Zhan Chun - Chapter 40
All the things I had just thought of to say have now been completely forgotten.
She turned and walked towards the door: "Never mind, I'm going back to sleep."
Yang Shen grabbed her, pinched her chin, and tried to kiss her again. This time, she finally reacted, forcefully turning her head away and exclaiming, "I'm your senior sister! Your older sister! You...you're committing incest!"
He scoffed dismissively, "I've never had a sister."
"I'm older than you! You have to respect me, and you can't do that again!"
"He's only a month older, and his brain is many months smaller."
"Sheep kidneys!" she yelled. "What do you want?!"
"Ge Yichun!" he raised his voice, "You're a donkey!"
Yi Chun was immediately speechless, unable to utter a word for a long time.
Yang Shen sneered, "You're playing dumb, so innocent. You know nothing? Yes, I'm a delusional fool, not a wealthy and handsome young master, just a silly boy who talks about revenge all day long. So you can pretend you know nothing, coming to me for everything, and then pretending to ask me what I want. What do you think I want?!"
Yichun looked at him for a while and slowly said, "You're very agitated right now. We both need to calm down. Let's talk again tomorrow."
She pushed him away and left.
Yang Shen hugged her tightly from behind and whispered, "I'm sorry, Yichun, I didn't mean to."
Yichun shook her head: "Listen to me, sheep kidneys. I'm your senior sister..."
“I’ve never thought about any of that. Whether you’re my senior or junior sister, Yichun, we’re just two ordinary people who happened to meet. I like you, it’s that simple. You can not like me, but you can’t use this as an excuse to back out.”
She was speechless.
Yang Shen held her shoulders, turned her around, looked steadily into her eyes, and asked softly, "Don't you like me?"
Yi Chun choked for a long time, unable to utter the words "I don't like it".
She lowered her head in shame: "Yang Shen, I didn't know, I never thought of it. I've always... treated you like a younger brother."
He slowly released his hand and took a step back.
Yichun watched silently as he walked to the washbasin stand, calmly washed the towel, and hung it up. Only then did he turn around and see that her expression was also indifferent. He simply said, "It's late, go back to sleep."
“I…” she hesitated, unsure of what to say.
"No need to say anything more." He smiled. "Let's go to sleep, Senior Sister."
The last two "senior sisters" spoke very softly, like snowflakes falling silently to the ground, almost inaudible.
Yichun pushed open the door and left, but felt an emptiness in his heart, as if he had done something wrong. Looking back at his window, the candlelight was out, but he knew he wouldn't sleep well that night.
Suddenly, I felt a pain in my chest, not the pain of actual trauma, but a dull ache, like being squeezed by an invisible hand, making it difficult to breathe.
There was an impulse within her that she couldn't fully understand or accept yet.
Before she could react, she had already pushed the door open again, urgently saying, "Sheep kidney! I actually really—"
Before he could finish speaking, he heard Little Pumpkin scream from afar, and Yang Shen jumped off the bed in one swift motion.
Chapter Twenty-Four
As soon as they reached the front yard, they saw Shu Jun carrying a man in black, walking lightly towards them. Little Pumpkin, with her back to them, was still squealing in a high-pitched voice, "Help! Help! Stop your lovey-dovey talk in the back! Master is going to die!"
Shu Jun threw the person directly at him: "I think you're the one who should stop embarrassing me."
Little Pumpkin was full of grievances: "I'm only doing this for your own good. You can't even handle the person you like in your own territory, and you're letting outsiders take advantage of you."
Shu Jun looked at him strangely, then at his back, and said nothing.
Yang Shen coughed from behind and whispered, "Has someone come to cause trouble for Young Master Shu?"
Little Pumpkin, with skin thicker than a city wall, turned around without changing his expression and said, "You're too slow! I called out dozens of times! What if Master has really been killed?"
Shu Jun simply kicked him into the house to save him from further embarrassment.
The man in black he had previously captured lay limp on the ground, his fate unknown. Shu Jun tapped him with his toe and said softly, "Four people came, but we only managed to capture one alive. Yan Yufei's dog is indeed formidable; it bites and commits suicide as soon as it's discovered. If we hadn't been quick enough to stuff his mouth with a sock, we probably wouldn't have been able to catch this one either."
After saying that, he turned the person over and found that there was a snow-white silk sock stuffed in his mouth. It was probably the one that Shu Jun had just taken off. The left foot was bare, with a semi-transparent toenail showing.
Yi Chun's eyes lit up immediately: "Shu Jun, you're amazing! How can you use socks as hidden weapons?"
He said smugly, "When people are cornered, they can even use their hair as a weapon, let alone a sock. I'll teach you a trick: if you can't find a weapon in your hand, use anything you can remove as a weapon. Money and clothes are just external things; preserving your life is the most important thing."
If we let them continue talking, the topic will inevitably veer off into some random and inexplicable place.
Yang Shen quickly interrupted, "So, Yan Yufei has also started causing trouble for Young Master Shu?"
Shu Jun smiled slightly: "He's not here to cause me trouble, he's come specifically to see you two, and also to test me."
He crouched down, patted the man in black's face, and said softly, "Don't play dead. I know you have poison stuck in your palate, and you plan to commit suicide as soon as the pressure points are released. Unfortunately, I happen to know how to detoxify you. I'll remove the poison for you, and then I'll stick a needle into your vital point every day when you practice your martial arts... Don't glare at me like that. I won't kill you easily, but it must hurt a lot to have a needle stuck into your vital point, right? Want to try it out and see what it feels like?"
The man in black's face turned greener than a pumpkin, and his bewildered expression resembled that of a little rabbit that had fallen into a trap.
Shu Jun released the pressure points, took off the socks, and looked at him while resting her chin on her hand.
He could only say haltingly, "Young Master ordered... to test Shu Jun's methods first, since he wants to get involved in this mess..."
Shu Jun turned to look at Yi Chun, as if to say: Look, look, you've dragged me down with you, you're such a jinx.
Yang Shen pondered for a moment and asked, "What's the matter between Yan Yufei and Jianlan Manor? I heard that the manor lord is dying. Is that true?"