After Breaking Off the Engagement, I Started Pursuing My Master-Chapter 122 - Danger!

Chapter 122: Danger!

Jiang Huai said nothing more, just sat quietly by the bed and waited.

Luo Yueguan seemed to fall into a certain memory, she began to try very hard to recall the past.

Cultivators and ordinary people are living in two separate worlds. Cultivators can easily crush any ordinary person, and even if you are a righteous cultivator, if you accidentally kill one or two ordinary people without going too far, almost no cultivator will think there is anything wrong with you.

Cultivators hate evil cultivators to the bone because of fear, fearing that they will sacrifice thousands of people for cultivation, and once their cultivation surpasses theirs, they will start sacrificing them for cultivation. Most cultivators don’t have much compassion for ordinary people.

Luo Yueguan began to try hard to remember; she had cultivated at Qingxuan Sect for ten years, and after reaching the early stage of Foundation Establishment, she went down the mountain again.

What exactly did she do when she saw her mother again?

But the memory seemed to be obscured by a layer of distant fog...

Why? She clearly remembered every single thing that despicable woman did to her when she was a child, but she forgot what she did afterward.

Did she kill her?

No... that’s not right...

When she saw that woman again, she seemed to have aged considerably, no longer the radiant courtesan who dazzled everyone with her beauty.

Where was she at that time? It seemed she was in some wild kiln cave where any man could do whatever he wanted with her for just a few coins... That woman had become her shame, and now that she was a cultivator, having such a mother alive seemed only to invite ridicule from her fellow sect members.

But what exactly had she done?

Luo Yueguan suddenly felt a severe headache.

“Maybe it’s better not to think about it?”

Jiang Huai gently grabbed Luo Yueguan’s shoulder, trying to stop her from recalling those things, but Luo Yueguan shook her head. She tried very hard to penetrate the fog in her memory, but her head hurt as if it were being pricked by needles. Eventually, the fog gradually dissipated, and she seemed to remember.

She saw that woman again in her hometown, but she could no longer recognize her. The woman had become somewhat insane; one of her eyes had been blinded, and her body bore many old scars. Yet, she distinctly remembered that when she left her side, she had sold her for a thousand taels of silver.

She took her away from that wild kiln cave, cleaned her up, dressed her in new clothes, treated her to the best food and drink in the city, and while the woman was drunk, she learned the reason for her downfall.

In the two years after her daughter left, she began to regret, or perhaps it wasn’t regret but longing. She wanted to see her daughter again, to see that she was well, so she left with all her savings in a fit of madness. But she was just an ordinary person. Even if she had a thousand taels of silver or even ten thousand taels of gold, it still wasn’t enough to set foot in Qingxuan Sect, let alone find out where it was... Even though she only wished to see her daughter from a distance, she knew she had no face to appear before her.

She felt an indescribable feeling in her heart, so she lied to that woman, saying that she was a fellow disciple of her daughter’s, and that she had come down the mountain at her daughter’s request to check on her mother. She told the woman that her daughter was doing well in Qingxuan Sect and that she needn’t worry.

The crazed woman suddenly started laughing, then knelt down and kowtowed to her, begging her to tell her daughter after she returned to the mountain that her mother, who had always been harsh and often beat her when she was a child, had died a tragic death. Perhaps this way, her daughter who was cultivating in Qingxuan Sect would feel some relief and peace of mind.

She kowtowed until her forehead bled, but in the end, she did not reveal her identity. She couldn’t say whether she still harbored any hatred, but after a long silence, she softly agreed.

They stayed in the same inn, and when she woke up the next day, the crazed woman had used the new clothes she bought for her to make a rope and hanged herself from the beam.

She left no suicide note, but Luo Yueguan guessed why.

She didn’t want to be her shame.

She couldn’t remember if she cried that day. After burying the woman, she returned to Qingxuan Sect, and it seemed as if her worldly ties had been completely severed, and that memory had quietly faded away... until today, when it was recalled.

When Luo Yueguan came back to her senses, her cheeks were already streaked with tears.

“Why are you crying? Did you remember something?”

Jiang Huai took out a handkerchief and gently wiped the tears from Luo Yueguan’s cheeks.

But Luo Yueguan didn’t speak, just silently let the tears fall.

“If you don’t want to talk about it, then don’t. Whatever it is, it’s all in the past... don’t cry.”

Jiang Huai wiped her tears away, slightly flustered, as he was never good at comforting women.

“I remembered...” Luo Yueguan’s voice was hoarse.

“I saw her again... By then, she had completely turned into a madwoman... I lied to her, saying I was her daughter’s fellow disciple and that her daughter had entrusted me to check on her... She became somewhat lucid... She confessed to that version of me, apologized, kowtowed... begging me to tell her daughter that she had died, died tragically so that her daughter might feel some relief... I didn’t reveal my identity to her... and I couldn’t say that I forgave her... but I left her a fortune in gold and medicine to heal her body... enough for her to live a carefree life... but that night, she took her own life... I was too late when I found out...”

“Did she love me... or hate me... Jiang Huai... what do you think?”

Luo Yueguan’s eyes suddenly shifted to Jiang Huai’s face, her gaze filled with confusion, like a ship in a storm frantically searching for an anchor.

“It’s hard to say whether it’s love or hate, I don’t know either,” Jiang Huai could only shake his head gently.

“But it’s good that you’ve come to terms with it. Did the past you hide this memory?”

“I can’t tell if it was me who hid it... or if it was hidden by my inner demons...”

“Forcing yourself to forget memories won’t work. Every past experience, every moment, makes up who you are now. Missing any part would leave you incomplete. They’re always there in your consciousness, influencing everything. But the sad things are in the past, and if you dwell on past pains, you’ll be stuck and only wrap yourself tighter in them.”

Luo Yueguan’s eyes suddenly sharpened in an instant.

“Shut up!”

Jiang Huai was taken aback.

But the next moment, Luo Yueguan looked at him gently.

“Not you, I’m arguing with my inner demon.”

Luo Yueguan’s inner demon had been incessantly whispering in her ear, but this time, Luo Yueguan suddenly realized that after recalling that past memory, the power of the inner demon weakened a bit.

After that command to shut up, the inner demon was indeed briefly suppressed and couldn’t make any more noise.

“Are you okay?” Jiang Huai looked at her with concern.

He didn’t quite understand the situation with Luo Yueguan’s inner demon, as he had never seen it before. Fortunately, Luo Yueguan soon replied softly.

“I’m okay, at least better than before.”

“That’s good.” Jiang Huai let out a sigh of relief.

“Try the soy milk I’ve made, it’ll get cold soon.”

Luo Yueguan picked up the teacup and gently sipped from it.

“Actually, I really like sweet things,” she suddenly said.

Jiang Huai was startled, but after a moment, he magically produced a large jar filled with colorful candies.

“Here, for you.”

“You brought so much candy?”

“Qingyu likes it, so I made a lot.”

Actually, that wasn’t entirely true. Some he made, and some he got from the system’s store, where he could exchange points for several dozen pounds of candy. Since Luo Qingyu liked them, he would occasionally eat a couple too. Jiang Huai loved taking advantage of such deals, and he still had a lot more on him.

Luo Yueguan took the box of candy, the tears on her eyelashes already wiped away without her noticing, and her lips curved into a smile.

“You’re quite good at flattering people.”

“Of course? My master taught me well.”

“Pfft, when have you ever shown half the filial piety to your master?”

Luo Yueguan looked at him disdainfully, then suddenly changed the subject, “What did you do to Qingyu last night?”

“Why are you asking that again?”

Jiang Huai was a bit troubled, but then he suddenly had a thought, wait, why was Luo Yueguan asking this? He recalled that Luo Yueguan could share Luo Qingyu’s perceptions through their spiritual connection, and his eyes widened.

“You didn’t use your powers to spy on Qingyu’s feelings last night, did you?”

“What spying? This is supervising you... to see if you did anything bad to Qingyu.”

“How could I do anything bad to her?”

“Didn’t you? Last night I felt it in my throat... so deep...”

Luo Yueguan deliberately put on that shameless demeanor, probably because Jiang Huai was getting used to her brazenness.

“It’s not that I wanted to bully Qingyu, it’s that Qingyu... insisted... and later I also kissed Qingyu...”

“You have the nerve to say that! You’re just like a dog! Aren’t you ashamed, aren’t you... dirty.”

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“Dirty? It was soft and tender.”

Jiang Huai said and suddenly felt a moment of inexplicable shame, but Luo Yueguan seemed to be completely shameless, so it seemed like nothing. Luo Yueguan leaned lazily against the headboard.

“So what else did you do?”

“You already know, don’t you? You’re asking just to find an excuse to beat me up, right?”

“I only spied for a moment before cutting off the spiritual connection.”

“Why are you so concerned about these things?”

“Isn’t it normal for a mother to worry about her daughter?”

Luo Yueguan’s expression was full of innocence, and Jiang Huai shook his head helplessly.

“Just kissing... and then did some bad things... all with Qingyu’s consent... I’ll take good care of Qingyu, you really don’t need to worry about that.”

“What does a kiss... taste like, anyway?”

“You have the nerve to ask that, didn’t you bite me for no reason before?”

“Biting... doesn’t count as a kiss.”

Luo Yueguan answered confidently, but her eyes seemed to casually sweep across Jiang Huai’s face, her lips parted slightly, and the tip of her tongue lightly licked the corner of her mouth.

Jiang Huai’s heart skipped a beat.

He could still detect Luo Yueguan’s affection three more times, and Jiang Huai silently invoked the detection in his mind.

Current affection: 87

Jiang Huai broke out in a cold sweat in an instant.

Danger! Jiang Huai Jr! Danger!