Chapter 142: A heavy conversation.

"Mmm, I got the results, they are not related." He replied softly. He seemed to be worried about her reaction but she was already sleeping and she did not hear what he said. He looked at her sleeping face and smiled dotingly and rubbed his thumb slowly across her ruby red lips. "Silly minx." He said. "How exhausted you must be."

Suddenly he considered the point his grandmother and mother made. Perhaps she really did need a break after all this. She had run herself rugged for a couple of days now. She would even be more stressed once she learned that her mother and wicked grandmother are not biologically related. It would be her next mission, finding her mother’s original family and she would not stop until she found answers and justice for her mother.

"Should we run away together?" he whispered to her.

Instead of a reply, all he received was a slight slap to his face as she tried to turn over.

Muyang looked at her disbelievingly with his hand on his cheek. "How can she slap the man of her dreams easily?" He then used his index finger to poke her cheek and asked, "You, are you dreaming of me? If you dare dream of someone else, I will spank you hard."

That said, he laid her down carefully, kissed her on the cheek and left the tent. If he was to go on a vacation with her, he needed to make changes to his schedule.

He found her brother Chi Wei waiting outside the tent. He was pacing back and forth while kicking the ground.

"She is sleeping." He told Chi Wei.

Chi Wei hesitated to respond and instead he looked at Muyang angrily. "I don’t like how you have easily inserted yourself into my sister’s life. Going in and out of her room as if the two of you are married, it is an insult to our family’s honor." He said through gritted teeth with his fists clenched.

"She is mine, who dares to besmirch her honor?" Muyang asked casually but dominantly.

"You bastard, its none other than you, if you consider this to be a serious relationship, then at least propose to her. I will be satisfied if she is your fiancée at least. My parents may not be saying much but it’s only because of the difference in our status. They are afraid to offend your family. In their hearts, I am sure they are not happy about this undefined relationship the two of you have."

"Marriage is not a bed of roses." Muyang said heavily.

"Neither is hearing people say my sister is your play thing who will never get any status in your family because our family is not aristocratic or wealthy enough and she has a bastard child. You should step up or end things with her. " Chi Wei told him the rumors his friends had texted him that were circulating about Chi Lian and Muyang. Outside the bubble of their family, it was not all sunshine and roses. The whispers were cruel and he feared that his sister would be abandoned by Muyang or become depressed because of those rumors.

This was the longest conversation the two of them had ever had about the relationship and when they both walked away, it was with uneasy hearts, they had some things to think about.

"Wake up, wake up, wake up." A persistent voice shouted in Chi Lian’s mind.

She rolled around and pulled up the covers some more, craving the warmth that was keeping her in happy dream land.

"Wake up host, someone is going to die." T4 called her frantically. He went as far as sending a shock to her body by hacking the smart watch on her wrist.

The shock jolted her awake quickly. In a haze of confusion, she looked around the tent and yawned before observing her slightly tingly arm.

"What the hell was that?" she asked herself.

"It was me host, the shifter is back and this time he is hiding in one of the trees with a sniper rifle. Someone’s head is about to explode like a crushed watermelon."

She rubbed her eyes, took a sip of water and stretched her arms. "Show me." She said.

On the virtual screen, it was dark outside, the only trees in the venue inside the barrier were those by the lake side and a few close to the stage. According to the time, the viewing of 49 Ronin would be starting in ten minutes exactly. If the shifter was here to kill someone, it would be under the intense cover of the darkness.

"How did the minister’s men miss him?" she asked.

"Host, he came in dressed as a female server for the royal kitchen with the staff members. If I didn’t have his body shape and movements down to a tee, I would have missed him as well."

She squinted her eyes tightly and tried harder to observe the shadowy figure of the shifter in the thick foliage of the trees. "Damn it, I can’t spot him in the footage."

"I can." T4 bragged.

"I am human, you are.....well you are not. Our eyes see differently. "She explained to the braggart system.

"How did he even manage to climb a tree without being seen by anybody?"

"Host, the lights went off for a minute in order for the holograms to work properly and he took advantage of that minute to squirrel his way up the tree. I must commend him for being an expert climber, one minute he was on the ground and the next_"

"T4, stop praising the villain and help me capture him."

She exited the tent with her own sniper rifle strapped onto her back and an invisibility shield so that no one could spot her. Like the shifter, she climbed her way up the tree which T4 said was directly across from the one the shifter was hiding in.

She knew her family would want to wake her up to watch the movie together so she sent a text to Chi Rui saying that she was meeting a news source urgently and would be returning in an hour or two.

She also sent a text to the minister and alerted him to the presence of the killer. Now all she had to do was wait patiently for the snake to show its tail.

"Or the chameleon to change its color." T4 joked.

"That’s not funny." She told the fox.

"You have no sense of humor." T4 responded defensively.

"How can I have one when there is a tree branch pressing painfully hard against my ass. Was this the most comfortable spot you could find?"

"If you keep complaining, next time this almighty system will let you find a spot on your own."

People quickly took their seats with a wide variety of snacks and the screen came down prompting them all to suddenly keep silent. All eyes were glued to the screen and anyone who did not want to watch the screen could request to watch the movie from a hologram. It was a special experience which would be provided if someone paid more.

In the tree, Chi Lian used her binoculars to look in the direction of the shifter.

"Who are you here to kill?" she asked herself.

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