Chapter 401: A Distinct Difference
With that said, the immortal-like young man then peered towards the purple-haired, alluring young lady with a gaze that make it seem like they are close to each other in one way or another, this gaze of his making the alluring beauty, Zi Yu'er, all the more panicked just from what he is doing alone, not to mention the implication that might bite him back should any unwanted eyes manage to glean into his current action and deduce their own meaning regarding this gaze of his.
{W-what the hell are you doing!? Didn't I just told you to─} in a hurried manner, Zi Yu'er then starts asking the most important question towards the immortal-like Su Xiaotian, all while trying her very best in order to create a way to obscure his vision from her as much as possible, something that isn't really all that possible for now given that majority of the participants of the first trial are still trapped inside the illusion created by the Dao Resonating Rock.
Before she can even finish asking her question though, the alluring beauty got interrupted as Su Xiaotian himself flashes a jovial smile towards her, rendering her a bit speechless not only due to his audacity, or rather, guts to openly act like this, but also due to the words of his that enters through her mind.
{Haha, I never expected that I will see that cheeky Zi Yu'er acting like this!} the immortal-like young man said with his face showing a changed smile, one that despite the clear taunting attitude, still reveals traces of his amusement, along with his worry for this lady that became his friend through a way that is common between man to man friendship but not to a man to woman one, through fighting each other.
Hearing the words from the good friend that she had managed to forge a bond with during her time in the Crescent Moon Secret Realm, the purple-haired alluring beauty couldn't help but shake her head to try and get rid of the reddish pink blush that is already starting to appear on her face, something really rare, if not even impossible for her to do within the countless times that she interacted with anyone other than him.
Given how open-minded, if not shameless of an individual this lady is though, she managed to recover and recompose herself within mere moments of shaking her head as she starts to think that there's nothing she can do to stop this young man on whatever it is that he wants to do, causing her to return a smile towards him as well, a helpless one that seems to tell him to just do whatever he wants.
Seeing the smile from Zi Yu'er, the immortal-like young man, Su Xiaotian, merely nods at her as he sent another telepathic message to her, this time, the content of his message made her really surprised, so much that her face cycles through multiple expressions all at once, all of them either positive or neutral ones, face filled with either joy, contemplation, and hope among all sorts of expressions, expressions that she will rarely reveal and will make anyone familiar to her to wonder just what is it that the immortal-like young man told her.
As far as she is concerned though, this message is only for her, and even if there's someone who find out about it and ask her about what Su Xiaotian told her, Zi Yu'er will merely smile towards whoever it is that wants to know it before telling them that she won't say a single thing, no matter what the identity of the one asking is.
What is unknown to her however is despite the fact that she expected someone to notice, a person notices it way too early, the reason being the fact that said person who notices her constant change in expression during her time staring towards the immortal-like young man is a person who seems to put his entire focus towards her the moment that they had broken through the illusion created by the Dao Resonating Rock.
"Yu'er~" moving towards the alluring beauty, a young man, who seems to be of the same age as her, with quite the tall stature making other people pale in comparison, and bearing a cunning, intelligent light on his eyes, said as he waves his hands all while tracing the gaze of the lady in his eyes, wondering who is it that she is looking at right now.
The moment that Zi Yu'er heard of this seemingly cheerful voice who seems to just arbitrarily use an awfully intimate way of addressing her without her permission, she felt a shiver run down her spine as mix of emotions starts flooding her mind.
Should it be any other time earlier than now, this purple-haired, alluring beauty's mixture of complicated feelings will definitely be reigned with helplessness, terror, and possibly even despair not because of the difference by the talent between her and this young man, but rather because of the disparity between the people supporting her from behind, however, due to what Su Xiaotian just said to her previously, the emotions running on her mind right now is completely different from before.
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Anger, disdain, and even disgust flows from the deepest part of her being as she takes another look towards this young man with his glowing eyes clearly locked on her figure rather than anything else, the slightly opened mouth of this young man clearly showing signs of his saliva about to flow out from his mouth.
'Why is someone like him even a young successor of the Imperial Court? Are they so lacking in character that they need to have this… lustful creature to be one?' criticizing in her mind, Zi Yu'er is completely unaware of the fact that she had nearly stumbled upon a fact that no one will be able to normally know otherwise, a fact that the Imperial Court themselves thinks of as nothing otherwise given how and what they thought of themselves as.
While she is completely focused on her thought though, the purple-haired alluring beauty's silence was already taken as something offensive by the intelligent-looking young man the previously jovial smile on his face starting to crack a bit as some hint of annoyance starts replacing it.
'I am a successor to the Imperial Court you brothel bitch! Do you really think you can always act aloof to me like that!? Heh… just you wait, the moment that you enter the Imperial Court, I will show you what discipline is like every day of your life!!' while still looking towards the alluring Zi Yu'er, the third imperial prince, Long Moxie, thought to himself comfortingly as he remembers all the times that his advances were brutally turned down by this lady, something that he always take note of whenever it happens so that he can take some revenge on her once she lands on his hands.
'Let's remain friendly for now…' the third imperial prince thought to himself as his mind starts calming down, the turmoil of emotions deep within him not even showing as a trace in his outer appearance, not in his expression, not in his voice, not in his bodily movements, making it appear that he is someone who is really talented in concealing his real thought at the very least.
After thinking about his next course of action, the young man then starts raising one of his hands, moving it towards the shoulders of the beauty standing in front of him, thinking of taking a little bit of advantage from her given just how much she made him suffer from all his times of chasing after her.
What he didn't expect though is for the beauty to snap out of her daze the moment that she felt his hand moving near proximity of her, said beauty's hands moving at a visually untraceable speed to reach for the third imperial prince's hands, barring it from getting any closer towards her, not even allowing him to touch her hands as the hand stopping his movements is currently locking him by the wrist.
"Yu'er, what's the meaning of this?" despite already experiencing something like this multiple times from this alluring beauty already, Long Moxie couldn't help but ask in confusion and wonder as he felt that this time, there is something different with how Zi Yu'er is stopping him, almost as if the hand holding his wrist wants nothing more than to crush the thing it is currently holding in its grasp.
{Should I keep up my façade?} as she continues preventing the third imperial prince's hand from advancing any further, the beauty then asks the one she is relying on to act like this, a question that she already knows his answer to, but just asking anyways to hear the answer from his own mouth.
Hearing the question, the recipient of the message, Su Xiaotian, merely reveals a spoiling smile on his face before he replies with the words she wants to hear.
{Do whatever you want}