Chapter 12 - Expelled (1/2)

With this distance between their lips, they would definitely touch as soon as any of them opened their mouth to speak. In addition, she didn’t trust Wei Liang’s character at all. She thought that this guy would likely do something worse if she opened her mouth.

Lin Jiu felt like she was being cornered. She turned away, trying to avoid Wei Liang’s lips.

But she never would have expected him to be like a poisonous snake stalking its prey. Swiftly and precisely, he caught her lips and nibbled on them as punishment, neither too hard nor too soft.

Lin Jiu felt like her head was going to explode.

With a hand on each cheek, Wei Liang pivoted her face back into position and narrowed his eyes at her.

The message was clear. ‘If you try to escape, you will be punished even more severely.’

Lin Jiu took a long breath and pursed her lips. “Xiong Yu Lian gave me this bottle of medicine and encouraged me to put it in Liu Qing Yin’s tea so that Liu Qing Yin and Mu Rong Chun will sleep together. I’m a good person, how could I do such a thing!”

Pretending to be wronged, she continued. “Everyone knows that you and Liu Qing Yin love each other. Naturally, as someone marrying in for the wealth, I’m the one who’s most hated. We just got married, and today some disciple already set a trap for me to jump into. Who knows how many more will dig traps for me to jump into tomorrow or the day after?”

Wei Liang furrowed his brows with unclear intent, then motioned for her to continue.

Lin Jiu did so. “I have greatly offended the imperial family of Dong Ting. If I leave the Ten Thousand Sword Retreat Sect, they are sure to seek trouble with me. If they find out I have the Dripstone Spiritual Milk, they’ll likely skin me. So, before you drive me down the mountain, please train me up a little so at least they won’t be able to catch me, alright? That’s what I was talking about! I didn’t mean anything else!”

Wei Liang brushed his cool fingertips across her cheek. “Drive you down the mountain? That wasn’t what you said earlier,” he said in a casual voice.

Lin Jiu’s desire for survival flew off the charts. “Whether I’m driven away or I leave myself…it’s all the same.”

Wei Liang gently slid his fingers down her cheek, and suddenly clamped down on her jaw. “You wish to escape from me alive? No way.”

He narrowed his eyes languidly and his gaze wandered around the vicinity of her sweet red lips, trying to find the perfect angle to launch his attack.

Lin Jiu gazed at his beautifully shaped lips without any feeling of love.

Who got the wrong script here?

Just as she was fidgeting and worried that he was going to pounce on her and eat her up at any second, Wei Liang’s eyes suddenly glazed over and he raised a finger against her lips.

“Shh.”

Lin Jiu was speechless. Then, to her confusion, Wei Liang got up and hid himself on the top of the bed canopy, hidden by the drapery.

Bang!

The wooden door burst open.

Lin Jiu watched Wei Liang in surprise, then she looked towards the door.

The person who kicked the door was someone they knew: Xiong Yu Lian.

Two black-clothed male sword cultivators followed behind her with dark looks in their eyes. It was clear at one glance that these were not disciples of the Ten Thousand Sword Retreat Sect.

Lin Jiu was genuinely shocked. “You only just committed one offense during the day, and now you’ve brought outsiders to the main peak this night itself? Xiong Yu Lian, did you think you owned the Ten Thousand Sword Retreat Sect?!”

Xiong Yu Lian looked on with a frenzied look in her eyes. “My Master and Senior Masters are all getting old! They clearly know you are not a good person, but they still abide by these damned rules of the righteous! If they don’t dare to be the bad guys, then I’ll be the one to do it! I have been given so much grace by my Master that I, Xiong Yu Lian, will risk my life to eradicate this scourge for her!”

Lin Jiu sat at the edge of the bed in horror. “You openly brought outsiders through the mountain gates to commit a murder! Aren’t you afraid of getting your master involved?”

Xiong Yu Lian smiled crookedly. ‘I stole the tally from Senior Master Mu Rong! My Master knows nothing about this! I did it, so it is my responsibility, so don’t you worry. No harm will come to my Master! If you can still watch us in the afterlife, then watch as Master and the Sword Monarch get married at last! Believe me, you will see that day come!’

“…”

Forcefully driving the plot back on line? Anyone who has seen the ending knows that it was true!

Xiong Yu Lian instructed the two assassins to flank her on the left and right, sealing off all of Lin Jiu’s escape paths.

Like any villain whose plot was about to succeed, she began laughing maniacally.

“Who do you think you are!” Yu Lian taunted. “Mu Master has already checked your background when you were still crying and acting miserable as that shameless thieving mother of yours led you around! You must have pledged vows with at least a dozen men! You may not have bedded them, but what other shameless things have you not done? And you dare to touch the Sword Monarch with those hands? Pah! The Sword Monarch is the best man in the world! What gives you the right to marry a man that even I do not dare fantasize of?! Hah! Hahah!”

Xiong Yu Lian’s face was strangely red as if the blood was going over her head in excitement. She waved her hand heavily and added, “In this world, the only woman worthy of the Sword Monarch is my Master, do you understand! Master is such a wonderful person, so why must she be harmed by you! Do you know how much she drank last night?! When I saw her suffering, it felt like my heart was going to rip apart! And it’s all your fault! If you had put that drug into my Master’s cup like you should have and got sent back to Dong Ting, you would still be able to keep your life. What a pity. If you seek death, there is nobody you can blame!”

A whiff of alcohol could be smelled on her breath.

Lin Jiu looked on, confused. “Did I do something to hurt Liu Qing Yin? You asked me to put a drug inside her tea but I didn’t do it, so how did I harm her? And why did you have to drown her sorrows with alcohol? Did I not tell her that if she and Wei Liang loved each other, I would happily pack my bags and leave without a word? If she has any grievances, she can talk to Wei Liang, so why would she talk to you? Is there any way you can help besides hiring a killer?”

Xiong Yu Lian was already a little drunk, and this bombardment from Lin Jiu made her speechless for a moment.

The black-clothed cultivator on the left shouted impatiently to Xiong Yu Lian. “Are we killing her or not! Even though you’ve given us enough spiritual stones, this is the Ten Thousand Sword Retreat Sect! If we are found out, then my brothers will perish here!”

“Alright, alright,” Xiong Yu Lian said, then bit her lower lip. The abnormal redness on her face was gradually receding. “Kill her, and make sure she’s dead. Just toss her corpse down the mountain.”

The two sword cultivators looked at each other, and one of them stuck out his tongue and licked it across the blade.