Chapter 5008 — The Primeval Sect
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"Aren't you? Here, let me see your ID. I'll get my classmates to add you as a friend, so an old fellow like you doesn't have to fight all alone." As she spoke, Ying Ziyu snatched the phone and glanced at it, her expression instantly turning exceedingly strange: "Lonely Little Sprite? And a female character?"
"Uh..." Wu Chengtian's old face flushed red, and he offered a feeble explanation: "Don't get the wrong idea, all right? It's just that a female account is more convenient to play—easier to add friends and latch onto the big players. Nothing else intended..."
"No explanations! To explain is to cover up, to cover up is the truth—I've seen through your true nature. You're just a creepy old uncle using a gender-bender account!" Ying Ziyu immediately flung the phone back at Wu Chengtian and, shrieking as though she had seen a ghost, fled into the living room.
Wu Chengtian was speechless. It was only a gender-bender account—he wasn't stealing or robbing. How did that make him a creepy old uncle?
"Hey, you said it yourself—don't forget to have your classmates add me as a friend." Wu Chengtian got up and chased into the living room to remind her, only to turn his head and see Ying Ziyu carrying over a huge pile of snacks, heaping the coffee table into a small mountain. He jumped in fright: "What's this? It was just one look at a gender-bender account. Is it worth this binge of self-destruction, your whole worldview collapsing?"
"Pfft, what's a mere gender-bender account? Back in the day I ran with the streets too. Did you really think I was some sheltered little girl who's never seen the world?" Ying Ziyu rolled her eyes at him.
"Ran with the streets? That was pure child's play, make-believe. What kind of street life was that?" Wu Chengtian could not help but laugh at her words. "Your Brother Wu was once known as Wu the Iron Hand, unbeatable across the jianghu!"
He knew what Ying Ziyu had been like before Wei Zhao found her—a regular little delinquent girl, plain and simple—and that she had only begun to settle down and behave after Wei Zhao took her in. Still, she would throw a tantrum now and then. Of course, all of them doted on Ying Ziyu like their own little sister and did not think it a flaw at all; on the contrary, they found her frank and adorable.
"Hah, and then you ran into Brother Wei Zhao and became Wu the Useless Hand! I'm not talking about that with you—I'm going to finish that drama today, so don't disturb me!" Hugging her pile of snacks, Ying Ziyu could not wait to turn on the TV.
"That drama? You mean that one on iQiyi, The Campus Belle's Close-Range Bodyguard? I finished it long ago. It's actually pretty good—don't you think the protagonist's experiences are a lot like Brother Wei Zhao's?" Wu Chengtian chuckled and sat down on the other side of the sofa, casually asking Ying Ziyu for a bag of potato chips. His life was boring these days; he did not mind watching it a second time.
"Not alike at all, all right? That protagonist is nothing but a lecher. How could he compare to Brother Wei Zhao?" Ying Ziyu glared at him in dissatisfaction.
"Then why are you still watching it?" Wu Chengtian asked, puzzled.
"I'm watching it for Brother Wei Zhao, so he can learn from it as a cautionary tale and not end up like that protagonist, so stupid that he can't move his legs the moment he sees a woman—how embarrassing!" Ying Ziyu's mouth was stuffed full of snacks, and she spoke in a muffled voice.
Wu Chengtian was speechless once more. A woman's logic truly defied understanding, especially that of an odd, clever little girl like Ying Ziyu—he simply could not keep pace with her at all.
"By the way, the first season has finished airing by now, hasn't it? Did they say when the second season will come out?" Ying Ziyu asked casually, legs crossed. (To be continued.)