Don't Ask, If You Ask It's Because I Covet Your Body—Why Is This Different From What I Expected
Don’t Ask, If You Ask It’s Because I Covet Your Body—Why Is This Different From What I Expected
“If Young Master has any instructions, please speak plainly. There is no need to be so courteous with Yan Ji.”
Although Yan Ji was still a little puzzled about where she currently was, hearing Gu Changge say this, she hurriedly spoke up.
Lately, she had been feeling guilty and uneasy over being unable to repay Gu Changge’s immense kindness.
Hearing him say this actually gave her a sense of relief.
She did not believe she was worth someone of Gu Changge’s status looking after her without expecting anything in return.
“It’s actually nothing major. But before that, let me first help you rebuild your body.”
Gu Changge said with a smile. Only a small number of people knew of Yan Ji’s existence.
And as it happened, at her peak she had been extremely powerful—a Great Sage. Entrusting her with certain secret matters at his side clearly put Gu Changge more at ease.
Moreover, he was quite at ease with Yan Ji herself.
Back in the Overworld, he had already seen what her temperament was like—she was someone trustworthy, someone to whom things could be entrusted.
“Rebuild my body...”
Hearing this, Yan Ji’s glass-like pale red eyes couldn’t help but tremble, her expression suddenly turning somewhat dazed.
She had once thought about the day she could rebuild her body.
But it was clearly far beyond reach. Especially when she discovered that the place she had awakened in was a rather remote Overworld, she had more or less given up on that idea entirely.
She figured she would just slowly wait it out.
Back then, she had indeed still had plans—on one hand teaching Ye Chen, and on the other hoping that once he grew strong, he could help her find some heavenly treasures to rebuild her body.
Only, Ye Chen was simply too weak, so Yan Ji abandoned that idea, waiting instead for the day her Remnant Soul would slowly dissipate—which would also conveniently repay Ye Chen’s kindness in awakening her.
But through a twist of fate, she now followed Gu Changge.
That once unattainable dream was now nothing more than a single sentence from Gu Changge.
This enormous gap left her heart unable to settle for a long time, and she suddenly felt somewhat fortunate.
If Ye Chen had not misunderstood her, had not fallen out with her, then given her personality, she might still be in some unknown corner of the Overworld right now, waiting to fade away into nothing.
All of this, when spoken of, was far more than just a matter of coincidence.
“Why is Young Master Gu so good to me?”
Yan Ji’s eyes, like flawless rubies, shone brilliantly as she stared unblinkingly at Gu Changge, suddenly unable to stop this thought from arising.
Once would have been fine.
But again and again—how was that to be explained?
Moreover, Gu Changge’s status was so exalted—he was the Young Master of a Family of Immortals. This place now must surely be back in the Beyond.
After all, judging from the various furnishings in this palace—spiritual energy surging like tides, treasure light faintly concealed—ordinary powers were far from possessing this level of foundation.
This already displayed the grand, ancient, terrifying heritage of a Family of Immortals.
Her heart trembled with shock.
Yan Ji was no fool.
And it was precisely because of that she was puzzled.
What could Young Master Gu possibly want from her?
Was he after her strength? Or her origins?
The Family of Immortals did not lack experts, and although her origins were rather special, they amounted to little before a Family of Immortals.
As for fancying her? She didn’t quite believe it. Though she was quite confident in her appearance, as the Young Master of a Family of Immortals, how could Young Master Gu possibly lack stunning beauties at his side?
With a single word from him, who knew how many heaven-blessed maidens of the Beyond would offer themselves up to his bed.
For a moment, she was truly confused.
Purely doing a good deed? But for someone of Young Master Gu’s heroic, ambitious bearing, that was clearly even more impossible.
“Young Master’s kindness to me is already heavy enough. As for rebuilding my body, let’s forget it. Yan Ji already doesn’t know how to repay you.”
Afterward, although Yan Ji was deeply tempted by the prospect of rebuilding her body, at this moment she still gently shook her head and refused.
She had her own principles, because she could find no way to repay Gu Changge.
At this, Gu Changge was not surprised.
If Yan Ji didn’t ask clearly about the reasons, that would be the real problem.
His expression held a trace of a smile, somewhat meaningful.
“Why? Is rebuilding your body not good? Shouldn’t this be the plan and goal you’ve held all along? Or is it that it came too easily, so there’s no sense of accomplishment?”
He chuckled lightly, his tone carrying a few traces of teasing.
Hearing this, Yan Ji’s face couldn’t help but freeze slightly, and she somewhat wanted to glare at him—what did he mean, “came too easily so there’s no sense of accomplishment”?
Though, those words weren’t wrong either.
If she had followed Ye Chen, she would never have been able to rebuild her body in this lifetime. But after following Young Master Gu, it was directly a matter of a single sentence from him.
Sure enough, some things and some people could simply never be compared.
What one pursues for an entire lifetime—others were born already standing at the finish line, everything within effortless reach.
This made her emotions all the more complicated.
Actually, she had faintly felt that Young Master Gu would despise her, precisely because she had once stood on the side of his enemy.
But Gu Changge didn’t mind at all, as if he understood everything about her thoroughly.
This had kept Yan Ji feeling moved all along.
“Rest assured, my helping you rebuild your body naturally serves my own purposes. So don’t overthink it.”
Gu Changge said with a smile. Ah, women—once they were moved, everything else ceased to matter.
This saying held true whether in his previous life or here.
His winning over of Yan Ji was, to a large extent, naturally because he coveted her Fortuity points.
Kill the chicken for the egg, or keep it laying eggs forever?
That clearly needed no further explanation.
What’s more, Yan Ji’s own strength was not weak. As things stood, the only expert Gu Changge could mobilize at his side was someone of Ming Lao’s caliber.
The Gu Family would not assign overly powerful servants to its juniors, otherwise there would be no tempering to speak of...
He also needed manpower.
“Then what is Young Master Gu’s purpose?” Hearing this, Yan Ji was rather curious and wanted to know.
“What’s there to ask about that? Don’t ask—if you ask, it’s because I covet your body...” Gu Changge stared into her beautiful eyes and chuckled lightly.
Hearing this, Yan Ji’s head went weng and she was completely dumbfounded.
“Young Master Gu is really awful. If you won’t say it, then forget it...”
Yan Ji shot him a reproachful glance, never expecting Gu Changge to say such a thing.
What kind of answer was that?
He coveted her body, and that was why he wanted her to rebuild it?
Yan Ji felt her heart beating very fast at this moment.
If an ordinary person had said that, she would have long since struck them down with a frosty-eyed palm. But Gu Changge saying it truly made her head spin and her face burn.
It must be a casual joke!
How could Young Master Gu possibly fancy her? How was that possible!
...
Outer Domain of the Beyond, Xiling State.
Gu Xianer had been concealing her figure in secret all along.
The little red bird on her shoulder had now grown larger, carrying her and the old servant as they chased after the black-robed Enlightened King Realm elder ahead.
From the black-robed elder’s words, she had already learned that he was precisely the old servant sent out by her dear good brother.
An Enlightened King Realm old servant.
It was plain to see that her dear good brother had been living very well these years, his power reaching the heavens.
Thinking of this, Gu Xianer clenched her jade hand, her resentment deepening.
She had painstakingly cultivated in Peach Village, guided by many mysterious and powerful masters, yet she was only at the Honoured Noble Realm now. Meanwhile, he effortlessly obtained all kinds of resources and power—his current cultivation realm was likely unfathomable.
“But I won’t give up. Even Sister Tao Yao said my foundation is the most solid she has ever seen. I’m no weaker than Gu Changge. One day, I will take everything back.”
Gu Xianer secretly clenched her jade hand while continuing to follow the black-robed elder ahead.
She possessed quite a few secret treasures that could mask her aura.
So she was not afraid of being discovered by the black-robed elder.
But she did not know why Gu Changge had sent that black-robed elder to find her lineage’s clansmen.
To exterminate them all?
Thinking of this, Gu Xianer bit her silver teeth lightly, her exquisite, flawless little face taking on a gnashing expression.
“My dear good brother, I never thought that after all these years, you still haven’t let me go...”
Soon, she forcibly suppressed the fury and hatred in her heart.
“With me here, no one can harm my clansmen!”
Gu Xianer said silently in her heart.
...
In the high skies ahead.
Ming Lao had no idea he was being followed. He had merely come to deliver a decree from the Young Master, and incidentally bring the Gu clansmen here back to the Inner Domain.
As for anything else the Young Master had not instructed, he would not concern himself with it.
Before long, Ming Lao followed the route and found the towering ancient city where the Gu Family resided.
The city was extremely lively, incomparably grand, with all races and sects coming and going, the number of Cultivators reaching into the tens of millions.
He immediately revealed a gentle smile, putting on no airs whatsoever.
Although he was the Young Master’s man, at this moment he could not be too overbearing. After all, the Gu-surnamed clansmen here had once been one of the most powerful branches of the Gu Family.
Boom!
Soon, his Enlightened King Realm pressure erupted, instantly sweeping over the ancient city below.
At the same time, Ming Lao’s voice spread out, reverberating endlessly across the sky.
“By order of the Young Master, I have come to seek the Gu-surnamed clansmen.”
He believed these words would surely make the people below understand what they meant.
Boom!
Almost the instant Ming Lao revealed his pressure, the entire ancient city erupted in commotion. Every Cultivator was shaken to the core.
An Enlightened King Realm existence had actually come here?
Seeking the Gu-surnamed clansmen?
They only knew that this ancient city was indeed controlled by the Gu surname, the absolute overlords of this place.
Who exactly was this black-robed Enlightened King Realm elder who had suddenly appeared?
And what did “Young Master” mean?
Everyone was utterly shocked, feeling that something momentous might happen today.
Meanwhile, within a grand and imposing architectural complex, several elders with powerful auras were looking up toward the outside of the city with grave expressions.
“We never thought that after finally gaining a few years of peace, Gu Changge would come seeking us again. But he only sent a single Enlightened King Realm—is he looking down on us?”
Their expressions were resentful and gloomy.
After all, the moment they heard “Young Master,” they knew who it was.
So they subconsciously assumed Gu Changge had come to exterminate them all.
“Has the situation within the family already reached this point? There are informants of the other branches’ elders here, yet Gu Changge no longer cares about them?”
“We never thought that even with the elders sheltering us all these years, we still couldn’t hold off Gu Changge. Forget it, forget it. Today, we might as well...”
As they were making these grim-faced guesses,
Ming Lao’s voice rang out again from outside the city. “The Young Master has sent this old servant to bring all the Gu-surnamed clansmen back to the family.”
The moment these words fell, the expressions of everyone here froze in stunned disbelief.
Why was this different from what they had expected?
Bring them back to the family?
What had happened?
They had been exiled for so many years, and now they were actually being taken back into the Gu Family.
It had to be said, this was something they had never anticipated. At this moment, they were all left in shock.