Chapter 198 Playboy Teacher (1/2)

“You may have doubts about my character, but you can’t doubt my skill in neutralizing poison!”

Baili Rui glared at the woman before him when he heard her words of retort.

“Character? Are you talking to me about character? If not for you, Mr. Gusu, I wouldn’t end up in this state!”

Yunzhu cried out, and then disappeared into the secret passage.

“Mr. Gusu? She, she’s Yunxi!”

Baili Rui, who was full of mettle, had never felt so ashamed.

He widened his eyes and stared into the pitch-dark secret passage.

In an instant, Baili Rui looked defeated.

“Wait for me, Yunzhu!”

Lin Mengya was about to run after Yunxi when she observed that her teacher seemed to have his life sucked out of him.

He went into a daze while staring at the purplish red blood in the dish.

“What’s this all about, Teacher? What’s the story of Mr. Gusu and Yunxi all about?”

Lin Mengya was in a dilemma whether to run after Yunzhu.

Yunzhu’s condition had not stabilized. Lin Mengya was afraid that a blow to Yunzhu now would cause her to go delirious.

She would not be able to take the blow at this moment, given her already battered body.

Her teacher was not in any better state either. After weighing the situation, Lin Mengya decided to remain behind with Baili Rui.

“Sigh, it’s all down to destiny.”

Baili Rui took a pearly hairpin out of his pocket.

Although it appeared to be an outdated design, it was nevertheless intricately made.

However, from how the pearls had lost their luster, Baili Rui must have taken the hairpin out every now and then to look at it.

“Teacher, once I heard Yunzhu said that she fell in a love with a man. Are you that man?”

The Baili Rui before Lin Mengya’s eyes may seem to be very embarrassed, but she was able to tell that he used to be a charming man when he was young.

For reason that Baili Wuchen was raised by Baili Rui, these two were rather similar in their mannerisms and temperament.

Baili Rui was in fact the more mettlesome of the two.

Without a doubt, he had to be a lady-killer when he was young.

Qinghu had once mentioned that Yunzhu had ended up in this state because of one man.

The more Lin Mengya looked at her teacher, the more she was convinced that he had the capacity to be such a playboy.

However, prying into this matter was no longer simply to satisfy her curiosity now.

If she failed to calm Yunzhu, her Sanjue Hall would become an unrealized dream.

“I’m not sure if she ever loved me, but I’ve definitely loved her. I had no idea how she came to this state, but I’m certain that to her, she’d rather die than to live in this manner.”

Lin Mengya did not push it, seeing that her teacher did not have the intention to tell her the story.

She shook her head and got up to leave.

“Lass, will you pass this back to her? Please just say to her that I had let her down fifteen years ago.”

Baili Rui glanced at the pearly hairpin in his hand with a reluctant look, but finally handed it over to Lin Mengya.

She gave her teacher a helpless look. It was no wonder he could continue living in a dark place without any sunlight.

When the heart was dead, what else could one not let go?

“No, Teacher, running away from the problem is not a solution. If you’re sincere about asking her for forgiveness, you should give this to her in person.”

Lin Mengya gave the hairpin back to her teacher. She thought it would be better for those two to settle their problem face to face.

When Lin Mengya eventually exited the secret passage, she was surprised to bump into Yunzhu at the gate of her courtyard.

Yunzhu had not covered her face with the veil because she was too shaken up.

At this moment, purplish-red blood was oozing out of the tiny pinhole which Baili Rui had punctured.

In the dark of the night, her aged countenance, together with the purplish-red blood on her face made her a phantom-looking figure.

“You may continue to be shaken up if you wish to die.”

Lin Mengya kept her distance out of fear, but she said those words as a reminder.

Lin Mengya was not sure if her words had an effect on Yunzhu, nevertheless, Yunzhu finally calmed down.

“If you’ve told me earlier that he was going to be the person who would cure the poison in me, I would rather die.”

Yunzhu, who had regained her composure, put the veil back onto her face.

However, he did sound a little cold, as if there was great hatred between them.

“I’ve no idea in the beginning the reason you hated Teacher so much. Fifteen years had passed after all, you can’t be joking if your life is at stake.”

Lin Mengya had the impression that the person whom Yunzhu wanted Lin Mengya to save was the man Yunzhu’s loved.

However, from the look of it, Yunzhu seemed to have a deep relationship with her teacher.

Sigh, no matter how smart a person was, the matters of the heart would always wreak havoc to his rationality.

“Hate? He’s not even worthy of my hatred. You’re right, I will continue to live well, so he would know that he had made a mistake abandoning me.”

Oh my god! Was this what the tragic story of a playboy abandoning his young love all about?

Suddenly, Lin Mengya’s curiosity was stirred up. Nevertheless, she tried to look calm and disinterested.

“How about we go into the room to talk about this?”

Lin Mengya convinced herself that it was not her intention to listen to her teacher’s illicit love while having cracking melon seeds between her teeth.