Cohabitation with Sword Spirit-Chapter 63 - 54: You Really Can’t Blame Me for This
At this moment, Zhao Yan was completely sober from her drunkenness.
This renowned virtuous wife and mother of the Li Family Mansion was deeply immersed in a sense of helplessness towards her best friend, a helplessness... even greater than when she first discovered after marriage that no matter what, Li Kongcheng couldn’t lose weight.
How could there be such an idiot in the world! She runs to comfort her daughter and ends up comforting an enemy!
Lu Xin blushed: "You can’t blame me for this! I initially planned well. Speaking face-to-face with her could easily cause misunderstandings, so it was best to communicate by letter. But she suddenly opened her eyes in the middle of the night, messing up my plan."
"How could an adult talking face-to-face with a little girl cause misunderstandings!?"
"She is, after all, that woman’s child. Seeing her, I couldn’t help but remember Shen Yue’e. How could I speak calmly?"
Zhao Yan sarcastically said with annoyance, "Wear a blindfold!"
Lu Xin blushed: "I actually did wear one at the time, but being stared at by those big eyes of that little girl, I got flustered and forgot to take it out."
"You really wore it!?"
"I had no choice. The psychological shadow that woman Shen Yue’e left me with is too strong. After Fengyun and I got married, I didn’t sleep well for five whole years, always feeling there was another woman beside me!"
"My God, this sounds like you have a Heart Demon!"
"No, I’ve placed a lot of Exorcism Spiritual Treasures in the room, wore a Purifying Heart Talisman, and tied a Mind-Stabilizing Bell on my ankle. Even if there was truly a Heart Demon, it should have been expelled by now."
Zhao Yan was at a loss for words, her heart gradually filling with more sympathy and affection for this petite best friend.
To be honest, after Li Fengyun and Shen Yue’e fell in love, countless young girls in Xiangzhou had their hearts broken, but most chose to give up on the spot... After all, competing with Shen Yue’e, the pressure alone is enough to make one breathless.
"So, it’s not my fault then." Lu Xin stiffened her neck and said seriously, "Besides, although my opener was a bit off, there was nothing wrong with what I said afterwards. It’s Li Qingming’s own lack of comprehension."
"You’re expecting comprehension from a 10-year-old little girl!?"
Lu Xin blushed and argued, "Shen Yue’e was already publishing academic papers at the age of 10! Fengyun even developed the prototype of the Wind and Cloud Divinity Transformation Technique at 10! She inherited their bloodline, how could she not have this level of comprehension!"
Zhao Yan covered her face, deciding to end the topic.
"In any case, since you didn’t mean any harm to Qingming, why not find an opportunity to tell her that you’ve always cared for her and that sometimes your strictness was just to prevent her from repeating previous mistakes..."
Lu Xin said, "No, stop it, I feel uncomfortable just hearing it myself. Who cares for her, she is Shen Yue’e’s daughter! My rival! It’s best if she hates me, and if she has the guts, she should learn from those novel protagonists: ’Don’t bully the poor youth’, and become the number one expert in the world to slap me in the face!" 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢
Before she finished speaking, there came a muffled voice of a young girl from the room.
"It’s a deal, one day I will slap your face swollen!"
Lu Xin and Zhao Yan were both taken aback: "Who’s there?!"
With profound cultivation, Zhao Yan quickly used her Primordial Spirit to locate a piece of glittering fragmentary dust in the room.
And Lu Xin recognized the girl’s voice, trembling a bit as she asked, "Qingming?"
"Hmph!" Shen Qingming snorted coldly and then completely cut off the communication.
Looking at the dust that quieted down in the corner of the room, Lu Xin’s heart gradually began to surge with waves. After a moment, realizing that every word of her conversation just now had been overheard by Shen Qingming, she felt her blood rushing to her face.
"Ahhhhhhhhhh!"
A heart-wrenching wail pierced the night sky of the Li Family Mansion and couldn’t be calmed for a long time.
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On the other side, after ending the communication, Shen Qingming’s heart was pounding like a drum, panting for breath, her face blushing a deep red.
The young girl was immensely relieved that the Communication Spirit Jade was broken, only able to transmit sound but not images. Otherwise, if someone saw her tense expression, the effect of her previously intimidating words would be greatly diminished.
To be honest, when she said that sentence, she didn’t think much of it; she just couldn’t let Lu Xin continue speaking, otherwise...
"Otherwise what?"
Wang Jiu’s voice suddenly appeared in the girl’s mind, startling Shen Qingming into a full-body tremor.
"Why are you still here?! Even if there are exception clauses, they should have expired by now, get out of my head already!"
Wang Jiu explained seriously, "No, according to the eighth clause of the exception clauses in the supplementary contract, when the steed is in the following states, the owner is obliged to improve communication efficiency in time. First, when it involves important emotional relationship issues that the steed itself cannot manage properly."
"...You’re so annoying, annoying, annoying, argh!" Shen Qingming stomped her foot hard to interrupt Wang Jiu’s citation. The First Heaven cultivation of the Immovable Tyrant Body made her family’s drill ground tremble slightly, yet her excessively fierce stomping made her twist her ankle. She cried out in pain, then quickly turned her head, threw out a "I’m going to sleep" and hobbled away.
Wang Jiu silently watched the girl’s limping figure disappearing into the distance, muttering to himself, "When the following situations occur, the contract automatically voids... (3) when the steed’s intelligence quotient is below 2, without the ability to live independently;"
At this rate, the supplementary contract’s expiration might not be far off.
Afterward, when Wang Jiu saw that Shen Qingming indeed went to wash up and go to bed, he stopped concerning himself with his steed’s foolish behavior and entered the Sword World again to grind at some arrays and buildings. Once he had used up a bit of material on hand, he began waiting for Shen Qingming to wake up and provide fresh Qi blood material.
With nothing better to do, Wang Jiu flew into the girl’s bedroom, only to see Shen Qingming lying on the bed, cheeks seemingly still blushing from before, then giving a silly smile, drool almost dripping out.
"Hmm, I remember Shang Lanfei once said although she often used her intelligence advantage to bully those fools, occasionally, she too envied those who live happily in their simplicity. But Zhao Yuming said it’s just capitalist whining, the toxic kind at that, and I don’t know whose side is correct."
Just as Wang Jiu started to delve into an analysis of human nature, suddenly the jade pendant on his waist produced a sound.
To avoid waking the steed, Wang Jiu immediately went outside, and then he heard Li Chaolu’s somewhat anxious and trembling voice.
"Prince Wang Jiu, there’s something I must have your help with!"
Wang Jiu asked curiously, "What happened?"
"Just now you heard what my mom and Sister Xin said when they were drunk, right? Now I’m in big trouble!"
Wang Jiu said, "Making reasonable inferences based on context, the matter of transferring children has already been canceled, especially since it was drunken talk, there’s no need to take it too seriously."
Li Chaolu quickly said, "It’s not the same, not the same. Other people’s drunken words can be ignored, but my mom is the type who, once she says something, will follow through no matter what, even if it’s drunken talk, she won’t easily take it back... This time it was because Sister Xin refused, otherwise, I would really be sent out of the house! Even if she regrets it upon sobering up, she won’t go back on it."
Wang Jiu said, "But didn’t Lu Xin refuse?"
"She refused this time, but what about next time?!" Li Chaolu said urgently, "Sister Xin is clearly a bit distraught because of Qingming’s situation, you might as well say it’s a Heart Demon. And when she’s sad, she often comes and chats with my mom. If the old stories resurface then, I might really be sent away!"
Wang Jiu contemplated for a moment, "So from an objective viewpoint, it’s like you’re being promoted from the third branch to the main branch. Considering your own excellent qualities, you have great prospects of becoming the heir to the Li Family Mansion. I think this is a good thing."
"It’s not at all! I never planned on becoming some career woman, I don’t care about being the mansion heir, and I certainly don’t want to leave my parents. Although Uncle and Sister Xin are nice, they, as parents, are just... you’ve seen that short one’s behavior!"
Taking Shen Qingming’s intelligence level and cultivation into account, Wang Jiu acknowledged that Li Chaolu’s worries were indeed reasonable.
"What do you think I can do about it?"
Li Chaolu said, "I hope you can help bring that short one back to the Li Family Mansion... After all, this was all just a misunderstanding, Sister Xin never planned to do anything to her! Sister Xin is very nice; although she’s unreliable with Qingming, she’s always cared for and looked after her. That short one should stop throwing a tantrum and come back to be a dutiful daughter to remove Sister Xin’s Heart Demon. Then I can rest a little easier!"
"I understand, I’ll try to persuade her if I have the chance."
No sooner had the words fallen than Shen Qingming’s furious shout came from the house.
"Mind your own business, you big meat leg!"
Li Chaolu was immediately incensed, "Flat-chested shorty, eavesdropping at night instead of sleeping, no wonder you never grow taller!"
"Pfft, aren’t you also up at night gossiping about others behind their backs? You may be tall, but you’ve still got an extra layer of meat!"
"This is called having curves. In a few years, you’ll be envious!"
"In a few years, be careful you don’t grow into a pig. You do have a model brother to follow!"
"That fat guy is not my brother. You, you better watch out that you don’t stay this height forever, you’ve got a mom just like you!"
"Pfft! That shorty isn’t my mom, my mom’s lovely and tall!"
"Ha, how do you have the face to claim you’re her daughter?"
The two teenage girls, around thirteen or fourteen, engaged in a late-night spat via the Communication Spirit Jade. The conversation quickly veered away from returning to the family or child transfer, morphing into a debate on aesthetics between voluptuousness and petite figures, societal progress, cultural differences, gender equality, and women’s rights, enlightening Wang Jiu in unprecedented ways.
