Chapter 73: Qingcheng Sect – Part 5
“There! Chase them!”
“Don’t lose them! You absolutely must not lose them!”
We were still fleeing through the night streets.
And we were controlling our speed to make sure they didn’t lose us.
To keep them focused on us and chasing after us, I was still pretending to be an injured woman, supported by Lady Jeongyeon.
Of course, I wasn’t putting any weight on her at all, so it wouldn’t have been uncomfortable for Young Lady Jeongyeon to move.
The discomfort, in fact, was mine.
When I first found myself stuck pretending to be a woman, I felt a deep sense of despair.
‘You want me to dress as a woman?’
What kind of outrageous nonsense was this?
Just imagining it was utterly humiliating.
But once the operation actually began, the cross-dressing wasn’t the important part.
In truth, she merely wore the blood-stained robe over her bone-piercing armor—there was no need to pretend to be a woman.
Young Lady Jeongyeon delivered such astonishing acting that I could just coast along.
It was simply astonishing how that quiet, always composed young lady could immerse herself so completely in her role, making it seem so real.
But that wasn’t the problem.
What truly made me uncomfortable was something I hadn’t anticipated.
It was the physical contact.
– Young Master Seonwoo, to make it look real, you need to lean on me a bit more.
– Yes? Ah, yes.
From the very beginning, Jeongyeon had demanded I press closer to her, as if burning her soul into the performance.
