Cang Lan Dao - Chapter 19.3
Chapter 19.3
In the future, don’t casually let anyone —
Luo Wanqing stared at his not-so-good face and said solemnly, “Bone shaping consumes a lot of true qi, right? Right now should be your weakest time. I can kill you at this moment, but knowing this, why do you still want to mold my bones for me?”
Qin Jue didn’t say anything. He looked at her calmly for a long time before saying, “You can’t kill me.”
“Really?”
“You can try.”
Qin Jue made light of the situation. Luo Wanqing felt her breath stifled in her chest. She subconsciously wanted to retort but suddenly realized there was no need. She turned her head and asked, “Why do you think I’m going to kill you?”
Luo Wanqing raised her eyes and looked at him deeply with frowns. “I haven’t done anything wrong to you along the way, so why would you want to kill me?”
She asked this question in such a way that made Qin Jue at a loss for words. He lowered his eyes and hesitated before saying, “I knew that there would be a lot of people who wanted to kill me along the way, assassins with a lot of tricks up their sleeves, so I’ve always been on my guard.”
“And then?”
“You were too strange from the beginning until now. You deliberately approached me but acted completely unlike a killer. But the person who can let other’s guard down, the more likely they are to be truly deadly knives.”
“For example?”
Luo Wanqing laughed in exasperation at his words. Qin Jue pursed his lips, “You pretended to recognize Jiu Shuang falsely to get close to me. You act like you didn’t intend to stay with me, yet actually, you have been trying everything to get me to accept you. Judging from the results, if I were an ordinary male, then I likely wouldn’t be able to stay away from the tenderness you’ve given me without suspecting that you’re intentionally approaching.”
“And?” Luo Wanqing stared at him.
Qin Jue didn’t dare to look directly into her gaze, twisting his head away as he awkwardly said, “There’s also …… the fact that you seemed to have been certain that it was me that the Feng Yu Pavilion was after. You wanted to leave me when the first wave of minions from the Feng Yu Pavilion came to kill me, so I guess you didn’t want to go after your people and wanted to test my strength. That’s why I force you to move your hands.”
“Continue.” Luo Wanqing leaned against the window, hugging herself around her chest, tapping her arm with her fingers.
“Your internal strength is abundant, but your blade technique is chaotic. So I thought, you don’t want me to discern your power and want to discourage me. Then I won’t make a move. I’ll dispel your wariness by making you think I’m weak.”
“Then, when you broke your tendons for me, I thought that you must be testing me while trying to use the opportunity to consume my internal energy to help you repair your tendons. Hence, I only helped you once and let you slowly repair it yourself.”
“You also ask me if one could divide internal energy into half, and this kind of common sense question, as if you’re acting like a noble lady entering jianghu for the first time,” Qin Jue looked at Luo Wanqing and sighed, “One moment you’re extremely resourceful, knowing a lot of obscure things, and the next moment you don’t even have the common sense to understand them. It’s like ‘the disguise slipped through the cracks.'”
“Of course, the last thing that made me sure you were an assassin was that in the end, when I sidetracked you to go buy some messy stuff, you did go for that long.”
Qin Jue stared at her and said solemnly, “According to your character, you’d only buy essential things, so how could you go for so long? The only reason is that you purposely let the people from the Feng Yu Pavilion get the drop on me, and then when it was almost time, you came back. If they and I were both injured, you’d kill me. But if I was far stronger than them, you pretended that you were coming to save me. That’s why I left myself wounded, left them, and have been waiting for you.”
Luo Wanqing didn’t say anything. She lowered her head. She didn’t know why, but when she listened to his suspicions and calculations, she felt a long-lost bitterness arise.
She lowered her head and said softly, “Then why don’t you think I saw that you were far stronger than them and pretended to rescue you?”
“I …… “Qin Jue hesitated and finally managed to speak, “I did think that. But then I looked at you ……”
Qin Jue thought, “I don’t think anyone should be able to lie so truly, right? If it’s true, then I’m blind. It’s not a big deal. After all, you can’t kill me.” After all, he reluctantly accepted her because he had a way out, not because he trusted her.
“Then,” Luo Wanqing suppressed her bitterness that disgusted her and asked softly, “Since you suspect that I’m going to kill you, what’s the point of being so nice to me all the way? When I fought, you blew leaves to help me, taught me blade skills, repaired my tendons for me ……”
And that candy of honey, those careful herbs on the page, the menstrual straps she hadn’t even thought of herself. She couldn’t say it and felt resentful. She resents herself a bit. She obviously already fell on Jiang Shaoyan’s scheme once. How can she still easily trust others and treat him as if he was a good person?
Talk about what to be wary of! The real one to be wary of was obviously in front of her, smiling every day.
“I …… “Listening to Luo Wanqing’s words and looking at her isolated look, Qin Jue lowered his eyes and softly said, “I’m just going along with you. What kind of person you pretend to be, I’ll accompany you accordingly. “
“And now?” Luo Wanqing raised her head, looking at the youth before her, “Also obeying me, acting a person that fits me?”
The youth didn’t say anything, looking at the floor with his eyes downcast.
Luo Wanqing suddenly realized that this sentence was somewhat meaningless to ask because they were only casual acquaintances. Agreeing to travel together was a matter of each taking what they needed. She saved him only because of her promise and conscience. Now that he confirmed that she was harmless, everything else won’t related to him anymore.
“I’m sorry, I’m the one who overstepped my bounds.”
Luo Wanqing gathered her emotions and smiled, “I am very grateful to you for molding my bones. Judging by your appearance, you deliberately show weakness to lure the snakes out of the hole. Now that the snakes have fallen into the net, you won’t need me as a disguise anymore. With your skills, you shouldn’t need me to escort you to Dongdu anymore, right?”
Qin Jue held his forehead and didn’t make a sound.
Luo Wanqing raised her hand and respectfully said, “Since that’s the case, I won’t drag you down. I’ll make the antidote for the Seven Insects and Seven Flowers Pill today and give it to you. Then, we’ll go our separate ways to Dongdu.” Luo Wanqing raised her steps and wanted to leave.
Sitting on a chair, Qin Jue suddenly spoke, “Xiniang.”
Luo Wanqing paused and listened to the person behind her ask, “Why did you buy all the lists I gave you?”
Luo Wanqing didn’t answer right away. She thought for a moment and finally said, “When I poisoned you, you gave me a candy. I thought it was quite tasty.”
Hearing this, Qin Jue raised his eyes. He looked at the thin and lonely woman in front of him. He opened his mouth, “I have one last question for you. Why do you want to enter the Inspection Department?”
“I have a revenge I want to avenge. I want to protect some people.” Luo Wanqing didn’t lie to him, and there was no need to do so, “There was a person who once made me realize that in this world, the only way to accomplish all of this is to have power. I want to go to the Inspection Department and work my way up the ladder. Use my sword to accomplish what I want and use my power to have everything I want.” She turned back to look at Qin Jue, “Even though you’ve been lying to me all this way, I’m still grateful to you. I hope we meet again in the future. In the Inspection Department.”
He had taught her a lot. Taught her to draw a blade, taught her proper internal martial arts, helped her train her body, and molded her bones. Although he had lied to her, she wasn’t resentful.
Qin Jue stared at the woman in front of him, and after a moment, he smiled softly, “Xiniang, in the future, I won’t ask you where you came from. Whether you suspect me or not, I won’t suspect you.”
Luo Wanqing was stunned as Qin Jue stood up and said gently, “I have some things to do and must leave first in advance. You don’t need to give me the Seven Insects and Seven Flowers Pill antidote. We’ll meet again in Dongdu. I’ll come and get it myself. I’ll tell the host family that we’re a couple who encountered mountain bandits and that I have something to do to go home early. So they won’t ask too many questions. You can recuperate for a few more days. I left some good techniques for you, a good knife, some medicines, and some commonly used weapons, all in the room, when you leave, take them with you. Xiniang,’ Qin Jue looked at her quietly for a long time before he said, “Actually, this matter of being good to you isn’t all a disguise. Most of it is just following my heart.”
Luo Wanqing listened while watching him move his gaze away unnaturally and said, “Sometimes I feel that if you’re not a bad person, and you’re a good seedling. Sometimes, I feel you’re indeed a good person. Sometimes, I merely want to do these things, and not always a scheme.”
“That’s good.” Luo Wanqing smiled, “I’m much more comfortable when you say that.”
Seeing her with a smile, Qin Jue became happier. He turned his eyes to gaze at her face, thought for a moment, and finally said, “I’m leaving. Let’s meet up in Dongdu.”
“I’ll see you next time. I won’t see you off.” Luo Wanqing arched her hand.
Qin Jue nodded and lifted his steps to leave without hesitation. Walking to the door, he suddenly remembered something: “Also, Xiniang.”
Luo Wanqing looked up in confusion.
Qin Jue said solemnly, “Don’t let anyone treat you casually in the future. You’re too soft-hearted and prone to accidents. You must hurry and don’t make friends with anyone. I don’t know what you think about the Inspection Department’s team exam. But if you want to team up with Jiu Shuang, I can make an exception to tell you,” Qin Jue winked, a gloating smile surfacing on his face, “She’s a female.”