Chapter 496 - 247: Playboy
Ji Mingyu was speechless, "You’re just deluding yourself after showing symptoms into thinking Chu Xuan wouldn’t kill you, when, from the start, he fully intended to silence you."
Chu Xuan knocked gently on her little head, "Don’t talk nonsense."
Pei Shurou also looked earnestly and said, "If he had truly wanted to kill me, he wouldn’t have let me return to Purple Heaven Jade Mansion back then, stirring the whole sect to vow revenge on him for my sake."
Chu Xuan felt a bit self-conscious hearing this, "Let’s not talk about these things anymore. Let the past stay in the past—let’s continue to discuss our upcoming matters."
Ji Mingyu was still not giving up, "Dear sister, listen to me, I still believe you don’t really like him. Chu Xuan is probably just after your looks. He’s always been like this—a lecher."
Pei Shurou chuckled, "Little one, how old are you to start calling me ’sister’?"
"And you talk as if you know Chu Xuan well. Aren’t you Primordial Monarch Taixu’s pet? What, does your master tell you everything?"
"I..." Ji Mingyu hesitated, feeling a bit aggrieved, wishing her true self could come over and argue her case.
Even six or seven hundred years ago, these two women didn’t have much interaction. It’s not like they never met, but it wasn’t much more than a ’one meeting acquaintance.’
So back at the Hundred Flowers Banquet, when Ming Yu first saw her, she didn’t even recognize her until Pei Shurou almost fainted upon hearing the name ’Celestial Evil Demon Venerable,’ sparking Ming Yu’s memory of Chu Xuan’s old flame.
Back when Chu Xuan experimented with ’time travel,’ it was strictly confidential, and he told no one, including Ji Mingyu.
By the time she learned the details, it was when Chu Xuan had informed her of his resurrection plan and had asked her to help.
In Ji Mingyu’s view, wasn’t this a classic ’hiding a beauty in a golden house’ scenario? And he’d kept it from her for so many years, causing her to be upset with him.
With no other choice, Chu Xuan had to explain to her what [Stockholm Syndrome] was.
And today, well, Ming Yu directly borrowed the concept, trying to persuade Pei Shurou, proving that what goes around, comes around.
...
"Where are we going next?" Pei Shurou held Chu Xuan’s hand, looking at him with a gaze of deep attachment.
Since regaining her memory, there was a time when she deeply resented and disliked Chu Xuan, even seeing him as a mortal enemy. But since he was already dead, she could only senselessly hate a dead man, ensnared by shadows of the past.
It wasn’t until their reunion that Pei Shurou truly came to terms with her feelings. Now, she doesn’t care about right or wrong, she only wants to follow her heart’s desires.
Without a second thought, Chu Xuan said, "Since you’re willing to help me, let’s return to the Li’an Demon Sect for a while."
"Later, if Yao Yufei needs to mobilize your superior strength, I hope you’ll cooperate with her command."
"Of course, I’ll try my best not to let you take any risks—I’ll make that clear to Yao Yufei."
"The only part that might disappoint you is that following her orders means you can’t stay by my side all the time. We’ll need to wait until everything is settled before we can be together for long."
On hearing this, Fairy Pei bit her lip, feeling a bit wronged, "I just got to see you, and now you want to separate again so soon?"
Chu Xuan tenderly kissed her cheek, "Not right now. In the next period, I’ll spend more time with you."
Only then did Pei Shurou feel somewhat at ease. ’Little Snow’ was not polite in retorting, "See, I told you, he’s just treating you like a workhorse."
Chu Xuan, hearing her say this, suddenly had an idea and said, "How about sending you to Yao Yufei’s side too? You can help her with chores, like pouring tea and massaging her shoulders."
Ji Mingyu instantly cowered, promptly hugging his leg and shutting her mouth obediently.
’Little Snow’ thought to herself, miserably: Alas! Don’t hold me accountable for the master’s mistakes. I don’t want to serve that wicked woman as a maid.
In the end, this group continued their noisy, happy journey towards the Demon Sect.
Meanwhile, Gu Haitang returned to the sect with her elders, with one group leaving as the other returned.
Upon discovering that Lady Pei disappeared without a trace after breaking through, leaving only a letter saying she was going traveling, Haitang felt a pang of jealousy and discontent in her heart.
She could only console herself—that Chu Xuan promised to marry her, and he could take her away at any time, only she was unwilling to go.
Calm down, calm down, the hardest phase is over. In the end, I will surely attain happiness.
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Two days later, at the Li’an Demon Sect.
When Chu Xuan arrived with his group, they were surprised to find the banners of the Celestial Alliance everywhere in the Left God’s Void Heaven. It seemed Yao Yufei was indeed efficient in her work.
With the sect’s token on him, he passed through the formation without needing to be reported, arriving secretly at Li’an Hall.
At this moment, Yao Yufei was seated at the head of the hall, listening to her subordinates’ reports.
Seeing Chu Xuan enter with others, she rose with a smile to greet him, but paused in surprise upon seeing Pei Shurou. Another Seventh Realm cultivator??
Just who is this? How does Chu Xuan seem to treat these high-level cultivators like cabbages, easily bringing back two at once?
Meanwhile, Yao Yufei’s admiration for Chu Xuan only grew—he truly delivers on his words. With two Seventh Realm allies already in place, that ’mysterious organization’ must truly exist, igniting her anticipation further.
She waved her hand for her subordinates to retire, then elegantly stepped forward to greet them.