Chapter 18: Not in the last life, and certainly not in this life
Haven't received the token yet.
There are only two boxes left to be searched. If I leave now, it may not be so easy to get the token later.
Xie Yanyu thought about this and said, "But the house hasn't been cleaned yet. How can you sleep peacefully if the house is not cleaned thoroughly?"
"It's okay." Helan Wei interrupted her.
Normally gentle and relaxed, he was now seething with anger. Though he took his anger out on others, he kept his temper contained and didn't express it. His tone, however, grew colder. His superficial gentleness faded, revealing his inherent arrogance. He repeated, "Go down."
The tone of voice had a hint of not allowing disobedience.
When ordinary servants heard this, they would have left immediately.
However, Xie Yanyu did not act immediately.
Helan Wei's eyes fell on her.
After waiting for a while,
Then she moved and walked towards him.
Helan Wei was standing at the door at this time.
She came towards the door, probably about to leave.
He was too lazy to say anything more, so he turned slightly to make way for her to go out.
However, she suddenly stopped halfway and stood in front of two unopened boxes in his luggage.
Then,
Helan Wei saw her bow to him, pointing to the two boxes, and whispered, "Young Master, your luggage hasn't been sorted out yet."
She had a submissive look on her face, but her nature was not gentle. As long as she didn't want to leave, she would try her best to stay. Even though she felt that Helan Wei was in a very bad mood, she still continued:
"If you don't like having someone else in the room, I'll move the box to the side room and take out the clothes you need for daily use and then bring them back."
As soon as these words fell,
Helan Wei was almost laughing out of anger.
What kind of servant would be like this? The master told him to leave, but he insisted on staying to work? It didn't seem like he wanted to pack his luggage, but rather wanted to stay, or had some ulterior motive.
If he heard such words normally, he would just take it as a joke and let it go.
But he was already filled with nameless anger today, and he had no patience at this moment. He gathered some spiritual power in his fingertips, ready to get the person out directly. However, before he could move, his eyes accidentally fell on her hand and caught a glimpse of white -
Because she was pointing at the box, her sleeves were turned up, revealing a small part of her arm.
Her arms were crisscrossed with white gauze.
To secure it, wrap one end of the gauze around the thumb and around the base of the palm.
Only Xie Yanyu would wrap the gauze like this,
She has been supplying blood to Xie Chengjin for many years, and she has to cut her arm to let the blood flow every half a month. Usually, the previous cut has not healed yet, and she has to cut it again. And because her right hand is used for writing and working, she only cuts her left hand and not her right hand. Therefore, her left forearm is always wrapped in gauze and it is almost never taken off.
The maid in front of me also happened to have her left hand wrapped in gauze.
If it is a coincidence, it is too much of a coincidence.
Helan Wei's gaze moved down and fell on her hand again.
Her hands were long and slender, yet they didn't appear frail. Instead, they seemed to embody strength and resilience, their bones and flesh well-proportioned, like a bamboo shoot. They were beautiful hands, yet her skin was extremely pale, almost devoid of color. Her fingers were stained with splotchy wounds, still unhealed and slightly red, as if from a scorpion sting.
Xie Yanyu also raises scorpions.
She looks weak and calm, and it is hard to believe that she would raise such a vicious creature.
But Helan Wei had seen with his own eyes how she placed the poisonous scorpion in her palm.
He paused.
The movement of gathering spiritual energy in the fingertips suddenly stopped.
For a moment, he was surprised that he could remember these little details so clearly.
But before I could think about it any further,
The next second,
I saw her bend down slightly and start moving the two boxes.
Helan Wei suddenly said, "...Forget it."
Upon hearing this, Xie Yanyu put down his suitcase and turned to look at him: "Master, don't you want me to move my luggage to the side room to sort it out?"
Helan Wei looked at her quietly for a while, then suddenly raised his hand and closed the door.
The wooden door creaked, and he walked in, sat down at the table, and said calmly, "That's it."
*
Xie Yanyu has always lived by watching other people's faces, so she is particularly good at observing people's words and expressions. When Helan Wei drove her out just now, she clearly felt that he was angry and in a bad mood. However, at this time, she vaguely felt that the oppressive feeling on him had weakened.
In just two sentences,
Why are his moods so up and down?
Xie Yanyu had no idea what he was thinking.
She noticed that he was looking at her, so she turned around, opened the two boxes with her back to him, and began to look through his luggage, pretending to organize things while looking for the token.
Not long after, the token of Shangqing Immortal Palace was found in the corner of one of the boxes.
She hid the token in her sleeve, but began to think about another thing -
She originally planned to reveal her identity to him after getting the token.
But now Helan Wei's mood is not stable enough, sometimes good and sometimes bad, it is difficult for her to guess what he is thinking;
I wanted to reveal my identity and communicate with him because I didn't want the relationship to remain awkward. But at this time, who knows if I would say something wrong and make the relationship even more awkward.
Xie Yanyu was a little hesitant, so he started to read the original plot again to see what other plots he could follow.
This time, I actually found a small plot point——
In the original plot,
Because she was infected with the love-thread Gu, she had no choice but to follow Helan Wei and enter the Shangqing Immortal Palace as a menial disciple. Once, Helan Wei went down the mountain to eliminate a demon, and she happened to be infected with the love-thread Gu when she was infected. She had no choice but to disguise herself as a maid and follow him to eliminate the demon.
Helan Wei found it interesting.
He knew she was disguised as a maid, but he didn't expose her, pretending not to recognize her. He watched her do her maid's work for several days, cleaning his room and cooking for him, and he didn't even mention helping her remove the love poison. Later, when the poison flared up and she was in a state of utter misery, he seemed to have had enough of his fun and mercifully helped her remove the poison. He also gave her the treasures he had taken from her when he was exorcising the demon, as compensation.
Xie Yanyu looked at the original text,
I don't think the word "compensation" is quite appropriate.
Helan Wei's gentleness on the surface was all false. In his heart, he was contemptuous and mean. He essentially treated her as a plaything and entertainment. Seeing her like this was like watching an interesting drama.
The treasure he threw to her should be called "reward", which was to make her miserable so that he could be happy.
Xie Yanyu pondered this plot,
Although she no longer has the love thread Gu,
But this time she also came here disguised as a maid, and now she is doing the work of a servant under Helan Wei's nose.
She can definitely use this plot point now.
If his identity were revealed, the plot would be disrupted.
When Xie Yanyu thought of this, he immediately gave up the idea of revealing his identity.
*
Helan Wei was sitting not far away, his eyes fixed on Xie Yanyu.
She had her back to him and was packing her luggage.
She was like this when she was with him.
Helan Wei had seen too many people who were attentive to him, but no one was like her. She stayed with him without trying to attract his attention, nor did she disturb him too much. She just found something to do. So he allowed her to stay with him longer, and even felt a subtle sense of security when she stayed quietly with him like this.
But these were things from her previous life when she still loved him.
After being reborn in this life,
He found her every move difficult to predict, as if she didn't want to have anything to do with him anymore.
She is like this,
There was no reason for him to bend his back and get close to her.
He was used to being high and mighty, and she was not an important person. He could allow her to get close to him. If she loved him and pursued him this year as she did in her previous life, then in this life he could give her the wealth and glory she wanted, and keep her by his side from the beginning. In order to avoid any mistakes, he could even drink the love poison to tie her down and prevent her from going to someone else in the future.
But he would not bend his back for her, not even lower his head slightly.
That wouldn’t happen in her previous life, so when she said she wanted to break up with him completely, he never looked for her again.
Not in this life.
I'm ready to never see you again in this life,
But now that she suddenly appeared here, quietly beside him, just packing her luggage with her back to him, his mood instinctively calmed down.
That little sense of security comforted him very well.
The fire that was suppressed in my heart was almost extinguished.
Only then did Helan Wei begin to think—
Maybe she hasn't changed, and is still the same as she was at this time in her previous life, still liking him.
Otherwise, why would she follow him here, walk such a long way, and appear in his room?
He asked her to leave, but she refused.
So what were those previous changes?
When Helan Wei thought of this, that subtle feeling of uneasiness came up again, a little bit, very subtle, wrapped around his heart like spider silk. It didn't seem to exist at ordinary times, but every time at this time, it would suddenly tighten and strangle him.
He instinctively rejected this feeling.
It's a bit like fear,
People like him, who were born standing in the clouds, should not be afraid of anything.
He suppressed this feeling and stopped thinking about it.
In short, Xie Yanyu had followed him all the way here, and now she was refusing to leave his bedroom. Wasn't she looking for an opportunity to reveal her identity to him? She liked him so much, and now she took the initiative to come close to him, so he could give her another chance.
But he would no longer take the initiative to give her a chance like he did when he was just reborn.
Helan Wei looked at her quietly.
He didn't say anything, waiting for her to turn around and reveal her identity to him.
After a while,
She finally finished packing the boxes, stood up and turned around.
Helan Wei looked at her and saw her move her lips, guessing that she was about to confess her identity to him.
However, given her personality, she probably wouldn't be straightforward and frank, but would say something ambiguous to draw his attention to her disguise. However, he didn't know what she would say specifically, so he sat up a little straighter, his expression calm, and guessed what she would say next.
But the next second,
But I heard her say goodbye directly and gently——
"I've finished cleaning up. Sir, please take a rest. I'll take my leave now."
*
at the same time.
Another courtyard in the resentful house,
After Xie Chengjin came back from the banquet, he washed up and went to bed.
But in order to prevent the resentful ghosts from causing trouble, he did not let down his guard and even did not extinguish the candles in the house, so he slept very lightly.
Half asleep and half awake, he had another dream.
The dream still revolves around Xie Yanyu,
This time, the dream unfolds from Xie Yanyu's first-person perspective.
He dreamed that she disguised herself, replaced the identity of a maid, and secretly followed him to Yuan's house, and then went to Helan Wei's bedroom.
At this moment, the candle flame flickered and suddenly made a crackling sound.
Xie Chengjin's eyelashes trembled.
Opened his eyes.
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