Chapter 136: Living off the fat of the earth

As soon as Xie Yanyu opened his eyes, he saw Xie Chengjin's face.

Very close.

And his hand gently pinched her chin.

This is an overly intimate gesture.

Xie Yanyu was stunned for a moment, then tilted her head back. This kind of intimate gesture would be understandable for anyone, whether it was Helan Wei, Li Xun, or even Chen Lang, but for Xie Chengjin to do it, it was very unusual.

But although he pinched her chin, he didn't use much force.

She tilted her head back, and his hands loosened.

He rubbed it lightly with his fingertips.

He didn't touch her again, but withdrew his hand naturally.

He sat opposite her, looking at her with his eyelashes lowered.

His face was still expressionless and calm, as if he had not done anything inappropriate just now.

Xie Yanyu had no idea what he was here for.

She glanced at him too.

In fact, it had not been long since they last met. She even saw him on video a few days ago.

His appearance hadn't changed, but she always felt that he was a little different today.

But I can’t tell what’s different.

Is it the eyes?

look?

Xie Yanyu paused, then looked directly into his eyes again.

But the moment their eyes met, the man looked away.

He remained silent as usual, and the temperature around him seemed to drop as he sat there.

Xie Yanyu: "..."

After waiting for him to speak for a long time, I took the initiative to ask, "Brother, why are you here?"

Xie Chengjin said, "Today you and Li Xun are getting engaged."

This sounds weird.

If he came here because she was getting engaged today and he had to attend the ceremony, then he shouldn't be here.

Xie Yanyu didn't quite understand what he meant by this.

She frowned and was about to speak again.

But the next second, I heard him say, "If I tell him, he will break off the engagement. Will you still continue to be engaged to him?"

His tone was very calm.

He seemed to be asking her seriously.

Xie Yanyu didn't know why he said that; it was strange. She felt like he knew something. He couldn't possibly be reborn like Helan Wei and her. But looking at his expression, she couldn't tell anything.

However, in the original plot, his and her interactions were not that deep.

So she didn't really care whether he was reborn or not.

So she didn't think about it any further and answered his question out loud: "Yeah, definitely."

The atmosphere in the room grew cold again.

Xie Yanyu glanced at him and could feel that he was not in a good mood after hearing her answer.

She was too lazy to pay attention to him. Calculating the time, she saw that the ceremony was about to begin. She turned her gaze back to herself and straightened the wrinkles on her clothes.

But the next second.

Then I heard him laugh faintly.

It was normal for others to laugh, but Xie Chengjin's laughter was very abnormal. Xie Yanyu paused slightly and turned to look at him again. He tilted his head and said in a light tone: "I don't agree."

Xie Yanyu: "..."

Xie Yanyu also laughed.

People really do laugh when they feel ridiculous.

She wanted to say, "What does it have to do with me whether you agree or not? You've already given me the horoscope, so your opinion doesn't matter at all."

But before she could say anything.

She suddenly found that she couldn't move her body——

Xie Chengjin immobilized her.

He leaned over, feeling quite oppressive, and when he got close, his dark eyes met hers.

He noticed her eyes had turned harsh, and when he saw her open her mouth as if to speak, he placed his slender knuckles against her lips, silencing her. "You're going to say those words again, aren't you?"

What are you talking about?

Say those aggressive words.

She asked him why he didn't let her get engaged, and what other reasons he would come up with to stop her from getting engaged, and linked the matter back to the bad fortune stick. She implicitly forced him to admit that he had other thoughts, and that this matter was not fair.

Several times.

She herself found that talking to him in this way was very effective and it worked every time.

Every time she spoke like this, what he was about to say next would be blocked, as if she was trying to cover up her mistake.

"It's no use talking to me now."

Xie Chengjin dispelled her idea.

Xie Yanyu did want to say those words before.

But he was extremely abnormal today, not even as twisted as before. She was a little surprised and opened her mouth, but the words got stuck in her throat. Before she could think of what to say, she saw him leaning down.

Xie Chengjin doesn't like incense, and there is a very faint smell of soapberry on his clothes, which can only be smelled when you get very close.

At this time, his chest was close to her, and his arms passed through her legs and waist.

Xie Yanyu could feel his strong muscles through his clothes. He could no longer bear it. His body was unable to move, and his words became fierce: "Are you sick? What are you doing?"

This was the first time she spoke like this in front of Xie Chengjin.

The next second,

She felt the man pick her up. He didn't criticize her for saying this inappropriately. His cold and rigid voice fell: "Go home."

*

According to the rules.

Before the engagement ceremony began, Li Xun was outside to welcome the guests.

He could only see Xie Yanyu again after the ceremony began and the attendants brought her over. Then the two of them began the engagement ceremony and made a contract.

Li Xun himself doesn't like to receive guests.

He has little patience and doesn't like to fake smile with others. He even wants to kick the dogs on the street. He feels annoyed when looking at this group of people.

But it was a special day after all, so he still patiently went out to listen to the guests' nonsense. The elders of the Tianjian Sect also pulled him aside to talk, and he became more and more annoyed the more he listened.

When the ceremony began, he saw the attendants go to pick up Xie Yanyu.

Perhaps he felt that the chattering of this group of people was annoying and he didn't want to stay there, so he called out to the attendant: "Wait a minute."

The attendant turned around and asked: "Sword Master, do you have any other instructions?"

He said cautiously, "I still have to go and fetch my wife, so it would be bad to delay the auspicious time."

He changed his tune pretty quickly.

Just to get engaged, the wife has already been invited.

Li Xun raised his eyes and said, "I'll pick it up myself."

As soon as these words fell.

The people around also heard it and said hesitantly: "This is against the rules..."

Li Xun was impatient: "I don't follow any rules."

He was too lazy to deal with this group of people, so he left his attendants behind and went back to find Xie Yanyu.

The place where the ceremony was held was not far from her.

It wasn't long before he arrived. Calculating the time, he found that there was still some time before the auspicious hour. He deliberately slowed down his pace, and the expression on his face was much better than when he was welcoming the guests just now.

He looked like he was going to kill someone just now, but now he seems to be in a good mood and brighter.

But when he reached the door of the room at the right time,

As soon as he opened the door, the expression on his face suddenly became gloomy——

Xie Chengjin held Qingqing in his arms, not knowing where to take her.

*

Li Xun's reputation was originally bad.

Unruly, cruel, moody, these words are like labels, branded on him, so that everyone will subconsciously think of these words when they hear this name, but Xie Yanyu has no real feeling about this.

Until this time.

She saw him fighting with Xie Chengjin.

Like a ferocious beast that had been stepped on, she had never seen Li Xun like this before. He was almost the same as the rumors in the outside world. When fighting with Xie Chengjin, one wanted to take her away, and the other did not let her be taken away. Both of them almost beat each other to death, but Xie Chengjin did not hold back.

Xie Yanyu was put aside. She was stunned by the sudden change.

Then after thinking for a moment, she began to try to break the immobilization spell on her body.

Because she had already reached the Golden Elixir stage, it was no longer difficult for her to break through the spell cast by Xie Chengjin.

But after a moment, she was able to move.

Then I looked forward again——

The two men are done fighting.

In fact, Xie Chengjin's cultivation is higher than Li Xun's.

But Li Xun had originally crawled out of a pile of corpses. He had many enemies in the past, and many of them wanted to kill him, including some who had higher cultivation than him, but those people were eventually killed by Li Xun. When he fought with others, he relied on a fear of death attitude. Even if he died, he would drag the other party down with him, and he would be willing to injure a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred of his own lives.

therefore.

Soon, the two men knocked each other down.

It's not a winner, it's a lose-lose situation.

The moment he fell, Li Xun slashed with sword energy, leaving a deep bloody wound on Xie Chengjin's body. In an instant, blood gushed out, making Xie Chengjin look even more embarrassed.

Xie Yanyu: "..."

I really didn't expect that by the time she broke through the immobilization spell, these two people had already become like this.

She was stunned.

Then she saw Li Xun looking at her.

There was a thin bloodstain on the man's face, and he wiped the blood from the corner of his lips.

Even though he was clearly injured like this, he still spoke as if nothing had happened: "Come and help me up, I'm getting engaged, I'm leaving."

As soon as these words fell.

Xie Yanyu didn't react yet.

Xie Chengjin on the other side spoke first: "You are not allowed to go."

The tone is tough, but if you listen carefully, there is a sense of bravado.

She seemed unsure, because he knew that now that both of them were injured and neither could get up, and she had broken the spell, she would most likely go to Li Xun's aid, perhaps even give him spiritual energy to help him heal his wounds and continue the engagement ceremony. Even if he told her that the engagement would be broken off, she would still insist on this marriage, as if she had been drugged by Li Xun.

"You say no, so what?" Li Xun coughed up a mouthful of blood and sneered. He was covered in wounds and looked arrogant. "I call you brother-in-law because I'm giving you face. You're just a stepbrother. Don't be too controlling. She was the one who proposed this marriage. She asked me for the marriage and gave me the engagement jade pendant. She said she would buy me rare treasures and land after we got married. Do you think she'll change her mind just because of your words?"

This...

The system in Xie Yanyu's mind felt that the taste of this was too strong.

Why do I feel like showing off?

No one asked him, but he insisted on talking so much.

Even when he asked for land, houses and shops and wrote a long list of gifts, Xie Yanyu didn't agree at all. The only jade pendant she had given him before was bought for her by Xie Chengjin. She absorbed all the spiritual power in it and threw it to Li Xun.

But after hearing this, there was a feeling that he was very favored, as if Xie Yanyu was completely bewitched by him and was particularly willing to live off him.

The system wants to say something, but stops itself, then stops again.

In the end, it remained silent, turned its camera away, and looked at Xie Chengjin.

Then I saw Xie Chengjin's face looked extremely ugly.

His face looked ugly to begin with, and after hearing what Li Xun said, he was probably affected by the residual poison. The wounds on his body were bleeding, and he started to spit blood from his mouth.

System: [……] Forget it.

The system switched perspective again to look at Xie Yanyu.

At this time, Xie Yanyu looked left and right.

Although she thought Li Xun was talking nonsense, she didn't refute him in the end. She wanted to get engaged, so it was impossible for her to follow Xie Chengjin.

So she looked at Li Xun again.

Just as he was about to go over to help him, the next second, he felt the Heart Demon Mirror in his sleeve move.

It sensed the scent of the blood of the person it favored, and fluttered in her sleeve, trying to rush out of the sleeve and pounce on the person it had chosen.

Xie Yanyu paused.

Then he looked in that direction.

Li Xun was waiting for Xie Yanyu to come and help him.

Seeing her take a step forward, he curled his lips and prepared to reach out his hand.

But the next second.

He saw her walking towards Xie Chengjin.