Chapter 334: The heroine, inside and outside the room
The faint green smoke from the incense burner drifted across the chessboard as Xiao Yunluo and Pei Lianxue concentrated on playing a game of “Connect Five.”
For Xiao Yunluo, who had studied numerous Go strategies, this simplified version of the game posed no challenge whatsoever.
Previously, her mind elsewhere, she had lost many matches to Pei Lianxue.
But this round—
Click—
Four pieces connected. Xiao Yunluo smiled faintly. “Ha-ha~ Lianxue, you’ve lost this time.”
Pei Lianxue stared at the board in disbelief. She had been winning before, but facing a focused Xiao Yunluo, she lost in just ten moves, prompting her to pout.
“Yunluo, how did you suddenly become so good?”
“I lost to you before because it was my first time playing this… I just needed to get familiar with the rules…”
Thud—
A heavy sound accompanied by a slight tremor shattered the inn’s tranquility. Both Xiao Yunluo and Pei Lianxue became instantly alert. Even the parrot, struggling with a piece of dried fish, flapped its wings and turned to the door.
Soon, hurried footsteps followed.
Tap-tap—
The parrot’s beak slightly agape, it chirped,
“Ye Tianchong!! Ye Tianchong!!”
Xiao Yunluo hadn’t even had a chance to ask where the parrot had learned that word when the door was barged open from outside.
Ye Anping, entering the room, looked visibly distressed. Veins bulged on his forehead, and the blood coursing through them seemed on the verge of bursting.
Though Pei Lianxue had witnessed her senior brother’s outbursts of yang energy many times, she had never seen him like this before, and she was extremely concerned. She paid no mind to Xiao Yunluo’s presence, immediately rising from her seat and rushing to embrace Ye Anping, channeling her own spiritual energy into his meridians.
Xiao Yunluo watched, about to interject, but before she could speak, she saw Pei Lianxue rise on tiptoes and kiss Ye Anping on the lips.
Sitting blankly at the chessboard, she glanced at the game she had just won against Pei Lianxue, feeling a strange heaviness in her chest, but soon she felt resigned.
Gently picking up the parrot, still nibbling on dried fish, Xiao Yunluo stood and walked towards the house door. As she passed by the kissing couple, she paused and whispered softly, “I won’t disturb you anymore.”
She lifted her skirt, stepped out of the door, closed it behind her, and thoughtfully retrieved two soundproofing talismans from her bag, sticking them onto the outer door of the house.
Leaning against the door, she looked up at the inn’s ceiling, lips slightly pursed. A glistening tear slid from the corner of her lavender eyes, down her round cheek, and onto the collar of her Xuanxing Sect uniform.
She wiped her eyes with her sleeve, then turned to the parrot and asked, “Do you think if I hadn’t come out just now, they would have asked me to leave?”
“In front of you!! In front of you!!” The parrot exclaimed.
“No… They would probably have invited me along…”
The parrot was notably silent for a moment, then opened its beak, “You’re so cute!! You’re so cute!!”
Xiao Yunluo pursed her lips, took another dried fish from her bag, and fed it to the parrot. “What’s cute about that? Forget it, I won’t ask you anymore. Go back to my mother! She’s probably lonely by herself…”
The parrot tilted his head, picked up the dried fish, spread his wings, and flew out of the inn from the fence of the skylight.
As soon as the parrot left, Feng Yudie, concentrating in the house, chased her out. Seeing Xiao Yunluo squatting alone at the door of the house, she asked with confusion on her face,
“Huh! Senior Sister Xiao, what are you doing at the door?”
“Ye Anping is inside with Lianxue… Why don’t I come out?”
“You can work with Junior Sister Pei to help Young Master Ye relieve his Yang Qi.” Feng Yudie shrugged slightly and said, “Young Master Ye just had another problem with his Yang Qi. That time at Chilong Mansion, it was me who helped him. It’s been sorted out.”
Hearing this sentence, Xiao Yunluo’s eyes suddenly widened, and she was so shocked that she couldn’t understand what she said,
“You… You idiot… Please help Ye Anping…”
“Yes, I have earned tens of thousands of spirit stones.” Feng Yudie bared her teeth and smiled, then said, a little depressed, “I was just about to say that I would help him relieve his yang energy and earn some spirit stones, but he rushed out directly. I’m looking for Junior Sister Pei. What a pity.”
After saying this, Xiao Tian, who got into the house earlier, also flew out through the door and said,
“Okay, go back and continue practicing the Mysterious Yin Technique. Otherwise, Anping won’t buy you roast chicken tomorrow. Anping has no problem for now, and Pei girl is there to help him.”
After hearing Xiao Tian say that Ye Anping was fine, Feng Yudie felt a little more at ease and asked,
“Young Master Ye has booked this inn. Senior Sister Xiao, why don’t you find a room to rest?”
Xiao Yunluo slightly raised her dislocated chin and said,
“Ah… No… No need.”
“Then I’ll go back to the house first. If you need anything, call me!”
Feng Yudie turned around and returned to her room to continue practicing the Mysterious Yin Technique.
Watching Feng Yudie return to her room and close the door, Xiao Yunluo still didn’t return to her senses.
It turned out that Lianxue was not the only one who was one step ahead of her.
Second idiot…
And… Chilong Mansion!
“When?”
“Why didn’t she know?”
“Didn’t Second Idiot live with her in Chilong Mansion then?”
“When did she and Ye Anping…”
“…Does Lingxue know?”
Time passed, and time came before dawn.
“Tear -” with a sound, as the door opened, Xiao Yunluo’s note-insulating tape stuck to the door was torn into two pieces.
Neatly dressed, Ye Anping stepped out of the threshold. Only then did he see Xiao Yunluo leaning outside the door and wrapped in a blanket? It didn’t look like she had wrapped it herself, but someone had watched her sleep here and specially made a trip to cover it.
Just when Ye Anping was wondering if Si Xuanji had come secretly, Xiao Tian walked directly out of Feng Yudie’s house.
It flew to Ye Anping’s shoulder and sat down, poking his cheek with its hand,
“Yudie built it for her, and Xiao girl has been guarding the door for you two for half a night.”
“So…”
Xiao Tian looked at Xiao Yunluo and felt she was quite pitiful. He covered his mouth and snickered,
“Anping, you are so cruel~”
“As a last resort.”
“Then when are you going to pamper Yudie?” Yudie was worried about you just now.
“How is her training with the Mysterious Yin Technique progressing?”
“When you and Pei girl were working on things, she reached the third level, and your cultivation level also advanced. She just came out and brought Xiao girl a blanket to cover her, then went back to sleep.”
“Just now!”
Ye Anping was silent for a moment. The amount of cultivation he received from the settlement this time was excessive. He had even shared some with his junior sister just now. Now, he had broken through the bottleneck in the middle stage of the foundation building, and his junior sister had entered the infant core formation realm.
After silence, he decided to investigate his and Feng Yudie’s meridians later. Then he knelt, approached Xiao Yunluo, and picked her up.
“Woo…”
After feeling it, Xiao Yunluo opened her eyes slightly. When she saw Ye Anping picking her up, her dazed consciousness suddenly cleared,
“You…”
“Sleeping here will definitely lead to back pain when you wake up. Go sleep on the bed.”
“On the bed!” Xiao Yunluo seemed a bit nervous, and her eyes widened, “Do you still want to do something with me…”
Ye Anping made a clear sound with his tongue and interrupted with a slightly cold tone,
“Calm down.”
“Ah…”
Upon hearing this, Xiao Yunluo realized she was nervous and talking nonsense. She paused momentarily and asked softly,
“Ye Anping, you and the second idiot… Feng Yudie…”
“What about me and her?”
“Did you engage in dual cultivation when you were at Chilong Mansion with her?”
??
Two question marks, one big and one small, instantly appeared above the heads of Ye Anping and Xiao Tian on his shoulders.
