Chapter 34: Flirting with others in front of him
When Xie Chengjin entered the room, he saw only Helan Wei in the room.
This man was sitting under a glass lamp, reading a file. He was well-dressed and had a beautiful demeanor.
But there was a tiny bite mark between his lips, as if he had just kissed someone.
If it were any other child from an aristocratic family, they would have concealed these marks when meeting others. It was just a bite mark that could be erased with a little spiritual power. But Helan Wei didn't hide it at all. Even the file in his hand had a circle of deep bite marks on his fingers, which looked particularly ambiguous.
But he just left it exposed and let others see it.
There is a touch of casualness and frivolity in his temperament.
At this time, this feeling of frivolity becomes even stronger.
Xie Chengjin never allowed his clan members to behave in this way.
But Helan Wei is not a member of the Xie family, so he naturally wouldn't meddle in other people's affairs.
So he looked away expressionlessly.
However, for some reason, the anxiety in his heart only grew, so after looking away, he paid attention to the furnishings in the room for the first time. The woman was clearly standing in front of the window. If she wanted to leave, there was only one door to enter and exit. He did not see her leave when he came in.
So Helan Wei shouldn't be the only one in this room.
She hid.
There are not many places to hide in the house, such as in the cabinet, under the table, and behind the screen.
Xie Chengjin looked at them one by one.
Finally, he saw a piece of white skirt peeking out from behind the screen.
That's when
Helan Wei noticed his strangeness and said slowly, "Brother Xie, what are you looking for?"
Xie Chengjin paused.
Logically speaking, he should have asked Helan Wei directly who was behind the screen, or used magic to pull the person out to take a look. He has always been straightforward in his actions. He had dreamed that Xie Yanyu had followed him secretly before, so he immediately came to Helan Wei to look for her. When Helan Wei brought the person back in the morning, he also fought with Helan Wei because he wanted to turn her face to take a look.
But at this time,
He, uncharacteristically, did nothing.
He just sat there, and then a thought suddenly came to him -
If the person behind the screen really was Xie Yanyu, how should he deal with her? Should he really kill her?
I had clearly thought before that since she had been disobedient time and again, sooner or later she would do something to bring disgrace upon our family, so it would be alright to kill her in advance to prevent future trouble.
But at this moment, he couldn't help but think more. He had always acted fairly and according to the rules. She hadn't caused any major disaster yet. Would it be unfair for him to kill her directly? Would it be against the rules?
Xie Chengjin didn't want to admit it.
But he did have a subtle malice in his eyes when he faced her.
The clock struck in the room, and he calmly suppressed the thought. After a while, he withdrew his gaze from the hem of the white skirt.
Then he replied to Helan Wei calmly: "I didn't find anything."
He suddenly felt annoyed and didn't want to care about who was behind the screen.
Maybe he was overthinking it.
He tried to convince himself once again, how could Helan Wei let Xie Yanyu slap him and bite his finger? The wound was so deep that it almost bit off his finger. Even if Helan Wei was not angry, how could someone like Xie Yanyu have the courage to do this.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, you will find that this statement is not so tenable.
But for some reason, Xie Chengjin suppressed his thoughts and stopped thinking about it.
"The vengeful ghost just took action,"
He began to talk business with Helan Wei, forcing himself to calm down and stop paying attention to trivial matters that had nothing to do with dealing with the vengeful ghost.
However, at this time,
There was a sudden noise behind the screen.
*
Xie Yanyu was standing at the window looking out and immediately recognized the person coming in as Xie Chengjin.
She was very jealous of her stepbrother, but the more jealous she was, the more she remembered his words and actions, so she didn't need to see his face clearly, she could recognize him just by looking at his silhouette.
She didn't want him to find out that she and Helan Wei were back.
So he quickly hid behind the screen and used a disguise technique.
When Yi Wanrong arrived, he heard him and Helan Wei talking about serious matters. The vengeful ghost had already taken action, so they were now starting to perfect their plan to deal with it.
Xie Yanyu wanted to use this opportunity to obtain the inner elixir of the resentful ghost, so he also needed to know their plan.
Seeing them chatting,
So she stayed behind the screen and listened quietly.
But before I even heard a few words,
I saw a sinister ghost face slowly appearing on the screen.
Then, the ghost face stared at her, even grinning at her, and then transformed into a murderous aura and suddenly pounced towards her face!
Xie Yanyu instantly stopped caring about the fact that he was still hiding from Xie Chengjin.
She quickly raised her hand and struck back at the evil spirit.
The evil spirit only looked scary, but was actually not very strong. Xie Yanyu was at the sixth level of foundation building, and he instinctively made a rash move, and actually dispersed the evil spirit directly.
The spiritual power dispersed the evil spirit and then fell on the screen.
Then,
The solid wooden screen was broken in half, making a loud crackling sound.
The next second,
The remaining half of the screen fell to the ground,
There was another loud bang.
The whole incident happened in an instant.
Xie Yanyu was almost hit by the screen and quickly took two steps back.
Then she instinctively raised her eyes,
Without the screen blocking my view, my eyes met directly with the two people in the room.
*
When the vengeful ghost first attacks the people in the house, it will not take their lives directly, but will choose a gentler method.
At the moment, it chose to use evil spirit to randomly attack the people in the house. Although this evil spirit is not strong, if it is not dispersed on the spot, it will entangle you and control your mind.
Xie Yanyu broke up the evil spirit on the spot, so it was not a big deal.
But the screen was also broken by her.
She couldn't hide anymore, so she had to meet Xie Chengjin.
The moment his eyes met,
Xie Yanyu couldn't help but feel a little relieved that he had changed his appearance just now, otherwise he would have been caught by him now.
But even so, she was still a little scared of Xie Chengjin.
Because sometimes he seemed to be able to read her mind and could inexplicably know some of her plans, so now, he just looked at her quietly, his expression was as cold as usual, and there was no emotion in his eyes, but she still felt a little guilty.
So she was the first to look away, looked at Helan Wei, pointed at the screen on the ground, and explained to him: "Just now, an evil spirit rushed towards me."
She lowered her voice deliberately when she said this, and her voice became a little sharp.
Although it still sounded natural, it was no longer her original voice.
The disguise is quite comprehensive.
When he saw Xie Chengjin, he was like a mouse seeing a cat.
Helan Wei's eyes swept over her from head to toe, and he thought with some sarcasm, wondering where her courage to bite his fingers and slap him had gone. However, his expression softened involuntarily, and he asked her, "Are you hurt?"
Xie Yanyu shook his head: "No."
Helan Wei seemed to be asking casually.
Hearing her answer,
He didn't react at all and just said "hmm" lightly.
Then he looked at Xie Chengjin and covered up for her: "She is shy. She saw you coming over just now, so she hid behind the screen."
After that,
Then he said to Xie Yanyu, "Come sit here."
*
After Helan Wei finished talking to Xie Yanyu, he continued to discuss the plan to deal with the vengeful ghost with Xie Chengjin.
They no longer sat at the desk, but knelt facing each other in front of a low table. This posture was more convenient for discussing matters and for looking through the files and maps on the table.
Xie Yanyu followed Helan Wei's instructions and walked over to kneel down next to him.
She didn't say anything, just listened to their discussion quietly.
However, it didn't take long for her to feel something was wrong.
At the moment, she and Helan Wei sat side by side opposite Xie Chengjin.
Because they were talking about serious matters, Xie Chengjin looked at Helan Wei while speaking.
But I don't know why,
Xie Yanyu always felt that Xie Chengjin was not actually looking at Helan Wei, but at her.
Xie Yanyu even felt that he was a little bit afraid of everything.
After all, she was still in disguise, and based on her understanding of Xie Chengjin, he would never be distracted by unimportant matters when he was doing his work. He was talking to Helan Wei now, so how could he possibly be distracted to look at her?
But she is particularly sensitive to sight.
No matter how she analyzed it rationally, her instincts were telling her clearly—
Xie Chengjin was just looking at her.
Her scalp tingled when she was stared at, and she even suspected that Xie Chengjin had noticed something.
She even wanted to touch her face to confirm whether the disguise was still in effect.
But she held back.
However, she felt a little depressed because Xie Chengjin was always looking at her.
It feels like there is a big knife hanging over your head, and you don’t know when it will fall.
Xie Yanyu was very annoyed by this feeling, and she was even more furious with Xie Chengjin because this person was oppressing her with his gaze. She had endured it again and again, but now she couldn't help but want to speak in a sarcastic tone and ask Xie Chengjin why he was looking at her.
Under normal circumstances, she would really do this.
But at the moment, she still wanted to listen to their discussion on the plan to deal with the resentful ghost and study how to take the opportunity to obtain the resentful ghost's inner elixir, so she did not want to interrupt them or create unnecessary trouble. If she missed the opportunity to obtain the resentful ghost's inner elixir just to vent her momentary emotions, she should regret it.
She couldn't leave now, and she was suppressing her anger, making her feel even more uncomfortable.
After another long while,
She couldn't help but hide behind Helan Wei.
*
Helan Wei was not unaware of Xie Chengjin's abnormality.
Xie Chengjin was straightforward in his actions. According to his personality, if he had any doubts, he would have exposed her directly, but now he was just talking about business while looking at her.
But even if he noticed it, Helan Wei did not take any action, as if he knew nothing.
He just knelt there and continued to discuss the plan to deal with the vengeful ghost with Xie Chengjin.
Because he wanted to know how long Xie Yanyu could endure.
And now, she approached him and hid behind him.
During the movement, her body rubbed against him slightly.
The clothes were folded together, and one could feel the bodies sticking to each other vaguely.
Xie Yanyu's attention was not on this, so he didn't realize that they were so close.
But Helan Wei noticed it.
He paused, and finally stopped talking to Xie Chengjin.
Then he looked at Xie Yanyu.
He thought of the cattails growing on the wall. They moved only when the wind blew. They were usually quiet, but now, because Xie Chengjin was staring at them, they wanted to avoid him, so they moved towards him.
He was quiet for a moment.
Then he suddenly laughed softly, and turned back slightly,
Originally, he and Xie Yanyu were very close, and when he tilted his head like this, his lips were almost touching her forehead.
But he didn't come any closer.
He just kept this distance, gave her a way out, and said lightly: "Go back when you are tired."
As he spoke,
His lips were almost touching her forehead.
Xie Yanyu froze for a moment, then shook his head.
If she wanted to leave, she would have left long ago and hid behind Helan Wei because she had to stay here, but if she hid behind him, Xie Chengjin would not be able to see her.
Xie Chengjin was talking about serious matters.
He probably wouldn't suddenly ask her to come out from behind Helan Wei.
Xie Yanyu had already avoided Xie Chengjin's sight, thinking that the matter was over, so she thought about it and said to Helan Wei: "I'm not tired, I'll stay here."
As soon as these words fell,
She saw Helan Wei's eyelashes twitch again.
He still tilted his head to look at her, but his expression had darkened. He said with a half-smile, "So you came to me to inquire about the plan for dealing with the vengeful ghost?"
He said this,
He suddenly lowered his head and leaned close to her ear to ask, "Aren't you afraid of being discovered by Xie Chengjin? Even if he stares at you for so long, you still have to listen to the end?"
His breath was warm, and it fell on my earlobe, bringing a slight tingling sensation.
Xie Yanyu's back stiffened.
Because his voice was a little cold, giving people the illusion that he was going to bite her ear bones to pieces in the next second.
Seeing this, Xie Yanyu felt almost helpless.
But probably because he had completely figured out what Helan Wei wanted,
She wasn't so lost in thought. He simply wanted her to prove that he liked him, so she thought for a moment and quickly said to him, "I do want to hear about this plan, but I also want to hear it for you, my lord."
Helan Wei's eyelashes drooped, and there was a hint of sarcasm in his eyes.
But he didn't say anything.
He seemed to be waiting for her to continue.
Xie Yanyu laid out his purpose: "I just want to hear if there is anything I can do to help you in this plan."
She tilted her head and asked him, "Otherwise, sir, tell me, what's the point of me listening to this plan?"
*
Helan Wei and Xie Yanyu were talking.
Sometimes whispering,
Sometimes it's a normal conversation in a low voice,
The posture is very intimate, with a hint of whispering.
Xie Chengjin sat opposite,
Even though Xie Yanyu had already hidden behind Helan Wei, with only half of her body exposed, he was still looking at her with an indifferent and cold gaze.
He had been looking at her.
Her face is actually very unfamiliar,
But the doubts that Xie Chengjin had suppressed with great difficulty kept popping up again and again, like ripples in stagnant water. He couldn't help but think that she knew the art of disguise, and he almost wanted to grab her and use a spell on her face to break the disguise.
But he didn't move in the end.
Seeing her being so intimate with Helan Wei as if no one was around, he felt a little irritated, and couldn't help but think -
If this person is really Xie Yanyu,
Even if she changed her appearance, would she have the courage to be so intimate with Helan Wei in front of him?
She knew clearly that the Xie family had strict rules, and he would not allow the Xie family to be so disrespectful in front of him. She had disguised herself and followed him before, and she had obviously been caught by him once. She was not stupid, and she should have learned from her mistakes. How could she be so bold as to disguise herself and get close to him?
I don't know what the psychology is,
Xie Chengjin found another reason why this person was not Xie Yanyu.
Then he suppressed the doubts in his heart.
But probably because he hated others being so intimate in front of him, which was simply against etiquette, he frowned and his fingertips felt sore.
So he turned a blind eye and simply looked away. He no longer looked at the woman or Helan Wei, but lowered his eyes to look at the file and continued to talk about his plan to deal with the vengeful ghost.
This plan is not complicated.
It is only necessary to wait for the vengeful ghost to take action, and then improve it according to the means used by the vengeful ghost.
But in a short while, they finalized the entire plan.
When we were about to divide the work according to the plan,
There was a sudden fluctuation of spiritual power in Helan Wei's communication talisman.
Helan Wei paused, took out the communication talisman and took a look, and found that it was a video call request sent by the elders of Shangqing Immortal Palace.
Video messaging is different from ordinary messaging.
Ordinary messages are text messages.
But video allows both parties to see each other's real-time images and hear each other's real-time audio.
Helan Wei didn't know what the elder of the sect meant by the sudden video call.
But there are other people in the room.
He wasn't sure if others could hear what he said, so he decided to go out and connect the video call.
Then he apologized and went out with the summons token.
So for a while,
Only Xie Yanyu and Xie Chengjin were left in the room.
Xie Chengjin no longer looked at Xie Yanyu, but was just arranging the files on the table.
Xie Yanyu felt more at ease.
She kept her distance from Xie Chengjin and remained silent.
The room was silent, and the only sound was the sound of the wind outside.
It's a bit windy outside.
Probably because Helan Wei did not close the door tightly when he went out, the wind blew the door open after a while.
Then the cold wind rushed into the house through the crack in the door.
The map on the table was blown off unexpectedly.
Xie Yanyu was quick-eyed and quick-handed, and subconsciously grabbed the map.
That is when
Xie Chengjin also reached out to grab the map.
The two of them grabbed the map together.
That's why they bumped into each other.
Xie Chengjin didn't like touching others and wanted to withdraw his hand immediately.
However, as he rubbed her fingers, he noticed that her hands were a bit rough.
He lowered his eyes and looked,
I saw that her sleeves were very long, basically covering her hands, with only her fingers exposed.
There were small scars on her fingers that had not yet scabbed off, as if they were caused by a scorpion sting.
In a flash of lightning,
Xie Chengjin suddenly remembered that Xie Yanyu raised scorpions.
So the action of stopping was stopped.
On the other side,
Xie Yanyu touched his hand.
His body temperature was very low. He was like ice, cold and emotionless. His hands were also as cold as ice.
She shivered from the cold and thought that his hands were even colder than hers. Then, seeing him grab the map, she loosened her grip and was about to take her hand back.
But she just moved to pull her hand away,
The next second,
I was caught off guard and he held my hand.
Xie Yanyu paused.
Because it was too sudden, she was stunned for a moment.
That is the moment,
His cold fingers seemed to follow her fingers, moving up little by little, caressing her skin.
The action was somewhat ambiguous, but it was hard to arouse any romantic feelings. It just felt like being explored and scrutinized by a poisonous snake. Xie Yanyu's scalp went numb for a moment, and he pulled his hand away with force.
Xie Chengjin held her hand tightly, not letting her pull away.
He was so strong that he almost broke her hand bones.
Because his palm tightly clasped her hand, the rough scar on his palm rubbed against her skin, the touch was clear, and it also caused a sharp itch on the back of her hand.
Then he continued to move his fingertips upwards, touching the back of her hand which was covered by her sleeve.
Going further up, he touched her wrist.
That's when
He felt the touch of gauze on his fingertips.
Her wrists were wrapped in circles of gauze.
Only one person would do this.
She had been bleeding him to treat the poison for years, and the knife had cut him from his forearm to his wrist, so he had to wrap his wrist.
Xie Yanyu.
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