Chapter 268: Yiyi, Betrothal Gifts
In the mottled green bronze incense burner, several calming incense sticks burned, releasing wisps of white smoke that shrouded the entire main hall in a misty haze.
Yun Yiyi lay on the bedding, her expression slightly dazed as she stared at the spirit stone chandelier on the ceiling. She tried to lift her hand, but only managed to twitch her fingers slightly…
“Ooooh~~~”
It felt as though her bones and muscles were all crying out in pain, like she had spent the entire night before running with hundreds of pounds of stones without stopping.
Yun Yiyi quickly bit her lip. The memories of last night resurfaced in her mind.
—She had given Ye Anping one Heavenly Lotus Seven-Line Flower…
—Yiyi took the initiative…
—Ye Anping turned the tables…
—Yiyi begged for mercy…
She never could have imagined that Ye Anping, who appeared so calm and composed, was actually so… potent.
He was just a young man of similar height, seemingly just over seventeen years old…
What happened to him being impotent?
You call *that* impotent?! Then who in this world could be considered potent?!
Oh, right, he was lying to me the whole time…
“Wuwu…”
Yun Yiyi felt a strange sense of regret. She estimated that even without the aphrodisiac, she might not have been able to handle it, let alone the fact that the Heavenly Lotus Seven-Line Flower was a Precious Soul Spirit Flower, of which only a few could be found in the entire Southern Domain.
Now she understood why some places had the custom of “trial marriage.”
If she had actually married Ye Anping, what would have been the difference between her and a paralyzed person from then on?!
“No wonder Young Master Ye was so reluctant to be intimate with me before… He was worried I wouldn’t be able to handle it. But if he wanted to find a girl who could, she would need a cultivation level one or two major realms higher than mine…”
Yun Yiyi murmured in a hoarse voice, then her expression suddenly firmed. Biting her lip, she whispered,
“Why should I worry about his future? He doesn’t want to marry me anyway, and I probably won’t see him again after he leaves.”
Bang bang—
Two knocks at the door startled Yun Yiyi.
“Ooooh~~”
So sore…
No!
“Hiss—” She took a deep breath, enduring the soreness all over her body, and asked, “Who is it?”
“It’s me.”
I!I!
Ye Anping’s clear and cold voice came from outside. Yun Yiyi’s body instinctively trembled; perhaps she had developed a conditioned reflex from last night.
She quickly bit her lip, forcing herself to calm down.
It was daytime, and the Yun Manor was full of servants. If he tried anything, someone would come to her rescue.
“Please come in.”
The door was pushed open, and Huang Quan led Ye Anping around the screen at the entrance and walked in.
Seeing Yun Yiyi still lying in bed, Huang Quan quickly stepped forward and said,
“Eldest Miss, Son-in-law has come to apologize. This servant will help you down.”
Going down would mean landing on my stomach… Yun Yiyi quickly replied,
“No need, I’ll just stay like this.”
“Ah?” Huang Quan paused slightly. “But…”
She wanted to say it was impolite to the Son-in-law, but Ye Anping could see that Yun Yiyi was likely unable to move. He interrupted,
“It’s alright. Huang Quan, you can wait by the door. I’ll have a private chat with Eldest Miss Yun.”
I!I!
Hearing this, Yun Yiyi’s heart sank, and she felt a pang of fear.
He asked Huang Quan to leave, could it be that he still intended to… Couldn’t he just do it once like yesterday? She could accept that, but what if he…
“Ah… Yes, Son-in-law.”
Huang Quan nodded slightly, bowed to them, and walked towards the door.
Watching Huang Quan’s retreating back, Yun Yiyi felt like crying but couldn’t think of an excuse to keep her here.
Xiao Tian also floated to Yun Yiyi’s forehead and kicked it.
“Bad woman! Seducing my Anping, humph! My Anping isn’t someone a little vixen like you can control. ”
“Hoo…”
Ye Anping felt somewhat speechless at this, let out a soft sigh, and walked forward to sit by the bed. With a blank expression, he pulled open a small gap in the bedding covering Yun Yiyi and placed his right hand, forming a sword finger, on her sole.
I!I!
Sensing Ye Anping’s action, Yun Yiyi’s body trembled instantly.
“Ooooh~~”
So sore…
“Young Master Ye, we agreed… We don’t owe each other anything after last night. I let you go, and you…” Yun Yiyi stammered, then pursed her lips, as if resigned. She closed her eyes tightly and squeezed out two tears. “Could you be a little gentler? I won’t make a sound… If the servants hear, it will be difficult for me to explain.”
“…”
Ye Anping seemed helpless. Without a word, he sent his spiritual sense into her meridians from her sole, examining her meridians and body condition, and also checking her injuries.
There was some swelling, but it wasn’t serious. She should be able to recover in about ten days to half a month.
After confirming that Yun Yiyi would not suffer any lasting consequences, Ye Anping retracted his hand and said,
“Eldest Miss Yun, you were a bit excessive last night.”
?
Who was excessive?
It seemed they were both quite excessive… Yun Yiyi pursed her lips and said,
“…I’m sorry.”
“It’s fine,” Ye Anping replied expressionlessly. “Once you’ve recovered, you should be able to break through to Late Foundation Establishment with a Spirit Gathering Array. You didn’t exactly absorb a small amount of my vital energy yesterday.”
“Absorbed your vital energy…” Yun Yiyi was slightly taken aback, then her face showed concern. “Are you alright? I didn’t mean to absorb your vital energy… I really didn’t do it on purpose.”
” I’m fine.”
“…”
Ye Anping turned to look at her, noticing her messy, disheveled golden hair spread out behind her. He reached out and tidied it for her. Then, from his Storage Bag, he took out two bamboo slips radiating a golden light and placed them beside her pillow.
“These are the Inquiring Sword Art and Leaf Shadow Sword Art, both personally left by Yun Jian Shang Xian, that I found. They are being returned to their rightful owner.”
Yun Yiyi glanced at them and her eyes widened.
“This is your good fortune, why are you giving it to me?”
Ye Anping pouted.
“These are just the original copies. I have several backups.”
“Oh…”
Yun Yiyi blinked, feeling a bit awkward. She suddenly realized she might have become stupid, asking such a foolish question. She quickly took a deep breath, calming her mind.
“Why does it feel like you’re treating me like a brothel?”
?
Ye Anping was confused. “Hmm?”
“Using vital energy and two sword arts to ‘pimp’ me.”
“…So you don’t want them?”
“I never said I didn’t want them.” Yun Yiyi pondered for a moment and murmured, “One hundred and fifty thousand Spirit Stones, three high-grade Spirit Swords, a pair of golden spirit stone rings, twenty Heavenly Treasures, eighty-eight spirit sheep and spirit pigs, five sets of bedding and sheets, and two property deeds…”
“?”
“Since I, this young lady, have ‘pimped’ you, it’s only natural I should bestow some gifts upon you. I’ll have the servants send them to you later, and then you can leave the Yun Manor of your own accord. No one will stop you.”
Hearing this, Ye Anping couldn’t help but chuckle and asked back,
“Could this be the betrothal gifts Eldest Miss Yun originally prepared?”
“Yes, they were prepared long ago.” Yun Yiyi averted her gaze and said, “Now that the engagement is broken, I won’t ask you to return those things anymore. How about it?”
Ye Anping was silent for a moment, then stood up and performed a standard cupped-hand salute.
“Thank you. Then I shall take my leave.”
“…”
Seeing Ye Anping’s decisive and immediate departure, Yun Yiyi’s eyes trembled slightly. She opened her lips but forced herself to suppress the urge to stop him.
As Ye Anping’s figure moved past the screen at the door, she took a deep breath and asked,
“Young Master Ye, will we meet again, or not?”
Ye Anping was silent for a moment, then nodded and replied,
“We will meet again.”
Yun Yiyi pursed her lips. Although Ye Anping had been lying to her from beginning to end, who could she blame for being so foolish in front of him?
Perhaps this “we will meet again” was not a lie, but perhaps he was still deceiving her.
Regardless, she was willing to be deceived.
With a creak, Ye Anping pushed open the door and stepped out of the main hall of the Yun Manor. He then saw a bandaged person sitting in a wheelchair waiting at the bottom of the stairs outside the main gate, with Zhang Yihe standing behind the wheelchair.
Yun Xi looked at Ye Anping emerging from the main hall and raised a finger.
Zhang Yihe quickly leaned his head next to Yun Xi’s, then said to Ye Anping,
“Third Miss says, ‘Good afternoon, Young Master Ye.'”
“…”
Ye Anping didn’t know how to react. He honestly hadn’t recognized Yun Xi at first glance. He trembled slightly and nodded, cupping his hands,
“Greetings, Third Miss.”
Zhang Yihe listened closely again and said,
“Third Miss says, ‘Young Master Ye need not stand on ceremony.'”
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