Chapter 62 (Chapter 62) Wrong Person

Five days later, Yan Chongyan and his fellow disciples finished clearing out the demons and returned to Huaguang Sect to report to their master. Xie Xiyue was also in the room, and the atmosphere between the two seemed somewhat tense.

After Xie Jingyan saw him come in, he told Xie Xiyue to leave.

Xie Xiyue stubbornly insisted, "I won't leave unless you agree!"

Xie Jingyan sighed helplessly and asked Yan Chongyan to report the situation.

Yan Chongyan cupped his hands and said, "We captured five demons in the vicinity this time and have killed them all."

"Okay." Xie Jingyan nodded approvingly and said to Xie Xiyue, "You should learn more from Senior Brother Yan and stop thinking about useless things."

Yan Chongyan looked at the two of them and asked curiously, "I wonder what brings you here, Junior Sister?"

Xie Xiyue pouted and said, "I want to go into the Demon Cave to find medicine for the princess, but my father doesn't agree."

"The Demon Cave is extremely dangerous, and many of our fellow disciples have already perished. With your cultivation level, it's far too much for you to handle," Xie Jingyan said firmly. "There's no room for discussion on this!"

He then called over Xie Xiyue's maids and asked them to take her back to the room, instructing them to keep a close eye on their young mistress.

Xie Xiyue struggled unwillingly for a while, then suddenly rolled her eyes and followed the maid out.

“Master, I have nothing to do right now, so I can enter the Ten Thousand Demon Cave and treat it as a form of cultivation,” Yan Chongyan said.

“No.” Xie Jingyan also rejected him. “The Demon Clan is eyeing us covetously. The sect cannot be left unattended. You’d better not do any missions during this time and stay behind at Huaguang Sect.”

Just as Yan Chongyan was about to say something, the communication talisman in his pocket lit up. He took it out and saw that it was the princess's talisman. He immediately asked Xie Jingyan for leave.

When he arrived at the princess's courtyard, it was lunchtime. Before he even entered the courtyard, he could smell a very fragrant grilled fish.

Zhizhi invited him inside. He saw Xiao Sui grilling fish over charcoal in the middle of the courtyard. He glanced at him and went into the house without stopping.

"What do you need me for?" he asked.

Ning Qi smiled and said, "I've missed you a few days now."

Yan Chongyan was stunned for a moment, clearly feeling his heart skip a beat.

Zhizhi's gaze swept over the two of them several times until Ningxi told her to leave, at which point she reluctantly closed the door for them.

Only the two of them remained in the room. Ning Qi stared at Yan Chongyan with a look of surprise on her face. "You don't actually believe it, do you? Haha."

She smiled and said, "I've asked you to come and act out a scene with me for a while."

"Ha, you really have a good plan." Yan Chongyan immediately put on a stern face and said sarcastically, "I don't have time to play house with you."

He stood up, but the door opened from the outside, and Xiao Sui came in carrying a plate, saying to Ning Xi, "Princess, the grilled fish is ready."

The irresistible savory aroma immediately filled the entire room.

"Just put it there," Ning Qi said.

Yan Chongyan stopped in his tracks and turned back, saying, "Princess, you are not feeling well right now. You should eat less meat and oily food, especially grilled fish."

Ning Xi had already picked up a skewer and put it to her mouth. Actually, she should have put it away, but she couldn't resist the aroma of grilled fish. She swallowed hard before saying, "What should I eat? Bring me some next time."

"No problem," Yan Chongyan readily agreed.

Ning Qi took a small bite of the grilled fish, which tasted as delicious as ever. She narrowed her eyes and said coldly to Xiao Sui, "This is not for you. You may leave."

Xiao Sui said nothing and never looked up, so she couldn't see his expression.

But the low mood he exuded indicated that he was in a bad mood.

Ning Qi felt a pang of anxiety, but she still tried to encourage herself.

That's right, that's how it was. He made Xiao Sui disappointed in her, disheartened by her, until he completely gave up on her, so that he could start his own life properly.

After a while, Zhizhi came to report that Xiao Sui had already gone to the Ten Thousand Demon Cave.

Ning Qi nodded and looked at Yan Chongyan, "Weren't you leaving? A whole cup of tea's time has passed, why aren't you leaving yet?"

"It's quite amusing to see Xiao Sui get his comeuppance," Yan Chongyan said with a smile, taking a sip of tea.

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Xiao Sui entered the Ten Thousand Demon Cave. The number of cultivators who used to gather around the teleportation array had decreased by more than half after the incident with the Bewitching Beast Incense.

He knew it was Xie Jingyan's order, but the method was not very clever. After Xie Jingyan discovered it, he quickly "returned" the bag to them, but they were unaware of it until they were besieged by the monsters.

The remaining small group of people seemed to be wary of him, and instead stopped making sarcastic remarks and kept their distance from him.

Regardless of their attitude, Xiao Sui intensified his search for the Five-Petaled Netherworld Flower.

For several days in a row, Yan Chongyan would go to see the princess and stay in the room for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn. Xiao Sui became more and more silent and spent more and more time in the Ten Thousand Demon Cave.

When he entered that day, he found the monks surrounding a young girl.

He wasn't interested in their changes and stepped directly onto the sword.

"Xiao Sui!" The girl stepped out from the crowd, rushed to him, and said familiarly, "I'll look for him with you!"

Xiao Sui frowned. "Who are you?"

"I'm Xie Xiyue? Xie Jingyan's daughter, don't you remember me?" Xie Xiyue asked in surprise.

Xiao Sui knew her, "Go back, this place is not suitable for you."

"Just like what my dad said," Xie Xiyue said, dissatisfied. "I finally managed to run away from home, I can do it!"

"If you want to prove your strength, you can go somewhere else." After saying this, Xiao Sui didn't want to say any more to her and stepped onto his sword.

"I'm not doing this to prove myself, I'm doing it for the princess!" Xie Xiyue shouted.

Xiao Sui stopped his swordplay, and when he turned around, his expression softened. "You and the princess have a good relationship?"

Xie Xiyue thought for a moment and said, "We had a good relationship when we were young, but it deteriorated later. It has only recently started to recover a bit, and I want to do something for her."

Xiao Sui took out the map from his pocket, which he had memorized perfectly, and pointed to three mountain streams with great precision. "Go and take a look here."

Xie Xiyue carefully memorized the directions, then turned around and called five cultivators to go with her. After all, these people were her father's subordinates, so it was only natural for them to protect her.

Xiao Sui had already flown into the air.

Xie Xiyue immediately took to the air and caught up with him, saying, "We're both heading north, so we can walk together for a while. Wait for me."

Xiao Sui did not slow down at all.

Xie Xiyue had no choice but to speed up and catch up. "Aren't you curious why I was so close to the princess when we were little?"

Xiao Sui pursed his lips and asked, "Why?"

"I knew you'd be curious." Xie Xiyue smiled smugly. "Because I used to be the princess's study companion, and we were inseparable. But actually, I looked down on her at first. She was inferior to me in every way—her health wasn't as good as mine, her talent wasn't as strong as mine. If it weren't for her status as a princess, she would be so ordinary that you wouldn't even notice her in a crowd."

"It's because your thinking is shallow," Xiao Sui commented bluntly.

"Yes, I admit it," Xie Xiyue said frankly. "Later, my desires gradually swelled up. I felt that why couldn't I be a princess? So during an autumn hunt, I stole Xiaoqi's clothes to wear. She didn't mind at all, and no one criticized me. Even the emperor praised me with a smile, which made me even more proud."

"But unfortunately, someone wanted to kidnap the princess, but because we were dressed similarly, they couldn't tell which one was the princess and kidnapped both of us."

Xiao Sui frowned, listening with some nervousness.

Xie Xiyue continued, "I was filled with regret at the time, and I was thinking about how to convince them that I wasn't a princess when Xiaoqi stood in front of me and told the kidnappers her identity, so they would release me."

"You should protect her," Xiao Sui said, dissatisfied.

"Yes, but I was young then and I only remember being scared," Xie Xiyue said. "Unfortunately, the kidnappers didn't believe us and insisted on taking us both with them. While they were resting, the princess used a stone to break the rope and escaped with me. But we were quickly discovered by them. The princess told me to hide in the bushes and not make a sound, while she went to distract them."

“At that time I knew that I would never be as good as a princess, and I would never become a princess. I thought I was excellent in every way, but I was just a cowardly and timid person.”

Xiao Sui nodded and asked anxiously, "Where is the princess?"

"The princess jumped into the lake to escape those people's pursuit, and was later rescued by Prince Jing who arrived in time. Fortunately, nothing serious happened, so you can rest assured."

Xiao Sui visibly breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's been so long, what's there to be nervous about?" Xie Xiyue teased him.

Then she said seriously, "But there is one thing. I suspect that the princess's deep affection for Yan Chongyan in previous years was due to being possessed by someone."

Xiao Sui turned his head in surprise.

"The princess was an excellent swimmer from a young age, able to jump into the river to escape the kidnappers' pursuit, but she couldn't swim when she was fourteen or fifteen years old. How is that possible?"

Xiao Sui immediately thought of Niannian. The princess said that she was Niannian, but he couldn't explain it clearly. If he combined it with what Xie Xiyue said, could it be that someone had taken over her body and her soul could only reside in the body of a cat?

"I specifically tested it on my birthday this year, and the princess actually knew how to swim again and was able to rescue me," Xie Xiyue said calmly. "I knew the princess had returned right then and there."

By this calculation, the time it took him to meet Nian Nian was roughly the same. Xiao Sui clenched his hands and increased his flying speed.

Xie Xiyue barely caught up with him. "I only told you this secret because you treat the princess well. However, your family background and social status are still quite different from mine... Hey, why are you running so fast!"

Xiao Sui left her far behind. He needed to finish today's work as soon as possible and go back to ask the princess if her deteriorating health was related to what Xie Xiyue had said about being possessed.

The moon hung high in the sky. He cleaned up his wounds and returned to Huaguang Sect. When he entered, he saw Yan Chongyan.

He still hadn't left at this hour.

"You're back?" The other person asked, acting as if they were the master of the house.

Xiao Sui walked right past him and entered the room, "Princess..."

His words abruptly stopped after he entered the inner room.

He saw the princess wearing a thin undergarment, lying on her side on a chaise lounge, her sleeves slipping down to her elbows, her cheeks slightly flushed, and her lips parted.

He then realized that the charcoal fire inside the house was burning brighter than usual, making it feel hot and stuffy.

Yan Chongyan had just left, and he didn't dare to think about what they were doing.

"Princess?" He softened his voice and approached her.

"You're back." Ning Qi mumbled, straightened up, reached out and grabbed his collar, pulling his upper body closer to her. "It's so hot in here, you should take off your clothes too."

Xiao Sui leaned down and smelled the faint scent of wine on the princess. "You've been drinking again."

"Hmm, a few drinks won't hurt." Ning Qi's arm wrapped around his neck, her slender neck pressed against his face.

He had only regained a little vision in his left eye, and could barely see colors. At that moment, he saw several glaring yet ambiguous red spots on the princess's fair neck.

How it was made is self-evident.

His blood was congealed in his veins, he felt a chill run through his body, and his head was buzzing.

He didn't even notice his clothes being stripped off until Ning Qi cupped his cheeks, kissed his lips, and made sticky, mushy sounds.

Xiao Sui held her tightly at the lower back, his stiff body growing hotter with her movements, and soon his penis was about to swell.

Ning Qi clearly noticed this, grabbed his hair, pulled them apart, and commanded from above, "Pleasure me."

Xiao Sui's lips went dry, but his spiritual energy still lingered on the princess's burning lips. Then his body slid down, his fingers rubbing the glaring red spots on Ning Qi's skin, and he lowered his head to kiss her more forcefully than usual.

Ning Qi raised her neck and gave a comfortable "hmm".

The teeth ground against her skin without causing any pain, but rather a tingling, electric-like sensation that made her curl her toes and feel a tingling, pleasurable sensation in the back of her head with each breath.

Xiao Sui's kissing skills seem to be getting better and better.

He was like a puppy nibbling at its favorite piece of meat, licking and teasing it everywhere, as if he wanted to keep it in his mouth but wouldn't bite it off. He wanted to make sure she was completely tainted with his scent before he would stop.

Ning Qi gripped his hair tighter and tighter, pulling it loose and pressing it against her body, her lips involuntarily parting wide.

She wanted to call his name, the syllables on the tip of her tongue, but the last vestiges of reason in her mind suddenly stopped her, bringing her back to her senses and reminding her not to forget her plan.

The tone of her voice changed as she called out the name, "Um... Chongyan..."

The person on top of him stopped all movement, looked up in shock, and the blush on his face vanished instantly.

Xiao Sui straightened up, his arm with bulging veins pressing down hard on the armrest above her head, pulling her completely into his embrace. "Princess, whose name were you calling just now?"

His chest heaved violently, like an alchemical furnace about to explode under high pressure.

Ning Qi leaned in and kissed the muscle right in front of her, biting and twisting it in her mouth, then pretended to be guilty and said, "I... called you the wrong name."

Xiao Sui ran his other hand through her hair, grasped the back of her neck, then lowered his head and bit her lip fiercely.

With his dark hair hanging down, Xiao Sui's broad shoulders completely blocked the candlelight, making everything in front of her dim. Only his aura remained around her. Ning Qi closed her eyes, and their breaths completely intertwined.

They had never kissed so long before. The moment she took a breath, his lips pressed against hers, fierce and relentless, as if he wanted to make her forget all other people's names.

Finally, Ning Qi, panting heavily, pulled him away and lay down on the chaise lounge, breathing heavily.

Xiao Sui, however, had no intention of letting her go. He moved his body down, and strands of his hair fell onto her legs.

Ning Qi tried to kick him, but couldn't move him. Instead, he grabbed her ankle.

Physiological tears welled up from the corners of his eyes, and Xiao Sui raised his head to lick the water stains from the corners of his lips.

Ning Qi shyly covered her eyes with her hands and turned her head away from him.

Xiao Sui helped her tidy up and carried her back to bed. "Princess, it was my fault. I shouldn't have continued."

He also mentioned that Ning Qi pulled the blanket over her head. She had indeed enjoyed herself, but her goal was to push him away; she couldn't say another word to him.

After a long while, a sigh came from behind, "You should get some rest."

Xiao Sui walked out of the house, and Zhizhi, always gossipy, came over and asked, "How are you and the princess?"

"It's alright," Xiao Sui replied briefly.

“But I always feel that the princess and Young Master Yan have been getting very close lately,” Zhizhi whispered. “It’s all because you go to the Demon Cave every day and don’t have time to be with the princess. Aren’t you giving Young Master Yan an opportunity? You have no official status to begin with. If the princess changes her mind and abandons you, you’ll have your day.”

Xiao Sui remained silent. Compared to winning the princess's heart, he would definitely choose to ensure her long life.

Even if the hope of finding the Five-Petaled Netherworld Flower is slim, he will never give up any chance to save the princess.

Even if the princess falls in love with someone else, he will still always wish her health and happiness.

After that day, Xiao Sui's belongings were gradually moved out of the princess's bedroom. Half a month later, the princess told him to go back to the backyard to rest, unless she needed to see him.

Xiao Sui spent almost all his time in the Demon Cave, only returning at night.

But every time he came back, he would see Yan Chongyan.

As the year drew to a close, the Huaguang Sect became lively. Xiao Sui heard from Zhizhi that the princess and Yan Chongyan were already discussing their wedding date.

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Author's note: Puppies are always loyal [poor thing]