28 Her heart like a warm hearth, his heart hides a cold chessboard! (1/2)
Hearing Shu Yidan's cold declaration of choosing a concubine, Feng Shiyao's gaze sharpened.
”…I understand. Do you have any candidates?” Feng Shiyao's tone was like nothing had changed.
”Why don't you choose?” Saying this, Shu Yidan immediately tossed her the jade slip on the Sect's female disciples that the Sect Master granted him.
After sending a stream of divine sense into the slip, Feng Shiyao pursed her lips in silence, before speaking. ”Well, in terms of cultivation talent, this Shi Yuehua seems…”
”You idiot! At least bother acting a little jealous! I just told you I am accepting a concubine and you began picking one out immediately! Cry a little! Say some words about loyalty! At least make me promise to have you be the main wife…!” Shu Yidan burst out, having his ideas of harem romance lifted straight from the xianxia he read utterly destroyed.
”…As the Sect Master said, there is a huge problem with my background. Being a girl of a whorehouse is… I never expected you to grant me the status of the main wife. Honestly, I didn't even dare wish for love. I expected you to only cultivate me with resources and use my body to breakthrough.” Saying this, Feng Shiyao's voice cracked blinked through tears. ”To even be trusted to enter your Cultivation Residence… is something I never thought would happen. And today hearing you say that you'll kill that woman, that you care for me, that you even want me to be jealous… that you have such affection for me, it seems like a dream…”
Shu Yidan was shaken by that reply. Even though he had vaguely understood her circumstances, hearing her confess in such a manner still shook his heart.
”You are my Dao Companion! Of course I'll have affection for you! Of course I'll want to protect you!” Saying this, Shu Yidan gave her a tight hug. Feng Shiyao pressed herself on his body, wiping her eyes on his sleeves.
A few moments passed in silence.
”…So, about your plans on accepting concubines, do you want a harem-?” Until Feng Shiyao broke the moment.
”…Feng Shiyao, I don't want a fucking harem. And I don't plan on accepting any other damned girl from the Sect…” Shu Yidan immediately interrupted her.
”But the Sect Master…?” Feng Shiyao's question was interrupted by him once again.
”You know what, I'll be going out soon with my dear fellow apprentice sister Xiaoyi to temper my heart in the mortal world. There, I'll meet a mortal girl with whom I'll fall for, a case of 'love at first sight'. Unfortunately, her talent will be so low that I won't be able to have her return by my side to the Sect without losing face. So I'll just give her some techniques and resources, along with a promise – to meet me at the Heavenly Wind Sect and be my wife.” Hearing Shu Yidan's answer, Feng Shiyao beside him had a confused expression.
”In the meantime, my actual Dao Companion will have a breakthrough to Nascent Soul. Her first action in the world of cultivation would be slaughtering her master, the Yin-Yang Conception Gate's Sect Master, revealing her to be a demon who was planning on seizing her disciple's body. With this, her problems with her background will be cleared.” Hearing this, Feng Shiyao embraced Shu Yidan's side once more.
Thinking over Shu Yidan's plan, Feng Shiyao asked him. ”What happens to the mortal girl who you fall in love with, then?”