Chapter 37

【Delicate and lovely, a smile blooming like spring — I still remember the gentle bow of Axiu in the drama, like a water lily too shy to bear the cool wind.】

"A heavenly maiden? An ice-and-snow girl descending to the mortal world?"

Seeing Jiang Sishui's unstinting praise of herself, the utterly innocent Bai Axiu's cheeks flushed hot, her pretty face burning red as fire.

And her shy, lowered-head appearance was exactly as the diary had described.

Pity that no one was around to appreciate this scene.

【Axiu looks lovely when she smiles — anyone who sees her can't help but smile along.】

【But at the same time, she also cries very easily.】

【The moment she gets anxious, or scared, she cries.】

【When Axiu's tears fall, it's truly as if the heavens collapse and the earth caves in — any normal man in this world would likely be unable to bear the weight of a single one of her tears.】

【And when she cries and laughs at once, pear blossoms drenched in rain… well, fine, I've actually wavered over my own favorite.】

【At this moment, I truly understand Zhang Wuji!】

On the flower boat in the East Sea, Huang Rong clenched her fists, her face full of indignation.

This fickle man is really unreliable — is he about to switch favorites now?

But she suddenly thought of the "Kunji Seal," and immediately calmed down.

Many people possessed copies of the diary, yet she alone had obtained this object — that alone said a great deal.

……

South of Nanzhou.

Yan Lingji couldn't help but roll her eyes.

Well then, it seemed she'd dropped to third place again — this stinking man really did love whoever popped into his head.

In a few more days, would she fall out of the top ten entirely?

But thinking the other way — if she appeared before Jiang Sishui in person, and this stinking man saw her in the flesh, could she overtake that Huang Rong?

Yan Lingji began to ponder with great interest.

……

In the Xueshan Sect, Bai Axiu's lily-white slender hands covered her cheeks; amid her shyness, she was also slightly vexed.

"Do I really cry that easily?"

She couldn't help but recall — since she could remember, she hadn't actually cried that many times.

But she also noticed the key phrase in the diary: "When I'm anxious or scared, I cry easily?"

Thinking about it, she'd grown up carefree from childhood — could it be that she'd never triggered the conditions for crying?

At this thought, Bai Axiu couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed.

【But don't be fooled by Axiu's delicate, weak appearance and her tendency to cry — in truth she's steel wrapped in silk, fiercely virtuous and unyielding.】

【In "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer," when Axiu was thirteen, her fifteen-year-old senior brother Shi Zhongyu was overcome by lust and tried to assault her — fortunately a servant discovered it in time, and the crime was prevented.】

【But even though her chastity was preserved, Axiu still leapt off a cliff to take her own life — luckily her grandmother appeared and saved her.】

【Afterward, Shi Zhongyu, out of fear, fled the Xueshan Sect, but quite a few people were dragged down with him.】

【Shi Zhongyu's master incurred the sect leader's wrath and had an arm cut off.】

【Bai Axiu's mother grieved herself into madness.】

【Bai Axiu's grandmother quarreled violently with the sect leader — her husband — and left home.】

【One could say the entire Xueshan Sect was thrown into utter chaos by Shi Zhongyu alone!】

【And after Shi Zhongyu fled the Xueshan Sect, he hid himself inside the Changle Gang.】

【Out of fear of the "Reward Good and Punish Evil Tokens," the entire Changle Gang propped him up as gang leader, wanting him to serve as a sacrificial lamb.】

【During this period, Shi Zhongyu committed every kind of outrage — forcing himself on serving maids, seizing the wives of gang members, abducting common girls… every evil deed imaginable.】

【If I ever ran into this bastard, I'd castrate him on the spot!】

【His parents were the famed "Black and White Twin Swords," renowned for their chivalry — but a pity they failed to raise their son properly; if they wouldn't discipline him, someone else would.】

【Who told this brat to dare bully Axiu?】

Seeing this, every one of the women was astonished.

Originally, from Jiang Sishui's description of Bai Axiu, they had all pictured her as a well-bred, refined lady from a good family.

They had never imagined that, beyond being able to cry and laugh, Bai Axiu also had such a fiercely unyielding side.

And this Shi Zhongyu made many people furious — barely fifteen and already committing such bestial, lecherous acts, and turning the entire Xueshan Sect upside down.

One mouse dropping ruins the whole pot of porridge.

No truer words!

In an instant, many people developed a murderous intent toward this lecher Shi Zhongyu.

In the Xueshan Sect, Bai Axiu was even more terrified, her face going pale — she had never imagined that the her in the book would be so unlucky, and would drag down so many people with her.

Even her mother had gone mad!

At this thought, Bai Axiu's heart ached.

"But I'm already eighteen now — that kind of thing shouldn't happen again, right?"

As Bai Axiu thought this, she relaxed slightly — then suddenly her breath caught.

"Shi Zhongyu… the Black and White Twin Swords…"

If she remembered correctly, the "Black and White Twin Swords" had seemed to send a visiting card two days ago, requesting to pay a visit to the Xueshan Sect.

Then would the purpose of their trip be to deliver their son Shi Zhongyu?

At this possibility, Bai Axiu immediately grew anxious!

What if the Xueshan Sect took Shi Zhongyu in as a disciple just as in the book, and then the tragedy unfolded…

The moment she thought of that terrifying consequence, Bai Axiu's bright, clear big eyes could not help but well up with tears.

040 What secret manual — it's purely a scam to trick people

"Grandma… right, Grandma! I must go tell Grandma that that Shi Zhongyu is a scoundrel. If he comes, we absolutely must not take him into the Xueshan Sect."

In her urgency, Bai Axiu thought of her grandmother Shi Xiaocui, who had always doted on her.

In the Xueshan Sect, Shi Xiaocui wielded enormous influence — even the Sect Master Grandpa Bai Zizai had to give her face — and Bai Axiu immediately had an idea.

【The women of Wu Xia each have their own charm, but Axiu is absolutely one of the most suitable candidates to be a wife】

【I wonder if she is currently at the Xueshan Sect, or has already left with Shi Xiaocui, or perhaps gotten married?】

【Forget it, no more thinking — I'll just go to the Xueshan Sect and see in the future】

【If she's no longer there, then whatever comes later can only be left to fate】

At this point, the diary's contents end, and what follows is once again the segment everyone loves.

Sure enough, the system's prompt tone sounded—

【Detected that Jiang Sishui has completed today's diary entry — congratulations on obtaining one month of true Qi】

【Now drawing today's lucky winner…】

【Congratulations to Bai Axiu on obtaining the special talent "Discerning Eye for People"】

"Discerning Eye for People? A special talent?"

Following true Qi, martial arts, pills, and oddities, the diary now offered a fifth type of reward — talent!

This made all the women involuntarily curious.

Discerning Eye for People? Could it just mean judging people accurately?

At the same time, as two beams of white light sank into her eyeballs, Bai Axiu also accepted this special talent.

In an instant, she understood the function of this talent.

To put it simply, it granted her the ability to see through the beauty and ugliness of a person's heart at a single glance.

Whenever she wished, when she channeled her vision, the person she gazed at would turn transparent in her sight, leaving only a heart.

Different people's hearts had different colors and shapes — whether beautiful or ugly depended entirely on the goodness or evil of that person's soul.

"Good. With this talent, if that Shi Zhongyu really comes, I can see his true colors and check whether he's the same as the one in the book."

Having obtained such a reward, Bai Axiu was overjoyed.

From now on, she could easily tell the good people from the scoundrels.

……

Jiang Sishui put away the diary and added the rewarded 500 experience points to the "Heavenly Sword Drawing Technique."

【Heavenly Sword Drawing Technique (Heavenly Art): Entry-Level (2600/**