After Transmigrating into a Book as a Cannon Fodder Character, The System Turned out to be Completely Unreliable! - Chapter 22

Chapter 22: Dual Nature

Ji Fuyu was still smiling to herself when she turned around and called out, “Hey!” But when she opened her eyes—Ye Lingxi was gone.

Seeing that Ye Lingxi had shut the door on her, she got annoyed and stormed in.

Ye Lingxi had just gotten comfortable in bed when Ji Fuyu yanked her upright, refusing to let her sleep.

Still dazed, Ye Lingxi found the demon queen’s face suddenly inches from hers.

“Didn’t you hear me calling you?!”

Ye Lingxi didn’t want to argue. “I’m going to sleep!”

Ji Fuyu flared up. “How dare you talk to me like that!”

“I just did—so what?!” Ye Lingxi snapped, yanking her blanket back and turning away. Two jobs were bad enough—now she had two bosses with bad tempers.

Ji Fuyu hadn’t expected her to talk back. But seeing her turned away, she didn’t press. She scratched her head and muttered, “I rushed through my cultivation just to come back and teach you spiritual power, and now…” Her grumbling was still heard by the not-so-sleepy Ye Lingxi.

She sat up abruptly. “What did you just say?”

Ji Fuyu glanced at her. “Does it matter now? You’re ignoring me anyway.”

Ye Lingxi looked at her and felt she wasn’t lying. Even the system chimed in:

System: Host, she doesn’t seem to be lying.

“Yeah, yeah, go away,” Ye Lingxi waved it off.

System: “…”

Ye Lingxi threw off her blanket and crawled over to Ji Fuyu. “My lady—no, Master, what did you just say? I didn’t quite catch it.”

Ji Fuyu turned away, ignoring her with a pouty attitude.

Ye Lingxi: “…”

What’s going on? Is she sulking?

Left with no choice, Ye Lingxi braced herself to coax her. “Master, I was wrong, okay? Don’t hold it against me.” She started massaging her shoulders. “Let me give you a massage.”

“How’s the pressure?”

The system couldn’t take it anymore and retreated into her broken sword:

System: You two have fun. I’m out.

Ji Fuyu, seeing her sincerity, pointed to her other shoulder. “This side too.”

“Of course!” Ye Lingxi switched to full bootlicking mode. “How’s that?”

“Hmm… passable,” Ji Fuyu said, puffing her cheeks and smirking slightly.

Ye Lingxi: “…”

Ugh, she’s impossible to please.

After nearly half an hour of massaging, Ye Lingxi’s arms were sore. Ji Fuyu stretched contentedly. “That felt great.”

Ye Lingxi, now trembling from fatigue: “…”

Sure, you’re relaxed—but my arms are about to fall off.

“So, Master, can you teach me now?”

Ji Fuyu lay back and closed her eyes. “We’ll talk tomorrow.”

Ye Lingxi nearly turned to stone. Seriously? After all that, and now it’s ‘tomorrow’?!

“You said you’d teach me! Why are you lying down?”

Ji Fuyu opened one eye. “Weren’t you the one who said you wanted to sleep?”

“Sh*t!” Ye Lingxi muttered under her breath.

Ji Fuyu caught the unfamiliar word. “What did you just say?”

Ye Lingxi waved her hands. “Nothing! You misheard.”

Ji Fuyu, half-convinced, patted the space beside her. “Sleep.”

Ye Lingxi: “…”

She regretted everything. Tomorrow she’d be in charge of Qingyang Sect—how was she supposed to learn anything now? And Bai Luotang needed constant supervision. If anything went wrong, Mo Huaishu would skin her alive.

“You’re not going to look for your sword?” Ye Lingxi asked casually as she lay down.

Ji Fuyu, eyes still closed, replied, “I can sense where it is.”

Ye Lingxi: “…”

You can sense it?! Then why did you make me look for it?

“So you don’t need me anymore?” she asked cautiously.

Ji Fuyu: “Without you, how could I have entered this place?”

Ye Lingxi: “…”

She was speechless. With a sigh, she closed her eyes and tried to sleep.

But not long after, her whole body started heating up. She tossed and turned, still feeling unbearably hot, and finally woke up.

Her vision was blurry, and she couldn’t see clearly. As she shifted backward, she bumped into something hard. She reached back to touch it, but no matter how she pulled, it wouldn’t budge. Behind her, the person’s breathing was heavy.

Something’s wrong. Seriously wrong.

She sat up and shook the person beside her. “Hey! Hey!”

Ji Fuyu blinked a few times, waking up and sitting up. “Why are you calling me?” she asked groggily.

“You—you—do you feel anything strange with your body?” Ye Lingxi stammered.

Ji Fuyu took a deep breath. “What’s there to be alarmed about? I feel fine.” She was about to lie back down when Ye Lingxi yanked her up again.

“Are you sure?” Ye Lingxi’s voice grew urgent.

Ji Fuyu, still half-asleep, replied, “I’m sure.”

Ye Lingxi wasn’t convinced. “Then why is there a hard lump on your body? And it’s… long?”

“Huh?” Ji Fuyu was stunned by the question. Ye Lingxi grabbed her hand and placed it on the spot she had touched earlier.

“If you don’t believe me, feel it yourself.” She guided her hand between Ji Fuyu’s legs.

At first, Ji Fuyu brushed it off. But when she actually touched it, something felt off. She jolted awake. “What is this… thing?!”

“I was about to ask you that!” Ye Lingxi tried to move closer. “What’s going on? Did something go wrong during your cultivation?”

Ji Fuyu panicked and stopped her. “Don’t come any closer!”

Ye Lingxi froze. “You’ve got something strange on your body and won’t let me check? What if you’ve gone into qi deviation?”

“I haven’t! I haven’t gone into deviation!” Ji Fuyu’s voice trembled. “Just stay away!”

“How can I be sure if I don’t check?”

“I’ve always had this thing—it’s just… bigger today. So don’t worry about me. Just go back to sleep!” She jumped up and ran out.

Outside, she checked herself in disbelief. “What’s going on? Wasn’t it small before? Why is it bigger now? This has never happened before.” She gestured in the air, then spotted a pond and dove in, staying under for a long time.

Back in the room, Ye Lingxi was left speechless. “???????????”

“What’s wrong with her?” She recalled the sensation from earlier and suddenly felt uneasy. “Wait… was that really…?!”

She shook her head wildly and slapped her cheeks. “No way, no way! She’s a woman—how could she have that thing?” She couldn’t believe what she had touched.

“I must be dreaming! Once I wake up, it’ll all be fine.” She curled up in her blanket, but the image kept replaying in her mind.

It haunted her until morning.

Spirit Cat: Host, did you not sleep well last night?

Ye Lingxi turned to it with a weak smile. “System, do you believe this? I think I touched something on the demon queen that only men are supposed to have.”

Spirit Cat: What thing?

“A… jj.”

Spirit Cat: What?

“Even you find it hard to believe, right? I keep thinking—how could a woman have that?”

Her voice was drained as she lay back down.

Spirit Cat: If she really has one, maybe she’s intersex.

Ye Lingxi perked up. “What did you say? Intersex?”

Spirit Cat: Yes. It’s possible. After all, she’s a phoenix. And phoenixes are said to be both male and female—‘feng’ for male, ‘huang’ for female.

Ye Lingxi was confused. “Wait, I don’t get it.”

Spirit Cat: It means she might be a dual-formed phoenix, possessing both male and female traits.

Ye Lingxi: “…”

“I still don’t get it. Even if she’s dual-formed, shouldn’t that mean twins—one male, one female? How can it be just her?”

Spirit Cat: That, I don’t know.

“Well, of course you don’t. The author didn’t explain her much anyway.” Ye Lingxi was still deep in thought when someone called from outside.

“Senior Disciple, Master is looking for you.”

“Oh, coming.” Ye Lingxi shook off her thoughts. Whether Ji Fuyu was male or female didn’t matter—as long as she could cling to her thigh for support.

She got dressed, pulled herself together, and headed to the main hall.

Mo Huaishu and Bai Luotang had been waiting.

“You’re here?” Mo Huaishu’s cold voice rang in her ears.

Ye Lingxi bowed. “Greetings, Master. Greetings, Uncle Bai.”

“Rise,” Bai Luotang said first.

“Thank you, Uncle Bai.” As Ye Lingxi stood, she couldn’t help admiring her: No wonder she’s the most beautiful woman in the novel. That delicate face, cherry lips, elegant nose, and those bright, crescent-shaped eyes—she looked so soft and lovable. Her skin was like ivory, her voice gentle and alluring. Who wouldn’t fall for her?

She was so mesmerized that she didn’t notice Mo Huaishu’s sharp gaze. She shivered.

Busted.

Still, she kept smiling.

“So you’re Ye Lingxi?” Bai Luotang beckoned. “Come, let me take a look at you.”