74 Breakup (I)
◎ "Come home with me"◎
When he first opened his eyes, they were covered with a layer of fog, and the scene before him was gray. He tilted his body slightly, and the sharp pain from the heavy shackles on his arms finally made him realize that he was still alive.
His fingers curled up weakly, blood splashed onto the floor, and a ray of light suddenly came in. He raised his head, faced the sudden pain, opened his eyes and looked at the person who came.
"say."
His lips were roughly pried open, and a cold pill was forced into his mouth. The young man stamped his feet in front of him and said calmly, "Who sent you?"
A face emerged from the puddle of dirty water, its lips chapped and blood-stained. His fingers trembled, and his bloodshot eyes stared intently at the newcomer. Suddenly, he sneered, "Since you already know, why ask again? Look at your current state. You can only capture a lowly ant like me, yet you still dare to dare challenge our Sect Master? You deserve to lose!"
Xie Changyan wiped the blade in his hand and raised his eyelids slightly when he heard the words, ignoring the provocative words. It seemed that he took a long time to recognize the person in front of him. "Are you Xiao Qian?"
But he just asked casually what the man's name was, he was not interested at all.
"When did it start?" Xie Changyan's eyes swept over him and he chuckled softly, "Lin Xiangxun is truly special to you. He didn't even give you something to save your life. I guess it's not because he's reluctant to give it to you, but because he has great trust in your abilities, right?"
"How long do you think you can survive..." Xiao Qian saw the other party's fingers move slightly. His face, already pale from blood loss, turned even uglier. He gritted his teeth and said weakly, "Sect Leader Lin has already spread the news of your defeat and death. As soon as you leave this door, someone will kill you immediately..."
Suddenly, there was a loud "bang" and a whole wooden board collapsed. He fell to the ground in a mess, grimacing in pain.
"Do you want to bite your tongue and commit suicide?" Xie Changyan looked down at him, his tone even a little puzzled. "To avoid betraying your master, you are willing to die? He is a bad person, but he is lucky to have such a loyal fool."
Xiao Qian covered his abdomen, his face pale. He raised his trembling fingers, pointing them towards him. "What good does it do even if you know? If you had any sense, you would have chosen a coffin for yourself earlier, so that you wouldn't end up lying in the wilderness. You don't think anyone would collect your body, do you?"
Xie Changyan raised his eyelids to look at him, and the corners of his lips slowly curled up.
"Really?" He sheathed his sword slowly. "I'll wait for him to come."
He knew very well that he could not wait any longer.
The Xuanyu has been obtained, and the golden elixir in Qu Lingfei's body is also functioning very well.
Everything was going in the direction he expected.
But the only variable...
He lowered his eyes, which seemed to be covered with a layer of turbid mist.
When they first met, she only had a dagger on her and had even forgotten to use her spiritual power, but she stubbornly wanted to rescue him from a group of monsters that were much taller than her.
At that time, he never thought that one day someone's frown or smile would make him lose his mind.
For the first time, he felt the urge to knead a person into his flesh and blood, and have him alone. Strangely, this did not make him uncomfortable. On the contrary... he was happy with it, as if this was the only thought that kept him alive.
But she would not be willing to go with him.
But what could he do? He would never allow her to join that group and stand against him.
*
"Sister Alan..."
Li Jintang held a handkerchief in his hand and carefully wiped the sweat off the girl's face while calling her softly.
The person in front of him moved his fingers, slowly opened his eyelids, and his dilated pupils were embedded in his face, so empty that it was a little creepy.
She was frightened and tried to get up in a panic, but her body slid down the wall again.
"It's me, Sister Alan. You don't have to be afraid of me," Li Jintang held her wrist to comfort her. "The bad guys have been driven away by Xie An. We are safe now."
Alan seemed to see the person in front of him clearly, and his body relaxed a little bit, and his cold fingers held her back.
At this moment, the door creaked open. Li Jintang looked up at the person who came and asked with concern, "Sister Qiuyan, how is Fellow Daoist Nangong?"
"He's with my senior brother, so he's fine," Qiu Yan said, looking at the girl before her. "Atang, you've been on guard all night. Go get some rest. I'm here."
Li Jintang looked at Alan, who still had traces of tears on his face. Perhaps because he was too frightened, he seemed not to recognize her at the moment.
"Alright, then I'll go see if Brother Qu needs any help."
She stood up and walked out of the room. The slanting sunlight made her feel dizzy for a moment.
Only after finding Nangong Xiu yesterday did they discover that Alan, who had been with them all the way, was actually an imposter, his spiritual power even surpassing theirs. Luckily, with Xie An as their protagonist, they were able to escape from the mirage mirror. Not daring to stay for a moment, they ran to the nearest town and found a random inn to stay at.
He could hear the sound of conversation coming from inside the house from a distance. He knew from the sound that the injured person was no longer in danger. Li Jintang walked over quickly, and just as he was about to turn the door, he heard a slight cough from the next room.
She paused, instinctively took two steps back and looked inside.
"Qi...Huh? Xie An, why is it you?"
She clearly remembered that this person had just gone out to buy medicine not long ago, so how could he come back so soon? And...
The young man wiped the blood from the corner of his lips, smiled and raised his eyes: "Who do you hope to be?"
And he seemed injured?
"No one." Li Jintang shook his head, not knowing whether he should go in, but also feeling that he didn't seem to want to be disturbed.
She wanted to ask more, but the moment she opened her mouth, she suddenly forgot what she was going to say.
She saw the other person raised his hand, and his obsidian eyes were like a bottomless cold pool, attracting her to fall in.
"Atang, come here."
The wind outside the window seemed to stop for a while, and the girl moved her steps and walked towards him in small steps.
Xie Changyan stood up and let her sit down. Then he leaned down and gently lifted her chin. His eyes slid down from her beautiful eyebrows, and finally slowly stopped on a petal of crimson.
"Atang, where are you going?"
Li Jintang had no idea what the person in front of her was trying to do. She just felt that this body was so light that it seemed as if it didn't belong to her.
"I'm going to look for Brother Qu and Fellow Daoist Nangong." She replied quickly.
"No," the young man's fingers went around the girl's back, gently lifted a strand of her hair from her shoulder, and entwined it with his fingertips to play with it, "Say it again."
This time she hesitated for a moment before she said, "I...I want to take Sister Alan home."
“That’s not right.”
The hair wrapped around his fingertips loosened in circles. He half-knelt down, looking at her with curved eyebrows, his voice gentle but with a hint of temptation.
"You want to go home with me."
He couldn't wait any longer, nor did he want to wait any longer.
The young man kneeling in front of her raised his head slightly, his eyes lingering on her face, so affectionate and so pious.
Li Jintang blinked woodenly, as if he had not yet reacted, and just looked at him without saying a word.
He was extremely patient, with a smile on his lips, as if he would wait here no matter how long she thought.
"I want to... go home with you?"
She repeated it in a daze, her fingers suddenly clenched her sleeves, as if she was struggling with something, and then her body tilted and she fell irresistibly into someone's arms.
An indescribable fragrance surrounded her, and she felt her eyelids drooping. She forced herself to raise her eyes and asked weakly, "What's wrong with me?"
Xie Changyan lowered his hands, letting her wrinkle his sleeves, and replied in a low, hoarse voice: "Atang, you are tired."
"I'm not tired, I..."
She couldn't finish her words, her arms fell limply, her head rested on his shoulder, and she gradually lost consciousness.
The young man lowered his eyes and stared at her profile in a trance.
Go to sleep, and when they wake up, they will be together forever without being disturbed by outsiders.
"Xie brother, have you seen Atang?"
Qu Lingfei came over sweating profusely. Seeing that he was the only one in the room, he was stunned for a moment and said, "Junior sister just said that she should be with you..."
"I haven't seen her," Xie Changyan said with a faint smile, "Maybe she was captured by a passing monster."
"...Fellow Daoist Xie, you're such a jokester." Qu Lingfei gave a few awkward laughs, then a worried look on his face. "There's no guarantee there won't be monsters following us. We'd better get out of here quickly."
"Don't worry, Brother Qu," Xie Changyan walked out of the house and calmly handed over a full wine glass. "It's okay to drink it before continuing on your journey."
Qu Lingfei frowned: "What is this?"
Xie Changyan glanced elsewhere and didn't answer directly, "Fellow Daoist Qu, how could I possibly harm you?"
Before he finished speaking, Qu Lingfei immediately took the wine glass, tilted his head back and drank it all in one gulp.
He wiped away the water stains and naturally put his arm around the man's shoulder. He tossed the wine glass in the air before it landed back in his hand. He smiled and said, "Brother Xie, of course, wouldn't harm me. It's just that the taste of this wine is a bit ordinary. After we leave here, I'll take you and Brother Nangong to taste our immortal world's wine."
Xie Changyan didn't respond. He glanced at the hand on his shoulder, frowned slightly, and finally resisted the urge to shake it off.
Heavy footsteps came towards them. When the other party saw them, he immediately threw the wounded man down roughly with a cold face, strode forward and stretched out his hand to strangle him.
"Where's my junior sister? What kind of monster were you talking about just now? Did you take her away?!"
Xie Changyan naturally would not give him the chance to attack. He leaned back slightly, and before everyone could see the situation clearly, they saw that Qi He had been bounced back.
"City Lord Qi is looking for someone, so you can leave on your own," Xie Changyan spread his hands, rather helplessly: "I, Xie, cannot take on every crime."
"If it weren't for my junior sister, who would follow you?" Qi He's face turned pale. He waved his sleeves and left without even shifting his gaze.
Qu Lingfei looked back and asked hesitantly, "Did he really just leave like that?"
"Brother, you're not still trying to get him back, are you?" Qiuyan glared at him and said unhappily, "If it weren't for him, we wouldn't have run into so much trouble, and how could we have been tricked into coming to a place like this? Now that Atang is missing, it's all his fault!"
"Junior sister, you're right. I don't mean to try to keep him." Qu Lingfei continued to stare at the direction he left, thinking, "I just don't know what his purpose is in following me this time. What if he takes Atang away..."
"Rather than worrying about things you can't change, why don't you hurry on your way?" Xie Changyan took advantage of the sudden change to stand a little further away from Qu Lingfei, so that the latter couldn't put his hand on his shoulder. "If we delay, I'm afraid it will be bad for both Fellow Daoist Nangong and this young lady."
Nangong Xiu was poisoned by the demons, and he was afraid that the only way to find the antidote was to go to the ghost market.
"Brother Xie is right. Atang has a protective amulet on him, so he should be fine..."
"But Atang is not here, and we don't know if she is safe. How can we just leave like this?" Qiuyan immediately retorted him. Perhaps because she was too worried, tears welled up in her eyes.
Nangong Xiu propped himself up with one hand against the wall, breathing weakly: "Don't worry about me, go find someone first."
"She's perfectly safe," Xie Changyan replied succinctly. He tilted his head slightly, his gaze settling on Qiuyan.
The girl's five fingers wrinkled the corners of her clothes nervously, and she looked absent-minded.
She wanted to find someone.
He sneered in his heart.
It's the best thing for her to be with me, how could I let you ruin it?
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