Chapter 244: Senior Brother, You Really Don’t Know
As it neared noon, the maidservants in Yun Jiu Manor were marching in teams, preparing to head to the dining hall for lunch.
However, while walking through the corridors, they saw someone they never dared to imagine—
“E-Eldest Miss?!” the leading maidservant exclaimed, bowing in panic.
Yun Yiyi hadn’t visited Jian Jiu Peak in a long time. Many of the maidservants who had joined Yun Jiu Manor in recent years had never even seen her. After the lead maidservant spoke, the several behind her quickly moved aside and nodded.
Yun Yiyi, dressed in a feather robe, inspected one of them and asked,
“I heard Second Sister has woken up. Where is she now?”
“Um… Sister Jiujiu just went to the back garden a moment ago.”
“Alright.”
Yun Yiyi nodded in acknowledgment, then walked past the group of maidservants with Ye Anping, heading towards the back garden.
After the two had gone, the group of maidservants looked at their retreating figures in disbelief, whispering among themselves:
“Did I hear that wrong? The Eldest Miss actually called Sister Jiujiu ‘Second Sister’?! The sun must have risen in the west today.”
“Sigh~ Let’s go, let’s go. It’s none of our business. We’ll just pretend we didn’t see anything.”
“Yeah… Let’s go, let’s go.”
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Exiting the corridor at a leisurely pace, Yun Yiyi couldn’t help but feel a touch of helplessness recalling the maidservant’s expression.
The poor relationship between her and Yun Jiujiu was hardly a secret; most people in the sect knew that they either argued or fought whenever they met.
Yun Jiujiu couldn’t win an argument against her, and she couldn’t win a fight against Yun Jiujiu.
“Young Master Ye, do you think my Second Sister will think I’ve come to gloat when she sees me? Should I not have come?”
Ye Anping was silent for a moment before replying,
“Eldest Miss Yun, I’m not clear on what exactly happened that night, but I’ve heard that Second Miss seemed to risk her life to save you. Since Second Miss was willing to save you at the cost of her own life, it proves that the relationship between you two isn’t beyond repair. Moreover, considering Second Miss’s personality, she wouldn’t proactively seek you out. If you wish to reconcile, you will need to take the initiative.”
“Mm…” Yun Yiyi thought his words held some truth and nodded in agreement. “She also told me that night that she seemed to want to elope with someone named Feng Yu…”
“Oh?”
“Honestly, I’m quite envious of her. Able to let go and move on,” Yun Yiyi turned to look back at Ye Anping and said, “I even feel like doing the same. Nothing good has ever happened to me since I stayed in Moon Shadow Sword Sect.”
“Do you truly feel that way?”
“Yes,” Yun Yiyi’s eyes darted around as she asked, “If… if I wasn’t Eldest Miss of the Yun Family, and Young Master Ye didn’t have to marry into the Yun Family as a son-in-law, but…”
If she wasn’t Eldest Miss of the Yun Family, would her engagement to Ye Anping still be valid?
The relationship of fiancé and fiancée between her and Ye Anping was built entirely on her status as Eldest Miss of the Yun Family. If she were to shed this identity, she would merely be a cultivator of ordinary aptitude.
Would Ye Anping accept her after losing this gilded packaging?
Yun Yiyi didn’t voice this question. She knew the answer all too well.
—No.
—At least not now…
“But?” Ye Anping prompted.
“It’s nothing.”
Yun Yiyi shook her head slightly, then gently took Ye Anping’s hand and continued walking forward.
Passing through the moon-shaped door of the back courtyard, unlike Yun Manor, Yun Jiu Manor’s back garden was simply a garden, without a grand pond or water pavilion. It only contained fragrant flowers meticulously tended by the gardener.
After a few steps, Yun Yiyi suddenly found a plum tree emitting a faint spiritual light from amidst a patch of flowers.
As it was midday, the tree’s glow was not obvious, but even someone ignorant of flowers would know that this plum tree was no ordinary specimen.
“Young Master Ye, do you know this plum tree?”
Ye Anping stopped and looked. At first glance, it appeared to be a plum tree radiating spiritual energy, but upon closer inspection, one could see the clusters of cherry-red, double-petaled plum blossoms.
They were beautiful, but Ye Anping felt it resembled something that had undergone radiation and suffered genetic mutation.
“I’ve heard of it. This is the Mandarin Duck Spirit Plum. Each flower has two pistils, one male and one female. It is said that cultivation partners who pledge their love under this flower will remain inseparable for three lifetimes.”
“Young Master Ye, your knowledge is indeed extensive,” Yun Yiyi said, reaching out to pluck a blossom and examine it. “This is the sect flower of the Moon Shadow Sword Sect. It can only be grown here.”
“This is the first time I’ve heard of that,”
Ye Anping replied casually, feigning ignorance.
But in reality, how could he not know?
Yun Tianchong had such a double-petaled cherry-red plum blossom embroidered on his forehead. He was naturally effeminate, and under that plum blossom tattoo on his forehead, he seemed to blur the lines between male and female.
Yun Yiyi also recalled her father.
No matter what Yun Kunwu’s situation was, her wretched father was definitely involved. He hadn’t even told her that Yun Kunwu was alive.
She, Yun Jiujiu, and Yun Xi had almost lost their lives because of this Yun Kunwu.
Perhaps out of anger, but when they were attacked, their wretched father bore at least secondary responsibility, if not primary.
“Sigh—”
Yun Yiyi crushed the plum blossom in her hand and casually threw it to the ground. She continued forward with Ye Anping for a while, and after passing through the flower bushes, they arrived at a pavilion meant for rest.
In the pavilion, the person named Feng Yu lay basking in the sun in a carefree manner, while her Second Sister stood below the pavilion, holding a cleaver behind her back.
?
A cleaver?
And it was a jade cleaver…
Ye Anping also noticed the cleaver at this moment. Like Yun Yiyi, he stopped in his tracks, a question mark appearing above his head.
What was this?
Was she pointing the cleaver at him and asking, “Will you marry me?”
He rubbed the bridge of his nose. However, he could tell that Feng Yu Die had likely triggered the “love letter event.” But the “love letter event” in the game didn’t involve a cleaver.
As expected of her.
Ye Anping wasn’t sure if he should interrupt. But while he hesitated, Yun Yiyi walked forward.
At this moment, Yun Jiujiu pulled out the cleaver and pointed the tip towards Feng Yu Die’s chest as she jumped down from the pavilion.
“Second Sister, what are you doing? Did you have a fight with him?”
Yun Yiyi walked over with a furrowed brow. Ye Anping was speechless but had no choice but to follow.
Upon hearing Yun Yiyi’s voice, the shy expression on Yun Jiujiu’s face vanished instantly. She froze for a moment, a vein throbbing on her forehead. She turned and cursed loudly:
“Yun Yiyi, you damn it!!”
Yun Yiyi seemed quite innocent and asked, “…What did I do?”
“Didn’t you see I’m…” Yun Jiujiu glanced back at Feng Yu Die, who was frozen in place, and continued, “What the hell are you doing here?!! I don’t welcome you, get out of my Yun Manor~”
“…”
Yun Yiyi didn’t understand how she had angered her. Pouting, she said,
“I came to see you. You were so badly injured back then.”
“You want to see me?! You weakling!”
“…”
Seeing the two start arguing again, Ye Anping felt a flicker of annoyance. He had put in so much effort to mediate their relationship, but how could this…
However, it was at this moment that he noticed the look Feng Yu Die gave him.
In her eyes, there was a very obvious hostility.
?
Ye Anping furrowed his brow, slightly puzzled, and asked with his eyes, What’s wrong?
Feng Yu Die immediately rolled her eyes at him: Hmph~ You know yourself!
???
Ye Anping truly had no idea. What was wrong with this woman now? Had he offended her somehow?
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