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Chapter 88: The Ten Heroines Are Insane!:
Qu Qinghan showed a look of astonishment.
But soon, her heart was filled with overwhelming anger, and her eyes grew increasingly dark.
"You dare fight back?"
"You heartless man, you actually dare fight back!"
Qu Qinghan’s darkness value skyrocketed uncontrollably.
At this moment, she didn't care about the gap in strength between her and Xu Ze. She charged forward madly, her palms flying.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Each strike resounded like thunder, shaking the heavens and the earth.
However, this terrifying palm force was easily dodged by Xu Ze.
Qu Qinghan became more furious, and her attacks became more erratic and chaotic. By the end, it had turned into nothing more than a venting of her frustrations.
Icy Palm, Flying Flower Palm, Sky-Piercing Fist—she even resorted to using the Turtle Punch.
"Enough!"
With a wave of his sleeve, Xu Ze sent Qu Qinghan flying.
Before she could react, he grabbed her by the collar as if picking up a small kitten.
"Let me go!" Qu Qinghan kicked toward Xu Ze's chest but was caught by his right hand.
As she kicked again, Xu Ze flipped his hand, and an invisible force turned into ropes, binding her completely.
"Let me go! Or I’ll go back and tell the Sect Master! I'll tell him you bullied me! I'll make sure he stands up for me!" Qu Qinghan bit the ropes and struggled desperately, filled with hostility.
"Let you go? And go find the Sect Master?"
Xu Ze landed lightly on the ground.
He found a green boulder, sat down, and placed Qu Qinghan across his lap.
"What are you doing?"
Qu Qinghan's body trembled, her eyes filled with disbelief.
"Do you remember how your senior brother used to discipline you when you were disobedient?"
Xu Ze’s face was stern, and his voice was exceptionally calm.
Senior brother?
Hearing Xu Ze refer to himself as 'senior brother,' Qu Qinghan’s mind immediately flashed back to the times when she was spanked by Xu Ze as a child.
"You—you dare! You dare hit me! I’ll hate you in this life and the next!" Qu Qinghan was terrified, writhing desperately.
However, Xu Ze's temper was solid. Given Qu Qinghan's recently achieved Dividing Spirit Realm cultivation, how could she possibly be a match for him?
Xu Ze slowly raised his hand.
His gaze turned toward the old man and the young man in the sky, whose faces were frozen in shock.
He coldly uttered a single word.
"Scram."
Without hesitation, the old man and the young man fled, scrambling to escape from the secret realm.
Now, only Xu Ze and Qu Qinghan remained in the vast secret realm.
"You—you won’t really hit me, will you?" Qu Qinghan finally gave in. The darkness in her eyes vanished, replaced by a sudden clarity. "Holy… Holy Son?"
"Call me senior brother."
Xu Ze's face remained emotionless.
Qu Qinghan was on the verge of tears. "Senior brother! I was wrong, please don’t..."
Xu Ze lifted her skirt.
With a stern expression, he raised his hand.
Slap!
A crisp sound echoed through the secret realm.
"Ahhhhh!"
The girl's scream reverberated across the sky.
"Sob, sob… I was wrong… I really was wrong..."
After a long while, seeing the girl lying across his lap, covering her face and crying, Xu Ze shook his slightly numb right hand and untied the ropes binding her.
He sighed inwardly.
He had truly been pushed to the edge.
In this life, so many things were already troubling enough.
Ten female leads, each more troublesome than the last.
The one before, Gu Ling, had already given Xu Ze enough headaches.
'And you, Qu Qinghan, you're the main heroine! Couldn’t you give me a little break?'
Driven to desperation, Xu Ze finally couldn’t suppress his inner anger any longer and lost his temper for the second time since his transmigration.
Looking at the girl whose voice was hoarse from crying, Xu Ze felt a twinge of guilt.
But if he didn’t toughen up now and show her some severity, his future days would be truly miserable.
He needed to reassert his authority as the head of the household.
Sniffling, Qu Qinghan got off Xu Ze’s lap, covering her backside, limping to a corner.
Like a puppy that had just been scolded, her tearful eyes were full of grievance and sadness as she looked at Xu Ze, as if seeing him truly for the first time.
"Sob, sob… I just wanted… I just wanted you to take me seriously..."
"Why did you have to be so harsh and hit me… Sob, sob…"
Xu Ze's heart softened, and his eyebrows furrowed involuntarily.
Indeed, he had acted in a fit of anger and may have gone a bit too far.
Looking at his slightly swollen hand, Xu Ze coughed lightly and got up to walk toward Qu Qinghan.
Seeing him approach, Qu Qinghan shrank back in fear.
"Does it hurt?" Xu Ze asked with a frown.
Qu Qinghan nodded vigorously, her nose running from crying so hard.
"But… my heart hurts more, do you know that?" Xu Ze crouched down, looking into Qu Qinghan's eyes, his own filled with bitterness.
Qu Qinghan felt even more wronged.
The cold and aloof Holy Maiden burst into tears, crying out loud.
"You're lying! You didn’t even pause while hitting me! You’re lying to me!"
"In a few days, it’ll be my twentieth birthday. I deliberately pulled you away from the sect so you could spend it with me."
"But you treated me like this… Sob, sob…"
"Couldn’t you tell why I was mad at you? You heartless man! You bad person!"
Xu Ze knew he had to make a decision.
He pulled Qu Qinghan into his arms.
Ignoring her attempts to push him away, he leaned down and kissed her cherry lips.
At this moment, the crying stopped.
The entire secret realm fell silent, with only the sound of the gentle breeze remaining.
One minute.
Two minutes.
Ten minutes.
After a long while, Xu Ze slowly pulled away from her lips, looking at Qu Qinghan’s flushed cheeks and tear-streaked eyes that still seemed to hold a hint of longing.
Xu Ze slowly closed his eyes.
"Damn it."
He was all in now.
It was all or nothing!
[Qu Qinghan's darkness value -999]
[Congratulations to the host for successfully capturing the heroine, Qu Qinghan!]
The system’s notifications were long ignored by Xu Ze.
At this moment, he was just silently waiting for Qu Qinghan to speak.
For him, Qu Qinghan’s next words would determine whether his bold move had worked or not.
After a while, there was no sound.
Only the soft breathing of the two remained, echoing in his ears.
Xu Ze couldn’t wait any longer. He opened his eyes and looked at Qu Qinghan.
"Qinghan, I—"
Qu Qinghan suddenly placed a finger over Xu Ze's lips. "Don’t speak, I’m thinking."
"Huh?"
Qu Qinghan's eyes were filled with hope for the future, completely devoid of the darkness from earlier. Her gaze was pure, without a trace of gloom.
"Xu Ze, tell me, if we get married, who should we invite?"
Xu Ze: "???"
This outcome seems a bit too much...
-To be continued!
T/N: Thanks for reading!
T/N: Thanks for reading!
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