Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest-Chapter 377 - 73: The Mortal World

Chapter 377 -73: The Mortal World

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After Lin Ning and Su Yunjin left the animal world, they did not end up at the same checkpoint as Ye Jun, but suddenly found themselves back at their own homes.

“Where is this?” Looking around at the familiar furnishings, Lin Ning’s face changed dramatically.

How did I return home?

She had moved to Qingyuan Prefecture when she was in middle school, and this place was the old house left by her grandfather—in a small fishing village along the coast of the county.

As everyone knows, when the Mysterious Realm morphs into a place you’re familiar with, it means it’s time to… not torture, but test the strength of your will.

Therefore, she quickly prepared herself mentally and secretly mustered her spirit to be on guard.

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Before long, Lin’s mother came out with a plate of food, surprised to see her daughter.

“Why are you back?”

Lin Ning remained silent.

She swept Lin’s mother with her Divine Sense again and again, confirming this was definitely not a real person but an illusion. As such, she didn’t want to respond and give the people watching the livestream something to gossip about… Where’s my camera? Why is it gone?

Seeing that her daughter was not speaking, Lin’s mother put the food on the dining table in the main hall and went back into the kitchen.

This way, I can’t continue the challenge. Lin Ning could only helplessly follow her into the kitchen and said:

“I’ve come back suddenly, aren’t you happy, Mom?”

“No,” Lin’s mother shook her head, but her face did not look pleased, “As long as you’re happy.”

“As long as you’re happy” is another way of saying, “I can’t handle you; I can’t be bothered with you,” Lin Ning was helpless. Taking advantage of the blocked live broadcast camera, she asked:

“Mom, why are you upset again?”

“I’m not upset,” said Lin’s mother. “You’re almost forty, and you don’t even have a boyfriend, nor will you consider matchmaking. I don’t have the energy to get angry with you; I’ve resigned myself.”

Lin Ning: ………

Wait, first of all, this is just an illusion, I’m not almost forty and single!

Secondly, are you trying to challenge my views on love? Thinking that I set my sights too high, purposefully designing this scenario, hoping to make me lose my composure, right?

It must be said that after the experience in the Mirror Lake Maze, Lin Ning’s mental strength had greatly improved, not feeling the slightest embarrassment, but merely thinking calmly.

If it’s about challenging my views on love, as long as I can “convince the Mysterious Realm” in this regard, affirming my own beliefs, I should be able to break through this challenge.

After thinking things through, Lin Ning said gently:

“Mom, it’s not that I don’t plan to find a boyfriend, it’s just that I want to find someone I like.”

“Uh-huh, uh-huh,” Lin’s mother was entirely unmoved, “So what type do you like? I call you to go on blind dates, but you refuse; I ask you to find someone on your own, but you can’t, when asked about what type of man you like, you hem and haw, unable to articulate. I think you just like being alone for the rest of your life.”

Lin Ning helplessly explained:

“Mom, no, that’s not it. I’m not making excuses!”

“Then you can tell Mom now,” Lin’s mother didn’t even turn around, busying herself gutting a fish by the sink, “What are your thoughts?”

“I’ve already thought it through,” Lin Ning patiently said, “I like the type who is shrewd and capable, assertive, and who makes me feel secure when I’m with them. The matchmaking candidates you previously found for me all spoke too effeminately; I don’t like that.”

“Men like that tend to be very dominant, which might make them difficult to get along with,” Lin’s mother replied.

“Not at all!” Lin Ning quickly defended, “Being strong does not mean they are tactless in speech and actions! A man with assertiveness surely knows where your bottom line is. They might seem domineering and hard to get along with, but in fact, they consider your feelings in everything they do, making sure you’re not uncomfortable. What you’re talking about is chauvinists who don’t care about their wives at all, that’s a completely different thing from what I’m describing.”

“Oh,” Lin’s mother bowed her head, continuing to work on the fish, and said, “If he’s really as outstanding as you describe, why would he choose you? You’re thirty-six or thirty-seven, why wouldn’t he go for a woman in her twenties, why bother with someone your age?”

Lin Ning suddenly became angry and subconsciously put herself into her thirty-six or thirty-seven-year-old self, arrogantly saying:

“So what if I’m in my thirties? As long as he’s still single, of course I can wait for him to make up his mind! If he dares to choose another girl over me, then I’ll just hang around his house all day long, eat his food, use his stuff, and see what he can do about it!”

Lin’s mother fell silent for a while, then suddenly said:

“So, you’ve got someone you like?”

“Ah?” Lin Ning was stunned.

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However, the Illusion Realm that Su Yunjin found herself in was not at home, but in a hotel.

Chen Lingyun was seen wearing a bridal gown, having her makeup done by a makeup artist. Su Yunjin, on the other hand, was dressed in bridesmaid attire, constantly comforting herself in her mind:

“It’s all an illusion… It’s to test the steadiness of my heart…”

But still, it was so infuriating!

She glanced at the wedding invitation on the table. The groom’s name, glaringly written as “Yan Yu,” gave Su Yunjin the urge to have a heart attack right there and turn the joyous occasion into a funeral.

I wish I could just kill myself now and ruin your wedding!

Of course, that was just a momentary impulse.

Even if this really happened in reality, given Su Yunjin’s disposition and upbringing, she probably could only swallow her grievances temporarily and bury all her feelings deep down in her heart.

Of course, I still have to be a friend.

When the team leader has his seven-year itch and argues with Lingyun, goes silent, separates, and then divorces, I’ll use the excuse of “comforting the team leader” to ask him out on a trip, accompany him to travel, see flowers, enjoy the scenery, roam around Lu Country for two or three months, and then find a place to confess decisively. It must be in a setting and atmosphere where he can’t refuse!

Ah, but that’s too shameless. What if the team leader doesn’t really like me and is just with me to fill a void in his heart? That would be too unfair to me.

Su Yunjin’s thoughts raced as she sat restlessly, only to hear Chen Lingyun say with a laugh:

“Yun Jin, I’m really happy that you could come this time.”

Su Yunjin ignored her.

Her Divine Sense confirmed that this Chen Lingyun before her eyes was just a fake conjured by the Mysterious Realm—of course, it was fake. The real Lingyun would never say such hurtful things on purpose, and she even wanted to start a harem for the team leader.

Such a strange idea, why did she want to do that?

“Sigh.” Seeing that she was ignored, Chen Lingyun suddenly sighed deeply, “I was actually thinking about finding him a few more girlfriends. I didn’t expect that he would be in such a hurry to marry me, sigh. To suddenly call you all over like this, I really feel bad, but we had an agreement, right? Whichever one of us gets married, the other four must be her bridesmaids.”

There was no such agreement! Su Yunjin screamed in her mind.

Of course, if it’s me marrying the team leader, you four coming to be bridesmaids, that’s not out of the question, but if you don’t want to, could I really force you?

If you’re already married to the team leader, don’t keep flaunting it and hurting the sisterly bond!

She sat quietly on the side, secretly forming hand seals, fantasizing about flooding the entire hotel, only to hear Chen Lingyun continue with a smile:

“Actually, Yun Jin, I really didn’t expect you to be willing to come. Sister Zhao and Ningning both said they were busy.”

“Do you find this amusing?” Su Yunjin asked coldly.

“Are you angry?”

“Yes.”

“Why?”

“Can’t you tell?”

“I can’t see it,” Chen Lingyun said with a smile. “I gave you a chance, Yun Jin. Before Yan Yu and I became a couple.”

Now Su Yunjin was truly angry and retorted:

“Don’t wear her appearance and speak these malicious words! The real Lingyun would never deliberately jab at someone’s sore spot like this!”

“So you admit it’s a sore spot for you,” said Chen Lingyun with a smile. “You like him, Yun Jin. But you’re afraid of being rejected, so you never dared to truly confess. You’ve always used various methods to hint at him, provoke him, hoping he’d understand your feelings on his own.”

“That’s why you fail. Because you never considered, from Yan Yu’s point of view… he has so many options, many of whom are as good as you. And many men will subconsciously choose the one that’s easiest to win.”

“Remember my words, Yun Jin. Either take the initiative and give it your all, or pin your hopes on the elusive luck. You can’t choose the final win or loss, but at least you can choose not to regret in the future, thinking ‘I should have been more proactive back then’.”