Chapter 35 The Truth Is Revealed (1/2)
Zhong Liqian thought that if he continued to recite the poem, the girl in front of him would probably make a blood oath with him. He was busy reciting the poem “Picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, leisurely seeing the southern mountains,” and saw Baili Qingmiao’s expression of pride and anger change to leisure and it dawned on him that he was laughing at himself.
“Lord Liqian, what is wrong?” Baili Qingmiao feeling Zhong Liqian mood, could not help asking.
“Suddenly thought of something, I realized that it was me being humble: “ Zhong Liqian smiled modestly and said: “I was worried that my mood would be affected by Miss Baili and I would lose my mind, so I forced myself to suppress my emotions. In fact, it’s not that I am stronger than you, it’s just that miss Baili is more considerate.
When both of us were affected by each other, you didn’t deliberately change your emotions which is more considerate. When both of us were affected by each other, you didn’t deliberately change your emotions to suppress mine, instead you went along with me to prevent both of us from losing control of our minds because of a fight for supremacy and thus going crazy.”
Baili Qingmiao was a little embarrassed, waved her hand and said: “It’s not that, I just think it’s not good to always feel sorry for yourself, lord Zhong helped me a lot.”
“Let’s make a deal,” Zhong Liqian said: “Before we think of a way to lift the compulsion Gu no matter who is too emotional the other person must help them to calm down. We should only be calm and think twice before acting.”
“That’s very good!” Baili Qingmiao clasped her hands and said: “It is really better to see than hear. When I was in the Shangqing sect I often heard rumors about the Zhong family. It’s a shame to say but most sects choose to stay in seclusion and are slightly prejudiced against cultivation families entering the world of mortals to cultivate. Some people even say that cultivation families are all fame seekers. Today, when I met lord Zhong I understood that you are noble and virtuous.”
“You are too kind, this is not easy.” Zhong Liqian said lightly: “Liqian can’t hide his feelings from you Miss Baili, so it’s better to be frank. I would rather be a madman who drinks wine and rides horses that doesn’t need to force himself to save people he doesn’t even like for the sake of this reputation and prosperity.”
Responsibility for Zhong Liqian is both a merit and a restriction. He himself was not even sure if it was better to put it down or carry it.
The two of them went around the Underworld Fire Altar and encountered several ghost cultivators who had come to scare them at orders of Wen Renhe who had not yet given up on the idea of “falling in love during difficult times.” and hoped that sparks would spark between them.
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Unfortunately, the more they get along the more they become like brother and sister rather than lovers. Spark did not come out but only made Zhong Liqian more vigilant.
They repelled another wave of attacking ghost cultivators, Zhong Liqian stood in place, holding the book in his hand, looking up at the stars in the sky, the star of enlightenment shining brightly. The dawn was coming.
He tapped his palm with the book and said with confidence: “I see.”
“What does lord Zhong understand?” Baili Qingmiao asked with her head tilted.
Zhong Liqian put away the book and said aloud to the empty space: “Lord Wen Renhe, I have no intention to fall in love with miss Baili. It is a waste of time to spend more time on it, how about showing yourself?”
Wen Renhe froze, it was not difficult for Zhong Liqian to guess that everything was at his command, but how did he guess that he wanted him to fall in love with Baili Qingmiao?
He appeared in front of the two of them with Yin Hanjiang and said in a cold voice: “How did young lord Zheng find out?”
“Ah! Senior Wen Renhe, you are fine! It’s wonderful!” Baili Qingmiao said with a surprised expression: “I thought that you were harmed by that ghost-faced person because of all this turmoil in Xuanyuan Sect!”
“No one can harm the Venerable.” Yin Hanjiang said coldly.
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“Of course the ghost-faced man wouldn’t harm lord Wen Renhe, that’s because protector Yin is the ghost-faced man.” Zhong Liqian said.
Only at this moment did Wen Renhe look at Zhong Liqian directly, this man was smarter than he thought. This wisdom makes one wonder how Zhong Liqian could have fallen in love with Baili Qingmiao in the original book?
Zhong Liqian was able to guess that Wen Renhe wanted to match him with Baili Qingmiao very simple. When he was looking for a way out with Baili Qingmiao, he inquired about Baili Qingmiao encounter with Wen Renhe in details and learned about Wanli ice fields, death of miss Shu and treasure taken from the golden coast cliff. Baili Qingmiao was not very suspicious person, in addition she already trusted in Zhong Liqian at this time so she told him everything in details. The cultivators have good memory so under Zhong Liqian’s questioning, she basically restored all events up to now.
Through Baili Qingmiao’s description, Zhong Liqian initially determined that this miss Shu was definitely the right protector Shu Yanyan who he had one-sided encounter with before. He Wenchao was one of cultivators of Absolute Spiritual Array. Wen Renhe had ordered his right protector to seduce He Wenchao years ago to easily break Absolute Spiritual Array. But he delayed breaking it for ten years until all the cultivators involved in the war were unable to use spiritual energy for heaven and earth for at least ten years.
“What lord Wen Renhe has done for the common people, Zhong Liqian admires very much. It is really difficult to maliciously speculate on lord Wen Renhe’s intentions so I only thought of the most reasonable direction.” Zhong Liqian did not avoid Baili Qingmiao as he said his guess in front of the four of them.
Baili Qingmiao froze like a wooden chicken, her whole person experienced a huge blow from inside to outside.
“Senior Wen Renhe, is miss Shu really the right protector of the Xuanyuan Sect? She really did not die?” Baili Qingmiao involuntarily grabbed Wen Renhe sleeve and looked at him with her only remaining right eye.
“This venerable can ask her to come to see you.” Wen Renhe said.
Suddenly a dazzling line of sight fell on the hands of Baili Qingmiao, Wen Renhe did not look at the source of the line of sight, but inadvertently pulled out his sleeve. Sure enough, after avoiding the touch of Baili Qingmiao the intense gaze from Yin Hanjiang’s direction disappeared.
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Was Yin Hanjiang hostile to Baili Qingmiao? No, before this, he already told Yin Hanjiang part of the plot of 《Abusive Love Affair》and told him that he and Baili Qingmiao had a teacher student relationship. The reason for this division between himself and Baili Qingmiao was so Yin Hanjiang would not misunderstand like in the book so why would he show his hostility at this time?
Wen Renhe couldn’t think clearly for a while, and didn’t want to expose it in front of Zhong Liqian so he had to put his doubts aside for the time being, and summon Shu Yanyan, ordering her to come to Underworld Fire Altar as soon as possible.
“Lord Wen Renhe has a three-sided relationship with miss Baili, although his method is a little rough it shows the intention of refining. Miss Baili has excellent qualifications, so I guess Lord Wen Renhe has the intention to teach her. However, miss Baili have only He Wenchao in her heart who successively had a relationship with Miss Shu and material sister Liu while repeatedly saying that he loves miss Baili deeply.” Zhong Liqian smiled and said: “Coupled with the fact that lord Wen used compulsion Gu used by Miaojiang women to maintain the relationship with their husbands it not difficult to see with these above points that lord Wen Renhe hoped to help miss Baili get rid of her love toward him through me.”
The three people present were impressed by his words, Zhong Liqian was an outsider and all his knowledge of the matter came from the not-so-sober Baili Qingmiao. With such limited information, he was able to guess the truth that Shu Yanyan and other Xuanyuan Sect insiders did not see through, it was really remarkable.
“How could you tell I was the ghost-faced person?” Yin Hanjiang took out his ghost mask and put it on his face. Baili Qingmiao seeing the mask shivered a fear from the bottom of her heart made her fear this mask.
Zhong Liqian reassured Baili Qingmiao: “Don’t be afraid, Patriarch Yin was well disguised, only saying one sentence. He said we are not worthy to have Lord Wen Renhe token, these words could only be spoken by a person who had great respect for Lord Wen Renhe, making our previous speculation that the Ghost Faced Man assassinated lord Wen Renhe no longer exist.”
“Similarly, since the ghost-faced man respects lord Wen Renhe so much if he was killed, the ghost-faced man would never be in the mood to pay attention to us, so lord Wen Renhe must be safe and sound. The only person who met this condition was Patriarch Yin, so I boldly guessed it and was lucky to guess correctly.”
The star of enlightenment flashed above Zhong Liqian’s head, like the only ray of light in the night sky. He smiled modestly, which was like a spring breeze just like the saying goes ‘if a gentleman is like a jade, he has no equal in the world.
“Clap”, “clap”, “clap!” Wen Renhe clapped three times in a row before saying admiringly: “Zhong Liqian is worthy of being known as talented.”
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It was not in vain that the author set Zhong Liqian as an important male lead, someone like him was really worthy of being male lead no.3 just below the second male lead Wen Renhe.
“Lord Wen Renhe is too kind.” Zhong Liqian said humbly: “The only thing I don’t understand is why you thought I could have a relationship with Miss Baili? Miss Baili is a pure and good person, which I admire in my heart, but to fall in love with her just for that wouldn’t it be too childish?”
“This matter, this Venerable doesn’t understand, and will need to ask young master Zhong for an explanation.” Wen Renhe said.