CH 451

Before coming, Lin Xiao was uneasy.

He rejected a princess in the morning and made her cry to the point of her throwing her bloody earrings at him. Although he was in the right, he still felt bad for completely devastating her.

So Lin Xiao guessed that Claire must still be angry and with her explosive personality, she probably found some unlucky fools to take out her anger on. If he goes to Claire now, he was just walking into the tiger’s den!

But even if Claire was angry, he still decided to try.

Actually, this wasn’t Lin Xiao’s style.

His belief was to mind his own business, but ever since Elena and ShenDai Ying showed up, his beliefs were being broken time after time. Now, he was coming to find Claire because of his inner unease.

Perhaps this was the indiscriminate love that Xiao Hua was talking about.

Because of him, a girl cried. Lin Xiao hated shouldering that kind of unease and guilt, so he changed his mind and found out where Claire was from Rosie.

But Lin Xiao never expected that Claire wasn’t angry at all and was actually… happy?

“Hurry and come with me!”

Claire smiled and pulled on Lin Xiao’s hand while running down the corridor and was about to bring Lin Xiao back to the room from earlier, but suddenly remembered something and changed directions.

“Damn, my father will definitely be eavesdropping, I can’t go back… Lin Xiao, follow me, let’s go to another room!”

“Haha? A-a room?”

Lin Xiao shuddered when he heard Claire.

Wait… who was he? He was a great man who was destined to remain without sex until he becomes a super great wizard at the age of 30! Now Claire was thirsty and dragging him toward a small dark room.

The precious chastity that he’s protected for so many years that he didn’t even give up to his beloved sister Ying, so how could he easily give it up to this tomboy!?

“Let go! S-stop pulling me!”

Lin Xiao quickly called out for her to stop and forcibly pulled his hand away.

“Eh? D-did I hurt you?”

“No, I just didn’t want you to drag me into a small dark room and completely swallow me up.” Lin Xiao rubbed the red mark left on his wrists as he spoke.

“I just didn’t want anyone to interrupt us, so I wanted to bring you into a room.”

Claire spoke honestly which scared Lin Xiao even more.

“Huh? Don’t want to be interrupted? What do you want to do!?”

“Hehe, why are you so nervous, what else can I do with you?” The innocent princess naively asked.

“Uh, I still don’t know if you’re actually dumb or just pretending… anyways, let’s just talk here.”

“Okay.” Claire nodded and seemed obedient, which made Lin Xiao confused.

How did a violent tomboy turn into an obedient bunny in one afternoon?

Out of curiosity, Lin Xiao silently sized her up and noticed that it wasn’t just her attitude, her makeup was redone, and other than the faint wound and her earlobe, everything was back to how he first saw her this morning.

Claire was a bit embarrassed when she noticed Lin Xiao checking her out, she wanted to turn away from his gaze, but when she thought about her words with her father, she mustered the courage and welcomed Lin Xiao’s gaze. She slightly smiled and tried her best to show off her feminine charm, and that confidence and beauty stunned Lin Xiao.

But… looking is fine, but stop looking nonstop like a pervert.

“Hey, why do you keep staring at me?”

“Uh, it’s nothing… but, I didn’t take a good look earlier and now you feel a bit different.”

“What’s different? … Am I beautiful?” Claire endured the disgust she felt and tried to act cute.

“Yeah, you’re a lot more feminine with makeup, like a female university student.”

“Is that so?” Although Claire didn’t know what a university student was, she knew he was complimenting her.

“If that’s the case, then you can’t call me a tomboy anymore.”

“I cant do that.”

“Why not?”

“Because you’re not a female university student in your bones, you’re still rough and violent, like a man.”

“W-what did you say!?” When he said that all of her pretenses disappeared but when she saw Lin Xiao’s smile she realized it was his scheme!

If she actually got angry, then wouldn’t she just prove that she was a violent tomboy?

So Claire endured it and changed the subject.

“Why did you come to me? I wanted to go to you.”

“Hm? You also wanted to come to me? Okay then you can go ahead, what did you want from me.”

“Hm… forget it, you can go first.”

Actually, when she first saw Lin Xiao she was guessing his purpose… he couldn’t have changed his mind and decided to help her, right? Similar thoughts continued to churn in her head, but she was also afraid of being wrong. If she didn’t have her hopes up, then naturally she wouldn’t be disappointed.

But, when Lin Xiao was standing in front of her and looking into her eyes while he said what followed, Claire almost couldn’t help but cry…

“Claire, I want you to listen to what I’m about to say, it’s how I really feel.”

“Okay, go ahead.”

“I’m someone who hates trouble, you can call me heartless, but I’m not someone chivalrous who helps when I see some injustice, other people have nothing to do with me, so I don’t like meddling.”

“I understand, that’s why you rejected me…”

“That’s right, I want you to know that I didn’t reject you because I hate you or any bias or resent I have against you, I just simply hate trouble, anyways, I actually have an important mission, so I can’t leave everything behind to help you.”

“Hm, I understand.”

Claire was seriously listening and finally understood Lin Xiao’s position, but it was still hard to hide the forlorn and helplessness in her eyes.

“So you specifically came to find me to tell me that?”

Her expression was normal and her tone was low, but Lin Xiao’s heart dropped when he heard it. That’s right, that annoying sens of unease and guilt came again.

Lin Xiao was clearly unafraid of anything, but he couldn’t stand the expectation women had for him, it made him feel like he owed them something precious and if he doesn’t return it, it would affect their entire life and then he could only live forever with guilt and self-blame…

In order to get rid of that annoying feeling, Lin Xiao took a deep breath and continued speaking.

“No, not just that.”

“What else?”

“You said before that the meeting was the day after tomorrow, right?”

“Yeah, this meeting is very important so I have to attend.”

“Okay, there’s still a day’s time, it’s tight, but we should make it. Claire, before tomorrow, you have to organize all the information you have regarding the rebellion. Oh right, also include the personal history of all the generals and the main people and points of view from each camp, I’ll look through it with you tomorrow and help you think up some methods.”

“Organize information?”

“That’s right, you have to be fast! We only have a day, we might need to pull an all-nighter… it can’t be helped, let’s do our best. I’ll also teach you some tactics and some routine responses to questioning from subordinates. You have to make sure to remember it and not be careless.”

“Eh? You want to teach me….? Lin Xiao, are you saying that…”

“Yeah, I’m agreeing to help you, I’ll at least do my best to help you secure a win at this meeting.”

“What? Y-you….”

Lin Xiao actually agreed to help her, Claire couldn’t even believe it! What made her surprised was that she was about to shamelessly beg Lin Xiao for help, but he came himself! How could she not be happy?

“Well I said my part, it’s your turn… what did you want from me?”

“It’s fine now.”

“Okay then, let’s meet tomorrow. I’m going.”

“Yeah, see you tomorrow…”

Claire waved and saw Lin Xiao off until he left the main doors, he smiled and greeted the guards, which scared them and almost caused them to fall over, which finally brought Claire back.

Why did she just let him leave like that? Shouldn’t she speak with him a bit more?

But… what should she speak to him about?

Claire still stood at the same spot while thinking about all kinds of things, until she heard a boom from inside the room.

“Ah!”

“Hm? Father’s room?”

Claire jumped and quickly ran back, when she pushed the doors open she found her father fallen over at the door and painfully clutching his waist.

“Ah, it hurts… eh? Claire, you’re back… that, don’t misunderstand, I didn’t come here to sneak a look at Lin Xiao, I didn’t hear or see anything, I just accidentally fell off the bed!”

“You accidentally fell off the bed? …. Oh, so you rolled all the way to the door from the bed?”

“Right! I-I’m so careless, hehe, haha…”

Claire didn’t know whether to laugh or cry as she helped her father up.