Fairy, don't let your golden finger chase after me!

Chapter 100: The Arrogant Little Sister's Self-Conquest!

Looking at Dong Mo, who was playing around with Gu Ziyue, Dong Yueying could no longer bear it. Her fingers clenched and unclenched repeatedly, her nails digging red marks into her palms.

At this moment, Dong Yueying felt that she had been slighted and mocked by Dong Mo.

That's enough.

Dong Yueying's voice trembled with suppressed emotion.

Gu Ziyue stopped hitting and turned to look at her. Dong Mo also looked up, his double pupils reflecting Dong Yueying's image.

Dong Yueying took a step, walking slowly towards Dong Mo. Each step was forceful, as if she wanted to wear a hole in the deck beneath her feet. She stopped in front of Dong Mo, looking down at him slumped on the ground, her red eyes burning with a complex flame of anger and grievance.

"Dong Mo. Fight me again. One-on-one, seriously."

Dong Mo looked up at her, then yawned.

"Hey...no way, it's already so late, look, it's all dark. I've been tormented by Master all day, and then you dragged me into this fight, my whole body is about to fall apart..."

After saying that, Dong Mo propped himself up from the ground, dusted himself off, and tilted his head to reveal a casual smile.

"If you're going to fight, why don't you stay the night and fight tomorrow?"

Dong Yueying's hand holding the sword trembled slightly. Looking at Dong Mo's face, which was filled with "I'm really sleepy," she suddenly didn't know where to vent the anger surging in her chest.

Does this guy even know what he's doing?

She had traveled a long way to come here, vowing to defeat him and wash away the shame of the Dong family, but this guy was just going through the motions from beginning to end, and even deliberately lost to her in the end.

Now he casually invites her to stay overnight, as if all her anger and obsession are nothing more than childish tantrums in his eyes.

Dong Yueying opened her mouth, wanting to curse him, to question him, to shove his nonchalant face to the ground. But the words that came out were just a soft...

"it is good."

Dong Yueying lowered her sword.

"Tomorrow. Tomorrow you have to play seriously with me."

"Okay, okay, we'll fight tomorrow, we'll definitely fight tomorrow." Dong Mo nodded repeatedly, his tone blatantly perfunctory.

Then he turned around and called out to Xiao Bai, "Xiao Bai, what are we having for dinner tonight?"

"I want to eat hot pot!" Gu Ziyue's fox ears perked up instantly, and her tail swished excitedly behind her.

Nobody asked you.

"What kind of tone is that?!" Gu Ziyue tugged at Dong Mo's sleeve from behind, her fox ears trembling with anger. "I'm the princess of the Southern Wilderness Heavenly Demon City!"

"Even princesses have to take turns speaking. Xiao Bai, you speak."

Seeing how Dong Mo and Gu Ziyue interacted, and recalling how well they had worked together just moments before, Feng Ling Shuang felt a pang of bitterness.

What's wrong with Dong Mo? He's clearly my rival, yet he's always getting close to this vixen! No, I have to take him back to the Ancient Holy Land. What if he gets fooled by that vixen and actually gets taken to the Southern Wilderness?

Thinking of this, Feng Ling Shuang immediately stepped forward and slapped away Gu Zi Yue's hand that was tugging at Dong Mo's clothes, her azure eyes filled with displeasure. Her movements were swift and decisive, as if she were chasing away a wildcat that had stolen offerings.

"Men and women should not touch each other! What kind of behavior is this, pulling and tugging at each other!"

Gu Ziyue was stunned for a moment, then bristled.

"ha……"

Gu Ziyue bared her teeth at Feng Ling Shuang, letting out a threatening growl, her amber eyes filled with hostility. Feng Ling Shuang glared back without backing down, and it seemed as if invisible sparks were crackling between them.

Seeing that the two of them were about to start arguing again, Dong Mo quickly stepped between them.

"Wait, wait, wait... Junior Sister Feng, what would you like to eat?"

Feng Ling Shuang withdrew her glare from Gu Zi Yue and demurely straightened her clothes: "Barbecue."

"Barbecue is great!" Yin Lingsu appeared out of nowhere, carrying a wine gourd, her eyes shining brightly. "It's the perfect accompaniment to alcohol!"

"Okay, two votes to one, let's have a barbecue then." Dong Mo made the final decision.

"Hey... how could you do this!" Gu Ziyue's eyes widened, her tail swishing back and forth in dissatisfaction.

However, no one paid any attention to her.

Dong Yueying stood aside, quietly watching this scene.

Watching Dong Mo and Gu Ziyue bicker, watching Feng Ling Shuang angrily stand between the two, watching Yin Ling Su laughing heartily while carrying a wine gourd, and watching Xiao Bai busily preparing the barbecue grill on the side.

Watching these people bustling and noisy under the moonlight.

Her heart suddenly clenched with pain.

This is the way they get along.

This kind of trust—the ability to argue and bicker without restraint, the unconditional willingness to entrust one's back to another—this kind of honesty that requires no scheming or calculation…

It was something she had never seen at home before.

The Dong family. The foremost family in the Western Wilderness. An ancient family with a history spanning ten thousand years.

There, everyone is a pawn. The family needs useful people; the useless ones are discarded. Every year, the family removes those who lack talent from the main family's list and sends them to remote branches to fend for themselves.

There, even among close relatives, there is scheming and backstabbing. Fathers scheme against their sons, brothers scheme against their sisters; everyone wears a smiling mask, but beneath the mask lies countless hidden dangers.

Dong Yueying was able to establish herself in the Dong family as an adopted daughter because she was useful enough.

She knew clearly that every instance of "concern" from her family and "affection" from her elders came at a price, and that she would have to repay it many times over.

No one will be unconditionally kind to her. No one's smile is genuine.

She had always believed that this was the truth of the world. All families were like this, and everyone was like this.

Until she arrived here and met Dong Mo.

Then she saw a completely different Dong Mo.

Dong Mo, who was always taciturn in the Dong family, always locked himself in his room, and always kept his distance from everyone, is here...

He can bicker with a vixen, joke with his fellow disciples, help the maids grill meat, and bargain with his master.

They'll argue and make a fuss.

It makes you laugh from the bottom of your heart...

Dong Yueying's fingernails dug into her palm.

Could it be... that this is what Dong Mo has always wanted to have and truly longed for?

Something you'd be willing to betray your family for?

A voice inside her was saying...

I really want to have all of this.

No.

Dong Yueying shook her head violently.

I am now the legitimate daughter of the Dong family, and the focus of the family's cultivation. The family has high hopes for me; the family is everything to me.

Yes, that's it.

But... if this is the right thing to do, why does my heart feel so empty?

"Yueying?"

Dong Mo's voice suddenly rang in my ears.

Dong Yueying suddenly came to her senses and found that Dong Mo had walked up to her at some point and was looking at her with his head tilted.

What would you like to eat?

Dong Yueying pursed her lips and turned her face away.

"Don't prepare food for me. I'm not like you people who lack willpower and need to eat to satisfy your appetites."

[Supreme Bone: You silly girl, Ying! What are you doing! Hurry up and say yes to Gege! I want to eat Gege's cooking! Say yes, say yes, say yes...]

Dong Mo's eyelids twitched as he looked at the pop-up window for the Supreme Bone.

"Oh...then I won't bring you one. Xiao Bai! Light the fire!"

"Coming, young master!"