After Breaking Off the Engagement, I Started Pursuing My Master - Chapter 243

Chapter 243: Stutter

Jiang Huai slowly opened his eyes.

His vision was no longer the scene of the auction. He was first startled, then looked around, and found himself lying on a soft, large bed, a faint fragrance in his nose. He turned slightly, and in the next instant, he saw Luo Yueguan lying beside him.

Luo Yueguan was still wearing the purple dress from the day, lying on her side. The dress was tight on her body, outlining the curves of her full chest and slender waist. Jiang Huai hurriedly asked, “Did Mu Chenyun raise the price in the end?”

“He didn’t raise it anymore, the Cold Soul Snow Spirit is ours,” Luo Yueguan replied softly.

“That’s good.” Jiang Huai let out a long sigh of relief.

“Later we’ll go pay and take it over, where are we now? How long have I slept?”

“The best inn in Ziyun City, I booked two rooms, mine is right next to yours, you’ve slept for an hour.”

“Oh…”

Jiang Huai understood, then heard Luo Yueguan ask softly, “How are you feeling now?”

“A little soul exhaustion is no big deal, just eat some soul-nourishing pills and rest for a few more days. I often overexerted my soul when I was pondering over pill formations in the past.”

Jiang Huai didn’t seem to care much, but when he sat up, he suddenly froze for a moment, “Where are my pants?”

“No, where are my clothes?”

Jiang Huai looked down and found not only his clothes missing, but also several lip marks and faint bite marks on his chest. He widened his eyes and looked at Luo Yueguan beside him, who just innocently looked back at him.

“You were sleeping so soundly, I helped you take them off.”

“What about these lip marks and bite marks?”

“I couldn’t resist.” Luo Yueguan’s tongue gently licked her lips.

Jiang Huai immediately wrapped himself tightly in the blanket, distancing himself slightly from Luo Yueguan, “Forget it… you go down, I plan to sleep a bit more to recover.”

“I’m not leaving,” Luo Yueguan shook her head.

“I want to sleep with you.”

“No, you can’t.”

“Why not?”

“Anyway… not tonight.”

Jiang Huai looked into Luo Yueguan’s eyes, feeling that there was a hidden morbidity in her gaze at the moment, which made him particularly uneasy. If he slept with Luo Yueguan tonight and her seduction escalated, Jiang Huai really couldn’t guarantee that if he was rubbed by Luo Yueguan while being pinned down, Jiang Huai Jr. would be able to resist making a mistake.

Since he couldn’t be sure he wouldn’t make a mistake, he had to nip the possibility of making one in the bud.

But just as Jiang Huai finished speaking, Luo Yueguan had already moved closer, lifting his blanket and almost instantly pinning him down, then straddling his lower abdomen, leaning down with her hands on his chest.

“Just because you say no, it’s no?”

“Of course,” Jiang Huai replied confidently.

“I want to sleep alone.”

“I’ll cry for you to see.”

“My heart is as hard as iron now, your crying won’t work.”

As soon as Jiang Huai finished speaking, Luo Yueguan’s tears started falling, her eyes reddening almost instantly, leaving Jiang Huai stunned, not knowing what to do for a moment.

Luo Yueguan’s tears flowed like broken pearls, and Jiang Huai became somewhat flustered, “You’re really crying?”

“I want to sleep with you,” Luo Yueguan’s voice was tearful.

“No… you can’t.” Jiang Huai struggled to refuse.

He had a vague intuition that if he compromised because of Luo Yueguan’s tears this time, he would compromise again next time, and then his future days would be ruined.

“Don’t cry,” Jiang Huai said sternly, with a cold face.

Luo Yueguan bit her lip, silent, her tears falling on his cheek, slightly cool.

“Get down,” Jiang Huai warned again.

“No,” Luo Yueguan not only didn’t get down, but her snowy buttocks shifted on his lower abdomen, bringing a particularly soft and smooth sensation. At this moment, her buttocks pressed against his legs, Jiang Huai reached out to grab her delicate feet and started to tickle her. Caught off guard, Luo Yueguan’s body shook slightly, and Jiang Huai quickly turned over, pulling the blanket over himself again, tightly wrapping himself up, and said, “Stop it, my head still hurts, let me sleep alone for a while.”

Luo Yueguan knelt on the bed, her eyes fixed on him, unblinking.

Jiang Huai waved his hand in front of her, “Go back, be good.”

Luo Yueguan pouted, her cheeks still wet with tears. Jiang Huai took out a handkerchief to wipe her tears dry, his voice softened, “Be good.”

“Kiss me.”

Jiang Huai hesitated for a moment, his eyes dodging for an instant, but still leaned in and gently kissed her forehead.

“Not there.”

“Right there.”

Jiang Huai reached out to pinch her snow-white cheek, “Be good now, I really need to rest.”

Luo Yueguan reluctantly sat on the edge of the bed to put on her shoes and socks. After she was dressed, she slowly walked out of the room, looking back three steps at a time, her gaze becoming more and more wistful with each look. Jiang Huai couldn’t bear such a wistful gaze, so he simply pulled the blanket over his head until he heard Luo Yueguan’s footsteps fade away and the door gently close. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief and poke his head out from under the covers.

At that moment, he felt inexplicably guilty.

He was willing to spend a fortune for Luo Yueguan, not because he wanted to get something from her, but because he had already solved the problem of refining medicine for reconstructing his sea of qi. There were three million spirit stones waiting in Ziyun Pavilion for them to collect the medicinal materials for him. Spirit stones had become useless to him. Spirit stones are the most basic resource for cultivation, but Jiang Huai had always taken them lightly, otherwise, he wouldn’t have been so poor in the past.

This was somewhat similar to Chu Xianning’s character, content with the current situation, never asking for too much.

Since the Cold Soul Snow Spirit could improve Luo Yueguan’s cultivation and purify her origin, it was an opportunity not to be missed. If he could buy it, Jiang Huai certainly wanted to, but now that he had bought it, he suddenly felt a bit guilty.

Should he find a time to clarify things with Luo Yueguan? But what could be clarified between them, and what couldn’t? Jiang Huai’s head was a tangled mess, and he recalled Luo Yueguan’s reddened eyes just now.

It was already unclear.

The increasingly chaotic thoughts made his already not very clear head even more muddled. Jiang Huai reached out to knock on his head, but then there was a knock on the door. He was startled, “Didn’t I tell you to go to sleep obediently?”

“Jiang Huai… are you staying here?”

The voice outside the door was not Luo Yueguan’s lazy and indifferent tone, but a soft, girlish voice. Jiang Huai was slightly taken aback; it was Xu Qing.

“It’s me staying here, how did you come?” Jiang Huai asked.

“The one million six hundred spirit stones haven’t been given to you yet…” Xu Qing replied softly.

Jiang Huai thought it made sense; he hadn’t paid for the auction items yet, so he hadn’t received the goods. He sat up from the bed and said, “Wait for me a moment.”

“Okay,” Xu Qing obediently agreed.

Jiang Huai then hurriedly began to dress, choosing a thick one on purpose, as the lip marks and bite marks on his body made him uncomfortable. After getting dressed, he went to the door and opened it.

Xu Qing was in a white palace dress, the hem as clean as spring snow, her black hair not adorned with any complicated hair ornaments, just a small white flower. Her figure was not particularly girlish, but rather more inclined towards a mature lady’s figure, not as plump and juicy as Luo Yueguan. She was the big Senior Sister of Guangxue Sect, usually revered by many disciples, but in front of Jiang Huai, she always seemed shy like a young girl.

Jiang Huai wasn’t sure if “shy” was the right word, but that was the feeling he got.

Xu Qing held one million six hundred spirit stone notes in her hand, handing them to Jiang Huai, who took them with one hand, saying, “I’ll sit for a while, and later I’ll go to Ziyun Pavilion to get that life fruit for you.”

Xu Qing’s body shrank back slightly, her voice also becoming timid, “No, no need…”

“No need?” Jiang Huai was taken aback, a bad feeling in his heart seemed to be coming true.

“That life fruit, it was, it was meant to be bought for you…” Xu Qing’s voice got softer and softer, so much so that she completely lowered her head, not daring to look into Jiang Huai’s eyes.

Her following words even trembled slightly, “I just wanted… to repay a favor, can you, can you not scold me…?”

Jiang Huai was at a loss for words.

He scratched his head, wondering if he had never shown much of a good face in front of Xu Qing, causing her to misunderstand that he was a very fierce and unreasonable person?

Thinking of this, he suddenly found it somewhat amusing. After a moment of helplessness, he said, “Am I very fierce?”

Perhaps it was because his tone was much gentler, Xu Qing slowly raised her head to look at him and said softly, “No…”

Jiang Huai thought for a moment and eventually decided not to hide it anymore. “Actually, I’ve found a way to extend my life. I don’t need that life fruit to prolong my life. I’ll go get it later and give it to you.”

“T-then you should keep it… You’re a body cultivator, i-it’s very useful for you.”

“Ah, even if I don’t use it, I’m still the number one among the younger generation in the Eastern Region. It doesn’t make much difference.” Jiang Huai shrugged innocently, his words brimming with arrogance.

“Is your lifespan really restored?”

“Ah, yes.” Jiang Huai nodded.

“Do you always stutter when you speak?”

“No, not… not usually…”

Xu Qing’s hand gently gripped her skirt, seemingly trying to explain something with all her might, but the more she tried, the more powerless her explanation seemed.

Her pale face turned red, “It’s… it’s only in front of you, it’s like this…”

“Your face is so red.”

Jiang Huai innocently pointed out, “It’s easy for me to get the wrong impression that you’re a young girl in love, harboring secret feelings for me.”

Jiang Huai reached out to pat Xu Qing’s shoulder, but upon hearing his words, she stiffened as if steam was about to come out of her forehead.

“You saw that day in the cave, I am a married man.”

Xu Qing’s body froze, as if something had quietly shattered.

The corner of Jiang Huai’s eye twitched slightly, looking at her dim eyes, he realized that some things are better said earlier. At least now it’s better to be straightforward than to let her harbor any illusions.

He patted her shoulder again, “I was just joking when I said you liked me earlier. I know you don’t like me, and you don’t need to be grateful. It’s because you wanted to save everyone that day that I wanted to save you. You were the one who reached out to me first, so I should give you a hand.”

“You never have to thank me, just be grateful to yourself. Alright, let me sit for a while longer, and I’ll accompany you to get the life fruit later.”

Jiang Huai took a deep breath and sat down on the long bench by the tea table in the room.