Nemesis and good brother
Chapter Nine
The evening glow painted the sky, and a tall, handsome young man stood to the side outside the door. The luminous bird at his fingertips vanished with the sound of a branch breaking.
Zhou Yulin quietly covered the wound on her arm and said casually, "What a coincidence." Although she was very unhappy to see her nemesis, she knew that it would be more embarrassing for him to laugh at her.
She brushed past Chen Muyao, and just as they were about to pass each other, she said, "Zhou Yulin."
With no one around, he really didn't need to pretend to be polite.
However, uttering those three words sent a shiver down her spine, as if she were in another world.
Within the sect, everyone calls Zhou Yulin Junior Sister. After Xu Zuiyue joined the sect, everyone called her Junior Sister. Even people outside the sect would call her Fairy Zhou. Only Chen Muyao was always addressed by her full name.
Did he recognize her? Zhou Yulin clenched her hands nervously at her sides. The name of an old friend, and even the appearance of an old friend. If he recognized her, what should she do?
"You should call me Miss."
Zhou Yulin was not joking.
“I don’t know what your purpose is in getting into the Zhou family, but if you do anything to harm my family, I will absolutely not tolerate it.” Zhou Yulin met Chen Muyao’s gaze with neither humility nor arrogance, but the man quietly stated, “You are injured.”
Zhou Yulin disliked this feeling, like punching cotton. Her efforts to maintain a facade of peace seemed like a clumsy trick in the other person's eyes. She sneered and retorted, "What's it to you? Mind your own business."
"With Miss Zhou like this, it's no wonder she was jilted." Chen Muyao said this in a low voice, her gentle smile tinged with sarcasm. "It's truly a case of 'a scourge lives on for a thousand years' that someone like Miss Zhou has managed to live this long."
"Thank you for wishing me a long life!" The girl replied with a forced smile, then quickly left. She was afraid that if she continued talking, she would lose control and start arguing with Chen Muyao. The two of them were always like that; they could start arguing after just a few words.
Wang Ba told Lv Dou that she didn't want to get too involved with Chen Muyao.
Outside, Chen Mu glanced at the scar removal cream in his palm and casually tossed it into the grass.
"Miss, your injuries."
In June, she carefully applied the hemostatic ointment to Zhou Yulin's arm, spreading it evenly, and said with heartache, "These people are too ruthless."
"Yes, she wanted me dead, but I just wanted to live."
Do you know how Wu Chi died?
June pondered, "I heard that she was killed by having her neck snapped."
"Because when the eldest son of the Wu family was found, his body was upright, but his neck was in a deformed position looking directly out the window behind him."
"I was tricked. I thought the maid today was the murderer, but it seems that's not the case. The person behind it was just using someone else to do the dirty work."
"What makes you say that, Miss?"
"A person's neck may seem easy to break, but to actually twist a person's head 180 degrees, that maid today couldn't do it, and in fact, no woman could do it."
"So the perpetrator was a man?" Liu Yue asked, puzzled by Zhou Yulin's analysis. "But what grudge could a man have against the Wu family's young master?"
"As far as I know, this young master Wu Chi is known for his dissolute nature and womanizing ways, but I have never seen him flirting with any other men."
"It's hard to say."
"Why?"
Zhou Yulin's expression changed, and finally she sighed, patting June on the shoulder and saying, "Well, some people just look straightforward."
"Listening to the young lady's words is like listening to a lecture."
Zhou Yulin didn't take the praise in June to heart. However, she wondered who was trying to sabotage her from behind. If it was the murderer, that would be fine. But if not, what were they planning to do, given the incident at the temple and today?
"Miss, I heard from them that you want to go to the Xuanling Sect."
Zhou Yulin tacitly agreed. She thought June would definitely persuade her to give up, so she didn't talk to June much about it. "Miss, although the genes of cultivators are better than those of normal people, for example, Mr. Chen's face is so captivating that it's irresistible, but we have to have a bottom line."
"June."
"Um?"
"Actually, not every cultivator is as good-looking as Chen Muyao." Zhou Yulin only wanted to correct Liu Yue's idea that all cultivators were good-looking, but Liu Yue's focus was actually...
"That's why, Miss, you should cherish Mr. Chen. You won't get another chance like this once it's gone."
Zhou Yulin said righteously, "A forced relationship will never be sweet."
"How will you know if it's sweet or not if you don't try it? Miss, love should be spoken out loud." June's crooked ideas popped up one after another, and finally it turned into, "Miss, I have some aphrodisiac wine that my mother from the countryside sent me. They say that under the flowers and moon, after drinking, you'll be all lovey-dovey, and then you'll run and he'll chase, and you'll be unable to escape."
Zhou Yulin: ...
Ultimately, the peaceful days made June a quiet month.
Is there a possibility that I run and he chases, I have nowhere to escape, and I am on the run again?
"That's great! Miss is a genius!" June smiled and applauded Zhou Yulin.
Zhou Yulin: I'm tired and want some peace and quiet.
“Miss, didn’t you ever suspect that the Third Miss orchestrated this herself?” Zhou Xiu’er? Although Zhou Yulin didn’t know her very well, after spending the last few days with her, she felt that Zhou Xiu’er wouldn’t do such a thing. First, she didn’t have the courage, and second, she had no reason to do it.
Killing Wu Chi would not benefit her at all.
On the contrary, it would make people suspect her and bring trouble to the Zhou family.
However, the Zhou family is also under suspicion this time. After all, one daughter jumped into the river for Wu Chi, and another daughter was about to marry Wu Chi. On the eve of the wedding, the groom had an accident. No matter how you look at it, it makes people think a lot.
In this climate of fear and paranoia, her second uncle decided to arrest Zhou Yulin without hesitation.
"This is strange. It is said that today the government officials went to the county magistrate's house to investigate, but the magistrate refused to let them see the body of Young Master Wu. He only let them stand at the door and search it. If you ask me, how can the government investigate if they can't see it? Isn't that just making things difficult for them? Moreover, it was implied that the government was asking them to investigate the Zhou family."
"You're saying the magistrate won't let people see Wu Chi?"
"Yes, I heard it when I went to the market to buy vegetables this morning."
That night, Gu Ling grabbed his hair, looking somewhat distraught: "No way, Miss Zhou, it's so late, and you come to see me in the middle of the night. It makes me realize that boys need to take good care of themselves when they're out alone. Although I know I'm really charming, you still need to control yourself, okay?"
Gu Ling, who was pulled up, was only wearing a thin shirt. He rubbed his eyes, still sleepy, and his hair was disheveled. It was as if he had been pulled out of bed halfway through a dream. His tone was a bit complaining and helpless.
"If I stand with you, who do you think would be considered to have the greater advantage?"
"Damn, that's going too far! That's sexism!"
Zhou Yulin pulled Gu Ling into the room first and closed the door, saying, "Be quiet, it's the middle of the night."
"Ha, so you know it's the middle of the night..."
Zhou Yulin noticed this at this moment. Gu Ling must have a bad temper when he wakes up, no, he definitely does, and quite a bit. Right now, he's acting like a young master, with his legs crossed, giving off a "go away, don't bother coming back" vibe. "Gu Ling, do you know what time it is?"
Gu Ling raised his eyes, casually glanced out the window, and replied, "In the dead of night."
“No.” Zhou Yulin looked tenderly into Gu Ling’s eyes and smiled. “This is the beginning of our happiness.”
Gu Ling almost threw up his dinner from last night in shock, when he heard the woman opposite him look at him with an even more earnest and sincere face, and ask with great concern, "Are you tired?"
Gu Ling woke up quite quickly and complained, "Of course I'm tired."
Every day he had to find a place to cultivate, and this place was either a place where the spiritual energy was not too thin or a mountaintop. Just climbing to the top of the mountain every day was hard enough, not to mention that the young ladies of the Zhou family had suddenly become attached to him for some reason, making Gu Ling's head spin every day.
"Because you've been running through my mind all day."
Gu Ling fell silent.
Gu Ling was having an existential crisis.
Gu Ling feels more nauseous than sleep right now.
"Zhou Yulin, have you gone mad?"
After saying that, Zhou Yulin resumed her usual cold demeanor, crossing her arms leisurely. "Awake now?"
"Mmm," Gu Ling replied, looking aggrieved.
"I need your help with something."
"Tell me first, and I'll consider whether or not I should help you."
"What?! You're going to the Wu family?!"
After listening, Gu Ling frowned and didn't give a definite answer for a long time.
“The Zhou family might have some kind of restriction,” Zhou Yulin guessed, then looked at Gu Ling. “If there is a restriction, how confident are you in teleporting me there?”
"Thirty percent, or forty percent if you include this talisman."
Therefore, even with the talisman buff, the final result was still not 50%.
Zhou Yulin took the crumpled talisman that Gu Ling had just pulled out of his sleeve and examined it. It was a low-grade yellow-level teleportation talisman, which was not considered a rare item in the Xuanling Sect, but it was a treasure in Jiangning.
Seeing Zhou Yulin's interest, Gu Ling straightened his back and said proudly, "I bought it at an auction for fifty gold coins."
Zhou Yulin rolled her eyes at him, "I wouldn't take two taels of silver even if you gave it to me for free."
Gu Ling wasn't angry at all, and said leisurely, "Oh, you've become so amazing again?"
"Hmm." Zhou Yulin picked up the calligraphy brush and yellow talisman paper from the guest room table and guided Gu Ling to add three strokes. "Alright, that's about 60% done now."
Gu Ling, who watched the whole thing from the sidelines, thought: Is this woman putting on a mime act for me?
"Is there any change?" Gu Ling looked at the talisman from left to right, but couldn't see any significant difference.
Seeing that the other party's expression was extremely sincere, Zhou Yulin patiently explained, "That was a low-grade yellow-level teleportation talisman that someone else had ruined. I just added a few strokes and it became a complete teleportation talisman. Moreover, I reinforced it, which means you only need to spend one-tenth of your previous spiritual power to teleport."
"So amazing!" Without any doubt, Zhou Yulin's image in Guling suddenly became even more impressive.
Just as Zhou Yulin affixed the talisman to her body, there was a knock on the door.
The two people inside exchanged a glance, and Gu Ling asked, "Who is it?"
"I am Chen Muyao."
Gu Ling whispered, "Will your relative open the door?"
At this moment, Zhou Yulin belatedly realized something: "Why did you two have separate rooms?" Gu Ling's expression suddenly turned somewhat unpleasant, as if he had just thought of something.
Before the person inside could answer, the person outside said, "I know the layout of the Wu family's house."
Before Gu Ling, whose face was pale, could react, the person next to him was already happily opening the door for him, saying, "Good brother, you're so loyal. I'll protect you from now on."
Gu Ling: ...Good heavens, you have two faces, little girl!
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