44 Chapter 43

In those deep and serene pitch-black eyes, it reflected the candlelight between me and him, but behind that candlelight was the image of Zhi Yan's body.

He gazed intently at me, but after the initial surprise, his eyelids lowered to obscure his emotions besides his bewilderment. When he lifted his eyes again, it was like there was a thick layer of mist in his eyes, concealing all of his feelings.

Mo Qing raised his hand and held my wrist.

I raised an eyebrow, oh, youngster, this move of yours was very tantalizing. As long as you pulled me forward, I would definitely fall upon the table unguarded. When that moment comes, would you then repeat my actions, grasp my chin and take liberties with me? After that, would you reveal your feelings to me and honestly confess your plan to me…

I was thinking about these things, but in the end, Mo Qing was still Mo Qing, what he thought and what he took into consideration were indeed not the same as mine.

He just gently removed my hand and elegantly glanced at me: "Disobedient disciple."

Disobedient… Disobedient disciple?

Ah… That was right, if the topic of identities was discussed right now, I was his disciple. So for me to take the position of grasping his chin and forcing a kiss on him was extremely immoral. But…

He stood up, turned his head slightly, and stepped deeper into the room to scrutinize Liu He Tian Yi Sword, while he pretended to absentmindedly asked: "How is your wound?"

Beside me, Zhi Yan muttered brokenly: "Great Demon King, it looks like he's running away and wants to change the subject somewhat. Continue to ask him again because I'm very curious. After all, did he know that you kissed him just now?"

[Are you watching a play? As if I did not know that he was changing the topic, did I need you to foolishly remind me?]

Behind Mo Qing's back, I took the opportunity to roll my eyes at Zhi Yan in disgust, then immediately walked over towards his back and carelessly dealt with his question: "The sword wound was a bit deep, so it won't heal as fast." Then I stood beside Mo Qing and gazed at him with intensity: "So Master, did you feel anything unusual just now?"

Mo Qing looked at the window that was just broken by the big black bird, and his expression became grave that carried a bit of solemness. This was his usual appearance when meeting with other people, so he probably started to want to flee. But he just dignifiedly replied to me with these four words: "Nothing unusual was felt."

"You felt nothing at all?"

"Nothing." When he finished looking at the sword and the sky outside, he currently began to look at the objects on the long table along the wall.

I simply stood in between him and the wall, our distance was so close that his gaze could only fall upon my body: "But just now Master, when you drank tea, your mouth moved very subtly."

Mo Qing's body froze and he turned his gaze away, but in the end he still met my eyes. This time he did not avoid me and opened his mouth to say: "Aren't you very observant?"

My eyeballs circled about, I thought that if today, I could not probe anything out from Mo Qing's end, then I also could not let him probe anything out from my end. Just when I was thinking about some nonsensical words to say, Mo Qing suddenly narrowed his eyes and asked again: "Whether Lu Zhao Yao had kissed me or not, is it that important?"

He moved his toes slightly forward.

I suddenly felt a little bit oppressed. Therefore, I retreated a little, but it was me that had delivered myself between him and the wall just a moment ago. So as soon as I retreated, my heel collided with the wall. It was impossible to retreat further.

Mo Qing continued to ask: "Whether I felt it or not, is it that important?"

I shook my head: "Actually, it's not that important at all."

He lifted his hand and imitated my movements from earlier to grasp my chin. His eyes carried some degree of danger; but also within its depths, it hid a sense of peculiar attractiveness: "So your movements just now, was to act in the name of Lu Zhao Yao to take liberties with your master?"

No… Right now, I felt like it was you, Master, who was taking liberties with me.

I really wanted to resist, but I completely did not expect that the distance between Mo Qing and I would be super close. Under a situation with such an ambiguous atmosphere like this, I actually… Did not have the strength to resist.

With his hand, he exerted a little bit of force to slightly raise my chin up. The distance was so close that I could hear his heart beating violently and the faint smile in his words: "Breach of societal norms."

"Ba-dum…" These four words of his were accompanied by the sounds of his violently beating heart, as it got closer and closer to my breath. Suddenly in that moment!

"Aaaaahhhhh! For me, you guys have to stop before going too far!"

Beside me, a jarring scream suddenly tore into my eardrums, shortly thereafter, within a blink of the eye, I was suddenly knocked out of Zhi Yan's body. When I turned back around, I saw Zhi Yan regain her body and with both hands on Mo Qing's shoulders, she ruthlessly pushed him away.

Mo Qing retreated a step, steadied his body, and all of the earlier mixed emotions in his eyes faded away. He was as chilly and elegant as before. Without uttering a word, he looked at Zhi Yan, who burrowed into her quilt and wrapped herself up like a tube.

Zhi Yan lay there trembling for a very long time. She was so nervous like she was being executed at the guillotine: "Mas-, Mas-, Mas-… It's late, you, you, you…"

"Li Chen Lan!"

Compared to Zhi Yan's words of dismissal, another person's words were a little more straightforward. It was the super tiny Gu Han Guang, who angrily stormed into the room. He absolutely did even notice where Zhi Yan was in the room and immediately questioned Mo Qing: "Shen Qian Jin… Why did you lock her up at my place?!"

Earlier Mo Qing had already stabilized his emotions, so when he saw Gu Han Guang, he simply replied indifferently: "She can be locked up elsewhere, but her safety won't be guaranteed."

So the implication here was that Shen Qian JIn being held prisoner at Gu Han Guang's place was the safest choice in the entire Wan Lu Sect.

He did know about the past relationship between Shen Qian Jin and Gu Han Guang.

Come to think of it, Mo Qing could basically be considered as an elder from when I first established Wan Lu Sect. At that time, if he was not so young, had an ugly appearance, and did not have any talent, then he would have been able to obtain a bright position, even if he had not killed me.

In those years when I established Wan Lu Sect, even before the complete recruitment of the four mountain lords, Mo Qing should have been very clear about these matters. In addition, there was that junior brother, Sima Rong. As the West Mountain Lord, his information was probably not inferior to any of the subordinates under him.

Gu Han Guang clenched his teeth and restrained himself: "She can't be at my place."

"Why?"

"I'm afraid that she…" Originally, Gu Han Guang desired to directly refute Mo Qing's words, but when he raised his head to look at Mo Qing, he saw the disparity between himself and Mo Qing. The usual arrogant expression in his eyes immediately vanished in an instant, "Ah… That's right." He smiled coldly, "Even if I exhausted all means, with the current me, I'll probably not make her love poison recur again."

Mo Qing did not respond to him. He only listened to Gu Han Guang coldly hacking away a few times. His body was obviously a child's body, but in this moment, it appeared to be suffering the vicissitudes of an old man.

He turned around to leave, but when he got to the door, he ended up saying: "I heard that there's someone looking for you at Wu E Palace. You spend your whole day not taking care of business and just prefer to accompany a little lass to go create chaos." Gu Han Guang leered at Mo Qing, "Aren't you afraid that Lu Zhao Yao will come back to find you and collect her debt?"

When Mo Qing heard this, he laughed softly, but did not say anything else to Gu Han Guang. Mo Qing turned his head to glance at Zhi Yan who was still retreating while wrapped up in her quilt. Then with the use of the Instant Travel Technique, he left the room.

I stood by the door, looking at the distant Wu E Palance. When Zhi Yan's soul finally came out, she left her body still wrapped up in the quilt and came to my side. Together, she and I stared off into the distance: "He left?"

I turned my head and squinted at her: "Just a moment ago, you recklessly knocked me out of your body, what for?"

"If I didn't knock you out, then you two would've already kissed! Besides, you're using my body to do it!"

I narrowed my eyes and scrutinized Zhi Yan from top to bottom: "What do you know, I was testing him."

"Testing what?"

"Testing to see who Li Chen Lan likes after all."

"What do you mean who he likes…" Finally, she managed to respond, "Are you trying to see whether Li Chen Lan likes my body or the you that's in my body?"

I crossed my arms, stood leaning against the door, and gave Zhi Yan an analysis using her level of intellect: "First, I asked him whether he felt Lu Zhao Yao had kissed him or not. If there's no guilt in his heart, then if he did feel it, he would say yes, if he didn't feel it, he would say no, but he chose to evade. Also, he didn't ask where Lu Zhao Yao was, or even asked why Lu Zhao Yao kissed him. He was evading, evidently it's because his heart is agitated…"

Zhi Yan's mouth twitched and she immediately interrupted my words: "This still needs to be tested? A blind person can see that he likes you!"

She said these words so naturally, I got distracted: "When did you become blind that you could see it?"

"This body of mine is just a shell. When I'm inside, I am me, but when you're inside, you are you. Regardless of which path the cultivator takes, isn't it already theorized in the beginning that the body is just a shelter where the soul resides. Who would go love the shelter where the soul resides, hmm."

I was amazed; I did not expect that one day Zhi Yan would say something that could convince me like this. Therefore, I asked her: "So then, just a moment ago, why didn't you let Mo Qing touch your shelter?"

Zhi Yan was silent: "That's different! Anyways… From early on, I had already told you that Li Demon likes you. It's just that you didn't believe it… That's not quite right, in fact, I think your heart must already understand it thoroughly, but you're just unwilling to believe it, that's it."

I became taciturn.

"Great Demon King, you protect yourself very well, so you absolutely refuse to have any unnecessary delusions with other people. Because if you don't have any expectations, then other people won't get the opportunity to hurt you."

I looked at her: "How do you know?"

"I know because we've been together for so many days. To be precise, you're a boastful young lady. For me, I feel like I have already regarded a lot of things as unimportant, but these things became that way only after I experienced hardship and pain. As for you, at first glance you're more like a person who doesn't care about anything, indifferent to everything, and can face everything calmly. The distance that I'm inferior to you is by several times. So in other words, the suffering that I received is inferior to yours by several times." Zhi Yan turned to look at me, "You are a great demon king that makes other people feel distress on your behalf."

I stared at her and was silent for a while: "If you feel distress, then feel distress for yourself first." Then I said,

"I'm planning to put the purchase of the Resurrection Pill back on schedule. Tomorrow, you will drag that wounded body of yours to the foot of the mountain to find people to burn ghost money for me. I'm someone who has gone through a lot of suffering, so starting tomorrow, the heavy responsibility of saving me will be given to you." I patted Zhi Yan's shoulder, "I'm going to bask in the moonlight first, while you stay here to think about a plan of how to recruit people to burn ghost money."

I leisurely glided out of the room, while behind my back, I could only hear Zhi Yan cursing without restraint that I was a big scoundrel.

I drifted to the rooftop and folded my arms behind my head to look at the moon. As I was looking, I was pondering.

Right now, I knew about the matter that Ugly Little Monster had already distinguished me from Zhi Yan. I also knew about the matter that he likes me, too. He concealed these matters because he was afraid that after I had found out that he saw through me, I would not use Zhi Yan's body to have fun with him anymore…

For a moment, I suddenly got a little curious. When did this Ugly Little Monster ended up liking me…

Was it the same as mine, it started from that phrase "I'll take you away," and the scales of the heart then just shifted?

If that was the case, then could it be that his time of liking me was slightly longer…

Translated by Sonrisa t.n.t