After Recklessly Courting Death, I Caught the Attention of a Yandere - Chapter 37

Yun Dan was naturally very familiar with this line of poetry.

Just kidding, her liberal arts were quite good—wasn’t this the classic “Spring River, Flower, Moon, Night”?

I wonder how many return beneath the moon;

The setting moon stirs emotions, filling the riverside trees.

“So that’s how you got your name. ‘Setting moon stirs emotions’—Xiao Yueqing is indeed a beautiful name.”

However, Xiao Yueqing didn’t seem particularly happy about it.

He just replied calmly, “If I could choose, I wouldn’t want this name either. It was given by my mother, but she actually… didn’t love me. Forget it, let’s not talk about such unpleasant people.”

When Yun Dan had heard Xiao Yueqing talking in his sleep before, she had been very curious about what kind of grudge existed between him and his so-called mother, to the point where he would be so miserable even in his dreams.

But clearly Xiao Yueqing’s mood wasn’t very good right now, and Yun Dan knew she absolutely couldn’t ask him such questions at this moment.

Since he didn’t want to bring it up, she wouldn’t ask.

When you don’t know what to say, stay silent—this rule was definitely correct.

Yun Dan turned around to face Xiao Yueqing.

At this moment, she no longer felt the fear of Xiao Yueqing she’d had before.

Instead, she started chatting with him about other things.

“My name is quite interesting actually. ‘Clouds light, sky clear’—so I’m called Yun Dan. My mother… that is, my mother hoped I would be a simple person who could live a plain and peaceful life. But in my memories, my mother and I spent little time together.

She was always traveling for work, so our relationship wasn’t good. Later when I had a younger brother, I became even more reluctant to go home and just stayed outside all the time. I suddenly find myself missing her a bit.”

She didn’t really like being at home because it was always accompanied by endless arguments.

And having spent so little time with her mother since childhood, their relationship wasn’t good—they would argue at the slightest disagreement.

So after the college entrance exams, Yun Dan moved out.

She wasn’t exactly some wealthy young lady, but her family’s circumstances were decent enough that she could afford to live in her own place.

But in the month or so since accidentally coming to this place, it would be a lie to say she hadn’t thought about home at all.

In this other world, she couldn’t rely on anyone, couldn’t depend on anyone.

Even just to survive, she had to become someone else’s tool.

Many times she wondered if everything was just a dream, and when she woke up she’d still be lying on her desk sleeping.

Even at this moment, the Death-Courting System didn’t forget to mock Yun Dan.

[What are you crying about, dear player? How can you act like such a crybaby?]

“I am female to begin with, so why can’t I be a crybaby? Besides, you don’t even have life, so how would you understand human emotions? No wonder you’re called ‘If You Don’t Court Death, You Won’t Die.'”

Xiao Yueqing had originally wanted to tease her, but sensed that she seemed to be sobbing.

He had no experience comforting people to begin with.

Add to that not knowing what had happened, and for a moment he was at a loss.

He could only reach out and touch her face.

“What’s wrong with you? Master didn’t scold you. I was just scaring you a little—why are you crying? There, there, Master won’t say things like ‘kill you’ anymore.”

However, Yun Dan continued crying.

Xiao Yueqing could only choose to go all-or-nothing.

He grabbed Yun Dan’s chin and pretended to threaten her. “Shut up! If you keep crying, I’ll sew your mouth shut!”

Yun Dan was frightened and could only choose not to cry out loud, but the tears kept falling.

But she didn’t dare say anything in front of Xiao Yueqing, only wiping the tears from her face with both hands.

Xiao Yueqing’s heart softened halfway seeing Yun Dan cry, and he put away his usual cold demeanor.

He rarely played the good guy, letting Yun Dan lean against his chest and comforting her. “I was just scaring you a little. I didn’t expect you to cry like this—women are troublesome.”

Hearing this, Yun Dan began to make a big deal out of it.

She hadn’t forgotten how Xiao Yueqing had mocked her before.

“You said I wasn’t a woman, that I was a bean sprout, and you mocked me. Is this how a master should behave? You’re still single and have become an old bachelor—there’s definitely a reason for that. You’re too much, and you even said you hate women.”

“I don’t hate you, because you’re a bean sprout.”

Yun Dan was both angry and amused.

Though she couldn’t say it out loud, in her heart she had already cursed Xiao Yueqing thoroughly.

The tears had stopped falling, but she was still hiccupping.

Looking at this trend, it seemed like she might start crying again.

Xiao Yueqing watched her mouth opening and closing, afraid she might blurt out some shocking words again.

He didn’t know what came over him, but suddenly he leaned close to her face.

Seeing Xiao Yueqing so close, Yun Dan didn’t dare even breathe.

“You… Master, what are you doing?”

The word “Master” brought Xiao Yueqing back to his senses.

Only then did he notice he was far too close to Yun Dan.

Only about an inch away.

He would only need to lower his head slightly to kiss her.

This realization terrified him and he immediately retreated to the side.

“I saw something on your face, so I wanted to get closer to look.”

“Oh, I see.”

Xiao Yueqing didn’t know what was wrong with him—he just felt his heart seemed to be beating very fast.

This had never happened before.

He put his hand over his heart, wondering for a moment whether it was because of the old poisons, causing some other problem with his body?

Or was it because of that moment of inexplicable impulse?

He shook his head in distress, but didn’t bring up the matter again.

“By the way, Master, you still haven’t told me why you destroyed the Shu Sect?”

“They touched someone they shouldn’t have, so naturally they had to pay the corresponding price. Besides, the Shu Sect wasn’t any good anyway—leaving them in this world would only cause harm. Consider it doing a service for the people.

What, are you so moved that I destroyed an entire sect for you that you’re planning to pledge yourself to me?”

Yun Dan’s eyes widened instantly.

“Pledge myself to you? I think not. I’m afraid you’d bury me under the passion flowers—I don’t really want to die yet. It’s not like I don’t know you hate women, so I won’t court death. Though I’m very touched, Master, I can only try my best to be a good spy to repay you.”

Actually, Xiao Yueqing had tested her several times.

After discovering that Yun Dan truly seemed to have no interest in him, only then did he tolerate her until now.

But after more than a month of getting along, Xiao Yueqing found that he seemed quite close to her.

He could even tolerate her being close to him.

Though she was like a bean sprout, Tianqing Manor was so large that it could still afford to keep one bean sprout.

[Ding—— Target character Xiao Yueqing’s favorability increased by 5%, current favorability: 10%]

My god, what did this person imagine in his head to suddenly gain 5% favorability?

You have to know that when she was working herself to death at Tianqing Manor for a month, she only managed to raise his favorability to 5%.

If she had known, she might as well have come out earlier.