Chapter 28: I don’t even pretend to be weird anymore
Xie Yanyu originally thought that Helan Wei really didn't want her to follow him, and she was ready to leave the demon world and return to the Xie Mansion, but she didn't expect that he would pull her back just after she took two steps away.
Although she didn't like being dragged around with ropes tied around her wrists, it meant she could continue to follow Helan Wei.
The most important thing right now is to follow the plot.
Xie Yanyu knew this, so he did not resist and followed him back to Yuan's house.
Helan Wei has a high level of cultivation and can use the technique of shrinking the earth.
So on the way back, they shortened the distance to an inch, and in just a few dozen steps, they arrived at the door of Yuan's house.
However, when he was about to enter the resentful house, Xie Yanyu suddenly stopped.
She didn't go any further.
Helan Wei noticed it, so he turned around and looked at her. His gaze was very calm, but his pupils were dark and thick, as if there was an undercurrent surging underneath. He didn't say anything, just stood there, but seemed to be silently asking her: What are you doing?
Xie Yanyu had experienced his madness before.
He would usually be gentle and polite one second, and suddenly lose control the next. She felt that his current calmness was a precursor to madness, and if she didn't give a suitable answer, he would go crazy immediately.
She also didn't understand how such a good person could suddenly become like this. The original plot didn't seem to mention that he was so prone to going crazy.
But she really had no intention of running away, so she explained, "Sir, could you please wait for me? You just untied my disguise back in the demon world. Now I want to change my appearance again, to avoid being discovered by my brother when we enter the Resentful Mansion. He might then not let me follow you."
Helan Wei lowered his eyes and looked at her for a while.
She looked gentle and sincere, and it didn't seem like she was lying. She was simply afraid of being discovered by Xie Chengjin. After all, Xie Chengjin was a man who attached great importance to etiquette and followed the rules. He would never allow an unmarried woman in his family to serve a man outside the family like she did.
But when he drank the love poison, he also gave her a chance and said he wanted to marry her. It was she who refused this opportunity. Now she insists on following him. It is not right or proper. She deserves to be treated like a mouse seeing a cat when she sees Xie Chengjin.
He was inexplicably unhappy, but he also felt that she deserved it.
After a long while, he said nothing, but just said "hmm" slowly to her, indicating that she should change her appearance.
After getting his approval, Xie Yanyu moved and walked into the alley next to him.
All disguise spells have one characteristic, which is that there must be no one around when disguising. Xie Yanyu learned the art of disguise by himself from a book. The one he learned was the most complicated one. In addition to avoiding people, he could not have any magic tools on him.
She walked into the alley, made sure there was no one around, then lowered her eyes and saw the rope tied around her wrist.
She poked her finger at the Immortal Binding Rope, trying to figure out how to untie it, and wondered if she should go out and tell him she needed to untie it before using her disguise. She didn't like being controlled, nor did she like having to report everything, but Helan Wei was always going crazy, and she wasn't sure why. She didn't know how he would react if she took the rope off now.
She's still hesitating.
On that side,
Helan Wei was waiting for her outside, his posture relaxed, his brows gentle, but his hand tightly grasped the other end of the Immortal Binding Rope.
After waiting for a while, he felt the other end of the Binding Rope moving. He was very familiar with this movement. In the past, when the Binding Rope was used to capture fugitives, the fugitives would make this noise when they wanted to untie the rope.
The expression on Helan Wei's face remained gentle, unchanged, but his eyes quickly turned cold.
He quickly turned around and walked into the alley.
Then he saw Xie Yanyu with her back to him, seemingly pulling at the rope tied around her wrist, trying to untie it.
The veins on the back of his hand bulged as he gripped the rope.
Then he exerted force on his wrist.
Xie Yanyu was dragged to his side again.
Before I could react, I heard him ask calmly, "Why are you untying the Immortal Rope?"
Xie Yanyu heard this and knew that this was a sign that he was going crazy, but at this moment she seemed to have noticed the reason why he was going crazy——
He was afraid she would run away.
Xie Yanyu found some patterns.
He pretended not to care about anything, but he was actually extremely arrogant. She had run away from him a few times before, and he might have felt angry as if he was provoked and disobeyed. The more this happened, the more he would not allow her to leave. After all, this was his personality. If anyone was to leave, he would have to leave her first. There was no chance for her to escape from him.
She was not an object. She was dragged around by him like this time and time again. It would be a lie to say that she was not angry. But after realizing the reason for his madness, she found it a little funny while being angry.
So she turned her head and said in a rather sarcastic tone, "Sir, why are you so angry? Are you so afraid that I'll run away?"
Helan Wei's eyes grew more serious when he heard this.
But he didn't say anything, just stared at her in silence.
Xie Yanyu was not afraid.
No matter what his reason for not wanting her to leave, it also meant that he was willing to let her follow him. As long as she followed him, she wouldn't have to worry about not being able to follow the plot. Now that the plot was settled, she had nothing to fear and didn't want to suppress her temper anymore.
The Immortal Binding Rope was tied around her right wrist.
She grabbed the rope and used the skills given to her by the system to directly absorb the spiritual power on the rope.
So in just the blink of an eye, half of her Immortal Binding Rope lost its spiritual power and turned from a high-level magic weapon into an ordinary rope.
Then, facing Helan Wei's gaze, she raised her hand and exerted force right in front of him.
Then he cut the rope right under his nose.
Then she raised her eyes, pursed her lips and smiled at him, her eyebrows and eyes were gentle and pale,
Looks very docile.
But there was no light in those dark eyes, but one could more or less see a hint of implicit provocation.
Helan Wei's expression completely changed after being looked at by her.
His expression was gentle before, but now it turned completely cold, as if he wanted to kill her.
He slowly stepped forward, approaching her. "Xie Yanyu, I should have told you the consequences of lying to me. If you can't prove that what you just said to me was true, I will make it impossible for you to lie again. So what are you doing now? You're not even pretending anymore, are you?"
Xie Yanyu had gotten used to his sudden madness.
Knowing that he could no longer suppress his anger and was about to explode, she didn't wait for him to make a move. Instead, she took the initiative and while he was approaching, she stuffed the broken rope back into his hand.
This action was unexpected, just like a provocation to him, and it was essentially no different from her slapping him on the spot.
Helan Wei paused, holding the broken immortal rope in his palm, his face twisted for a moment.
Xie Yanyu did not continue to provoke him at this time.
She knew when to stop and only resisted within the limits she could bear. After her previous bout of sarcasm, she felt much better. Now her attitude immediately softened and she said calmly:
"I didn't lie, sir. I really want to follow you. Look at this bundle of immortal ropes. I can always untie it. If I wanted to run, I would have already run away, right? But I haven't run away. I'm untying it now only because my disguise is a bit complicated. If I want to perform the spell, I not only have to avoid people, but also cannot have any magical tools on me."
Helan Wei stared at her, not sure whether he believed her or not.
Xie Yanyu raised his head and added, "Sir, if you're really worried, why don't you help me disguise myself? But do you know such a low-level magic as disguise?"
Helan Wei replied calmly: "No."
For serious cultivators, the art of disguise is too low-class, consumes spiritual energy, and is sneaky when performed. They look down on this low-class magic. If they need to disguise themselves, they can just buy disguise pills directly.
Therefore, most monks do not know how to disguise themselves, but can only break the disguise.
Xie Yanyu said: "Then please go out first, I will come out after Yi Wanrong, I really won't run away."
Helan Wei said indifferently: "You can't run away either. What is your cultivation level? What is mine?"
Xie Yanyu thought to himself that it was true.
She is at the sixth stage of foundation building, and Helan Wei is at the ninth stage of Nascent Soul, and they are almost at the Spirit Transformation stage. As long as he is willing, he can find her no matter where she goes.
So why did he always worry about whether she would run away or not? After all, he could always catch her back.
Maybe it was because he felt that she was provoking him by leaving on her own initiative, and it affected his self-esteem.
She thought to herself, but she still tried to explain to him: "What are you talking about? I want to follow you even if it's too late. I avoided you several times before because I thought you didn't want to see me."
As soon as these words fell.
Helan Wei laughed.
He looked at her, there was not much smile in his eyes, but the dangerous feeling that he was about to go crazy at any time disappeared a lot.
Xie Yanyu saw that he had returned to his normal state.
She also smiled at him and waited for him to go out, but the next second, she saw Helan Wei suddenly step forward.
Before she could react,
He suddenly put one hand on her waist and exerted force——
Then Xie Yanyu was directly picked up by him.
Xie Yanyu was caught off guard and felt a little dizzy. Before she could recover, she felt his hand on the back of her head again.
He pressed her face into his arms, covering it so tightly that she not only felt dizzy but also had difficulty breathing.
Then I heard his cold voice fall into my ears——
“I don’t believe a word you say now.
"Cover your face well, I'll carry you in. Xie Chengjin won't be so bored as to pull you out of my arms to look at your face."
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at the same time,
Resentment in the house.
After Xie Chengjin sent someone to send Xie Yanyu away in the morning, he walked around the entire house, recording as many strange things as possible in the house.
In this house, the distances between courtyards are extremely long, and all roads are one-way, but no matter where you go, you have to pass through a pavilion in the middle of the house.
At this moment, he was sitting in this pavilion, picking up his pen to draw a map of the entire house, and then the tip of the pen hovered in the middle of the map, just about to draw the location of this pavilion.
However, before he could put pen to paper, he heard footsteps approaching from afar.
Xie Chengjin raised his eyes and looked at the person who came.
Then I saw Helan Wei walking towards me, holding a woman in his arms, with one hand on the back of her head, and the woman also put her hand on his neck, the gesture was a little too intimate.
The woman was covered tightly.
I couldn't see the face clearly, only a pale and fragile neck exposed under the black hair.
Somewhat familiar.
Xie Chengjin usually doesn't pay much attention to this.
But for no reason,
He remembered that not long ago, when he was still in Xie Mansion, he saw Xie Yanyu in her yard. Her clothes were disheveled, revealing her neck with tiny finger marks. Her neck was slender and pale, so that even the slightest red mark on her skin would be very obvious.
I don't know why he remembered the appearance of her neck.
But at this time,
He looked at the person in Helan Wei's arms, and for a moment he thought of Xie Yanyu.
He paused.
A strange feeling emerged in his chest. Without moving his eyes, he placed the tip of his pen in the middle of the map, leaving a smudge of ink.
Then,
When Helan Wei was about to pass by the pavilion, he called out to him:
"Brother Helan, please stay."
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