Chapter 26 Who wants your life? The biggest idiot in the world. ...
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Their lips met, and as they tasted the slightly bitter flavor of the wine, Chu Li hugged him tightly, longing for more.
He rarely takes the initiative, always saying he wants to take things slowly.
Remember when they were at the Shang family's house? Chu Li secretly taught a servant a lesson for speaking ill of her behind his back, but Shang Xinglan found out and ignored her for three days.
Chu Li got angry with him and forced him to kiss her. She even asked him if he was disgusted by her beggar status. At that moment, Shang Xinglan looked at her intently, his eyes filled with a mixture of anger and heartache. He made a harsh statement, saying that as long as she didn't change her bad habits, he would never take the initiative to be intimate with her again.
Chu Li was furious, but there was nothing she could do about it.
He always had so many reasons and so many rules, which not only restrained himself but also Chu Li.
Such a carefree kiss could only happen when he had fallen into demonic ways and was drunk.
After a while, Shang Xinglan suddenly released her and pressed her against the wall.
It turned out someone had gone upstairs.
Chu Li pursed her lips and stood obediently in the corner. As passersby brushed past her, she glanced up and stole a look at Shang Xinglan's expression.
There was a faint red tinge at the corner of her eye, and her eyes were dark, making it impossible to discern what she was thinking.
Bodhisattva Dew is truly a wonderful thing.
I wonder what would happen to Shang Xinglan if he drank any more?
After the passerby left, Chu Li carefully approached him, her expression concerned, "Shall I help you back?"
Shang Xinglan avoided her hand, clearly having regained some of her composure.
Chu Li, unwilling to give up, reached for his hand again, but this time Shang Xinglan did not dodge.
She smiled and was about to lead him back to the room when she heard a deep voice in her ear.
"Achu, ascend with me."
Chu Li froze.
“I can let bygones be bygones, and I will no longer question the reasons you tried to stop me,” he said softly, his eyes lowered. “Climb with me, raise the child, and I will take good care of you and Yinyin.”
Chu Li suddenly released his hand and took a half step back.
Knowing her silence, Shang Xinglan chuckled softly, "This won't work either. You want me dead?"
Chu Li twisted the hem of her clothes, looked up at him, and tried her best to explain, "I don't want to, I really don't want to."
Upon hearing this, Shang Xinglan pursed her lips, reached out and cupped her face, and said gently, "Achu, tell me, why?"
His hands were so warm, so warm that Chu Li almost cried.
Whenever he called her A Chu, it was as if he was reminding Chu Li that there had truly been an A Chu in the world, and that A Chu should have been his real wife.
All the tenderness that Shang Xinglan gave her should never have belonged to her in the first place.
Her eyelashes quickly welled up with tears, and Chu Li opened her mouth, but her voice choked with emotion.
"Take your time, no rush." Shang Xinglan gently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes and stroked her head like she was comforting a child. "I'll wait for you to speak."
His wife was far too timid; she would run away at the slightest fright.
Chu Li wiped her eyes and said in a trembling voice, "Can't we look for other ways, the kind of way to survive without ascending to immortality..."
Hearing her words, Shang Xinglan remained silent for a long while before slowly opening her lips and saying, "I've been looking for such a method since I was old enough to understand things."
He also wanted to find a way to break the curse, but so far he has not found one.
He would die if he didn't ascend to immortality; that was his destiny.
Upon hearing this, Chu Li took a deep breath, tugged at the corner of his robe, and whispered, "What if you insist on ascending, but fail to overcome that tribulation?"
"How could that be? If you don't believe me, you should believe in yourself. We are destined for each other..." Shang Xinglan said subconsciously, but suddenly stopped and stared at the person in front of her in astonishment.
A thought suddenly popped into his mind. It wasn't that he had never had that thought before, but rather that he had told himself it was impossible every time.
Seeing his expression suddenly change, Chu Li nervously grabbed his hand and placed it against her cheek, saying softly, "What I mean is, if you fail to ascend, won't we die together? Who will take care of Yin Yin then?"
Her explanation was full of holes, clearly something she said in a moment of panic.
Shang Xinglan stared at her blankly for a moment, then pinched her face and said, "Tell the truth."
His tone was extremely serious, which made Chu Li even more panicked. She quickly tried to cover it up, saying, "I'm just worried that it will be too hard for you to cultivate again after cleansing yourself of demonic energy, and that you might not be able to ascend in the end..."
"Then why did you try to kill me last time?" Shang Xinglan stared intently at her. "At that time, I was already in the Tribulation Transcending stage, half a step towards Ascension. What were you afraid of?"
Chu Li was speechless, her face gradually turning ashen; she had guessed it would be like this.
I finally mustered up the courage, thinking the moment had come to speak, but this is the result I got.
He was so gentle with her, probably just trying to coax her into telling the truth.
Seeing that she didn't speak again, Shang Xinglan took a slight breath, still somewhat puzzled, "Where did the Chu family get that piece of jade? And how did you know about the fate of the Heavenly Yin Woman?"
His voice sounded like an interrogation to Chu Li. She pursed her lips and decided to throw caution to the wind, "I told you long ago that I am the daughter of the Heavenly Yin, believe it or not!"
She turned to run back to her room, but her wrist was grabbed and she was pulled back.
Shang Xinglan stared at her intently, then turned her face towards him. "Don't run away. Explain yourself."
Chu Li couldn't break free from his grasp, and the anger that had been building up in her chest surged even more fiercely. She glared at Shang Xinglan fiercely, "What's there to say? If you don't believe me, you can just kill me! Didn't I give you a chance to kill me? Anyway, I've lived this worthless life for twenty years, and I've had enough of it. You can take it!"
Hearing her words, Shang Xinglan suddenly laughed, "Who wants your life?"
"Yes, I know my life is worthless," Chu Li said, trying to push him away but unable to, feeling even more aggrieved. "Your life is the most valuable, you're a chosen one of heaven, you're amazing!"
Seeing that she was getting more and more agitated as she spoke, Shang Xinglan grabbed her face and rubbed it hard.
"Go ahead and hit me, I didn't..." Chu Li's words gradually became incoherent. She was so angry that she wanted to bite him, but Shang Xinglan turned his head away to avoid her.
The other person looked at her meaningfully for a long time before saying in a low voice, "You owe me, Chu Li."
Chu Li paused for a moment, then looked up at him.
"You have to pay me back. Do you know how to make it up to me?"
Shang Xinglan withdrew his hand from her face and looked down at her, saying, "From today onwards, if you dare to hide anything from me again, I will settle all your old and new scores with you."
Chu Li stared at him in a daze.
"Did you hear me?" he asked in a stern tone.
Chu Li nodded quickly, "I heard you."
Seeing him turn and leave, Chu Li immediately chased after him and asked cautiously, "If I make it up to you, will you forgive me?"
Shang Xinglan didn't look at her, and casually said, "It depends on your performance."
"I'll definitely behave well. So, do you still want to ascend? Even if you only have six months left to live, it's okay. I promise I'll treat you well for the rest of the time." She tugged at his sleeve, still trying to change his mind. "If you ascend, we'll have no choice but to divorce..."
Shang Xinglan's forehead twitched. He turned around, put his hand on her shoulder, and pushed her away. "I'm warning you for the last time. Don't mention divorce again."
That's great, he doesn't want a divorce.
Chu Li swallowed hard and whispered, "Then what are you going to do? I'll die."
"You will not die," Shang Xinglan said calmly. "I will bear my own calamity alone."
Chu Li lowered her eyes, her voice even softer, "But the Heavenly Marriage Contract states that we must weather the tribulations together..."
Shang Xinglan stared at her, "The Heavenly Yin Maiden can only help me share the burden of the Heavenly Tribulation. Even if no one shares it, so what? I will bear it alone. At worst, I will die. I will never let the Heavenly Tribulation harm you in the slightest. You don't need to worry about these things. Think about how to make it up to me, you number one idiot in the world."
To conceal their identities, they were even capable of pushing him off a cliff; they were so stupid that he didn't even know how to be angry.
In those years, she lived a precarious life in the business world, guarding a secret and constantly worrying about losing the happiness she already had. The happier she was, the more fearful she became.
And he was completely unaware of all of this from beginning to end.
Hearing the gritted teeth in his voice, Chu Li lowered her head even further, as if she had been shrunk several sizes by his scolding.
So fierce.
However, Shang Xinglan's reaction was a hundred times better than she had imagined upon learning the truth.
As for making amends, she will do her best to make amends. Isn't she trying to make amends to him every day?
"Husband, I'll go with you to the Cangshan Sect. I'll find a way to help you." Chu Li leaned forward, following closely behind him like a clingy kitten.
Before she entered the room, Shang Xinglan stopped her at the door, saying, "Aren't you going to set a good example for the children by helping others? Go ahead."
Chu Li opened her eyes and tried to squeeze into the room. "How can I help others? I'm just a weak woman."
Shang Xinglan glanced at her, determined to teach her a lesson. "This is punishment, punishment for lying to me. If you dare to lie to me again in the future, I will punish you again, and I will show no mercy next time."
After he finished speaking, he went into the side room and closed the door.
Chu Li stood outside the door, stunned for a long time.
He seemed to be serious.
Chu Li didn't feel like she had lied to him that many times; it was just one, two, three, four, five, six...
She counted them in her mind, but found she couldn't count them all. She paused for a moment, then sighed softly.
The road to redemption is so long.
Chu Li took the piece of jade belonging to Shang Xinglan downstairs and happened to see those people still arguing.
She spotted Xie Yunge in the crowd at a glance. He looked about seven or eight parts like Xie Liyi. He was wearing a light green Taoist robe and had a tall and upright figure.
People who have been beggars are generally not this tall, and most of them don't even have enough to eat.
Therefore, she must have been well cared for by Xie Liyi when she was young.
Chu Li gazed at her from afar before squeezing into the crowd.
"If you've got the guts, draw your sword and fight. You're just a Qi Refining stage cultivator, how dare you challenge me?"
Opposite Xie Yunge, a burly man looked at her with disdain.
This must be the merchant she argued with.
Chu Li observed them for a moment, then asked the person next to her, "Why are they arguing?"
"Oh dear, that merchant is too much. He insisted that the young female cultivator drink with him. The girl was unwilling, and that's how the argument started."
nausea.
Chu Li glanced coldly at the group of people and put Shang Xinglan's jade back into her clothes.
People like that deserve to die.
She quietly squeezed to the side of those people and took out a small medicine packet from her bosom. Xie Liyi had asked her to steal it from Shang Xinglan earlier. Not knowing which one was the antidote, she simply took them all. Later, when Shang Xinglan asked her for them, Chu Li secretly kept one.
While the crowd was focused on their argument, she quietly stole the flask of Bodhisattva Dew from the table and poured all the medicinal powder into it.
Stealing was her specialty; it was her survival skill.
Chu Li silently put the poisoned wine pot back, a slight smile appearing on her face.
Go to hell.
The next moment, she met a pair of clear eyes in the crowd.
Xie Yunge actually saw it!
Chu Li's gaze froze for a moment, and she subconsciously turned around and ran upstairs.
Xie Yunge pushed through the crowd and caught up with Chu Li without hesitation.
Seeing her run away, the group of merchants assumed she was just being weak-willed and had given in, and sneered, "What a load of bull, the Cangshan Sect, just a bunch of wild dogs who know how to cultivate."
Just as Chu Li ran to the front of the room, before she could even push open the door, someone grabbed her wrist.
Why was poisoned?
Chu Li's wrist ached from being gripped so tightly, and she broke out in a sweat. She said irritably, "Let go, I'm doing this to help you!"
Xie Yunge looked at her in confusion, "Do you know who those people are, yet you still dare to help me?"
Chu Li couldn't break free from her hand, and gritted her teeth, saying, "I'm only helping you because of Xie Liyi."
Upon hearing this, Xie Yunge became even more suspicious. "You know him?"
Chu Li pursed her lips, but before she could speak, she heard her say coldly, "Whether you know him or not, you shouldn't have poisoned him so rashly. Offending the Shang family has serious consequences. They will find out about you sooner or later. This place is not safe to stay. Come back to the Cangshan Sect with me."
Hearing her words, Chu Li's eyes widened. "You're taking me there?"
Xie Yunge nodded, glancing at the group of merchants downstairs, and said in a deep voice, "If my cultivation level weren't too low, I would also like to get rid of these bastards who bully men and women and do all sorts of evil. Come with me, they won't dare to enter the Cangshan Sect to arrest people."
Chu Li blinked and whispered, "But I have a few more people with me, can they come together?"
Xie Yunge said nonchalantly, "Just bring them along. With the Cangshan Sect's protection, you will be safe and sound."
Chu Li was surprised that she would so easily lead them into the Cangshan Sect. "Aren't you afraid we're bad people?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Xie Yunge laughed for no reason. "If you are bad people, then you should come back to Cangshan Sect with me. There is no bad person in this world who would dare to be presumptuous in front of the Sword Immortal Master. Even the Demon Lord Wuming would not have the guts."
Hearing her words, Chu Li frowned. "The Sword Immortal is even more powerful than Wuming?"
"Of course," Xie Yunge said with immense pride. "I'd kill ten nameless people without hesitation."
Chu Li asked, puzzled, "Did your master ascend to immortality?"
"..." Xie Yunge choked for a moment, "No."
She felt a little relieved and smiled, "You'll definitely be able to ascend in the future. Come, let me introduce you to my family."
The door to the side room was pushed open.
The people in the room all looked up at them, and when they saw Xie Yunge's Taoist uniform, Gu Ye spat out a mouthful of wine.
Chu Li took Xie Yunge's hand and led her inside, smiling as she said, "This is Xie Liyi's younger sister, Yunge. I just helped her, and she said she could take us to the Cangshan Sect."
Upon hearing this, Gu Ye couldn't stop coughing and almost choked to death.
She's really bold, openly asking the Cangshan Sect cultivators to bring them in like that? What if they get caught?
"Husband, what do you think?"
Shang Xinglan looked up at her, their eyes met, and her bright eyes were full of expectation, as if she was happy to know that she had helped and was asking for his praise.
He slowly withdrew his gaze, barely concealing the smile on his lips.
"It's hard to refuse such kindness."
Even if she wasn't born under the influence of the Yin element, she still helped him.
The only person who cared about that status from beginning to end was that fool.
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Author's Note: There will be a second update.
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