‘This doesn’t make sense.’
Watching Chen Yuyang’s still unresponsive face, Ling Xi felt even more restless.
‘Why hasn’t the medicine taken effect yet? I’m almost out of patience waiting.’
‘Could it be that I didn’t use enough? But Senior Sister clearly said one pill was enough.’
Suddenly, Ling Xi thought of a possibility.
‘Senior Sister, could she be lying to me? This medicine actually has no effect at all!’
Ling Xi felt she suddenly understood something.
She understood Senior Sister Gu Qiushui’s good intentions.
In fact, there was no such medicine.
‘Senior Sister told me there was this medicine just to help me gather courage! She knew I was timid and afraid to make the first move, so she used this method to force my hand. Her real goal was to make me take this step and confess my feelings to Senior Brother!’
Thinking of this, Ling Xi’s expression cleared, and her eyes lit up with sudden realization and gratitude.
‘Senior Sister, you really went to great lengths for me. See, I knew it. Senior Sister is such a good person, how could she let me do something so despicable? Ah, thinking about it this way, if I had actually drugged Senior Brother, I would be the impure one.’
Ling Xi reflected briefly, then took a deep breath, her gaze becoming resolute.
‘Senior Sister, I’ve received your intentions. In that case, I won’t let you down!’
With that thought, Ling Xi suddenly lifted her head, her eyes burning as she looked at Chen Yuyang.
She had made up her mind completely.
Forget the medicine—confessing in person was the way to be open and honest!
‘Nothing to fear, Ling Xi. Just say what you feel about Senior Brother!’
“Senior Brother!”
Ling Xi finally spoke.
Chen Yuyang looked up, sensing her seriousness.
He put down the book and looked at her with a puzzled expression.
“Go ahead, Junior Sister. What is it?”
“Senior Brother, I know you might not be able to accept this.”
Ling Xi stood up, pressing her hand to her chest to suppress her racing heart.
Her gaze locked onto the boy across from her as she spoke word by word: “Today, here, I want to confess something to you.”
Chen Yuyang nodded, leaning back slightly with his hands flat on the table, indicating he was all ears.
“Go ahead, I’m listening.”
“Senior Brother, I… I… like…”
Ling Xi’s cheeks flushed bright red.
Even though she had made up her mind, the crucial words stuck in her throat as if blocked by something, unable to come out.
Chen Yuyang narrowed his eyes slightly.
Seeing the girl so nervous she couldn’t speak clearly, he had already guessed a bit.
A hint of amusement curled at the corner of his lips.
He didn’t rush her, just quietly watched and waited for her to continue.
“I… I…”
Ling Xi was so anxious she felt tears coming.
The initial burst of courage had passed, leaving only growing shyness and tension.
Some words, if not spoken in one breath, only become more stammered and unclear.
Now Ling Xi was completely stuck, unable to utter the last two words no matter what.
Chen Yuyang pursed his lips, secretly finding Ling Xi quite cute like this.
‘This girl—she’s the one who wanted to say it, but she’s the one who can’t say it. Oh well, since it’s come to this…’
Chen Yuyang interrupted her voluntarily.
“Alright, Ling Xi, stop.”
“No, I have to say it!”
Hearing Chen Yuyang try to stop her, Ling Xi immediately panicked, waving her hands.
“Today, I must say it. Senior Brother, I like… ahem, ahem, ahem, ahem!”
Ling Xi suddenly raised her voice, trying to shout out those words.
But just as she was about to say them, she choked on her own saliva from being too excited.
She covered her mouth, looking extremely flustered.
For Chen Yuyang, it was quite difficult to hold back his laughter.
Suppressing his smile, Chen Yuyang gently patted the girl’s heaving back to help her breathe.
“Alright, alright, don’t get so worked up, Junior Sister. Here, drink some water. Take it slow, it’s okay to say it later.”
As he spoke, Chen Yuyang raised his hand, using spiritual power to lift the teapot on the table, pour a cup of tea, and hand it to her.
Ling Xi, dizzy from coughing, took it and drank a couple of sips.
The warm liquid flowed down, slightly easing the discomfort in her throat.
She patted her chest and took a while to calm down, though she still coughed occasionally.
Suddenly, Ling Xi froze, looking down at the teacup she had just drunk from.
‘Oh no, how did I drink that! But…’
Ling Xi quickly calmed down again.
‘That medicine was useless anyway. Even if I drank it, it should be fine, right?’
The girl put down the teacup and looked back at Chen Yuyang.
Remembering her embarrassing state just now, her eyes began to redden with grievance.
‘I’m so useless—can’t even say a confession properly.’
“Senior Brother… I just…”
The girl sniffled, looking pitiful.
But she felt that the mood had been completely ruined.
“Alright, Ling Xi… I understand what you mean.”
Chen Yuyang waved his hand to stop her, putting away the amused expression and replacing it with a serious one.
“Senior Brother, do you really understand?”
Ling Xi blinked, finding it hard to believe, but her heart began to race involuntarily.
Seeing her like this, Chen Yuyang gave a helpless, bitter smile.
‘If I still don’t understand her feelings now, then I really am a block of wood.’
Without speaking, Chen Yuyang simply nodded lightly in acknowledgment.
Ling Xi was overjoyed.
All the grievance and resentment in her heart instantly vanished.
With a happy expression, she suddenly threw herself into Chen Yuyang’s arms, wrapping her arms around his neck and burying her face in his shoulder.
“Thank goodness, Senior Brother…”
But in the very next instant, Ling Xi suddenly lifted her head, frowning slightly.
“Wait, hold on!”
“No, Senior Brother! If you understand how I feel, then why, why are you still so close to Yun Lian and that Yan Luo?”
As she spoke, Ling Xi’s gaze turned mournful again.
Chen Yuyang gave a bitter laugh.
‘This girl—she actually cares about that first. She must really mind.’
“Junior Sister, Yan Luo and I are innocent.”
“Then what about Yun Lian?”
Ling Xi immediately stared at him relentlessly.
“Ah, well…”
Chen Yuyang’s mouth twitched slightly.
He really found it hard to talk about this.
But looking into Ling Xi’s eyes, he decided not to deceive her.
Taking a deep breath, Chen Yuyang spoke seriously, “Alright, Yun Lian and I do have something going on… but there are complicated reasons behind it. It’s not what you think.”
Ling Xi didn’t hear the latter part.
Hearing the words “do have something going on,” she immediately broke into wails.
“Wah, how is this fair!”
The girl’s face flushed red, and she questioned Chen Yuyang with a crying voice, “Why did she get to go before me! Damn it, I was here first! You bastard Senior Brother, do you really like Junior Sister Yun Lian that much? I should have known!”
Ling Xi grew more aggrieved the more she thought about it.
Tearfully, she muttered, “When Junior Sister Yun Lian first arrived, Senior Brother, you looked at her with such lecherous eyes… Oh, I remember now!” She suddenly raised her voice, as if recalling something crucial.
“Junior Sister Yun Lian just went into seclusion. Could it be that you only reluctantly agreed to me because she’s not here?”
Chen Yuyang: “…”
At that moment, he had to admire Ling Xi’s imagination.
‘What does she mean by me looking at Yun Lian with lecherous eyes when she first arrived? That’s complete nonsense. Besides, the reason I agreed to Yun Lian that night was entirely because I felt she was in a bad mood and wanted to comfort her, while trying to get her to open up about things she didn’t want to say.’
But after thinking it over, Chen Yuyang decided not to explain further.
Because the truth was that he did have unusual relationships with multiple women.
That was undeniable, and he wouldn’t deny it.
After a while, Ling Xi finally recovered from her grievance.
She sniffled, then pointed at Chen Yuyang’s chest and continued questioning, “Who else? Besides Yun Lian, who else is there? Senior Brother, you better confess everything!”
Chen Yuyang paused, looking at the girl’s reddened eyes.
He nodded slightly, hesitated, then spoke, “Actually, Shizun…”
“CAW—! I don’t want to hear it!”
Ling Xi screamed like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, covering her ears and shaking her head vigorously.
At that moment, she felt like her world was collapsing.
“You bastard Senior Brother, do you really treat the Hehuan Sect as your harem? You even dared to lay hands on Shizun… No wait…”
Shouting, Ling Xi suddenly stopped and thought seriously.
“No, with your level of strength, it’s absolutely impossible for you to use any tricks on Shizun… Could it be…”
Then, Ling Xi’s eyes widened in shock as she guessed, “Could it be that you were actually taken advantage of by Shizun?”
Chen Yuyang was startled.
Although this was just Ling Xi’s fantasy, in a sense, she was right.
‘Wasn’t I just forced by Shizun?’
“Senior Brother… Did I hit the mark?”
Ling Xi saw that Chen Yuyang didn’t deny it and immediately became both angry and anxious.
“How despicable! Shizun has no shame! She’s robbing a young man from us youngsters! Is there no justice?”
Ling Xi stomped her feet in anger.
“That old woman Shizun, she must be lonely and cold, so she went after you… Damn it, how could she bring herself to do it! Didn’t she watch you grow up? Or did she already have this day in mind when she took you in, treating you like a child groom?”
Chen Yuyang listened to Ling Xi’s increasingly outrageous complaints and couldn’t help but sweat.
‘Junior Sister, I advise you to watch your words! Shizun is now at the Mahayana Realm. If she wants to extend her divine sense to probe, even I might not notice in time. If she hears what you’re saying, you’ll definitely get a beating.’