Xingyuan was stunned when he heard this.

It seems that things are really as Caier said.

You should know that her situation is even more serious than Xingyuan's. Before Xingyuan, he had at least a sister like Tan Wan by his side, and later he had teammates like Li Xin, Yue Mingnan, Wang Yuanyuan, and Chen Ying'er.

But looking at Cai'er, she had basically no contact with any opposite sex except Xingyuan. Even her biological father Sheng Lingxin and great-grandfather Sheng Yue were unable to enter her inner world.

Xingyuan actually discovered very early on that the tone of Cai'er's conversation with him and the degree of intimacy were largely inspired by the way Lan Yanyu treated Sheng Lingxin when they were still at home in the Exorcist City.

After all, for Cai'er, who has always kept her heart closed, making her love someone is definitely dozens of times more difficult than hating someone.

Since the most precious eight years of her life were all spent on learning the skills of an assassin and receiving devilish training from the master of the Assassin's Temple, Shengyue, she must have been lacking in emotional aspects.

Fortunately, Xingyuan not only won her heart, but also obtained a permanent residence permit.

There is no doubt that Cai'er has feelings for Xingyuan, but the way she deals with her emotions is a little clumsy, so much so that Xingyuan is often surprised by some of her actions and thought processes.

And Cai'er's problem isn't just the way she treats emotions.

She still doesn't know how to handle her relationship with her friends.

Cai'er had few friends since she was a child. Xingyuan, who grew up with her in the Exorcist City, knew this very well. The two of them would get up in the morning, have breakfast at home, and then go to the academy for morning classes. After classes in the afternoon, they would go home together. Along the way, there were only, and would only be, the two of them walking side by side.

Xingyuan is a time traveler, so naturally he disdains to deal with children. The so-called academy is just a place for him to gain knowledge and accumulate experience.

On the other hand, Cai'er, perhaps because she was born with the physique of the Saint of Reincarnation, even before she inherited the legacy of the predecessor of the Assassin's Temple, the Son of Reincarnation, the Reincarnation Furnace and the Sword of Reincarnation, her personality was always cold and she had an aloof temperament that kept people at a distance. Only when she was with him, would she show some of the innocence and smile that belonged to a child of her age.

She didn't have any friends around her at that time, let alone the years when Xingyuan left the Exorcist City and went to Jialing City, the headquarters of the Magic Temple, to practice.

Xingyuan estimated that in Cai'er's eyes now, he, Xingyuan, was the only relative she had left in this world. As for friends... he was not very clear about how much Chen Ying'er and others in the team occupied in her heart.

If it were in the past, if she knew that other girls wanted to get close to Xingyuan, she would step forward to drive them away, and those who did not listen would even suffer some physical pain.

But after all, times have changed since then. The little girl who could not even hold a knife steadily and had not yet cultivated her inner spiritual power to become a formal professional has now become a young assassin famous throughout the six major holy temples.

With Cai'er's current means, if there is a woman with bad intentions who wants to approach Xingyuan, she naturally has plenty of ways to deal with her.

Not to mention the distant past, just say that some time ago when they were in the Holy City, the second in command of the Holy Alliance Auction House, Ye Weiyang, was immediately counterattacked by Cai'er because he mixed some seductive magic into the seductive glances he threw towards Xingyuan.

As for Chen Ying'er and the others...

The reason why Cai'er allowed them to be so ambitious and try to climb over to him as the team leader was probably because of the friendship between teammates and so that she and Xingyuan could leave her annoying Exorcist City and her family and live happily alone in the Demon Hunting Group.

After all, if the team disbanded because of such a quarrel, wouldn't she and Xingyuan have to go back to their respective homes and temples, and wouldn't be able to stay together all day and all night?
Xingyuan probably also understood Caier's thoughts.

She would rather compete with so many people than go back to the Exorcist Pass.

"Forget it." Xingyuan reached out and ruffled Cai'er's hair. "Let's just make do with this as a team for now and take it one step at a time."

However, just when Xingyuan didn't want to continue to dwell on this issue and waste time arguing with Cai'er, she ended up being unwilling to give in.

"Xingyuan, you have to promise me that I can't be so fickle."

Cai Er said with some lack of confidence: "Otherwise you won't have that much time to spend with me. Also, you can't find someone like that bad woman at the Holy Alliance Auction House."

Xingyuan thought to himself, you still know that Ye Weiyang is a bad woman.

After hearing Cai'er's worry that he would have less and less time to spend with her in the future, he rolled his eyes at her in annoyance and said, "Except when I go to see the elders of our temple, we are always together. You followed me even when I went to relieve myself in the wild. If you didn't know, you would think we went into the woods."

Cai'er's face turned red. "Then I won't follow you so closely in the future, so that others won't see you."

Xingyuan: “…”

This probably isn't the issue he was talking about.

"as long as you are happy."

Xingyuan was at a loss, but he suddenly became curious about what the standard of "flirtatious" was that Cai'er mentioned.

Cai Er thought about it, then slowly said: "Now there are only people from our team and Sister Tan Wan."

"puff--"

After hearing Cai'er's answer, Xingyuan almost couldn't breathe.

He counted on his fingers and gestured to Cai'er, Chen Ying'er, Li Xin, Wang Yuanyuan, Yue Mingnan, Tan Wan, these are five people, if you count herself, there are six people in total.

In Xingyuan's own eyes, he already had a childhood sweetheart like Cai'er, but he also had an ambiguous relationship with Chen Ying'er. He could be said to be quite philandering by having two girlfriends at the same time. However, the standard of philandering set by Cai'er for him was actually six...

As he was thinking, Xingyuan suddenly slapped his forehead, apparently remembering that he was in the Holy Demon Continent. Both the concepts and the perspectives of thinking here were very different from his original world.

"Xingyuan?"

Cai'er was stunned when she saw Xingyuan's move. She probably thought that even though she had made such concessions, Xingyuan was still not satisfied.

"Let's talk about it later. You've given me enough information today."

Xingyuan tapped his head, came up to Cai'er, hugged her neck, put his mouth close to her ear and said, "Hurry up and carry me down, don't delay the mission."

"Oh oh."

Cai Er was awakened from her dream when she heard this. Because she and Xing Yuan were so deep in the topic just now, they almost forgot that they had a mission on this trip. (End of this chapter)