These fairies want me to deal with them every day.

"Oh."

Jiang Ying ate her meal, seemingly without any other thoughts.

Wei Tu, however, remembered something fun.

Smiling at Jiang Ying, she asked, "If you were to deal with this woman named Wang Yao again, would you slap her again?"

Is this necessary?

Jiang Ying seemed to be taking it very seriously.

Wei Tu shook his head, "Of course not, how could I bear to let my senior sister do such a thing? It would be bad if others misunderstood my senior sister as a rude and barbaric woman."

Jiang Ying shook her head. "I'm fine, if you wish."

Wei Tu was genuinely joking.

"There's no hope for it to be like that, I was just joking. Maybe we won't even need Senior Sister to participate."

"Oh."

Jiang Ying nodded and silently lowered her head to eat.

Wei Tu looked at the girl opposite him with some worry.

"Is Senior Sister angry?"

Why are you angry?

Jiang Ying looked at Wei Tu with a puzzled expression.

Wei Tu thought for a moment and said, "Does Senior Sister feel that my concern for you is like a controlling attitude, leaving you no chance to show yourself, and that I'm protecting you too much so that it seems like I don't believe you can do many things?"

This was indeed something Wei Tu was worried about, even though Jiang Ying always said that she didn't need to be herself when she was by his side.

But there is no one who truly doesn't need a self; they are like a soulless shell, merely a wandering ghost.

Jiang Ying thought for a moment and said, "I know my strength is not enough, so it's okay. If I can't do it this time, or next time, I'll always have a chance to tell my junior brother that I can be very powerful too."

Wei Tu sighed sincerely.

"I really am a piece of trash..." PS: My new campus novel, *My Love Games Are All Cleavers*, will be released tonight at midnight. Please support it! Take a look if you like it, don't force yourself if you don't, thank you. The next chapter is coming soon!

95. If you can't do it openly, you can do it secretly.

"Northern Phoenix".

The golden Milky Way flows down from the sky, as if the entire sky were a magnificent golden waterfall.

These clear, somewhat authoritative words made the girl, who had been acting suspiciously and furtively, freeze in place.

The girl in the white dress with gold stitching looked noble and elegant, but her posture made her look somewhat guilty.

With her stunningly beautiful face but somewhat panicked expression, Luo Beihuang straightened up and turned her head.

He saw the old woman standing not far behind him, her aged eyes now gleaming with an unfriendly light as she stared at him.

Luo Beihuang thought for a moment and said softly.

"Mother-in-law... I... have something to do outside."

"Something's up? What is it? Explain clearly, I don't recall giving you any tasks recently."

Beside the old woman, the mischievous crane looked around, ultimately deciding not to interrupt or say anything. Although the girl wanted to sneak out, if things were really going to come down to it, the crane also had a share of the credit...

But there's nothing I can do! It's really boring. This little girl can't stand it, but how can a crane this big really stand it?

Luo Beihuang thought for a moment, then looked away, as if she were trying to change the subject, her guilty conscience no longer needing to be hidden.

"Hmm... what was that again? I sensed a lot of unrest in the Immortal Continent lately. It's time to go out and calm those people down. Grandma, don't worry, I'm all grown up now, I can handle these things!"

The girl raised her head and said this.

The old woman sneered.

"Yes, you've definitely grown up. You even secretly go on dates with your sweetheart now, right?"

"...No!! Mother-in-law, don't talk nonsense! No, it's not true!"

Luo Beihuang tried her best to argue, but the blush on her face made even the crane next to her shake its head.

This girl isn't very good at lying. If I were to lie, I'm sure I wouldn't even blush.

The old woman said irritably.

"Do you think I don't know what you're thinking?"

Luo Beihuang tried her best to cover it up, "It's really not like that..."

"Then tell me where you're planning to go?"

"Ah... Nan Jianzhou..."

She spoke softly, as if she had no confidence at all.

The old woman sneered.

"You still say you're not going to see that brat?"

"No, really... I just heard that there's some kind of trial going on in Southern Sword Prefecture recently, so I wanted to go and take a look, and also show how much our Extreme Sun Heavenly Palace cares for the Immortal Continent. They'll definitely be happy to oblige!"

Luo Beihuang tried hard to find an excuse, but unfortunately, such an excuse was easier for this old woman than a blank sheet of paper.

"Of course they'd be happy, but is a trial in Nan Jian Prefecture really something that the Ji Ri Tian Gong would bother to support? Besides, I remember... that brat is also in the Lu Chen Sect, right? And you're saying you didn't go there specifically to see him?"

The girl was utterly speechless.

"How could this be... Is he here? I didn't know. It's probably just a coincidence. I really didn't mean to go looking for him like this. I didn't know beforehand. It's just a pure coincidence... Mother-in-law..."

The girl's voice grew softer and softer as she spoke, and she was so guilty that she almost blurted out: I'm lying.

The old woman looked coldly at Luo Beihuang.

"Is it really just a coincidence? You can fool others if you want, but aren't you overthinking things by trying to fool me?"

"I……"

"Alright, stop talking and stay put. Lu Chen Sect is not a place for you. Going there now will only make people think it's strange. You can go during the Dragon Slaying Tournament, but not now."

Upon hearing the old woman's words...

The girl's face immediately fell, and she said with a pitiful expression.

"The Dragon Slaying Tournament and all that isn't until next year, right? That's way too long... It's been so long since I've seen him, uh...!"

The girl suddenly realized that she might have let something slip.

Then I saw the old woman in front of me shaking her head, seemingly angry at my lack of ambition.

"What kind of woman would be so eager to give herself away for free?"

"No, that's not what I meant... We're good friends, it's okay to see each other occasionally..."

But the old man's words were firm and left no room for argument.

"Stay put and behave yourself. I won't allow you to go looking for him so openly. You're making the Polar Sun Palace look bad."

After the old woman finished speaking, she turned around and disappeared.

Luo Beihuang sighed with a wronged expression.

"What a pity... Grandma almost didn't have time to call me..."

The crane beside her couldn't help but speak up, seeing the girl's sorrowful expression.

"Who told you to alert the enemy today? It's inevitable that the master will notice."

Did I alert the enemy?

The girl asked curiously.

The crane spread its wings, nodded, and spoke with great confidence, as if it knew everything.

"Of course, you've been serving tea, fetching water, and even giving the master a massage all day..."

"Isn't this wrong?"

"Yes, that's right, but isn't it too strange compared to usual? This kind of fawning is like a weasel paying respects to a chicken—it's up to no good."

Luo Beihuang said somewhat dejectedly.

"What can we do now...? My mother-in-law found out too, that's so cruel! We have to wait until next year!! I'll be so bored..."

"You're so stupid, don't you believe me? Your mother-in-law told you not to leave the Polar Sun Palace for the entire year, didn't she?"

The crane said irritably, its white wings swaying precariously.

Luo Beihuang said softly, "You're shedding fur."

"Are you out of things to say?! Isn't it normal for feathers to fall out?!"

The girl laughed and asked, "Then tell me what happened. That's what my mother-in-law meant."

The crane said irritably, "Master said you're not allowed to go to him so openly. Don't you know what that means?"

"What?"

Luo Beihuang truly didn't know, her face full of confusion.

"You can go to him secretly! Don't you understand? So you need to be smarter. You're such a grown man, and you can't even lie properly. You can't outsmart your master!"

Luo Beihuang gave a silly, innocent laugh.

"Hehe, it's good that I can't lie. Look, my mother-in-law still cares about me."

The crane sneered.

"That's because your master can't do anything about you. Do you really think your master is a soft-hearted person?"

Luo Beihuang thought for a moment, "Lord He, isn't it a bit inappropriate for you to say that about your mother-in-law?"

"What's there to be afraid of? They're not here right now anyway..."

The crane had barely finished speaking.