Stuck in a Chinese novel

"You asked for ten minutes," Xing Xiaomei said, "They began when I entered the café."

To that, Wei Jun remained silent. He was confident he'd be able to make Xing Xiaomei an ally of his. After all, he knew her secret. To understand her better, Wei Jun had to read the novel again and again, bearing the ridiculous and logical parts of it that made him immensely angry, but he pushed through.

After all, there were some details hidden in it that only became clear to him after reading the novel again and again. And the one detail he picked about Xing Xiaomei was that she was incomplete.

There was just something about her that wasn't whole. She was Xing Xiaomei, but not her at the same time. There was something more to her story but Wei Jun could never figure it out. Still, that didn't mean he didn't have a clue about it.

"The central plain." Wei Jun said. A simple word. Not many would have understood what he meant by that. Maybe no one in the current world knew about it. However, as soon as he said those words, Xing Xiaomei froze in her place.

But that didn't last for long. What replaced her gaze was chilling coldness but contrary to her gaze, a smell filled the surroundings. A smell of petals. A soothing smell. A smell that everyone liked. Loved, actually.

However, the prettiest rose was the thorniest as well. Wei Jun knew that well. That pleasant smell was the deadliest, he knew it better than anyone present.

"Give me one reason why I shouldn't cut your head off." Xing Xiaomei said. As she said those words, Wei Jun's people present should have moved but they were too lost in the fragrant smell around Xing Xiaomei.

"I can get you the plum blossom sword art." Wei Jun simply replied before he stood up and left but not without a few words, "If you're not at my house in an hour, I'll consider we never had this talk."

Before Xing Xiaomei could even react, Wei Jun was nowhere to be seen. He had pushed his body to the maximum and ran away from the spot. Xing Xiaomei hurriedly snapped out of it and a pinkish hue enveloped her. She hurriedly ran after the trace Wei Jun left.

Wei Jun looked back, a little uneased, looking at the gradually gaining Xing Xiaomei who had a cold look on her face. Wei Jun, for the first time, took notice of her beauty because it was pulling him in. Her light grey eyes, her dark hair, that pale color of her skin, the sharp features of her eyes, and most of all, that cold look that gave her a look that even attracted Wei Jun.

Before he even realized it, he was slowing down. She wasn't just gaining up on him, he realized, it wasn't just that. He was also slowing down.

[A common effect of the cultivation technique]

[It is more suited for women]

[It makes them…]

[Desirable]

That didn't make him feel good. The fact that he was letting his lower body make the decisions for him made him wonder if he should actually pursue Xing Xiaomei. But the story had progressed far enough for him to reconsider.

All the side heroines had been met with the protagonist and had fallen for him. He had gained all he could from them. The only one left was the untouchable flower.

Xing Xiaomei.

Two entire volumes of the novel were dedicated to her.

Wei Jun realized. If he were to disrupt these two volumes heavily, it would have a massive effect on the story to come. And the key to that disruption was none other than Xing Xiaomei.

[Calm your breathing]

[The fragrance of the plums only works the more you resist it]

[Don't resist it more than necessary]

Wei Jun did the same. Beauty was superficial. Beauty that was enhanced was even more. He remembered the lessons he had learned painfully in his life and kept moving forward.

His feet felt lighter. His attention was more on the road than on the fragrance emitting from the woman behind him. And with those simple acts, the distance between him and her began to widen once again.

Xing Xiaomei hesitated. A man who could resist her. It was new. Even her own father fell to the curse that she was plagued with. But unlike the movies, that didn't intrigue her in the man before him. No.

It made her wary.

Wary of him.

Wei Jun looked back at her. As if he could tell what she was thinking, a grin appeared on his face. A grin that only terrified Xing Xiaomei but also angered her. She picked up speed to the maximum she could and before she knew it, she was well onto the highway, away from the city.

Still, knowing that all too well, she didn't stop. Even though something deep inside her was telling her to return, something was compelling her to go to the university.

But…

That grin. The terrifying smile. She just couldn't get that out of her mind. She wanted nothing but to punch the man in front of her in the face. And then…

She wanted to know.

What did he know about the central plains?

However, contrary to what she thought, Wei Jun didn't know much about the central plains. Even though it was mentioned in the novel for some time, there wasn't much about it.

The system, however, knew those answers. However, when asked.

[Can't tell you]

[It's not like I don't trust you]

[But telling you about central plains will have a lot of adverse effects on the world]

[There is too much power hidden in the central plains]

[If the world's will found out about it]

[It could easily send one of its heralds to take that power]

[If they managed to do it]

[They'd be unstoppable]

'Why?' Wei Jun didn't insist on the matter anymore. If the system said it couldn't tell him about the place, he didn't ask for it again but he was interested in why he couldn't even ask about it. What was there that was so strong?

[My father]

[My father's there]

Wei Jun went silent. One thing he had established ever since he came to the world was that the overseer, the entity in the system, was the strongest being this world had ever seen. Even though he hadn't seen anything regarding it, deep down, he believed his hypothesis was correct. The father of such a being, a person even the system was serious about was mentioned…

Well, Wei Jun could only imagine.

So, all he had on him at the moment for Xing Xiaomei was a bluff. He could only hope that Xing Xiaomei would follow him in the vain hope that he knew anything about the central plains and the cultivation technique she possessed.

[Not really a bluff]

[She has the cultivation technique]

[What she needs is the accompanying sword art]

[Plum blossom sword art]

'But if I'm not wrong, then it's a clue to the central plains, isn't it?' Continue your saga on empire

[A massive clue]

[If you're gonna give it to her]

[You better make sure she would follow every whim of yours]

[She should be obedient enough to bare herself in the middle of a crowded street if you wanted her to]

That was some level of obedience he didn't even expect from his party members. Besides, it wasn't him who was going to give her the technique but…

[I will give it to you]

[Actually, teach it to you]

[But you have to be a grandmaster for that]

[You wouldn't even be able to follow the Qi flow with that level of Qi control]

[My advice is that you work on your core before you hit the grandmaster realm]

Wei Jun nodded in assent. He hadn't worked on his core for a while now even when he had the time. It was time he let go of everything useless and focused on what he could.

For now, he had succeeded in his primary objective. He had succeeded in pulling Xing Xiaomei from the protagonist.

He had prevented that first meeting. The beginning of it all. The beginning of the third volume. Now all that was left was to make sure she didn't return.

Speaking of which, he was so absorbed in his conversation with the system, that he didn't even focus on the fragrance around him. While it wasn't as affecting as before, he was sure it had increased in density.

When he turned his head to look at his pursuer, his eyes widened to the limit to see that he was barely one inch away from her stretched hand. Wei Jun hurriedly increased the speed only to find out he was already at the maximum.

That made him realize another fact about his pursuer about which he was severely mistaken.

She was stronger than him.

And…

Bam!!!