Chapter 60 - Misunderstanding (1/2)

Chapter 60: Misunderstanding

Xue Dongting turned to see Song Yuming with a load of firewood on his back coming toward them. She started when she saw a girl trailing along behind him.

“Yuansheng?” she said, stunned.

Song Yuming, looking straight ahead, went right for Dongting and grabbed her hand and lead her into the courtyard. Yuansheng glared daggers at the woman. “Well? You’re still here? How rude, hanging around other people’s doorways!”

The woman clenched her teeth and gave a big hmph and turned and left. Yuansheng stuck her tongue out after her, then jumped over the threshold and entered. She saw Second Sis and laughed. “Second Sis, aren’t you pleasantly surprised to see me?”

Xue Dongting was still all riled up from before. She looked at Yuansheng, then turned to Song Yuming. “You went into town?”

He said nothing. Yuansheng didn’t want her Second Sis to know she had stole out, so she quickly winked at Song Yuming and nodded. “Yep yep, I came with Brother-in-law.”

Xue Dongting felt wounded. She looked at Song Yuming and said, “You went to Cloudgem Lodge to check out my background?”

Song Yuming at this woman with a gloomy look all over her face and he didn’t refute her. He just said neutrally, “Do you have some kind of background I need to check up on?”

Yuansheng didn’t know what was going on, but she could tell the air was getting tense with their quarrel. She hurried over and took Xue Dongting by the arm and said in a low voice, “Second Sis, I… I came here on my own…”

Xue Dongting wasn’t about to listen to Yuansheng at a time like this. She glared at Song Yuming with that mysterious look in his eyes and snickered. “My background?”

That snicker trampled ruthlessly all over his heart, but he didn’t back down. He said sedately, “Just who are you?”

Xue Dongting closed her eyes and kept them shut for some time. Slowly she opened them and said sadly, “And what if I’m not Xue Dongting?”

Song Yuming said nothing. He didn’t know. If this woman wasn’t Xue Dongting of Cloudgem Lodge, he didn’t know what he would do. If she was a spy sent from the imperial court, would he be heartless enough to kill her?

Yuansheng was thoroughly baffled by their conversation. She sniffled. She had caused a big mess. She quickly said to Song Yuming, “She’s just my Second Sis, she’s Xue Dongting!”

Song Yuming shouted abruptly, “Look clearly!”

Yuansheng was frightened by his sudden outburst and tears welled up in her eyes. “Why are you being so mean! I’m not talking to you. Second Sis, let’s go!” She took Xue Dongting by the arm and headed outside.

Xue Dongting looked back at Song Yuming, feeling unspeakably saddened. So Song Yuming, the one you only wanted to marry the Xue Dongting from Cloudgem Lodge? All this time together you couldn’t tell whether I was sincere or not, in the end what am I to you?

She was dragged out by Yuansheng and didn’t say a word.

Song Yuming just stood there, watching the woman disappear into the darkness. He didn’t go after her. This steelhearted man, bathed in the blood of battle, was so upset he felt numb.

Yuansheng dragged Xue Dongting to the riverbank. She was thoroughly frightened to see her big sis with that blank look on her face. She shook Dongting’s arm and said in a low voice, “Second Sis, what’s wrong? You’re my Second Sis, how could you say you aren’t Xue Dongting? That man is really bad! So mean, he doesn’t even know who you are?”

Xue Dongting turned to Yuansheng. “What did he say to you when you two were coming back together?”

Yuansheng scrunched her brows, thinking. “Nothing much, he just asked what books you liked to read. So strange, he also said you were really good with medicine and could identify a lot of herbs. He had it so wrong!”