Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest-Chapter 656 - 91 The Way to Deal with Yan Yu_2
Chapter 656: Chapter 91 The Way to Deal with Yan Yu_2
Chapter 656 -91 The Way to Deal with Yan Yu_2
“I have to call out Sister Zhao here!”
“Ah? Me?” Zhao Yuanzhen was eating chips, and upon hearing this, she cocked her head.
“Sister Zhao always shows the most intense hostility subconsciously when she confronts my brother, and that’s not okay!” Yan Jing put up her hands crossed, making a “prohibited” gesture, “You see, isn’t it true that every time you confront big brother, you end up being bullied miserably? Have you ever had the upper hand?”
Zhao Yuanzhen set down her chips, pondering.
Perhaps, it seemed, as if, she really hadn’t?
Others might not remember clearly, but after all, she had the Book of Hatred in her mind, flipping through it revealed nothing but humiliating defeats… almost never being able to turn the tables.
“That’s not right,” Lin Ning voiced a different opinion, “I’ve beaten him up too, and he didn’t bully me back, the captain is actually quite reasonable in this regard.”
“Hehe.” Yan Jing’s smile grew more confident as she pointed at Lin Ning, “That’s because Sister Ning, you never really intended to beat him, you were just playing with him, giving him benefits!”
Lin Ning’s face immediately turned scarlet, she looked astonished, her eyes wide as saucers, and she began to stammer out weak defenses like “I did not,” “That’s not true,” “You are mistaken.”
The other girls all frowned, feeling a subtle discomfort, but soon started to ponder.
Su Yunjin was thinking, should I also give some benefits to the captain? Like pretending to be angry, hitting him, kicking him, stepping on him, and using the opportunity to have some physical contact… But I usually don’t resort to physical actions even when I’m mad, so suddenly doing this might make the captain think it’s weird!
Xie Ruoxi secretly mused, isn’t this just the classic tsundere approach to advancing affection in anime? Though it’s tough to balance the tsun and the dere, leading many characters to fail because their tsun outweighs their dere, but as an encyclopedia of anime, surely I can do this? Decided, I’ll learn it!
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Zhao Yuanzhen was indignant, obviously, if you’re going to fight, you should go all out. Not beating him up after being bullied, but instead playing with him and giving him benefits, is Ningning out of her mind? She’s making all of us women lose face!
Chen Lingyun didn’t contemplate; she just smiled and looked around, absorbing all the girls’ expressions and reactions.
“Although big brother doesn’t respond to force, it doesn’t mean playing a delicate little girl will work on him either,” Yan Jing continued to explain, “because fundamentally, big brother somewhat admires strong women. If you act weak and pitiful, you might attract other men, but big brother will just think you’re purely useless.”
Xie Ruoxi was stunned for a moment, then suddenly slumped down.
It’s over! Me, a super useless person, is doomed not to win the heart of the domineering captain, I might as well die! Maybe in the next life, I’ll reincarnate as a powerful woman…
Lin Ning, still flushed, saw Xie Ruoxi suddenly collapse and quickly went to support her.
“That’s strange, isn’t it?” Su Yunjin frowned, “If you act too weak, the captain will think you’re useless; if you take a strong stance, it will only intensify his opposition. So you’re saying, no matter what you do, it won’t work?”
“Wrong!” Yan Jing said, “Simply put, you need to be outwardly soft but inwardly tough!”
“Outwardly soft but inwardly tough?” The girls were puzzled.
“To put it simply, you need to appear to give in to him on the surface but can’t be completely submissive to him.” Yan Jing gave an example to explain, “For instance, what do you do if big brother argues with you?”
“If you stubbornly fight back, you’ll only be overwhelmed by his greater force; but if you don’t resist, he’ll look down on you, thinking you’re useless and incapable. So you must choose the lesser of two evils, first show ‘I won’t argue with you,’ to avoid the possibility of a direct conflict, then appropriately express your disagreement, like ‘I’m not arguing with you not because I think you’re right, but because I cherish our relationship and don’t want to fight over such a trivial matter.'”
“I see!” Lin Ning immediately had an epiphany, “Pin the blame for the argument on him!”
“Exactly.” Yan Jing looked pleased with Lin Ning’s understanding, “We may not be able to beat the boys in a fight, but when it comes to feelings, ten boys are no match for one girl!”
“The so-called outwardly soft but inwardly tough is basically to yield in the face of conflict where resistance seems futile, to avoid confrontation, and then take him down hard from an angle where he can’t hit back!”
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Yan Yu returned to his room and began to inquire about news from Lord Master.
Previously, the so-called pacification of independent cultivators meant “If you’ve committed a crime and your identity as a cultivator is revealed, I’ll consider letting you serve to reduce your sentence.” The problem with this is that if a cultivator from the common folk wanted to be pacified and eat government rice, they practically had to break the law and cause some trouble first—it was a bit of a hellish joke.
Take the well-known world of “Water Margin” for example, where proficient adult men normally joining the military would be “thieves joined by force,” not only would they have to tattoo their faces and be looked down upon by the people, but also endure the harsh exploitation of their superiors. But if they joined the green woods and became heroes, not only could they drink and eat meat in large bowls, but they could also be pacified and wangle an official post, which was a much brighter path than the normal military route.
From the perspective of those above, of course, they wouldn’t allow such destabilizing social circumstances to arise. Therefore, Chen Tianming conveniently proposed in the Cabinet to make the pacification of independent cultivators “organized,” “large-scale,” and “normal.”
Lord Master critically claimed that this was where Chen Tianming was most formidable: he always managed to present his own favorable proposals at an occasion and time when nobody could refuse them.
Independent cultivators were unstable elements in social order, and pacification, as a reluctant temporary measure, could indeed mitigate these risks to some extent—at least now they had joined the system, consumed government rice, and came under government surveillance, which was better than scrambling at the bottom of society and one day, in a fit of pique, turning ordinary people into a river of blood.
But considering that Chen Tianming has always advocated “relaxing cultivation regulations,” normalizing pacification now would clearly signal to the common folk across the country that they too had the chance to become cultivators. This would undoubtedly be extremely detrimental to the subsequent control over cultivation.
Between “current social order turbulence” and “future possible social order turbulence,” even if everyone knew the latter was in Chen Tianming’s favor, they naturally had to hold their noses and support the hosting of this cultivator competition.
[Liu]: So I’m telling you, Old Yan. That man is really no good person. When you’re interacting with his daughter, it wouldn’t be too much even if you kept one hundred and eighty suspicions about her. So tiring.
[Win Over with Virtue]: Look how you talk. Is there anyone in that circle who isn’t shrewd? You’re acting as if your Liu Family is filled with good Samaritans.
[Liu]: How are we not? My family has been doing good deeds and accumulating virtue for generations! My old man never takes part in any factional struggles, and he basically casts abstention votes in all factional conflicts.
[Win Over with Virtue]: A weather vane then, huh? The dog’s tail grass on the wall, swinging whichever way the wind blows.
[Liu]: It’s called being wisely self-preserving, get it?
[Win Over with Virtue]: Get it! With you being the number one among the Dingbei Army cultivators, no one dares to challenge his status and power. Of course, he’s content to sit high and unbothered.
[Liu]: Can we not bring up my old man? He is he, and I am I! This cultivator competition is being held in Yanjiao, and I was originally supposed to be dispatched there too, but there’s been trouble with the Onmyoji again recently. I need to be on standby to go there at any time, so I’m sending Ye Jun to assist you.
[Win Over with Virtue]: Why send Ye Jun again? She hasn’t even entered the Hua Fu Stage yet, and you’re already deploying her, preventing her from cultivating in peace?
[Liu]: What’s the worry, it’s for your sake. Just in case there’s another Zhang Wentai or Li Wentang who provokes you, and you swish your sword and chop off his head, at least with Ye Jun’s Xuan Guang Ruler there, no one will lose their life.
[Win Over with Virtue]: So it turns out I’m the cause of Ye Jun’s troubles.
[Liu]: Exactly, so you’d better make it up to her properly.
[Win Over with Virtue]: So what happened with the Onmyoji?
[Liu]: To explain that, I have to start from the last battle in The Secret Realm of Li Palace, where I, the young master, wiped out half of the Onmyoji’s elite forces.
[Win Over with Virtue]: Hold on, where did you get half? I took down seventy percent, okay! So according to you, the Onmyoji had one hundred and twenty percent of their forces, huh?
[Liu]: Stop it, where did you kill seventy percent? They didn’t even suffer a total loss of seventy percent, okay!
[Win Over with Virtue]: Who took down Xiandao Jingyin?
[Liu]: Ah! Speaking of Xiandao Jingyin’s death, this time it really is related to you, Old Yan!
