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Kapitel 17

Before she could finish speaking, she had already vanished without a trace—heh, while Young Master Liu is indeed a handsome man, there's no need to be in such a hurry, is there?!

After she had gone far away, I leisurely followed the stream towards the Inviting Moon Pavilion—wait, there's a peach grove here too, no, it seems like the place I was in yesterday. Aha! So I really did trespass on someone's property yesterday.

"Brother Ye, why are you so late? Look, the moon is already out." Look, isn't that Young Master Liu standing among the flowers, smiling and waiting for me?

"Punishment? You don't mean I have to drink again, do you?" I walked over nonchalantly. "No thanks, you've made my head still hurt. Hey, is that liquor fake? Otherwise, how could it make me so drunk? How about I eat a chicken leg instead?" — I haven't eaten a single grain of rice since last night, my stomach is rumbling.

Hey, there's a girl in a green dress smiling at me over there. I grinned and picked up a chicken leg, taking big bites. I mumbled, "Brother Liu, who's this pretty girl?"

"Junior Sister, this is a friend I just met, Ye Qingyang." Liu Wufeng smiled slightly at me. "Brother Ye, this is my junior sister, Yang Wanqing."

"Wow, Brother Liu is so lucky to have such a beautiful junior sister by his side." I looked her up and down with a grin. "So, Miss Yang is Young Master Liu's junior sister. Your senior brother has such a great reputation in the martial arts world, so your kung fu must be pretty good too, right?"

"Master Ye is a friend of my senior brother, no need for formalities, please call me Wanqing." She remained as serene and elegant as ever, seemingly oblivious to my arrogance. "I am merely a woman, possessing only a few rudimentary self-defense skills, how could I be worthy of being called a female knight-errant?"

"What 'Master Ye'? I don't know any martial arts. Just call me Brother Ye." I waved casually at her and simply picked up the whole chicken—putting everything else aside, the chefs at Lu Family Manor are truly exceptional!

"Are you a reincarnated starving ghost?" Xiao Ji was clearly still holding a grudge against me for pinching him yesterday.

"Are you a reincarnated stingy person?" I replied with a smile, then ignored him. "To be honest, I've never met that Miss Lu, but I think you two are quite a good match—if it weren't for that lousy engagement." I casually offered my opinion.

"Brother Ye!" Yang Wanqing's cheeks immediately flushed red, her face filled with shyness—no way? I just said something casually, and it actually hit the nail on the head for this little girl?!

I glanced at Liu Wufeng, giving him a look that said, "You're in trouble! Caught between these two women, how are you going to survive?"

"Brother Ye, please don't make fun of me. Junior Sister is just my sister." Liu Wufeng said with a serious expression.

"Yes, how can I compare to Sister Lu's unparalleled beauty? Brother Ye, please don't talk nonsense, you'll only make yourself a laughing stock!" Yang Wanqing smiled, but her voice concealed a hint of barely perceptible pain. "Besides, this is Sister Lu's home. If others overhear and spread rumors, affecting the relationship between Senior Brother and Sister Lu, then I would be committing a grave sin."

"Hmph, so you know how powerful gossip can be? Then why are you still following Wufeng around?" With a cold snort, a woman in red walked out of the woods, her anger palpable—wasn't that the beautiful woman who asked me for directions earlier? She caught up with me so quickly?

"Hey, it's none of your business if my junior sister goes out with her senior brother to gain experience and broaden her horizons, right?" I couldn't stand her arrogant attitude and couldn't help but jump out to speak up for Yang Xiaomei.

"So it was you? Why did you trick me into going to Jufeng Pavilion? Wufeng is clearly here!" The young lady's anger was directed at me.

"I clearly told you that 'Young Master Liu went to Jufeng Pavilion early this morning to play chess with Master Lu,' but it's evening now. Who plays chess all day long? You ran off before I could finish speaking, how can you blame me?" Hmph! Trying to cause me trouble? I easily deflected the responsibility with a single sentence: "Besides, I was just taking a stroll, how was I supposed to run into Brother Liu?" I then tossed this hot potato back into Liu Wufeng's hands—after all, the girl was looking for him.

"Yes, I just ran into Brother Ye. He really didn't know I was here." Liu Wufeng glared at me slightly, then had no choice but to cover for me.

"Alright, we'll settle this score later. Wufeng, since you've traveled all the way to Jiangling, why didn't you come in? Am I really that annoying to you?" As she spoke, a mist welled up in her clear, bright eyes, making her appear even more charming and pitiful in the hazy moonlight—shedding that spoiled and arrogant exterior, I really couldn't deny that she was indeed a stunningly beautiful woman.

"I..." Liu Wufeng hesitated, unable to finish his sentence.

"Don't deny it to me, I know you went to Wushan." Her beautiful eyes were filled with tears, and she pointed at Yang Wanqing with infinite grievance. "I originally thought you had important business to attend to, but you did nothing there, instead you took her sightseeing every day! How do you explain this?"

"Wait a minute, who are you? What business is it of yours where those fellow disciples go? Are you so bored that you're following them?" I said with disdain.

"Brother Ye, this is Lu Rumei." Liu Wufeng looked at me awkwardly.

"Lu Rumei?" I jumped up. "Isn't that your fiancée?"

Liu Wufeng just gave a wry smile but didn't say anything—which was tacit agreement.

"Didn't you run away from your wedding? What happened?" I looked at Lu Rumei, completely bewildered. "Didn't you say you were deeply in love with that Jiang Shaoxia? You even planned to remain unmarried for life because of him?"

"Who said I ran away from my wedding?" Lu Rumei's pretty face flushed red. Indeed, in her time, being twenty-four and still unmarried meant being an extremely old maid. If she didn't hold onto such a good prospect as Liu Wufeng, wouldn't she be a fool?!

"I'm sorry, Rumei. I can't agree to this marriage." Liu Wufeng looked at Lu Rumei with apologetic eyes and said softly but firmly, "Unless I see the body with my own eyes, I will never believe that Mo Hui has left us."

"Six years have passed. Do you expect me to wait endlessly like this?" Lu Rumei asked, her beautiful eyes filled with tears, her heart filled with resentment. "If Mo Hui knew how you treated me, would he be able to rest in peace?"

"Yes, he can't rest in peace—if he knew you were going to marry his best brother." I sighed with deep emotion—I actually felt quite sorry for her. "You can't blame Young Master Liu for rejecting you. As the saying goes, one shouldn't covet a friend's wife, let alone a brother's wife! Right, Miss Lu?"

"What do you know to dare criticize me?" Lu Rumei yelled at me angrily. "Everyone says that I, Lu Rumei, am blessed to marry Jiang Mohui! But who knows that Jiang is a complete blockhead! Even if he had only glanced at me with gentle eyes, I wouldn't hate him, but he wouldn't even look at me properly! Wufeng, don't you know? Over the years, if it weren't for your comfort, if it weren't for your smile, I would have collapsed long ago! But why are you so heartless to me?!"

"Hey, even if he's wrong, it's Jiang who wronged you, what does it have to do with Brother Liu?" Although I sympathized with her, I couldn't agree with her point of view. "If you were dissatisfied with him, you should have said so to his face, unless you're infatuated with his illustrious status and background? The deceased is gone, what's the use of speaking ill of the dead now? It's just..."

"Shut up!" Lu Rumei shouted angrily, her voice filled with embarrassment and shame. With a flick of her jade arm, a silver light rushed towards me as fast as lightning. I was caught off guard—to be honest, even if I had been on guard, there was no way to avoid it—and felt a burning pain sweep over my entire body. Looking down, I saw that half of my clothes were stained red with blood.

Seriously? I only spoke a few truths, and it's brought me to my death...?

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[Volume 1: Encounter Chapter 17: Sparse Stars Crossing the Milky Way]

I looked down at the blood gushing from my shoulder like a spring, and smelled a faint fishy stench. I looked at Lu Rumei blankly—did I really deserve to die just because I said a few words to her?

"Are you crazy, Rumei?!" Liu Wufeng floated over, grabbing the silver whip that Miss Lu was wielding. His ever-present, gentle smile had vanished. "Brother Ye is a scholar who knows absolutely no martial arts, and you actually... Sigh! It seems we've spoiled you too much all these years. When did you become like this?"

"Yes, I have changed! But it was all your fault that I was forced into it!" Lu Rumei sneered as she approached me. "I want to see if you would turn against me for the sake of a mere servant."

As she spoke, she flicked her slender hand, and the silver whip, like a silver snake, twisted and turned in the air before nimbly slipping out of Liu Wufeng's palm and curving towards my chest.

"Rumei, give me the antidote. Don't make another mistake!" Liu Wufeng sighed helplessly, gently pulling me into his arms with his left hand, while his right hand deflected Lu Rumei's silver whip.

Liu Wufeng was probably driven mad by her; he was even spitting out the wrong words. What antidote? No one's been poisoned. He should be asking her for that wound medicine! I chuckled inwardly.

"Fine, if you want the antidote, come and get it yourself! I'd like to see how long you can protect him!" Liu Wufeng's actions had thoroughly enraged Miss Lu. She gritted her teeth, twisted her slender waist, and leaped into the air like a swallow. With her left hand, she lashed out with her whip at Liu Wufeng's face, then with a slight raise of her right hand, I heard Yang Wanqing scream in alarm, and then I felt a tightening around my waist, and my body lightened as I was bound by a soft rope and taken from Liu Wufeng's arms into the peach grove.

As I looked down, I saw several points of blue, cold light flash past my feet and disappear into the peach grove behind me.

"Who goes there?!" Ironically, Lu Rumei and Liu Wufeng were in perfect unison, shouting in unison.

"Which gang are you from? Please put down my brother, and I, Liu, will absolutely guarantee your safety!" Liu Wufeng, true to his name, really came rushing over like a gust of wind.

The man in black did not answer, but simply carried me on his back and disappeared into the hazy moonlight like a shot of a star.

"You've come?" Although I couldn't see his face, I could feel his presence—I breathed a sigh of relief and sank into the darkness—and passed out.