After Breaking Off the Engagement, I Started Pursuing My Master - Chapter 256

Chapter 256 How Nice

Under the eaves, the moonlight was serene.

Jiang Huai stood outside Chu Xianning’s room. There was only a faint light inside Chu Xianning’s room. He didn’t knock on the door. After several seconds, just as he was about to leave carefully, Chu Xianning’s voice came from inside the room.

“Is there something?”

“No, I just wanted to check on my master’s injuries again… It’s good for the master to rest.”

“Come in,” Chu Xianning said softly.

So Jiang Huai gently pushed the door open. Chu Xianning was lying in bed, her slender body wrapped in snow-white bedding, with only her head exposed. Jiang Huai noticed the neatly folded clothes by the bed, which meant that there was nothing under Chu Xianning’s bedding at the moment.

He didn’t dwell on these thoughts, but walked over to Chu Xianning’s side, brought over a stool, and said softly, “Give me your wrist.”

A stretch of pale wrist extended from the bedding, and Jiang Huai gently grasped her wrist, placing his fingertips on it to seriously sense Chu Xianning’s pulse, using a wisp of faint spiritual energy to thoroughly check her current physical condition.

The spiritual medicine obtained from the sect master was valuable and was the best healing medicine Tianxuan Sect could find. Now that Chu Xianning had refined ninety percent of the medicine, the flesh wounds were no longer a problem, and not even a scar was left. However, Jiang Huai’s brow gradually furrowed; Chu Xianning’s old injuries had torn open again.

“Why the frown?” Chu Xianning asked indifferently.

“The old injury has reverted to its previous state…”

“I know my body better than you do,” Chu Xianning’s voice carried a hint of helplessness, “It’s alright, no need to worry.”

The medicine Jiang Huai prepared for Chu Xianning’s old wounds was the leaves of the Tree of Life, which grew in the Realm of Origin and was guarded in turns by powers from all five domains. Every year, some leaves were taken out as rewards for the younger generation at the Five Domains Grand Competition. If one could place in the top three at this year’s competition, there might be a chance to get a leaf from the divine tree.

But the Five Domains Grand Competition was at the end of the year, still half a year away.

Chu Xianning’s wrist broke free from Jiang Huai’s hand, and her fingertip lightly touched his forehead. Jiang Huai was startled, then looked into her eyes as he heard her say softly, “Don’t frown.”

Jiang Huai obediently smoothed his brow and said softly, “In two days, we should open those two remaining acupoints; we can’t delay any longer.”

His tone carried a hint of firmness, and Chu Xianning’s eyes first showed displeasure. They stared at each other for several seconds until she was convinced of the stubbornness in his eyes that could not be reversed. Then she turned her face away and agreed in a very soft voice.

“I understand.”

“Then master should rest early.”

“Okay.” Chu Xianning stretched her slender arms back into the bedding and closed her eyes.

Jiang Huai extinguished the light in the room for her, walked out gently, closed the door, and the moonlight filled the courtyard. He hesitated for a moment before approaching Luo Yueguan’s door.

He hadn’t reached out to knock when the door happened to open at that moment. Luo Yueguan, in a purple nightgown with her black hair draped over her shoulders, looked into Jiang Huai’s eyes.

Compared to before, Jiang Huai always felt that there was now less complexity in Luo Yueguan’s eyes, but at this moment, there was also a hint of bewilderment. The two looked at each other under the moonlight for a few seconds, and Luo Yueguan asked softly, “How is your master?”

“I just checked; the injury has stabilized. In two days, I will open her acupoints, which should help her injuries,” Jiang Huai replied softly.

“Chu Xianning agreed?”

“Yes, my master has promised me.”

“That’s good.” Luo Yueguan let out a long sigh of relief but unconsciously looked away.

She suddenly didn’t know how to face Jiang Huai. After bathing Chu Xianning and taking her back to her room, she sat on the bed alone and thought a lot. She remembered how she first met Jiang Huai, the absurd things that happened between them during this time, as if they were all hazy colored bubbles. When she tried hard to see something clearly through the bubbles, they quietly burst.

She suddenly saw the real scene beneath the bubbles. From the beginning, Jiang Huai had no ulterior motives towards her. It was she who believed that all men in the world should have designs on her, so she always tried to hook the desires hidden in his heart, to see the vile, shameless lust, to prove to herself that all crows in the world are black, and no one can live a life of perpetual dignity.

“Shall we go for a walk together?” Jiang Huai said softly.

Luo Yueguan was slightly taken aback. Actually, even if Jiang Huai hadn’t spoken, she wanted to say something to him. So she came to Jiang Huai’s side. She wasn’t wearing shoes or socks, her delicate bare feet stepping on the stone-paved ground. The two walked out the door under the moonlight, the moonlight in the mountain gate was serene, and the cool evening breeze gently stirred her skirt.

“This time… I’m sorry about your master,” Luo Yueguan was the first to speak.

“The heart demon acted up; it’s not your fault. My master doesn’t want you to overthink it, and neither do I,” Jiang Huai replied softly.

The two continued walking forward, gradually reaching a stream. The stream flowed slowly in the night, and the moonlight made the water surface shimmer. Luo Yueguan sat on the edge of the stone, looking down at the stream flowing over the pebbles, and said softly, “I think I’m starting to understand what you meant by those words before.”

Jiang Huai stood beside her and asked softly, “Hmm?”

“I’ve always been very self-righteous, only believing what I guessed. I always felt in my heart that your master looked down on me, always thought that your master was as vile as me, willing to be close to me just because she felt lonely, or because I was inferior to her. So with me by her side, she could look down on me from a high position, satisfying that little bit of pride in her heart.”Speaking of this, Luo Yueguan suddenly laughed at herself, “She always treated me as a true friend, yet here I am with such thoughts, it’s quite ridiculous, isn’t it?”

“What you thought in the past doesn’t matter anymore. What’s important is that you’ve come to terms with it now, right?” Jiang Huai said softly.

Luo Yueguan turned to look at him and smiled gently, “Sometimes you really resemble your master. Perhaps it’s because I see his shadow in you that I always wanted to drag you down with me.”

Jiang Huai shook his head, “I don’t blame you.”

“Even if you don’t blame me, I still want to apologize for troubling you so much during this time.”

Jiang Huai couldn’t help but smile helplessly, “It’s really okay.”

The confusion in Luo Yueguan’s eyes seemed to fade a bit as she smiled and swayed her delicate, snowy legs. She tilted her face up slightly and asked, “If I say I won’t do it again in the future, would you be disappointed?”

Jiang Huai scratched his head, “I think it’s a good thing.”

“Really?”

“Of course.”

Their gazes met under the moonlit night, and Luo Yueguan finally let out a light laugh. She had never felt her heart so light, as if the shackles that had bound her in the past were slowly being broken. Suddenly, she blinked at Jiang Huai.

“Can you kiss me under the moonlight?”

Jiang Huai was taken aback at first, then he looked at her fingertips and lightly tapped her forehead.

Luo Yueguan closed her eyes, her long, thick eyelashes casting shadows in the moonlight.

Jiang Huai leaned in gently, bent down, and kissed her forehead lightly before quickly pulling back. Luo Yueguan opened her eyes, her cheeks dimpling with a shallow smile, “Aren’t you going to ask why I still wanted you to kiss me?”

“No need to ask.”

“Guessed why?”

“There’s no need to guess.” Jiang Huai looked into Luo Yueguan’s eyes and blinked back at her, “My master taught me that thinking too much leads to worries, and many things, if not thought about, will never happen. Regardless of whether you think about them or not, they will happen in the future.”

“That makes sense.” Luo Yueguan stood up and walked over to Jiang Huai, “Shall we go back?”

“You go back and rest, I’ll go to Lingxue Lake.”

“Lingxue Lake? What for?”

“To catch a Snow Spirit Fish, to make fish slice porridge for my master in the morning.”

“Then I’ll come with you.” Luo Yueguan followed him, took out her spirit sword, and flew with him to Lingxue Mountain. They arrived at the edge of Lingxue Lake and sat down by a cool pavilion. Jiang Huai took out his fishing rod and bait, and the two sat side by side under the moonlight, watching the lake shimmering from the moon’s reflection. Luo Yueguan’s hair, blown by the breeze, tickled Jiang Huai’s face.

So Luo Yueguan tied up her hair, her delicate hands propping up her cheeks, her eyes quietly gazing at the distant lake surface. She suddenly thought of something and said softly, “Your master really likes fishing. I often followed her to many interesting places to fish.”

Jiang Huai, of course, knew this. Chu Xianning liked fishing, but she didn’t like cheating like Jiang Huai did. She could sit by the lake all day, and even if she caught nothing, she wouldn’t be disappointed.

“Back then, I was always impatient. I couldn’t understand why, if we wanted to eat fish, we didn’t just use spiritual energy to scoop a few up. Chu Xianning explained to me that the ones scooped up easily are not as delicious as the ones you catch yourself.”

“I used to chatter incessantly by her side. More than once she complained I was noisy, but she never really made me stay away from her. Every time we caught a good fish, we’d go find a cook in the sect who was good at cooking, and we’d have a feast. She would only eat a little, and the rest would go into my stomach.”

“Your master may seem cold on the outside, but she’s warm on the inside, sometimes even soft-hearted. Every time we caught fish, she would divide it in two, half steamed and half cooked in my favorite flavor. Even after I finished mine and started eating hers, she would never get angry.”

Luo Yueguan told Jiang Huai many interesting stories about the past with Chu Xianning, and she couldn’t help but laugh while talking. Jiang Huai glanced at her profile inadvertently; her eyes were as beautiful as night pearls shining in the night.

The two sat by the lake for a long time, talking about many things. Suddenly, Luo Yueguan said out of the blue, “I have a secret to tell you.”

“Hmm?” Jiang Huai was curious.

“Perhaps… there’s not an impossible chance between you and Chu Xianning.” Luo Yueguan’s voice was cautious, and after she spoke, she clamped her lips shut, unwilling to reveal more.

But Jiang Huai just smiled and blinked at her, “I know.”

“How do you know?”

“I just do.”

Jiang Huai couldn’t tell her that Chu Xianning had taken the initiative to kiss him on the lips that day. Otherwise, with the master’s thin skin, she would be too embarrassed and want to hide.

“How nice.”

Luo Yueguan looked up at the bright moon in the sky, her tone revealing a hint of envy, but no longer the sour sense of loss.