Chapter 199: The Girl's Ocular Technique, A False Alarm

"Is she bluffing me?"

Uchiha Gin, who was playing dead, remained motionless on his cold, stiff face; even though his heart was already in turmoil, how could a professional actor be broken by a single sentence?

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

???

It's over. At the same time she opened her Mangekyo Sharingan, little Zhi Li must have awakened a mind-reading system; she now knows exactly what he is thinking.

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

It seems the young girl did not awaken a mind-reading system. Uchiha Gin immediately breathed a sigh of relief; that was almost another point of failure.

Seeing that Uchiha Gin was still pretending, the young girl was in no rush to expose him. Instead, she wore a relaxed expression 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, when she first met Uchiha Gin, Uchiha Zhi Li had been deeply attracted to his curly hair, which was different from everyone else's. However, the always cautious girl could only bury her little thoughts deep in her heart, and every time they met thereafter, she only dared to imagine things in her mind.

"Sure enough, Mr. Gin, as long as you persist, dreams will eventually come true one day, won't they?"

After ruffling Uchiha Gin's hair into a bird's nest, the young girl leaned close to his ear and whispered softly,

He felt a warm breath accompanied by the girl's unique fragrance leave a faint mark on Uchiha Gin's face,

"Heh~ still pretending?"

The young girl looked at the unmoved Uchiha Gin and chuckled, her eyes full of agitation,

Seeing that her words received no response, the young girl reached out with a mischievous little hand, brushed past the tip of Uchiha Gin's nose, slid down, and swept over his unmoving chest; without stopping, she 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 small hands pressed tightly against his lower abdomen, and her soft fingertips rhythmically played a tune on his protruding 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 rock-hard, Uchiha Gin, as a professional actor, still lay there with a straight face. He was gambling—gambling that the girl was only acting crazy toward his corpse because of excessive grief.

After all, for an Uchiha, this sort of thing is just a basic operation.

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

The young girl's smile did not fade. Since Uchiha Gin was enjoying it, she would just go with the flow.

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

"Stop!!!"

Uchiha Gin's terrified voice suddenly exploded in the girl's mind. The intense mental shock left Uchiha Zhi Li dizzy. Fortunately, the girl had just awakened her Mangekyo Sharingan, which greatly increased her mental power; otherwise, in the past, she would have definitely rolled her eyes back and fainted.

Hearing the familiar voice ring out in her mind, Uchiha Zhi Li's hand movements stalled, and a trace 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 hand, Uchiha Zhi Li's gaze returned to indifference, and she began to communicate with Uchiha Gin in her mind.

"Hey~ if I didn't speak up, my reputation would be ruined!"

That was close; I almost lost my dignity through carelessness!

Uchiha Gin wore an expression of lingering fear. Having preserved his chastity for so many years, how could he let a little girl pick the peach?

"I was forced into it too, otherwise how would Mr. Gin have responded to me?"

The young girl replied in her mind, taking the opportunity to observe this chat interface in her mind with a curious look,

How interesting. When I go back, I'll have Mr. Gin teach me; that way, I can secretly chat and ask about academic problems.

"Who taught you to use this method!"

Uchiha Gin felt a bit stifled for a moment. How could a good child like little Zhi Li know such unspeakable methods? It must have been taught by someone with ulterior motives.

"Uh, it was... Mother. That's right, it was Mother. She keeps a book called 'Secret Techniques of the Female Ninja' pressed under her bed, and I learned it all from there. Today was the first time I put it into practice."

Not expecting Uchiha Gin to actually ask this question, Uchiha Zhi Li was momentarily speechless, but fortunately, she was naturally quick-witted; she opened her little mouth and fabricated a very convincing reason.

I'm sorry, Mother. From now on, our relationship is no longer just that of mother and daughter.

"Hey! Lady Yongmei, how could she put such a thing where a child could reach it!"

Uchiha Gin said helplessly. When he goes back, he must pay a home visit and have a heart-to-heart talk with her all night in the room, one-on-one, regarding Uchiha Zhi Li's growth issues.

"Little Zhi Li, remember Master's words: that kind of move can only be used after you are an adult and toward someone you like."

In his mind, Uchiha Gin's spiritual body stood up, walked in front of Uchiha Zhi Li, patted her little head, and warned her earnestly,

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

Although it was a spiritual body, she could still feel it when touched. Uchiha Zhi Li 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 falling behind the version, and this is a script I decided on after repeated research. Not bad, right?"

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

"Uh... can I say it's terrible?"

Hearing the curly-haired man in front of her boasting with a smug face, Uchiha Zhi Li couldn't help but roll her eyes and gave a very objective evaluation.

Uchiha Gin, OUT!

"Wuwuwu..."

Not expecting his meticulously crafted script to be despised by a teenage girl, Uchiha Gin was immediately dejected and made an 'orz' pose in the spiritual world.

However, things had reached this point, and the result was good—everyone had awakened their eyes, so it could be considered not a waste of his painstaking efforts.

"By the way, little Zhi Li, how did you know I was faking it?"

After forcibly comforting himself, Uchiha Gin, who had regained some spirit, asked the girl, whose face had returned to a gentle expression, curiously,

His death-faking technique was something even his future eldest cousin couldn't hope to reach, and other powerful people hadn't discovered it, so why did only this little girl, Uchiha Zhi Li, find out?

"Uh, Mr. Gin, to tell you the truth, just now after I opened the Mangekyo Sharingan you spoke of, I comprehended a very peculiar ocular technique within it."

A ninja's trump cards are generally not revealed unless facing their closest people or a dying enemy (to let them die knowing the truth),

The young girl naturally trusted Uchiha Gin more than anyone else and did not hide anything from him, so she began to explain the ocular technique she had learned,

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

"'Xian Guo Yu'? Time regression?"

Uchiha Gin was shocked, and at the same time, his brows furrowed tightly. Another ocular technique he had never heard of, and there was no relevant record in the original work.

The young girl organized her thoughts and slowly explained the ocular technique she had awakened to Uchiha Gin word for word,

"Simply put, I can use these eyes to lock onto a specific person or object, push their time backward or search it, and glimpse all the details that happened before."

After hearing the girl's explanation, Uchiha Gin's brows were furrowed as if locked by several heavy padlocks,

If Uchiha Zhi Li's ocular technique ability was really as she said, wouldn't the secret of his transmigration be completely exposed? The ability of this ocular technique made his heart feel tangled beyond measure.

"Then you saw..."

Ultimately choosing to calm his mind, Uchiha Gin 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 young girl heard the hesitation in Uchiha Gin's tone and immediately spoke to explain to him,

"I can only see the footage of the few minutes before it happened; anything further back is just darkness."

It was indeed so. The girl had just subconsciously used 'Xian Guo Yu' on the corpse, and thus, the footage of the few minutes before Uchiha Gin's death played frame by frame before her eyes.

The girl, who had been holding a heart of mourning and grief, saw in the footage after Uchiha Gin's death the blooper where he secretly opened his eyes to look around.

The girl, who thought she had seen wrong, risked going blind to watch that shot dozens of times, only stopping after blood flowed endlessly from the corners of her eyes.

"Huh?"

Hearing the girl's words, Uchiha Gin felt deep regret in his heart. He didn't expect that one small action of his would ruin the whole 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 his honor of third place in the elementary school group would all be destroyed!

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

"Little Zhi Li~"

Uchiha Gin's gaze was like a torch, his face full of righteousness, and his tone was even more upright as he spoke to Uchiha Zhi Li, who was still thinking about how to coerce (?) him,

"You must understand, all the sacrifices I made were 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 Zhi Li raised her beautiful eyebrows, a look of having hooked him flashed in her eyes, but she said ambiguously,

"Cough, cough... actually, it's not like I absolutely have to tell them, right?"

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

"Why? If the young clan leaders knew of Mr. Gin's su~ch~ painstaking efforts, they would definitely be moved to tears of gratitude toward you!"

The girl's mouth curled into a demonic arc, but her face wore the expression of an ignorant girl, and she spoke to the cold-sweating Uchiha Gin in a strange tone,

Tsk, why is there no window in this spiritual space? It's making me sweat!

(End of chapter)