After Recklessly Courting Death, I Caught the Attention of a Yandere - Chapter 8

Yun Dan’s heart skipped a beat. She seemed to vaguely guess something, but didn’t dare to be certain. Could it be that his mother wasn’t a good person?

In this world, how could there be a mother who would harm her own child? Was she thinking wrongly?

But seeing that Xiao Yueqing seemed unwilling to mention the Tang Sect or his mother, and was also unwilling to tell her what exactly had happened, Yun Dan had to temporarily keep these thoughts to herself.

However, she secretly made a mental note that if she ever had the chance to go to the Tang Sect, she would definitely get to the bottom of all the gossip.

Since Xiao Yueqing didn’t deny it, that meant he should indeed have connections with the Tang Sect, and even his mother might have connections with the Tang Sect.

Plus, those passion flowers could only be found in the Tang Sect. All this evidence pointed to one fact: both he and his mother were inextricably linked to the Tang Sect.

Since Xiao Yueqing didn’t actively drive her away, Yun Dan shamelessly stayed at Tianqing Manor.

Although he always gave people the impression of being very cold, Yun Dan always felt that he seemed to be a man with a story.

As for the escape plan, it was temporarily shelved. After all, in this kind of world, knowing nothing about anything was a very dangerous thing, because you never knew whether every person you encountered would want your life.

And this Xiao Yueqing was clearly a decent person in private, yet he insisted on putting on such an aloof appearance.

Who said villains must look demonic? Maybe if he put on white clothes, he’d be a banished immortal.

The manor master, who had never been close to women, suddenly kept a woman at Tianqing Manor. This caused quite a stir among everyone at the manor.

But everyone only dared to speculate, yet didn’t dare to speak carelessly. Everyone knew the manor master’s temperament was peculiar.

When he was in a good mood, he was approachable. When he wasn’t, no one could guarantee they wouldn’t be killed.

They could only gossip behind his back.

And Yun Xiao and Yun Sheng, as the two people who could get closest to the center of gossip, naturally couldn’t escape being questioned by a group of people.

“Hey, hey, hey, I heard that young lady gave you two new names, and they sound pretty good too. I say, Yun Sheng and Yun Xiao, what does that young lady look like? The manor master has hidden her too well – we still don’t know what she looks like.”

“That’s right! The manor master is already twenty-eight this year. Ordinary people would already have children around ten years old by now, but the manor master doesn’t even have a sweetheart. This is really the first woman the manor master has kept at the manor in over ten years. Could she be the future manor master’s wife?”

You must know that in the entire martial world, who didn’t know that Xiao Yueqing, the master of Tianqing Manor, was famously handsome? Even those women from righteous sects who spent their days shouting about fighting and killing secretly admired him.

Even though the manor master always wore a mask, the lower half of his face that was exposed, combined with his natural temperament, was definitely a first-class beauty.

It was just a pity that no one in the entire martial world had ever seen him without his mask.

However, the manor master was now twenty-eight, yet still remained alone.

If it were someone else, in a few more years they’d probably already be grandfathers.

The manor master was so excellent – if he ended up alone for life, it would be too much of a waste.

Even Yun Sheng and Yun Xiao, though they were men, would be amazed when facing Xiao Yueqing.

Yun Dan wandered around and around, always feeling somewhat bored, because Xiao Yueqing forbade her from going to many places, saying he’d kill her if she went.

However, everyone has a gossipy heart! The more Xiao Yueqing wouldn’t let her approach certain places, the more she wanted to go explore and see what treasures were hidden there.

Taking advantage of the night, Yun Dan secretly slipped out of her room. Looking at the boundary between the east courtyard and the main courtyard, Yun Dan gritted her teeth and decided to climb over first – at worst, she could immediately run back.

So she did just that. After struggling for a while, she finally climbed up the wall. Sitting on the wall and looking at the entire manor’s layout, it really was extraordinary.

Luxurious, truly too luxurious!

At this moment, a voice came from above her head. “What are you looking at?”

Yun Dan instinctively looked up, only to see Xiao Yueqing lying on a large tree, looking at her with a smile.

This startled Yun Dan so much that she directly tumbled off the wall. Just when she thought she was definitely going to die, she suddenly felt a pair of hands grab her and lift her up.

When she opened her eyes again, she was sitting on that tree, with Xiao Yueqing beside her.

Yun Dan was really afraid of heights. Fortunately, Xiao Yueqing caught her, otherwise if she had fallen, she probably would have broken her arms and legs.

She was now clinging to the tree trunk without any dignity, while looking at Xiao Yueqing beside her – he was lying diagonally across the tree fork with a leaf in his mouth, looking as beautiful as could be.

Seeming to sense Yun Dan’s gaze, Xiao Yueqing slightly turned his head and met Yun Dan’s eyes. The two just stared at each other like this.

Yun Dan somewhat embarrassedly turned her head to the other side. She was really a bit afraid of making eye contact with Xiao Yueqing.

“Are you very afraid of me?” he asked.

Yun Dan nodded, then shook her head, which made Xiao Yueqing laugh.

He spat out the leaf from his mouth and instead pulled Yun Dan to sit on the tree trunk. The two were now very close, giving Yun Dan an inexplicable sense of oppression – she hardly dared to breathe.

“In this world, there aren’t many people who aren’t afraid of me. But they fear me, yet can’t kill me. You’re very honest. I haven’t seen someone who speaks the truth like you in a long time. You should know that some people say human words to humans and ghost words to ghosts – you can’t tell what’s true and what’s false.”

“I always feel you’re not like someone who’s twenty-eight. Your way of speaking and behavior, it’s as if you’ve experienced many things, which doesn’t match your age. What kind of past have you actually experienced?”

Yun Dan perfectly demonstrated what it meant to court death. As soon as the words left her mouth, Xiao Yueqing’s expression darkened.

Yun Dan somewhat awkwardly patted her forehead. How could she forget that this was a moody great demon?

Asking such a stupid question – wasn’t that no different from being mentally disabled?

He wouldn’t want to strangle her, would he?

Thinking of this, she somewhat fearfully wanted to move aside, but discovered that the tree trunk was only so big – there was really nowhere to retreat, so she had to give up.

“No one wants to experience my past, including myself. If possible, who would want to have such a past? That suffocating feeling that makes you unable to breathe, yet you’re so oppressed that you can’t move, can only be forced to endure it all. Little Yun Duo, you wouldn’t want to know about that kind of past, because just hearing about it, you would experience that life-worse-than-death feeling.”

Although Xiao Yueqing didn’t speak very directly, Yun Dan could still hear something between the lines.

For example, his past wasn’t good, or rather it was extremely painful – life worse than death.

But she was really very curious about what this man had actually experienced.

The more Xiao Yueqing refused to tell her, the more this thought scratched at her heart like cat claws.