Twin Lotus Flowers (VI)
Chapter Twenty-Six
"You mean to say the words 'utterly rebellious,' right?"
Xie Yuan clearly saw through his thoughts, "A Ling won't care about this, and neither will I. There's no need to be so surprised. It's like an emperor with three thousand concubines in his harem. No matter how old he is, people still flock to him to climb into his bed. He's only fourteen years younger than me, so there's nothing strange about it. It's just that things have changed now, and it's really sad that I'm still two years younger than him."
Cang Yue: Now he finally knows who his boss takes after. It turns out his master was a rule-breaker, and his boss just surpassed him in every way...
"Now it all makes sense. Miss used to be so good to Boss, no wonder Boss has always wanted to find Miss." Cang Yue sighed inexplicably.
He used to only know that his boss seemed to be looking for someone, but he didn't know who he was looking for. He didn't order his subordinates to look for him either. He would just suddenly appear and then suddenly disappear for a period of time.
The eldest brother's most frequent place was the study on the back mountain of Bu Zhichun, which was a forbidden area. Unless there was something important, no unauthorized people were allowed to enter.
Nobody knows what's there.
Looking back now, they must all have been things related to the young lady.
"You're thinking too simply," Xie Yuan sighed softly, then smiled self-deprecatingly. "Six years isn't enough for him to be so dependent on me. I know him; he's not an emotional person. Using the word 'moved' to describe a child who has gone through so much hardship is too superficial."
Xie Yuan closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and slowly said, "Anyone can be moved by their own emotions, including me, but he is the only one who cannot."
"Unless something else happens after I die."
"That's what led to the situation we have today."
“A-Ling is a stubborn person. Once he makes a decision, he will not turn back. He will not give up until he achieves his goal. Even I cannot interfere with his decision.”
“If he wanted to keep it from me, he could have kept it from me forever. He’s the kind of person who can do things flawlessly.”
"He's always been like that."
"And this Qianjia is fake."
Xie Yuan spoke softly.
The light in the blue moon's pupils trembled.
Miss is truly amazing.
——
Cang Yue was deeply moved by Xie Yuan's shocking words, and her heart was filled with mixed feelings.
At this moment, he finally understood what his boss meant by those words before leaving.
"She is my master."
How could I not know his character?
At the same moment, in the completely opposite location to Xie Yuan's, the entire Qian family was wiped out in a bloodbath, with corpses strewn everywhere, and the stench of blood strangely forming a blood barrier that enveloped the entire Qian family mansion.
The young man in black and red casually flicked his blood-stained longsword, sighing with regret, "It seems I'm still a step too late." He turned to look at the gate of the Qian Mansion, where the beautiful and calm girl in red stood in stark contrast to the trembling Cang Yue following behind.
Song Ling: "Master, you've arrived."
Xie Yuan: "Mm."
Knowing the situation was right, Cang Yue replied, "I'm leaving."
Before Song Ling could even speak, the person had already made a hasty escape.
"What's too late?"
Xie Yuan did not cross the threshold, but stood outside the door quietly watching him, just like when she first saw him kill someone.
"I should have gone faster. My clothes are dirty. I thought about it, and I realized I shouldn't have done this to you."
"Although my master never asked me to be a good person."
"But a while ago I seemed to think Master liked me quite a bit, but what about now?"
Song Ling tilted his head, and his fair and jade-like profile was inevitably stained with a few drops of blood. His high ponytail swayed slightly behind him as he moved.
Xie Yuan remained silent and stepped over the threshold.
She walked to a stop three steps away from him.
The child was barely up to her waist back then.
Now, he's an adult whom she has to look up to.
“But aren’t you still you, Ah Ling?”
Her tone was like a sigh or a sigh of helplessness, but not impatient.
Song Ling's eyes trembled slightly, as if something he had stubbornly held onto for many years had quietly cracked because of this sentence, a crack that he himself had not even noticed.
The entire Qian family was slaughtered by Song Ling.
The boy, covered in blood, resembled a demon from the polar hell, yet the smile on his lips was strangely innocent and pure.
Yes, this is the real him.
However, no matter which "he" it is, he is still her Ah Ling.
But Xie Yuan knew he wouldn't understand, at least not now.
She didn't blame him; it was just that she hadn't had time to teach him.
For Ah Ling, what he considered liking and love was an extremely morbid possessiveness, a fleeting pleasure that could only be obtained through ruthless pretense. That's why he always believed that if he was disobedient, she would abandon him, and that's why he liked to test her again and again.
She had no doubt that he was capable of deliberately hurting himself to get what he wanted.
"If you've had enough, go home."
Xie Yuan reached out and tossed down the sword he had picked up from who-knows-where, then took his hand and they stepped out of the Qian Mansion together.
"Master, aren't you angry with me?"
The boy's voice, unusually hesitant, seemed to falter slightly in the wind.
The two figures gradually disappeared into the distance.
"What's it to blame you for? It's because you didn't listen to me and weren't obedient."
It was a gentle yet helpless tone. As expected, he couldn't be allowed to act recklessly. Ah Ling would only become more and more demanding, so he still had to be kept in check.
"Alright, I'll teach you slowly, no rush."
"good."
The boy gripped her hand tightly, feeling a sense of unreality creeping in.
Master, I have been waiting for so many years to reunite with you.
This time I won't let go.
——
The following day, Jingzhou was engulfed in wind and rain.
The Qian family, the largest clan in Jingzhou, was wiped out overnight without a sound, and no one noticed. It was only when the night soil collector who came to collect the night soil every day that he noticed something was wrong and reported it to the government.
The streets outside are abuzz with gossip, because it's rumored that the person who wiped out a thousand families was one of their own. When the authorities investigated, they discovered signs of imprisonment in one of the residences, and also found a blood-written letter from a twin brother and sister covering the walls, each word written in heartbreaking blood…
Inside the inn, four people sat around a table.
Xie Yuan took a sip of hot tea. Apart from Xiao Taosu, who was happily munching on the large meat bun that Cang Yue had bought early that morning, the other two sat upright.
Yesterday, Song Ling had wiped out an entire family, but today she seemed unusually well-behaved and kind. Her bright eyes were fixed on Xie Yuan, and when she saw that Xie Yuan had finished her tea, she diligently refilled it immediately.
Cang Yue was already used to this scene, especially after yesterday when it was confirmed that this person was the master that the boss had been searching for for many years. His ability to accept this situation has increased by a whole new level.
Judging by seniority, he shouldn't be sitting here; he should be under the table.
He could ignore it before because he didn't know, but now that he knows, the young lady is the boss's master. From now on, he'll have to pay a great respect to her, and kneeling is the proper thing to do. After all, the boss is treated like a dog in front of his master, so he must be even worse than a dog.
Cang Yue couldn't help but sigh, realizing that there really is one thing that can subdue another in this world.
He once thought that no one in the world could make someone like his boss lower himself. His boss was the number one person at the peak of cultivation. After all, no one had ever seen the full extent of his strength. He had never seen him get injured because of a mission.
Looking back, Miss truly lives up to her reputation as a master; she's both flexible and resilient. Back then, when the boss criticized her, he was incredibly ruthless.
Since Miss regained her status as a master, although the eldest brother still seems to rebel from time to time, in his opinion, Miss is undoubtedly still the one in the superior position.
In his opinion, the young lady can live without the eldest brother, but if the eldest brother loses the young lady, he will probably go back to the way things were before.
"So, how's your business in Jingzhou going?"
Xie Yuan spoke softly, glancing at Song Ling who was about to pour tea again. His hand paused slightly, and then he smiled gently at her.
"Does Master expect me to finish?"
Cang Yue began to feel uneasy again. He guessed that he was probably the first person to know the relationship between the boss and the young lady. Knowing so many of the boss and the young lady's secrets was not a good thing. As the saying goes, the more you know, the faster you die. That's the truth.
Furthermore, he genuinely neither knew nor wanted to know the boss's true plans and objectives.
He had seen the boss's style of doing things before, and besides, the boss had been quite merciful to him. If you told others, they probably wouldn't believe it. As an assassin, he had carried out very few bloody assassination missions. He was mainly responsible for intelligence gathering. It wasn't that he couldn't kill, but he had a severe case of hemophobia. Even if he did kill someone, it absolutely couldn't be the kind that involved spitting blood.
Yesterday, he didn't even dare to step into the Qian family's house, and one of the reasons was related to this.
The eldest brother was completely different from him; he enjoyed the exhilarating feeling of a sword piercing flesh.
"If I say I hope so, will you actually do it?" Xie Yuan glanced at him.
"No, but we can have someone else do it."
"You really are a logical genius." Xie Yuan had expected this, so she wasn't surprised.
Before going to find Song Ling yesterday, she discovered some clues in this fake Qian Mansion, namely the truth about the so-called twin lotus.
This place is actually an abandoned mansion, but it can replicate anything, including people, one-to-one using a magical artifact from the Xuanzhen Sect, which is skilled in Qimen Dunjia (a form of divination and divination).
She didn't notice anything amiss not only because the person who set up the formation was far more powerful than her, but also because people within the formation subconsciously assume that everything happening in that scene is normal.
If it weren't for the moon, she wouldn't have noticed anything wrong.
She clearly saw a crescent moon before she left last night, but the moon she saw at the Qian residence was clearly very round. Although she only had a moment of doubt, she quickly seized upon that fleeting suspicion.
She turned and entered the Qian Mansion, and sure enough, all the "living people" there acted as if they couldn't see her.
Here, she also discovered "two people".
No, they can no longer be called human beings.
These are two extremely perfect "bewitching" people.
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