After Recklessly Courting Death, I Caught the Attention of a Yandere - Chapter 63

Dongfang Jue naturally couldn’t tell his daughter his true plan in its entirety, and only consoled her with false comfort, saying, “Huairou, this is all because you don’t understand.”

Tang Huairou was even more unable to comprehend what her father’s words meant.

“Father, why can’t daughter understand what you just said? Why do you say this is all because I don’t understand? Could it be that Father arranged for her to be by Young Master Luoyue’s side for some other purpose?”

Dongfang Jue couldn’t tell Tang Huairou the truth, but he could still manage to tell a well-intentioned lie.

After all, it wasn’t as if he didn’t know what kind of feelings his daughter had for Yan Ke.

Originally, he had hoped to use Tang Huairou to establish a connection with Yan Ke, making him his son-in-law, and thereby forge ties with the Heavenly Sword Sect, pulling both him and the entire Heavenly Sword Sect under his command.

This way, his power would become extremely formidable.

But who would have thought this daughter would be so disappointing, unable to catch his eye, forcing him to think of other methods.

“Father knows you like Young Master Luoyue, but he’s currently avoiding you. If you keep running up to him in the manor and throwing punches and kicks at those around him, he’ll naturally just run away.

Father’s move is only to keep Yan Ke at the manor for a while longer. After all, Father’s injuries haven’t healed yet, and having him here puts Father at ease.”

This reasoning wasn’t wrong, and Tang Huairou naturally knew that Father was injured.

If it weren’t for Yan Ke helping with healing, Father would probably be in a state of severe injury right now.

But Tang Huairou still couldn’t swallow this bitter pill.

“I don’t understand. I can avoid harassing Young Master Luoyue and just treat him as a guest of the manor, but why does Father have to arrange such a woman to appear before him?

Father, don’t you know that Young Master Luoyue seems to have quite a close relationship with her? Aren’t you afraid she’ll take Young Master Luoyue away? Then we’d end up losing both the person and the money!”

Dongfang Jue sneered coldly. “Have you forgotten that Father investigated Yun Dan’s background? She’s nothing but a powerless and without backing orphan girl. She’s not even worthy of being Wuchen’s concubine, let alone being with Young Master Luoyue. What kind of person is Yan Ke? There are countless women who like him, but have you ever seen him give any woman a second glance?”

“I don’t understand. He indeed has never given any woman a second glance, but what connection does this have with Father having this woman serve Yan Ke?”

Seeing that Tang Huairou still couldn’t understand his words, Dongfang Jue didn’t insist.

It wasn’t as if he didn’t know that this daughter only had eyes for Yan Ke.

It’s just that she’s useless—otherwise, she would have been able to win over Yan Ke somehow.

As a result, he still needed to find an orphan girl to approach Young Master Luoyue.

If word of this got out, people would probably laugh their teeth off—the former alliance leader actually having to use such methods to win people’s hearts.

Others only needed to send out their own daughters and have their daughters figure out a way.

But his own daughter was useless and couldn’t help him much, even making Young Master Yuye so disgusted with her, forcing him to resort to this desperate measure of finding an unrelated person.

“Then you don’t understand. If Young Master Luoyue has nothing to tie him down in our manor, he’ll just leave directly in a couple of days. Right now, our Mingyue Manor is like a piece of fat meat that everyone wants to take a bite of, otherwise Father wouldn’t have been injured last night.

The treasure map in our manor relates to the treasure behind it, and this treasure map absolutely cannot be lost. Moreover, if Father fails here, next it will be the turn of your grandfather’s Tang Sect.

Father is now also considering the Tang family fortress. Our Mingyue Manor, as the first line of defense for the treasure map, naturally must be well guarded.

All these years, the Heavenly Sword Sect has never participated in these matters. Even at the martial arts gathering three years ago, it was only because Father invited him for a long time that Young Master Luoyue was willing to come and show his face. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have known there was a person named Yan Ke three years ago. Do you understand now?”

Tang Huairou had always known about the treasure map and knew that both Mingyue Manor and the Tang Sect had treasure maps.

And Mingyue Manor’s map was clearly the first line of defense.

If someone obtained Mingyue Manor’s treasure map, they could find the location of the second treasure map from it.

And the location of the second treasure map was at the Tang Sect.

So what Father said about guarding the first line of defense was naturally something Tang Huairou believed.

Thinking about it now, she had indeed been short-sighted and narrow in her vision, even suspecting that Father wanted to do something else.

“Daughter is dull-witted. Father’s teaching is correct. During this time, I won’t appear before Young Master Luoyue and will try not to anger him. But is that woman really reliable?”

Regarding the matter of pushing another woman toward Yan Ke, Tang Huairou felt somewhat displeased in her heart.

But what Dongfang Jue had just said was very serious, making it impossible for her to continue being willful, so she could only reluctantly agree.

Dongfang Jue wasn’t worried about this point and also told Tang Huairou some information about Yun Dan.

“Father and your Aunt Mulan had people investigate her—she’s nothing but a complete orphan girl with no background whatsoever. This kind of little orphan girl without any background is actually the easiest to control.

Think about it, she has no background at all, and she was brought into the manor by Wuchen. She has nothing to her name and no other identity to speak of. Having Mingyue Manor let her serve Young Master Luoyue is already elevating her status.

Besides, if it weren’t for the fact that Yan Ke can better accept Yun Dan, Father would definitely prefer to send you over. For someone like him who’s a free spirit, we need to find reasons to make him stay. Mingyue Manor cannot be without Yan Ke.

Moreover, Young Master Luoyue is famous, and the women around him are mostly beauties from prestigious families. He probably wouldn’t even look at such a simple, modest type. Making her his concubine would already be elevating her status, so you don’t need to worry.

And Father guarantees you that when the time comes, Young Master Luoyue will definitely marry you as his principal wife. Once you become the mistress of the Heavenly Sword Sect, whether a maid or concubine lives or dies will be entirely up to you to decide, won’t it?”

After this explanation, Tang Huairou’s heart instantly became clear and enlightened.

Her face couldn’t hide her joy.

“So this is what Father was thinking for me. Daughter really wronged Father. Then Father can rest assured—I know Young Master Luoyue doesn’t like seeing me, and I’ll do my best to control myself and not go to his side to disgust him.

It’s just that this woman’s looks are only so-so. With this simple, modest type, I wonder if Young Master Luoyue will have no interest?”

Dongfang Jue revealed a mysterious smile.

“What if he doesn’t like her? Men—which one isn’t lustful? As long as these two people are both in my manor, they’ll be easy to control however we want. If that doesn’t work, we’ll just have them cook the raw rice into cooked rice. Then he won’t be able to ignore the matter, will he?”

(TL: “生米煮成熟飯” literally means “raw rice cooked into mature rice” (uncooked rice turned into cooked rice).= Idiomatic meaning: turning an irreversible situation into a fait accompli.)