Time spent in play always passes quickly.
During these three days, Ling Luo kept an eye on Chu Yi, following him almost everywhere, eliminating any opportunity for him to go to Qishan.
She would even forcibly change the subject when Senior Brother Zi Xiu talked about the delicious food and beautiful scenery in Qishan.
Sensitive people around them more or less noticed something was amiss.
Even Yun Shouxi asked Ling Luo: “Why have you been clinging to your Senior Brother these past few days?”
Ling Luo, staring at Chu Yi across the dining table, said: “I’m afraid he’ll go out to play without me.”
Chu Yi: “……”
Just that?
Do you think Master will believe that?
Yun Shouxi believed it, at least on the surface, and then took his two disciples out to play in the evening.
When they returned at night, they encountered Feng Tianyao’s group, who were preparing to leave the Moon Palace.
After the argument at the banquet that day, the two hadn’t met again. Now, encountering each other in Yun Shouxi’s presence, Feng Tianyao lowered his head in greeting.
Yun Shouxi asked gently: “Has Young Master Feng completed the investigation into the white bone demon matter?”
Feng Tianyao’s expression wasn’t very good, but he still respectfully answered: “As the Palace Master said, everyone in the Moon Palace has self-examined, but they couldn’t find who placed the moon curse in Shunyi Town.”
Yun Shouxi asked: “Have you told your father?”
Feng Tianyao nodded: “After my father learned about it, he said since a thorough investigation has been conducted, there’s no need to dwell on it further.”
Yun Shouxi smiled: “It’s never wrong to be cautious. Are you leaving now?”
Feng Tianyao responded: “Yes.”
But his gaze turned to Ling Luo behind Yun Shouxi. From the beginning, her gaze had never been on the Nanshan Snow River people.
As an elder, Yun Shouxi advised: “Be careful on your way back.”
As Yun Shouxi led his two disciples toward the Moon Palace’s mountain gate, the young master couldn’t hold back. He turned and called out to the three: “Wait! Ling, Ling Luo, I have a few words I’d like to speak with you privately.”
Yun Shouxi and Chu Yi both turned back in surprise, only to see this usually proud young master seemingly mustering his courage to call out these words.
But Ling Luo didn’t stop, climbing the stairs one step at a time: “I’m tired from playing today. I don’t want to talk with you.”
She truly didn’t give him any face at all.
Feng Tianyao’s eyes widened slightly, not expecting to be rejected, in such a merciless manner!
His heart was filled with complex emotions, embarrassment, and irritation. If not for Yun Shouxi’s presence, he might have immediately rolled up his sleeves with great dominance and forcibly stopped her.
But Yun Shouxi was present, as was Chu Yi, and Yu Cang was desperately giving him eye signals.
Feng Tianyao’s temple twitched violently, his eyes reddening with anger.
He was Feng Yunhong’s only son, the young master of the great immortal sect Nanshan Snow River, of noble status, pampered by everyone since childhood. But he wasn’t like ordinary pampered young masters who only knew how to eat, drink, and be merry, nor was he like Cui Huowu with his poor character. Therefore, even though he had a young master’s temperament, those around him would indulge and accommodate him.
A true child of heaven, loved by thousands.
Such a young master also had his pride in the way of the sword.
Feng Tianyao clenched his fists, gritting his teeth: “Stop right there! Listen to me!”
The night wind rustled, and the hanging lanterns at the mountain gate were adorned with pale blue wind chimes with trailing feathers, making crisp sounds. The sea of flowers below danced with the wind, and Ling Luo, walking above, could still smell the rich floral fragrance carried by the night breeze.
Her steps didn’t falter.
Feng Tianyao, looking at the silhouette gradually disappearing under the moonlight, decided to go all out and shouted: “Ling Luo! There will come a day when I will defeat you!”
The great wind rose, lifting the young man’s hair.
Those eyes, reflecting the woman’s silhouette, were filled with determination.
“Losing to you, I’m very unwilling! I’ve never lost with divine technique sword intent before, you’re the first!”
“But I will continue to work hard, train hard, become stronger, and then I will challenge you again!”
“I will defeat you!”
By the end, Feng Tianyao had regained his usual confidence. His raised hand formed a fist placed on his chest, a gesture of promise. That clean and handsome face no longer showed resentment and embarrassment, but was upright and dignified.
Yu Cang raised his head and slapped his forehead, while the other people from Nanshan Snow River all turned away with unbearable expressions.
What a confident declaration.
Ling Luo stopped and looked back. Standing high, her expression was contemptuous, the wind lifting her clothes and hair, beautiful dark eyes gazing down at Feng Tianyao below.
Her gaze was disdainful.
But the young man’s eyes were full of stubbornness and unwillingness to admit defeat, as well as pride that had not been cruelly erased.
Through these eyes, Ling Luo saw the future.
He angrily shouted questions at her or knelt crying and breaking down, the heaven’s favored child lying in blood and fire, so fragile he couldn’t withstand a single blow.
These were all images as chilling as a winter night’s heavy snow, but there were also a few quickly flashing images, as vibrant and dazzling as a flourishing summer mountain scene.
That was the young man coming down the mountain with his sword, shouting that he had come to save her; in the night snow, he stood outside the house and earnestly said he had learned it from her, that she had taught him—
The wind chimes at the mountain gate rang.
Apart from Yue Liangze, only Feng Tianyao could easily pull her back to the past.
Ling Luo only gave him a contemptuous look before walking away.
This attitude successfully left Feng Tianyao stunned for a moment, and then a burning sensation surged from his entire body to his forehead, a breath stuck in his heart, making it ache.
The young master exploded: “Stop! Come back! What kind of attitude is this—”
Yu Cang stepped forward to grab him and pull him back while gesturing for his junior brother to cover the young master’s mouth to prevent further embarrassment. He laughed awkwardly to Yun Shouxi, waving goodbye, and even used a wind technique, disappearing in a flash.
Yun Shouxi shook his head with a smile and went to catch up with Ling Luo.
Chu Yi called out to Ling Luo ahead: “Why are you walking so fast? Are you still afraid that young master will come back and fight with you again?”
Only then did Ling Luo stop to wait for them.
Chu Yi narrowed his eyes at her: “With that attitude of yours just now, he’ll hold a grudge for a lifetime.”
“Let him hold his grudge. Even if he learns for another lifetime, he won’t be able to defeat me,” Ling Luo sneered.
Yun Shouxi said gently: “Why such a poor attitude toward Feng Tianyao?”
Ling Luo said: “He looks down on women, so I look down on him.”
Yun Shouxi raised an eyebrow slightly, while Chu Yi asked puzzledly: “Where did you hear that?”
“Do I need to hear it from somewhere? Look at how he said earlier in Taichu that it’s no fun with a girl, no fun fighting with women,” Ling Luo turned to look at them. “From a cultivation perspective, he looks down on girls.”
Chu Yi also remembered this, and upon hearing it now, felt that Feng Tianyao had brought it upon himself.
He had shouted enthusiastically at the time but afterward was beaten so badly by a girl that he couldn’t even lift his sword.
Yun Shouxi said: “If it’s because of this, I believe he will change in the future.”
The incident with Feng Tianyao was just a small interlude, and Ling Luo didn’t take it to heart.
Those deeply memorable events had already passed once, and for her, many things had ended before her rebirth. There were only one or two things she would never forgive, no matter how many times she was reborn.
Yun Shouxi planned to return to Heaven’s Edge in two more days, but Ling Luo knew he wouldn’t be able to go back.
Tonight, she waited in her room for Jiang Miao on the spirit bird’s side, listening to what she had remembered today.
Meanwhile, Yue Liangze was waiting for her jade communicator message.
Today, Ling Luo had been with her sect members, and coupled with her watching Chu Yi these past few days, everyone around had noticed.
Yue Liangze didn’t think much of it initially, but in the silence of the night, that little bit of sourness had to come and make him uncomfortable. Coincidentally, Song Yuanyuan came to find him with a clothesbox.
“Little Godfather, did you buy clothes at the clothing tower that day?” Song Yuanyuan handed him the item, asking somewhat puzzledly, “Didn’t you say you weren’t buying anything at the time?”
That day, they were playing at North Court City’s largest clothing tower. Hearing that Chang Fei was paying, the two senior brothers were uninhibited. At the time, he had asked Yue Liangze to choose as well, but Yue Liangze had shaken his head without speaking and left without taking anything.
But today when he returned, the Moon Palace people said that the clothing tower had delivered something, and the customer tag on the box had Yue Liangze’s name.
When Chang Fei received the enormous bill, he cursed Song Yuanyuan viciously in the jade communicator, asking what he had done to be so wasteful!
Song Yuanyuan calmly brought up Chu Yi, Ling Luo, and Yue Liangze.
Chang Fei: Then it’s fine.
Now Song Yuanyuan glanced inside the clothes box and saw a beautiful light blue gauze dress, clearly for a girl.
He widened his eyes in surprise and asked: “Little Godfather, who did you buy this for?”
Yue Liangze examined the gauze dress, and only after ensuring there was no problem did he say: “For someone else.”
“A woman?” Song Yuanyuan instantly became vigilant, “Who? Which sect? Have I met her? Do you like her?”
Yue Liangze: “……”
With an unchanged expression, he folded the dress and put it back in the box. Having not received a message from Ling Luo, he felt a bit hesitant. After a moment of hesitation, he said to his “adopted son”: “I like her, and she likes me too.”
Song Yuanyuan hadn’t expected him to skip the first few questions and directly answer the last one, and with such certainty. He was instantly stunned.
“When did it start?!”
“A few days ago,” Yue Liangze lowered his eyes, folding clothes. “But she hasn’t paid much attention to me lately—”
Song Yuanyuan clutched his chest: “A few days ago? Someone from the Moon Palace?!”
In his mind flashed all the Moon Palace women he knew, only to realize, annoyingly, that he didn’t know any Moon Palace girls at all!
So he secretly took out his jade communicator and sent a message to the Heaven’s Edge four-person group: “My father is in danger, needs rescue! Quick, think of any female disciples from the Moon Palace you know! And who knows Little Godfather!”
Chang Fei asked what he was doing, while Xu Shen reported a few names before asking what was going on.
Only Ling Luo looked at this message with narrowed eyes and an inscrutable expression.
Song Yuanyuan listened to Yue Liangze while repeating to his friends:
“Playing hard to get! Just agreed but now ignoring him!”
“Flirting then turning cold! Obviously not serious!”
“Little Godfather is completely innocent and is no match for this experienced little vixen!”
The experienced little vixen looked at the message and laughed coldly.
Chang Fei: Can’t let Senior Brother fall like this! Ling Luo, go persuade him! What if he gets cheated out of money and virtue?
Xu Shen also said: Senior Brother listens to you the most, Mother, please save him.
Ling Luo: “……”
She gave a light snort and sent a message: “Tell him to come over, right now, I guarantee he won’t think about that little vixen anymore.”
Song Yuanyuan believed her very much, so he interrupted Yue Liangze’s muttering, winking conspiratorially: “Little Godfather, Ling Luo just sent me a message saying she has urgent business with you and wants you to go over.”
As Yue Liangze looked over with slight surprise, he added: “She said right now.”
“Then I’ll go see,” Yue Liangze took the clothes box and stood up.
Song Yuanyuan called out: “Hey, just leave the clothes here.”
Yue Liangze said without looking back: “I bought them for her.”
Song Yuanyuan: “……”
Say that again?
Who bought what for whom?!
A peal of thunder sounded in the night sky, crackling, with dazzling lightning flashing. Song Yuanyuan felt as if this sudden bolt of lightning had struck right on his head.
He trembled as he picked up his jade communicator and looked at Ling Luo’s words again.
Little Godfather had just said that little Vixen also liked him.
This sudden thunder attracted the attention of many people.
Ling Luo stood at the door, looking up at the night sky. The ferocious and dazzling light flashed behind the clouds, with muffled thunder rumbling like a fierce beast gathering its strength, ready to pounce.