Chapter 29: Is being slapped by her something to brag about? (……

Helan Wei was a little surprised that Xie Chengjin would call him, but he still stopped and greeted him with a gentle smile: "Brother Xie."

He asked casually, "Why did you suddenly call me?"

Xie Chengjin's gaze paused for a moment on Helan Wei's face, then shifted back to the woman in his arms: "Who is this person that Brother Helan brought back?"

Xie Chengjin's voice was flat and emotionless, just like usual.

But Helan Wei felt that something was wrong with him.

He noticed that Xie Chengjin's eyes were always on Xie Yanyu, and the strange feeling in his heart became even stronger, so he tightened his arms around Xie Yanyu, holding her tighter, as if declaring his sovereignty.

Then he smiled and spoke, not answering but asking, "Why are you so concerned about this today? I remember you never meddling in other people's business."

Xie Chengjin said indifferently, "We came to the Resentful Mansion on a mission. The Resentful Ghost is cunning and changeable, so it's best to be cautious. The servants we brought with us on this trip are all trustworthy, but this girl's origins are unknown."

Helan Wei smiled lightly and said, "It's okay. I'm familiar with her. She's not from a mysterious background."

As soon as these words fell,

Xie Chengjin suddenly remembered that Helan Wei had said something similar a few nights ago.

He said that he and Xie Yanyu often stayed together, and his tone was familiar and intimate when he said this.

Xie Chengjin almost immediately felt a sense of inexplicable annoyance. His eyes fell on the back of the woman's neck in Helan Wei's arms. Looking at the dazzling paleness, he finally couldn't bear it anymore and no longer tried to control this emotion.

He put down his pen, stood up and walked in front of Helan Wei: "Is your origin unknown?"

His tone was calm, but the pressure was strong, as if he was going to get to the bottom of the matter. Even his eyes were still on Xie Yanyu.

This is not like his usual behavior at all.

Helan Wei looked at him, feeling a little annoyed, with vicious thoughts in his heart. For a moment, he wanted to dig out Xie Chengjin's eyes and tell him to stop staring at Xie Yanyu. However, this thought only flashed through his mind and he quickly restrained it. After all, they were from the same aristocratic family and the two families had a close relationship. If they quarreled, neither of them would look good.

His smile faded: "Xie, brother, don't you believe it?"

Xie Chengjin was businesslike and cold: "This is a serious matter. Even a resentful ghost can transform into a woman. I have to take a look."

As he spoke, he gathered spiritual power in his hands and tried to twist Xie Yanyu's face over through the air.

That's when

Helan Wei directly blocked this spiritual power.

At this time, he was holding Xie Yanyu horizontally, with one hand on her neck, pressing the back of her head, and the other hand on her knee. It was not very convenient for him to move, so he could not make any moves to resist Xie Chengjin's moves. He just raised the hand that was pressing the back of her head slightly to block it, and Xie Chengjin's spiritual power fell on the back of his hand.

The back of his hand was scratched with a bloody mark, but he remained calm and said lightly: "Thank you for your forgiveness, brother. I can't look at it."

Xie Chengjin stared at him expressionlessly.

Helan Wei Ze placed his palm on the back of Xie Yanyu's head.

Blood from the wound slowly flowed down, wetting Xie Yanyu's black hair and the pale skin on his neck. It felt warm, as if some warm mollusk was slowly crawling along his neck. It was a bit itchy, so much so that Xie Yanyu couldn't help but shiver.

Helan Wei lowered his eyes to look at her, then moved his palm downwards to wipe away the bloodstains on her neck.

I felt her body shaking more violently because of the itch.

He curled his lips and looked up at Xie Chengjin again: "She is shy and doesn't like strangers to see her face. If you see her, she will go back and get angry with me. But don't worry, Brother Xie, I have a close relationship with her and am very familiar with her aura. I can confirm that she is not a resentful ghost."

How close do we have to be to become familiar with each other’s scent?

Xie Chengjin's eyes grew colder, and the suspicion in his heart did not subside, but intensified.

This suspicion was mixed with anger, but before his emotion could continue to ferment, he saw Helan Wei turn his face to the side.

Helan Wei turned his face to the side and could see some bruises at the corner of his jaw, which looked vaguely like a finger mark. Such a fingerprint on the face meant that he had just been slapped. However, his face was not swollen, and the slap mark had mostly disappeared, leaving only this small finger mark, so it was not very obvious and could only be seen when he turned his face to the side.

Xie Chengjin didn't expect him to suddenly show him the slap mark, and was stunned for a moment.

He paused, without saying anything, but looked at Helan Wei coldly, silently asking him what he meant.

Helan Wei smiled slowly: "She just hit me. It's my fault for not bringing her here--"

He paused and finished the sentence: "She can't leave me."

I don't know if it's an illusion,

Xie Chengjin heard a hint of boasting in his tone.

He felt something was a little strange, but he didn't pay much attention to it. Instead, his suspicions subsided a little at this moment.

Although Xie Yanyu was not as obedient as he seemed, he was not brave enough to slap Helan Wei in the face.

What's more, he had just sent someone to send Xie Yanyu away in the morning. In fact, she shouldn't be here. Helan Wei didn't go out to look for her just now.

Xie Chengjin's eyelashes moved, but his face remained calm and cold as usual, but his attention finally shifted away from Xie Yanyu.

He bowed slightly to Helan Wei and said, "Sorry, I was overthinking it."

"No problem," Helan Wei looked at him and responded nonchalantly. Even though he had let the matter go, his attitude seemed a little disrespectful.

He did have a strange feeling of contempt in his heart—

He showed the slap mark on his face to dispel Xie Chengjin's suspicion.

But seeing Xie Chengjin's doubts were put to rest, he felt that he was superior to Xie Chengjin.

Xie Chengjin claimed to be Xie Yanyu's brother, but he didn't know her well enough. If he knew her well enough, he would have known that she was so bold as to dare to slap him. It was precisely because he didn't know her well enough that he dispelled his suspicions when he saw the slap mark.

When he was slapped several times, Helan Wei was furious.

But at this time,

He also had a secret sense of pride.

He was the only one who understood Xie Yanyu and had seen her true face beneath her gentle exterior. In comparison, as her stepbrother, Xie Chengjin was not close to her, so what was the use of having this legitimate identity?

He looked into Xie Chengjin's eyes and slowly smiled gently.

Then, under Xie Chengjin's eyes, he hugged Xie Yanyu tighter and asked, "Brother Xie, is there anything else? If not, I will take her back first."

This time,

Xie Chengjin saw a subtle sense of superiority in Helan Wei's eyes.

Just like the subtle boasting in his tone just now, Xie Chengjin was a little confused. How could a person like Helan Wei not be angry after being slapped? The laziness and satisfaction in his eyes could not be hidden, as if being slapped was something worth bragging about.

Perhaps this is the fun between Helan Wei and this girl,

Xie Chengjin didn't understand this, nor did he want to. He didn't like to meddle in other people's affairs. Now that he knew that the person in Helan Wei's arms was not Xie Yanyu, he didn't want to speculate on Helan Wei's strangeness. He lowered his eyes and said calmly, "It's okay. Brother Helan, please do as you please."

He did not stop Helan Wei, but returned to the pavilion, picked up his pen and continued to draw the map.

Helan Wei carried the girl away without even glancing at her, looking indifferent.

The previous vigilance against Helan Wei,

It was nothing more than the seemingly inseparable relationship between Xie Yanyu and Helan Wei.

He didn't want anything to develop between them, and now that Helan Wei acted like this, that sense of vigilance and crisis was immediately realized.

There's nothing to worry about.

He gave Xie Yanyu wealth and glory, but she still followed him in disguise, thinking that she really had feelings for Helan Wei—

She still has some backbone. If she knew that Helan Wei was so intimate with another woman and even let that girl slap his face, would she still cling to him?

*

Xie Yanyu was carried back to his residence by Helan Wei.

It's not quite accurate to say that he was hugging her. Helan Wei's arms were holding her waist, and Xie Yanyu felt like she couldn't breathe for a while. She struggled a few times, but Helan Wei held her waist even tighter.

He put her down without saying a word until they were in the yard.

Then he opened a room in the corner of the yard and said to her, "You live here."

This is the most remote room in the yard.

Xie Yanyu glanced at it and didn't speak immediately.

Helan Wei didn't seem to want to say more to her. Seeing that she was quiet, he nodded slightly to her, then turned around and was about to leave, as if he didn't care about her at all, as if the person who had just held her waist and almost crushed her bones was not him.

But just after taking two steps,

He felt Xie Yanyu catching up with him and grabbing his sleeve.

He paused slightly, turned around, and asked calmly, "What's wrong?"

Xie Yanyu said, "Sir, can I change rooms?"

"Do you think this room is not a good environment?"

"no."

"Then why change?"

Xie Yanyu didn't have any requirements for her living environment. She had lived in poor conditions before and had lived in all kinds of places, including haunted houses and leaky temples. She got used to them over time. What's more, the environment of this side house was good, so she had nothing to complain about.

However, although the environment of this side house is not bad, the guest house where they live is very large, and this house is far away from Helan Wei's bedroom.

She came along this time to follow the plot, and of course the closer she was to Helan Wei, the better.

She thought about this and replied softly, "This room is too far from you, so I want to change to one closer to you so that I can serve you better."

It's the truth, so it sounds sincere.

Helan Wei looked at her, but could not find any sign that she was lying. His originally cold attitude softened a little.

But then, I don't know what he thought of, he simply pulled the sleeve out of her hand.

Xie Yanyu caught the opportunity and raised her eyes, only to see that his demeanor, which had just become gentle and casual, had turned cold again.

She paused, not knowing why he was so hot and cold, changing his expression faster than turning the pages of a book.

The next second,

Then he heard Helan Wei say again: "But I don't want to live too close to you."

Xie Yanyu was speechless for a moment.

Seeing that she didn't say anything, Helan Wei lightly brushed his sleeves and turned away again.

This time, Xie Yanyu did not chase after him and hold him back.

She was a little confused about his thoughts, so she stood there looking at his back, trying to figure out his thoughts.

However, before he could figure out what was going on, he saw Helan Wei stop again.

Without looking back, he said calmly, "You said you like me and want to serve me. If you are sincere, distance should not be a problem."

He didn't believe what she said, so he had to test her, torture her, and test her.

He couldn't think of any benefit for her to be close to him when she had no official status, but if her affection was fake, it would eventually fail. It wasn't that he couldn't give her a chance. If she could prove that her affection was genuine and that she had no ulterior motives in being close to him, he would naturally allow her to be close to him over time.

But if it is indeed false,

He would really cut off her tongue, chop off her hands and feet, lock her up, and make her regret why she had the audacity to lie to him.

*

Xie Yanyu watched him walk away, still pondering his words in his heart.

She didn't like analyzing other people's thoughts, especially since Helan Wei hadn't been acting normally recently. Although she knew that he felt a little unbalanced towards her, it was difficult for her to accurately guess his intentions at the moment.

He didn't want to be too close to her.

Or does he want her to come up to him again and again to prove that she wants to serve him?

She vaguely sensed that he might be waiting for her to post it to prove it.

But he was so fickle that she was worried she might misunderstand him. After thinking for a long time, she returned to her room and took out the Tianjian Sect's jade token from her sleeve.

She didn't want this trip to be in vain.

So she will continue to try to get close to Helan Wei and push the plot line with him in the next few days.

But this is not her only choice now.

If he really doesn't want her to get close to him these past few days, and the plot can't advance in the short term...

Then she would put his plot line aside for the time being and push forward her fiancé's plot line.

Now the jade token of Tianjian Sect has been obtained,

Just drop a little blood on the jade token to awaken the spiritual power in it, and the people of Tianjian Sect should be able to sense the location of the jade token.

If someone from the Tianjian Sect came looking for her, she should be able to meet her fiancé, the sect leader, soon.

She thought about it and felt that she should make preparations for both scenarios.

So she cut her fingertips and dripped a drop of blood on the jade token of the Tianjian Sect.

Then,

The jade token absorbed her blood and slowly lit up.

*

at the same time,

Tianjian Sect, dungeon.

Countless demons are suppressed in the dungeon of Tianjian Sect, all of which are evil spirits that once brought disaster to the world. Therefore, all kinds of evil spirits and evil spirits are mixed here, making it eerie and terrifying. Moreover, these demons often try to break through the seal in the dungeon, and the evil spirits rush everywhere, making it noisy and dangerous.

However, at this moment, it was unexpectedly quiet here.

The demons in the cell shrank in fear, looking at the corridor outside in awe.

There was no light in the dungeon and it should have been very dark, but luminous pearls and candles were hung on the surrounding walls, making the place brightly lit. So they could see the torture instruments hanging on the walls of the corridor outside, the blood and body parts on the ground, and the man standing among the blood.

The man is wearing red clothes, the color is bright,

He was also very handsome, with a very aggressive and aggressive beauty, high eyebrows, deep eyes, dark golden brown eyes, and a face so gorgeous that people dared not look directly at it.

At this moment, he was holding a whip in his hand and gently wiping the blood off the whip. He raised his right hand, and one could see that the ring finger of his right hand was a prosthetic finger made of gold. The color was very bright, but on his hand, it did not look gaudy or rustic. Instead, it complemented his overall temperament, adding a bit of color to his already extremely flamboyant beauty, making him look even more gorgeous and unparalleled.

Because there are mechanisms on the joints of this artificial finger, it can be bent normally by using spiritual power. It looks cold and inhuman metallic, but its functions are no different from real fingers.

This person is the new leader of the Tianjian Sect, Li Xun.

He is missing a finger, acts extravagantly, cruelly and ostentatiously, and does not seem like a decent person. Instead, he is more like a devil than the devil.

Normally when he had nothing to do, he would come to the dungeon to take a look, invent some cruel lynchings, and torture the demons in the dungeon in various ways. Just now, in the middle of the corridor, he whipped a demon to death with a whip, breaking the demon's limbs.

The demons were afraid of him.

Seeing him beat a demon to pieces, I was afraid that he would not leave yet and was not satisfied yet, so I continued to torture him.

So the demons dared not breathe, and they all looked at him secretly, praying that he would not come over.

Maybe the prayers worked.

At this time,

A disciple of the Tianjian Sect walked in from outside.

The disciple walked up to Li Xun and said hesitantly and tremblingly, "Sect Master..."

Li Xun stopped wiping the whip.

He looked at his disciple: "What's wrong? Have you found her?"

Li Xun was asking about the whereabouts of a woman.

He has been looking for a girl for these years. The girl's features are not very clear. People in the sect only know that she has willow-shaped eyes, a little white in the lower part of her face, and delicate features, but she is not very beautiful. Finding her is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Everyone didn't know why Li Xun was looking for her.

I don't know what the relationship between Li Xun and that girl is, whether he loves her or hates her.

But what is certain is that she holds a very special place in Li Xun's heart.

Because every time Li Xun entered the dungeon, he would not allow anyone to come in and disturb him unless someone came to report news related to the girl.

But every time Li Xun was in the dungeon, he would torture the demons.

He has a violent personality and cruel methods. Normally, no one dares to disturb him at this time.

However, there are indeed more important things at the moment.

The disciple answered with a stiff upper lip: "Master, we haven't found her yet..."

Seeing Li Xun's expression change,

The disciple knelt down out of fear and quickly said, "But I have something more important to report. Just now—"

The disciple paused and said, "Just now... there's news about the jade token that was lost in the sect!"