NOVEL WEB chapter 73
73. Surrounded by Women
Lin Nuo was startled, feeling an unease about the night.
Qin Shili’s appearance and her bizarre actions had already frightened him considerably. Now, the arrival of a second person terrified him even more, making him vow never to venture to the Spirit Spring again.
That person was Su Kexin! Wrapped in a bath towel, holding herbs, her pale eyes fixed on Lin Nuo.
She stepped with a large wooden ladle, reportedly their customary tool for scooping water over themselves.
Through Su Kexin’s eyes, the warm Spirit Spring churned with white mist. In the spring, a silver-haired girl and a black-haired boy were nestled in a corner like a pair of mandarin ducks, delighting in the joy of splashing water.
“Senior brother, second senior sister, you, you guys…”
Su Kexin’s eyes had already lost their color, as if her entire world was collapsing.
Had those two reached the point of sharing a lovers’ bath? But clearly, the second senior sister had already rejected the senior brother’s affections, and they hardly interacted. How could this happen so suddenly…
Could it be they had secretly committed to each other for life?
This…
With this thought, Su Kexin grew increasingly anxious, recalling that both her senior brother and second senior sister had recently been out on missions. Although they returned at different times, the gap was minimal.
She had always worried that her senior brother would be charmed by a female cultivator and elope with her. But when he returned, she breathed a sigh of relief, never expecting that female cultivator to be her own second senior sister.
With so many suitors for the second senior sister, why choose the senior brother? Ah, it must be because the senior brother is too handsome and outstanding.
Qin Shili glanced over, her voice cold, “Is there something you need?”
“Um…”
Su Kexin’s voice trembled slightly, “Senior brother, second senior sister, have you two already…”
“Yes.” Qin Shili answered without hesitation.
“Oh…”
Feeling as if sentenced to death, my world just collapsed in an instant.
Since they’ve become a couple, I’m just an unwelcome outsider, intruding would be utterly humiliating.
Others have become a reality, paired up, and here I am, the third wheel, meddling is simply disgraceful.
But the thought of my senior brother and second senior sister becoming a couple cuts me like a knife.
Should I just leave? But I can’t bear it, coming here hoping to share a bath with my senior brother, only to face such an embarrassing situation.
She hesitated, but she was in the wrong, an outsider, how could she interfere, wouldn’t that be clownish?
“What do you mean ‘already’? What are you talking about?”
Lin Nuo listened to Su Kexin’s hesitant words, slightly puzzled.
“Ah, it’s just, you two have already become a couple…”
Su Kexin lowered her voice, losing confidence.
Lin Nuo laughed upon hearing this: “What kind of couple? She’s into me?”
Qin Shili listened unhappily: “It’s your indifference, how can you say I’m not into you?”
Lin Nuo spread his hands: “Fine, fine, the outcome’s the same, pick any reason you like.”
Listening to this, Su Kexin felt the gloom in her heart dissipate a bit: “So you’re saying, you’re not a couple?”
“Who told you I became her partner? Am I worthy?”
“Then senior brother, why are you bathing with the second senior sister…?”
“I don’t know, you ask her.”
Lin Nuo said irritably, he was enjoying his bath, even put up a wooden sign outside, with big letters: Women, Keep Out. And yet, they kept coming in, you noble ladies have no manners, bullying me, the villain, is this okay?
“Second senior sister…”
Su Kexin turned to look at Qin Shili.
“Come if you want, that’s all.”
Qin Shili’s reply was very succinct, embodying her independent spirit, just come over if she felt like it, it was that simple.
Of course, this reason wasn’t convincing to Su Kexin, but she roughly understood what was going on, her second senior sister Qin Shili was aloof and unapproachable. Her master, Han Xianzi, had praised Qin Shili for being well-planned and self-disciplined, and had told her to take Qin Shili as a role model, so Qin Shili would never come without a purpose.
Clearly, her target was the senior brother.
But from the senior brother’s words, it seemed like he was denying their relationship, could it be they had argued?
Very likely, after all, the second senior sister was proud and arrogant, and the senior brother was also cold and sarcastic, it’s easy for them to disagree and start a quarrel.
Two such strong personalities don’t mix well, the senior brother would probably prefer a partner who’s willing to accommodate him.
Su Kexin took a deep breath, wrapped in a bath towel, and walked towards Lin Nuo.
“What are you doing?”
Lin Nuo felt something was amiss.
“I, I also want to soak in the hot springs with my senior!”
Su Ke Xin took a deep breath, stepped into the hot springs, and a wave of ripples appeared, and she quickly approached Linuo, mimicking Qin Shili’s movements, and her fair skin just touched Linuo’s shoulder.
It was the first time she shared a bath with someone of the opposite s*x, and it was her own senior, so she was a bit nervous, but she kept telling herself to be brave and not to lose to her second senior.
Linuo was now in a difficult situation, originally a small space, and even Qin Shili’s proximity was enough to make him uncomfortable, let alone Su Ke Xin, who also squeezed in, the large hot springs, the three of them packed into a small corner.
Three people walking together would certainly be absurd. Linuo was acting like a fool again, and was sandwiched between the two, feeling the smooth skin of the beautiful girls on both shoulders.
So, why did I, who mastered the template of the villain, have such an encounter?