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07 | YDM

September 6th, 2022

[ YOU LOOK LIKE YOU'RE DRAWING ME ]

CHAPTER 07

last edited on ZLT: 25.08.22

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Her phone on the coffee table rang. The ringtone was one of the Inuyasha OSTs, called Dead Soul.

The song featured a lingering, melodious flute; the melody was slightly bizarre, yet enthralling at the same time. The song was played when Kikyo made her appearance. When Kikyo was reincarnated, she was all alone, surrouned by a sky full of Shinidamachuu* that lit up like balls of light as they floated around her, circling her.

* (Inuyasha reference) Shinidamachuu 死魂虫 = Dead Soul Insects, or Soul Collectors

Every time Kikyo made such an entrance, Dead Soul would play in the background.

Yuan Yuan Yuan walked into the toilet to wash her face. She brought her phone in and put the call on loudspeaker.

“Yuan Yuan, what are you doing?” On the other end of the call, a vibrant, female voice sounded.

“Mmmh…” Yuan Yuan Yuan’s face was still submerged in water, so she gave a few mumbles in reply.

“Oh, you’re washing your face.” The voice seemed to realise what she was doing. “Yuan Yuan, did you read the Dreamanga recommended titles?”

“…which one? The Extraordinary Year 3 Class 8?” Yuan Yuan Yuan wiped her face and glanced at her phone.

“No, I’m talking about Demons.” The girl replied. ♢ YOU LOOK LIKE YOU’RE DRAWING ME, CHAPTER 07 is hosted at ZHANLANN.COM ♢

Yuan Yuan Yuan hung her towel back and looked up at the ceiling in her toilet.

“Yeah I read it, why.” She picked up a comb and pulled her hair up into a bun as she asked.

“Nah it’s nothing, I just wanted to ask if you can make Lady Ran’s costume?” The girl asked in the call.

“…can do.” Yuan Yuan Yuan returned her comb to the counter after she was done with her hair.

Speaking of Demons, when her friend brought up the topic, Yuan Yuan Yuan appeared calm and collected, but in reality, her heart was trembling away in her chest.

What if her friend asked her soemthing she didn’t know how to answer?

—— Did you see the black jacket guy?

…yea she did.

—— What did she think of him?

…he’s alright, he’s alright.

Dreamanga was the platform where the manga Demons was published on. Dreamanga was available both online and in print. Their printed copies would feature the most popular mangas that were trending. They’d slot in some interviews with the manga artists are the back as well, or the artist’s unposted works to attract readers to purchase and find out for themselves.

Today was the day Dreamanga published their physical copy. Yuan Yuan Yuan usually followed the manga online on her phone, but this morning, she woke up especially early and went downstairs to the magazine stand to buy a physical copy.

She tore open the plastic packaging, found the last section on the manga artist interview and read through each and every one of them. There was Wei Du Ka, Appetiser, Li Xiao Li… the familiar artist names flashed past her eyes, but she didn’t manage to find Ji Qiu’s interview.

She tsked, and threw the manga back on to the table. Thirty bucks down the drain really.

Yuan Yuan Yuan wanted to check out who this Ji Qiu person actually was and where he hailed from. She didn’t expect that the even physical copy did not include the artist’s information.

A lot of manga artists would share about themselves, and even do a face reveal sometimes.

Yuan Yuan Yuan had spent the past few days going full out FBI mode to find out more about this manga artist. In the end, the only information she dug up was the name “Ji Qiu”, and a big picture of a cat.

The manga artist’s profile picture was a hand-drawn cat with a souless gaze, and a rather deviant expression. The artist left absolutely no form of contact behind, no Weibo, no QQ, nada.

Yuan Yuan Yuan had been beside herself in anxiety. All sorts of ideas popped up in her head — she’d even wanted to go down to the magazine HQ — but none of them seemed legit or reliable enough…

She’d even thought about if she should completely change her appearance again, for example dye her hair pink or something…

These were solutions that popped out in her desperation; in other words, she was really trying to claw her way out of this situation. But after a heart-trembling week of wait, no one came looking for her. Her life continued as usual; not a single thing’s changed.

It was only these few days did Yuan Yuan Yuan finally manage to calm herself down. Since the demon slayer didn’t manage to catch up to the black jacket demon in the manga, did that also mean… the artist also didn’t manage to find her?

All other things aside, Yuan Yuan Yuan was still pretty confident in her ability to escape and her glamour magick. If she wanted to pretend to be someone else, she wouldn’t let it slip, she’d never slipped up before.

Yuan Yuan Yuan threw the manga on to a book rack, returned to her bedroom and thought about the call she had earlier.

The girl in the call was her classmate back when she was still in university. The two of them were from the cosplay club. When Yuan Yuan Yuan had first transformed into a half-demon, she was still thick in the chuunibyou* phase…

*chuunibyou (中二病) is a Japanese colloquial term typically used to describe early teens who have grandiose delusions, who desperately want to stand out, and who have convinced themselves that they have hidden knowledge or secret powers

She’d remained in contact with the girl after all these years; this friend was one of the few she was still in contact with.

The girl was the prettiest girl in their club, and she was amazing at cosplay. As a member of the club, Yuan Yuan Yuan had always been going with the flow rather than actually producing content or cosplaying herself. After so many years, that girl was already married and has a kid; meanwhile Yuan Yuan Yuan was still flying solo.

Yuan Yuan Yuan fell back on her bed and reached for the small lamp by her bed. The “Lady Ran” that the girl had mentioned was a character from Demons; she was dressed in crimson red, and had a head of raven black hair.

Erm… to clarify, Lady Ran is the demon lady that just died in the chapter published last week. Lady Ran was a demon spy that infiltrated the demon slayers to obtain classified information.

Of course, given her personal experience, there really might just be a legit “Lady Ran” who’d just died a few days ago.

Yuan Yuan Yuan rubbed her chin. Now that she thought of this, she must admit the artist was quite impressive, how did he get his hands on such detailed, private information?

She didn’t dwell too much on this thought. Instead, she opened Taobao, searched up the Lady Ran’s costumes and realised there were quite a number of entries that came up.

The amazing quality of the art in Demons had attracted quite a decent following of fans. The enthusiasm and fondness of the manga and the characters by online readers often manifested in the form of periphery developments, such as the creation of cosplay costumes, or shirts printed with the character’s signature lines.

Just the number of different types of the same costume being sold on Taobao told her that this character was indeed quite a popular one.

Yuan Yuan Yuan placed her phone down and picked up a roll of red cloth. She felt the quality of the material, it seemed quite fitting for the character, so she placed it at the side so she could cut and sew a Lady Ran costume later and send it over to her friend.

When night came, Yuan Yuan Yuan locked the door, lied down on her bed and switched off the lights.

Perhaps it’d been too happening a day for her, her head was a complete mess. In her lethargic daze, she seemed to have dreamt of many, many things.

“Don’t forget…”

“Even if you die, don’t forget…”

TRANSLATOR & EDITOR: WYNNE.

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T/N: i didnt actually finish reading the novel before i started this TL project, i was at the 70%+ mark? so i have no idea who Yuan Yuan Yuan actually is either (or/and if there’s something more to her?) hahah but yo all the foreshadowing… im excited XD

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07 | WIMH

February 14th, 2021

[ HIM IN MY HEART, THE WORLD IN MY HANDS ]

CHAPTER 07 ♦ MY DEAREST

last edited on ZLT: 14.02.21

After finding out Lu Xi’s secret crush, Xia Xiao Kui’s feelings for him became even more complicated. Sometimes, her heart would thunder away, sometimes, it would clench tightly.

In the international campus event, Xia Xiao Kui having volunteered herself, had to cycle and video the track and field section at the same time. During the event, she accidentally crashed into a tree and fell off her bike in a frenzy. Lu Xi immediately ran over to help and piggy-backed her all the way to the school clinic. Unexpectedly, Luo Qian as another event volunteer member also rushed over.

Xia Xiao Kui fell asleep on the clinic bed. When Lu Xi saw Luo Qian’s anxiety, he said lightly: “I know what happened between you two, Xiao Kui really wanted to mend the friendship with you.”

Luo Qian froze. She replied after a long while of silence. She didn’t believe that Xia Xiao Kui was someone who would do something like that either. It’s just that the mental blow from the rejection had been too heavy for her to handle at that time. On top of that was the rumour that had spread like wildfire. She didn’t manage to come to ends with her mix of sadness and shame, so she had no idea how to face Xia Xiao Kui.

“I’m such a coward!” The girl with brown locks lowered her head. Both her fists clenching, her eyes glistened, “as compared to a single-sided crush on a guy, Xiao Kui is much more important to me!”

Xia Xiao Kui that had been faking sleep all this while leapt up and hugged Luo Qian with tearing eyes: “Xiao Qian, you’re finally talking to me… you’re very important to me too!”

When he saw Luo Qian trying her hardest trying to push Xia Xiao Kui’s head aside, exasperated by the latter’s enthusiasm, Lu Xi couldn’t help but chuckle lightly.

There are things that will never change if you don’t take the first step to face it. He made a decision in his heart.

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007 | THMYO

September 17th, 2018

[ MY CLASSMATE IS TWO HUNDRED MILLION YEARS OLD ]

CHAPTER 07 ♦ CROSS COUNTRY

last edited on ZLT: 17.09.18

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There was a five-kilometre cross-country run tomorrow so the participants for that segment need not attend night training. Xuan Mo was engrossed in her training when she heard the shout. She could not help but extend her mental power to observe the field; it was pumped up despite the fact that it was late at night.♢ MY CLASSMATE IS TWO HUNDRED MILLION YEARS OLD, CHAPTER 07 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

Ah, she didn’t want to go home. If only she could stay here. Z L T

Ever since attending the military training, this was the second time she so clearly wanted something.

Then let’s find out what are the legal methods for joining the military she could take on once she’s back.

After knocking out that idea in her head, Xuan Mo slipped into a deeper part of her conscious and continued cultivating. Z L T

After warming up the next day, all twenty-six participants stood at the starting line with a gun strapped to their backs while the doctor did their health check. It couldn’t be helped that the participants would get nervous before heading off so the sped up heartbeat was normal. When the stethoscope was pressed against Xuan Mo’s chest however, the doctor’s forehead couldn’t help but crease.

The instructor who was observing by the side walked over and asked when he saw the peculiarity of the doctor’s expression: “Is there something wrong?”

“Uh, no, nothing.” After placing the stethoscope down, he couldn’t help but pressing it once more against Xuan Mo’s chest.

Xuan Mo frowned. She didn’t like it when people got so close to her.♢ MY CLASSMATE IS TWO HUNDRED MILLION YEARS OLD, CHAPTER 07 is hosted at ZHAN LANN♢

“Is there really no problem?” The instructor evidently didn’t believe the doctor.

“Nothing, nothing.” The doctor placed his stethoscope and looked at Xuan Mo in shock, “this lass has a good mentality!”

“What do you mean?” The instructor asked. Z L T

“Her heartbeat is very steady; she is very calm.” After that, the doctor left.

The instructor looked down, it’s that lass again. At that, he couldn’t help but frown: “If there’s nothing wrong with your health then let’s get ready to start.” Z L T

“Yes! Instructor!” Everyone replied with energy. Z L T

“Get set! Go!” THMYO IS HOSTED @ ZHANLANN TL

After the pistol went off, everyone dashed forward. Z L T

The segment after that was the part where they had to egg each other to sing on.

Xuan Mo wasn’t someone who’d install a false set of lungs for herself just to stay low-key. When she started seeing the people running beside her panting heavily however, she couldn’t remain as non-human anymore, and so, she lowered her head and quickened her breathing as she ran at a steady pace forward, quietly taking the lead among the people around her. She steadily opened the distance between her and the person behind her, and looked at the few guys dashing ahead of her, and the ones that were in the lead from the beginning.

The guy was tall and his steps were large, so it was natural he’d take the lead. The competition was according to their timing anyway, so the guys and girls ran together. It’s already been over one kilometre, even the males who were accustomed to running just one kilometre were starting to get tired. The fact that they were carrying such a heavy gun on their bag added to the exhaustion as well, so they were quickly tired out.

Xuan Mo, on the other hand, took this opportunity to dash forward at an even speed.

She didn’t give a shit about the guy and girl differences. She looked down at the bunch of weak weak-kneed shrimps that weren’t even cannon-fodder-worthy if they were thrown onto the battlefield.

Flipping her hair, she dashed ahead, unrestrained, leaving the guys behind her staring with their eyes wide open. At that, they too gained a burst of speed to catch up. All the participants were ones who could run after all, so even if they were tired, they’d still have some energy left. And so, the result of such a situation was Xuan Mo carrying her gun striding evenly ahead while a bunch of guys roared and howled as they chased after her speed.

In an effort to prevent the participants from slacking, there were cameras along the track, some of while linked to the large screens. The squads on the field took turns to sing, those who weren’t involved in any training sat on the grass as they watched the screen. Everyone was already numb to the fact that Xuan Mo was dashing ahead in front on her own, and settled for watching the competition continue on with their eyes wide open.

Xuan Mo’s speed didn’t appear to be very fast, but she kept an even speed throughout. There were a few guys that managed to break past her occasionally, but they weren’t able to maintain that speed.

Commissioner Li noticed Team Lead’s expression becoming grave as he looked at the screen after returning from a meeting.

“Ole Dong, what’s on your mind?” Z L T

The Team Leader was silent for a moment before saying: “I’m thinking about that lass.” Z L T

The Commissioner forced his mind out of the gutter: “Why, she caught your eyes?” Z L T

“Ole Li can you get any dirtier! My wife’s still waiting for me at the barracks!” The Team Lead told him off jokingly, “I’m thinking that lass’ going to be someone we’ll eventually come into contact with sooner or later!”

“Same.” THMYO IS HOSTED @ ZHANLANN TL

“She’s only a year one in high school. She must definitely get her education foundations in place first. Should we get someone to ensure things run smoothly for her?”♢ MY CLASSMATE IS TWO HUNDRED MILLION YEARS OLD, CHAPTER 07 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

“That lass doesn’t seem average at all. There already must exist someone behind her.” Z L T

“Aye, that’s hard to tell. Look at her, isn’t Xiao Shen in their school’s United Front Work Department, it’s time for him to get some work done after chilling for so many years.” Z L T

“A’ight, I’ll ask him about it.” Z L T

Cheers sounded as the participants neared the finishing line. The instructors pulled the students up as they headed in lines to welcome them back.

Xuan Mo was the first in line. Tightly after her were a few guys. Their faces were pale as though they were about to be sacrificed. Despite their terrible state, they managed to pull through the entire five kilometres tightly following Xuan Mo, so they indeed had a very strong conviction.

The finishing line was just ahead. There were students cheering them on all around them. Xuan Mo was running at a decent pace in the lead. The two guys running behind her were so exhausted their faces were red. One of them gave a loud howl before rushing forward in a desperate attempt to get past Xuan Mo even if he was out of stamina.

Xuan Mo couldn’t help but laugh at the guy rushing forward madly as though he was afraid she’d break past him. She shook her head, no longer increasing her speed but instead keeping at her current speed.

When the guys behind her saw her keeping at her current speed, he thought she was running out of strength. Encouraged by that fact, the roaring guys rushed forward. They were a spent bullet however–they ultimately weren’t able to get past the student in the lead, so they struggled to keep ahead of Xuan Mo.

Someone finally crossed the finishing line. Z L T

The participants crossed one by one; Xuan Mo was the fourth out of everyone, but first among the females. The results were split according to their genders so Xuan Mo was still the first.

Only a handful of others knew who the real champion could have been. Z L T

The girls held complicated feelings about the fact that Xuan Mo emerged as the most distinctive one. But owing to her usual quiet and “willing to work” attitude, she was indeed not too bad of a person. After getting to know each other, they gradually had things to gossip about and stories to tell. Xuan Mo had never said anything bad about anyone, and even if they weren’t very close to her, being with her gave them a strange sort of security, so the girls in the end circled over, handing her water and towel as they asked how she was doing.♢ MY CLASSMATE IS TWO HUNDRED MILLION YEARS OLD, CHAPTER 07 is hosted at ZHAN LANN♢

Tian Jin Jin helped to wipe off the non-existent sweat on her forehead. Xuan Mo wanted to dodge on reflex but didn’t after a moment of hesitation; she allowed Tian Jin Jin to wipe away.

Tian Jin Jin appeared extremely professional. The reason Xuan Mo was bent down with her hands propping off her knees was to hide the fact that she was fine, but Tian Jin Jin’s actions, along with the group of girls following after Tian Jin Jin that massaged her shoulders, rubbed her elbows, patted her legs, gave her water and towel forcibly made Xuan Mo appear as though she was in a terrible state.

Xuan Mo felt that she had been thoroughly physically patted down by the girls’ “concern”. That action naturally triggered the memory of needing to evade their touch, or at least the need to blush.

But… how should she blush… does she even have the ability to do that… Z L T

After trying several times, she felt uncomfortable. Did she really lack the ability to blush? That seemed to non-human. Xuan Mo frowned when phrases such as thick-skinned and shameless popped up in her head with memories triggered about not blushing.

“Mo Mo, what’s wrong, do you need to go to the toilet?” Qi Shan asked her in concern. Z L T

Xuan Mo was rendered speechless. Tian Jin Jin immediately initiated: “I’ll accompany you!” Z L T

“Uh…” THMYO IS HOSTED @ ZHANLANN

Before she could say anything, Tian Jin Jin was already helping Xuan Mo to the toilet. Z L T

The toilets were simple. The doors to the male and female faced each other; the two toilets were separated by a public sink. When Xuan Mo entered the toilet, the odour made her uncomfortable, so she walked over to the sinks, twisted the tap and washed her face instead. “I’ll just wash my face.”

After she said that, they heard the sound of vomiting beside them.

A group of guys surrounded one of them who was leaning against the sink retching.

That guy was the intense guy who came in first.

When they realised they were being spectated, they turned around. Upon seeing Xuan Mo, they paused before laughing: “Woah! Look here and see the superman*!”

* there is some slight sarcasm in the word “superman”, who is referring to Xuan Mo

When the guys turned back, they heard Tian Jin Jin saying in discontent: “You’re the superman! Your entire village’s superman!”

Xuan Mo looked at Tian Jin Jin’s angry face strangely. What’s there to be unhappy about. Superman, superman, didn’t that mean you’re more superb than normal man? It didn’t sound wrong when they took the word as it was.

As to the mental image of a guy wearing his underwear on the outside while being surrounded by a bunch of girls that popped up in her head with the mention of the word “superman”, she had long labelled him as an idiot and dumped him into the recycling bin in her head.

The guys didn’t mind her words. They looked at Xuan Mo for a moment before one of them walked over, handing her a bottle of ointment as he smiled: “You’re Xuan Mo right? Are you tired from the run? Try this, rub some on your forehead and you’ll feel much better; it helps with the nausea.”

Xuan Mo took the bottle and looked at it curiously. There were strange characters written on the bottle; this was probably the language this civilisation of Earth was using. When she opened the bottle, she was greeted with a refreshing smell.

She dabbed some of it and rubbed it on her forehead. As he’d mentioned, the clear, refreshing smell immediately brushed past her eyes, entered her nose and cleared her head.♢ MY CLASSMATE IS TWO HUNDRED MILLION YEARS OLD, CHAPTER 07 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

Xuan Mo smiled slightly, returning the bottle: “It is useful, thanks.” Z L T

The male student was a little uneasy. He took the bottle back and waved his hand: “It’s nothing.”

Xuan Mo washed her face again and looked around. It was close to dinner. As a participant, she was able to enter the canteen first, and Tian Jin Jin was able to accompany her in. When she heard the rumbling sounds of the stomachs around her, Xuan Mo said: “Canteen?”

“Enh!” Tian Jin Jin’s reply was loud and clear before she pulled her in the direction of the canteen. Footsteps sounded behind her; it was the guys. When the two of them saw the group of guys, they said: “Let’s head over together!”

Tian Jin Jin minced her lips, no objecting.

“Does her family own a martial arts training centre or something?”

“Maybe her entire family’s from the military, so she’s been training since young!”

“Even if that is the case, she can’t be this strong. I mean look at her weak and fragile appearance.”

“And she doesn’t tan at all.” THMYO IS HOSTED @ ZHANLAN TL

“The fact that she got into First High must mean that her studies are not bad as well!”

“The heavens are unfair ahh!” Z L T

“People like them definitely must have worked really hard to get where they are, it’s useless being envious.”

The person’s words shut up the majority of the people who were gazing over in envy. Xuan Mo looked over; that person was a female human being. From the information she received from the girl, she could infer that girl was probably pretty; the mental fluctuation of the males around her were all pretty high when they were conversing with her.

It can’t possibly be because the girl was too ugly right. Z L T

Xuan Mo didn’t like having so many people staring at her; it immunes her sensitivity to danger, but there wasn’t anything she could do about the current situation save for sitting down to wait for the green bean soup Tian Jin Jin went to get for her.

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TRANSLATOR & EDITOR: WYNNE. This translation is hosted at ZHAN LANN

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07 | OGWC

December 25th, 2017

[ ONLINE GAME: WILLINGLY CAPTURED ]

CHAPTER 07

last edited on ZLT: 08.12.17

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Fan Xiao Qing had originally wanted to divorce crisply. If she couldn’t divorce then she’ll forcibly divorce. However, Fan Xiao Qing underestimated the company’s perverted settings because it turned out that one was required to pay a huge sum to divorce forcibly.

She patted her empty pockets, her anger raging. ♢ ONLINE GAME: WILLINGLY CAPTURED, CHAPTER 07 is hosted at ZHANLANN.COM ♢

No wonder Fan Hua San Qian came looking for her to borrow money after the guild war. She had originally they were on good terms, who knew he’d pull such a move!

And hence, Fan Xiao Qing lugged her large sword chasing Fan Hua San Qian down three streets before she gave up. That guy ran faster than her, and was riding a mount that could fly. She only had her short little fox legs… how would she be able to catch up!

However, it takes constant vigilance to stave off evil. Fan Xiao Qing clenched her teeth, and decided to take him as a disciple and hang him dry on one side.

If forcibly divorcing cannot do, then she would cold storage him, and cold-violent him!

It would be effective in the short run, but would not last in the long run. Before long, she watched in shock as the disciple who had successfully graduated and joined another sect…

Okay, this plan won’t work, another one. Z L T

Fan Xiao Qing as a good wife and loving mother should support her husband taking in concubines, and publicly recruited several beautiful female players.

Fan Hua San Qian just came back from the arena. His bloodlust had not yet properly shed, hence upon seeing Fan Xiao Qing and some others pulling and tugging around immediately understood what was going on and raised his sword, KO-ing them all with a single blow.

While Fan Xiao Qing was still encased in her flabbergastment, San Qian walked over the carcass happily towards her. “Fu ren is so mischievous, sending some clowns to test your husband’s heart.”

Fan Xiao Qing’s lips convulsed. Both her eyes rolled, and she very briskly pulled her computer plug.

Other than this, Fan Xiao Qing had become even more unscrupulous. She’d even utilised crying, making a fuss, and suicide-ing, but Fan Hua San Qian maintained his unperturbed ways, not budging about the matter on divorce at all…

Whyyy! He was the one who would very well be able to have a three thousand membered harem, why did he only want one!

It was only a month later did she finally give up. She had churned the entire server into turmoil, but seeing how she had Fan Hua San Qian shielding her, no one dared to touch even a hair of hers.

But, what if Fan Hua San Qian left? Z L T

It actually went like this, that day when she logged on, she actually saw Fan Hua San Qian online. Ever since she’d engaged herself with him in this sticky and messy relationship she couldn’t get out of, Fan Xiao Qing had gotten used to him hanging his character idle while she set up a booth to sell things beside him.

And so, she immediately checked his coordinates and used the couple skills to transport to beside him.

Fan Hua San Qian was at the Lovers Pond. Beside him was seated a cute and helpless-looking female player. She blinked her eyes, and blinked her eyes, patted her chest suffusing with grief, and slinked over, hiding behind the trees.

Fortunately, the two of them did not discover her. She studied the name An Jing De Yan Yu the female had, then realised she was the one who had made contact with Fan Hua San Qian a few days ago. Immediately, she felt a wave of glumness that had her wanting to beat her chest and stomp her feet.

She squatted and plucked the grass for a while, but still felt that the two of them sitting so close whispering to each other was a very eye-burning sight. And so, she pulled out her large sword and chopped An Jing De Yan Yu down just beside Lovers Pond.

Only then did she feel relieved of the cooped up glumness in her chest. With that, she strutted off. ♢ ONLINE GAME: WILLINGLY CAPTURED, CHAPTER 07 is hosted at ZHANLANN.COM ♢

Therefore, when Fan Xiao Qing got surrounded out in the wild, she knew things were not going to turn out good tonight. Her first reaction was to take off all her best quality gear and stuff ‘em into her inventory.

It’s just that all those gear were her betrothal gift, handmade from Fan Hua San Qian. Z L T

After finishing, it suddenly dawned on her that her actions had instinctively betrayed her. She clearly liked Fan Hua San Qian.

The Fan Xiao Qing who was shocked off her socks by this conclusion was then killed by group of people, and she dropped five whole levels. When Fan Hua San Qian appeared, exuding bloodlust, her gear had dropped all around her.

He did not glance sideways. He had the healer refill her health, and stood tall in front of her, protecting her behind him.

Fan Xiao Qing looked at the man blocking in front of her, her tears suddenly falling as she sat before the computer. ♢ ONLINE GAME: WILLINGLY CAPTURED, CHAPTER 07 is hosted at ZHANLANN.COM ♢

However, the real reason for the divorce was… Fan Xiao Qing cupped her chin, looked at the picture she opened on her computer screen and sighed deeply.
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07 | IAAK

April 24th, 2017

[ I AM A KILLER ]

CHAPTER 07 ♦ CURBING VIOLENCE WITH VIOLENCE

last updated: 11.04.21

After returning from the canteen, Qin Ke Xuan saw Yin Xu Dong inside her classroom at her seat smiling brightly and waving at her.

Qin Ke Xuan walked towards Yin Xu Dong, asking expressionlessly, “What are you doing here?”

Yin Xu Dong said gleefully, “Of course I’m here to…” He surveyed the countless pairs of eyes thirsty for gossip, “Let’s talk outside.”

Qin Ke Xuan walked out of the classroom with Yin Xu Dong following after eagerly.

Qin Ke Xuan brought him up to the roof. “There’s no one here. Speak.”

“Qin Ke Xuan, don’t walk around with such an unfriendly and unapproachable expression. No wonder nobody dares to tell you, excluding myself of course.” Yin Xu Dong was immeasurably self-satisfied.

Qin Ke Xuan thought for a moment, and realised that this was indeed the case. He had been the only one so far who had narrowly escaped death from her, twice. And he was the only one who continued tactlessly throwing himself in her face despite so. He can’t be an idiot, can he. “If there’s nothing, I’m going.” And she proceeded to turn to walk away, not paying Yin Xu Dong any attention.

At that, Yin Xu Dong panicked. He hadn’t gotten out what he wanted to achieve after all, and she was already leaving! He promptly grabbed her. “Qin Ke Xuan, no, shi fu! How can you bear treating your disciple so cruelly? You’re just going to walk away like that?” Yin Xu Dong was aggrieved, “…okay, I won’t nonsense so much. I’m here because… y’know, for that… that… to learn Xiao Li Flying Daggers!”

“That’s not called Xiao Li Flying Daggers.” Qin Ke Xuan corrected.

Yin Xu Dong asked excitedly: “Then what is it called?” It definitely must be something magnificently glorious!

“Concealed Weapon Hurl*.”

* 暗器投掷 = Concealed Weapon Hurl

“…”

Yin Xu Dong scratched his head, “Forget it, who cares what it’s called. Back to the topic, shi fu, when are you gonna teach me?” Yin Xu Dong had been so excited the previous night he didn’t sleep even a wink. If he could pick up Xiao Li Flying Daggers and Sunflower Dian Xue Hand, he would become the embodiment of superman — an unparalleled existence! Ha ha ha ha! Uh, of course excluding shi fu whom he would be no match against.

“Don’t you have class?” Qin Ke Xuan asked, her tone serious.

Yin Xu Dong froze, and scratched his head in embarrassment, “Don’t you think the stuff in textbooks are way too boring? Learning all the content is useless, so why waste time bothering with such meaningless things?”

“Are you saying, that I am an idiot, and is wasting time?” Her glare seemed to radiate a trace of danger.

Yin Xu Dong was so scared he almost bit his tongue. Never would he have imagined that Qin Ke Xuan would suddenly turn over a new leaf and become all studious! Didn’t she skip school just yesterday? He tried to cover up his slip of the tongue, flustered. “I, I definitely did not mean it that way! Shi fu, you’re exceptionally intelligent! Everything you do is correct! Actually, actually, it’s me, I’m the one that’s stupid enough to actually believe that studying is a waste of time! I’m the most foolish person on earth!” He was this close to going as far as slapping himself.

Qin Ke Xuan ordered: “Go to school. I’ll be asking you questions in the future.”

In the end, Yin Xu Dong didn’t manage to achieve what he had set out to accomplish. With that, he left Second High* and returned to his own school—the First High* in B city. After all, his almighty shi fu had said that she would ask him questions in the future!

* Second High and First High are referring to 2nd and 1st ranked High School in the country respectively; schools are sometimes labelled with numbers

After Qin Ke Xuan had, once again, stepped into her classroom, her classmates’ gazes fell on her in unison. Some of which were of anger, some of disdain, others were… pretty much all of them were unfriendly looks. Qin Ke Xin was indifferent, and proceeded to return to her seat calmly instead.

As expected, Zhou Jing immediately went over to ask softly: “Ke Xuan, what’s your relationship with that handsome guy just now?”

Qin Ke Xuan looked at Zhou Jing, not speaking. At her calm and collected composure, Zhou Jing became uncomfortable. “I, I just saw that his uniform was different from ours so I was wondering why he’d come over to our school to look for you.” What’s with the sudden chills running down her back when she looked into Qin Ke Xuan’s pitilessly black eyes.

Qin Ke Xuan: “That’s not something for you to be curious about.”

Zhou Jing, once again, walked away, the rim of her eyes reddening.

The other classmates urged Zhou Jing, as though impatient with her lack of realisation. “Just leave her be! It’s not worth your while to befriend someone like her!”

“I think it’s definitely because she didn’t manage to get her hands on Cao Lin Wei. Also since she’s already infamous here, that’s why she’s turned to another school altogether to look for new hotties. And, what’s with hot guy from earlier, was he blind or something? How did he fall so easily for her tricks?”

“Sigh, what a pity that such a handsome guy would be ruined by her.”

“…”

Qin Ke Xuan read her book diligently. Despite not quite understanding the contents, she decided to take it down for future reference and use.

During her lesson in the afternoon, Qin Ke Xuan still did not understand. She’d looked through all the books in her bag. Excluding some strange-looking symbols which she did not understand, she had pretty much memorised all the content in prose. As a killer, memory work was an important skill.

After school, Qin Ke Xuan went to the bustling city area again to gather information, before breaking into a run back home. After last night and this morning, she had tried running twice. With her current speed, running back took a short while. If she were to recover her Inner Qi and use Qing Gong, she would definitely be faster.

* 轻功＝ Qing Gong; a martial arts technique for making the body extremely light in weight by altering the distribution and flow of Qi

Qin Ke Xuan walked into the dusky alley, and slowed down after a few steps before stopping. She started slowly: “Don’t bother hiding.”

A number of people came out from the two ends of the alley.

A burly chap stood in front. His arms crossed, he looked at Qin Ke Xuan, arrogant. “Little girl, you sure seem to know your stuff! Hua’zi and that bunch of fools can’t even deal with such a little kid, and even had to trouble me to wipe their butts.”

The few who stood behind started mumbling: “Da Cheng ge*, don’t underestimate that kid, she’s very strong.”

* 哥 = Ge; older brother, need not be referring to a biologically related elder brother

Qin Ke Xuan recognised him. Among the bunch of people who had chased Yin Xu Dong but ended up provoking her, he was among the less injured ones. The rest of the injured yesterday were probably still bedridden.

The person known as Da Cheng ge waved his hands, fed up. “That’s because you guys were too rubbish! Shut up and stay behind.”

That person retreated worriedly, not daring to rebuke any further.

Qin Ke Xuan was definitely a make-up for her incomplete ‘exercise’ in the morning. Just look at these people, all tall and strong, and they definitely seemed to be somewhat involved in the underground world. That means the must be pretty tough and skilled in comabt no? Or at least they would be more resistant to her beatings that the three girls from this afternoon.

For once, the sides of Qin Ke Xuan’s lips lifted. “Come!”

Da Cheng ge froze for a second, then he suddenly burst out laughing: “This silly little girl. Since you’re a girl, all you need to do is kowtow and apologise, and we won’t make things difficult for you, how ‘bout that?”

Qin Ke Xuan’s raised lips twitched, these people sure had a lot of nonsense to say.

“Da Cheng ge, that girl is actually quite pretty, why don’t we go one round?” Standing behind Da Cheng Ge was a guy with a wretched looking expression colouring his face. His gaze trained on Qin Ke Xuan was full of lust.

Da Cheng ge swept him a glance in disdain, “You’re interested in these kind of underdeveloped girls?”

That guy chuckled, saying: “Da Cheng ge, sometimes these kind of under-ripe, young and inexperienced little girls are all the more fun and tasty, hehe.” The others standing behind, too, joined in, laughing vulgarly.

Qin Ke Xuan zipped forward, arriving behind the lustful guy who had brought up the dirty idea. Her hand shot out, capturing his lower jaw in her grip. Against the background of his shocked gasp, her hand clenched, and she dislocated his jaw. Her other hand was not idling either. Her elbow stabbed at his chest, and the sound of his rib fracturing sounded with a snap. She released her grip, and let the guy fall limply onto the ground squirming weakly, unable to call for help with his dislocated jaw.

The moment the guy fell, Qin Ke Xuan had returned promptly to her original position, as though she’d never left. This momentary flash of happenings unfolded before the others’ eyes, rendering them terrified and appalled. How had she done it? This was way too…

“You, you dare mount a sneak attack?!” The people standing around trembled, “Despicable!”

Sneak attack? Despicable? Killers, especially assassins, never do things in the open.

Da Cheng ge spat on the ground, a malevolent expression dyeing his facial features. He dashed toward Qin Ke Xuan, his fist swinging at her face.

Qin Ke Xuan raised her hand to block, and her leg swung, sideways, at his invitingly open stomach. The burly chap, as though a ball of crush paper, flew out. If it were not for the people behind catching him, he would have slammed on the ground.

Sadly, he was not any better off even if there were people catching him. He twitched, before spitting out a mouthful of blood.

“Da Cheng ge!” Everyone called him anxiously.

Shocked, and mad, the bunch of people looked at her, their eyes burning, and pounced at Qin Ke Xuan, unarmed. They were unarmed because they had severely underestimated her when they heard the enemy was only a little girl, so they did not carry any equipment. Now, they were all regretting not bringing a mace each.

Qin Ke Xuan did not retreat, rather, she quickly gripped the arm that was swinging towards her. She broke it with a snap, and sent a kick at his legs, which was once again coupled with a snap. As he fell howling in anguish, Qin Ke Xuan quickly swept her leg behind him, right at another person’s waist, sending him flying to one side. Following this, was a very one-sided beat-up. Everyone that had been pounded Qin Ke Xuan more or less spotted a broken limbs somewhere.

The entire alley was filled with people lying on the ground, to injured to get to their feet. Those that had a little strength left hugged their injuries, groaning. Those drained of their strength could only lay there moaning in pain. The scene was as though a living hell.

Qin Ke Xuan was a little disappointed. Despite being built more sturdily then others, they could not even measure up to the third-rate inferior practitioners in the martial arts scene.

Qin Ke Xuan walked over them and out of the alley. When she stepped on Da Cheng ge‘s body, his hand suddenly shot out and gripped her leg tightly. Her gaze lowered, meeting Da Cheng ge‘s eyes; the latter were filled with bitterness and non-resignation.

Qin Ke Xuan dug her foot down. Da Cheng ge groaned in anguish, but his hand gripping her leg did not loosen. Qin Ke Xuan’s eyebrow raised. Not bothering to hold back, she snapped another one of his ribs with a crack, “If I said I will snap every rib of yours, will you believe me?”

The bitter and undying spirit in Da Cheng ge‘s eyes were quickly replaced with that of terror. That woman would definitely do what she’d said!

His grip loosened, trembling.

Qin Ke Xuan stepped out of this living hell of an alley and continued with her mission—going home.

She dashed all the way home. Her speed was so fast an occasional brush against anyone, though she was quick enough to dodge immediately, would scare the hell out of them, thinking they had seen a ghost. However, it was just the dark shadow of her flying past.

TRANSLATOR & EDITOR: WYNNE. This translation is hosted at ZHAN LAN TRANSLATIONS

Translator’s Note:

(28th Jul 2019) Ello, I’m coming back to edit my earlier chaps once in a while, so there might be some slight format changes and writing style difference. If the ‘last edited’ line is dated after its publish date, it’s been re-edited again. If it’s dated around 2017-2018, please accept my apology in advance, some of the phrasing can be a little toxic to read oops XoX I’m trying to find time to edit it whenever I can

P.S. Just a little explanation for my beloved readers, there might be a bit of a watermark spam for the next few chaps oops, I’ve edited it such that it won’t affect your reading experience to as much an extent as possible. IAAK had been the beginning of my TL experience at Zhan Lann, and I had aggregator sites catching on to my sites really quickly and copying-and-pasting my TL wholesale, so I had been terribly pissed.

I’d just like to let everyone know that I don’t intend to remove them. If you’re unhappy, don’t feel obliged to continue, just like how I shouldn’t be obliged to continue translating when there were other sites freeloading my work and commercialising off of my TL — but I continued and finished IAAK anyway, because I knew I had loyal readers following the novel, and I shouldn’t disappoint because it was a commitment I had willingly picked up.

If you’re annoyed by my watermarks, blame the aggregator sites. If you want to drop this novel because of the watermarks, go right ahead, no one’s stopping you. I’ll just know that I’m paying a higher-premium-than-I-should-be to get the nicest dark theme with the prettiest UI I have access to on wordpress, and am sacrificing my time and effort for one less ungrateful reader. Should I say, good riddance?

Once again, I’d just liked to thank everyone for coming to Zhan Lann to pick up IAAK to read, continue it and maybe finish reading this novel. Thank you so so so much for supporting Zhan Lann, really ❤

(11th Apr 2021) Also, we just launched our Instagram account (finally), do follow us at @zhanlann for updates, sneak peaks and behind-the-scenes with the various fictional characters XD

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