"How did you know that song's verse?" She tried to breathe deeply, keeping her expression as calm as possible.
"Xiao Ji told me." He suddenly became very frank, and very annoyed.
"Okay, I still have the same question: what about Xiao Ji?"
"She's fine, she'll be coming to the Central Plains soon. Even if you don't look for her, she'll look for you." His face grew increasingly pale, and his voice grew deeper.
"You've always suspected Xiao Juyuan, but you're not sure who I am, right?" She smiled bitterly, and he nodded with difficulty.
"When you mentioned Xiao Ji, I became a little suspicious. She's blinded by lust, isn't she?" He chuckled self-deprecatingly. "You told Pei Junwu?"
She nodded.
"Our affair..." He smiled ambiguously, with a hint of cruelty.
"I already said that." She turned her head away from him.
"He doesn't care?" He laughed maliciously.
She stopped talking again.
"Li Yuan'er, don't think it's so easy. No one will ever touch my woman again! I'm saying this to you one last time: I want to marry you. Do you understand?"
“It’s not hard to understand, but I don’t want to,” she said. “Yi Chunjun, you always surprise me too much. Your secrets, your identity, everything about you makes me so tired!”
He scoffed, "What are you tired of? Just stay by my side!"
“Junwu and I were engaged long ago. The current state of the Pei family and him is not unrelated to my concealing my identity all this time…”
"What a joke! Fools can only blame themselves for their bad luck! What does it have to do with you that the Pei family is in this state and Pei Junwu has gone mad?" He stood up and angrily flicked his sleeve.
She smiled faintly; of course he could speak so easily when he was detached from the matter.
Seeing her smile, his expression softened slightly. He sat back down and kissed her lips before she could resist. "Don't be silly, you already know my plan, right? Kill them all, then build Pei Junwu an even bigger and more magnificent mansion..."
“These are not what I want.” Pei Junwu walked in, clearly having heard everything.
Yi Chunjun stared straight at him, his expression a mixture of a smile and anger. "What do you want?" he asked knowingly, interrupting Pei Junwu before he could answer, "She won't do! She's mine!"
"Yours?" Pei Junwu sneered coldly. "It's destined that she is my wife."
Yi Chunjun's eyes narrowed again, filled with murderous intent.
"That's enough." Xiao Yuan sat up, annoyed, and turned his back to the two of them. "Now is not the time to talk about this."
She took a deep breath. "Yi Chunjun, we agreed from the beginning that I wanted Pei Junwu's people, and you wanted Qingtian Zhou."
Yi Chunjun shuddered and stared at her retreating figure without uttering a sound.
"Continue with your plan. Once it's done, I'll give you the Sky-Supporting Curse. We'll then be able to... get what we asked for."
Yi Chunjun clenched his teeth so tightly that the veins in his temples bulged out.
He turned and walked away. For the first time, she heard his footsteps. "Don't even think about it! Don't even think about it!" he roared, and then he disappeared.
Chapter 60 of "The Smiling Flower": A Trip of Three
Held in Pei Junwu's arms, looking down at Xiao Juyuan lying on the bed, this victorious posture did not make Xiao Yuan happy.
"We're heading to the bamboo forest now. Take care and stay safe." Xiao Yuan remained expressionless. He had originally wanted to put on a good show for Xiao Juyuan, but now he had completely lost interest and was even too lazy to say this to her.
Xiao Juyuan simply nodded indifferently.
Xiao Yuan gave a bitter smile. He wasn't disappointed by Xiao Juyuan's reaction. All the secrets of the group were intertwined, leaving only exhaustion.
Xiao Juyuan's eyes were fixed on Pei Junwu, and Pei Junwu returned her gaze, his eyes filled with an unfathomable depth. Which secrets had been revealed, and which hadn't... it was no longer relevant to these people.
Finally, Pei Junwu sighed, picked up Xiao Yuan, and turned to leave. Xiao Juyuan did not call out to him, but turned her face to the wall, perhaps because she did not want them to see her tears.
Standing in the courtyard... was Yi Chunjun.
He still wore that indifferent, half-smiling expression, and the stubbornness in his wounded eyes sent a sudden, sharp pain through Xiao Yuan's heart.
"Are you two about to set off?" His tone was full of sarcasm. "I won't keep you company. After the revenge plan is completed, I will personally go and demand the Sky-Supporting Curse."
He's leaving? Xiaoyuan lowered her eyes, unable to bear looking at him. Yes, he was such a proud and arrogant person... Originally, she thought he would fly into a rage, or even fight Pei Junwu to the death—how foolish! How could he do something so reckless and impulsive!
How important is she to him?
His heart?
The hardest thing to guess is his heart! His heart holds countless secrets and conspiracies; he can be very gentle, or he can be very fierce.
Hot liquid dripped from the back of her hand, and her nose felt sore. She wiped it with her hand unintentionally—it was all blood!
Pei Junwu squatted down, let her sit on his lap, and held her head back, gently and carefully wiping away the bloodstains on her face with the hem of his long robe.
"This time it's my nose that's bleeding." She forced a smile and tried to make conversation.
"This means the damage to your lung meridian has worsened," Pei Junwu said calmly. "Right now, it's best if you don't experience any dramatic emotional fluctuations."
She fell silent for a moment.
Yi Chunjun, who had been standing to the side watching, suddenly walked over, grabbed her waist, and pulled her away from Pei Junwu's embrace.