Chapter 24: The Self-Strategizing, Brainwashing-Type?

Bai Yue shook her head, thinking that this girl was indeed still a child who hadn’t been tempered by the harsh realities of the world.

She reached out, ready to pat Xiao Yueluo’s cheek and also decide whether to prod this tsundere heroine further, to make her realize that she was actually perfectly fine.

So Bai Yue extended her hand, palm up, hovering before Xiao Yueluo.

“Come on, little kitty, let master give you a pat.”

Bai Yue said with a teasing, playful smile.

She had expected Xiao Yueluo to react like before—like a bristling hedgehog, slapping her hand away fiercely.

But then—

“Mmm—”

A sound, soft as a whisper, like a kitten’s whimper, escaped from Xiao Yueluo’s throat.

Bai Yue froze completely.

Her brain short-circuited.

Blank.

What the hell?!

Bai Yue maintained her outstretched hand, eyes wide, staring fixedly at the girl who was now rubbing her cheek against her palm, acting clingy.

Wait, I gave her a Qingxin Dan!

Isn’t the Qingxin Dan’s purpose to calm the mind and suppress inner demons?!

Why did she end up like this after taking it?!

Even if this idiot was scared out of her wits and completely abandoned her dignity, she shouldn’t have turned into this kind of… this kind of state, right?!

This reaction was way too bizarre!

Bai Yue’s throat bobbed.

A horrifying thought suddenly flashed through her mind.

Wait.

The storage pouch.

She quickly took inventory of the items in her storage space in her mind.

Various bottles and jars were piled together.

The Qingxin Dan was in a cyan bottle, stored in the third compartment on the left.

And the original owner… that genuine Soul-Losing Powder, which she had paid a hefty price for on the black market and originally planned to give to Su Qingyan—the one that made people lose their minds and turn into clingy little pests…

That one was also in a cyan bottle.

Stored in the… which compartment on the left, exactly?!

The corner of Bai Yue’s eye began to twitch uncontrollably.

She looked down at Xiao Yueluo, who was still gently nuzzling against her palm, her cheeks growing redder, her breath even starting to grow hot.

Holy crap.

I didn’t… grab the wrong pill, did I?!

Just thinking about that possibility made cold sweat break out on Bai Yue’s back.

Keep a real brain-dead flesh puppet by her side?

Don’t be ridiculous.

A useless person with no ability to think, just drooling and trailing behind her.

Where would she even farm system points from this sheep?

This would be a devastating blow to her “sustainable wool-harvesting” plan!

Most importantly, how would they fight the boss later without her?

The sensation against her palm was warm and soft.

Xiao Yueluo was still obliviously rubbing her cheek against Bai Yue’s palm.

Even worse, the little brat, not satisfied with that, voluntarily wrapped both hands around Bai Yue’s wrist and pressed that hand against her own chest.

While pressing, her throat kept emitting those hair-raising, dark murmurs.

No choice.

Bai Yue immediately used her other free hand—the one being rubbed against by Xiao Yueluo, which she dared not pull back for fear of triggering an overreaction—to pull out the pill bottle again.

With one hand, she flicked the stopper open, leaned down, and brought it close to her nose to sniff carefully.

A faint fragrance of mint and spiritual herbs.

To be absolutely certain, Bai Yue tilted her head back and swallowed one herself.

As the pill entered her stomach, a cool, refreshing energy rushed straight to her crown, clearing her mind.

Aside from that, there was no unusual urge, nor any strange desire to claim someone as her master.

It was Qingxin Dan.

Pure as could be.

So then… what was happening now?

Bai Yue maintained her pose—one hand holding the bottle, the other being relentlessly used as a cheek-rubbing station by Xiao Yueluo—and fell into a long, heavy silence.

Bai Yue: “…”

So this was what a Heaven’s Chosen Maiden was like?

This ability to brainwash and strategize herself into submission was way too ridiculous!

Watching Xiao Yueluo, who had completely given up resistance because of a single Qingxin Dan and even started actively trying to please her, Bai Yue felt a deep sense of helplessness.

The brainwashing type?

Self-hypnotized surrender?

Fine.

This was just a hentai game world after all.

In a world like this, logic often had to make way for the setting.

Bai Yue sighed helplessly, feeling her temples throbbing.

She looked up, trying to ease her stiff neck.

Her gaze shifted.

And suddenly collided with a pair of eyes.

Not far away, by the porthole, a slender figure had appeared at some point.

Su Qingyan’s hands were gripping the wooden window frame so tightly that her knuckles had turned pale and bloodless.

She was staring fixedly at the scene, her expression one of indescribable, immense complexity.

In that gaze: three parts shock, three parts heartbreak, and four parts a strong condemnation that screamed, “I never expected you to be this kind of beast.”

Oh no.

Bai Yue’s heart sank.

This was a case of mud stuck in your pants—you couldn’t wash it clean even if you jumped into the Yellow River.

She could almost guess what was going through Su Qingyan’s mind right now—the malicious villainess, in broad daylight, force-feeding an innocent girl aphrodisiacs—an absolute atrocity!

She had to prove her innocence immediately, right this instant!

Without hesitation, Bai Yue flicked her left wrist.

The porcelain bottle containing the remaining Qingxin Dan flew through the air in a sharp arc, hurtling straight toward Su Qingyan by the porthole.

Smack.

The bottle struck her chest, bounced off, and landed in her arms.

Su Qingyan’s body jolted violently.

She looked down at the object in her arms and bit her lower lip.

Had she misjudged this woman?

Countless terrifying thoughts raced through Su Qingyan’s mind.

She looked over at Xiao Yueluo, who had completely surrendered and was even starting to actively fawn over Bai Yue.

Her heart felt like it was being crushed by an invisible hand.

“Yueluo…” Su Qingyan took a deep breath and closed her eyes.

She pulled the wooden stopper out.

A faint, mixed fragrance of mint and spiritual herbs wafted from the bottle’s mouth, drifting into her nose.

This scent…

Su Qingyan’s eyes snapped open.

She froze.

Though she couldn’t channel spiritual energy into her body, she had spent almost all her years immersing herself in the study of alchemy, all to be able to help Xiao Yueluo.

From pharmacology to pill formation, from color identification to scent recognition—her knowledge was even more discerning than that of many professional sect alchemists.

The moment she opened it, she already knew—this was just an ordinary Qingxin Dan.

Su Qingyan was completely baffled.

She looked at the harmless Qingxin Dan in her hand, then turned her head back toward the deck.

Xiao Yueluo was still rubbing herself against Bai Yue, her face flushed, her eyes dazed, mumbling incoherent nonsense like “I’m already tainted” and “my body won’t obey me.”

If Bai Yue had fed her a Qingxin Dan, then what was with Xiao Yueluo’s current reaction?

Su Qingyan felt a loud buzz in her head.

Something shattered.

Her worldview cracked.

If the medicine wasn’t the problem…

Then that meant…

This was something Yueluo herself had always… harbored this secret inclination?!

It’s just a mint candy!

What are you even doing?!

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