865 A Bai (1/2)
Gu Shenwei decided to launch an attack on King An's mansion.
He had sent Han Fen to deliver a message to Lotus offering to cooperate with her. However, it had been two months, but there was still no response back. Waning Moon Hall seemed to have disappeared from the world, and they hadn't made any major moves for a very long time. Lotus's vow that she would throw the whole world into chaos seemed like a joke.
Gu Shenwei hoped that this seemingly suicidal attack could stimulate Waning Moon Hall into reappearing to some extent.
Chu Nanping and Tie Linglong's seamless surveillance finally paid off. Tie Linglong had caught sight of Han Xuan momentarily. Although Han Xuan appeared only for a fleeting moment, Tie Linglong had seen her very clearly. ”Maybe some disciple of the Waning Moon Hall disguised herself as Han Xuan.” She had also considered this possibility.
Gu Shenwei nodded and then casually asked, ”Has Han Wuxian ever been to King An's mansion before?”
Chu Nanping cautiously answered, ”I didn't see her.”
”I didn't… ” Tie Linglong also started to say, but she suddenly felt her cheeks burn red. The Dragon King seemed to have seen through everything, and she didn't know why she wanted to hide this from him. ”I've met Han Wuxian before. Just once.”
”Mm. Han Wuxian said that she found several strongholds of Waning Moon Hall and that she wanted to launch an attack. I guess that her target is King An's mansion.”
”But she was alone, and she didn't do anything other than talk to me for a short while.” Tie Linglong was very worried that the Dragon King might ask her about what they had talked about. Despite the fact that she was not a good liar, she certainly didn't want to tell him the truth.
Fortunately, the Dragon King was thinking about another issue. ”It's because she also knows that it's a trap.”
”If it's really a trap, then the camouflage is perfect. I didn't see any flaws at all.” After expressing her opinion, Tie Linglong turned her head and looked at Chu Nanping, hoping for his agreement.
His head slightly down, Chu Nanping was staring at the ground. He seemed to be preoccupied with his own thoughts and it was only after quite a while that he came to his senses. ”Yes. It's flawless.”
Gu Shenwei named a few random names and then asked Tie Linglong to call them in. After she left, he asked Chu Nanping, ”Is there something bothering you?”
Chu Nanping was an even more terrible liar than Tie Linglong. He raised his head and looked straight at the Dragon King. ”Tie Linglong likes you.”
”I know. Do you care about it?” Gu Shenwei still had a vivid impression of Tie Linglong's unexpected love confession, but he had never taken it seriously. He just wanted to see how Chu Nanping would react.
”I hope that the Dragon King will be good to her.” Chu Nanping lowered his head again.
”The reason why I saved her life and taught her kung fu was not out of the goodness in my heart, but to raise her as a worker for me. Chu Nanping, you should know about this.”
Chu Nanping abruptly raised his head, a rare firmness appearing on his handsome face. ”I'll do her job for her. Please assign all her work to me, Dragon King.”
Gu Shenwei watched him, feeling deeply concerned. ”First of all, you're just one person, I can't let you do the work of two people. Second, concealing your true feelings is not the right way to end a relationship.”
Chu Nanping found that he was caught in a dilemma. He could regard Tie Linglong as a normal friend, but he couldn't watch her move towards the abyss, and the Dragon King was the abyss. ”I'll do it step by step.” He made an excuse, saying, ”Many people like Tie Linglong and the Dragon King can like her too. You don't have to be very good to her. Just… just… ”
”That's impossible,” Gu Shenwei interrupted. ”You court swordsmanship, and I court supremacy. You have no room for your beloved in your heart, and neither do I.”
”She wants to give her virginity to the Dragon King on her birthday,” Chu Nanping suddenly blurted out.
Gu Shenwei was silent for a while. ”Do you want me to accept her or not?”
”I… I just don't want her to be heart-broken.”
Gu Shenwei sighed to himself. He knew that he would have to resort to a cruel method if he wanted to help Chu Nanping get past this. ”There's still a month left before her birthday. I have no reason to decline. She's a killer, and it's already pretty late for her to go through with this. But before that, you still have a chance.”
”Chance?”
”You're the only one who can persuade her into changing her mind. She deliberately told you this because she wants you to talk to her. But you know her well. If that day comes and you don't do anything, then she might actually do it.”
”And the Dragon King won't decline?”
”Rejection will be an even greater humiliation to her.”
”And the Dragon King won't… marry her either?”
”I already have a queen. I won't get a second one.”
Chu Nanping still remembered Queen Ju who was stuck far away in Xiaoyao Lake, and he knew that she had never been happy.
Chu Nanping stared at the Dragon King, faint anger glinting in his eyes. Gu Shenwei felt that he was playing with fire, so he coldly said, ”Emotionlessness is strength. It's true with regards to swordsmanship, and it's also true regarding the contest for supremacy. There's no difference between my pursuit and yours.”
”But I won't lie to her!”
”Neither will I. Tie Linglong will be more helpful to me when she becomes emotionless.”
Chu Nanping's left and right forefingers twitched at the same time. Gu Shenwei's attention also shifted to his saber.
”The Dragon King won't do that. That's… That's… not who you are,” Chu Nanping said the same words that Xu Xiaoyi had said to him back to the Dragon King.
”Don't speculate about what kind of person I am.” Gu Shenwei's voice grew even colder. ”There were a lot of things that I neither wanted nor desired to do, but I still did them.”
Chu Nanping gradually calmed down. ”If you hurt her, you'll lose me.”
But Gu Shenwei was more composed than him. ”If you still care about Tie Linglong, then you're not emotionless yet, and it wouldn't be a heavy loss to lose you if you're not emotionless.”