Chapter 436: Chapter 32 Lin Ning Confessed Everything
Lin Ning was cooking in the kitchen, her Divine Sense occasionally sweeping outside.
Seeing that Yan Yu hadn’t looked over, she didn’t know if the captain had seen the recipes on the refrigerator door. She wanted to use telepathy but held back due to her promise not to pay attention to him tonight, so she could only repeatedly open and close the fridge door, making loud clicking sounds.
After a moment, Yan Yu suddenly left the living room and walked towards the kitchen.
Lin Ning hurriedly withdrew her Divine Sense, pretending as if nothing had happened, and focused on washing and cutting vegetables.
“Ningning,” Yan Yu entered the kitchen, closed the glass door behind him, and with a well-brewed expression of concern, furrowed his brows and suddenly asked, “I haven’t offended you, have I?”
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Instinctively, Lin Ning wanted to say “you bullied me today,” but she still remembered her promise to ignore Yan Yu, so she just kept her mouth shut.
“Why are you ignoring me?” Yan Yu lifted the lid of the pot to take a peek and continued, “Is there anything we can’t discuss properly? Why adopt this attitude of complete breakdown in communication?”
Lin Ning remained silent, but a small sense of delight bubbled inside her as she thought to herself:
The captain actually cares so much about my attitude towards him, hehe…
“It’s one thing for you to be angry with me,” Yan Yu’s tone gradually grew colder, “but why are you organizing people, conspiring, trying to get everyone to disobey the captain’s orders? Are you trying to incite a rebellion?”
“I’m not!” Lin Ning blurted out instinctively but then panicked and quickly covered her mouth.
“Still denying it?” Yan Yu scoffed, “They’ve all confessed, saying you initiated the collusion, you’re the ringleader plotting to overthrow me!”
“That’s not true!” In the urgency of the situation, Lin Ning couldn’t care less about her promise, and hurriedly defended herself via telepathy, “It was a collective decision, you can’t blame it all on me!”
“I’m not wronging you.” Yan Yu took a step closer, staring into Lin Ning’s eyes and said coldly, “Yun Jin, it was you who approached her, right?”
“Yes.” Lin Ning, her hands still covering her mouth, explained through telepathy, “But I was just passing on a message!”
“Ling Yun, it was you who approached her too, wasn’t it?” Yan Yu pressed half a step closer.
Lin Ning was starting to feel guilty, shaking her head frantically, defending herself via telepathy:
“I said I was just passing on a message!”
Yan Yu took another half step forward, his face almost right in front of Lin Ning, and said in a chilly voice:
“Ruoxi and Sister Zhao both said that they were just agreeing, and weren’t the instigators, so if it wasn’t you leading, was it perhaps me?”
Their proximity now was such that Yan Yu could clearly see Lin Ning’s smooth skin, the fine fuzz on her face, her pretty pink lips, her delicate nostrils that flared slightly with breath, her watery eyes, and in those eyes the panic, combined with feelings of injustice and anxiety.
The more this black-haired girl pretended to be proud and aloof on usual days, the more adorably frantic she became in this moment, and it was this contrast that was so endearing—this was beauty in contradiction, one might say.
“Ningning!” Yan Yu lowered his voice, his expression shifting from stern to sorrowful as if looking at a stranger who had betrayed him, and said heartachingly, “Why would you do this to me!”
Lin Ning’s expression nearly broke with heartache, and she finally could not hold back her defensive cries:
“It wasn’t me! Really, it wasn’t me! It was Sister Zhao’s idea, Ruoxi agreed, and I was just bewitched into agreeing…”
As she was speaking amidst the verge of tears, Yan Yu suddenly switched expressions like a face-changing magician. The disbelief, refusal to accept, and cold anger on his face vanished in the blink of an eye, replaced with a pondering look as he nodded and said:
“So it was her! Humph, true to her nature… Okay, I believe you. Go back to cooking.”
Just as Yan Yu was about to open the kitchen door, Lin Ning suddenly extended her right hand and fiercely grabbed his shoulder, her eyes stripped of any emotion, replaced with vast chaos:
“Captain… you never really suspected me, did you? You were just tricking me?”
“Correct,” Yan Yu proudly admitted with a smile, “I didn’t expect Ningning to care so much about my attitude toward you, haha!”
In the living room, everyone was watching TV when suddenly they heard a loud bang from the kitchen.
They rushed over to see what happened and saw Yan Yu leaving the kitchen, smiling and saying:
“Why has everyone come over?”
The girls looked at each other and then at Yan Yu, then back at Lin Ning who was still busy in the kitchen, seemingly undisturbed. Seeing nothing out of the ordinary, they sheepishly returned to the living room.
With her back to everyone, Lin Ning seasoned the soup, appearing calm and collected, but her slightly trembling hand holding the spoon betrayed her inner turmoil.
The moment Lin Ning heard Yan Yu say “So you do care about how I feel about you,” she couldn’t hold it in anymore; filled with embarrassment and anger, she high-kicked at Yan Yu, only for him to deftly dodge, using his shoulder to catch the crook of Lin Ning’s knee, and his arms to sweep under her legs, lifting her entirely off the ground.
Riding high on horseback! No, wait, the horse is eating the rider!
“Put me down now!” Lin Ning’s body suddenly airborne, wanted to shout with indignation but feared her teammates in the living room would notice. She quickly clamped down on his neck for balance and began patting his back, telepathically shouting, “Put me down this instant!”
“If I do, you’ll just kick me again.” Yan Yu carried her around the kitchen haphazardly. “First, promise me you won’t kick me.”
“No kicking, no kicking!” Lin Ning urgently transmitted her voice, clamping her legs even tighter.
“I don’t believe you,” Yan Yu continued to tease her, deliberately wandering around the kitchen with his back to her and swaying toward the direction of the living room, “Draw up a written agreement!”
“How can I draw up anything like this!” Lin Ning angrily kicked her legs, “Put me down now!”
The result was her foot kicking the fridge door, immediately making a huge noise.
Anticipating that the people in the living room would surely be drawn over, Yan Yu hastily set her down on the ground, and Lin Ning, despite the pain in her toes, quickly turned around and pretended to deal with the soup pot as if nothing had happened, secretly transmitting to Yan Yu:
“If you dare tell anyone, I’ll flatten you!”
“You can’t beat me,” Yan Yu retorted.
“Then I’ll spit in the food I make for you,” Lin Ning transmitted her threat.
This move was so powerful that even Yan Yu didn’t dare to continue bickering with her, quickly pushing the door and leaving the kitchen, brushing off the girls who came over in response to the noise.
“It’s clear now,” he whispered to Chen Lingyun, “She didn’t even try to confirm the authenticity with you. As soon as I pressed her, she confessed, admitting it was all Zhao’s doing.”
“So what are you planning to do?” Chen Lingyun asked with a smile, “Ostracize her? I don’t think she would care.”
“What’s her weakness?” Yan Yu wondered.
“You,” Chen Lingyun said, “To be precise, ownership of you.”
“Stop it, that’s a bit much,” Yan Yu sighed, “What else?”
“Food,” Chen Lingyun suggested, “Given her suspicious nature, maybe we could do this and that…”
After discussing their plans, Yan Yu also secretly transmitted a message to Ruoxi and Yun Jin, finalizing their scheme.
“Oh, right,” Yan Yu suddenly said out loud, “Yun Jin, Ningning is calling you over.”
Su Yunjin gave a small smile, saying nothing, and simply walked toward the kitchen.
Zhao Yuanzhen watched from the side, feeling that something was off:
Although everyone had agreed not to speak to the little thief, there was no rule against listening to him; he could still tell everyone to do this or that.
Ah, an oversight!
She sighed regretfully, while Su Yunjin returned from the kitchen not long after.
“What did Yun Jin go do?” Xie Ruoxi asked on purpose.
“Nothing much,” Su Yunjin responded cheerily, taking a napkin to wipe her mouth, “Ruoxi, Ningning is asking for you to come over too.”
Zhao Yuanzhen, puzzled, watched as Xie Ruoxi headed to the kitchen, her gaze fixed in that direction when she suddenly heard Yan Yu say to Chen Lingyun:
“Lingyun, what do you think about keeping a pet pig at home?”
The Demonic Sect Enchantress immediately turned her head, staring furiously at Chen Lingyun.
Chen Lingyun maintained her silence, shaking her head, and threw Zhao Yuanzhen a knowing look.
Therefore, Zhao Yuanzhen turned back, content, and continued watching TV, just as she saw Xie Ruoxi return.
“Ling Yun,” her voice was muffled, “Ningning is calling you over.”
“Okay,” Chen Lingyun stood up.
What was Ruoxi holding in her mouth? Why was she mumbling?
Zhao Yuanzhen felt perplexed, secretly transmitting to Xie Ruoxi:
“What did Ningning ask you to do in the kitchen just now?”
This question was also expected by Chen Lingyun, who had already explained to Yan Yu and Xie Ruoxi what to do, so she merely feigned confusion, transmitting a question in return:
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“Ah? Sister Zhao, didn’t you go to the kitchen?”
“No, I didn’t,” Zhao Yuanzhen replied, puzzled.
“Then Ningning will probably call for you later,” said Xie Ruoxi.
“So what exactly were you asked to do…” Zhao Yuanzhen continued to inquire, only to see Chen Lingyun returning from the kitchen, apparently chewing something but not yet swallowing it.