Chapter 261 Since you don't want to, I won't die
On the way back to the academy, both Yu Sui and Mei Liangyu's wind-listening rulers were buzzing, constantly transmitting messages.
Taiyi Academy issued announcements one after another, updating lists, issuing pursuit notices, and so on. The number of Lan corpses captured is increasing. Since the destruction of Xuan Kui's stronghold last night, the list of Lan corpses released by the Communication Academy mostly consists of Taiyi's instructors and disciples.
Yu Sui looked up at Mei Liangyu: "Senior brother, don't you have anything you want to ask me?"
"Of course I do," Mei Liangyu replied as he walked. "You're willing to tell me now?"
Yu Sui clasped her hands together on the windowsill, resting her chin on her arms: "You ask first."
After saying that, she sighed softly, "You should have asked me sooner."
Why does that sound a bit like a complaint? Mei Liangyu couldn't help but glance over, looking at Yu Sui with amusement.
Mei Liangyu said, "I was worried you'd think I was asking too many questions, but it turns out I wasn't asking enough?"
Yu Sui nodded.
Mei Liangyu felt that his junior sister could be quite awful at times.
"Although you are very smart and can guess many things, if you don't tell me, I'll have to guess what you're thinking. I don't want to make wild guesses about you."
Yu Sui propped her chin up with one hand and tilted her head to look at Mei Liangyu outside the car window: "Senior brother, you can ask me anything directly."
Mei Liangyu gazed at the girl quietly, and he could sense a patience in Yu Sui that was different from that in others.
Yu Sui's gaze seemed to silently say, "I will tell you."
Mei Liangyu was indeed clever and guessed many things, but as Yu Sui said, he always relied on his own guesses and never told Yu Sui. Mei Liangyu was always afraid that his sensitive and suspicious junior sister would think he was meddling, afraid of making her dislike him, and afraid of incurring her jealousy.
Looking back, Mei Liangyu was surprised to realize that she had become so concerned about Yu Sui's opinion of her.
It turns out that the more you care about something, the more careful you are with it.
Mei Liangyu lowered his head, concealing the emotions in his eyes, then looked up at Yu Suishi and asked seriously, "In investigating Xuan Kui, did you cooperate with the sage of Taiyi?"
Yu Sui nodded: "It's Dean Zou. He knows a lot of things, but he just observes and doesn't say anything."
"How did you convince him?" Mei Liangyu raised an eyebrow slightly, somewhat surprised. "Dean Zou doesn't care about anything except the Heart-Piercing Mantra."
After saying this, he vaguely guessed that Yu Sui's ability to persuade Zou Qian to help was also related to the Pearl Heart Mantra.
“I’ll vouch for it with my talent.” Yu Sui winked playfully at Mei Liangyu and said leisurely, “After we parted ways that night, I went to see Dean Zou. Actually, he had already noticed something amiss when we were at Yueshan, but he didn’t investigate further. Just like you said, Senior Brother, he’s not interested in anything except the Heart-Piercing Pearl Mantra.”
"I made an agreement with Dean Zou that I would master the Nine Mysterious Techniques within a year to help him break the Heart-Bearing Curse."
Mei Liangyu was stunned: "A year?"
That's simply impossible.
He immediately frowned: "What are Dean Zou's conditions?"
Zou Qian would not agree to such an empty promise.
Yu Sui laughed and said, "If you can't learn it within a year, then go die."
Mei Liangyu: "..."
He sneered, "You really dare to agree?"
"Senior brother, don't you think these conditions are exciting?" Yu Sui teased him on purpose.
"If you can't learn it, are you really going to die?" Mei Liangyu glared at her fiercely. "Even if you want to go back on your word, Zou Qian definitely won't let you. Since he promised you and kept his promise, he meant it."
Yu Sui cupped her face in her hands, smiling as she watched him get angry: "I don't care anymore. Anyway, Senior Brother said you would save me. If Dean Zou really wants to kill me, then I'll have to trouble Senior Brother to think of a way."
Seeing that she was still in the mood to joke, Mei Liangyu frowned deeply, so angry that she wanted to pull her out of the car window and beat her up: she warned her coldly: "Nangong Sui".
"Mmm!" Yu Sui nodded emphatically, looking at him with a smile.
Mei Liangyu said, "Who taught you to gamble with your own life?"
Yu Sui asked him softly, "Senior brother, why don't you believe I can really learn it?"
“I believe you can learn it, but who can believe you can learn it in a year?” Mei Liangyu said. “Do you know how short a year is? And how profound are the Nine Mysterious Methods?”
Most importantly, Zou Qian is serious.
Yu Sui may not yet know how deep Zou Qian's obsession with the Pearl Heart Mantra is. He would never easily lend a hand. The premise for Zou Qian to lend a hand is that he is serious.
If Yu Sui fails to meet her demands, Zou Qian will simply order her to die.
Even though Yu Sui possesses the Nine Provinces Star Sea and has a superior physique with the five elements mutually generating each other, which is indeed considered to be exceptionally high talent in the Yin-Yang School, it is still hard to believe that he mastered the most profound secret technique of the Yin-Yang School within a year.
Over the centuries, there have been many sages of the Yin-Yang School, including Mei Liangyu, whose names are well-known. However, there have only been two sages of the Yin-Yang School who have mastered the Nine Mysterious Methods, and both of them are ancestors from thousands of years ago.
Yu Sui was certain that Zou Qian would agree to her request because she had noticed how deeply Zou Qian was obsessed with the Pearl Heart Mantra.
"The words have already been spoken, and I can only do my best. Otherwise, you will only have this short year to spend with me, Senior Brother."
Yu Sui deliberately emphasized the words "just one year," still with that teasing expression.
Just as Mei Liangyu reached out his hand to her, Yu Sui exclaimed, "Hey, senior brother, you promised Third Brother you wouldn't lay a hand on me."
"You can remember all this nonsense," Mei Liangyu sneered. "What about the fact that I told you to take care of your own life?"
Yu Sui asked with a smile, "Are you really afraid I'll die?"
Mei Liangyu stared at her and said, "I am the person in this world who least wants you to die."
“Since you don’t want to, I won’t die.” Yu Sui still looked at him with a smile in her eyes, and took the initiative to reach out to Mei Liangyu to come closer. Mei Liangyu lowered his head slightly and his slightly cool, slender fingers touched his furrowed brows and gently smoothed them. “Senior brother, I am the only person in this world who will grant you any wish.”
Yu Sui's words, half joking and half serious, left Mei Liangyu helpless.
"Are you confident?" Mei Liangyu looked up again.
Yu Sui made a gesture: "A little bit."
Mei Liangyu looked at her coldly: "Say it again."
Yu Sui nodded and said, "I'm absolutely confident!"
Mei Liangyu couldn't believe it. Although Yu Sui's smile was bright and captivating, it still made him grit his teeth.
Before Mei Liangyu could finish speaking, Yu Sui interrupted, "If something like this happens again, Dean Zou will give me whatever I want this year. Senior brother, I won't lose out."
Mei Liangyu regretted it.
He regretted that he had a bad night with Yu Sui, which gave her the opportunity to go to Zou Qian.
The brows that Yu Sui had just smoothed out furrowed again.
Yu Sui said, "Senior brother, don't frown."
Mei Liangyu: "Then smooth it out again."
Yu Sui couldn't help but laugh, but she actually reached out her hand, and Mei Liangyu cooperated, bowing her head to let her touch her eyebrows.
“The Nangong family has a partnership with Xuan Kui. A few months ago, my father sent me a message asking me to take over Xuan Kui’s business in Taiyi. But I don’t like this job, and I’m afraid that if you, my senior brother, know that my family is doing business with Xuan Kui, you will have a bad opinion of me.”
As Yu Sui touched her brow, she spoke softly about what had happened recently: "That's why I didn't want you to know, and besides, you have your own things to do, Senior Brother."
Mei Liangyu lowered his head and asked her, "You also know about Nian Qiuyan's matter?"
“I don’t know.” Yu Sui shook her head. “That day, Uncle Cao came to find me and saw that Senior Brother Nian was also there. That’s when I found out that he was the one who took the Milky Way Water.”
Mei Liangyu deduced from her words that Yu Sui was unaware of Nian Qiuyan's affairs, and therefore did not know that her elder sister was not dead, but had become the Xuan Kui Hundred Bandits of Qingyang.
My junior sister knew nothing about the affairs of the Yan Kingdom.
“Zhang Xiangyun keeps saying that you’ve ruined a lot of things for Xuan Kui, and he keeps telling me to kill you. How could I let him have his way? The more he does this, the more I hate him.” Yu Sui withdrew her hand and looked up at Mei Liangyu.
“Zhang Xiangyun deserves to die.” A cold glint appeared in Mei Liangyu’s eyes. “After I send you back to the academy, I will go and find him.”
“Senior brother.” Yu Sui raised his hand, his wide robe covering his face, “Zhang Xiangyun has already died in the mirage.”
Mei Liangyu: "..."
There was nowhere to vent that anger.
He recalled what Zhang Xiangyun had said in the alley and asked, "You hit Zhang Xiangyun?"
“Yes!” Yu Sui said, “In the Dragon Ladder, I made the sword move with its own hands.”
Mei Liangyu thought to himself that it was alright, at least he had beaten Zhang Xiangyun up.
Yu Sui then recounted how Ou Rushuang had taken her into the Mirage, where they met Qin Chongxue and others.
“When I first met Qin Chongxue, Nian Qiuyan said that they might be targeting you, senior brother, but he was unable to predict the right time to make a move.”
“Qin Chongxue and the other two look very powerful, unlike Zhang Xiangyun and the others, so I was afraid you wouldn’t be able to beat them, which is why I didn’t let you go out of the outer city,” Yu Sui said. “Senior brother, I’m also afraid you’ll die. I don’t want you to die.”
At the right time, the two calmly recounted what happened that night.
Mei Liangyu glanced at Yu Sui, his gaze already lingering on the Listening Wind Ruler, having not looked at the constant stream of messages for quite some time.
He got the answer he wanted.
“I should have told you,” Mei Liangyu said slowly. “It was my fault.”
Yu Sui nodded, her gaze direct, silently saying that you were wrong.
Mei Liangyu learned about Xuan Kui's matter from Yu Sui. After listening to her, she asked, "Is there anything you want to ask me?"
“I have one too.” Yu Sui blinked at him.
She was also very curious, but she never asked directly.
These days, the two of them have been testing each other. There are things they always keep to themselves but never say out loud, for fear of accidentally crossing the line and causing the other to distance themselves and become wary.
Fearing alienation and suspicion, they simply refrain from asking about things that pique their curiosity.
Mei Liangyu could not imagine the day when Yu Sui would distance himself from her.
But for some reason, the timing is perfect today.
Perhaps it's the feeling of calm after seeing the warm morning light following the cold fog of last night, or perhaps it's the tranquility that comes from repeatedly savoring the words conveyed through the wind last night.
And that line, "I really like her," is comforting.
Yu Sui asked softly, "Senior brother, have you remembered your past memories?"
Mei Liangyu glanced at her sideways, her reflection clearly visible in his dark, bright eyes.
“I remember a lot of things.” The young man’s voice became low. “I once lived in the State of Yan. My parents were loving, and I had an older brother and an older sister.”
Mei Liangyu knew who the person in front of her was.
Princess Qingyang is Nangong Ming's daughter, but he is still willing to tell her before everything is clear.
Yu Sui was slightly taken aback. The five fingers of the hand supporting her head clenched slightly, and she said softly, "I also have an older sister."
When Mei Liangyu asked Nian Qiuyan to write down her name, Yu Sui knew that her senior brother had guessed correctly again.
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