Chapter 76: Scene 18: Introducing the Next Family

Ruan Chao had just put the envelope into the box when he heard hurried footsteps outside the door. The tightly closed door was pushed open, and a pretty girl in a pink dress came out with her eyebrows raised and shouted coldly.

"Are you the woman that Senior Brother brought back from the lower world?"

The strange girl had a bad expression on her face. She crossed her arms and looked Ruan Chao up and down, her eyes fixed on his face. Her tone was much weaker than before. "You look... not that good."

Nguyen Chao was shocked by this sudden situation.

He fastened the box's clasp again and placed it in a corner where it wouldn't attract attention. He then restrained his expression and asked calmly, "...Who are you?"

The pink-dressed girl raised her chin proudly, "Jingjing Peak, Ye Qingwei."

"Wait..." Ye Qingwei realized something and asked with a frown, "Senior Brother has never mentioned me to you?"

"The senior brother you are talking about is Chu Xinglan?"

Ye Qingwei snorted coldly, "Who else could it be except him?"

"He never mentioned it."

"It must be fake, how is it possible!" Ye Qingwei didn't believe it, "The relationship between him and I is obviously so good..." When she said this, Ye Qingwei's eyes flickered, and she felt a little guilty. The so-called good relationship was actually compared. She was the daughter of the sect leader, and Chu Xinglan was the sect leader's apprentice. Because of the connection through their father, the relationship between the two was naturally closer than that of others.

The so-called closeness was only that Chu Xinglan, for the sake of his master, had taught her sword moves twice and saved her life from a monster when they were traveling down the mountain.

Chu Xinglan may have forgotten it, but Ye Qingwei always keeps it in mind, waiting for the chance to repay him.

After hearing from fellow junior students that Senior Brother Chu had brought back a woman from the lower world and was going to marry her in a few days, Ye Qingwei could no longer sit still.

She did hear her father mention that Chu Xinglan had a fiancée, saying that the two had been engaged when they were young... But even so, they hadn't seen each other for so many years, what kind of emotional foundation could there be between them?

What if this woman is a fame-seeker, who loves vain people, only cares about the status and position of the senior brother, and deliberately comes to deceive the senior brother's feelings?

She couldn't allow this to happen.

With the intention of hitting the target with a stick and a secret curiosity, Ye Qingwei rushed here without stopping.

Unexpectedly, Chu Xinglan never mentioned her in front of Ruan Chao once, which made her lose face right from the start.

Ye Qingwei became angrier and angrier as she thought about it. She stamped her feet and said, "How abominable! He forgets his friends for the sake of beauty! He values ​​women over his daughter!"

Ruan Chao comforted her in a half-hearted way: "Chu Xinglan only mentioned his master to me twice, and no one else mentioned him at all."

It turns out that everything still needs to be compared, so that you will feel better.

Ye felt slightly better.

She wiped away her nonexistent tears, "Brother is as cold as a stone in an icy lake. Just touching him can freeze you to death. It's a pity you can stand him."

What kind of weird description is this?

Also...is Chu Xinglan very cold?

Although he is usually a little serious, likes to have a stern face and doesn't talk much.

But no matter what Nguyen said or did, he responded to everything and his eyes were gentle. Sometimes they even became hot and made him tremble...

Well... All in all, Ruan Chao has never been treated coldly by Chu Xinglan.

So facing Ye Qingwei's words, he couldn't help but defend Chu Xinglan, "It's okay, I think he has a good personality. Do you have any misunderstandings about him?"

Ye Qingwei widened his eyes. He never expected that one day he would hear from others that Chu Xinglan had a good personality - a compliment that had nothing to do with him at all.

"Is this the legendary beauty in the eyes of the beholder?" She clasped her hands together and closed her eyes devoutly, "Master, I understand."

"I shouldn't have doubted their relationship."

Ruan Chao: “…”

…

Ye Qingwei sat opposite Ruan Chao and drank the already cooled tea in one gulp.

She looked at the dark food box in front of her again and swallowed imperceptibly.

She blinked and asked curiously, "...What is this?"

Nguyen Chao: “I tasted Thang Chay’s cakes and preserves.”

Ye Qingwei blinked again: "Is it delicious?"

Ruan Chao suppressed his laughter and said, "...You can try it. I think it's delicious."

Finally I heard these words.

Ye Qingwei nodded modestly, stretched out two slender jade fingers, and picked up a piece of cloud cake.

"Since you said so, I'll take a bite reluctantly." As soon as she put it in her mouth, Ye Qingwei's eyes lit up, "Hmm... so delicious!"

Ye Qingwei quickly finished most of the cakes in the box by herself.

At the beginning, she was still able to maintain her elegant eating manner, but later on she completely let herself go and ate each piece of food happily.

Ruan Chao poured her another cup of tea and said, "Eat slowly, be careful not to choke."

Ye Qingwei took a big sip of tea and complained to Ruan Chao: "You don't know how long it has been since I started fasting."

"They all told me that cultivators must give up their appetites and control themselves. If they can't resist even the most basic desires, they are doomed to not last long on the path of cultivation."

Ye Qingwei rolled his eyes: "What kind of bullshit is this? I'm not practicing the ruthless way, why should I care about this."

Ruan Chao said, "I still have a few boxes of cakes here. If you like them, I can give you two boxes and you can take them home and eat them."

As for why not all of them were given away, it was because Nguyen Dynasty also loved to eat.

Ye wiped the crumbs from the corner of his lips and looked at Ruan Chao with burning eyes, "You are a nice person, not at all like what I imagined."

Not only is she good-looking, she is also kind-hearted.

He poured her water for fear that she might choke, and even gave her her favorite cakes.

Unlike her senior brothers and sisters, who only know how to compete with her!

It's such a pity that such a pleasing beauty is paired with Chu Xinglan, an iceberg who doesn't understand romance.

Ye Qingwei has completely forgotten her original purpose.

She propped up her chin and looked at Ruan Chao with some confusion: "What do you like about my senior brother?"

"You are so beautiful and kind-hearted, you can get whatever you want." Why did she have to fall for Chu Xinglan, this big block of ice?

Ruan Chao: "Chu Xinglan and I have been engaged since childhood."

Ye Qingwei slammed the table, furious: "It turned out to be a nasty arranged marriage!"

"...Not really." Ruan Chao recalled the marriage contract they had made on the Three-Life Stone. If one party was unwilling, it would not have been successful. Although he was young at the time and suspected of being deceived, he has never regretted it over the years.

“We both agree to this.”

Ye Qing narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Ruan Chao.

I wanted to see from his expression whether there was any hint of reluctance.

The result is naturally no.

Ye slightly twisted a piece of candied fruit and put it in his mouth. While chewing it, he answered vaguely: "Okay, okay, since you are willing to do it and I am willing, then I don't care."

The girl thought about it, then crept closer, put her hand over her mouth, and whispered to Ruan Chao, "But if you regret it, you can come to me and I will help you find another buyer."

"All of our disciples at Silent Peak are outstanding, especially my eldest senior brother, who has reached the peak of the Golden Core stage at the young age. Although his appearance is a little bit inferior to Chu Xinglan..."

Ye Qingwei paused for a moment and continued, "But his personality is hundreds and thousands of times better than his. For a man, appearance is secondary. The most important thing is to be good to you. If you are tired of Chu Xinglan, come to me and I will introduce you two to each other."

Before Ruan Chao could open his mouth to refuse, the tightly closed door was pushed open again.

The poor wooden door was hit twice in one day and was about to fall down.

"Ye Qingwei!" Chu Xinglan had just come back when he heard the other party's arrogant speech, wanting to introduce Ruan Chao to the next family. He was anxious and angry, but his face became colder and colder, as if he wanted to kill someone. "What the hell are you talking about?"

"Who do you want to introduce to whom? Why don't you tell me all about it?"

Ye Qingwei's body trembled, revealing a panicked expression like a mouse meeting a cat. She flashed out of sight and quickly hid behind Ruan Chao, nervously grabbing her sleeve, "Sister, sister... hurry up and save me, my senior brother is so angry that he wants to kill me to silence me!"

Chu Xinglan said unhappily: "He is one year younger than you, how can you call him sister?"

"Then call me sister, call me sister." Ye Qingwei changed the words tactfully.

Chu Xinglan was still dissatisfied and stared at her coldly.

"Let go of his sleeve, stay away from him, don't get so close to him."

Ye Qingwei was very good at reading people's expressions, so she naturally saw how much Chu Xinglan valued Ruan Chao. She was not stupid, so she would definitely stick to Ruan Chao's protective umbrella at this moment. Once she left this range, there was a 100% chance that she would be beaten.

Seeing that she didn't respond, Chu Xinglan repeated impatiently: "Didn't you hear me? I told you to stay away from him and stop holding him."

"Tsk, just pull it, just pull it!" Ye Qingwei poked her head out from behind Ruan Chao and stuck out her tongue, "Brother, you are so fierce, girls won't like you!"

Chu Xinglan: “…”

He quickly calmed down and threatened indifferently: "Junior Sister Ye, I remember that you have hidden a lot of interesting storybooks in your room. The contents are very novel. You don't want Master to know about this unknown hobby of yours, right?"

The content is not only novel, it is simply curious.

The reason why Chu Xinglan knew it so clearly was naturally because Ye Zhiwei had once asked him to buy it for her.

He accidentally glanced at the cover.

What kind of domineering immortal's forbidden love, the cold immortal is too tempting, the strong and doting: the ninety-ninth time the demon king escapes.

...one more outrageous than the other.

Ye Qingwei's soft spot was indeed caught.

Let go of Nguyen Chao obediently.

She walked out slowly from behind Ruan Chao, pleading, "Brother, I was wrong. I'm sorry. Please don't tell my father about this, or he will definitely burn all my collections."

"Forget it, brother." Seeing Ye Qingwei so pitiful, Ruan Chao spoke up at the right time and said something good for her, "Don't bother with her, she didn't mean it."

Chu Xinglan pursed her lips, feeling a little aggrieved: "...but she just said she wanted to introduce you to someone else."

“I didn’t agree.”

Nguyen Chao continued, "We have entered into a marriage contract under the witness of Heaven. We are destined to be together for the rest of our lives. No one can separate us."

Chu Xinglan's complexion improved at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Ruan Chao calmed down the angry Chu Xinglan with just a few words.

Ye Qingwei was stunned and couldn't help but give him a thumbs up.