Chapter 174 Junior Sister, Get a Good Night's Sleep

Mei Liangyu fiddled with the copper coin in her hand, and when she saw Yu Sui come over, she put it in her hand and sneered, "Don't listen to his nonsense. What's the use of divination if you can't even take a beating?"

Yu Sui chuckled, holding the copper coin, and looked up at Mei Liangyu: "Senior Brother Nian is really amazing. His divination skills alone are already remarkable. Our divination skills are obviously only half-baked compared to his."

Mei Liangyu said, "You are, but I am not."

Yu Sui: "..."

This sudden surge of competitive spirit.

Mei Liangyu then asked, "What are you giving him?"

Yu Sui walked out with him, not answering directly: "I haven't even decided what I want to divine yet, but Senior Brother Nian rejected me. He probably thinks my divination skills are too poor. What about you, Senior Brother? Have you ever divined for Senior Brother Nian before?"

Hearing the conversation between the two outside, Nian Qiuyan took a deep breath, put one hand to her forehead and the other on the table, recalling the scene just now. She had no idea when or how Yu Sui had made the move.

For a fleeting moment, he even wondered whether the deadly water arrow was the work of Nangong Sui or Mei Liangyu.

On second thought, I realized it couldn't possibly be Mei Liangyu.

Nian Qiuyan's expression was strange, her eyes serious. Although she had felt from the divination that Nangong Sui might not be as simple as she seemed, and could tell from her attitude towards Zhang Xiangyun that this girl was not so innocent and harmless.

Or perhaps you're just a little clever.

But Nian Qiuyan never expected that, besides being a little clever, she could kill people without them noticing, and even knew all kinds of unorthodox arts besides those of the Ghost Daoist school.

Nian Qiuyan vividly remembers the scene of seeing Yu Sui through the hole in the copper coin, and the icy touch of the water arrow aimed at her back is something she will probably never forget in her lifetime.

Seeing her calm and composed demeanor, Nian Qiuyan thought that this was definitely not the first time Nangong Sui had done something like this.

From interfering with the game between Mei Liangyu and Wei Kun in the outer city to launching a surprise attack on Zhang Xiangyun and Luo Fu underwater, there are countless other things he was unaware of.

Zhang Xiangyun always felt that Nangong Sui was stupid, weak, and vulnerable. He and Luo Fu were used to comparing Nangong Sui with Qingkui.

The autumn geese were also there.

Because they all knew that Qingkui and Nangong Sui were sisters, sharing the same father and mother.

Qingkui is Nangong Ming's daughter, a fact that Nangong Ming has not hidden.

Aside from the Xuan Kui organization, everyone around Nangong Ming who knew about this treated Qing Kui as a princess of the royal family.

The father and daughter have always had a good relationship.

Before Qingkui was taken to the top of Luoshan by Madam Su, she was already old enough to remember things and knew who her father was.

During her time atop Mount Luo, she would often grab Madam Su and ask where her father had gone and why he hadn't come to take her back.

As the first child of Lady Su, she also received special favor from Nangong Ming.

In Nian Qiuyan's memory, Qingkui was proud, confident, and imposing even as a child, unlike him and Zhang Xiangyun.

Even though they were all in the same world of Lan Du, Qing Kui was freer than them because she was in a superior position and possessed a great deal of power.

Qingkui has clear goals and works hard for them. She is very talented and learns everything quickly and well. As she grows up, she becomes more and more like her father, hiding a knife behind her smile.

When Nian Qiuyan first saw Yu Sui in Taiyi, she only observed him secretly and did not deliberately approach him.

Having grown up in the Qingyang Prince's Mansion, Nangong Sui was exposed to a completely different world from them, so it's normal for her to grow up innocent, naive, and harmless.

Besides, Nangong Sui is a sorcerer, so it would be too harsh to judge her by the standards of a low-level sorcerer.

Nian Qiuyan was the first to notice Mei Liangyu's changing attitude towards Nangong Sui. He didn't interfere, but just observed the situation. He was somewhat amazed, not expecting that Mei Mei would like someone as innocent, naive, and adorable as Nangong Sui.

Looking back now, Nian Qiuyan realizes that she misjudged him.

Mei Liangyu is so intelligent, and he often comes into contact with Nangong Sui. There's no way he wouldn't know what Nangong Sui's true colors are.

I wonder if this kid has ever been threatened with a knife to his neck by Nangong Sui.

As Nian Qiuyan pondered, his brows furrowed unconsciously. As he subconsciously compared Yu Sui and Qing Kui, he suddenly wondered, "Does the Prince know Nangong Sui's true colors?"

If she could even fool the prince... Nian Qiuyan's heart skipped a beat, feeling it was unlikely.

Although Nian Qiuyan grew up in the State of Yan, she was not a native of Yan.

What he said to Mei Liangyu before was half true and half false.

His description of the current situation in the Yan state is true.

It's false that he was from the state of Yan.

Nangong Ming frequently visited the State of Yan.

Working under Nangong Ming, Nian Qiuyan did all the dirty and tiring work, which allowed her to truly feel Nangong Ming's power and terror.

In front of Nangong Ming, Nian Qiuyan found it difficult to hide her thoughts. Whenever Nangong Ming smiled and looked at her, she had to be on high alert and could not relax for even a moment.

Qingkui failed to exert any pressure on Nian Qiuyan because Nian Qiuyan felt that compared to Nangong Ming, Qingkui's threat was insignificant.

But tonight, Nian Qiuyan experienced a similar sense of oppression from Yu Sui as he had from Nangong Ming, making him dare not let his guard down.

Nian Qiuyan frowned. If the prince knew Nangong Sui's true colors, then it would make sense for him to let her take over Xuan Kui's business in Taiyi.

But if Taiyi hadn't discovered the orchid poison, and the saints hadn't taken action to wipe it out, causing Xuan Kui to suffer heavy losses and many deaths, then Nangong Sui wouldn't have had a chance to help.

When Nangong Sui met Uncle Cao in the outer city that day, he looked like he knew nothing.

Does she really know nothing?

Because she knew Qingkui, Nian Qiuyan, like Zhang Xiangyun and the others, assumed that Nangong Sui was no match for Qingkui, and that the position of Princess of the Prince's Mansion would inevitably return to Qingkui in the future.

But now it seems, maybe not.

Half an hour later, Nian Qiuyan's mind was still filled with thoughts of Nangong Sui.

The smarter a person is, the more they think. However, the more Nian Qiuyan thought about the matter of Nangong Sui, the more terrified she became.

Nian Qiuyan reopened the window, letting the night wind blow in; the cool night breeze helped him calm down.

The night breeze rustled the drawing paper on the table. Nian Qiuyan looked down at it and saw that it contained a divination array he had drawn before, used to predict love. He calmly destroyed it and picked up his brush to prepare to perform the divination again.

This time, he didn't care whether the relationship between Nangong Sui and Mei Liangyu was bumpy or had a result.

He singled out Nangong Sui.

Nian Qiuyan hadn't forgotten that the last time he only dealt with Mei Liangyu, he had involved Nangong Sui, and the Divine Wood Token had cracked, with a very domineering and powerful force interfering with him.

The person he divined that time was Mei Liangyu, but he couldn't be sure that it was the strange phenomenon brought by Nangong Sui.

Nian Qiuyan hadn't done a divination so seriously in a long time.

The last time was when I was seventeen.

After Xuan Kuilan's identity was discovered, he turned against his friend with swords drawn.

He rearranged the hexagrams on the paper, and with each stroke of the brush, he infused it with the energy of the five elements, causing the ink to move and float on the paper, transforming into mountains, rivers, the sun, and the moon.

Nian Qiuyan reached for the sacred wooden divination stick, about to begin the divination, when suddenly a line of azure lightning appeared and fell onto the back of his hand, followed by countless tiny, snake-like bolts of lightning that made his heart clench and he immediately withdrew his hand.

The ink-colored landscapes, sun, and moon floating on the paper were swallowed and struck down by the lightning serpent, turning into ink that fell onto the paper, staining the white paper into a chaotic black mess.

In the autumn of the year, the divination array destroyed by the lightning snake was reflected in the wild goose's pupils. His eyelids twitched violently, a chill ran down his back, and there was a damp coldness on his neck.

He gripped the sacred wooden divination stick tightly in one hand and calmly surveyed his surroundings.

Nangong Sui was still staring at him.

The Bagua divination technique I just used was a warning to him.

Nian Qiuyan lowered her eyes to look at the burn marks on the back of her hand caused by the lightning bolt. Her Adam's apple bobbed, and the cold night wind couldn't move her hair, which was sticky with sweat and clung to her skin.

Nangong Sui.

How did she manage to do that?

Nian Qiuyan's expression was solemn and her nerves were taut. Faced with this elusive and difficult-to-detect attack, she slowly released the sacred wooden talisman, put it aside, and silently compromised.

Nangong Sui is not Mei Liangyu.

They will go easy on him.

Nian Qiuyan finally realized that the reason the water arrows hadn't attacked him in the Abyss Sea was because Nangong Sui spared him out of consideration for Mei Liangyu.

Tonight, does she mean to avoid revealing her identity now and breaking ties with Meimei and the others?

Nian Qiuyan was somewhat unsure of Yu Sui's intentions.

Mei Liangyu accompanied Yu Sui back to her guest house, and as they walked, she looked at the magnolias and trumpet creepers in her courtyard, and told her about the divination she had performed for Nian Qiuyan.

He said that the divination array was ultimately destroyed by Nian Qiuyan, so no result could be obtained.

Yu Sui asked, "Why did Senior Brother Nian destroy the divination array?"

Mei Liangyu wanted to say that he had something to hide, but the words that came out were: "Who knows what he's thinking? Are you used to living here alone?"

Yu Sui walked to the eaves and looked back at Mei Liangyu, saying helplessly, "Even if I'm not used to living here, I can't let you live with me, Senior Brother."

Mei Liangyu narrowed his eyes as he listened, his expression inscrutable, as if he were a great eagle about to snatch away its prey.

Yu Sui added, "Because I will go find Jin Shuang to live with me."

Mei Liangyu glanced at her and said, "What are you going to do by looking for Li Jinshuang? You live alone, so go and toughen up."

Yu Sui: "Okay."

She obediently nodded in agreement, which made Mei Liangyu feel like he had punched cotton, leaving him both amused and exasperated.

The night wind outside was chilly, so Yu Sui invited Mei Liangyu inside and asked him what he had talked about with Grandmother Situ.

Mei Liangyu entered the room and looked around, her expression unchanged, picking out the things she could say to her.

Situ's grandmother asked him if he was injured, what the situation was like in Beikun City, how Situ Jin was doing, and other casual conversation topics.

They did not tell Yu Sui about the conversation related to the sea eye.

Yu Sui listened patiently until the end before asking, "Even the mechanical experts have no way to deal with those sea eyes?"

Mei Liangyu was just waiting for Yu Sui to ask the question himself.

“There’s nothing we can do,” he said calmly. “Grandmother said this is a sea eye created by Shui Zhou, and it can only be solved by the sage of Shui Zhou.”

Yu Sui asked curiously, "How do we solve this?"

Mei Liangyu: "Grandmother didn't say anything specific, maybe she didn't know either. She only said that the Sage would drive those sea eyes away from the Mechanized Island and prevent them from threatening the Mechanized Island and the Academy."

Drive them away?

Drive the eye of the abyss to the water boat?

It doesn't seem like it's impossible.

Yu Sui listened thoughtfully and said, "Even sea eyes can be artificially created. The saints of the Water Boat are truly amazing."

Mei Liangyu recalled the situation in the Abyss Sea and explained slowly, "The formation of the sea eye is mainly due to the chaotic five elements of energy. They fight and tear each other apart, which can gather extremely terrifying power. The environment of the Abyss Sea is most suitable for the formation of the sea eye. As long as Shui Zhou is willing to spend time guiding and waiting, the chance of successfully creating it is still very high."

Yu Sui folded her hands and lay on the table, tilting her head to look at Mei Liangyu sitting next to her: "I heard them say that the Water Boatmen created the Sea Eye in order to find the Eye of the Void, because the Eye of the Void might be able to destroy the Strange Fire."

"It doesn't seem right to say 'eliminate,' it should be 'stop the spread of the strange fire,' or 'devour the strange fire,'" Yu Sui muttered softly. "We don't know exactly what that means yet."

Mei Liangyu looked down at Yu Sui, who was slumped on the table. Although her eyes were full of Yu Sui, hearing her voice reminded her of the scene where the man in white threw a glowing object into the sea.

The Eye of the Ruins.

The voice of the white-clad man from the past and the voice of Yu Sui from the present intertwined in Mei Liangyu's mind, and the fragmented memories sketched out a series of dangerous yet heartwarming scenes.

Mei Liangyu's gaze went blank for a moment, but a fierce aura exploded around him.

Yu Sui, who was lying on the table, was like a kitten that sensed danger, with its hair standing on end and it was on guard instinctively.

In that instant, she felt as if she had returned to that night with Mei Liangyu in the rainy cave of Zhanlong Cave.

Yu Sui straightened up, stared at Mei Liangyu, and said softly, "Senior Brother?"

"Hmm?" Mei Liangyu looked up at her voice, her dark and cold eyes reflecting Yu Sui's furrowed brows.

The girl's slightly furrowed brows drew Mei Liangyu's attention back, causing him to slowly furrow his own brows and suppress his terrifying aura.

Yu Sui still frowned and said to Mei Liangyu, "Senior brother, you scared me."

She spoke very seriously.

No longer remaining silent like last time, keeping everything bottled up inside.

The sudden outburst of malevolence just now was indiscriminately directed at everything centered around Mei Liangyu; Yu Sui almost made a move.

Mei Liangyu was unusually silent for a moment, then spoke again in a slightly hoarse voice: "Stretch out your hand."

"Senior brother, have you thought of something?" Yu Sui observed Mei Liangyu and reached out his hand to him.

Mei Liangyu stared at her palm for a while, then took something out of his own mechanical box.

When he went to see Situ's grandmother, he remembered that the Situ family had a treasure, and he also remembered that Yu Suiye couldn't sleep well at night and was more afraid of the heat than ordinary people.

At the Ghost Path Sanctuary, no matter how cold it was at night, my junior sister would never close the doors and windows to avoid the cold.

If it rains, she will roll up her sleeves, lift her skirt, take off her shoes and socks, and play in the puddles in the pouring rain late at night.

At that moment, Mei Liangyu listened to the sound of the torrential rain outside, lazily opened his eyes in his recliner, glanced outside, and saw a figure entertaining himself in the rain.

He watched quietly in the hall for a while, then looked away, closed his eyes, and continued to sleep.

Mei Liangyu saw it, but never told Yu Sui.

After chatting with Situ's grandmother, Mei Liangyu took the initiative to talk to her about another matter. He spent money to buy something from Situ's grandmother—a treasure from the Situ family's collection.

When Grandmother Situ heard him ask her for a treasure, she generously said, "You want it? You can take it directly."

Mei Liangyu said, "I'm giving it away; I can't just take it for free."

Situ's grandmother asked again, "Who is it?"

He said, "It's for my junior sister."

Situ's grandmother said slowly, "Your junior sister, that child surnamed Nangong?"

Mei Liangyu nodded and said, "Yes."

“Now that you have regained those memories, you should know about your daughter with Nangong Ming…” Situ’s grandmother was interrupted by Mei Liangyu before she could finish speaking. His expression remained respectful, but his tone left no room for refusal. “I can tell the difference between Nangong Ming and Nangong Sui.”

Grandmother Situ stared at him for a long time before finally offering an exorbitant price, even higher than that of the spirit puppet.

Mei Liangyu agreed without even blinking.

When Yu Sui saw Mei Liangyu take something out of the mechanical box, before he could even see what it looked like, he felt the temperature around him suddenly change, as if he had arrived in the dead of winter, with a chill that rushed towards him and penetrated his heart.

"Naturally formed sea eyes gather a large amount of the five elements' energy and take shape from the deep sea. During the process, it is unknown which places in the deep sea they pass through. Anything that is drawn into the sea eye will be affected by the five elements' energy, thus giving rise to more strange and wonderful treasures."

Mei Liangyu took out a thin gold thread from the mechanical box. His gaze lingered on Yu Sui's palm for a moment before he looked away. He leaned down and approached her, lifting her long hair behind her shoulder with one hand. His expression was focused, and his breath briefly brushed against Yu Sui's ear. The deep male voice so close to her ear made her eyelashes tremble.

"The Situ family once obtained something from the eye of the sea by chance. It was like the ice of the extreme sea, but it was even colder. So far, the mechanical experts have not encountered any kind of fire that can refine it."

He thought that perhaps the strange fire was an exception.

Even though Yu Sui never said it, Mei Liangyu could now guess that the reason she couldn't sleep well at night was related to the strange fire.

Mei Liangyu tied a gold thread around Yu Sui's neck, with a red jade snowflake-shaped pendant the size of a fingernail hanging from the thread. The pendant was crystal clear, and upon closer inspection, one could see the constantly growing cracks and flowing, floating tiny snowflakes within the hexagonal snowflake.

"The Situ family is too lazy to name it, so they'll just call it Extreme Sea Cold Jade." After tying the gold thread, Mei Liangyu stepped back from Yu Sui and said lazily, "But it's yours now. You can name it whatever you want."

Yu Sui reached out and grasped the Extreme Sea Frost Jade hanging from the golden thread. Before she could speak, Mei Liangyu asked again, "Isn't it too cold?"

“No,” Yu Sui shook her head and said, “It’s very warm.”

The burning pain all over my body turned into the warmth of staying in the fireplace in winter.

Yu Sui gently stroked the edges of the snowflakes with her fingers, a strange feeling welling up inside her that she couldn't quite put her finger on—a light, pleasant sensation that also left a heavy mark on her heart.

"How did the Situ family give such a treasure to my senior brother?" she asked, looking up at Mei Liangyu.

Mei Liangyu came to see Yu Sui tonight to give her the Extreme Sea Cold Jade, but he didn't expect that something unpleasant would happen before he gave it away.

"They traded goods for it, so the Situ family didn't lose out," Mei Liangyu said.

Not only did they not lose money, they actually made a fortune from such a large sum.

Anyway, the Situ family had no use for this thing, so they just put it in the archives as a collectible.

Mei Liangyu saw through Yu Sui's look that she wanted to ask more questions, so she said before she could speak, "If it's useless to you, just throw it away."

Yu Sui hurriedly replied, "It's useful."

Mei Liangyu looked at her, as if he didn't believe her.

Yu Sui added, "It really works!"

The pain from the burning sensation on the skin was indeed somewhat relieved.

A smile flickered across Mei Liangyu's eyes. His gaze swept over the Extreme Sea Cold Jade held by Yu Sui, finally settling on her obedient face. His tone was casual, but his eyes softened for a moment: "Junior sister, have a good sleep."

Yu Sui thought to herself, "That day will come."

[Author's Note]

Thank you so much for your support! I will continue to work hard!