Translated by Eve

　　Edited by Wuxian

　　Although Ning Ze did not want to surrender the beauty he had finally gotten ahold of, no matter which angle he looked at this from, he could not defeat Zhao Xihe, whether it be in terms of martial arts, cunningness, nor in determination to win over Sui Yuan.

　　Ning Ze's possessiveness over Sui Yuan had a limit, and that limit was his own safety. If having Sui Yuan threatened his life, then he would absolutely choose to abandon him. In contrast, even if he had to risk his life, Zhao Xihe would never give up.

　　Ultimately, Ning Ze had no choice but to regretfully compromise. Under the circ.u.mstances of having enemies closing in on him from the front and a wall blocking his retreat from the back, Ning Ze gave Zhao Xihe a glance full of hatred and soon after, pushed Sui Yuan to him. Naturally, Zhao Xihe was not at all careless. The second he grabbed hold of Sui Yuan, he forcibly changed directions, and did not enter the jungle. Before Nan Gongyi could react, he disappeared without a trace.

　　Nan Gongyi with his Er Kang hand："………………QAQ"

　　Although his animosity towards Zhao Xihe rose to an all new high, simply vaulting over Ning Ze to the top of his list, Nan Gongyi did not let anger cloud his head. He knew that he could not chase after Zhao Xihe under these kind of circ.u.mstances and forcibly take back his family's s.h.i.+xiong. And, if he was left on his own, with his current level of martial arts, he would probably not going to have a good end.

　　To approach those who could benefit you and shun those who would harm you was an instinct of all humans. Even though Nan Gongyi thought Ning Ze was unpleasing to the eye no matter how he looked at him, at this time, he had no choice but to force himself to chase him from behind.

　　——As long as the green hills were there, one need not worry about firewood. If he wanted to see Da s.h.i.+xiong again, he first needed to survive!

　　Ning Ze and Nan Gongyi, this pair of bitter protagonists, were forcibly pushed back onto the right track in such a crude way and escaped together. Thus, Sui Yuan and Zhao Xihe were evidently much more relaxed.

　　After they ended up far apart from Ning Ze and Nan Gongyi, Zhao Xihe immediately cheated and used a prop to eliminate their tracks, and concealed him and Sui Yuan, thereby throwing off their pursuers. He and Sui Yuan leisurely sat on a tree branch, relaxing their weary minds after having been tense all night because of the plot.

　　When the pursuers lost them, they were unwilling to give up and kept searching the area over and over again. Ultimately, they had no choice but to leave in regret. Only then did Zhao Xihe remove the concealing prop and watched Sui Yuan, who was happy because he had successfully gotten the plot back on track, with discontent, "Why didn't you resist when Ning Ze grabbed you and ran?"

　　Sui Yuan turned his head to look at Zhao Xihe, his expression particularly clear and innocent, "According to my settings, my martial arts can't compare with Ning Ze's, ah? Moreover, it was a time of crisis. If I struggled and caused one of the protagonists to die, what would we do then?"

　　Zhao Xihe, who was being viewed as a child deliberately trying to stir up trouble by his own lover, unexpectedly had no way to retort at this time："………………"

　　——To always have to strive for favour against the plot simply made one feel too sick at heart! What made his heart hurt even more was that eight to nine times out of ten, he lost!

　　Since the plot followed the protagonists' POV, during this blank s.p.a.ce, Sui Yuan and Zhao Xihe did not have any scenes and had free time. Of course, the condition was that they didn't make significant movements and subsequently affected the plot's development.

　　In order to appease Zhao Xihe, who was feeling crushed over the fact that he had to strive for favour and still lost most of the time, Sui Yuan had no choice but to agree to his proposal of disguising themselves and tour the Jianghu—simply put, a date— and give up on his original idea of tailing the protagonist couple to supervise the plot's development.

　　The wuxia world's 'disguising technique' was indeed mystical. Sui Yuan watched as Zhao Xihe kneaded his face in various places, transforming his original pure, handsome Da s.h.i.+xiong face into that of a common man. He couldn't help but feel rather interested. Furthermore, what made him even more dumbstruck was that after Zhao Xihe made his own face gentle and elegant (?), all the bones in his body went 'ge la ge la', stiffly shrinking his originally tall male stature so that it would fit his new face. Astonis.h.i.+ngly, he looked like a female hero who dressed as a man. It was just that his chest was too flat.

　　Sui Yuan："………………"

　　5237 & 0007："……………………"

　　After a moment of silence, Sui Yuan swallowed his saliva down his dry throat, "You…What do you want to do?"

　　Zhao Xihe tilted his head, his handsome eyebrows raising slightly, "If we want to hide our tracks, not attract attention, and be able to PDA anywhere and at anytime, then naturally it would be best to disguise ourselves as husband and wife. If I made you the girl, you'd be unwilling, and you also can't use this bone shrinking technique, so I can only wrong myself."

　　Sui Yuan: What PDAing anytime, anywhere? Where are you morals, ne?!"

　　Zhao Xihe raised a hand to grab Sui Yuan's nape. His unquestionable strength forced him to lower his head. He then bit his lips and laughed gently, "Hubby, hasn't this servant's morals already been eaten up by you?"

　　Sui Yuan："………………"

　　——Save me! Someone come take this fellow away! He can't bear it anymore, having such a crazy lover, ah! What's more, this kind of aggressive posture with that kind of gentle and beautiful appearance, Zhao Xihe, don't you think that this is extremely inappropriate?!

　　Sui Yuan knew that Zhao Xihe was an unknown but a more senior and higher grade actor than he was, but he never expected that he would unexpectedly feel no pressure even when playing a girl! However, regardless of this kind of circ.u.mstance, he still had to consider if he, the only one who knew the truth, could bear with this, ah!

　　——It seems that after taking on the challenge of acting as Hua Xinlei, that flat-chested, little white-faced seductive shou in the last world, Zhao Xihe had become more and more askew…Sui Yuan, who was made to take a wife, didn't resist at all and simply cried silently.

　　After getting what he wished for, Zhao Xihe, who intimately coiled around Sui Yuan's arm, sneered at Nan Gongyi who had run off to who knows where, in his heart.

　　Zhao Xihe, who had always been alert against his rivals in love naturally knew about Nan Gongyi's delusion about travelling across the Jianghu and being so intimately close with his s.h.i.+xiong that nothing could come between them. That's right, it could only be a delusion! Sui Yuan's 'firsts' ought to be his. All of his life's experiences must also have his shadow over it. Nan Gongyi should take a hike and get far, far away from here!

　　Moreover, even if they traversed the Jianghu together, could he intimately wrap around Sui Yuan as he did now, as two men? Could he act like a spoiled child and ask to be spoiled under the public eye, and even ask for a kiss? Could he share a room with him under the envious, admiring, and hating gaze of others? Or even, in case Sui Yuan could not bear his nagging, and treated him coldly, could he bear to suffer the dissatisfied and criticizing stares of other people and then brace himself to turn around and coax him? Zhao Xihe secretly thought that being a girl wasn't so terrible after all.