"So what do you want?" Ji Yueyao said irritably, completely oblivious to the ambiguity in Mu Yanxuan's tone, as she was feeling extremely uncomfortable at the moment.
What does he want? Mu Yanxuan quieted down, and after a while he suddenly raised his head and stared straight at Ji Yueyao. It was unclear what he was thinking, but his cheeks turned a faint pink.
"Ji Yueyao, be my woman."
Imagine Ji Yueyao's completely bewildered expression.
What...what?! Ji Yueyao blinked like a fool, as if thunderbolts were rolling down her head. She had been confessed to?! This was the first time in her life she had ever been confessed to.
"Mu Yanxuan, so you have a talent for telling jokes." Ji Yueyao said blankly.
"I'm serious." Mu Yanxuan looked straight into Ji Yueyao's dark eyes, as if he could see into the depths of her heart. Just as Ji Yueyao's heart was fluttering, Mu Yanxuan's next sentence made her lungs ache terribly, "Ling Yang said that if there is a woman he likes, he must protect her."
Huh? Ji Yueyao frowned. He remembered Ling Yang; they had met him at the ant-like strange bird's den. "How many women has Ling Yang found pleasing to the eye?"
"I don't know, I can't count them all, I haven't paid attention," Mu Yanxuan answered honestly.
Ji Yueyao fell silent. She never expected that Ling Yang, who had such handsome features, was actually a womanizer.
However... I feel really bad about it.
"And what about you?" Ji Yueyao asked casually.
"I don't really like women getting close to me..." Mu Yanxuan gently raised his hand and stroked Ji Yueyao's face, saying softly, "So Ji Yueyao, I only want you to be my woman."
"I'm sorry, but I refuse." Ji Yueyao lowered her eyes, her tone becoming somewhat cold. "Mu Yanxuan, the women you speak of are nothing more than playthings attached to men, but I don't want to be a plaything, do you understand?"
Mu Yanxuan was puzzled. "Ji Yueyao, I never intended to treat you as a plaything."
"Anyone would think I'm just your plaything." Ji Yueyao broke free from Mu Yanxuan, sat up, and refused to look at Mu Yanxuan's disappointed face. The gap between her and him was too great. Even in the previous world, she wouldn't have dared to dream of such a thing, let alone in this apocalyptic world where women are extremely unfair.
In this world, it's not that she's afraid to be Mu Yanxuan's woman, but that she can't.
"Mu Yanxuan, if one day I want to become your woman, it will be when I am qualified to stand by your side." Although Ji Yueyao's voice was not loud, the unwavering determination it contained made Mu Yanxuan's heart tremble violently.
"Ji Yueyao, you're a strange woman." Mu Yanxuan's usually cold eyes flickered slightly, a soft light suddenly filling them. He finally stood up, then pulled Ji Yueyao, who was still sitting on the ground, to her feet. "Then it's settled. One day you will become my woman."
"Mmm." Ji Yueyao readily agreed, only realizing something was amiss afterward. When had she and Mu Yanxuan agreed to become his woman?!
"Ahem, I'm still young, no rush." So, let's keep our relationship as far away as possible... Ji Yueyao coughed lightly, trying to salvage the situation a little.
“My mother was only sixteen when she gave birth to me, so you’re not young anymore,” Mu Yanxuan said decisively, leaving Ji Yueyao speechless.
"So young? Then your mother should be..." Ji Yueyao quickly calculated in her mind. Mu Yanxuan was born in the late 1990s, so he should be twenty-three years old this year. Then his mother should be only "thirty-nine years old?"
“My mother has passed away.” Mu Yanxuan’s eyes showed little sadness, only loneliness. “Because she was too young, she died right after giving birth to me, so I never actually met my mother. I can only remember her appearance from her photos.”
"I'm sorry." Ji Yueyao hadn't expected this to happen. She looked at Mu Yanxuan apologetically and unconsciously raised her hand to brush Mu Yanxuan's cheek. "Don't cry."
A tear rolled down Mu Yanxuan's cheek, seemingly unaware of it. He simply took Ji Yueyao's small hand, turned his cheek gently, and rubbed it against hers tenderly. "You're so warm, Ji Yueyao."
Ji Yueyao remained silent, merely watching Mu Yanxuan stand there, yet she could sense a profound loneliness emanating from him. His handsome face was framed by his usually indifferent eyes, which were gently closed, as if he were completely trusting Ji Yueyao, feeling the warmth of her hand.
Ji Yueyao's heart trembled slightly, as if half of it had been drawn in, and gradually began to beat faster.
Mu Yanxuan always manages to...attract her in this way.
The next day, Mu Yanxuan took his men out early in the morning, leaving only the Termite with healing abilities to protect Ji Yueyao. Ji Yueyao, along with Kaqi and Lin Xuan, went to find the venues for challenging the top twenty.
Ji Yueyao raised an eyebrow as she looked at the group of men with blue bandages wrapped around their arms walking in the middle of the road. These men were likely under the command of Zhi Ye, the fourth seat of the Nanxiao Base; the bandages wrapped around their right arms were a symbol of their status.
In the Nanxiao base, there are only two ways to prove your identity. One is to join a major power and add the corresponding characteristics of the power to your body. The other is to have no marks at all and spend your days running around the streets looking for work. Such people are mostly lower-class.
"Captain, it's here." Kachi looked at the map, then her eyes lit up as she pulled Ji Yueyao through a huge iron gate. "According to the map of the Nanxiao base that Mu Yanxuan gave us, this is the public challenge area."
The public challenge area, as the name suggests, is an area where anyone belonging to the Nanxiao Base can challenge the top twenty. However, the Nanxiao Base is not responsible for life or death, meaning that it doesn't matter if the challenger or the challenged dies on the battlefield.
However, there is another way to challenge someone: a private challenge. This is the simplest way. You just need to find the person you want to challenge, and you can initiate the challenge anywhere. However, most people who do this will die silently, because no one knows how many people the Twenty Seats will bring with them. If you're going to use underhanded tactics, why can't the Twenty Seats being challenged also use underhanded tactics? You should know that once someone becomes one of the Twenty Seats, they will immediately have a private team of five hundred people. However, whether this team will expand or shrink later depends on the Twenty Seats' financial capabilities.
"Captain, we can only challenge the twentieth seat now," Lin Xuan said softly, glancing at the electronic board next to the iron gate. This was the annoying thing about the public challenge area; they had to challenge each person up from the twentieth seat. This made private challenges much more convenient.
"This is so troublesome," Ji Yueyao frowned. "We don't have much time to waste like this."
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