Chapter 40: Catching a Small Fish

  "I've decided to deal with the in-laws first," said Leng Ruoxue calmly.

  "Ah!" Cold-as-snow's words had barely left her mouth when half the people present fell from their seats to the ground, and almost everyone stared at her in disbelief!

  "Your expression is quite strange!" Cold as snow, she seemed to smile but not smile, and knew that Gu Xiang's words were just a warning, alas! She only said she wanted to deal with the Yue family, did they have to react like this?

  "Miss, the Yue family is the leader of the five major forces!" Cheng Wu wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and couldn't help but remind her.

  "I know, right! Haven't you guys heard the saying 'catch the king first to catch the thief'? That's why I need to deal with the Yue family!" Leng Ruoxue said with a cold smile, heh heh, actually, she wouldn't be dealing with the Yue family because of this, but rather...

  "Miss, the Yue family is hard to deal with, and they also have Xuanzun as a guardian!" Cheng Wu hastily explained.

  "Oh, it's okay, I won't clash with them head-on!" Leng Ruoxue said with a light smile. She wasn't stupid, of course she wouldn't take the initiative to provoke Xuanzun, at most she would just use him a little!

  "Miss, what exactly do you want?" Cheng Wu wiped away two drops of cold sweat from his forehead, saying somewhat puzzled.

  "The heavenly secret cannot be revealed, you will know when the time comes." Leng Ruoxue said mysteriously with a smile, building up suspense!

  "Miss, what shall we do?" Cheng Wu asked after a moment of thought.

  "You... will know when the time comes!" Leng Ruoxue said with a sly smile, although she already had a rough outline of her plan, however, the specific details still needed to be discussed with Grandfather and others, and besides, she was still missing a crucial trump card in her plan!

  "Huh, is that so!" Everyone's face showed confusion and couldn't help but think to themselves, "Could it be that the young lady doesn't actually have any plan at all?"

  "If there's nothing else, all of you can leave! I'm going to rest now!" Leng Ruoxue started chasing people away!

  "Yes, miss!" The crowd wiped the cold sweat from their foreheads and thought to themselves, "It's not even dark yet, are we already resting?" However, they still obeyed and retreated from the back mountain!

  After they left, Leng Ruo Xue moved Grandfather and the others out again!

  "Xue Er, what's your next plan?" Leng Qing Tian asked somewhat impatiently after finding a place to sit down.

  "Grandfather, there are very few women in Wanshan City, especially beautiful ones?" asked Leng Ruxue.

  "Huh? Should be, but, Xue Er, what does this have to do with your plan?" Leng Qing Tian was confused, what did Xue Er mean by this?

  "Hey, girl, you wouldn't think of using your charm to get what you want and kill five birds with one stone, would you?" The old man said with a sly smile.

  "I was thinking! But the beauty that can make the five powers vie for her has not been found yet!" Leng Ruoxue sighed softly, with a hint of helplessness, saying that the beauty trap is always the most useful, no matter when or where, but unfortunately, where is the beauty?

  Actually, after she heard Wu say that, she began to suspect the relationship between the five major powers. Although they seemed not very close at ordinary times, but at critical moments, they could always unite as one rope. This can only explain one problem: the discord among the five major powers is just a show for outsiders, and in reality, the relationship between them is far from being that simple. What she needs to do now is to destroy their internal unity, so that she will have an opportunity!

  "Who says there isn't? Isn't one right in front of us?" Old Man Gou glanced at Leng Ruoxue, sneering and saying, "Heh heh, if this little girl is willing to take action, what kind of man wouldn't be captured by her?"

  "No way!" Leng Ruo Xue hadn't spoken yet, but Yao Jiao's murderous aura rose to the surface as he stood up first, glaring fiercely at the old man who had come up with this rotten idea, and shouted in a somewhat infuriated tone.

  "Hmm! Xiao Chenchen! You're calm, this is just a scheme, it won't really let Yatou seduce other men!" Old Gao hurriedly coaxed, wu... how did he forget about this vinegar jar?! This time it's over, Xiao Chenchen will definitely hold a grudge!

  "That won't do!" the demon yelled in anger, not to mention actually going, even if he just thought about it, he couldn't bear it, how could Snow's beauty be appreciated by other men?!

  "What's wrong with you? I didn't plan on becoming that kind of femme fatale anyway!" Leng Ruoxue said, slightly helplessly.

  "Really? Don't lie to me!" The demon warned with some unease, his obsidian-like eyes filled with anticipation!

  "I'm not kidding!" Leng Ruo Xue guaranteed, as if coaxing a child. Alas! The beauty in the plan was not what she had thought of herself, uh! To be accurate, she wasn't suitable.

  "That's good." Hearing Xue Er's guarantee, the demon felt at ease!

  "Ah, Lü Tuo! Besides you, there aren't any extra women around here now!" Old Man Chui reminded, the women in the mountain stronghold just won't do! They're not pretty enough!

  "Who says no, isn't Feng Ling'er a woman?" Leng Ruo Xue said with an evil smile, and took Feng Ling'er out of the cuff!

  "You old scoundrel, have you ever considered me a woman?" Feng Ling'er, who had just come out, immediately stood with her two small wings akimbo, fiercely yelling at the old scoundrel He Dong Shi.

  "Huh!" The old man stared at the fierce little red bird in front of him, speechless. In fact, he had never considered Feng Ling'er as a woman! Because in his heart, Feng Ling'er was always just a bird!

  "Hmph! Nothing more to say, huh?!" Feng Ling'er continued to shout in a somewhat infuriated tone.

  "Ling'er sister, stop teasing him, we're discussing important matters!" Leng Ruoxue said with some helplessness.

  "Oh!" Feng Ling'er responded with a sound, then flew onto Leng Ruoxue's shoulder!

  "Yatou, you wouldn't really plan to use Ling'er as the bait, would you?" Old Man Gao looked at Feng Ling'er with a somewhat disbelieving expression and asked. Ling'er was too fierce; if she were to be used as the female lead in a beauty trap, she might scare men off!

  "If I were Snow's sister, I wouldn't be able to take it, our family would be jealous." Feng Ling'er said with a pitiful expression.

  "Don't worry, I didn't plan on using you to carry out this plan." Leng Ruo Xue said with cold sweat dripping from her forehead. Although the beast could transform into a human form, it wasn't truly human after all. With the beasts' understanding of humans, they might blow their cover before even completing the task!

  "Then who are you planning to use? The beasts in the space aren't quite suitable, they're too simple!" Feng Ling'er racked her brains but couldn't think of anyone suitable to carry out this plan!

  "There is one person who is very suitable!" Leng Ruoxue said with a sly smile, her beautiful eyes flashing with a calculating expression!

  "Who?" everyone asked in unison, and on their faces were written two big words: "curiosity".

  "No!" Like a thunderclap on a clear day, Leng Xue's icy voice had just fallen when it shocked everyone into a daze, and the old man even dramatically fell to the ground!

  "Girl, who... who are you talking about?" The old man got up from the ground and rubbed his sore arm, staring with wide eyes, asking uncertainly. Eh! Did he hear wrong? Girl said "Wu", Wu is obviously a man, how can he carry out the beauty plan?!

  "None! I think there's no one more suitable than him!" Leng Ruoxue said with a smile.

  "Xue Er, he won't agree." Leng Qing said calmly, how could such a noble man be willing to disguise himself as a woman?

  "I'll find a way to persuade him." said Leng Ruoxue confidently.

  "Hmm! Well, good luck to you then!" The old man said with utmost sympathy. Alas, if Wu didn't know about it, would this girl make him go crazy if she asked him to dress up as a woman? Perhaps Wu already knew about it now!

  "Wait for my good news! Yao Jiao, let's go find Wu." Leng Ruo Xue stood up and said to Yao Jiao.

  "Hmm." The demon was very cooperative, heh heh, as long as it wasn't making him dress up as a woman!

  She was as cold as snow, and with a turn of her mind, she and the demon disappeared into thin air!

  In the bangle.

  Leng Ruo Xue, Yao Nie and Wu Zheng sat on a stone bench in the garden, staring at each other with big eyes, none of them spoke first!

  "No, I have a plan that requires your help!" After a long silence, Leng Ruoxue spoke up. Earlier, when she was discussing the plan with Grandfather and others in the courtyard, she hadn't closed off her communication with Wu, so she believed he should already know about it. But instead, he pretended to be clueless in front of her! How infuriating!

  "As long as I'm not dressed up as a woman, everything else is fine!" This one sentence shut down what Ruo Xue was about to say!

  "It's you who will disguise yourself as a woman!" said Leng Ruoxue with a sly smile.

  "No way!" Two words were softly spat out!

  "It's you, no matter what!" said Leng Ruoxue with an overbearing tone. Hehe, dressed up as a woman, she was absolutely a stunning beauty who could topple cities! I'm really looking forward to it!

  "Do you want to make it difficult?" said with a pouting mouth, looking very wronged.

  "It's a warning, so you'd better behave and agree to Miss's request, otherwise, don't blame me for being too rude!" Leng Ruoxue threatened with a smile.

  "Xiao Chenchen, your woman is threatening me!" Wu turned his gaze towards Ye Chen, complaining slightly.

  "Just agree with her then! It won't cost you any flesh!" The demon naturally stood on his wife's side and also persuaded him.

  "No, I don't want others to see me." No way, no how... This is just too humiliating!

  "You're a grown-up now, you can't always be so shy, it's time to go out and meet people!" Leng Ruoxue said with a serious tone, suppressing her smile.

  "I don't want to, I think it's fine as it is now. Anyway, I just don't want that many people to see my existence!" Wu Yi said resolutely.

  "Don't worry, no one will know it's you, everyone will just think you're a woman!" Leng Ruo Xue assured.

  "I don't want to be a woman!" She said resolutely.

  "No one wants you as a woman, this is just part of the plan, it's only temporary." Leng Ruoxue cooed.

  "How...long?" he asked somewhat unwillingly, welp...he and Bing Qi had been freeloading every day, actually, he also felt a bit embarrassed and thought about doing more for them, but, did he really have to sacrifice his own masculinity?!

  "It depends on how smoothly the plan goes, but it shouldn't be long, and both I and Yao Jiao will be by your side to accompany you, so don't worry that anyone will take advantage of you." Leng Ruo Xue said after some thought.

  "What I'm worried about isn't this!" Wu shouted, fuming. Hum! The person who dares to take advantage of him hasn't been born yet! He just...just can't accept himself dressing up as a woman and flirting with men!

  "What are you worried about?" asked Leng Ruo Xue, somewhat perplexed.

  "Xue Er, why must you insist on dressing me up as a woman?" he asked with some helplessness. Alas... there are already women available, yet you insist on using a fake one!

  "You're so beautiful!" Leng Ruo Xue couldn't help but praise as she looked up and down at Wu.

  "He's also beautiful, why don't you let him dress up as a woman!" He pointed at the demon, asking with a hint of dissatisfaction, hum! This man is even more skilled at playing coy than he is, and dressing up as a woman would absolutely make him even more stunning!

  "He's doomed!" Leng Ruo Xue said with a forehead full of black lines, "If the demon were to disguise itself as a woman, those men wouldn't even get close before they'd all be sent to meet their maker!"

  "Why not? I think he's very suitable!" Wu said carefully sizing up the demon, hmm, the more I look at him, the more satisfied I am!

  "Figure, temperament, and temper are all no good, you're the most suitable!" Leng Ruo Xue said with great certainty. Because he was an energy body, and had always been injured, his current figure wasn't as strong as a normal man's, but rather looked somewhat weak and delicate. Although he was taller than the average woman, this frailty seemed to be enough to trigger any man's protective instincts!

  And after this period of cultivation, the current body has basically solidified and no longer floats around like a ghost. The pale but stunningly beautiful face paired with this petite figure, which man can resist?

  "Alas!" He glanced at the demon and then at himself, before letting out a slightly resigned sigh, as if it indeed seemed to be the case.

  "None, you have to trust my eyesight, no one is more suitable than you!" Leng Ruoxue said with a light smile, heh heh, she wanted a sick beauty!

  "Alas! Alright then!" He nodded slightly, with a hint of resignation, and said with a sigh... Who made him rely on others for support?

  "Haha, then let's start our new plan tomorrow!" said Leng Ruoxue, overjoyed that her goal had been achieved.

  After settling the matter, Leng Ruoxue discussed her plan with Grandfather and others, then summoned the steward and Cheng Wu, gave them instructions, and the plan officially began...

  One evening, on the streets of Wanshancheng's inner city, two women and one man appeared. The leading woman had a stunningly beautiful face that could topple cities, but her complexion was somewhat pale, as if she had not yet recovered from a serious illness. However, the two small attendants by her side were quite unattractive, even ugly!

  "Miss, we've just arrived in the city and don't know our way around. Why not find a decent inn to stay in first?" The ugly maid servant said loudly, immediately attracting the attention of many passersby.

  "Mei, I've always taught you that as a girl, you shouldn't speak so loudly, otherwise, no one will want to marry you in the future." The stunning woman sighed and said with deep concern.

  "It doesn't matter, if I can't marry out, I'll just bring a man back home, it's all the same!" The ugly maid servant said nonchalantly.

  "Alas! That's okay, I'll help you keep an eye out for it next time, miss!" The stunning woman with jade-like hands gently covered her lips, saying with a hint of resignation.

  "Thank you, miss!" The maid hastily expressed her gratitude!

  "Miss, shouldn't we be looking for an inn?" The male servant beside her said, suppressing his anger and gritting his teeth.

  "Hmm! Yeah! Sigh! Lately, I've been having a poor memory, always forgetting people and things I've seen before. Luckily, I have you guys around!" The stunning woman smiled with pursed lips, and that one smile was enough to captivate the city, and even the country. Meanwhile, the passersby around them were already entranced by her breathtakingly beautiful smile, which had left them disoriented and unable to find their way...

  Not only that, but more and more onlookers gathered around them, with almost everyone's expression being one of astonishment and incredulity!

  "Miss, why are they surrounding us?" The maid asked somewhat puzzled.

  "I don't know, let's hurry up and find an inn. It's going to get dark soon." The stunning woman said calmly.

  "Does the young lady want to stay at our inn? Come to our Nai family's guest house!" The waiter at the Nai family's guest house had a look of surprise on his face, and in his heart, he secretly decided that no matter what means he would use, he must keep this beautiful woman at their inn!

  "Miss, you can't stay at the Ni family's inn, it's a black shop. If you want to stay, of course, you should stay at our Zhao family's." At this time, the waiter from the Zhao family's inn also spoke up, "Hmph! Such a beautiful woman, even if we can't have her, it's good enough to be able to see her every day!"

  "You're the ones who are running a black shop, Zhao family! The things you sell inside are ridiculously expensive! Miss, don't be deceived!" Nian's servant retorted, and the two of them started arguing with each other.

  "Miss, which house are we going to live in after all? I think neither of these two houses is good!" The maid said with great dissatisfaction.

  "This... miss I'm also unclear!" The absolutely beautiful woman slightly frowned her eyebrows, and her lovely face was full of worry!

  "Haha, since the young lady can't make up her mind, then naturally she won't be staying at either of those places. Come and stay at our family's inn instead!" At this time, a young man's voice rang out from among the crowd, and he pushed his way through to stand before the three of them.

  "She is..." The absolutely beautiful woman looked puzzled, sizing up the man in front of her. The man was about thirty years old, tall and handsome with a majestic aura. Although he was only a mysterious king, the overbearing air of a superior being on his body was unmistakable. As soon as he stood there, the quarreling servants immediately fell silent!

  "In the lower mountain village, may I ask for your esteemed name, miss?" Yueshen said very politely.

  "Hmph!" Upon hearing the man's introduction, the ugly maid couldn't help but let out a slight giggle!

  "What are you smiling at? No manners!" The stunning woman pretended to be dissatisfied and glared at her maid, then looked at Yue with a hint of apology: "Sorry, Master Yue, my maid doesn't understand etiquette, please don't mind it!"

  "No, no, what's the name of this unknown lady?" Yueshen didn't have the heart to bother with a maidservant at all! What he was thinking about now was entirely this stunning beauty in front of him!

  "Cold-hearted." A stunningly beautiful woman slightly opened her crimson lips and said faintly.

  "Leng Wu Xin, what a great name! Miss Leng is the daughter of the Leng family..." Yue Qun intentionally said half a sentence and left the rest for Leng Wu Xin to continue.

  "Don't mention the Leng family to me, ah! With a body like mine, I'm really not worthy..." Leng Wu Xin said with a hint of sadness, her beautiful eyes welling up with tears, making Yue Qun's heart ache.

  "Hehe, every family has its own unspeakable difficulties, I understand. From now on, I won't ask Miss Leng about her sad past again!" Yue Qun's words were very considerate, but in his heart, he had already confirmed that this Leng Wu Xin was indeed the young lady of the Leng family, and estimated that it was because she was not in good health, so she was not valued in the Leng household.

  "Thank you, Young Master Yue, for your understanding." said Leng Wu Xin with a faint smile.

  "This is what should be." Yue Qun calmed down and hurriedly said, he had already been captivated by Leng Wu Xin's absolutely beautiful smile.

  "Miss, we haven't found our inn yet!" The maid suddenly reminded.

  "Huh! Yeah!" Leng Wu Xin's expression changed again, her eyebrows furrowed in distress, and as she slightly frowned, Yue Qun's heart also tightened up!

  "It's a small matter, I've said it before, Miss Leng can go to our family's guest house to stay, has the miss forgotten so quickly?" Yue Qun said with a hint of dissatisfaction.

  "That's too troublesome! How can I possibly?" said Leng Wu Xin, her cheeks slightly flushed with a hint of embarrassment.

  "What's the trouble? My family runs an inn and you're a guest, what's troublesome about that?" Yue Qun hastily said.

  "I'd be too polite if I didn't." Cold said with a faint smile.

  "Miss, please follow me," said Yue Qun, and then he led the three of them to his family's hotel, where he very enthusiastically helped them book a room. Finally, he reluctantly left, looking back at them every few steps.

  In the guest house room.

  Lying on the soft big bed, panting heavily with mouth agape!

  "None, pay attention to your image as a young lady, Yueshu will be coming at any moment." The ugly maid said, which was somewhat unbearable for Leng Ruoxue.

  Since the plan started, Leng Ruo Xue has been hiding and leaving Wanshan City. Then, she found a crowded evening road with Yougui and walked back in without a care. Actually, earlier on the street, she deliberately spoke loudly to attract attention. Now it seems the effect is very good, at least Yu'er took the bait smoothly!

  "What's the big deal, I need to sleep and fart too!" He thought it was a matter of course, being dressed up as a woman already made him feel suffocated. Can't he just be himself when no one is around?! Ugh... Is it still possible to regret now?

  "Xu'er, let him be!" The demon said with some sympathy, fortunately, it wasn't him who had to pretend to be a woman, otherwise, he would have been so depressed that he could have hit the wall.

  "Alright!" Leng Ruo Xue said with some helplessness, sighing. She also knew that the plan would require great sacrifice, but what could be done?

  "Xue Er, take me to space and stay there, I'm not used to sleeping here." Wu said without opening his mouth. After lying on the soft big bed for a while, he found that it was not comfortable at all to stay in space!

  "Good." Leng Ruoxue replied, and immediately put Wu into the cuffs.

  "Xuě er, what are we doing?" Without the light bulb, Yāo niè gently wrapped her arms around Lěng Ruò Xuě and asked with expectation on his face, his dark star-like eyes started to sparkle again!

  "Stop, you demon, don't look at me with that kind of gaze, it's nauseating." Leng Ruo Xue said, somewhat unable to bear it, oh my, it's really too terrifying!

  "Xue Er, you're rejecting me again! Wuu... I didn't reject you at all!" The demon said with a tone of grievance.

  "Hmm! I'm not disgusted by you, it's just that your current appearance really doesn't suit making such a seductive expression, it's too creepy!" said Cold-as-Snow with a somewhat hairy tone.

  "Heh heh, what expression should I make now?" The demoness teased with a light laugh.

  "You're suitable..." Leng Ruo Xue's words had yet to finish when a knock at the door sounded from outside the room.

  "Who is it?" The demon asked with a hint of discontent and anger.

  "I... I'm a waiter at the inn. Our young master asked me to bring some food for Miss Leng." The servant outside the door replied in a somewhat fearful tone.

  "Oh, just put it there." The demon somewhat impatiently opened the door and pointed to a nearby table.

  "Yes, which... is Miss Leng not here?" the waiter asked cautiously. Humph! How can this man be so fierce? He really doesn't know where he offended this ugly man!

  "What's going on? My young lady isn't someone who can be seen by just anyone." The demon's eyes glared, saying in a bad temper.

  "No... it's not me, it's my young master who has a message for Miss Leng." The servant was so scared that she almost cried!

  "It doesn't matter what you say to me." The demon's eyes fluttered slightly as he spoke in a cold tone.

  "Alright then! Young master said, come back tomorrow to see Miss Leng." The servant had no choice but to say hastily and quickly disappeared.

  "Must it be especially conveyed with just this one sentence?" The demon muttered to himself, unable to bear it, after closing the door.

  "You demon, what are you muttering about?" asked Leng Ruoxue as she walked up to the demon's side, somewhat curious.

  "I was talking about that Yue Qun! How strange, he's coming tomorrow anyway, and even asked someone to specially inform me!" You Yao explained.

  "Haha, this is to show his importance to our family's young lady, it can also be considered a hint!" Leng Ruoxue lightly laughed and said, taking a glance at the sumptuous food on the table. Heh heh, looks like Yue Qun is quite capable!

  "Hint?" The demon didn't understand, in fact, he knew very little about the ways men pursued women.

  "Yes, I reckon in a few days he'll invite us to his home himself." Cold Snow guessed.

  "Huh? Won't be! So soon?" The demon was somewhat half-believing and half-doubting.

  "Unfortunately, the whole of Wanshan City will know by tomorrow that a stunning beauty has arrived in town, and it's said to be Miss Leng of the Cold family. Think about it, with such an identity, how many romantic rivals will she attract for Yue Qun? Can he not be afraid?"

  "Hmm! That's right!" The demon said thoughtfully.

  "You demon, get some rest early today! Tomorrow is going to be lively." said Leng Ruo Xue.

  "Hmm." The demon nodded slightly.

  The next day, as expected by Leng Ruoxue, many people came to ask for an audience with Leng Wuhen. After receiving them selectively, his reputation became even more renowned...

  The third day...

  The fourth day...

  For several days in a row, Yuejia Guest House was packed to the brim. Wherever there were people, you could always find Leng Wu Xin's figure...

  "Miss, wake up, don't scare me..." Suddenly, Cold Wuhen fainted amidst the crowd, and her maid burst into loud wailing!

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