Chapter 269 - He’s Using a Strange Dialect (1/2)

Qiu Ling took a look at his beloved's face and cursed inwardly. It seemed he had said something wrong. What to do now? He frowned a bit and looked around to find something he could use to divert Jing Yi's attention. Finally, his gaze landed on the petal with the message.

Qiu Ling perked up. Right! Wouldn't Jing Yi need to concentrate on this when he told him?

”Mn, my love, by the way … It seems like the sect sent a message tonight.”

Jing Yi turned around while trying to understand what exactly Qiu Ling was saying. ”The sect sent a message.”

Qiu Ling nodded with a smile. It seemed his plan had worked! His beloved had indeed stopped to think about it!

”And this message already came in the night.”

Qiu Ling's lips twitched. Oh. Right. He had forgotten about that. ”Uh … I read the message and it didn't seem all that urgent.” His fingers flicked and the petals that had accumulated on the windowsill fell to the ground as if they had just fallen down from some tree in the vicinity. Those definitely weren't any messages.

Jing Yi furrowed his brow. ”What did it say?”

”Oh. Let me read it to you.” Qiu Ling picked up the petal and started to read: ”Meet me at the cave five li from the big tree …” He made a pause and looked at the other characters. That person had written 'as soon as you get this message'. No way he'd read that out loud! Wouldn't his beloved get furious if he found out that he hadn't woken him up even though they were supposed to hurry over right then? ”… to report on what you found out about the Hei Dian Sect. Tomorrow night.”

Jing Yi watched Qiu Ling's face and slightly narrowed his eyes. He had noticed the small pause in the middle and he knew Qiu Ling well enough to understand that something fishy was going on. ”You wouldn't mind if I took a look myself, would you?”

Qiu Ling struggled to keep a straight expression. ”No, why would I?” He handed the message over but covertly used his magic to change it a bit. Well, it was that person's own fault for sending a message written with that so-called inner energy. Wasn't that too easy to forge?

Jing Yi looked at the message. He couldn't read everything but it was enough to verify that his fiance had seemed to say the truth. He never would have thought that Qiu Ling had just changed what had been written there.

Qiu Ling smiled when he saw Jing Yi's face relax. It seemed he was saved.

Before he could celebrate Jing Yi's brows furrowed again. ”Why is there such a gap in here?”

”Ah?” Qiu Ling looked at the petal and cursed inwardly once more. ”Uh … It's written with inner energy. The one they send is probably just a simple disciple. Maybe he needed to take a break?”

”Is that so?” Jing Yi looked at him and then tipped on the character that he could indeed decipher as 'tonight'. ”This looks a lot like your handwriting, Qiu Ling.” He should know, even though he had learned a lot from Senior Martial Brother Yue his fiance had still insisted on helping him, too. Thus he had seen a lot of Qiu Ling's handwriting and since he always tried to copy exactly what Qiu Ling wrote he was especially familiar with it.

Qiu Ling couldn't quite find an explanation to that. Ugh. Why did he have to answer on the spot?

”You don't have another excuse? Then change it back!”

Qiu Ling pursed his lips but still did as he was told.

Jing Yi looked at the original message but unfortunately, he couldn't read the characters that had appeared. He looked up at Qiu Ling with a questioning gaze.