Chapter 2997 — Tianchan and Chen Xi
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"Stay by my side as a maid. I will teach you the finest mind techniques and incantations for cultivating the way of the cauldron. You must abandon the cultivation methods you have used up to now," Tianchan said.
"Ah? Then I... I still have to cultivate as a cauldron and be used by someone?" Chen Xi was slightly taken aback, not understanding Tianchan's meaning.
"And what if that someone were Wei Zhao?" Tianchan smiled faintly. "Would you like to become someone who can help him?"
"Yes, yes!" Chen Xi nodded, a little shyly. She had to admit that Tianchan had hit upon the very thing in her heart with a single sentence. To become someone who could help Wei Zhao—Chen Xi was truly overjoyed!
After all, what Ying Ziyu constantly drilled into her was that every girl around Wei Zhao had her own distinctive charm, and that she had no competitive advantage whatsoever—she would have to either act coy, or play cute, or seduce. But Chen Xi was skilled at none of these things. So when Tianchan offered her a chance to be of help to Wei Zhao, of course her heart was moved.
"From now on, your name will be Tianxi. You shall be my personal maid. But you must not breathe a word of any of this to anyone—you answer to me and me alone. Understood?" Tianchan asked.
"Yes, rest assured, I won't trust my father or anyone else again..." Chen Xi nodded, then hesitated, a little awkwardly. "But... your personal maid..."
"Heh heh..." Tianchan smiled faintly, turned around, and—no one could tell quite how—wiped her face twice. Then her long, beautiful hair came loose and cascaded down, and when she turned back, she had become a gentle, lovely woman.
"Ah? You you you you... you're a girl?" Chen Xi's eyes went wide. If she still could not tell that the handsome man was a woman at this point, there would have to be something wrong with her eyes.
"Indeed. But can you keep this secret for me? Including from Wei Zhao?" Tianchan nodded and asked.
"Yes, Sister, rest assured, Little Xi will definitely keep the secret!" Chen Xi nodded vigorously. For some reason, she found Tianchan especially trustworthy; being near her gave her a sense of security.
And Tianchan herself did not know why she had revealed her true appearance before Chen Xi. Perhaps it was because the girl was Wei Zhao's little lover—Tianchan felt she could be trusted.
"From now on, when we are alone, call me Young Sect Master. The name I use with the outside world is Tian Canbian!" Tianchan told Chen Xi. "Do not give yourself away in front of others."
"Yes, yes!" Chen Xi nodded.
After a moment's hesitation, however, Chen Xi asked timidly, "Young Sect Master, may I contact Brother Wei Zhao?"
Tianchan hesitated, then shook her head. "Not for now. But I will find an opportunity to tell him. If you contact him, then once your father and brother grow suspicious, they will think of other ways to move against Wei Zhao. That is not what you want to see, is it?"