I'll also work hard to conquer the dungeon today.

Chapter 315, 1.21-31: The Girl Imprisoned in the Tower
"Does your face still hurt?" Mingxi sat on a large rock, turned around and looked at Mingjin, who was applying a damp handkerchief to her swollen left cheek, and asked softly.

"You'll see when you see it, it hurts a lot. You really didn't hold back at all. Even if I have a strong recovery ability, I can't recover so quickly in a short time." Ming Jin pressed a handkerchief to her injured left cheek and said with a cold face.

The girl stood beside Ming Jin, her brows furrowed, a hint of worry in her expression.

"I'm fine, don't worry." Ming Jin gave the girl a reassuring look and said softly.

Mingxi watched this scene with a neutral expression, his gaze fixed on the girl for several seconds. He smiled slightly and said to Mingjin, "Have you rested enough? Go see if any third-tier people are coming."

"You really know how to order people around, Xi." Ming Jin sighed and slowly stood up. "I'm still a wounded person, a wounded person you injured."

"It's just a face injury, not a foot injury that makes you unable to walk. What kind of injury is that? Go on! My sister and I are waiting for you here." Mingxi rolled her eyes and exposed her.

"Yes, yes, yes." Ming Jin turned around and glanced at the girl, then smiled and said, "Wait for me a moment. Ming Xi will be safe here."

The girl looked at Ming Jin quietly and nodded silently.

Ming Jin looked at the two of them with a quiet gaze and urged, "Hurry up and go, don't dawdle."

Ming Jin put down the handkerchief, revealing his still slightly swollen left cheek. Even so, he still looked very handsome.

"I'll go check over there. Remember to protect her," Ming Jin said, pointing ahead.

"I know without you telling me," Mingxi snorted.

After Mingjin left, the surroundings returned to silence, with only the gurgling sound of the stream flowing in front of them remaining.

The girl, with her long black hair flowing down her back, looked down at herself in the stream, the only adornment being the pink flower by her ear.

He bent down slightly and scooped up a handful of clear water.

"Hey, do you like Mingjin?" Mingxi's clear, slightly husky voice came from beside me.

With a 'plop,' the pool of water in his hand fell into the stream, and his gray eyes widened in focus for a moment, seemingly surprised and flustered at the same time.

The girl maintained the motion of cupping water, but her hands did not come together; glistening water droplets fell one by one from her fingertips into the stream.

Her body stiffened, then she suddenly began to tremble, seemingly terrified.

Mingxi watched the girl's subconscious movements and panic with a calm face. He smiled self-deprecatingly, put one hand on the big rock, and jumped down.

He walked slowly and steadily across the grass, step by step toward the girl, but stopped a meter behind her.

With calm, lake-blue eyes, Mingxi watched the girl's retreating figure. She pursed her pink lips and spoke again, seemingly mockingly, "Mingjin is gentle, considerate, kind, and gentlemanly. She has taken all your concerns into account."

He spoke in a high-pitched, girlish voice, "Ah~ such a perfect man, I really like him so much~~"

As soon as he finished speaking, his expression changed, and he looked at the girl with deep, unfathomable eyes, coldly saying, "Is that what you think?"

The girl trembled and lowered her head without saying a word.

"Let me make this clear first, I'm not trying to be the bad guy, I'm just reminding you that you'd better not like Ming Jin. No matter how gentle he is to you, we already have people we like, and we even fell in love at first sight when we first met her, and we haven't changed our minds since. It's not something you can interfere with," Ming Xi said with a cold face.

"I didn't..." I didn't like Mingjin...

The girl murmured words she herself couldn't believe, her hands gradually clenching into fists, as if she were enduring something. "Oh, really?" Mingxi muttered indifferently.

Mingxi looked up at the depths of the stream and said softly, "Legend has it that there is a magical spring in the Glimmering Forest, where wishes made by offering sacrifices can come true."

The girl didn't speak, but kept her head down as if she were immersed in her own world.

"Don't you think this legend is very similar to the tower? Let me make an assumption here: the tower is actually just an illusion, a concept, to cover up the magical power of the spring water in the Glimmering Forest. That doesn't seem impossible." Mingxi coldly stared at the girl's back, fearing that she would not answer, he continued to speak to himself.

He sighed deeply and continued, "I deliberately sent Mingjin away. Do you know why?"

The girl didn't speak.

“If it were just to protect you and save you, I wouldn’t be hostile to you. But when the first mission, ‘completely save you,’ and the second mission, ‘fulfill all your requests,’ are put together, all sorts of incongruities arise.”

Mingxi walked around to the girl's side and looked down at her.

"Why do both of these tasks contain the word 'complete'? I suspect you have more than one request, and perhaps even some other ambition." He curled his lips slightly, as if mocking something.

Mingxi crouched down, pressed the girl's shoulders and forcefully turned her towards him. Her lake-blue eyes held a cold killing intent, but her face was adorned with a faint smile, and her tone was gentle and seductive, "Tell me what you have to say. Maybe I can give you some advice."

The girl lowered her head and remained silent. Suddenly, she looked up at Mingxi, her gray eyes filled with a hint of struggle, and said sadly, "I didn't think that way."

"So, how did you lure him to the Glimmering Forest? The wasteland leads to five regions, so why did you all choose to come to this place with the same legend?!" Mingxi's grip on the girl's shoulders tightened, and he glared at her angrily.

“Because this is Mingjin’s wish… I came here because Mingjin wanted to make a wish…” the girl struggled and whispered with red eyes.

Mingxi was slightly taken aback and released her grip on the girl's shoulders.

"He wanted to wish for your survival and asked me for the location of the Glimmering Forest," the girl said softly, her head bowed.

Mingxi picked up a small stone from the ground, lowered her eyes to look at it, and casually threw it into the stream.

"Don't you have any ulterior motives?"

"Does someone like me even have the right to have selfish desires?"

Does someone as impure as her still have the right to crave these things?

She couldn't even enter the church anymore.

Nuns are supposed to dedicate everything to God, and that man has destroyed all the purity a young girl should possess.

Does she even have the right to be like this?

The girl stared dejectedly at the stones in the stream, her gray eyes somewhat lifeless.

"Then, may I ask, what would it mean to completely save you? What exactly... what kind of request do you have? It seems you haven't mentioned it at all until now," Mingxi stood up, looked down at her, and asked.

“State your request.”

(End of this chapter)