Chapter 36
Today, Shen Yao Xing originally thought she might be leaving Jiaohuang City soon, so she planned to save more silver. She picked up a high-reward bounty and happened to encounter the criminal when she walked to the North District.
The high-value criminal was indeed different from ordinary ones. His lightness skill was not bad, jumping from roof to roof with ease.
The two chased each other, circling the rooftops of the North District. If not for being attracted by the faint smell of blood and noisy sounds, that criminal would have been in her bag long ago.
When she saw the familiar figure below, Shen Yao Xing was surprised. She didn’t know when it started, but she felt she could bump into this person wherever she went. There seemed to be a strange fate between them.
Tsk tsk, it should be an ill-fated destiny.
Shen Yao Xing pouted, crossing her arms and watching the scene below like a spectator. It didn’t take long before they started fighting. Seeing the man being pushed back step by step, she couldn’t help but frown.
It shouldn’t be like this. This person was usually so formidable, with every move deadly. How come now he only knew how to dodge backward? She narrowed her eyes, examining the man’s sword techniques, which seemed somewhat powerless.
Soon, she learned the reason from the mouths of four old women.
Although she didn’t know the whole story, this person had helped her before after all. She couldn’t just watch him being killed like this.
Shen Yao Xing licked her upper lip, her gaze falling on the green tiles at her feet. She bent down and removed two tiles with her bare hands, throwing them sideways at the four people. Though old, their reactions were quite fast. Seeing they dodged, she regretfully smacked her lips.
She continued to pry off more tiles and threw them at the group until she was sure there was a safe distance from the man before stopping.
“Who’s there?!” A loud, powerful shout.
Shen Yao Xing’s figure paused. She threw away the tiles, dusted off her hands, walked to the edge of the roof, squatted down, and said seriously to the people below: “It’s too much for so many of you to bully one person.”
The Great Elder’s gaze was venomous. “Who are you?”
“Me?” Shen Yao Xing rubbed her nape and answered honestly: “I’m just a passerby.”
This wasn’t wrong. She had just come to take a look out of curiosity after hearing the noise. Otherwise, she should be catching that criminal for the bounty by now.
The Great Elder laughed coldly, her eyes filled with killing intent. “Do you know where this is? Daring to meddle in our sect’s affairs, be careful not to die without knowing how you died.”
Shen Yao Xing remained silent, her gaze turning to a spot not far from them. A group of uniformly dressed men and women were attacking a man in all black. They had an absolute advantage in numbers, and some even had decent martial arts, forcefully holding back the man in black. Even though many had fallen, he still couldn’t break out of the encirclement.
Her gaze returned to the few people. She gracefully leapt down from the high building, landing right next to the man. Shen Yao Xing formally cupped her hands to the four: “This junior has no other intention, just hoping to plead with the elder seniors to spare him.”
She quickly added: “As long as you nod, I’ll immediately take him away and not bother you.”
The Great Elder’s wrinkled face was gloomy, her drooping triangular eyes like murky, stagnant mud ponds, glaring fiercely. Her shriveled mouth sneered: “He must die. As for you, I was thinking of letting you go just now, but now you can forget about leaving here alive!”
It seemed the negotiation had failed. Shen Yao Xing pursed her lips, secretly surveying the surroundings. The only escape route was the roof of the pavilion behind them. She glanced at the few people with murderous looks and lowered her voice to the person beside her: “Can you leap to the rooftop?”
Silence answered her.
Shen Yao Xing’s fine brows furrowed slightly. She looked up in confusion and found the man was also looking at her, his jade-white flawless face tinged with an odd blush.
When their eyes met, Jiang Ming Yue awkwardly averted his gaze.
The two were very close. His chest was beating uncontrollably, and the side of his body near the girl felt particularly weak and numb. Jiang Ming Yue had never felt so flustered before. His breathing quickened, his fingers gripping the sword hilt turned blue from the pressure, and he tried to move slightly to the side.
The man turning away without looking at her and moving half a step to the side appeared as signs of disgust towards her in Shen Yao Xing’s eyes.
… Damn, she should have known better than to meddle in others’ business.
Though she thought this, Shen Yao Xing didn’t really intend to leave. Her expression just soured a bit. “Hey, did you hear what I said?”
Was she smelly or what? Even in such a situation, he still had to put on airs.
Jiang Ming Yue’s Adam’s apple bobbed. He lowered his eyelids to hide the ripples in his eyes. His pale red thin lips were slightly pursed as he took an unnoticeable breath. His cool voice carried a hint of softness: “…I’ve been poisoned.”
The subtext was that he couldn’t do it.
Shen Yao Xing smacked her lips, looking towards the few people not far away. Her hand unconsciously touched the saber at her waist.
If they couldn’t leave, then they really had no choice but to fight.
The girl suddenly walked two steps forward, shielding the man behind her: “Take care of yourself and don’t get in my way.”
This was clearly meant for him to hear.
He should have sneered at such an arrogant tone. Jiang Ming Yue raised his left hand to his chest. For some reason, it had been pounding uncontrollably since earlier, making his palm numb.
It must be due to the poison, he thought.
Over there, Shen Yao Xing had already started fighting with the four. The knives and whips in their hands were like swimming snakes, not only agile but also vicious. The sharp tips had cut several gashes in her clothes.
The saber was only suitable for close combat, and she couldn’t get close with them cracking those deadly whips.
Shen Yao Xing gritted her teeth. When four whips lashed towards her, she leaned back to dodge, then rolled to the side to avoid the incoming knife and whip. Tired of dodging, she raised her saber to directly block the horizontally whipping knife-whip. The whip coiled around the blade once. She forcefully twisted the saber in her hand, trapping a joint of the knife-whip. Her original intention was to pull the person over, but unexpectedly, the blade directly split the sharp whip in two.
It was the first time Shen Yao Xing had witnessed such sharpness.
“Wow!” She exclaimed, examining the blade curiously.
The elders looked at each other, all with some disbelief in their eyes. Their knife-whips were forged from fine materials, how could they be so easily cut by this little girl!
The Great Elder frowned deeply, her gaze falling on the saber in the girl’s hand. The blue-black blade seemed to have faint crack-like patterns, looking like just an ordinary saber.
Shen Yao Xing was greatly excited, brandishing the saber eagerly.
“What should we do now?” The elder whose knife-whip was broken walked to the Great Elder’s side and asked in a low voice.
The Great Elder’s gaze passed over the girl and fell on the man behind her, poison flashing in her eyes: “We absolutely cannot let him leave here!”
“Alright!”
The four changed their target, avoiding the girl and attacking the man behind her. The sharp tips aimed directly at his vital points. At the critical moment, Shen Yao Xing suddenly flashed behind and grabbed the ankles of two people, forcefully throwing them towards the other two. Perhaps not expecting the girl to have such speed and strength, the four were unable to react in time and were thrown far away, only stopping when they crashed into the sky-supporting pillar in the martial arts field.
Good chance!
Shen Yao Xing went forward and pulled the man’s arm over her shoulder, her hand supporting his waist. With one leap towards the pavilion, borrowing force a few times, they jumped onto the roof and quickly left along the dense rooftops.
The elders were greatly shocked. Ignoring their injuries, they angrily shouted at the crowd still fighting the man in black: “You bunch of useless trash! The people have escaped, why aren’t you chasing quickly?!”
Letting Jiang Ming Yue escape like this was equivalent to losing their bargaining chip. If Changsheng Pavilion came for revenge later, it would likely be a disaster that wiped out their entire sect.
Saying to chase was easier said than done. After shaking off the man in black, by the time they jumped onto the rooftops, the two were already nowhere to be seen.
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The cool breeze caressed the man’s silk-like hair. At this moment, his body had completely lost strength, and he had no choice but to lean on the girl.
A faint sweet fragrance wafted from the girl. The friction between the hand on his waist and his clothes stimulated him so much he couldn’t think. He only felt his ears burning hot.
As his powerless gaze lowered, he could catch glimpses of the girl’s slightly puffy baby fat cheeks up close, looking so delicate as if they would break at a touch. Jiang Ming Yue’s eyes seemed to be scalded, and he looked away in distress, his body struggling slightly to move away from the girl.
“Don’t move around, or I’ll drop you,” Shen Yao Xing threatened without even looking up.
The struggling body froze. Jiang Ming Yue’s thin lips pressed tightly together, and he finally quieted down.
Shen Yao Xing took him directly back to the inn, only because he suddenly fainted halfway, and she couldn’t ask where he lived. With no other choice, she could only settle him here for now.
The girl stood by the bed, placing him on the bed with movements that could hardly be called gentle. In the light coming through the window, she found his face was flushed to an undeniable degree.
Could it be that he’s poisoned and has a fever?
Shen Yao Xing instinctively reached out to touch the man’s forehead with the back of her hand, only withdrawing after confirming he didn’t have a fever.
“Sigh.” Shen Yao Xing wiped the sweat from her neck. She had been busy for half a day and hadn’t eaten anything yet, feeling both tired and hungry.
Catching sight of the apples on the table, she hurriedly wiped her palms on her clothes, picked one up, sat down, and started munching.
Before she could finish half the apple, there was a knock on the door outside. Shen Yao Xing looked back: “Who is it?”
“It’s me.” It was Meng Xin Yi’s voice.
Shen Yao Xing quickly glanced at the person on the bed. If this person saw a man in her room, that would be terrible! Her chewing slowed down as she thought for a moment, then still got up to open the door.
She only opened a crack wide enough for her to squeeze through, and with extremely fast speed, she squeezed out, not giving the woman time to react before “bang” closing the door again. “Crunch,” she bit into the apple. Shen Yao Xing raised her chin and asked indistinctly: “What do you want with me?”
Blocked outside the room, Meng Xin Yi raised an eyebrow slightly: “Didn’t you say you were going out to collect the bounty today?”
“Just got back.”
The woman nodded and was about to push the door open to enter the room, but was blocked by the girl’s body: “What are you doing?”
Meng Xin Yi was puzzled: “Are we going to talk standing here?”
Shen Yao Xing nodded without any guilt, “Mm, if you have something to say, just say it.”
Meng Xin Yi took a step back, her gaze examining the person in front of her. It wasn’t that she was overly suspicious, but the girl was really too suspicious. She glanced at the door and teased with a curved lip: “You won’t let me in, could it be that you’re hiding a man inside?”
“……” Was it that easy to guess? Shen Yao Xing calmly, flatly, and as plainly as possible denied, “No, I just got back from outside, and now I’m tired and want to sleep. If you have something, come back later.”
With that, not waiting for the woman to respond, she flashed back into the room with incredible speed. Let alone seeing the scene inside, there was only a “bang” of the door and the girl’s figure was gone.
Meng Xin Yi smiled, shook her head, and walked towards her own room.
Shen Yao Xing, leaning against the door, only let out a sigh of relief when she heard the footsteps fade away. Then she was immediately drawn by the man’s muffled groan.
Shen Yao Xing came to the bedside. The man on the bed still had his eyes tightly closed. After watching for a good while, she extended her finger and placed it under his nose, only feeling relieved when she felt a slight breath.
His face was so pale, she thought he had died.
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*Spotlight on Finished Novel Translations*
Male Lead, The Black-Hearted Lotus (Female-dominant)
Short intro by Yuushi L:
At first, the male lead despised the female lead. Later, he misunderstood that she liked him, so he condescendingly and reluctantly reciprocated her feelings.
Then, he suddenly discovered that she was kind to everyone in the same way, and there was already someone she cherished in her heart, and that person was not him.
The male lead couldn’t believe it, he became angry and crazy. He was determined to capture her body and heart by any means necessary.
Synopsis:
Want to see how a green tea bitch male lead falls in love with the female lead?
Want to see how he flirtatiously pursues the female lead?
Want to see how he gets slapped in the face repeatedly?
The male lead is a green tea bitch, a poisonous lotus, jealous, ruthless, unscrupulous, with a venomous heart, and he’s also a delusional maniac.
The female lead is righteous, positive energy-filled, kind, a holy mother.
Let’s see how two people with extreme personalities come together~
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