25 You Are Pathetic

Returning back to her usual calm demeanor, Zhu Xiao Wan picked up her cup of green tea. "What do you want?"

Zhuang Yin was taken aback by her question, then he realized that the girl had been tricking him all this whole time! What ignorant little girl? Her unflustered behavior was completely unsuitable for a girl at her age. Damned that Zhu Xiao Qian, he probably already knew it when he chuckled before leaving!

He made a light cough and put on his habitual smile. "What do you think?" Zhuang Yin immediately regretted asking the question but it was too late to tack it back.

"Heir of Thousand Rain Sect was flirting with some girls when the husband of a woman came and saw that you were flirting with his woman. The husband chased you with his men when Big Brother helped you preventing your face from turning blue and purple." Without stopping for a breath, she exposed his shameful and tragic past. "You owe him a favour."

If his father heard this, Zhuang Yin doubted that his father would be so soft-hearted to let him live without being skinned. He heaved a sigh of relief that it was just the two of them here. "Since you already know, it saved me the trouble of explaining." Zhuang Yin stood up and said, "I'm going to find your brother to spar with."

Zhu Xiao Wan glanced at the young man leaving then turned her head to appreciate the green bamboo forest. She jumped faintly when she heard a voice coming from her back.

"Nice strokes."

She turned around and saw Song Hui Yao reading the paper she wrote. Zhu Xiao Wan went back to appreciate the bamboos again.

After reading, Song Hui Yao smiled and sneered, "Zhu Xiao Wan, I didn't expect you to be so pathetic." His eyes scintillated with contempt as he looked scornfully at the poem. Red-dyed robe, a content beam, and asleep in eternal tranquility. Song Hui Yao scoffed in his mind, 'Does she wishes to die?'

Zhu Xiao Wan stilled then she snorted with self-mocking laughter. "You're right, I'm quite pathetic, aren't I?"

He stared at her for a while before sitting down on a stone stool opposite her. Pouring himself a cup of tea, he took the paper she wrote the poem on. Tearing it apart into pieces before he burned it to ashes with a strange black flame. Zhu Xiao Wan was facing the bamboo forest hence she didn't see the flame.

"Your parents used their life to protect you, don't kill yourself."

Hearing his words, Zhu Xiao Wan really wanted to laugh. Why did it sound like she would kill herself? She was Zhu Xiao Wan now; the person she wrote in the poem was not her but Huang Xun Wan. 'I will not kill myself.'

She turned to face him. "Why do so when I greed for immortality."

Song Hui Yao's eyes flickered and flashed an unfathomable glint that seemed like pain. It quickly disappeared and he smiled, "We share the same greedy goal then."

Zhu Xiao Wan looked at him silently, she was bemused. Did pain just appear in his eyes? It was better for her not to probe.

He drank his cold tea and said, "The Earthy Faerie Temple is currently having conflicts with the Viridescent Contour Palace and the Clime Quintessence Shrine."

Her brows rose slightly, she could cooperate with one of those two groups. While she was pondering if they(Zhu siblings) should be allies with them, a cold voice ran into her ears. "If you're thinking of collaborating with those two groups, Young Miss Zhu, I suggest you not."

'...I am very thankful for the reminder.' Zhu Xiao Wan flattened her lips that was moistened by the tea.

The wind swept pass the forest and the pavilion, lifting their hair into the air slightly. Strands of Song Hui Yao's jet black hair stroked his handsome face. "Your fourteenth birth is next month?"

Zhu Xiao Wan nodded. She would finally be able to cultivate.

Song Hui Yao smiled as he tapped his fingers on the cool stone table. "I'll guide you the Countenance Altering after your contractual spirit awakened."