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Chapter 390 – Moving Promises?
Lin Xiao and Elena were talking about her thirteenth aunt but when they saw ShenDai Ying suddenly walk over, they quickly stopped and changed the topic.
“I wonder how Caesar is doing now.”
“Hm… Yellowstone’s terrain is complex, I heard from Tom that there are a lot of underground tunnels, so they might have hidden in them.”
“Possibly, Elena, you might be right.”
The moonlight was dim and their faces couldn’t be clearly seen, but ShenDai Ying could still see them acting flustered. Lin Xiao was better but Elena wasn’t good at acting and her tone were stiff and awkward like an intern actor reciting their lines. ShenDai Ying couldn’t even get angry because of her comical manner.
“Hm? Strange, why aren’t you guys continuing what you were talking about before? Am I not welcome?”
“Yes, you’re not welcome.”
When ShenDai Ying struck up a conversation, Elena didn’t bother cooperating with Lin Xiao’s skit nor was she concerned with ShenDai Ying’s feelings as she bluntly responded.
ShenDai Ying’s smile stiffened but it quickly recovered as she smiled and approached her.
“Hehe, I’m still coming even if I’m not welcomed, Elena, I just like how cold you are!”
ShenDai Ying ran over and grabbed Elena’s arm and rubbed her elbow against her breasts like before.
“Let go of me you slut!” Elena blushed and tried to shake ShenDai Ying off but she couldn’t.
ShenDai Ying wasn’t actually using a lot of strength, it’s just that Elena didn’t want to forcibly push her away.
The demon king was always like that, although her icy cold words always drove people away, but her actions didn’t match them.
She was actually pretty gentle.
Like right now…
“Lin Xiao, we have to leave as soon as possible… I’ll give you guys ten minutes.”
“Ah?”
Just as Lin Xiao was enjoying watching them together, Elena was already getting ready to leave.
“Slut, stop pretending, go talk with you lover, I know you didn’t come for me.” Elena gently pushed ShenDai Ying away.
It was just a normal sentence but ShenDai Ying’s smile stiffened again and lost strength in her arms. She watched as Elena shrugged her off and walked to Yao Zi and the others to discuss their plan to break into Yellowstone.
“Hehe, I-I don’t understand what she’s saying, I just wanted to get closer to her, but it seems like Elena still hates me like usual, what a shame…”
“Sister Ying?”
“It’s nothing, really… I’m fine, hehe, it’s just…”
ShenDai Ying tried to hide her inner panic and turned so that Lin Xiao couldn’t see her cramped expression.
But if even Elena couldn’t see through her true goal, how could Lin Xiao not?
What should she do?
She contemplated for a while then glanced at Lin Xiao and realized that he was seriously waiting for her words. So she calmed down and sat on the tree stump that Elena was sitting on earlier.
“Sister Ying… is there something you want to say to me?”
“No, no, there isn’t! Hm… that’s not it, um… hm.”
ShenDai Ying muttered incoherently like a shy little girl and nodded.
It’s strange, why was she embarrassed?
She remembered that when she first met Lin Xiao, he was the embarrassed one. At that time he didn’t even know how to face her, he was nervous and couldn’t speak coherently and ShenDai Ying was carefree, she would tease him at times and completely had him in her palms and could eat him whenever she wanted to.
But now it was the complete opposite.
Lin Xiao was slightly smiling while waiting for her words and wasn’t embarrassed or nervous at all. She was the uncomfortable one that was hesitating and didn’t know how to express herself.
For some reason, ShenDai Ying suddenly remembered what her sister once told her… the only way to be truly free is to be unattached and without any desires, once people have someone to be worried about, they become weak and cowardly.
So did she become cowardly because she met that person?
“Lin Xiao, I, I…”
…
What are you planning with Elena?
Even if the enlightened are behind the Gotham Kingdom plague, why must you make them your enemy?
Most importantly, what secret do you have with Elena?
What else are you hiding from me?
…
If she could ask those questions, then she wouldn’t be a little cowardly princess, she thought.
But she couldn’t.
ShenDai Ying opened her mouth and tried to say what she was thinking, but she swallowed her words. She knew that Lin Xiao wouldn’t change how he treated her because of a few sentences, but when she thought about how those words can cause him to dislike her, she became afraid and couldn’t say anything.
Even the time alone they’re getting now is because of Elena taking the initiative, so how could she say anything to them?
“Sister Ying?”
Since she wasn’t speaking, Lin Xiao curiously walked over and sat next to her. Then he saw her nervously biting her lips and he suddenly realized.
He’s been giving her the cold shoulder recently. He couldn’t tell her about the secret between him and Elena and didn’t want to drag her into the struggle with the enlightened so he acted carefully and hid a lot of things from her, but at the same time, that created doubts within her.
That’s right, he was the one who proactively and passionately chased after her and even boldly declared and promised happiness for the rest of their life. But now he was ignoring her, was he giving up and eating his promises?
“Sister Ying… sorry, I had too much to do recently, so I didn’t have much time to talk with you… please don’t misunderstand.”
“Misunderstand? Hehe, it’s nothing, you’re overthinking.”
Nothing?
If Elena said that, Lin Xiao would believe it since she was a direct person, but he doesn’t believe it when ShenDai Ying says it!
If a woman says there’s nothing wrong, then that means it’s a big deal! Lin Xiao still knew that basic knowledge.
But it’s not like he can just tell ShenDai Ying that Elena is actually the demon king and they have to fight together against a mysterious cult for the future of the demons?
Thinking about it there was only one thing he could honestly say to her.
“Sister Ying, please give me a bit of time…” Lin Xiao approached her and picked up her cold hands.
ShenDai Ying unconsciously wanted to pull her hands back when she was suddenly approached, but he gripped them tightly and didn’t let her escape.
“I’ll definitely give you an explanation once I take care of this! One you will be satisfied with… sister Ying you have to trust me!”
“Yeah, I trust you…”
ShenDai Ying smiled and all her suspicions and jealousy vanished.
Lin Xiao was still that Lin Xiao, he didn’t change, the one who changed was herself. She became more impatient and suspicious.
After that ShenDai Ying felt a lot better, but there was still one hurdle that she couldn’t overcome.
“Lin Xiao, I want to ask you something.”
“Go ahead.”
“If I went back to being that woman who kills without batting an eyelid, are you still willing to keep your promise?”
Lately she had a bad feeling like these peaceful days wouldn’t continue for much longer.
She used her injuries as an excuse to push off missions, but the master wasn’t an idiot and soon would send more assassination missions…
She had thought she was just a normal woman as she cooked for Lin Xiao every day and she forgot the reality where she was actually just a sharp murderous weapon.
What should she do when she has to face reality?
“Don’t worry, I am.”
“You’re lying! Don’t try to trick me, no one is willing to accept me like that! Even I can’t accept myself…”
“Oh, then that’s simple. I just won’t let you become like that, wouldn’t that be fine?”
“Lin Xiao… you!?”
ShenDai Ying was shocked when she heard his calm promise.
Why did he always like talking big? Why did he always like giving promises that moved her?
It was easy enough to say, if it were that simple, she would have just ran away rather than continue the torment.
But… Lin Xiao wasn’t someone who liked to lie to girls, since he said it, did he have something to stand on?
Even if she had no evidence, her intuition told her that there was something fishy going on!
“Lin Xiao… do you know Xiao Hua?” She squinted and pretended to casually ask.
“Ah, Xiao Hua, the night before last she… eh? No, no, I don’t know her!”
Lin Xiao was still lost in the atmosphere from earlier and didn’t expect the landmine she suddenly dropped and almost confessed the shady business between him and Xiao Hua.
“What did you just say… the night before last???”