Chapter 98: The Desperate Miner’s Plea

“Huh?”

Not only Ye Qing, but the two young women standing nearby were utterly bewildered.

‘Wait a moment. Hadn’t everything been perfectly normal just moments ago? Yet, the instant she laid eyes on Ye Qing, tears began to stream.

And not just any tears, but a torrent accompanied by such sensational revelations. What conceivable link could her ‘sexual desire’ possibly have with Ye Qing?’

Indeed, from Ye Qing’s perspective, the three Magical Girls in the room were now, in one way or another, entangled with her.

One was suspiciously plotting against her, another had already attempted to ‘bend’ her, and the third was a lewd writer she had personally mentored. ‘Considering all this, I suppose I truly am a femme fatale.’

‘Wait, don’t cry. Perhaps it’s only temporary?’

Ye Qing gently patted Liu Qingruo’s back. Who would have thought that upon hearing this, Liu Qingruo would pause, sniffle, and then burst into even more heartbroken sobs.

“No, you don’t understand, Teacher Qingyu… This feeling is truly terrifying. I don’t know how to describe it…”

As she spoke, Liu Qingruo glanced awkwardly at the two Magical Girls in the room, who were wide-eyed and shamelessly eavesdropping on her tearful confession to Ye Qing.

Shen Congqing immediately pretended to peel an apple, not even noticing the fruit knife nicking her finger, while Gu Xuanyu guiltily turned her face away.

Seeing that neither of them intended to leave, Liu Qingruo simply got off the bed. She wiped her mouth casually and then tugged Ye Qing’s arm, pulling her out of the room with a strength that belied her recent recovery.

“Hey, aren’t you still recovering?” Ye Qing asked, her small leather boots clattering haphazardly on the floor.

“It was just excessive magic consumption. I’ll recover quickly… More importantly, my sexual desire is what truly matters!”

Liu Qingruo had stopped crying. Her burning red eyes held no sadness, only an intense obsession with what she had lost.

“But how did you realize it? You only woke up one night…”

Before she could finish, Ye Qing gradually understood everything, falling silent in stunned realization.

Sure enough, these words touched Liu Qingruo’s raw emotional wound again, causing her nose to suddenly sting and her eyes to well up once more.

“One night… Do you know how I spent that one night?” Liu Qingruo asked, her voice filled with indignant sorrow, as if she had suffered an immense injustice. Alas, this injustice belonged to a desperate miner.

“Teacher Qingyu, there’s something I’ve been too embarrassed to tell you. I’ve always suffered from severe insomnia, and my mind tends to wander when I try to sleep. It was only after reading your illustrations that I finally found a solution…”

Ye Qing’s lips twitched, her smile as ugly as a grimace. ‘Should I be happy about this? About a Magical Girl also being my loyal reader?’

“After waking up last night, I rarely sleep for so long, and being alone in the middle of the night was quite boring, so I had no choice but to…”

“You don’t have to say it. I understand.”

Ye Qing quickly covered Liu Qingruo’s uninhibited cherry lips, preventing her from uttering any more scandalous lines.

This scene felt eerily familiar, a sense of déjà vu, as if a certain trashy pink-haired girl had done something similar.

Crying on her clothes, pouring out her grievances.

One was incredibly clever, the other incredibly slow-witted.

One cried because she was almost violated, the other because she *wanted* to be violated.

One couldn’t sleep all night after seeing her illustrations, the other watched her illustrations all night because she couldn’t sleep.

Both were excellent prospects for evil executives.

Recalling this, Ye Qing fixed her gaze on Liu Qingruo, only then noticing that the pink glow around her body had quietly vanished. Clearly, it was Silver Moon’s doing.

‘Silver Moon, you scoundrel! How dare you do such a thing and still try to get away with it? I must punish you severely!’

‘Only the one who tied the bell can untie it. Everything Xiao Chi lost, I’ll get back from you!’

Ye Qing secretly clenched her pink fists, feeling indignant on Liu Qingruo’s behalf.

“Xiao Chi, don’t worry. I will definitely help you get justice, and by the way, retrieve everything you’ve lost…”

Liu Qingruo’s face was still tear-streaked, and she unconsciously clutched her collar tighter.

“How can something like that be helped? It seems I can only rely on myself…”

Ye Qing arched her delicate brows. The red-haired girl before her seemed to be… blushing?

‘Why are you blushing like a teapot? You weren’t shy when Xiao Nuo tied you up and whipped you!’

‘However, in a way, this version of Xiao Chi seems quite good. At least she’s gained a sense of shame, hasn’t she?’

Liu Qingruo looked at Ye Qing’s calm, feline face and, for some inexplicable reason, felt a wave of reassurance.

“Yes, when has Teacher Qingyu ever lied to me? She must have a way…”

“Teacher Qingyu, can I trust you?”

Ye Qing put her hands on her hips and nodded decisively.

“Of course, you can always trust… Hey, hey, hey, what are you trying to do?!”

Liu Qingruo suddenly grasped Ye Qing’s soft, boneless hand, her tears turning into a mischievous smile, as if plotting some wicked scheme.

“Wait, let me declare first: I won’t let you ‘bend’ me… nor will I ‘bend’ you!”

Predictably, after this non-aggression pact, Liu Qingruo’s excited red eyes immediately dimmed, and her upturned lips drooped again.

“Didn’t you say I could trust you?”

‘So, your trust means I should hand over my body to you, is that it?’ Her voice was slightly distorted.

“Alright, I’ve accidentally angered you. Don’t pull at me anymore…”

Ye Qing finally withdrew her hand, unconsciously recalling the soft, springy, and smooth sensation beneath her fingertips. Though her own skin was no less exquisite, being her own, it rarely evoked such extraneous thoughts.

‘Compared to that, this girl is quite cute. If only I could abduct her and use her as a body pillow.’

“Don’t worry. If I have the ability to teach you how to be lewd, I also have a way to help you rediscover your original passion for it.”

As they whispered, Shen Congqing and Gu Xuanyu awkwardly faced each other in the other room, neither willing to speak first.

Years of partnership had been ruined by a single, sin-laden black-haired girl, leaving behind only intense animosity.

Gu Xuanyu was the first to glare at Shen Congqing, who had once again nicked her finger with the fruit knife. Her wine-red pupils were filled with a desire to expel her.

“You damn blonde! Everyone in this world is a vixen except for childhood sweethearts, do you know that?”

But Shen Congqing simply continued to peel her finger. The mundane blade couldn’t harm her in the slightest. She narrowed her emerald eyes and glared back, unwilling to show weakness.

“Oh, childhood sweethearts often end up as losers. Don’t you understand that? Besides, I’m just trying to improve my teacher-student relationship with Ye Qing… You just wait to complain, ‘I was here first for Mirror Flower!’”

The atmosphere grew increasingly tense. Just then, the two girls, having finished their lewd discussion, returned to the room, breaking the stagnant air and temporarily halting their silent battle of glares.

Gu Xuanyu disdainfully glanced at Shen Congqing, then gently shifted her gaze to the petite black-haired girl.

“Hmph, just you wait. In a few days, I will definitely win over Ye Qing!”

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