Chapter 15

Li You was amused by Yu Wu’s gesture and pushed away her hand that was raised in front of his eyes.

“What would I do with your bones? Besides, haven’t you already given them to me?”

Li You held up the piece of night-blooming jasmine in his hand, indicating to Yu Wu that the dry leaf was what she had given him.

Someone gives you a piece of bone, and you casually give them a dry leaf in return – Yu Wu was not the type of person to take advantage like that.

“That was just something I handed to you casually. I can’t believe you’re treating it like a treasure. Since you don’t want my bones, let me think of something else. I must return the favor somehow.”

“There’s no rush. We have plenty of time in the future, so think it over carefully. Make sure to keep the bracelet safe. Now that you’ve regained your spiritual power, if you channel it and speak to the small pendant with your heart, I’ll be able to sense it. So wear it and don’t take it off. You never know when you might urgently need to find me.”

Li You instructed. Upon hearing this, Yu Wu quickly slipped it on.

She didn’t have much jewelry anyway, and this bracelet wasn’t ostentatious. It was just right for a woman here to wear.

The light blue bracelet made Yu Wu’s wrist appear even whiter. It truly looked beautiful.

Although Yu Wu was delighted, she suddenly recalled Li You mentioning her regained spiritual power.

Not many people knew about this. Apart from Yu Wu’s mother, Yu Tong, and Lan Ruo, only a few elders from the Qingluan Sect who were present that day knew.

Yu Wu had never mentioned this to Li You. How did he know?

Looking suspiciously at Li You’s silver clothing, Yu Wu felt that Li You had always given her a familiar feeling during their interactions these days.

But it wasn’t the kind of familiarity from their encounters in the palace. When she was with Li You, Yu Wu always had the illusion that she was interacting with the silver dragon she had met before.

Silver dragon, silver clothes…

Yu Wu couldn’t help but connect the two.

“How… did you know I regained my spiritual power?”

Suddenly asked this by Yu Wu, Li You was visibly stunned.

Yu Wu stared intently at Li You’s Adam’s apple moving slightly, not daring to look at her.

“We’re about to be married, whether it’s because of the Heavenly and Demon realms or our own willingness. We’ll be living together in the future, so it’s better to be sincere about some things.

Only my mother, senior brother, and Yu Tong in the Heavenly Realm know about my regained spiritual power. And… the dragon deity I met twice on the back mountain.

I’ve always wanted to ask, since people of the Demon Realm can transform into anything, what is the true form of you, the esteemed Demon Lord?”

Yu Wu asked tactfully, but it was obvious she was asking if Li You was the silver dragon she had encountered on the back mountain.

Li You licked his lips and spoke:

“Immortal Yu Wu, I overheard about your regained spiritual power when Yu Tong mentioned it to Prince Ning An. As for my true form, there’s nothing special about it. You’ll see it someday in the future.

Moreover, are you suspecting that I’m the dragon you met on the back mountain? Dragons are also an ancient divine race. Have you ever heard of a dragon willing to fall to the Demon Realm instead of being a deity?”

Although Li You said he had heard about Yu Wu regaining her spiritual power from Prince Ning An, Yu Wu felt his flickering gaze suggested he wasn’t telling the truth.

But the latter part of what he said, Yu Wu found quite reasonable.

A noble dragon wouldn’t choose to fall to a place like the Demon Realm instead of being a deity in seclusion.

It seemed she had overthought things. How could Li You possibly be the silver dragon?

Yu Wu nodded unconsciously. Seeing this, Li You finally let out a long sigh of relief.

After discussion between Yu Wu and Li You, the wedding date was set for the second day of the next month.

Yu Wu informed her mother, and Li You sent messages to both the Heavenly and Demon realms.

This afternoon, Wu Yao, Li You’s right-hand man in the Demon Realm, personally delivered the wedding attire Li You would wear.

When Li You had specifically chosen Yu Wu, it had already been agreed with the Heavenly Realm that their wedding attire would be silver-white.

Li You had initially wanted to have Yu Wu’s outfit made in the Demon Realm as well, but Wu Yao objected. Wu Yao was loyal and did everything with Li You’s best interests in mind.

Li You thought he had a point. Although he wanted to treat Yu Wu better, going too far would cause the Heavenly Realm to gradually neglect Yu Wu.

Whatever happens after the wedding is another matter, but before the wedding, the Heavenly Realm should do what it’s supposed to for Yu Wu, and they shouldn’t let the Demon Realm take advantage.

So in the end, the Emperor took responsibility for Yu Wu’s wedding attire.

Wu Yao had just mentioned that Li You seemed to have lost a lot of weight recently, so the wedding attire might be much too big.

Since Li You wasn’t returning to the Demon Realm and the wedding date had been set, Wu Yao had no choice but to make the trip personally.

Fortunately, Changyang Mountain was just a celestial mountain, not like the Heavenly Realm. Otherwise, even someone like Wu Yao, who held a high position and was powerful in the Demon Realm, would have been affected.

Wu Yao followed Li You into his room to try on the wedding attire. Yu Wu, with nothing else to do, sat on the steps outside waiting.

Li You’s wedding attire was also silver. It seemed he really liked this color, and Yu Wu made a mental note of it.

She had originally wanted to see if she could get a sneak peek at Li You in his wedding attire, but after waiting for a long time, Yu Wu didn’t succeed.

The door was tightly closed, and Yu Wu couldn’t very well press her ear against it to eavesdrop. If someone saw her, they would surely laugh at her.

As she waited, a voice of questioning suddenly came from the previously quiet room.

Yu Wu vaguely heard Wu Yao’s questioning voice: ‘Where is your reverse scale?’

The rooms in the Qingluan Sect were quite close together, so each room had good soundproofing. If it weren’t for Wu Yao’s exclamation being too loud, Yu Wu wouldn’t have heard anything at all.

Yu Wu murmured the words “reverse scale,” feeling they were familiar, but she was momentarily confused and couldn’t remember what a reverse scale was.

Before Yu Wu had a chance to ponder further, Yu Tong came running over in a hurry. Her face was ashen, looking terribly upset.

In recent days, Yu Wu had been accompanying Li You, while Yu Tong had been following Prince Ning An daily. The two sisters hadn’t had a chance to meet.

Yu Tong, who was usually lively and optimistic, suddenly looked like this now. Something big must have happened.

“Ah Tong, what happened? Your face looks so bad. Did mother scold you?”

Yu Tong shook her head:

“Elder sister, I, I…”

She stuttered, unable to say anything coherent for a long time. Yu Wu grew anxious.

“What can’t you tell me? If something’s really wrong, tell me so we can figure out a solution together.”

“Ning, Ning An, he seems to… be pregnant.”

Just as Yu Tong finished speaking, the door to Li You’s room, which had been tightly closed, was suddenly pulled open from the inside.

Li You, who had changed back into his regular clothes, walked out from inside:

“What’s wrong with Prince Ning An?”

It was evident that although Li You said his master-disciple relationship with Prince Ning An had reached its end, he still cared about Prince Ning An’s well-being.

Yu Tong froze in place when Li You suddenly appeared.

Yu Wu had heard clearly. The “pregnant” Yu Tong mentioned should mean exactly what she understood it to mean.

Prince Ning An was pregnant!

Yu Wu abruptly stood up from the ground. Li You also walked down the steps, facing Yu Tong.

“Say that again. What happened to Prince Ning An?”

Li You was usually very calm, but he must have heard Yu Tong’s words just now, so he was somewhat agitated.

“I… I didn’t expect it to be like this either.”

“You women of the Heavenly Realm are indeed all the same.”

Li You said coldly, then turned and strode towards Prince Ning An’s quarters.

Yu Wu and Yu Tong hurriedly followed, entering Prince Ning An’s bedroom right after Li You.

Ning An probably hadn’t expected Li You, who had been refusing to see him, to come at this time.

However, when he saw Yu Wu and Yu Tong following closely behind, Ning An understood everything.

Prince Ning An was sitting up in bed, leaning against the headboard. He looked pale and very weak.

“Master, you… you know too?”

Li You was very angry.

Although he had originally entered the palace to teach Ning An in order to protect himself, Li You had sincerely taught Ning An many things.

The royal family valued rules the most. Li You had seen early on that Ning An would face emotional tribulations, so he had always told him that men should cherish themselves.

Who knew that after saying it so many times, things would still turn out like this.

Although the master-disciple relationship between Li You and Ning An had ended, Ning An was still the only disciple Li You had ever had since birth, so he still cared about him.

“Elder sister, we really don’t know what to do.”

“Ah Tong, how could you be so foolish? If you had feelings for Prince Ning An, you should have told mother directly. Now that things have come to this, mother will surely flay you alive.”

Yu Wu had never imagined that the romance between the male and female leads would develop like this.

The rice had already been cooked. It was truly a difficult situation.

But since things had already come to this, it wasn’t good to keep it hidden any longer.

“Master, I’m scared…”

Ning An grabbed Li You’s sleeve, tears streaming down his face.

Li You furrowed his brows tightly, finally letting out a long sigh. He scooped up Ning An in his arms.

Li You turned to look at Yu Wu, his voice becoming much gentler:

“I’ll take him down the mountain back to the palace. I’ll explain things to the Human Emperor. As for your side…”

After all, it wasn’t Yu Wu’s affair, but Li You truly didn’t want to say another word to Yu Tong.

“I will take Yu Tong to see mother. She has caused such a great disaster, and she must be held responsible.”

Li You had just taken a step towards the door when he turned into a cloud of mist, disappearing with Ning An.

Yu Wu frowned deeply but didn’t scold Yu Tong. She immediately took her to see their mother.

Yu Wu waited outside the study, worried for Yu Tong in her heart. But after a short while, their mother and Yu Tong came out of the study.

Yu Wu looked at their faces and saw no unusual expressions.

“Ah Wu, you should already know what happened. Go change your clothes and accompany me to the palace to propose marriage.”

After all, she had the protagonist’s aura. Even after such an incident, their mother didn’t scold Yu Tong at all.

Now that Ning An was already pregnant, and with Li You speaking for him, and their mother personally going to propose marriage in this capacity, following this storyline, everything should go smoothly.

Yu Wu didn’t dare delay. She immediately went back to change her clothes and accompanied her mother to the imperial palace.

Author’s Note:

PS: Wu Yao is male!