After Defying the Villain's Fate for Nine Lifetimes, the Heroines Turn Mad!-Chapter 305 - The Tsundere Aunt Shi Ning
Chapter 305: The Tsundere Aunt Shi Ning
After s̶l̶a̶p̶p̶i̶n̶g̶ tapping Lin Feng’s forehead with the spiritual shovel, Qingning and Xiaobai reluctantly stepped aside.
Shi Ning moved forward.
Although Lin Feng had not formally become her direct disciple and usually avoided her, she was genuinely happy to have such a talented prodigy in the Ancient Pill Tower.
Seeing Lin Feng’s pitiful state, she frowned.
If it were a disciple from another sect who had treated the Ancient Pill Tower’s number one true disciple like this, she, as the Tower Master, would definitely pursue the matter to the end.
But the Jiuyan Sect...
“Sigh!”
Shi Ning sighed deeply.
Although she was the Tower Master of the Ancient Pill Tower, she was also once the Peak Master of the Elixir Peak at the Jiuyan Sect.
Jiang Chen may be bad, but he was Xiao Hongyi’s most valued disciple.
Qingning was mad, mad beyond reason.
So how could she disregard the past and hold the two of them accountable?
Fortunately, although Lin Feng had expended a great deal of energy and blood, he still clung to life and was not in serious trouble.
Otherwise, she really wouldn’t know what to do.
“Here is a seventh-grade Qi and Blood Pill. Feed it to Lin Feng and consider it making amends.” Shi Ning took out a bright red medicinal pill and handed it to Jiang Chen.
Originally, she could have fed it to him herself, but as a Tower Master and a female cultivator, it was not appropriate for her to be too intimate with a man of the opposite sex.
Jiang Chen was even less inclined to do such a thing, so he gave Zhang Hu a meaningful look.
Zhang Hu immediately understood and said with a bow, “Senior, let me take care of this trivial matter.”
“...Alright.” Shi Ning nodded.
While Zhang Hu was feeding Lin Feng the medicine, Shi Ning called Jiang Chen aside.
“Tell me honestly, has my sister gone mad?” she asked directly.
The ‘sister’ she referred to was Xiao Hongyi.
The two had been close since their time at the Jiuyan Sect, often referring to each other as sisters.
“Sort of,” Jiang Chen chose to tell the truth.
“...”
Shi Ning fell silent, tears welling up in her eyes.
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She knew Xiao Hongyi’s personality well.
Her sister, although outwardly strong and inwardly fragile, had always been very stable-minded due to growing up alone on a peak and being taught by the Jiuyan Old Ancestor from a young age.
She couldn’t imagine what Xiao Hongyi had encountered to fall into madness!
“Is it related to you?” Shi Ning glared at Jiang Chen and asked again.
“Uh, this...” Jiang Chen hesitated.
To say it was related, he really hadn’t done anything.
To say it wasn’t, he firmly believed in his own ‘poisonous’ buff.
For a moment, he didn’t know how to respond.
From his silence, Shi Ning assumed she had her answer and immediately concluded that Jiang Chen must have done something unforgivable, causing Xiao Hongyi’s mental instability and descent into madness.
With anger rising inside her, Shi Ning pointed at Jiang Chen’s nose and shouted, “Jiang Chen! You know full well how my sister has treated you! How could you... how could you do that?!”
Well, the misunderstanding had deepened...
Jiang Chen was speechless.
“Ever since I learned of my sister’s madness, I’ve been refining many pills that can stabilize the mind. When you return to the sect, have her take them...” Shi Ning took out a lot of medicinal pills.
Jiang Chen glanced at them and saw they were all high-level pills.
Although he thought these pills were probably useless, as even the Nine Abyss Soul Embryo couldn’t cure Xiao Hongyi’s madness, he still nodded and accepted them.
After all, it was Shi Ning’s kind gesture...
“Why have you come to the Ancient Pill Tower this time?” Shi Ning asked again.
“To participate in the Alchemy Conference.” Jiang Chen replied instantly.
“You know how to refine pills?” Shi Ning raised an eyebrow.
She remembered very clearly that because of his relationship with Ma Wu of Elixir Peak, Jiang Chen rarely set foot on Elixir Peak and had never learned any Way of the Pill.
To this, Jiang Chen vaguely responded, “A little, just a little...”
After rolling her eyes, Shi Ning spoke with an authoritative tone, “You’re not allowed to participate! Go back! Right now! Immediately!”
“Why?” Jiang Chen instinctively asked.
“Because with your ‘little’ experience in the Way of the Pill, participating would only bring shame. And it would be the shame of both my sister and the Jiuyan Sect! Rather than losing face, it’s better to go back straight away!” Shi Ning blurted out.
After a moment’s thought, she added, “Moreover, there are quite a few people within the Ancient Pill Tower who want your life...”
Seeing Jiang Chen looking at her with a meaningful gaze, she huffed, “Hmph, I’m not worried about you! I’m thinking of my sister! Although you’re utterly reprehensible, you are still my sister’s disciple, and I don’t want to make her sad!”
“...Auntie, can you not be tsundere?” Jiang Chen teased.
“Tsundere? What does that mean?” Shi Ning was puzzled.
“Never mind, it’s nothing.” Jiang Chen couldn’t be bothered to explain.
After giving Shi Ning a look, he fell into thought.
In the original story, Shi Ning was not the female lead but a supporting character.
Similarly, although Shi Ning was a supporting character, she was still influenced by the heavens and developed a liking for Lin Feng, just like the other female leads.
However, the difference was that her liking remained just that.
Shi Ning, proud of her status and somewhat tsundere due to her tendency to overthink, did not get too close to Lin Feng.
She didn’t have much of a role in the original story.
Apart from gaining new respect for Lin Feng during the Alchemy Conference, it seemed like the writers who took over the original story had forgotten about her, and she had no further plot.
For this reason, she avoided Lin Feng’s path of killing female characters and was one of the few supporting female characters with a good ending.
So the question arose.
Would this person go mad?
While staring straight at Shi Ning, Jiang Chen thought she probably wouldn’t.
After all, Xiaobai, a somewhat supporting female character, didn’t go mad.
She was just a bit silly!
Although he thought so, he still wasn’t sure.
After pondering for a while, Jiang Chen took Shi Ning’s hand and placed her palm on his own.
After patting it twice, he said meaningfully, “Autie, you must hold on!”
“????”
Looking at her hand and then at Jiang Chen, Shi Ning was confused.
In her view, the scene went like this.
Jiang Chen was staring at her, then took advantage of her momentary distraction to take her hand and stroke it back and forth.
Wasn’t this taking advantage of her?
What was even more infuriating was Jiang Chen even told her to “hold on”!
Hold on to what? Where to hold on? Is there any next step?!
“Jiang Chen! You are too presumptuous!!”
After coming back to her senses, Shi Ning’s face flushed with anger, and she made a move to strike!
Jiang Chen quickly dodged.
He guessed Shi Ning had misunderstood something, but what was the use of explaining such a thing?
Besides, as a villain, wasn’t it basic operation to take advantage of his female senior?
“Cough cough, Auntie hand... it feels nice,” Jiang Chen said earnestly.
【Host’s actions conform to the villain’s character setting, reward: a portrait of Shi Ning】
A portrait?
What use was this thing?! He would rather have a bellyband! Jiang Chen roared in his mind.
At the same time, the enraged Shi Ning struck with her palm.
Although she was a pill refiner master, her cultivation talent was also strong, and she had just broken through from the first realm of the upper four realms, Initial Insight, to the second realm, Fate Transformation.
In her state of embarrassed anger, she didn’t control her strength well and unleashed the full power of her Fate Transformation realm cultivation.
“Pfft!!”
Jiang Chen was unable to dodge in time and took a direct hit, immediately spitting out a mouthful of blood.
As Shi Ning panicked, blaming herself for losing control and striking a junior, a painting fell from Jiang Chen.
The painting unfolded.
The person depicted was exquisitely lifelike and stunningly beautiful.
At that moment, Shi Ning was stunned.
She recognized at a glance that the person in the painting was herself!
When she took another look at it, she could see the deep emotions imbued in every stroke of the painting.
“Jiang Chen, you... how long have you been secretly in love with me?” Shi Ning asked while blinking repeatedly in a daze.
“???”
At this moment, Jiang Chen’s face was full of question marks.
