Inside the carriage

¨Fei Sun we can't do that anymore¨ Zhuan An knew what Fei Sun was thinking, but nudging onto Xiao Fan, she wanted to remind her.

¨That's true, with him we would all be killed if we tried to use our bodies to get into an excellent group¨ She realised her error.

¨Wait what are you talking about? Using your bodies?¨ Xiao Fan cut them both off.

¨Well, our sect had always used our beauty as an advantage against those with lesser control on their...more primal desires¨ Fei Sun explained it in a roundabout way.

¨I see, and yeah, you two can't do that anymore¨ Xiao Fan now knowing wholly agreed with Zhuan An, he didn't want to see his two girls trying to seduce some idiot. Plus, there was that when they knew their relationship, the idiot might then try to kill them for fooling him.

He didn't need to think Zhuan An's opinion to this, but he did at least wait until Fei Sun nodded to him ¨We could use you to do it¨ Though she then had this idea.

¨First, the same thing. Second Meng Chin. Third and the biggest reason I'm already in deep trouble with you two¨ He immediately disagreed, maybe at another time, but not now.

Yet as he spoke the last reason Zhuan An on him reacted to this by distancing herself from him a little ¨We're a burden?¨ She asked in a low tone.

'I hit that part of her again did I' Xiao Fan realised what he had just done when taking a look at Zhuan An's deteriorating mood.

¨No, no, Zhuan An is no trouble¨ He tried to calm her down.

¨Then why you say so, and why you still call me by my full name?¨ She spoke back and was even thinking of other stuff to throw at him.

Feeling that the situation was worsening, he took a glance at the girl sitting on the other side of the carriage, yet she only gave the ¨That's your two problems¨ Look, indicating she wouldn't say anything.

Not the help he was looking for, but this also gave him the freedom to work with Zhuan An since he had always seen them more of a two than two ones. For a good reason mind you, the two of them had done it together so he thought they would want to advance everything at the same pace. However, as he now knows that he can be closer with Zhuan An than Fei Sun for a while, he didn't need to think of his words.

¨Then what should I call you?¨ He asked the girl who seemed to be hurt, yet still on him.

Zhuan An hearing him give her the rains was happy ¨I want you to call me at least by the name An or An'er if you want¨ She gave out her demands.

¨An'er it is¨ Xiao Fan didn't need to think which one he would choose if a cutie would let him call her with the ¨'er¨ ending he would absolutely take it.

A decision which she seemed to approve very much so, though there was still the other thing bugging her ¨Then what did you mean with saying that you are in trouble because of us two?¨

Though indifferent, Fei Sun also wanted to hear him say this.

¨Tell me, what would you think if you were in place of Du Lan and Qian Ki?¨ He simply asked. Why was he in trouble? Of course, it was the two of them getting on the territory of the other two...

¨It's their fault for not defending their claim¨ Was actually what both of them thought concerning this.

¨Wait what?¨ Even Xiao Fan needed to take a minute to figure what the hell they just said.

¨You heard what we said. We're from the Rising Fox Sect remember? Doing something like this might not be in the reformist ways, but it still a big part of our sect and we are the winners, they are the losers¨ Fei Sun continued, yet Zhuan An seemed to agree. Well, Zhuan An was still mostly relied on information given by Zhuan Shan so...

¨Still, what if you were in their place?¨ Xiao Fan went back to his first question.

¨At this current moment? We would be thinking of ways to get back at them¨ Fei Sun gave their answer to his question.

¨In what way would ¨getting back at them¨ happen?¨ He was shocked, but after that, he asked what type of revenge would they be planning.

Before saying anything to this, bot girls talked a little with their eyes before Fei Sun answered ¨We would...be showing you how...we are better than them...yes, nothing serious of course not...¨ As she spoke her eyes looked at the face that was leaning onto Xiao Fan for answers while in her mind she thought how easy did they need to go? Honestly spoken, she would have said something along the lines of sending people to maim them and burn their family homes, not some catfight.

'This is bad' Xiao Fan thought when thinking of this and he also he felt himself lean more onto the bench. He could see through this type of thing, and he could think what Fei Sun had really been thinking, mostly; nevertheless, their real thoughts didn't spill anything good, for it would seem that keeping these two away from Du Lan and Qian Ki would be a good idea or women might go missing...

¨Yeah you can stop there¨ Xiao Fan cut her act.

¨An'er will not do anything to Du Lan or Qian Ki¨ Seeing their bluff not working Zhuan An ditched the boat completely, she could feel Xiao Fan's feelings since she was leaning onto him. And as she wanted nothing more than to be next to him, she wouldn't mind this too much.

However, her ditching the boat had a weird reaction from Fei Sun ¨What? Zhuan An are you really doing this¨ She had known that her best friend didn't like scheming too much, but to be like this was a thing she hadn't been expecting from her. She saw Zhuan An's words as basically surrendering all the power in the what could soon be called harem away just so that she could stay true to love?

¨Dam romantic! He will never take you as the first woman if you stop scheming, he will forget you under the mass of women all vying for his eyes and heart if you do this¨ She spoke to her long time accomplice, not minding that Xiao Fan was here, in the very same room.

Neither did Zhuan An seem to care of his existence either as she countered ¨I don't want to scheme with you anymore, I'm tired of scheming now that I have what I want!¨

¨How long will you have this? The moment those two come back, you will be pushed by all of them, if you don't want to do this with me, you'll be burned. Even now Meng Chin is pushing you!¨

¨If he doesn't want me then I'll know he never wanted me in the first place¨

¨How do you know he wants you now? Because he calls you cute names and says that he enjoys the time spent with you? Don't make me laugh¨

Both of the women were exchanging words, yet after that Zhuan An had enough of Fei Sun ¨If he doesn't want me then why does he give me the special herb while all you others, even you get the worse one!¨ She then took out the Bit of Wit.

¨Hey, where did you get that Bit of Wit¨ Fei Sun knew what she was holding onto in her hand and showing it to her.

¨Me and Xiao Fan went to look for them together, that's why we were here. But that is of no importance, what is of importance is that you can ask for your own from him, yet the one he gives you will be worse¨

¨Xiao Fan give me my Bit of Wit¨ Fei Sun hearing this counter looked at him and in a tone almost demanding asked for her Bit of Wit.

The man in question seeing this unfold had been stunned, and so when hearing he needed to do something he gave the Bit of Wit to Fei Sun. Everything seemed to be going down, so why not? If nothing else this might shut up Fei Sun, who in his opinion was acting in the wrong here, well, more like he supported Zhuan An.

When Fei Sun had gotten her Bit of Wit did Zhuan An continue with her talk ¨See, your one has the scales together making it feel soft while as mine has them sticking out. Do you know what that means?¨ For once Zhuan An seemed to be acting confident, confident enough to push the mastermind and leader of their plans.

¨Xiao Fan shows me yours. No! Show me all of them¨ For some reason Fei Sun wanted Xiao Fan to show all of them.

But then again, as this was going down, Xiao Fan acted neutral as he could and took out five Bit of Wit herbs he was holding onto and showed them all to Fei Sun.

Him doing so got two distinct reactions, the easy one to describe was from Zhuan An, who had a smirk smile, looking down at Fei Sun, who was trying to look for something to help her cause. Yet there was nothing for her in this; she could clearly see that all the other Bits of Wit were the same while the different one was in the hands of Zhuan An.

'What? Why does, she enjoy his favour? Argh! So unfair' When Fei Sun realised this was her defeat, she began to lament.

And the other one seeing this was about to finish Fei Sun off, though before she could do something Xiao Fan had finally seen enough of their play, and before it escalated anymore he stopped it. And to do so, he pinched Zhuan An's side hard, as in really hard ¨It is true I gave her the better one; however, me doing so had nothing such as favours in mind¨

¨How couldn't it be a favour to give her the best while everyone else gets the worse?¨

¨Hey, even I get the worse option¨ He wanted to remind her of the fact that he didn't get that one either ¨I could have kept the best one to myself and never told anyone¨ Which was very true.

¨Then do so, and do not favour one of us¨

¨That might have been the right way. Yet don't you also have your own treasure?¨ He then went on how she still had a massive amount of gold and a mysterious sword in the tomb or whatever they were in of when they journeyed in the mountain.

¨That's different...¨ Was the reaction coming from Zhuan An when this was brought up.

In the end, bringing up the whole thing became a mistake in their argument that went on for some time. And despite the amount they spent on arguing neither of them could come out on top since Xiao Fan had in some way favoured Zhuan An no doubt about it while Fei Sun had her own shortfalling, plus openly showing one's jealousy isn't too good of an idea.

¨Okay you two can stop now¨ This time it was Zhuan An who cut them off after arguing for ten minutes or so ¨I won this round Fei Sun, there is nothing you can do to me eating this Bit of Wit¨Then after ending her sentence, Zhuan An didn't hesitate and ate the Bit of Wit.

¨Okay, you win this one, but it seems that you aren't stopping your actions then huh?¨ She gave this one to Zhuan An and ate her own Bit of Wit.

¨You made me do it¨ She spoke in the tone of a winner, yet didn't stop there as she took one of the many Bits of Wit that Xiao Fan still kept in his hand and slowly fed him one of them, smiling towards Fei Sun the whole time she was doing so.