Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest

Though Yan Yu didn't understand the method of breaking curses, just as one doesn't need to know programming to destroy a computer, brute force can solve most problems.

He injected his True Yuan forcefully, instantly filling Anna's sea of consciousness and shattering the peculiar spell.

Anna was still sucking on his finger, but her consciousness began to slowly return, her gaze gradually became clear, and she started to breathe rapidly and in a fluster.

"How much longer are you going to suck?" Yan Yu saw that she was still feigning ignorance, though her movements had stiffened considerably, and asked teasingly.

Anna quickly spit out his finger and defended herself,

"It wasn't me! It was my cousin who used black magic on me! They controlled me to make a night attack on you!"

Recalling the recent memories, she felt weak at the knees and numb all over, her cheeks flushed, her head burning up, and she instinctively collapsed onto the bed like a deflated duck, as if a large amount of steam were about to gush from her ears, while a strong sense of embarrassment in her chest almost choked her.

The Rasputin Spell Curse could make one lose their reason, but couldn't make someone conjure feelings out of nothing. Her saying "I like you" to Yan Yu, countless times before, wasn't entirely due to the influence of black magic.

Maybe I should just jump in the river...

Wait, no matter! As long as I don't admit it and blame it all on black magic, Yan Yu won't have any evidence!

"Nonsense." Yan Yu looked at his sopping wet finger with disgust, sighed helplessly, got out of bed, and said, "Don't I know you well? A person with lewd thoughts but no courage..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhao Yuanzhen pushed the door and entered from outside.

All six eyes met, they looked at each other, faces hard to keep straight.

Anna was slumped on the bed, her clothes in disarray, tears in her eyes, her complexion rosy, her hands crossed over her chest, looking like she had been played with and broken. Yan Yu was standing beside the bed, looking impatient, his left hand wet with some fluid... Zhao Yuanzhen's thread of reason in her head snapped on the spot.

You little thief! You've chosen the path to your demise!

Enraged, she let out a roar and charged at Yan Yu, the Yin Wind Sword unsheathed ahead of her, aiming to strike down this detestable, odious, despicable, and murderable heartbreaker!

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Zhao Yuanzhen's earth-shattering roar immediately startled the two witches outside, the neighboring girls in the next room, and even the neighbors who had already gone to sleep.

When everyone rushed into Yan Yu's room, they saw Yan Yu knock down Zhao Yuanzhen with a punch and then, in one smooth motion, he picked up her limp body, tossed it rudely onto the bed, and rolled around with Anna.

"What's going on?" Lin Ning was immediately shocked and asked.

"It's nothing." Yan Yu said nonchalantly, "These two women coveted my beauty and wanted to attack me in the middle of the night. Now they have been duly punished."

"Pfft!" The girls had indeed suspected as much, but when Yan Yu bluntly said it, they found it unbelievable—who would be so foolish as to attack him at night?

With any other man, if a girl delivered herself to his doorstep in the middle of the night, she would most likely be taken advantage of. But with their captain, she would only be severely humiliated, with responses like "Get lost," "You're not worthy," "Do you want a beating?" "It seems you need more training." Even if Anna didn't know this, wouldn't Sister Zhao?

Besides, the girls' rooms were right next door. The likelihood of these two staging a night attack was actually not high. It was more probable that Anna had come to visit the captain late at night and was mistakenly assumed by Zhao Yuanzhen to be up to something.

"Sister Zhao." Su Yunjin gently reminded, "Look at the captain's clothes, aren't they properly on?"

Zhao Yuanzhen looked closely. Eh, indeed.

Previously, seeing Anna sitting stupefied on the bed with Yan Yu looking suspicious, she had assumed that something indecent had happened between them... Now that she had calmed down, she realized that indeed their clothes were still on and their eyes didn't show any signs of languor, indicating that they probably hadn't been sneaking around behind her back.

It was just that she had been too hasty and had preemptively thought they were cheating.

"Ah, it seems to be a misunderstanding," she said with an embarrassed expression. "I thought... never mind, let's not talk about it."

"It is indeed a misunderstanding," Anna, still with a trace of red on her face, glared fiercely at her two cousins, and explained, "I came to talk to Yan Yu about something, and didn't realize how inappropriate it was due to the late hour."

"It's my fault." Zhao Yuanzhen quickly conceded, playing dumb, "I'm sorry for waking everyone up, haha."

Since they had aired the situation, the girls took another look at Yan Yu and then left the room.

Of course, even after leaving, everyone had their own thoughts.

Some like Lin Ning and Zhao Yuanzhen truly believed nothing had happened; others like Chen Lingyun and Su Yunjin also believed nothing occurred, but what about the motives? It seemed too convenient that Anna would visit Yan Yu's room late at night, only to be found by Zhao Yuanzhen and misunderstood. Could it be a mere coincidence?

Xie Ruoxi fell somewhere in between. She believed it was a misunderstanding, yet still felt something was off. In her innocence, she asked Anna,

"Anna, what were you going to talk about with Yan Yu in his room late at night?"

Anna was instantly embarrassed, and when she saw the other girls looking over, she hurriedly laughed and said,

"Ah, that... we were discussing... the barbecue we had before."

"Barbecue?" Xie Ruoxi asked in confusion.

"Yes, barbecue," Anna began to ramble, "That time... before I went abroad, the last time I met Sister Zhao and Yan Yu, we had barbecue that night. Later, when I went to the icy and snowy Amur, although the food wasn't bad, I often missed the taste of food from my homeland. So I asked Yan Yu if he could take me out for barbecue one more time before I left Lu Country...

Ah, I'm just gluttonous, always thinking about food..."

Although she laughed heartily, trying to relieve the awkward atmosphere, the girls just stared at her blankly.

Honestly, it wasn't funny.

After Su Yunjin had probed and asked about Anna's past, Yan Yu had explained it to everyone: Her father was laid off, he didn't pass the political screening, and they had to leave their hometown to go to a foreign country, where they ended up in a country plunged into turmoil and war, with life and death uncertain...

Any one of these events would be enough to crush a normal person, but Anna had been repeatedly battered by fate, and it was truly hard not to feel compassion.

Zhao Yuanzhen was particularly moved, thinking back to the barbecue she had with Anna in Shengjing Prefecture, how she had only cared about eating and didn't notice Anna's feelings. After they parted ways following the meal, they were worlds apart—Zhao suddenly felt a strong sense of guilt, thinking, I really am a beast!

The sorrow and bitterness of being far from home, who in the world could understand it better than Mi Zhen Xianzi? Since coming to this world, her master, her fellow disciples, the daoist friends she knew... all were gone.

I should have understood Anna's pain!

With that thought, Zhao Yuanzhen's eyes reddened, and she hugged Anna's shoulders, saying sadly,

"It's alright, you little thief... If Yan Yu won't take you, we'll go for barbecue ourselves!"

"Mm-hmm, it's a deal," Anna thought she had finally managed to fool them, so she also forced out a bit of sadness and started chatting with Zhao Yuanzhen in a low voice, their intimacy resembling that of sisters.

Lin Ning and Xie Ruoxi went back to their room, while Su Yunjin remained silent for a moment before secretly messaging Chen Lingyun,

"Do you think what she said is true?"

"Whether it's true or not doesn't matter," Chen Lingyun, who had already enjoyed the drama and was pleased, replied, "What's certain now is that she's interested in Yan Yu, and Yan Yu is indifferent to her."

"...Indeed." Su Yunjin pondered for a moment and said, "As long as we know that, it's enough."

After chatting with Anna, Zhao Yuanzhen quietly sneaked back to Yan Yu's room and exclaimed,

"Anna really has it tough."

"You understand now?" Yan Yu teased her.

"You have no idea." Zhao Yuanzhen sat down beside the bed and said to Yan Yu, "Anna had a tough time in the north, constantly fighting with people..."

"Didn't you also spend your days fighting with people before you crossed over to this world?" Yan Yu countered.

Zhao Yuanzhen was left speechless and then said,

"Anyway, if you can, help her out."

Yan Yu thought to himself that he hadn't said he wouldn't help her, why was she playing the good person here?

But then an idea struck him, and he deliberately adopted a cold demeanor, saying,

"If you ask me to help her, it's not impossible..."

"What do you want?" Zhao Yuanzhen, seeing him relent, quickly asked.

Yan Yu sprawled on the bed and said,
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"Just so happens that my shoulders and neck muscles are a bit stiff, I need someone to massage them."

Zhao Yuanzhen was slightly annoyed but thinking of how her old friend was now so down and out, softened her tone and said,

"Alright, alright, I'll relax your muscles for you."

She diligently sat beside Yan Yu, massaging his muscles, thumping his back, and even using True Qi to loosen his meridians and disperse stagnant energy...

After attending to him for most of the day, Zhao Yuanzhen suddenly remembered something:

Speaking of which, how did that little thief meet Anna again?

Oh, it seems his master had told him that Anna would have great fortune in the future, so he instructed him to befriend her in advance...

Then it's by your master's order that you'll certainly help her! And yet you still deliberately tricked me into serving you! Despicable little thief!

Zhao Yuanzhen suddenly realized the truth, and looking at Yan Yu lying on the bed, enjoying himself with his eyes closed, she was suddenly filled with a surge of anger. She promptly lay on his back, using her body weight to pin him down and prevent him from moving, her right arm wrapping around his neck, and holding his head in her embrace before exerting force and squeezing fiercely!

"You little thief, prepare to die!!!"