Chapter 12: Staying
Su Heng looked at Tan Ye, “Not bad, I haven’t seen you for a few days, but your words have become so sweet.”
There was playfulness in her eyes. Tan Ye’s expression remained unchanged, but he felt his ears burning fiercely. It was the first time he had said such things to someone. Although it was an emergency and he had no choice, he still felt a little embarrassed.
“Doesn’t Miss feel the same way?”
Su Heng subconsciously reached behind to grab a strand of long hair, but her hand grasped empty air. She then remembered that she was now using the body of a blond girl and had no long hair to play with. She let go of her hand with disappointment.
“How did you figure it out?” she asked curiously, reaching out to touch her own face. “No one else has noticed.”
“Miss’s demeanor and behavior are too different from the disciples of the sect. I think this disciple is probably introverted and doesn’t like to interact with outsiders, so when she suddenly changed, no one noticed for the time being. But this is only temporary. Given enough time, the flaws will be exposed.”
The enchantress in front of him heard this and burst out laughing. Although the thirteen-year-old girl was not particularly pretty, her face showed her own expressions, vivid and lively, making people can’t help but look at her a few more times.
“Flaws? You’re overthinking it. I’ve been playing this little girl for quite a while now, and no one has noticed except you.”
Tan Ye saw her smiling at him. His heart sank slightly, and a hint of a smile appeared on his originally calm face. “Miss, please leave. She is still young and her cultivation is very shallow. She can’t withstand your manipulation.”
At this age, she could only be considered a child, with her spiritual aperture not yet fully closed and her soul unstable. Even he couldn’t fathom the depths of this enchantress’s abilities. If she really occupied the girl’s body for a long time, the original primordial spirit might be suppressed to the point of disappearance.
While talking to Su Heng, Tan Ye moved his hand under his wide sleeves, and a little light bloomed from his fingertips.
“You want to make a move?” The girl, who had been laughing happily, turned to look at him. There was not a trace of demonic playfulness in her eyes, but instead they were very clean and innocent.
“If Miss is willing to let her go, then naturally there will be peace.”
Hearing this, Su Heng said, “I’ve been here for a short while and heard that your reputation among your fellow disciples is very high. Even people from other immortal sects know that you have the highest talent in Chaoyun Sect, even surpassing your senior brother and your master.”
She paused and then said, “So I want to play with you.”
The moment the words fell, she had already appeared in front of him. The two exchanged several moves in an instant.
Su Heng looked into Tan Ye’s eyes. “It seems that you do have some skills, as the legends say.”
Their eyes met. Tan Ye looked into her eyes.
Even though they were fighting, her eyes were full of affection, with a glimmer of light flowing between her eyelashes. She didn’t look like she was fighting him, but rather playing with him.
“I dare not claim so,” he said, exerting force with his palm. Su Heng laughed loudly and retreated in an instant, just in time to avoid a spiritual blade he struck at her.
After a few more exchanges, the mountain peak was filled with flying rocks and wood. Tan Ye tried to keep the noise down, but the enchantress in front of him didn’t care at all. She started with a grand scale from the beginning, and when she saw his intention, instead of showing restraint, she became even more aggressive.
“If you keep going like this, I’m afraid the nearby disciples will be attracted here by you!”
Su Heng directly blocked his azure-blue long sword. “Then hurry up. From the look of you, it seems you want to make a bigger scene than I do.”
In the midst of their words, the two became entangled in another battle. Neither of them used lethal moves. Although they didn’t stop at just touching, they both left room for each other.
“Since that’s the case, why don’t we each take a step back?” Tan Ye slashed through the vines twining toward him and looked at her.
“I bear no ill will toward Miss. I believe Miss should be clear about that.”
“Who said that? You were just about to make a move against me. And now you’re not just standing there letting me hit you either.”
Hearing this, Tan Ye said, “If I retreat first, will Miss also stop?”
He hadn’t intended to make the first move originally. After he finished speaking, he loosened his fingers, and the long sword he was holding dropped directly to the ground. As he released the sword, he took a few steps back, putting distance between them.
Su Heng wanted to mock him, but she felt the connection between him and the sword sever.
“Can you trust me now?”
Su Heng raised an eyebrow. She looked at the young man in front of her and then looked down at the body she was in.
“Alright.”
As soon as she finished speaking, the girl who had been talking to him collapsed. Tan Ye reached out and caught her to prevent her from falling to the ground.
The fragrant scent of tea flowers drifted from behind him, accompanied by two soft laughs.
Tan Ye gently pressed his fingers on the girl’s spiritual gate at the top of her head.
“Don’t worry, her primordial spirit is fine,” the enchantress’s voice was sweet and just right. “She and I have no grudges or grievances. I was just borrowing her body to have some fun in Chaoyun Sect. I have no deep hatred that would make me want to do anything to her primordial spirit. After sleeping well for two days, she will wake up and won’t remember anything that happened before.” Tan Ye was slightly relieved, but he said, “The junior brother from before…”
The laughter shifted to his side, accompanied by a slow, gentle fragrant breeze. One could imagine her walking over unhurriedly.
“That wasn’t my fault. I don’t fancy a young lad. He came over on his own. It has nothing to do with me.” “Don’t worry, that boy won’t last long anyway. Once he finds out she’s different from before, he’ll leave quickly. He won’t pester endlessly. Don’t take a young lad’s feelings too seriously.” Hearing this, Tan Ye made a few hand signs. Soon, an immortal crane flew over. Tan Ye placed the girl on the crane’s back, patted the crane’s head, and let the crane take her back.
After taking care of everything, Tan Ye turned around.
“Miss, come with me.”
He led the way in front. After a while, the enchantress spoke up behind him, “Isn’t this your cave abode?” “Don’t you dislike people coming here?”
Tan Ye didn’t answer. He invited her in and personally made her a cup of clear tea.
The clear tea was permeated with a strong fragrance of herbs. The enchantress, who had originally concealed her form, revealed her figure.
“Since Miss likes it here, why not stay here? It will be easier to have someone to rely on.” The tea was scalding hot, bringing out the herbal fragrance of the tea leaves. Su Heng liked this scent. Hearing him say this, she exclaimed, “Didn’t you tell me to leave before? Now you’re asking me to stay?”
“Is Miss willing?” Tan Ye asked.
The timing of this enchantress’s appearance was too coincidental, so coincidental that it seemed as if someone had arranged it on purpose. The enchantress claimed ignorance about everything, and he couldn’t get any information out of her. He didn’t know if she really didn’t know or if she had deep schemes.
Rather than leaving this variable outside, not knowing what it would turn into, it was better to keep it by his side.
“Since Miss is interested in Chaoyun Sect, staying with me will be much more convenient.” The enchantress stared straight at him. Tan Ye returned her gaze with warmth.
Su Heng traced her fingers over the steaming tea cup, then lowered them to the table, slightly hooking them to draw a slender, graceful water mark.
“Alright.”
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“Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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