Gin in her mind.

"Hey~ if I don't speak up again, I'll lose my reputation!"

That was close; I almost lost my manhood out of carelessness!

Uchiha Gin had a look of lingering fear. How could he let a little girl pick the peach after guarding his virginity for so many years?

"I was forced to, otherwise how would Mr. Gin respond to me?"

The girl replied in her mind, while observing the chat interface in her mind with curious eyes.

It's so interesting. When I go back, I'll let Mr. Gin teach me, so I can secretly chat and ask about academic questions.

"Who taught you to use this method!"

Uchiha Gin felt a bit stifled. How could a good child like little Zhili know such shameful means? It must have been taught by some bad person.

"Uh... it was... Mother, that's right, it was Mother. She had a book titled 'Secret Techniques of Female Ninjas' pressed under her bed. I learned it all from there. Today was the first time I put it into practice."

Not expecting Uchiha Gin to ask this question, Uchiha Zhili was speechless for a moment. But fortunately, she was naturally quick-witted. She opened her mouth and made up a very convincing reason.

Sorry, Mother. From now on, our relationship is no longer just mother and daughter.

"Hey! Lady Yongmei, how could such a thing be placed where a child could reach it!"

Uchiha Gin said helplessly. After going back, he must visit her home and have a one-on-one talk in the room, sitting knee-to-knee for a whole night about Uchiha Zhili's growth problems.

"Little Zhili, remember Master's words: such moves can only be used on people you like after you become an adult."

In his mind, Uchiha Gin's mental body stood up, walked to Uchiha Zhili, touched her little head, and warned her earnestly.

"Hmph! Who told Mr. Gin to play such a joke? If you really died, many people would be sad!"

Although it was a mental body, there was still feedback when touched. Uchiha Zhili pouted and said angrily.

Hmph! Why are you still coaxing me like a child?

"Hehe, this was also an expedient measure. The cousins' strength progress is a bit behind the version. This script was decided after my repeated research. Not bad, right?"

Uchiha Gin smiled. Since Uchiha Zhili already knew his secret, telling her wouldn't have any impact.

"Uh... can I say it's very bad?"

Uchiha Zhili heard the curly-haired man in front of her boasting proudly and couldn't help but roll her eyes, giving a very objective evaluation.

Uchiha Gin, OUT!

"Mmm mmm mmm..."

Not expecting his meticulously crafted script to be despised by a teenage girl, Uchiha Gin immediately became depressed and made an "orz" pose in the mental world.

However, things had reached this point, and the result was good. Everyone had opened their eyes, so it wasn't a waste of his hard work.

"By the way, little Zhili, how did you know I was pretending?"

After forcibly comforting himself, Uchiha Gin, who had regained some spirit, asked the girl whose face had returned to warmth.

His skill in playing dead was something even the future cousin couldn't reach, and other powerful people hadn't discovered it. How did Uchiha Zhili, this little girl, discover it?

"Uh... Mr. Gin, to tell you the truth, after I opened the Mangekyō Sharingan you mentioned just now, I realized a very unique dōjutsu within it."

A ninja's trump card is generally not revealed unless facing their closest person or a dying enemy (letting them die with understanding).

The girl naturally trusted Uchiha Gin more than ordinary people and didn't hide anything from him. She immediately began to explain the dōjutsu she had learned.

"The dōjutsu in my eyes is called 'Xian Guo Yu', and its ability is time regression..."

"Xian Guo Yu? Time regression?"

Uchiha Gin was shocked, and his brows furrowed. It was another dōjutsu he hadn't heard of, and there was no relevant record in the original work.

The girl organized her language and slowly explained the dōjutsu she awakened to Uchiha Gin word by word.

"Simply put, I can use these eyes to lock onto specific people or things, calculate their time backward or search, and glimpse all the details that happened before."

After hearing the girl's explanation, Uchiha Gin's brows were furrowed as if he had been locked with several heavy locks.

If Uchiha Zhili's dōjutsu ability was really as she said, wouldn't the secret of his transmigration be completely exposed? The ability of this dōjutsu made his heart conflicted to the extreme.

"Then you saw..."

In the end, he chose to calm his mind and asked carefully, hoping the girl hadn't seen his secret.

"The ability of Xian Guo Yu, although it sounds very powerful, is actually not as terrifying as I said."

The girl heard the conflict in Uchiha Gin's tone and immediately explained to him:

"I can only see the scenes from a few minutes before it happened. Any further back is just darkness."

It was indeed so. The girl had just subconsciously used "Xian Guo Yu" on the corpse, so the scenes from a few minutes before Uchiha Gin's death played frame by frame before the girl's eyes.

The girl, who had originally held a heart of mourning, saw him secretly open his eyes and look around in the scenes after Uchiha Gin's death—a blooper shot.

The girl, who thought she had seen it wrong, risked going blind and watched that shot dozens of times, only stopping after blood flowed from her eyes uncontrollably.

"Huh?"

Uchiha Gin heard the girl's words, and his heart was filled with regret. He didn't expect one of his small actions to ruin the whole good play. He was truly a sinner through the ages.

No! Absolutely cannot let others know about this, otherwise his path as a famous director and the honor of third place in the elementary school group would all be destroyed!

Thinking of this, Uchiha Gin looked at Uchiha Zhili's eyes with extreme depth, as if brewing some huge conspiracy.

"Little Zhili~"

Uchiha Gin's gaze was like a torch, his face full of righteousness, and his tone was even more upright. He spoke to Uchiha Zhili, who was still thinking about how to coerce (?), saying:

"You have to understand, I made so many sacrifices all for the future of the Uchiha clan!"

"Uh... since the goal has been achieved, then telling the truth to the young clan leader and the others wouldn't be impossible, right?"

Uchiha Zhili raised her beautiful eyebrows, a look of having taken the bait flashed in her eyes, but she said ambiguously:

"Cough, cough... actually, it doesn't necessarily have to be told to them, right?"

Hearing the girl's very rational statement, Uchiha Gin overturned all the drafts he had prepared, and his tone carried some cowardice:

"Why? If the young clan leaders knew of Mr. Gin's... such... painstaking efforts, they would definitely be grateful to you!"

The girl's mouth curled into a demonic arc, but her face was that of an ignorant girl. She used a strange tone to say to Uchiha Gin, who was covered in cold sweat:

Tsk, why doesn't this mental space have windows? It's so stuffy I'm covered in sweat!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 155 =====