Chapter 133 Love and Hate
"Everything is fine. We are back to Xiutu. Don't worry."
The short note was placed on the table in the room. The pale yellow candlelight shone on Jiaoran's face, adding a touch of wonderful softness.
Chai Che's handwriting was elegant and graceful, and Mu Jin could easily identify his words.
Just as he was about to write him a reply, Jiaoran coughed.
He hurriedly put down his pen and ink, and before he reached her, he heard a strange crackling sound coming from her throat.
Then, a strong smell of blood filled the room.
The wind blew the thin piece of note to the ground, where it landed on the pool of blood, and the ink was stained red by the blood.
Jiaoran coughed twice in pain and woke up.
Mu Jin's beautiful eyes were filled with fear at this moment. Her lips were held by a handkerchief, as if he was worried that she would continue to vomit blood.
He sat beside Jiaoran, his face heavy. He helped Jiaoran up and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong with you?"
Jiao Ran shook his head. "It was just a nightmare, it's nothing serious."
She took a deep breath and could feel a faint thread in her soul tightly locking her. Zhu Su did not tell her what it was. She could guess from the moment she realized something was wrong that it must be someone more powerful than him who cast a spell on her. If it was a phoenix chick, Zhu Su would definitely tell him directly, but he didn't. When she asked, he only said it was the God, and said that the God would not hurt her.
The god he is with must be of great importance.
Mu Jin wiped the blood from the corner of her lips and picked up her coat. "Will you get up?"
Jiaoran looked down and saw the note on the ground. "What is this?"
"You said you wanted to have a good rest for a few days and review "Gao Shan Shou", and asked me to protect you. You have been sleeping for several days, and I dare not wake you up easily. This short note was sent by them after they returned to Xiu Tu, telling you not to worry." Mu Jin bent down to clean up the mess on the ground, and took a set of clean clothes for her to change.
"Tomorrow, I will go back to look for my sect." Jiaoran said as he put on his clothes.
Mu Jin didn't say anything, but he felt vaguely uneasy in his heart. He wanted to speak but stopped himself several times. He was worried that the result would be what he imagined. Jiao Ran sat at the table in silence. "I'm hungry. Is there anything to eat?"
"Yes." Mu Jin walked out and quickly heated up a bowl of soup.
"Eat. I think you'll wake up today. If you're hungry, you'll definitely ask for food."
He didn't ask her where she'd been, or whether she'd slept that long just to review her mind skills. Jiao Ran felt a little guilty, "Do you know that sometimes, a person's thoughts can reach faraway places?"
Mu Jin poured out the golden chicken soup and said, "Drink half a bowl first, and then I'll get you some meat."
"Did you hear me? I meant that although I looked asleep, I was actually on a long trip."
Mu Jin was not surprised. She stirred the bowl with a spoon a few times to dissipate the heat so as not to burn her. "Yeah, I know."
Jiao Ran was stunned for a moment, "Do you really know?"
"Drink it, it's not hot anymore."
Jiaoran took two sips and continued, "Actually, I did go..."
"In a dream," he said.
"How—how do you know?"
Mu Jin thought for a moment and said, "I've seen him too."
"Ah?" Jiaoran opened his mouth wide as soon as he swallowed the soup.
"A clear spring flows over a rock, a crane holds a purple staff, a jade flute rests on the waist, and the clouds sleep in a deep and wondrous realm. Isn't that right?"
He looked at her with a surprised expression, "Are you curious about how I know?"
Jiao Ran nodded. "Have you seen him?"
"It was a coincidence. I lit a kind of incense and he appeared in my dream."
Jiaoran blinked and suddenly smiled, "I didn't expect you to know everything..."
"At least I know a little more than you think."
But Jiaoran couldn't understand why Zhu Su wanted to meet him secretly. "What did he say to you?"
Mu Jin stood up and said, "Nothing much to say, just... I had forgotten. It was a long time ago. I brought you some meat and porridge. It had been stewing for a long time."
Jiaoran followed him out and saw the moonlight outside was as bright as water. In the yard, a stew pot was bubbling with steam. She suddenly felt that everything was settled and she was not afraid of anything anymore.
She no longer thought about her past life, Wuxia, Ah Heng, and those people. They had nothing to do with her.
Jiao Ran walked over and hugged his waist from behind, "Mu Jin, I like you so much, especially. In this world, I love you the most."
Mu Jin smiled and said, "You only say this when there's food to eat. Didn't you love it before?"
She added, "Love it more today."
"Once I've solved these problems, we'll go... to an island and build a few wooden houses. We can go to the beach often. What do you say?"
Mu Jin asked back, "Didn't you say you were going to Jiangnan before? Why are you going to an island now? Where do you want to choose?"
"Jiangnan is nice, but it always rains."
"There's only seafood at the beach, so think carefully."
Jiao Ran said, "Then it's still Jiangnan. There are fresh river food to eat, as well as seafood. Oh, and there are also cattle, sheep, pigs, and dogs."
He turned around, thinking about the battle tomorrow, "Are you ready?"
Jiao Ran's mind was filled with cotton. She didn't know who Fenghuangchu wanted her to kill. She couldn't kill innocent people to relieve Mu Jin's Jin Chong.
"Probably."
Mu Jin said, "I'll wait for you at home tomorrow, you have to come back early."
"Oh, you won't come with me?"
Mu Jin pointed to a seedling in the corner and said, "It's sprouted. It's too cold. I'm going to make a cover for it tomorrow."
"It's strange that they can sprout in such a cold weather. But, just for a little seedling, why don't you go with me?"
"I'll make you something delicious when you come back."
Although Jiao Ran was a little confused, he didn't force him. He muttered to himself, "I don't know who he asked, Chai Lie or Xu Mengchou. If it was Bu Yue, I really couldn't bring myself to do it. It could also be Yuan Jianlu. Damn, he's also one of Fenghuangchu's men. I wonder how Wan'er is doing now. I haven't seen them since I arrived at the underground palace. I wonder where he took Wan'er."
"Don't think too much. Things will work out in the end." He said it as if he was completely unaware that Jiaoran was fighting and killing for his sake.
Maybe it was because it was too tiring to stay by her side, but the whites of his beautiful eyes, with distinct black and white, now had some red bloodshot.
He always indulges her, but when she wants to go with him tomorrow, he refuses to go with her.
She was full of complaints, but before she could say anything, he looked at her intently, his eyes seemed to contain a thousand words.
"What's wrong?" Jiaoran asked.
He stroked her head lovingly, "What will happen in the end?"
"What does it mean to go to the end? Of course, it means you and I will live out our lives in peace and love each other forever."
He smiled, hugged her tightly and said, "Have you ever hated me?"
Jiao Ran said in his arms, "We hated each other before, but we reconciled and continued to love each other. Why are you asking me this?"
"nothing."
"Oh—I see. You're afraid I might change my mind, right?"
Mu Jin couldn't control herself and burst into tears.
She was suddenly at a loss, "I swear, I will always be with you and never leave you."
He shook his head, "Do you hate her?"
"who?"
"My mother."
She didn't understand why he suddenly mentioned Zhou Zhi at this moment, and immediately lost interest. She said stubbornly, "Hate her, I hate her so much."
She raised her head, tears falling. "She colluded with Phoenix Young to kill my mother. I was able to focus on killing Phoenix Young, and I knew I would definitely kill him. But she, I want to hate her, but I can't."
He kissed her, powerless to do anything but respond to her love and her inability to hate with endless tenderness.
"Let's leave, okay?" He once again instigated her to escape the trap.
As a prisoner in the cell, he is always more sensitive than her. They have fallen into a huge trap.
But he didn't know who set it up or why.
He just wanted to leave with her and let go of everything here.
But Jiao Ran refused as always. "If I don't kill the Phoenix Cub, how can I be worthy of my mother in the afterlife? Besides, he is a threat to the world. I promised to get rid of him. Even if it costs me my life, I will kill him and prevent him from doing evil again."
He sighed. Nothing could stop her. She was determined to go.
After a moment, he asked again, "Then don't be soft-hearted and solve it all at once."
"Don't worry, I will definitely kill Phoenix Young, but I don't know who the person Phoenix Young will send tomorrow will be."
"It's okay. No matter who it is, as long as they are my enemy and try to stop me from killing him, I will clear the obstacles before me and, by the way, release your Jin Chong. That way, you won't be threatened by Phoenix Chu anymore. I should tear that bastard Phoenix Chu into pieces. If I hadn't been so cautious, I would have fought him long ago."
She kept talking, but Mu Jin couldn't relax his brows, as if he had a premonition.
But this hatred needs an end. They cannot blind themselves and continue like this. The thorn in her heart will never be removed.
He couldn't intervene either.
Because of this feud, he could never walk side by side with her.
Even the two closest people.
He had made his choice, and in a very short time, he hoped that she would make her choice as soon as possible.
Mu Jin was very curious, what choice would she make?
Although she gave him an answer, never retreat, but in front of that person, can she still make this choice?
At the same time, he was extremely confused.
Could it be that she really couldn't feel it? Could it be that she really couldn't guess it?
Or maybe she was also paralyzing herself.
The Phoenix Cub is good at using this trick and never gets tired of it. Mu Jin can see through it but cannot solve the mystery.
Because it is a dead end, having reached this point, we have already reached the end of the long alley.
When he woke up the next day, Jiaoran saw that Mu Jin had already woken up.
As she put on her makeup in front of the mirror, he watched her from behind. Through the mirror, they seemed to fall into a fantasy world, one after the other, where there was no love or hate, only eternal companionship. There, they were indistinguishable from each other, as if they had always been one.
He suddenly approached her, twisted her face and kissed her hard. At this time, he still wanted to encourage her to escape with him, just like coaxing an innocent girl to elope with him and escape to a place where no one could find them.
But she smiled and rubbed his face. "Since you don't want to go, just wait for me. Wait for me to come back. When I free Jin Chong, I will do everything I can to kill the Phoenix Young. I'm very powerful now. After killing the Phoenix Young, let's go to the Jiangnan region where it often rains, ride a black-sailed boat, drink the rice wine they brew, and see the endless rapeseed flowers."
He pulled her up resolutely and said, "Go quickly. The earlier you go, the earlier you will come back. Remember to come back."
"Okay, then you wait for me at home."
She looked into his eyes, smiled, and felt relieved. When she came back, she would be able to see him.
Jiaoran set out during the day, and by the time he arrived at Zongxunpai, it was almost dusk and the sky looked like it was smeared with blood.
There was a bonfire on the top of the mountain that was as bright as day.
Jiaoran walked towards the bonfire.
She knew that someone was waiting for her.
She didn't want to kill anyone, but for Mu Jin, she had no choice.
As I got closer, before I could see who it was, I heard the person's voice, "You're finally here. I was tired of drinking, so I waited for you to come."
"It's boring to drink alone." Jiaoran said.
Xu Mengchou smiled, "Then I'll treat you to a drink? Drink with me?"
Jiao Ran recalled how she had attacked her senior sister and seriously injured her, and said, "I don't drink with people I hate."
Xu Mengqiu said, "Strange, I don't hate you, I just hate your senior sister. If possible, I still want to be friends with you. You have a battle to fight tonight, and I will accompany you to get drunk."
Jiao Ran thought for a moment, took the wine jar, took a big swig, and wiped the corner of his mouth. "I've drunk the wine, let's fight now. You are my sister's enemy, and we are destined not to be friends."
Suddenly I remembered the first time I met her on the way to the Governor's Mansion. She was wearing jingling clothes, and she gave her turquoise as a gift when I first met her.
So many years have passed, and they are no longer girls.
Xu Mengchou looked at her with a serious expression in his eyes and sighed, "I don't want to be friends with you anymore, because you and I are too similar."
Jiao Ran disagreed, "We are not like that."
She whispered, "It will soon be like that."
He said word by word, "Go home as soon as possible after the fight. You drank alcohol. Don't drink outside again after the fight. It's dangerous to get drunk."
"Thank you for your words." Jiaoran said.
Thinking that she would also have to pay a painful price to get what she wanted, Xu Mengchou felt secretly pleased. In fact, she was nothing special.
"You still have a choice. It might be better to leave now. If you start, you won't be able to stop."
Jiao Ran smiled, her tone not small, "I have never intended to leave since I came here. I will not leave until I have untied the Jin Chong from Mu Jin. Feng Huang Chu promised me that after today's battle, if I take out the loser's heart, he will untie the Jin Chong from Mu Jin."
"So what if you can solve it? Can you really kill the Phoenix Chick in the end?" She wanted to witness her success, but she didn't know her own importance.
Xu Mengchou drank too much and his face looked a little depressed.
"Forget it if you don't want to leave. I've already given you a chance."
It's late at night.
Jiao Ran said, "Then let's get started."
Xu Mengchou laughed, "What are you starting? The people haven't arrived yet."
Jiao Ran was surprised for a moment, "Aren't you and I?"
In the deepest part of the night, there was a sudden sound of footsteps approaching from afar.
There is a person's footsteps that sound like this, always dragging on the ground with a bit of laziness.
Jiaoran frowned, twisted his neck stiffly, and looked over.
In the light of the bonfire, she saw the face of the person who came.
Zhou Zhi walked over.
The scars on her face looked lighter at night than during the day. She was so beautiful when she was young, the most beautiful woman in the martial arts world, and her skin had a gentle luster like satin. It was a pity that the satin was cut and left flaws.
When Jiaoran was in her arms, he once thought that all the women in the world had such beautiful skin.
But later I found out that it was not the case, her beauty was unique in the world.
Jiaoran had also seen the innocence and temptation of Mu Jin in Zhou Zhi since childhood.
He inherited his mother's good looks.
Jiaoran felt his hands sweating.
Zhou Zhi looked at her coldly, without moving, and stopped in front of her.
She was indifferent to Jiaoran's panic and said, "Let's do it."
Jiaoran was not stupid. She only realized it now. In fact, she had already vaguely realized that the person who came today might be Zhou Zhi.
When she saw Xu Mengchou, it felt like a huge stone was lifted from her heart.
But Zhou Zhi still came.
"What are you doing here?" At this time, Jiaoran was still asking the question even though he knew the answer.
She handed over a small box.
Jiaoran opened it and was stunned for a moment.
Inside was a short hexagonal purple arrow with a small word "firefly" engraved on one side of the arrowhead.
Zhou Zhi said solemnly, "Kill me and avenge your mother. It was me who led her here. Phoenix Chick gave Ming Guang the weapon, and it was me who instructed her to kill Chai Ying."
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