Chapter 136 Playing Tricks

A small villa, Guan Ya's bedroom, where dreamlike starlight rises.

Zhang Yuanqing turned his head and looked around, his eyes sweeping across the room filled with feminine touches and constellation dolls.

"Huh, is Guan Ya not here?"

Shouldn't she be curled up in bed, hugging her knees and sobbing at this time?

Zhang Yuanqing opened the door with doubt and went downstairs, seeing the Queen and the County Princess sitting at the dining table, each staring at their own laptops, playing games online.

——The County Princess's laptop was bought by Zhang Yuanqing.

"Where's Guan Ya?" Zhang Yuanqing stood at the bottom of the stairs, not going down.

The Queen, with her mature smoky makeup, turned her head to look at him, rolling her eyes, and said:

"You're finally back. Guan Ya couldn't reach you this morning, so she went to your place to find you without eating lunch. I've never seen her so emotionally distraught. What's going on with you two?"

In the Queen's and Xie Lingxi's perception, disliking Yuanshi Tianzun yesterday was a subtle change that occurred within their hearts.

It's like not wanting to eat Braised Chicken Rice yesterday, but suddenly wanting to eat it again today. It's a normal emotional change for humans, and they themselves don't see any problem with it.

But Guan Ya is different. She really lost a boyfriend, so her reaction is the most intense.

Went to my place? Well, that's very much in line with Guan Ya's personality... Zhang Yuanqing nodded: "Got it."

At this moment, he saw the Silver Radiant County Princess turn her head, glance at him, and then turn back.

"Want to say something?" Zhang Yuanqing asked.

The Silver Radiant County Princess ignored him, focusing her attention on the game. She wasn't enthusiastic about games, but was enthusiastic about modern novelties, experiencing them one by one.

Zhang Yuanqing returned to the bedroom and sent Guan Ya a text message.

"I'm at Fujiabao."

Then he sat at the desk, thinking about what he needed to do next.

The exploration of Takamagahara has come to an end for the time being. The identity of Nuwa and the secrets of the Lingjing Xingzhe cannot be obtained in a short period of time. They are long-term goals.

The things to do in the near future are the upcoming second Lingjing Xingzhe; contacting Yin Ji to choose a virtuous minister to assassinate; dealing with the Chunyang Zhangjiao; investigating the leader of the Dark Night Rose and the Night Wanderer among the Dark Shadow Twins; saving or not saving the Devil's Eye.

Further down the line is Master Wuhen's lecture at the end of August, to meet Xiao Yuan's family.

"There are so many things to do in August, and the Xie family's crab feast is in September."

Zhang Yuanqing pinched his brows, muttering to himself: There are really too many things to do.

In addition to the Lingjing Xingzhe once a month, there are always endless things to do in the real world. At this time, he should be grateful for the moral values. If it weren't for the moral value restrictions, evil organizations would definitely cause trouble every day.

Of course, the most important thing now is to settle Guan Ya and get the relationship back on track.

At this moment, he heard a Lingjing Xingzhe notification sound in his ear:

[Ding! Xiahou Aotian has applied to use...]

Huh? Xiahou Aotian wants to withdraw Dominator-level materials? No way, is this guy really trapped?

Zhang Yuanqing almost laughed out loud.

This is indeed something Xiahou Aotian would do.

"Reject!"

Of course, he wouldn't agree to Xiahou Aotian's application. There are currently three Dominator-level materials belonging to Xiahou Aotian in the warehouse. The materials swallowed by the Hundred Refinements Furnace will be considered as money spent to buy a lesson.

Even if the loss is great, it's better than going bankrupt.

If the energy of the Hundred Refinements Furnace has accumulated very high, Xiahou Aotian will definitely call him to ask for it. In that case, he will naturally support it.

However, based on his understanding of the Hundred Refinements Furnace and his assessment of Xiahou Aotian's financial resources, the energy accumulation is probably just beginning.

At this moment, Zhang Yuanqing's ears twitched, and he heard rapid footsteps approaching.

Sister Guan Ya is back... He quickly took out the Ghost Mirror and stuffed it into the back of his waist.

At the entrance of the Myriad Treasures Shop, stood a lonely figure, the face that had once captivated countless young men, revealing a stiffness that suggested it was about to pass away.

Those hollow eyes flowed with a sorrow that seemed to come from ancient times, almost flowing backward into a river.

It was moving and evoked pity.

Lian Sanyue raised her eyes to look outside the store, retracted her gaze, and continued to taste the superb cigars sent by Yuanshi Tianzun.

After a while, she raised her eyes again, and continued to taste the cigar.

After repeating this several times, this chaotic neutral Dominator frowned, got up and walked to the entrance of the store, one hand on her hip, the other pinching a cigar, and sighed:

"How about this, I'll refund the cost of the Fire Stone and Hand Cards to you. For the antique auction, I'll only take 5% commission, and I'll refund the remaining 5% to you.

"I can't give you any more. Your materials were swallowed by the furnace, and they didn't end up in my hands. I can only do this much for humanitarian reasons."

Xiahou Aotian's hollow eyes glowed with hope, and he said excitedly:

"You are really a good person, Boss Lady."

Lian Sanyue said unhappily: "This has nothing to do with being a good person."

Xiahou Aotian heard this and said suspiciously:

"Could it be that you want to enter my harem? But I don't like strong women."

Lian Sanyue looked at him with pity in her eyes: "I've just never seen such an unlucky person. I was moved to compassion."

"???"

Ling Jun shook his glass of red wine, smoothed his messy, unruly shoulder-length short hair, and smiled:

"After today, Yuanshi will really become your cousin-in-law."

Fu Qingyang held a cigar in his hand and said lightly:

"Guan Ya will always marry someone. Rather than marrying into the Miller family, it's better to choose Yuanshi. Yuanshi is good, not trash."

Ling Jun tentatively said: "I think this kid Yuanshi is a passionate type. Maybe he'll mess around with other women in the future. What if he lets Guan Ya down in the future?"

Fu Qingyang didn't answer, picked up the cigar cutter, and with a "click," cut open the end of the cigar.

Ling Jun subconsciously straightened his back, then remembered that it was Yuanshi who should be worried, what does it have to do with me?

Then he relaxed again.

The fact that he pulled back from the brink in his youth and didn't pursue Guan Ya was an incredibly correct decision.

That woman is not only a Sentinel herself, but her family's black forces are also cruel and arrogant, truly not a good match for a wanderer.

Fu Qingyang put down the cutter, gracefully picked up the torch and lit the cigar. He stared at the blue flame and said:

"Guan Ya's parents had a marriage of convenience. After giving birth to her, my aunt and ex-uncle each played their own game, without interfering with each other. When Guan Ya was in junior high school, the two of them couldn't stand it anymore and divorced."

"Under the influence of her original family, Guan Ya is cowardly, cowardly about fate, cowardly about love."

"She doesn't want to be like her parents, but she doesn't dare to resist the family. She craves free love, but she has no confidence in marriage and love."

Young Master Qian bit the cigar, took a deep puff, exhaled a dense cloud of white smoke, and said slowly:

"Whether she and Yuanshi can go to the end, I don't care, but she needs to break through her psychological barriers, overcome her cowardice, pursue what she wants, and take this step. That's the most important thing."

How could Yuanshi's little thoughts be hidden from the dignified Young Master Qian.

"So thoughtful!" Ling Jun sighed, suddenly remembering something and said:

"I heard something. Isn't my stallion father always in the Lingjing Xingzhe recently? He observed that there may be changes in the Lingjing Xingzhe in the near future."

Fu Qingyang's eyes narrowed:

"What changes?"

Ling Jun said: "I heard from the elders in the sect that the performance appraisal of the Lingjing Xingzhe may be extended from the Dominator to the Saint."

The so-called performance appraisal is the big organizations' name for "Dominators must hunt down a certain number of enemy faction walkers in the last three months of the year."

Isn't this just the Lingjing Xingzhe's performance appraisal for the Dominators?

If they can't complete the assessment, they won't return to the Lingjing Xingzhe, but there will be extremely heavy penalties. There is currently no unified standard for these penalties. Some lose experience points, some have their next dungeon difficulty soar, and some have problems with themselves, such as Spirit Connectors having their spiritual senses dulled, unable to communicate with the supreme existence in the dark...

Things like that.

This kind of assessment was originally only for Dominators. Saints and Transcendants have to go to dungeons every month, and the pressure to survive is enormous. They don't need to bear additional performance pressure.

Fu Qingyang frowned:

"If this is the case, then the contradiction between Order and Evil will deepen, the Lingjing Xingzhe..."

The Lingjing Xingzhe is deliberately deepening this contradiction.

The bedroom door was pushed open forcefully, Guan Ya rushed back in a hurry. She had a stomach full of words, and brewed countless emotions, but when she saw Yuanshi, she suddenly didn't want to say anything.

Seeing him, she felt at ease.

"Huff~" Guan Ya gently exhaled.

"I'm back to pack things." Zhang Yuanqing stood up, looked at her, and took the initiative to say: "I'll leave after packing things and won't continue to live here."

When he said these words, his tone and eyes were extremely gentle and calm, as if this relationship was a reminiscence after half a lifetime, without unwillingness or resentment, his heart was already like still water.

This kind of gentleness was deliberately created by him to express his "greater sorrow than heartache."

As soon as Sister Guan Ya sees me like this, she will regret it and throw herself into my arms, crying and begging me to forgive her, and then I can get whatever I want... Zhang Yuanqing chuckled in his heart.

Guan Ya stared at him deeply, took a deep breath, walked towards him, and said softly: "Yuanshi..."

"No need to say anything, and don't try to salvage it," Zhang Yuanqing raised his hand, making a "rejection" gesture, and said:

"I thought about it for a long time yesterday. Maybe you're right. I'm just a commoner, and you're a daughter of a wealthy family. We're not a good match. It's fine to enjoy the beauty of love, but not suitable for marriage."

As soon as he finished speaking, the cat king speaker in the desk drawer played a long-lost song:

"At first, you were the one who wanted to break up, break up if you want to break up, but now you want to coax me back with true love, love is not something you can sell if you want to sell..."

You're quite good at adding drama to yourself, well, but the music is good, very appropriate... Zhang Yuanqing complained in his heart, still maintaining a calm face that was greater than heartache.

"Yuanshi, what I want to say is..."

Guan Ya walked up to him, looked at her boyfriend's sage-like eyes, suddenly grabbed his arm, twisted her waist, turned around, and with a fierce over-the-shoulder throw, threw her ex-boyfriend out, roaring:

"What tricks are you trying to play in front of me again?"

Zhang Yuanqing flew up in a cloud of fog, a series of question marks flashing in his mind.

This was not what he expected.

Guan Ya's reaction was beyond his expectations. Shouldn't she have rushed over with tears on her face, hugged herself tightly, crying and saying:

Are you electricity, are you light, are you the only myth?

The confusion in his mind did not delay his combat response. Zhang Yuanqing immediately used Star Escape, and before his body was smeared on the ground, he turned into starlight and escaped.

He immediately appeared at the door and shouted: "What are you do..." Before the word was spoken, Guan Ya's whip leg as fast as a phantom had already drawn towards his head, and Zhang Yuanqing instinctively raised his arm to block.

His arm bone cracked instantly.

Before he could use Star Escape to escape, Guan Ya's subsequent attacks followed closely, giving him no chance to breathe.

With a series of crisp sounds, Zhang Yuanqing was "locked" to the ground by Guan Ya.

How could a Star Official's close combat be a match for a Swordsman? He couldn't really take out props to drive Yin corpses to control spirit servants to beat his girlfriend.

Then he could only be captured with hatred.

"Ouch ouch ouch, it's broken, it's broken, my arm is broken..."

Guan Ya's long legs clamped Zhang Yuanqing's neck tightly, hugged one of his arms, and used her slender waist to pull back with all her might.

Zhang Yuanqing felt that his arm was about to be pulled off.

"You won't remember if it doesn't hurt." Guan Ya said angrily: "What tricks did you use yesterday? Explain everything to me, and I'll consider whether to dislocate your arm or dislocate your leg."

"I didn't use any tricks, what tricks could I use? Didn't you propose the breakup?"

"Bah, I'm a Sentinel. If I haven't reacted by now, I might as well return to the Lingjing Xingzhe." Guan Ya shouted:

"Speak!"

"This is all Fu Qingyang's fault. He cut my red string..."

Guan Ya exerted force suddenly, and with a click, Zhang Yuanqing's right arm was dislocated.

She let go of her hand, retracted her long legs, and sneered:

"So yesterday you deliberately wandered in front of me, deceiving me into taking the initiative to break up, increasing your guilt, wanting to see me regret and cry bitterly, and agree to everything for you?"

"Yuanshi, do you think I haven't seen a man before? Can't I live without you?"

She sneered again, stood up, patted her butt, and turned to leave.

Zhang Yuanqing felt that he was still too young and completely miscalculated the sensitivity of a Sentinel.

Well, he tried to steal a chicken but lost the rice instead. Sister Guan Ya seems to be angry... Zhang Yuanqing sat on the ground, his palms supporting the ground, and pressed down.

The dislocated arm was immediately reset.

"Is it so difficult for me to do what a boyfriend and girlfriend do?" Zhang Yuanqing didn't chase after her either. He sighed, sat back at the desk, and picked up his phone.

He sent a message to Ling Jun:

[Yuanshi Tianzun: Mentor, the plan failed. The enemy is too powerful, and the student is powerless.]

[Ling Jun: Did Guan Ya see through your clumsy tricks and get beaten up?]

[Yuanshi Tianzun: How did you know? Damn, you knew I would fail, but you didn't remind me just now. Not only didn't you remind me, you also implied that I could.]

[Ling Jun: Don't worry, when you go to Guan Ya's room at night, everything will go as you wish.]

[Yuanshi Tianzun: Really? Don't fool me, I don't want to get beaten up again.]

[Ling Jun: The essence of this matter is to make Guan Ya realize your importance. A relationship that hasn't experienced setbacks and storms is not reliable. Only when people have experienced loss can they understand how to cherish it.]

[Ling Jun: She is a Sentinel. She can see through your little tricks at a glance, but having experienced the taste of loss, her mentality will change subtly. She will reflect on herself. Is she being too incompetent as a girlfriend?]

[Ling Jun: If you force your boyfriend to use these tricks, then is it your problem or hers? As long as Guan Ya truly likes you, then she will realize her mistakes and make compromises.]

Zhang Yuanqing read the messages over and over several times, feeling that they made sense:

[Yuanshi Tianzun: As expected of a mentor, you have mastered the psychology of women perfectly. I admire you.]

[Ling Jun: Heh, don't think that you can be disrespectful to your teacher after learning a few tricks. The teacher's experience and skills are something you will always need to look up to.]

[Yuanshi Tianzun: The student knows his mistake.]

[Ling Jun: Go, I hope to see a Yuanshi Tianzun who is a man tomorrow.]

[Yuanshi Tianzun: Mentor, lend me your sound-blocking prop.]

Ling Jun enjoyed this feeling of imparting love experience. This pleasure and sense of accomplishment was something only Yuanshi Tianzun could give him.

Next, Zhang Yuanqing followed Ling Jun's teachings, locking himself in his room for the entire afternoon, until night fell, and he didn't even bother when the Queen came up to call him for dinner, to express his depressed emotions.

The reason for not showing up was mainly because the emotions he pretended couldn't be concealed from a Sentinel, so he simply didn't appear.

The Queen called out to him without success, then went downstairs happily and returned to the dining table, saying:

"Are you two fighting again? I think Captain is not in a good mood."

Guan Ya didn't respond, eating with a depressed expression, spacing out from time to time, and put down her chopsticks after only a few bites and went upstairs.

The Silver Radiant County Princess, who was sitting at the table watching the news, silently raised the small loudspeaker:

"There is an anomaly in the fate palace. A major event is not good. Do you need me to assassinate your rivals in love for you?"

"Ah?" The Queen didn't understand the professional jargon of a Star Official and looked blank.

The Silver Radiant County Princess silently put down the loudspeaker again: "So slow-witted, you are not worthy to command the harem."

11 PM.

The air conditioner was blowing cold air, the curtains were tightly closed, and the bedroom was pitch black.

Guan Ya lay in bed, unable to sleep, tossing and turning every few minutes, constantly flipping around until dawn, with the unease in her heart growing more and more.

At this moment, she heard a slight "click" sound from the door.

Guan Ya was startled, then heard a sneaky voice:

"Sister Guan Ya, are you asleep?"

ps: I'm updating the wrong words first and correcting them later. It's a bit difficult to write...