Suddenly, Zu An sensed something and took out a jade strip. A soft light shone intermittently from it. It was the communication jade strip he had made, and the light meant he received a message.
He opened it up and saw a pretty portrait flashing. It was Bi Linglong’s profile picture. She wasn’t dressed in her crown princess or empress ceremonial outfits, but rather a soft silk dress. There wasn’t as much of her usual dignified appearance, instead, there was more of a relaxed, personable feeling to it.
Zu An couldn't help but smile. He was still fiddling with the selfie function himself, but she had already figured it out.
“Ah Zu, is my new profile picture pretty?”
“It is~” Zu An wrote on the jade strip. The characters turned into specks of light that entered the strip.
He and Shen Xuzi had modified the jade strip earlier, but they just couldn't figure out how to make it send messages in real time. Sometimes, it worked normally, but more often than not, one just couldn't receive any messages. They just couldn't figure out what was going on there.
“Ah! I actually got in touch with you! I thought that you wouldn’t receive my message," Bi Linglong replied. Zu An could sense how happy she was even through just the text. She continued, “Then do you think I’m prettier like this, or am I prettier in my empress dress? Or maybe my crown princess clothes?”
“You’re pretty no matter what you wear.”
“Tsk, you don’t have a shred of sincerity. You have to pick one! Which one is the prettiest?”
“Actually, you’re prettiest when you aren’t wearing anything.”
“You’re so annoying~”
A while later, Bi Linglong sent another message. “Ah Zu, why don’t you have a profile picture yet?”
“I haven’t had time yet, and I felt that there was no real need for one.”
“Of course you have to! I miss you, you know?”
Zu An immediately felt warm inside when he saw that message. His earlier gloominess was completely swept away. The past was already long gone; he had to cherish the people right in front of him.
“Take one for me right now, can you? Right, take a picture of your surroundings too.”
Zu An looked at the sleeping Zhang Zitong and immediately began to sweat.
Feelings have to be constantly checked on...
Back then, he had only installed the picture function in order to have a better chatting experience.
Yeah, I definitely can't create a video call feature. Otherwise, I’ll constantly be checked in on. That would be the same as crushing my own foot...
“The surroundings seem pretty nice. Why do I feel as if your arrangement is the work of a woman?”
Zu An was speechless.
The sixth sense of women really is too terrifying... I never expected she would even notice something like this.
“I’m in the Devil Sect,” Zu An said, then gave her a rough summary of what had happened.
“I didn’t expect the monsters to have entered the Devil Sect... Who knows how many people have already sided with them in the world? But let’s talk about these proper affairs in person later. I don’t want to let this precious time be disturbed by these kinds of things.”
Zu An felt a bit helpless in this situation. He exclaimed, "Is this not important enough?!”
“Of course not. Chatting with you is more important. For example, what do you think about my new name?”
Bi Linglong changed her name to ‘Azuki Bean Linglong’.[1]
Zu An was dumbfounded. She had actually taught herself how to make an online username? He knew it was from the poem that he gifted her in the past, and the next line was ‘a yearning from deep within the bones, do you know it?’. She was clearly using it as a way to express her longing.
“I miss you too,” Zu An replied. As he wrote those words, he immediately felt really warm and comfortable.
“Then you have to change your name to match.”
Zu An was stunned.
Are you kidding me? If I change my name to that, how will I explain myself when the other women see it?
He had just survived a terrible battle between women; he really didn’t want to create another huge disaster.
“Hm? Why can’t I see your messages anymore? Did you go offline again? It seems the communication jade strip still isn't perfect.”
Meanwhile, Bi Linglong was lying on the bed with her hand on her chin and a sweet smile on her face. When she saw that message, however, her smile immediately froze.
“Hm? Offline? I can clearly still see your messages though.”
“Ah Zu?”
“Ugh, this shoddy jade strip. Why did you go offline at a time like this?”
...
When he saw the flood of messages, Zu An wiped the cold sweat off his face. In that instant, he felt that the unreliability of the jade strip wasn't necessarily such a bad thing anymore.
Suddenly, a profile pic of a young lady dressed in a really short leather miniskirt flickered onto the strip, with the profile name ‘Wei Wu's Whip’.
Zu An was stunned.
“Brother-in-law, brother-in-law! I had another fight with Youzhao recently and beat her until she begged for forgiveness!” Chu Huanzhao said excitedly.
“You’re probably the one who got beaten up badly by her, right?” Zu An remarked skeptically. After all, Huanzhao was known for being a cultivation idiot. There was no way that her cultivation could compare to Youzhao’s.
“Tsk, no way. After you helped me increase my cultivation aptitude, I feel as if I’m crossing a thousand miles each day. Isn’t beating up that kid Youzhao easy enough?”
Even though he couldn't see what she looked like right now, Zu An could clearly picture the proud look on her face.
“You’re that amazing?!” Zu An repplied happily. That was a good thing too, after all. With some competition, they’d help each other grow stronger.
After a pause, he added, “By the way, why do you have that stupid name?”
“Is it stupid? In the past, you told me that there was an emperor named Wei Wu you admired, who used a whip. I use a whip too, so I used his name. I feel as if it will make me look more impressive and make my cultivation better.”