Chapter 244 – Unwilling to Turn Back

The backyard was the temple’s residence for receiving visitors, and Xiao Qingwu Zhu Chenyao and other distant visitors all had a small room. The room was simple, but elegant and clean, counting as a different kind of purity amidst the sorrowful atmosphere of this place.

Xue Mu leaned wearily on a chair and looked at a pot of flowers on the table, “This flower is quite pretty, what’s its name?”

Zhu Chen Yao stood in front of him and looked at him strangely for half a day, dumbfounded, “My Gongzi, you don’t even recognize the peony?”

Gongzi ……

Since they met again, this was the first time Zhu Chen Yao shouted out this title.

Although with some derision, but once this name came out, both of them inevitably remembered that night’s lingering, to be exact, Zhu Chen Yao’s pleasing service.

To this day, even though on the surface they didn’t seem to have anything to do with each other, and they stood face to face with each other as if they were talking as equals, but in reality, they still had a high and low mentality, Zhu Chen Yao stood in front of Xue Mu, and in her heart she was unconsciously shorter than a head.

This kind of feeling made her very indignant, but in the midst of her indignation, it was inevitable that she had more complicated feelings.

At first, Xue Mu’s idea was completely confirmed: the passageway to a woman’s mind is indeed that. The first time was taken away by you, you are indeed different in front of her. Maybe modern women have been much weaker, but the ancient female warrior, it is really impossible to forget.

Xue Mu’s voice was a bit tired and hoarse: ”This sound of Gongzi, but I haven’t heard it for a long time. Mister Xue can’t deserve such a title as Ice Fairy.”

Zhu Chen Yao pursed her lips and said in a low voice, “Are you angry that I said that grace is broken before?”

“That’s not angry.” Xue Mu said indifferently, “Between you and me, the situation was already special, and I was already surprised that you still stood on my side within the Heavenly Fragrance Building earlier.”

Zhu Chen Yao sighed, slowly stepped forward, stood beside Xue Mu, took out a side of silk scarf and gently wiped his sweat, said in a low voice: “At the beginning, Chen Yao said, you laughed at me for being vain and flamboyant, I admit it, but Chen Yao is not a person who is watery and flamboyant, compared to those people in Meng Fei Bai, the difference between affinity and alienation naturally exists.”

The silk scarf that came with it, carried a warm and familiar body fragrance, Xue Mu closed his eyes and felt it for a while, and whispered, “It’s just a difference of affinity?”

Zhu Chen Yao’s slender hand slightly paused and didn’t answer.

Xue Mu added: “You invited me to go to the Meditation Nunnery for a while, what did you want to tell me at that time?”

Zhu Chen Yao whispered, “In fact, there is nothing, just at first glance to see Mu Jian Li and you …… I was momentarily awkward …… Afterwards think about it, there is nothing to be awkward, Mu Jian Li is self-appointed and lonely, is not the same as Chen Yao was the same man I’m still a little better than her. I still better than her point, see her that look is the deep root of love can not pull themselves out, Chen Yao but also autonomous it.”

Xue Mu was dumbfounded, “Your hostility towards Jian Li is so unexplained.”

Zhu Chen Yao smiled, “In front of you, I’m not pretending either. My hostility towards her is not for a day or two, you know it better than anyone. If I didn’t hold back my energy to compete with her for the limelight, I wouldn’t have been …… gotten by you ……”

After saying half of it, he didn’t finish after all.

Xue Mu laughed, “I understand. But you’re still thinking wrong on one point.”

“Which point?”

“You want autonomy? It won’t be easy.” Xue Mu smiled, “This time, your performance sort of satisfied me, which is fine. If you were to pretend to be cool and draw a line with me or something from the moment we met, then you would definitely regret it.”

Zhu Chen Yao was silent.

She didn’t know what other means Xue Mu had to control her, but from the bottom of her heart, she wouldn’t doubt that Xue Mu could do what he said he could do.

Having once manipulated her mind, making her rise, making her fall, making her fall into the abyss, and making her scenery endless, the memories of that time were too deep and burned into her heart. The reason why she had decisively stood up for herself at Heavenly Fragrance Tower, aside from a bit of old thoughts in her heart, subconsciously obeying Xue Mu was the most crucial factor.

She also wanted to break away, but she didn’t dare.

Even this time, when she took the initiative to invite her into the room to rest, it was both because she was a bit sentimental about Xue Mu’s righteousness, but at the same time, it was also because she was afraid that her previous words had offended him, and was in the process of making up for it.

Zhu Chen Yao suddenly became a bit angry and put away the silk scarf that was helping him wipe his sweat, and angrily asked: ”Why is it Xue Mu, why is it that you would be fond and appreciative of Mu Jian Li, but treat me in such a manner? I served you much earlier than her, and I’m no better than her in your heart?”

Xue Mu was silent for a moment and said in a low voice, “I once said to Mu Jian Li that …… I see how charming Qing Shan is, and I expect that Qing Shan should see me like this. You and I don’t have much good feelings for each other, so why compare ourselves to others.”

Zhu Chen Yao said angrily, “So you were never just interested in my body!”

Xue Mu said indifferently, “Your interest in being the center of all the stars also exceeds your interest in me, each other. Because of that, we have a deal, don’t we?”

Zhu Chen Yao bit her lower lip.

Xue Mu added, “Actually, ah …… Chen Yao, you are also an honest person.”

Zhu Chen Yao froze, obviously her heart was full of mixed feelings of sweet, sour, bitter and spicy, but she was almost laughed out by this sentence. It was probably the first time since she was a child that she was evaluated as an honest person.

“You see, even though you are vain and want to be the goddess in people’s hearts, you never knew how to pull off schemes or marketing packages. You’re too proud inside, and have never tried clumsily and hard to do something positive in hopes of gaining praise and admiration from others, including trying to catch me as a demon in the first place, and also this time when you went to the quarantine zone in body to take care of these patients who are supposed to be dirty in your eyes. If you’re not an honest person, who is?”

Zhu Chen Yao’s little smile slowly disappeared and froze there.

Xue Mu added: “Everyone has their own pursuit, just like Jian Li pursues the sword way, and you pursue to become the center of attention, perhaps the world will think that Jian Li’s style is high, in fact, in my heart these two are not divided into high and low, and even …… you are closer to me. ”

Zhu Chen Yao asked with a complex expression, “What do you mean by suddenly saying this …… to me?”

Xue Mu tapped the armrest, “I covet your beauty ah, want to catch you on the side, you see, said so melodious, have you heart like a deer?”

Zhu Chen Yao smiled slightly bitterly, “You might as well threaten me like you did before, saying that if I don’t listen, you’ll let me lose my reputation, would I dare to resist you?”

“I don’t want to do that after your good behavior this time.” Xue Mu suddenly said, “Chen Yao, have you ever thought that no matter how much you do here, it wouldn’t be as good as mentioning you twice in Department Six’s chronicle of events in the future? On the contrary, if the chronicle does not mention a single word, you will only be able to gain the praise of the people here, and you won’t even be able to spread it for a few miles.”

Zhu Chen Yao’s heart jumped, it was like an enlightenment, her jaw dropped for a moment, “This, this ……”

Xue Mu smiled faintly, “The highest person in charge of Department Six here is your son, me.”

Zhu Chen Yao froze for a long time, looking at Xue Mu’s smiling face in confusion, and saw Xue Mu waving at her. She subconsciously leaned over, Xue Mu reached out and wrapped his hand around her, Zhu Chen Yao planted herself in his arms, lightly biting her lower lip and murmuring, “Xue Mu …… you are truly the devil in my heart.”

The devil in the heart …… greed, anger, infatuation, and resentment, love and separation, and not being able to seek …… what the heart wants, only to be unable to be relieved again and again. Xue Mu wrapped his arms around her softened body, gently sniffed her hair fragrance, and his mind suddenly remembered the fat Buddha behind the door of Yuan Zhongwei.

It’s only because all beings refuse to turn back.