Reborn As A Villainous Cannon Fodder

Chapter 475: Ch 475 – Look, When I Ask You to Perform, You’re Reluctant Again

Ruoning felt that this Liuli Illusion Realm was becoming increasingly mysterious.

Along this journey, she had first experienced the male protagonist’s growth, then personally witnessed a heroic rescue, and saw the encounter and romance between the male and female leads depicted on murals.

Now, she had reached the eleventh floor.

The scene here was an abandoned, dimly lit ancient castle.

The murals described how the male protagonist took the female lead’s hand and they returned together to their sect to become disciples.

But this was only Ruoning’s one-sided interpretation of the murals.

Because on the murals, the colored pottery that should have been in the female lead’s position was actually broken. If Ruoning hadn’t been to that secret chamber and seen the female protagonist’s sweet appearance, she probably wouldn’t have guessed from the murals alone that beside the male lead, that missing piece of colored pottery might have hidden such a beautiful woman.

Actually, Ruoning really wanted to go to the twelfth floor to see their subsequent story.

But Yino said there was still a hidden dungeon on this floor, and he asked Ruoning to stand in the center of the hall where the sunlight focused.

Ruoning, with a trial mindset, still stood on the position corresponding to the six-pointed star on the ceiling.

The moment she stood there.

Sunlight streamed through the broken ceramic window and shone on Ruoning’s face, causing her to immediately squint from the glare.

In the depths of her consciousness, she seemed to sense some kind of spiritual energy fluctuation from a formation being activated.

Ruoning, still shaken, hurriedly turned around to look, only to see that her and Yino’s silhouettes, under the illumination of the halo, were perfectly projected onto the male protagonist and the missing, broken mural position of the female lead.

“This is…?”

Boom—!!!!

Just as Ruoning was about to speak, with the sound of mechanisms, she suddenly felt a tremendous sense of weightlessness beneath her feet.

She had no time to call for help and instinctively reached out trying to grab something, while the solid hand of the male protagonist from the fairy tale, just as Ruoning had hoped, caught her.

“Don’t worry, I won’t let you become missing in the phantom dream like the mural.”

At the mouth of the bottomless abyss, Yino spoke gently.

Seeing the male protagonist’s face clearly, Ruoning also came back to reality from the blinding sunlight.

She slightly pursed her lips, feeling moved and wanting to say something, but her heart also felt somewhat uneasy, after all, this was already the countless time she had developed dependent emotions towards Yino.

Honestly speaking, being a delicate little bird wasn’t Ruoning’s style…

Ruoning also wanted to work hard to do something that would make Yino look at her with new eyes.

But reality was that she was always clumsy, as if she couldn’t survive without Yino at all.

“Why are your eyes suddenly wet?”

Yino exerted force suddenly, pulling the girl up from the opening.

Ruoning hung her head, saying nothing.

She didn’t know what to say. Anyway, she understood nothing, just listened to Yino’s words, then encountered danger and was helpless, pitifully waiting for Yino to come save her…

This feeling of being completely dominated made Ruoning both unwilling yet helpless.

Shouldn’t she have eloped with Yino to the Liuli Sect that night?

Without Yino’s intervention, it was hard to say whose fiancée Ruoning would be now.

Shouldn’t she be exploring this Liuli Illusion Realm together with Yino?

Without Yino leading the way, Ruoning would probably have gotten lost long ago.

All these answers seemed to leave no other choice.

“I just feel… I’m like a human doll. Apart from following by your side, I can only rely on you for everything…”

She was like a startled little kitten, suddenly nestling in Yino’s embrace and whispering her grievances.

“Just now when the floor collapsed, if I could have reacted faster, I clearly could have avoided danger without relying on you.”

“But I… every time I encounter danger, my mind goes blank, and I can’t remember any of the combat techniques my master taught me… then I just end up hopefully wondering if you’ll come save me…”

The more Ruoning spoke, the more guilty she felt. The pride she once had as a daughter of the Liu mansion completely vanished at this moment, as if her identity as a chosen daughter of heaven had been negated by her own cowardice and incompetence.

Yino listened silently, and after roughly understanding Ruoning’s distress, instead of carefully offering comfort, he somewhat amusingly reached out to wipe her tears:

“I thought you had seen some new phantom dream fragments again, but it turns out it’s just this little matter.”

“…!”

The girl in his arms lifted her head, staring at Yino with her tear-reddened beautiful eyes.

She puffed her cheeks, somewhat angry and frustrated: “You’re a strategist, calculating everything clearly, but not everyone is as capable as you… It’s because you’re too smart that you simply don’t understand the pressure and distress of girls like me who aren’t that outstanding but still try hard to keep up with your pace!”

Rarely crying, and Yino being so unappreciative, Ruoning finally couldn’t help but pour out her grievances all at once.

However, Yino quietly gazed into her eyes, and his originally amused expression gradually became serious:

“Look, you’re anxious again.”

“Just like when we were children, you were too eager to defeat me and prove yourself, but at such times you would often be counterproductive and keep falling. However, during the time we were separated later, when you heard about my decline and debauchery, you no longer had that kind of pressure, so naturally you gradually let go of your impatient mindset for quick success, and this way your cultivation actually grew faster than before…”

“Ruoning, haven’t you noticed? This has always been the pattern of your cultivation and growth.”

Yino described gently without rush, while also reaching out to rub her face.

He actually wasn’t good at coaxing girls, because from childhood to adulthood, whether it was his aunt, Yuyan, or Jinyue, they were all so strong that they didn’t need Yino to coax them.

“So, Ruoning, you should believe the conclusions of so many elders about you. You really are the chosen daughter of heaven, you have the innate Holy Physique. From the moment you were born, your talent already surpassed countless people, otherwise those people from the Lin mansion wouldn’t be eager to marry you.”

“But you shouldn’t always think about competing with me.”

“Because you’re too silly and naive, you can’t outwit me in scheming, so the more you focus on me, the more you can’t catch up with me…”

“However, haven’t you noticed that I never worry about your future?”

At the end, Yino suddenly brought the topic back around.

Ruoning blinked. She gently bit her pink lips, not knowing what Yino meant by this, but since Yino always bullied her, she was worried that despite Yino seeming serious now, he might immediately start joking around to tease her the next second.

“Why…?”

She cautiously picked up Yino’s conversation.

Upon hearing this, Yino immediately smiled, suddenly lifting the girl in his arms in a princess carry:

“Because the next dungeon is your time to perform as the chosen daughter of heaven with your innate Holy Physique!”

“Didn’t you really want to prove that you’re not dead weight?”

“Hold tight, we’re going down to crusade against one of the greatest primordial phantom entities of the Liuli Illusion Realm!”

As his words fell, Yino’s tone shifted from gentle, and as if he had been prepared all along, he directly held Ruoning and leaped down.

Behind him, the red and white fox demons also tacitly jumped onto Yino’s shoulders.

“Wait!”

“Primordial phantom entity, what is that?!”

“Wait a minute, that must be absolutely terrifying?!”

“Do you really want me to perform? I only have Core Formation cultivation, I absolutely can’t do it! Yino! You can’t force growth like this ahhhhh!!!!”