Chapter Seventeen

1

"Hiss~" I took a deep breath and heard a "slap slap" sound coming from the neighbor's door after dinner, as if someone inside was being whipped with a leather belt.

"Are they being robbed in there?" Li Liu found the sound inside to be very unusual, but some strange sounds behind the door sounded terrifying.

Li Yeh carefully opened the door, revealing the living room where the middle-aged man was half-naked, playing with a bikini-clad beauty with a long whip.

"Oh, a whip~"

Li Yeh pointed at the bikini-clad beauty and then gestured for her to leave, knowing exactly what to do, she picked up her clothes from the floor and ran towards the door.

"Yeh, this is the second time today you've driven someone away. Do you want me to suffocate?" The middle-aged man scratched his head frantically for thirty seconds, feeling completely unhappy from head to toe. After the thirty seconds, he calmed down, his mood gradually softened as he looked at Li Yeh’s face. It seemed that Li Yeh was like a pillar in the middle-aged man's heart, a pillar that the middle-aged man inevitably wanted to find a replacement for in his life of revelry every night. However, this pillar was simply unattainable, even though she was sitting right across from him.

"Cousin, you guys go back to that room, take the little beauty, I'll stay here tonight. And make sure to tell Moana to rest well!"

Yeh closed the door, leaving Li Liu and me outside.

"Qin Yang, I can't help but feel that the story in this room is very complicated."

"It’s not complicated at all, just a one-sided love from the middle-aged man and a proud woman."

"Hey," Li Liu grabbed the handle of my wheelchair and then wrapped her arms around me from behind in the hallway, "Are we going to pretend not to know each other as soon as we enter this room again?"

"Well, it’s better that way. From now on, even though I know Li Yeh will be furious if she finds out about the many girls around her future son-in-law, I’m not too worried about that. What I’m most worried about is Moana. If my identity is revealed here, I’m afraid it might harm an ordinary person."

"Well, then maybe I shouldn't have moved in."

"You shouldn't have, but since you were already spied on, I don't dare let you stay outside."

"Oh~ You care about me so much, you even used lipstick to write 'silence' to warn me not to come looking for you." As I comforted Moana in her room, I felt Li Liu's surveillance, so I wrote two words with Moana's lipstick on the mirror.

"We’ll talk about it later, let's stay here tonight."

2

That night was very quiet, and it seemed that the friendship between girls wasn't difficult to establish. After spending a night together, Li Liu and Moana became close, and Moana's nervousness had diminished quite a bit. Early this morning, she got up and prepared breakfast.

"Reisgolo, wake up, you need to take a bath."

"What! Another bath!"

After having Moana bathe me once, I felt traumatized.

"It's not the first time. Come on, get up!"

"Listen, someone's knocking at the door, go see if it's your boss coming back!"

"Boss doesn't need to knock when coming back."

"Moana, there's a man outside looking for you, claiming to be your colleague. Shall I bathe him too? I can take care of people, you know!"

Li Liu interrupted our conversation, smoothly taking Moana away, and indeed someone was knocking at the door.

"A bath, my Reisgolo, it seems like your life isn’t as... difficult as I imagined."

"I'm exhausted both physically and mentally."

"Qin Yang, how many times has Moana given you a bath?"

"I don't know when I was unconscious, but I had one after waking up. It's so painful to have others see me completely naked when I have nothing to see back."

"Do you want to watch Moana bathe?"

"No, I've seen it before. The whole student council has seen everything of mine..."

Li Liu's eyes emitted a purple magical light, and when the magic pupil was activated, ordinary people would be in trouble. Unfortunately, I was just an ordinary person at that moment, so I shielded myself with a blanket.

"Let me help you bathe. You seemed to enjoy watching last time!" Li Liu grabbed the blanket with one hand, and I couldn't summon any strength to resist. I gazed into the magic pupil, but instead of seeing hallucinations, I saw Li Liu's memories, and I saw Elena.

"Elena?"

"We've become good friends again. It seems Elena hasn't changed much."

Li Liu showed me her memories of the past few days with Elena. During this time, Elena's reactions were not as excited as when she saw me. They simply reacquainted themselves, calmly conversing without any extreme reactions. Was it all directed at me?

"If there's no need or certainty, be cautious when meeting Elena."

"I understand. Even though I know we're on the same island, I dare not meet her."

As Li Liu and I emerged from the room, we discovered that the visitor at the door was Dong Ge. He was acting completely out of character, showing great care and concern for Moana, behaving like a courteous butler.

"He... must have fallen under your illusion."

"I heard he has a bad character."

Li Liu had probably used her illusion on Dong Ge as soon as he entered, or else how could they have any contact?

"Dong Cui, you're here... Why do you look like that?"

"Boss, do you have any orders?"

Dong Ge's respectful demeanor startled Li Yihe, who had just walked in. Li Yihe's influence on Dong Ge was not particularly good, so the contrast in his behavior was quite surprising.

"Well, this reaction is good. From now on, Moana will be an artist, and today you will be her assistant!"

"What? Assistant? I... I'm a manager!"

I asked Li Liu to dispel the illusion. Dong Ge was not an enemy, so there was no need to keep him in an illusion forever.

"Is there a difference? Just do as you're told, no need for so many words in a day."

"Moana can also become an artist."

"Let's go take a bath, let them sort it out themselves." Li Liu pushed me away, uninterested in the artist's affairs.

2

On the island of Meng, the diplomatic palace of the gods, High Priest Lanhanel and Elena had been in the council chamber for over half an hour. Most of the elders of the ancient gods were quietly staying in their rooms after the events of the previous night. Only Hisa and Xue'er sat in the garden pavilion, staring at Pia for a good half an hour. Pinno was meditating all day long, while Pichu and Pia had nothing else to do but chat. Tony and Han went swimming at the seaside early in the morning.

"Hisa, why watch them for so long? They won't die if we don't keep an eye on them, so why bother?"

"Are they really the Three Dragon Heads under the Holy Dragon Throne? Dragon-ized beings, from ancient times to the present, there have only been the Holy Demon Twin Dragons and the Dragon Maiden. When did the Three Dragon Heads gain this ability? Moreover, the Three Dragon Heads are evil dragons imprisoned by the Holy Dragon. Why do they not hate the Holy Dragon and instead follow his orders?"

"Who knows, we can't have them transform into dragons here for us to see, and the 'Sacred Decree' is unquestionable."

"But I have my doubts, Snow, do you have feelings for that bald guy?"

Snow glanced at the bald guy Tony, and said strangely, "Why would I have feelings for a bald guy?"

"Because you are the calculator deity, your war consciousness is almost zero except for using Magic for calculations."

"Hisa, are you saying I'm dumb?"

"No, I'm saying you've never been in a war, so you can't sense it. Since that bald guy came in, I've wanted to fight him."

"I never expected the always gentle Hisa to want to fight someone too. Did that bald guy offend you? Oh... he must have pursued Nia as well."

"Don't bring up Nia. That bald guy is from the Demon Clan! He's trying hard to conceal it. Facing so many deities without losing control and opening up the slaughter, I almost didn’t notice, if it wasn’t for the urge to hit him."

"So the bald guy must be stronger than you. He remains calm and collected in front of dozens of deities, while you can't help but stare at just one demon. I must be a clever deity, right!"

"I can't deny that."

Hisa's eyes never left Tony, but Tony never glanced his way, displaying a thoughtful look.

"You agree that I'm clever too, right?" Snow's pride swelled, but Hisa poured cold water on her.

"I said he's stronger than me."

"You... forget it. But why would a demon mix in with the deities? From my perspective, I can tell that the girl beside him is neither deity nor demon or human."

"That girl poses no threat, so just leave her alone." A figure appeared behind Hisa.

"Elena? What did the High Priest say?" Coming towards them was Elena, and if the High Priest, as a diplomatic envoy for gods and demons, came to find her, there must be something urgent.

Elena looked weary as she sat down in front of Hisa and the others. The weariness wasn't due to what the High Priest said, but to the subsequent orders - to arrest Qin Yang in front of the crowd.

"He mentioned a bunch of weapon procurement terms; I will convey them to those old folks later. But I feel his main purpose was to address that matter."

"What matter?"

"He said... the one who attacked the arriving aircraft wasn't Qin Yang."

"Not Qin Yang? Didn't you see it?" Hisa felt surprised. Elena had clearly seen the whole truth, but the High Priest Lanhan insisted it wasn't Qin Yang, which was obviously a lie.

"Situ Liyao, that's the name they gave me."

"Situ? The young star who just arrived on Maoshan Island yesterday, that's the name. What is Lanhan planning to do?"

Snow sighed and thought for a while. She put together information within reach and said, "Using someone as a tool to kill."

"There are rumors that the Situ family sold weapons to Lanhan, and now at this juncture, Lanhan has hit the Situ family. They must have a dispute."

Elena pulled out a blueprint showing the stage design for the evening's awards ceremony.

"Regardless, we don't need to heed Lanhan's words. I will only follow the orders of the Holy Dragon, and this order aligns with The Divine Realm's plan to restore human faith. Anubis of Emonea has already made people apprehensive, and the target is still Qin Yang. Arresting Qin Yang in public will immediately boost the prestige of the deities. Tonight, as a signal, I will shatter the laser light above the emcee's head. Uncle Erdu, you will join me in cornering Qin Yang."

"Are you really so sure he will show up tonight?"

"I believe he will show up." The confidence in Elena's eyes left Hisa puzzled.