DEG - Chapter 27
Chapter 27: My Wife Wants to Kill Me, Sob
Jiang Xun's breath caught.
Luo Twenty-Five keenly sensed something was wrong.
This room... no, why was the layout of Jiang Xun's comrade's room so familiar?
It looked like it was outdoors, and there were other people?
Luo Twenty-Five's gaze shifted, and she immediately saw someone who looked exactly like Jiang Xun.
She looked eighteen or nineteen.
It's Ah Xun's clone.
Luo Twenty-Five's eyes then fell on Qing Yue, a deep loathing filling them.
Her nose wrinkled slightly, the pretense of politeness and kindness completely vanishing. She mocked sharply, "I didn't expect you to get your hands on one of her clones too."
"Keeping a substitute?"
"Is this your love for her?"
Jiang Xun: ?
Jiang Xun felt she had just heard something terrible. She looked up at Qing Yue, only to see a trace of gravity and coldness on her face.
It could be said that Qing Yue and Luo Nanqiu had very little contact.
So little that it was only that one time when Luo Nanqiu came to seize her, Jiang Xun's, belongings.
Such a familiar scene, the slightly immature and youthful cheeks, and that gloomy, sharp temperament.
It made Qing Yue feel that this was the twenty-five-year-old Luo Nanqiu, who had just lost Jiang Xun, was mentally unstable, and was on a killing spree.
Qing Yue's gaze fell on Jiang Xun.
What exactly was this clone's Ability?
To summon Luo Nanqiu from a different time period?
But, in any case, that wasn't important right now.
What was important was that Luo Nanqiu was now slandering her with something she herself had done.
Qing Yue's eyes darkened, and a cold smile touched her lips. "Then you're quite mistaken."
"This substitute was personally raised by the future you."
Luo Twenty-Five's figure paused slightly. She walked completely out of the doorway, looking at the surrounding scenery.
So familiar. That's right, it was her manor.
The future...
Luo Twenty-Five's eyes fell on Jiang Xun. As a being summoned by Jiang Xun's Ability, she instantly understood her current situation.
She had been summoned to a future timeline.
This clone was her summoner.
Luo Nanqiu's expression was terribly gloomy. Though as fragile as a porcelain doll, when her face darkened, it held a terrifying storm.
The suppressed anger of someone with high status and power was enough to make Qing Yue feel a momentary sense of dread.
"The future me."
"Keeping a substitute."
She chewed on each word.
Her chest heaved violently.
She stared intently at Jiang Xun, watching her every move. To be honest, this clone was truly the spitting image of her Ah Xun.
So much so that she could pass for the real thing.
If Ah Xun were still alive and the two of them were standing together, Luo Twenty-Five might not have been able to tell them apart.
But now...
Luo Nanqiu's twenty-fifth year was when she was presented with the most clones.
So many that Luo Nanqiu sometimes hated Jiang Xun for being so thoughtless, for letting so many people with ill intentions obtain her flesh and blood.
But Luo Twenty-Five could do nothing about it for the time being.
Although she controlled the Luo Family, because she had lost her powerful guards, or rather, because her own combat strength was too weak, many people still refused to submit to her.
They always felt that while her methods were ruthless, her Ability was truly weak. In the eyes of outsiders, she was easy to rebel against, easy to kill.
Moreover, if they killed her, the vast Luo Family would fall apart, and countless treasures would fall into their hands...
So countless people attempted to assassinate her and provoke her, releasing Jiang Xun's clones one after another, using psychological tactics against her.
At that time, Luo Nanqiu hated these clones the most.
Even if they were Ah Xun's clones.
She wanted to kill every last one of them.
Jiang Xun shuddered, frightened by Luo Nanqiu's gaze.
Good news: Her long-held wish for Luo Nanqiu not to recognize her had succeeded!
Bad news: Nanqiu seemed to want to kill her.
Not sure.
But she couldn't just stand there and watch any longer.
Jiang Xun immediately rushed forward. Standing not far from Luo Twenty-Five, she said sincerely and humbly, "Nanqiu, it's really me! I've come back to life!"
Killing intent flared in Luo Twenty-Five's violet eyes. She sneered, "You're the third clone to say that to me."
Jiang Xun: ...
Jiang Xun knew that Luo Twenty-Five really wanted to kill her now.
As for why she hadn't acted yet, it was probably because she wanted to find the future Luo Nanqiu who kept a substitute, beat her up first, thrash the future Luo Nanqiu half to death, and then come back to deal with her.
This was not good.
This was no longer a question of whether Luo Nanqiu could recognize her.
It was that she simply didn't believe she was still alive.
Jiang Xun felt this was a difficult situation.
Should she let the Eldest Miss she'd drawn confront the real Eldest Miss?
But Jiang Xun was just thinking about it.
But Luo Twenty-Five really went and did it.
Jiang Xun watched helplessly as the Luo Nanqiu she had summoned disappeared into the manor, probably to settle accounts with the Eldest Miss.
But Jiang Xun didn't dare to draw another card.
The only cards she had left were Tangling Grass and Luo Eighteen...
Against Qing Yue, Tangling Grass would just be cannon fodder.
The eighteen-year-old Eldest Miss might have some fighting ability, but against Qing Yue...
It was better not to let the Eldest Miss come out and suffer.
As for drawing a new card?
Having drawn the Eldest Miss twice in a row, Jiang Xun was a little afraid to draw again.
Because her intuition told her that this Gacha Ability could only draw the Eldest Miss in her hands.
What was this?
Wife, save me?
But her wife couldn't save her right now; in fact, she even wanted to kill her.
Jiang Xun: QAQ
This fight was a guaranteed loss. Maybe she should just run first.
Jiang Xun thought furtively, her gaze shifting cautiously, but in that instant, her eyes met Qing Yue's.
She hated that kind of tacit understanding.
In that moment, Qing Yue attacked her.
After six years, Qing Yue's attacks were even harder to deal with.
If Jiang Xun were at her peak, she could have fought her to a standstill, or even beaten Qing Yue down. But now...
Her fragile body meant she couldn't block many attacks head-on, but had to dodge, and dodge again.
Even though she held on for a long time, she gradually fell into a disadvantage.
The moment she was captured by Qing Yue, Jiang Xun was breaking down inside.
It had indeed been a long time since she had tasted defeat.
But this time, Jiang Xun felt the failure wasn't entirely her fault.
After all, with such a huge disparity in physical and Ability strength, it would be strange if she had won.
But she still had to blame herself.
Blame herself for indulging in the Eldest Miss's tender embrace as soon as she returned.
Spending every day with the Eldest Miss had made her slack off on her own training.
"You're finished." Jiang Xun looked at Qing Yue, her eyes unconsciously going dead.
"The Eldest Miss won't let you get away with this."
Jiang Xun bluffed.
The tragic truth was, she could only rely on her wife now.
Although she could release her Annihilation Ability and hit Qing Yue when she wasn't paying attention, that would be outright murder.
Qing Yue was, after all, her senior sister and comrade-in-arms.
Qing Yue pressed her lips together. "I know why Luo Nanqiu believes you're Jiang Xun."
Qing Yue had fought Jiang Xun many times and lost many times, so she had studied Jiang Xun's skills extensively.
So, during the fight, she naturally discovered that this clone's skills were identical to Jiang Xun's.
Could clones even replicate skills?
she thought, a little uncertainly.
"Don't worry."
"Even if I don't take you away, the Luo Nanqiu you summoned will kill you."
Jiang Xun: ...
Probably not.
The Eldest Miss should be able to explain things to her...
Recalling the turbulent undercurrent between Luo Eighteen and Nanqiu, Jiang Xun became uncertain.
Seeing that the current Qing Yue was acting for her own good, Jiang Xun said, "Thank you, but what do you want me to do now that you're taking me away?"
Say something nice, quick. When Nanqiu investigates this, seeing as you were doing it for my own good, she might spare your life.
"Go to military academy."
Jiang Xun: ...
Fine. Back to school, years after graduating.
Jiang Xun stopped struggling.
Struggling was useless, and the Eldest Miss would find her sooner or later.
They had just been reunited after so much trouble, and she still had that strange poison in her. The Eldest Miss hadn't given her the antidote yet. The Eldest Miss wanted to use this poison to control her, to keep her from running off.
Jiang Xun shrugged.
"Let's go then."
But since she was going back to military academy, she thought of Nanqiu's current status as The Regent.
Jiang Xun asked, "Is there even a future in attending military academy now?"
Jiang Xun felt that even if she graduated, she would just be working for the Eldest Miss.
It would just be a matter of becoming a general again, which sounded a bit more like an equal match for her.
So she didn't care about Qing Yue's answer at all and simply turned on her Optical Brain to search for the current state of society.
There were some things she had wanted to keep avoiding, but that was no longer possible under the current circumstances.
She had to know what Nanqiu had been through.
To have become so... murderous.
Luo Nanqiu didn't think Jiang Xun could leave her.
Probably because she had lost Jiang Xun once, her desire to control her had now reached a pathological level.
She had always felt that the last time something happened to Jiang Xun, it was because she had let go.
So after Jiang Xun returned, in ways Jiang Xun hadn't noticed, Luo Nanqiu's surveillance of her had reached a pathological level.
As a God Rank, although her Ability wasn't related to combat, that didn't mean she was weak.
On the contrary, she was very strong.
By maintaining her Ability for long periods, her Mental Power had become stronger than anyone else's in this world.
An Ability was a skill, and Mental Power was the energy that fueled it.
When Luo Nanqiu was a child, her Ability was just ordinary Labeling. The reason it was considered useless wasn't just its lack of offensive power, but also because for the Ability to work, it had to be constantly active, continuously consuming Mental Power.
But when people first awakened their Abilities, everyone's Mental Power was scarce.
Their Mental Power would be depleted in a few hours, followed by intense headaches.
No one could endure such suffering.
Even adults would try their best to avoid depleting their Mental Power.
Not to mention Luo Nanqiu was an Eldest Miss who had been pampered and doted on her whole life.
Except for Jiang Xun, no one had high hopes for her.
So she was a good-for-nothing who had an Ability, but it was as if she didn't.
To this day, Luo Nanqiu still remembered the ridicule from her siblings.
As a child, she hadn't yet had the thought that she must become the heir to the Luo Family.
But those servants, accustomed to betting on the winner, had already excluded her from the line of succession.
They looked down on her in subtle ways.
Luo Nanqiu was respected because she was a Luo.
She was also disrespected because everyone thought that at best, she would become a profligate child, a freeloader sheltered by the Luo Family.
She and her useless Ability couldn't make any waves.
Until she met Jiang Xun.
Jiang Xun was the daughter of her new stepmother.
Luo Nanqiu had many such stepmothers.
Because she had a very "ingenious" father. Her father had a standard merchant's mindset, always liking to pay the smallest price for the greatest benefit, and he was also very fond of win-win situations.
And he had no reverence for marriage.
So, marriage alliances were always his tool for gaining benefits and connections.
Luo Nanqiu's mother was one such case.
Jiang Xun's mother was as well.
So Jiang Xun came to the Luo Family.
The young Jiang Xun was a very noisy person. She seemed to be a born optimist; even if her mother didn't like her, it didn't stop her from teasing cats and dogs.
It was as if she knew instinctively that even if her mother disliked her, it wouldn't have any real effect on her.
At worst, her mother would abandon her, she'd become an orphan, and then she'd be taken in by an interstellar orphanage.
Her mother couldn't possibly kill her just because she disliked her so much.
Besides, she was one of the people with Abilities. Even if her Ability was terrible, she still had one!
She would be treated well if she were taken in by an interstellar orphanage.
So, the fearless Jiang Xun, while exploring the Luo estate, jumped off a swing that went too high. Unable to control her body, she tumbled awkwardly into an evergreen bush.
When she struggled out, she found that she seemed to have stumbled into someone else's courtyard.
A large glass window allowed her to see the person inside the room.
An exquisite, beautiful Eldest Miss with violet eyes like gems, elegantly turning the pages of a book.
Jiang Xun stood there, stunned.
Luo Nanqiu's elegance and tranquility were the complete opposite of Jiang Xun.
As for what Jiang Xun was thinking at that moment, there was quite a lot.
She's so pretty.
She's so cute.
She's like an exquisite doll.
But it all condensed into one thought- I really want to be friends with her =w=
If she could be friends with her, she would definitely offer her the best things in the world.
Meanwhile, Luo Nanqiu turned a page, looked at the person who had stumbled into her courtyard, covered in scattered leaves and staring at her blankly, and made an impatient and sharp judgment in her heart.
-How stupid.
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