No Joy in the Hehuan Sect - Chapter 2

Chapter 2

The senior sister who had given me advice was shocked to learn that I hadn’t copied books last night.

“It worked? Dual cultivation with the Young Sect Master was amazing, wasn’t it?!”

I sternly defended Luo Wuhuan’s reputation. “That isn’t what happened. I had a great epiphany and realized that my feelings for the Young Sect Master are nothing more than pure admiration. I have no improper thoughts about him.”

“From now on, I will turn over a new leaf. I won’t entertain even the slightest thought about the Young Sect Master ever again!”

My solemn vow rang out through the hall, but no one answered me.

Only afterward did I follow the senior sister’s eyes, which were blinking so hard they were practically twitching, and look behind me.

Luo Wuhuan was standing in the doorway, backlit, a guqin cradled in his arms.

With the light behind him, I couldn’t make out his expression. I only felt that he didn’t seem very happy.

An illusion. It had to be an illusion.

Now that I had stopped pestering him, Luo Wuhuan should have been relieved.

Luo Wuhuan said nothing, acting as though he hadn’t heard a thing, and gently explained that he would be substituting for the instructor in this lesson.

But as he passed me, he murmured,

“Junior Sister is very lively today.”

He usually called me Xiaoxiao. Today, that proper address of “Junior Sister” made my ears tingle, and my beast ears nearly sprang up from the top of my head.

Seeing this, the senior sister let out several lecherous chuckles and patted me approvingly on the shoulder.

“I get it now. You’re taking a step back to advance. You run, he chases, and neither of you can escape.”

She made no effort to lower her voice. Luo Wuhuan, who was walking ahead of us, heard her and gave me a thoughtful look.

Me: “…”

That isn’t what happened! Let me explain!

No one believed the “admiration” I spoke of. They all assumed it was a joke.

After all, everyone in the Hehuan Sect was a shameless pervert.

But they didn’t know that I wasn’t actually a disciple of the Hehuan Sect.

I was, in fact, a snow leopard spirit picked up by Luo Wuhuan.

He himself had no love for extravagance, but he spoiled my beast form rotten.

I had more than thirty brushes just for grooming my fur, ranging from gold brushes to chicken-wing wood combs.

My cat bed had been designed by Luo Wuhuan himself and crafted from the finest warm jade. It was not only priceless, but also beneficial to cultivation.

I had charcoal fires in winter and ice in summer, not to mention a stunning beauty like Luo Wuhuan giving me kisses and cuddles every day.

Even the emperor of the mortal realm might not have lived in greater comfort than I did.

The thing about Luo Wuhuan was that he raised a great many furry creatures. Once they reached adulthood, he would set them free.

I panicked after the first batch of my brothers returned to the mountains and forests.

What if Luo Wuhuan decided that I could live independently too and drove me away?

I racked my brains day after day. Then, thanks to an accident, I finally embarked on my path of seduction.

When I had first arrived at the Hehuan Sect, I still couldn’t take human form, so Luo Wuhuan had washed me himself whenever I bathed.

He was beautiful, and his technique was pleasing to a leopard, so after I gained human form, I wanted him to wash me too.

So one day, I secretly lay in wait at the cold spring in the rear mountains, planning to launch a surprise attack.

Once I was thoroughly drenched, surely he would have no choice but to wash me, right?

He didn’t. Instead, he knocked me back into my original form with a single hand seal.

As the world spun around me, he grabbed me by the scruff of my neck and tossed me into the Scripture Repository, where I spent the entire afternoon copying out the words “men and women should maintain proper boundaries.”

My hand was writing about the boundaries between men and women, but all I could see was the sight of water droplets sliding over his collarbones.

Before long, my nose started bleeding.

I understood.

Furry creatures couldn’t stay by his side forever. But if I could become his cultivation partner, wouldn’t that mean I could enjoy wealth and glory for the rest of my life?