Chapter 62: Is your heart still beating fast when you see me?

Xie Yanyu was a little surprised.

After all, just a second ago, she was still worried about finding Li Xun, afraid that even the monster wouldn't be able to find him, and afraid that even if she did find him, there would be no chance for them to meet.

Who knew that when she looked up the next second, she found Li Xun right in front of her. This man deliberately avoided her. In order not to be found by her, he even cut off the connection between him and the Tianjian Sect token. As a result, after going around in circles, before she had time to put in any effort, he came to her door.

It just so happened that the engagement jade pendant was in her sleeve, which could suppress all the chaotic spiritual energy around her. Therefore, when she came into contact with him, she no longer had to worry about the spiritual energy in his body going wild. The plot line between her and him could finally begin to move forward, starting with recognizing him and proposing engagement and marriage to him.

After Xie Yanyu was surprised, he was delighted.

She subconsciously reached into her sleeve pocket and squeezed the engagement jade pendant.

Then she curled her lips and smiled at him under Li Xun's gaze.

*

Li Xun was dizzy from her laughter.

So he quickly looked away.

But there was no point in looking away.

His heart began to pound again.

It was beating so hard that even my ears felt a little hot. I didn't know if it was because I saw her or because I drank alcohol.

Li Xun couldn't understand.

He didn't know what kind of magic she used, but his heart would beat fast when he saw her. He also didn't know why she appeared here. She was like a ghost and he couldn't hide from her.

Some questions are not difficult to think about.

But Li Xun no longer had the mood to think about it.

He felt his heart beating too fast and became anxious instinctively. Even though the spiritual energy in his body had not yet begun to surge, he already felt a dull pain in his dantian and a bloody smell in his throat that seemed to be about to surge in the next second.

Originally, he was sitting lazily at the table, casually chatting with the leaders of the Xie family.

But at this time, he began to feel a little uneasy.

He hated showing his vulnerability in front of outsiders, as that would only make people think he was easy to bully and that anyone who came could step on him.

His heartbeat was irregular at the moment, and he was worried that his spiritual power would become chaotic and his skills would backfire like last time. So not long after, he put down the wine bottle, found an excuse to leave, and walked to a secluded place.

*

After Li Xun left the table, Xie Yanyu also dismissed the servants and went out through the back door.

She secretly followed Li Xun, keeping a distance from him so that he wouldn't notice her.

But she didn't stay long.

When he reached a remote and deserted small garden, Li Xun stopped by himself.

Xie Yanyu also stopped.

Afterwards, he was seen sitting in a pavilion, using his spiritual power and regulating his breathing.

Xie Yanyu looked at it for a while before he realized what was happening.

He was wary of the spiritual power in his body getting out of control, so he was using his spiritual power and was ready to draw it into his dantian at any time.

She looked at the scene and found it a little funny.

She had clearly put the engagement jade pendant in her sleeve. No matter what, the spiritual power in his body would no longer get out of control and become violent. However, he seemed to be traumatized by the previous meeting with her, so much so that when he saw her now, he didn't even eat and ran out reflexively to regulate his breathing and draw in energy.

Seeing her like this, the system was overwhelmed: [How can you still laugh? ]

Xie Yanyu: Why can’t I laugh?

System: [Don't you think he's a little afraid of you?]

Xie Yanyu: I think.

System: [Then why are you still laughing? He's afraid of you, he doesn't like you, so why would he get engaged to you? Even if in the original plot, he got engaged to you out of revenge, but now he's keeping his distance from you, it's even more impossible for him to get engaged to you. How are you going with this plot?]

Xie Yanyu raised her hand and touched the corner of her lips, and found that even at this moment, the corner of her lips was still slightly raised.

She did not respond to the system.

She didn't tell it that she was laughing because she realized that Li Xun was afraid of her.

This was the first time anyone was afraid of her.

It was as if she had a weapon in her hand that could hurt the other person. She changed from being the one being manipulated to the one who could manipulate others. She liked this feeling and wanted to grab it and keep it.

Xie Yanyu glanced at Li Xun again.

Then, instead of continuing to hide in the dark, she approached him.

She walked up to him and sat on the stone bench next to him, not too far away and not too close, just looking at him without saying a word.

She was quiet,

Instead, Li Xun couldn't sit still.

He heard her sit down, glanced at her sideways, then looked away. He raised his foot, and with his toes, he pushed against the stone bench where she was sitting. With a push, he moved both her and the bench a good distance away, gnashing his teeth and saying, "Don't mess around."

Xie Yanyu asked gently, "Are you afraid that I'll force you to explode and die?"

Li Xun said impatiently, "Shut up."

Xie Yanyu laughed: "Why do you feel that way? Does your heart still beat fast when you see me?"

Yes, very quickly.

When I hear her voice, my heart beats faster.

Aside from the fact that his spiritual energy hadn't yet erupted, everything else was the same as when they last met. Hearing her ask this, he almost laughed out loud, pursing his lips. "If you say another word, wait until my technique backfires and we die here together."

It's this sentence again.

Xie Yanyu gave him a little face and shut up.

She suddenly stood up from the stone bench, then squatted in front of him, raised her head and looked up at him. He closed his eyes, so she touched his eyes with her fingertips and directly pulled open his eyelids.

Li Xun didn't expect her to take action directly.

He was stunned for a moment, and even forgot to turn his head away immediately.

But his face had turned darker than the bottom of a pot.

Before he lost his temper, Xie Yanyu held the engagement jade pendant in her other hand and waved it in front of him.

Then she said, “No.”

Your spiritual power will no longer surge.

So we won't die here together.

Li Xun understood what she meant, brushed her hand away, and looked at her grimly.

Just wanted to speak,

But before he could say anything, he saw the jade pendant clearly. It was an ink-colored jade pendant with a Vermillion Bird pattern. He had given it away as a token of engagement a long time ago.

It was as if something had pierced through him in an instant, freezing him in place, and the expression on his face went blank for a moment.

He just lowered his head and looked at the blind man in front of him. Then he raised his hand uncontrollably, his fingertips falling in front of her eyes, pressing the edge of the silk covering her eyes. However, he didn't pull the silk apart for a long time, just letting his fingers linger there: "...Qingqing?"

*

The other side.

Xie family's outer residence.

The Xie family held a banquet tonight originally to entertain Li Xun.

Not long after Li Xun left the table, the banquet ended.

When Helan Wei returned to Xie's house, he saw servants coming in and out to pack up things.

He asked his men around him: "Why is it so lively?"

When he came to the Xie family, he brought a few men with him.

Originally, his subordinates followed him to the Yuan residence and were planning to return together, but because he had to go check the seal of the demon world, several of his subordinates followed the main force back to the Xie family first. They had been staying at the Xie family for the past few days and were very clear about what had happened in the Xie family.

I heard him ask this,

One of the men replied, "Because a distinguished guest is visiting today."

Helan Wei nodded nonchalantly. It was obvious that he had just asked casually and didn't really care whether he was a distinguished guest or not.

He asked again: "Is Xie Yanyu back?"

The subordinate said: "He has returned. He came back earlier with Master Xie."

When the subordinate said this, he glanced at Helan Wei again.

He was actually a little curious.

It was obvious that Helan Wei went with Xie Chengjin to see the sealing formation of the demon world, but why didn't Helan Wei come back with Xie Chengjin?

The men were puzzled, but they found that although Helan Wei was well-dressed, his face was pale and he looked like he was seriously injured.

He thought for a moment and felt that he shouldn't ask this question. Even though Helan Wei was usually very tolerant of his servants' words, servants all had a scale in their hearts and knew what to ask and what not to ask.

So he changed the subject: "Young Master, you've examined the Demon Realm's Sealing Formation and patched up the cracked eye. Now, is all that's left to do? Once the repairs are done, shall we return to Shangqing Immortal Palace?"

Helan Wei hummed, without commenting.

After reinforcing the formation that sealed the demon world, he really had no reason to stay in the Xie family.

But after he returns to Shangqing Immortal Palace, will Xie Yanyu chase him like he did in his previous life?

When Helan Wei thought about this problem, he felt troubled for a moment.

In the previous life,

He and she were connected by the love thread Gu.

She was like a cattail, having to cling to him and rely on him for detoxification.

But in this life, there is no such connection between them anymore.

There shouldn't be so many people around her at this time, but now she can drive him away for the sake of a guard, make Xie Chengjin behave abnormally, and leave him at the bottom of the river without caring about him.

Even if she could tell him she loved him over and over again, even if he was willing to convince himself that there was some truth in her words, when he left, what would be left between them? She had a master-servant relationship with the guard, and a brother-sister relationship with Xie Chengjin, but nothing with him.

After a while,

Helan Wei glanced sideways and asked his subordinate, "If you have a plaything—"

Having said this, he paused again.

He coughed softly against his lips. There was still some residual poison in his body that had not been cleared out. It was given to him by Xie Yanyu in the formation before. His cultivation was high enough, and he should have been immune to the poison after entering the formation. But she had directly transferred the poison into his body, so he could no longer be immune. The poison was jumping up and down in his spiritual veins, torturing him.

She gave him the poison.

When he thought about this, he wasn't too angry.

On that side,

Seeing that he stopped talking halfway, his subordinate asked, "A plaything, then what, sir?"

Helan Wei stopped talking.

He had originally wanted to ask the attendant if he had a plaything and he had offered to marry her, but she had refused, would it be considered lowering his status if he asked again? But when the words came to his lips, he felt no need to ask.

From drinking the love thread Gu in front of her, till now,

After she fed him the antidote and proposed marriage to him but she rejected him, he really thought about leaving and was determined to break up with her. At that time, he might have been somewhat certain that she would catch up with him, but no matter what, when he left the Xie Mansion and went to the Yuan Mansion, even if she didn't catch up with him, he was really gone.

But she really caught up.

It was like being stabbed with a poisonous knife. At first, the poisoned skin/flesh was cut off before the poison spread, and the pain would be temporary. But she caught up with him and went around in circles, so the skin/flesh was not cut off in time, and the poison corroded into the bones and blood. If it was to be dispelled, it would have to be scraped from every inch of his bones, taking away half of his life.

Insignificant minor illnesses and pains turned into serious chronic diseases.

It was so serious that it always affected his mind.

At this point, he really couldn't let go. He felt very uncomfortable when he thought that there was no longer a place for him by her side.

He felt so uncomfortable that he could no longer be like before. Even if he saw her marrying someone else, he could still hide in the dark, hating her while being superior and arguing with her one-sidedly. He felt so uncomfortable that he had to do something to relieve this feeling.

It could also be that the chance to do it again made him greedy. Some things you only realize you will miss them after you let go for the first time, but once you let go, it's gone. He also wanted to avoid getting involved the second time, but when she took the initiative to push herself into his hands, he couldn't control himself and wanted to hold on tightly.

Maybe he should ask her again about getting married.

He never gives anyone a second chance, no matter if it's others or himself.

This is the first time and only time.

*

Helan Wei figured things out and wanted to find Xie Yanyu again.

He inquired about her location and heard from others that she had been seen following the distinguished guest of the mansion towards the small garden outside the house.

He was just about to go in that direction to find her.

But the next second,

But he heard the servant and the people around him whispering, "I heard that the distinguished guest is the new leader of the Heavenly Sword Sect. I don't know how she knew him. Wasn't she an orphan before she came into the mansion?"

Helan Wei paused: "Who?"

The servants were startled by him: "Master Helan?"

Helan Wei asked, "Who was that distinguished guest you just mentioned?"

Helan Wei is usually kind to others. He doesn't care about what his servants say or do. He will even treat them as jokes when they tell him some interesting stories from outside. When the servants chat privately, they all think he has a very good temper.

No one has ever seen him like this.

The servant who spoke was startled and said tremblingly, "Yes, it's the new leader of the Tianjian Sect."

The new leader of Tianjian Sect, Li Xun.

The person who was engaged to Xie Yanyu in the previous life——

The first time this man met Xie Yanyu, he proposed to her in front of everyone without any hesitation.

Xie Yanyu finally agreed and became the future wife of the leader of the Tianjian Sect, but she still maintained a secret relationship with him.

He asked Xie Yanyu and Li Xun to break off their engagement, but Xie Yanyu refused him.

The first time she rejected him in her previous life was because of this person, but in this life, they met in advance.

The last bit of gentleness on Helan Wei's face was torn away.

He did not stay here any longer, turned around and quickly headed in the direction where Xie Yanyu was.