Volume 3, Chapter 315 – I Permit You to Like Her

The inner room.

The moment Chi Xiyan pushed open the door and left, Lu Zhuxin shot upright in bed.

She grabbed the blanket and yanked it over herself.

Pop!

A pair of fluffy ears burst uncontrollably from the top of her head.

Under the covers, a large, fluffy tail sent the blanket billowing up into a peak.

“ Haah! “

Lu Zhuxin gasped in great, heaving breaths.

“What the hell! I nearly suffocated!”

“That was even worse than holding back a sneeze through an entire movie!”

She cursed under her breath.

Fox demons revealed their ears and tail when aroused. That was a detail Lu Zhuxin herself had written into the original story.

Tonight’s encounter with Chi Xiyan had been one step in a plan she had accounted for.

To avoid exposing her fox demon identity in the middle of it all, she had needed to stay alert every single moment and hold herself back through sheer will, making sure not one tail slipped out.

It had not been easy. Fortunately, the Pure Yang Mark that Qu Qingtang had left behind had been a tremendous help.

Every time Lu Zhuxin had been on the verge of losing herself under Chi Xiyan’s onslaught, the cool sensation at her throat had jolted her, snapping her back to her senses.

“ Tch …” Lu Zhuxin raised a hand and rubbed the back of her neck. “Maybe I owe her a thank-you.”

What should have been two people’s first venture had somehow turned into a three-person affair.

“Oh. There’s someone next door too.”

Lu Zhuxin looked up toward the small door connecting to Bu Lianshuang’s room.

“Come to think of it… with Bu Lianshuang’s hearing, if she didn’t use a technique to seal off her senses, she would have heard everything from last night clear as day, wouldn’t she?”

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That thought made Lu Zhuxin’s expression go strange.

“That girl didn’t actually spend the whole night listening through the wall!”

She stared at the small door not far away. She could faintly make out the sound of Chi Xiyan and Bu Lianshuang’s voices.

Lu Zhuxin felt her face go a little stiff.

She had no fondness for being eavesdropped on.

“I was careless!”

“That girl definitely heard the whole thing!”

“That must be why Chi Xiyan went to find her!”

…

While Lu Zhuxin was burning with embarrassment and mortification, barely resisting the urge to bang her head against the wall.

Bu Lianshuang’s reason was barely a thread away from being incinerated entirely by her fury.

She gripped her fists. Bit down on her teeth.

It took nearly every ounce of strength she had to keep the rage from taking over her body.

Her voice came out hoarse, pressing down on her anger.

“This servant still doesn’t understand what First Young Miss means…”

Bu Lianshuang kept her head low, hiding the savage fury in her eyes from Chi Xiyan.

“This servant has no… particular interest in the relationship between the young miss and First Young Miss.”

Chi Xiyan’s expression didn’t change. “You don’t need to explain yourself. As I said, I have no intention of blaming you.”

“On the contrary. Seeing that you care for Little Xue’er makes me glad.”

Bu Lianshuang froze. She looked up at Chi Xiyan, her eyes full of confusion.

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Chi Xiyan went on. “The binding power of a Dao Contract has its limits. It cannot truly constrain a person’s thoughts or feelings.”

“It can make you into a loyal maidservant, but it cannot genuinely make you give everything for her.”

“Feelings, however, can do exactly that.”

“You care for her. You will wholeheartedly do anything for her, think for her sake, give everything for her.”

“That is far more reliable than any Dao Contract or legal bond.”

“You are the person most suited to look after her.”

“So…” Chi Xiyan lowered her gaze slightly. “I am willing to entrust her to you. I hope you will look after her well.”

At those words, Bu Lianshuang’s body trembled faintly.

What was this?

The ease of someone who had already won?

Something others would treasure with their lives. In your eyes, it was this worthless. Something to be casually handed off to someone else.

You took her for yourself, spent a night with her, and now that you’ve had your fill, you want to pass her along to someone else?

And you put on this generous, magnanimous act while doing it?!

Chi Xiyan, what kind of person are you?!

Who asked for your charity?!

What right do you have to treat her like this?!

“First Young Miss.” Bu Lianshuang lowered her voice. “Is this a transaction to you as well?”

“The same way you use your own marriage to extract advantages from Lingxiao Sword Sect and the Song family.”

“You treat yourself as goods, set a price, and put yourself on the shelf for sale. That is your freedom, and I have no place to say otherwise.”

“But…” Bu Lianshuang ground her teeth. “The young miss is not a good to trade! She is a person! She has her own thoughts, her own feelings!”

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“What right do you have to trade the young miss around like some kind of commodity?!”

“What right do you have to treat her this way?!”

Bu Lianshuang’s low snarl erupted into the small room.

Then the entire room fell silent.

Only Bu Lianshuang’s furious breathing remained.

Chi Xiyan lowered her gaze slightly. Her voice came out cool and even. “It seems you’ve misunderstood something. This is not a transaction.”

She raised her eyes. Something difficult to name filled them.

“I am entrusting her to you because I hope you will protect her. Not in the sense you are imagining.”

Bu Lianshuang went still.

Chi Xiyan continued. “Chi Muxue is my little sister. She is the rarest treasure the Chi family has seen in a thousand years.”

“In the not-too-distant future, the light she carries will shine like the stars and the moon.”

“Shuang’er. Remember this. You are her personal maidservant. To live for her, to die for her. That is your fate.”

“A maidservant must conduct herself as a maidservant should.”

“Muxue’s future cannot be tarnished by even the smallest stain.”

“Do you understand?”

Bu Lianshuang understood.

She didn’t know what expression she was supposed to make.

She had been wrong about her. Chi Xiyan had never placed her in her sights at all.

This woman who looked down on everything and everyone. She permitted Bu Lianshuang to care for Chi Muxue, but would not permit her to harbor a single thought that strayed beyond her place.

Bu Lianshuang swallowed her fury and forced out through gritted teeth, “First Young Miss… then just now…”

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Chi Xiyan’s voice was cold. “Just now. Nothing happened.”

“Tonight, I used the Chi family’s antidote and Medical Immortal Valley’s secret needling technique to purge the poison from Muxue’s body. That is all.”

“I don’t know what you may or may not have heard out here. But that is the truth.”

Chi Xiyan held Bu Lianshuang’s eyes, and stated coldly, “That is what I came here to tell you.”

“This concerns Muxue’s reputation. If you truly care for her, then once she wakes up, I don’t want her to hear anything inappropriate from your mouth.”

“Do you understand me?”

Bu Lianshuang didn’t want to understand.

This woman. This wretched woman.

She took everything she could, and then acted as though nothing had happened at all!

Did she truly see tonight as nothing more than a passing night?

She spoke of it all as being for the fox young miss’s sake. But what she had done. How was it any different from the patrons at Five Immortals House?

“I’ve said what I came to say. I hope you won’t do anything unnecessary.”

With that, Chi Xiyan turned and left.

Bu Lianshuang’s clenched fist came down on the floor.

A crack rang out, and the ground split apart beneath her.

…

Chi Xiyan returned to the room, only to find that Lu Zhuxin had already woken.

She was sitting blankly on the bed, staring at Chi Xiyan with a dazed expression.