Chapter 66 (2/2)
Yuwen Rui curls his pretty finger and mercilessly give me a resounding knock, ”Didn't you and Lady Bai meet him the day before?”
I cover my forehead and innocently laugh, ”Accident, just an accident.”
He coils my hair around his long and slender finger, lightly saying: ”Don't get too involved with him.”
”What's wrong?” I ask: ”He's not a good person?”
His eyes faintly darken as he looks at me, ”You think he's a good person?”
”Eh.” I shake my head, ”Of course not, just that, isn't he the one Cousin came here to find?”
A bright s.h.i.+ne flashes past Yuwen Rui's eyes, a light and casual smile hooks up on his handsome face, ”He is.”
”He's also a 'Mén'?” I also start to play with his hair, ”Then what kind of 'enthusiast' is he?” He doesn't want what Yuwen Rui offered him, yet says, should I be given to him, he will accept Yuwen Rui's request? I really cannot think of what kind of enthusiast this is.
Yuwen Rui falls silent for a while, coldly saying: ”Love for beauty made him an enthusiast.”
……ah?
I blink, 'love for beauty made him an enthusiast?' One who became an enthusiast due to their love for beauty, wants me to go with him?
Yuwen Rui slowly says: ”In Yun Mi ten years ago, there was once a Gentleman Yun Shang, with stunning beauty and likes beautiful woman. He is a dissolute character, as long as he likes a woman, he must obtain her, not caring whether the woman is a precious daughter waiting to get married, or whether the woman is already the wife of another man, and those women, no matter what level of loyalty they possessed to start with, in the end, they would all lose themselves to him. Should he have taken those women in, then forget it, just that every time, he would always deeply stir the women's hearts into refusing to marry none other than him, then flutter away, don't know how many young women's hearts he had shattered with such behaviour, but it just happens that the women still wouldn't hate him, hearts set on waiting for him to turn back to them.”
I make a short and strong judgement, ”Sc.u.mbag.”
A light smile surfaces in Yuwen Rui's eyes, he continues to say: ”Until one day, he once again set eyes on the daughter of merchant, of course he spent all methods on trying to obtain this young lady, just that the young lady already has a husband-to-be, ignoring all of his excessive attention. He thought she is avoiding the taboos of society, and is abstaining herself for the husband-to-be, and so, he schemed to have the husband-to-be marry another family's young lady. That night, he went to comfort this young lady, that young lady remained silent at the time, he originally thought the young lady was overly heartbroken, it'll be fine once she gets over it, but only when he went to see her that next morning, did he find that the young lady had already hung herself. Since then, there was no longer a Gentleman Yun Shang.”
I'm a little speechless, ”He……didn't want that either, right?” Although he's a sc.u.mbag, he presumably would have felt horrible about it too.
Yuwen Rui half narrows his eyes, ”What, sympathising with him?”
I don't know whether to laugh or cry, this person really is…..”What did you originally find to trade with him then? A beauty?”
”Found a woman that looks exactly the same as that merchant's daughter.”
”……” I pause, ”Cousin.”
”En?”
”Are you certain you're wanting to bring him back, and not deliberately provoke him?”
”En……” Yuwen Rui strokes his chin, lowering his eyes as he says: ”That merchant's business went into ruins two years ago, entire family's life went down and out, was just about to sell his youngest daughter into a brothel……”
”So?” I come to a clear understanding, ”They're sisters?”
”En.”
”You have yet to tell him all this?”
”En.”
”Because he says he wants me?”
”Perhaps.”
”You're……” I was just about to say 'you're so brutal', but upon meeting his eyes, I immediately change my words, ”Cousin is the wisest.”
Yuwen Rui draws back his line of sight in satisfaction, whilst I secretly wipe away my tears, truly is a tragedy of kind people getting bullied, kind horses getting ridden ah.
”Ah-Lan.” Yuwen Rui rubs his forehead against me, long and thick lashes gently brus.h.i.+ng over my face, ”Bai Jian Fei and I have found Liao Jun.”
Seeing his skin up close, my heart itches with hate, nevermind not having any spots, nevermind not having any uneven skin tone too, but how could he not have any pores as well? The heavens are unfair ah, what kind of world is this?! I say to him: ”What did Liao Jun say?”
Yuwen Rui wraps his arms around my waist, face burying into the crook of my neck, ”Saving her is possible, but it requires the snow lotus on Mount Tian that blooms once every ten years, as well as having someone using pure inner energy to force the poison out every day.”
”I say……” I suspiciously say: ”The person with pure inner energy isn't you, is it?”
He uses the slightly cold tip of his nose to poke at my neck, speaking with a m.u.f.fled laugh: ”Smart.”
”Cousin.” I am even more suspicious, ”Why do you care about Bai Qiang's matter so much? Taken a liking to her?”
He doesn't answer, neither lightly nor strongly biting my neck.
I push his head away and seriously ask: ”Or is it because……Bai Jian Fei could be of use to you for something in the future?”
Yuwen Rui's long and fine fox eyes slightly narrows, a delighted smile spreading on his handsome face.
I powerlessly rub my forehead, this man……is indeed……really…… ╮(╯▽╰)╭
After Yuwen Rui had told me the reason why he has been so busy, he proceeded to be too busy to be seen, after Bai Wei comes to the awareness that they have found Liao Jun, she had also followed along in excitement, which also means that only I am left in the inn. Days spent alone is something I am accustomed to, so I am not unhappy about it at all, just taking a few light novels as I hide in bed and read them in comfort.
This day, I have the windows open and sit at the desk, reading the {{Record of Strange Scents}} I had just bought, just as I was relis.h.i.+ng the moment of seeing the 'jiang s.h.i.+ (Chinese hopping zombie/vampire)' part, my shoulder receives a pat from someone, startling me into abruptly jolting up. I cover my chest as I look at Ladyboy Pan who had suddenly appeared behind me, snappily saying: ”Could it be that Gentleman Pan doesn't know to knock before entering?”
Ladyboy Pan looks at me innocently, ”I did knock ah, just that I almost knocked the door loose.”
I regulate my breathing, thinking of the intently focused state I get into sometimes, I had nothing more to say, I speak up again: ”Gentleman Pan came to find Cousin for some matters today? Such an unfortunate coincidence, Cousin isn't here.”
Ladyboy Pan smiles, ”It's you I've come finding today.”
I ignore his words as I continue: ”Oh right, remember to close the door tightly when you leave.”
”I've only just got here, and Lady Ah-Lan is already sending the guest away like that?” Ladyboy Pan raises his pretty brows, ”Is this how a lady treats their guest?”
I lazily lean back on the chair, ”Cousin has said, don't speak to strangers.”
”Such words are incorrect, how could you and I still be considered strangers?” Ladyboy Pan meaningfully taps at his lips, saying with romantic ambiguity: ”What does Lady Ah-Lan think?”
”Gentleman ah, ” I let out a big sigh, ”Say, if one day you get bitten by an ugly little dog, you can't possible bite back at it now, can you? As people live on in this world, they must learn to be calculative, whatever feelings ah, love ah, are all pa.s.sing clouds ah, pa.s.sing clouds.”
Ladyboy Pan pauses, once again standing behind me, leaning in towards my ear to say: ”Do you really not mind it at all?”
His warm breath blows against my cheek, lips just barely brus.h.i.+ng over my earlobe as he speaks, it is originally an action of such romantically ambiguous harmony, but when the subject is me……I don't even bother avoiding him as I say: ”Gentleman Pan.”
Ladyboy softly chuckles, charmingly saying: ”Here.”
”I say……”
”En?”
”Can you not disturb me from reading my book?”
Ladyboy Pan stiffens his pretty face and sits opposite me, and I, being happily at ease, pick up the book and start reading again, sinking into my own little world. A long while later, Ladyboy Pan once again opens his mouth, ”Ah-Lan.”
I reluctantly raise my head, ”En?”
Ladyboy Pan squints his eyes as he thinks for a moment before speaking again: ”You are the second woman that isn't enticed by me at all.”
I half-heartedly say: ”With pleasure, with pleasure.”
He rest his chin in one hand as he looks at me, that stunningly beautiful face containing deep meaning, ”Do you like Yuwen Rui that much?”
I turn a page of the book, ”En, indeed a question worth thinking about.”
”Ah-Lan.” He suddenly hooks up a trace of a wicked smile, both hands propped on the table as he leans over to me, ”Want me to help you test that cousin of yours that has been accompanying another woman to treat her illness every day?”
”No.”
”Testing just how……” He wickedly smiles, an unusually dangerous sparkle flas.h.i.+ng in his long eyes, ”……deep his feelings for you, runs.”