Chapter 368: Chapter 368

The real Si Jie was dead. The brother she remembered had always been Ming Ji and Ming Jiu.

Si Yan’s emotions grew even more complex. She asked, "It was you who pushed me into the zombie tide, wasn’t it?"

Ming Ji replied with surprise, "Ming Jiu and I are almost indistinguishable, yet you could tell it was me. Indeed, it was me."

"Why did you want to kill me? Why did you betray me!" Si Yan asked angrily.

Ming Ji looked somewhat guilty. "That fellow Ming Jiu would only cuddle you and toss you in the air. At most, he taught you some theoretical knowledge of math, physics, and chemistry. How would he know how to raise a child? You were so naive and innocent back then. That wouldn’t do. If you returned to the Beast World like that, you’d be bullied to death.

"I saw you were about to become a simpleton like Ming Jiu, so I simply kicked Ming Jiu back to the Beast World. Then I started training you personally.

"Then I told you that we absolutely must not be bullied. Whoever dares to bully us, we must pay them back tenfold, a hundredfold!"

Si Yan recalled those times. Si Jie’s personality had often changed back then, but because he was always affectionate, the differences hadn’t seemed significant. Indeed, for a time, he focused entirely on teaching her cultural subjects like math, physics, and chemistry, and he was particularly kind and amiable. Then there was another period when he’d drag her off camping, teaching her wilderness survival skills while telling her that if anyone punched her once, she had to punch them back ten times! And after the apocalypse began, it seemed to be nothing but harsh training, pushing her out to fight for her life against zombies.

"Your original body in the Beast World had no soul," Ming Ji continued. "We’d come check on you when we had time. We got busy for a period and couldn’t look after you, and as a result, you got pregnant. Ming Jiu and I would occasionally come over to help you look after the child and tidy up a bit. Then we’d help stabilize your body. Childbirth drained you too much. If your soul hadn’t returned soon, your body might not have held on."

Si Yan asked in surprise, "This body of mine... you two were always taking care of it?"

Si Yan suddenly recalled some memories from this body that she had never been able to access before. Whether in Myriad Beasts City or later in the Yanxiang Tribe, every so often, there would be an extraordinarily handsome older brother figure smiling tenderly at her.

So that was it. That’s why, when she took over this body, she never emotionally felt the loneliness originating from the body itself, right?

Ming Ji glanced at her. "We just played with you occasionally. Your fate was depleted, and your luck wasn’t good. We didn’t interfere with those things. Your body in the Beast World couldn’t wait any longer. Furthermore, by then I had trained you for a long time. You had Wood and Spatial Element abilities, the Heavenly Book was complete, and the conditions were ripe. As soon as you died, you could directly return to the Beast World. So I wanted to see if you could survive in such a harsh environment. If you couldn’t, returning directly to the Beast World wouldn’t have been a big issue either. And you survived! I was quite pleasantly surprised too. It proved my training wasn’t bad." Excitement flickered in Ming Ji’s eyes. "Later, when you came at me in a rage, ready to die with me, I almost died laughing. If someone wants to kill another, there’s no need to sacrifice their own life. For you to do that meant you were deeply in love with me. It seems you preferred me over Ming Jiu."

Si Yan’s emotions surged. There were many more questions she wanted to ask, but now she couldn’t care less.

She started cursing on the spot, saying every foul word she could think of. Her face flushed red. She couldn’t quite articulate the emotions swirling inside her—just an overwhelming sense of having been played. All the grief and fury that had filled her, the anguish she had endured for so long, erupted all at once.

"Ming Ji, you’re a super-invincible bastard!!! If I ever call you ’brother’ again in my life, I’ll write my name backwards!!"

"You’re right, you are a bad person! You don’t need any damn redemption!"

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"I hate you! Of everyone in the world, I hate you the most!"

Si Yan cursed loudly and viciously, one swear word after another tumbling from her lips.

Ming Ji’s face grew darker and darker as he glared at her.

"You really have no class," Ming Ji said furiously.

Ming Ji’s retort only agitated Si Yan further, and her curses became even more foul.

And so it went: Ming Ji would retort once, and Si Yan would fire back with ten curses, each one ringing out loud and clear!

The sound waves from their argument gradually traveled to the snow-capped mountains, where the thick layers of snow trembled precariously.

Si Yan roared, "Keep talking! There’s still so much more! The matter of Jie Ling, the matter of Jin Yao! If you have the guts, keep talking!"

Ming Ji also yelled, "Did you give me a chance to speak?"

Si Yan was furious, thunderous power surging around her. "Speak! Go on, speak! How did you target me? How did you plan to kill me? How did you conspire with others against me!"

Ming Ji said, "What do you mean, how did I target you? When did I try to kill you?"

Si Yan crossed her arms and retorted, "Who says you didn’t try to kill me? Back at the Silver Wolf Tribe, there was lightning and an earthquake! Wasn’t that an attempt to kill me?"

"Did I beat you to death? Didn’t I just zap you a few times because I was a little annoyed you were messing up my plan?" Ming Ji fumed. "Ming Jiu is always reluctant to hurt you. That was my doing! Can’t I be angry? Why didn’t the tremors kill you! Having a sister like you, we’re at our wits’ end. I raised you for over twenty years to bring you back to the Beast World. Was it to let you die? Of course, I never intended for you to die. If you had just been a contented ’salted fish,’ having babies and raising cubs, there would have been no problems. I didn’t want you to do so well either."

Si Yan was stunned. "What the hell are you talking about?"

"In the Beast World, as long as the Heavenly Book’s plot is followed and achieves ninety percent completion, we can conquer this world. And the result?" Ming Ji threw a printed copy of the original, *Beast World Seduction*, at Si Yan. "Take a good look. At first, it was just a little off, but later it derailed completely. From Chapter 108 onwards, it collapsed entirely and is beyond saving! The female lead is done for, the primary male lead became your godson, and you’ve pretty much killed off the other male leads. This original story is unsalvageable."

Si Yan took the book and started to flip through it. Perhaps because she had met many of the characters from the story, she found this explicit novel quite absorbing.

Si Yan put away the book, planning to give it a proper read later.

"Ninety percent, huh? We calculated that even if your little side-plot went wrong, the overall impact wouldn’t be too great. But look what you did! You killed Jie Ling and caused me so much trouble. So what if I zapped you with lightning a few times? I barely managed to resurrect her, and then you killed her again! That Jie Ling was useless too, couldn’t even withstand a single move from you. It pisses me off so much, my liver aches from anger!"

Clutching his side where his liver would be, Ming Ji continued, "You’re doing great, aren’t you? Directly causing major plot changes! Ming Jiu bore the brunt of it, suffering one serious injury after another. Did Ming Jiu come looking for trouble with you? No! He even went and picked out a tall, handsome husband for you, with a good background, a dragon no less! But you didn’t want him. He’s the only Black Dragon of this generation from the Black Dragon Tribe. You look down on him and set your sights on a snake?! Aren’t you most afraid of snakes?"