Chapter 42 Reluctance
Zhou Jiu returned to her dorm, touched the corner of her lip, and hissed, it hurt a little. She couldn't help but send a message to Chu Zhao: "I bit it, please be gentler next time, senior."
Chu Zhaoyang looked at the message with a smile on his lips and couldn't help but laugh: "Whether it's acceptable for a werewolf to impersonate a villager is not good or not, but as a villager, I don't think I have much say in it. I don't mind if the werewolf continues to be a werewolf."
Zhou Jiu: Are you saying I act like a wolf? That's slander against me.
Chu Zhao: Hmm... Werewolves usually don't admit that they are werewolves.
Zhou Jiu: Hmph, beating around the bush, no wonder your teammates call you heartless.
Chu Zhao: If I remember correctly, the last time Dora was talking about you, he mentioned me.
Zhou Jiu: You saw it?
Chu Zhao: Of course, I watched my girlfriend's first performance.
Zhou Jiu: That means you didn't read the rest.
Chu Zhao: I watched it too, but your first battle was really well fought. I thought I had found your weakness, so I would target your weakness next time.
Chu Zhao: It looks like I'm going to lose next time.
Zhou Jiu: Wow! Is that a compliment? /\/Narcissism//
Chu Zhao: Of course, there are so many people confessing their love to goddesses in the posts, what's wrong with me praising my girlfriend?
Zhou Jiu: You never compliment me when we're together, but you always do it in text messages. Can't you compliment me when you're looking at my face?
Chu Zhao: I'm afraid you'll beat me up on the spot.
Zhou Jiu: Speechless / I'm very gentle, okay?
Chu Zhao: Haha, many posts have misled me into believing I'll be a victim of domestic violence.
Zhou Jiu: //Heh//Wait for me to come back
Chu Zhao: Of course I'll wait for you.
Zhou Jiu glanced at the time; it was well past her bedtime, but she and Chu Zhao were still chatting casually.
We chatted until the early hours of the morning.
Zhou Jiu: //Sleepy/
Chu Zhao: Then go to sleep early, and wait for my surprise on your birthday.
Zhou Jiu: I'm waiting.
Zhou Jiu: It feels like a challenge to a fight.
Chu Zhao: Domestic violence? I could experience it myself, then post a plea for sympathy to reduce the number of posts confessing their love to you.
Zhou Jiu, who had typed "Goodnight" but hadn't sent it, deleted the original reply and continued posting: "//Childish//Are you jealous? I also found a lot of comments saying 'Brother Chu is so handsome'."
Chu Zhao: So, are you jealous too?
Zhou Jiu: Am I jealous?
Zhou Jiu: Because I know you're mine. Your excellence and the fact that people like you make me very proud. People like you because you're good. If you were a terrible person, probably no one would like you.
Chu Zhao: I'm even more jealous now. I like someone to possess them.
Zhou Jiu: // Rolls eyes //
Zhou Jiu: There are many types of liking. Liking someone without spending a long time together is like having a good feeling or appreciation. It's about appreciating beautiful things that happen to match a certain aesthetic.
Chu Zhao: I've been tagged.
Zhou Jiu: I haven't finished yet... At first it was like this, but to develop deeper feelings, we need to spend more time together. We got together because of a very shallow liking at first, but after spending more time together and getting to know each other, don't you think our relationship has gotten better?
Chu Zhao is currently typing.
Zhou Jiu: Of course, you can't say there's nothing better, otherwise, you know, I'll resort to domestic violence. //Exaggeration/
Chu Zhao: Zhou Xiaojiu, I'm scared... (trembling)
Zhou Jiu: Silence Sleeping
Chu Zhao: Goodnight and sweet dreams, my beloved Zhou Xiaojiu.
Zhou Jiu slept soundly without any dreams. After washing up and packing all his things, he greeted Wu Ke'er and Molly from the dormitory and then went to the meeting place.
"Zhou Jiu, good morning." Feng Ziyue waved to Lu Qi from the side.
"Good morning." Zhou Jiu opened his eyes with difficulty, then closed them again and stood next to Sun You, closing his eyes to rest and wait for the starship to arrive.
"Didn't you sleep well last night?" Sun You asked.
"I was chatting with my boyfriend until late," Zhou Jiu said in a breathy voice.
"Feng Ziyue has been watching you. Is there something between you two that we don't know about? It's so strange." Lin Xiu asked in a low voice, feeling that Feng Ziyue's gaze was fixed on Zhou Jiu.
"I don't know." Zhou Jiu opened her eyes briefly and then closed them again. "Maybe it's because I'm too beautiful."
"Please stop being so narcissistic, okay? Look at Sun You, she's prettier than you."
Zhou Jiu rolled his eyes. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Stop trying to sow discord. If I really start beating you up one day, you'd better watch out."
"No, you're a goddess-level figure, mind your image."
As Zhou Jiu spoke, she walked towards her seat number inside the starship, arguing with Lin Xiu, which dispelled her sleepiness.
"Zhou Jiu, someone's seeing you off at the airport," Lin Xiu suddenly called out in Zhou Jiu's ear.
"What airport drop-off?" Zhou Jiu's first thought was of Chu Zhao, but then he remembered that Chu Zhao had class this morning, so it couldn't be him.
"Look," Lin Xiu said, pointing to his virtual screen.
Zhou Jiu looked over and saw that Lin Xiu had shared his virtual screen viewing rights with her. She saw a live video, in which several people were holding posters about her and standing at the entrance of the waiting hall with flowers.
Zhou Jiu's eyes flickered, a feeling he couldn't quite describe welling up inside him. After thinking for a moment, he wrote a message on the StarNet feed.
Half-baked 999: This is Zhou Jiu. I'm glad you came to see me off. I've already boarded the starship. You should head back soon.
Zhou Jiu thought that this was just an official event, and since she knew the schedule, there probably wouldn't be another one, so she didn't tell anyone on the StarNet not to come.
Zhou Jiu quickly noticed that her social media followers were increasing rapidly.
"That's amazing!" Lin Xiu exclaimed.
Zhou Jiu rested her chin on her hand, looking at the private messages that kept flashing below, replying to her. She clicked on one, then exited.
"Haha, my sister's legs aren't legs, they're my oxygen! I want to hug my sister's legs and be a pendant so we can conquer the stars and the sea together. How exaggerated!" Lin Xiu laughed loudly.
Zhou Jiu turned off sharing and glared at Lin Xiu.
"Why are you glaring at me? Aren't you also taken in by these exaggerated words? Otherwise, why would you have left with that expression?"
Zhou Jiu closed his eyes. "I can't be bothered with you."
"Our goddess's legs are no ordinary legs, they're legs that can kick over strange beasts, so what's wrong with using them as ornaments?"
Zhou Jiu opened his eyes again and looked at Feng Ziyue, who had turned around and was leaning on the back of the seat, speaking in their direction.
"You're a fan of hers too?" Lin Xiu pointed at Zhou Jiu and said incredulously.
"So what? Who else in the world can defeat a monster with their bare hands? Zhou Jiu is so cool, so what if we're her fans?" This was the first time Feng Ziyue had spoken so much to them all at once.
"...Nothing much, please do as you please." Lin Xiu shut his mouth and looked at Sun You, hoping to get her approval. However, after boarding the starship, Sun You remained silent, deep in thought, and didn't pay much attention to her surroundings.
Zhou Jiu glanced at Feng Ziyue with slight surprise. This was the second person she had met who had ever called her a goddess.
Fighting alien beasts with bare hands is something many people on the desolate planet have done. Because even scavenging mechs are far from enough there, using one's own body to beat up the tough-skinned alien beasts is a choice made out of necessity.
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