Big thanks and a shout-out to biki for sending me a laptop so that I can translate LWSL more conveniently!
Special thanks to Lollypop for the tip on ko-fi!
Click here for content warnings
Mentions of attempted suicide, series-typical physical violence
Close to chenshi17am to 8:59am., Physician Ye sent someone to convey a verbal message. He confirmed that the liquid on Wu Yanli’s face was the exact same as the liquid on the faces of the disfigured women, but they currently didn’t have a method to cure it. The physicians had previously used many regrowth pills on the disfigured women, which was a medicine pill which would allow injuries to quickly regrow new flesh, however, it had no effect on the disfigured women at all.
When Song Yan heard this news2JYB actually wrote 消失 (xiao shi) here, which means ‘to disappear’, but I think they meant to write 消息 (xiao xi), which means ‘news’. The first character is the same, so I’m assuming it’s a typo., she fainted immediately.
When Wu Yanli woke up, she cried and made a fuss, and even attempted suicide. If it wasn’t for Wu Yanlan knocking her out, she definitely would’ve bitten down on her tongue and killed herself.
Wu Yuchu was both angry and distressed for her. He immediately ordered people to bring Wu Yuxue over.
When Wu Yuxue came to Wu Yanli’s courtyard, in an instance, she had an ominous feeling in her heart. When she saw that everyone in the courtyard was on guard, her ominous feeling intensified, but she also felt that she was overthinking things. This was her niece’s courtyard, and it was also her erge who had called her over. There shouldn’t be any problems.
When she arrived in the main hall outside of Wu Yanli’s room, she saw Wu Yuchu and Wu Yanlan sitting down on chairs with dark expressions.
“Erge, I’m here.” Confusion flashed across Wu Yuxue’s gaze: “What did you call me here for?”
Could it be that Wu Yanli had told her erge about her warning Wu Yanli off, so her erge specially called her over here to tell her off?
Wu Yuchu’s gaze turned cold: “Xue-er, I heard that a while back, those incidences of women being disfigured were done by you?”
Wu Yuxue was stunned and couldn’t help glaring at Wu Yanlan.
Other than her and Zhi Tao, only Wu Yanlan, who frequently followed by her side, knew about this matter. If it wasn’t him who had told erge, then who else could it have been?
Wu Yanlan tightened his fists, suppressing his fury and meeting Wu Yuxue’s gaze.
Since she had been discovered, Wu Yuxue also didn’t intend to find an excuse to cover up the matter. With an uncaring expression, she said: “So what if I did?”
Wu Yuchu couldn’t believe that she would actually use such a relaxed tone of voice to reply him.
With a ‘pai—!’ noise, he slapped the table angrily and stood up: “So what if you did? So what if you did?”
Wu Yuchu grabbed Wu Yuxue’s arm, dragging her into Wu Yanli’s bedroom, and then, pushed her in front of the bed: “Wu Yuxue, take a good look. Take a good look and tell me who she is.”
Wu Yuxue crashed heavily into the front of the bed and almost kissed Wu Yanli on the face.
When she got a clear look of the other person’s face, she shrieked and collapsed onto the ground.
“You’re terrified too after seeing this face, aren’t you? Then do you know how much pain the person whom you’ve harmed is in?” Wu Yuchu looked at Wu Yuxue, his expression full of fury and distress: “Wu Yuxue, are you still even a human? You could even harden your heart against your own biological niece and do this to her. You’ve simply been spoilt by Grandfather! If no one teaches you a lesson3再教训教训你 (zai jiao xun jiao xun ni): again, I think JYB typo-ed and missed out the 不 (bu) behind the zai. In the original text, it means the opposite of what I translated, which doesn’t make sense in this context., then you won’t know the immensity of the heavens and earth4不知天高地厚 (bu zhi tian gao di hou): means ‘to have an exaggerated opinion of [one]’s own abilities’.!”
He grabbed her and hauled her to her feet, slapping her heavily across her cheek.
This slap had simply slapped both Wu Yuxue and Zhi Tao silly. Wu Yuchu, who had always doted on Wu Yuxue as if she was his own daughter, actually slapped her?
Wu Yuchu shoved her next to the bed again: “Tell me, where is the antidote?”
Wu Yuxue jumped to her feet abruptly: “Erge, have you lost your mind? Take a good look at me! I’m your little sister, Wu Yuxue!”
Wu Yuchu said angrily: “If it weren’t because you were my only little sister5单机 (dan ji): to be honest, I’m not really sure what this term means when prefixed to a familial form of address. On its own, it refers to a single computer or processor. When I searched Baidu for this term, it didn’t come up with any meaningful hits to explain its usage in this context. I’m assuming Wu Yuchu means that Wu Yuxue is his only younger sister, but I’m not 100% sure. If anyone knows better than I do, please feel free to leave a comment and correct me!, I would’ve killed you long ago! Now tell me quick, where is the antidote?”
“What antidote are you talking about!” Wu Yuxue was both angered and baffled: “You called me here first thing in the morning and didn’t explain a single thing to me, then you want an antidote? What antidote should I give to you?”
“What antidote? Of course it should be the antidote for the huarong liquid!” Wu Yuchu forced her to look at Wu Yanli on the bed: “Can’t you see how badly Li-er has been injured by you?”
Wu Yuxue was stunned: “She’s Li-er?”
Zhi Tao’s eyes widened, her expression full of shock. Last night, Miss Li had still been alright, how could she suddenly have become so ghastly? She was simply no different than the women who had been disfigured by the huarong liquid!
Wu Yuchu sneered: “You can’t recognize her either, can you? If it wasn’t for you, would she have become like this?”
Wu Yuxue said angrily: “What have I got to do with her becoming like this?”
“If it wasn’t for you using the huarong liquid on her, would she end up in this state?”
Wu Yuxue was stunned: “When did I ever use huarong liquid on her?”
“If it wasn’t you, then who else would it have been?”
“How would I know who it was? In any case, it wasn’t me!”
When Wu Yanlan, who had kept quiet the entire time, heard this, he couldn’t hold back anymore and said furiously: “Xiaogugu, you once told me that you were the one who refined the huarong liquid, that it’s one-of-a-kind. If it wasn’t you, who else could have used huarong liquid?”
Wu Yuxue was so angry that her face turned red: “That’s right, I was the one who refined huarong liquid, and it is one-of-a-kind. But it’s hard to guarantee that someone didn’t steal my huarong liquid to frame me! Also, why would I use huarong liquid and harm my own niece?”
Wu Yanlan didn’t believe in her words: “But you said that other than you, Zhi Tao and I, no one knew that you had the huarong liquid! Since no one knows about it, then who would steal your huarong liquid to frame you? As for why you would harm Li-er, you should be very clear for yourself. You were worried that Li-er would steal Hei Xuanyi from you, that’s why you used huarong liquid to hurt her!”
Wu Yuxue was simply about to be angered to insanity. She was all the more certain that someone wanted to frame her, but in that moment, she couldn’t think of who it could possibly be: “Who cares if you believe me or not, but I didn’t hurt Wu Yanli.”
“Wu Yuxue—!” Wu Yuchu was so angry that he couldn’t handle it anymore: “Whether it’s you or not, you must have the antidote, don’t you?”
Wu Yuxue’s expression fell: “I don’t have an antidote.”
“You…!” Wu Yuchu raised his hand and was about to slap her again.
Wu Yuxue straightened up: “Slap me, then! You can slap me to death if you want, but I didn’t hurt your darling daughter!”
“Wu Yuxue—!” A piercing, aggrieved and indignant shout came from the entrance. Following after, the silhouette of a person rushed in front of Wu Yuxue and viciously slapped Wu Yuxue a few times. Her tidy hairstyle fell out of place6A character’s hair falling out of its style is usually an indicator of the narrative downfall of a character, in the wuxia genre. You may have seen characters with their guan knocked out of their hair so that their hair falls all over their face. It may not happen directly in that scene itself, but it usually signals that this character will only continue to go downhill from here on out with no chance of a comeback. I don’t intend for this to be a spoiler for what happens to Wu Yuxue’s character, because I don’t remember what happens to her from here on either. This footnote is just meant to be a bit of cultural background and information.: “Wu Yuxue, when have your erge and I ever let you down? How could you harm my daughter! Wu Yuxue, if you don’t hand over the antidote, then I’ll drag you to the clan leader and let him personally deal with you!”
Wu Yuxue endured the pain and held back the tears that were about to fall, and howled, aggrieved: “I already said I didn’t hurt Wu Yanli! How can I make all of you believe me? Do you want to force me to my death? Will that make all of you happy?”
Zhi Tao saw that the situation was abnormal, so she sneakily left the room and hurriedly went to look for the madam7The madam she serves is Wu Yuxue’s mother. and Wu Chenzi.
When Shang Zhirong found out that her daughter-in-law was beating up her precious daughter, she immediately brought people with her and rushed over. The moment she entered, she called out: “Song Yan! Who gave you the guts! How dare you touch my darling daughter?”
When she saw Wu Yuxue’s red and swollen face, as well as her messy hair, her heart ached awfully.
“Mum!” When Wu Yuxue saw her mother, she finally put down her pride and wailed aggrievedly.
Song Yan was usually very respectful to her mother-in-law, Shang Zhirong, but today, because of her daughter, she couldn’t care less who this woman was: “Wu Yuxue is your darling daughter? Then what about Wu Yanli? Isn’t she my darling daughter? Isn’t she your biological granddaughter?”
Shang Zhirong was confused: “What has this got to do with Li-er?”
Song Yan wept bitterly: “Take a look at my poor Li-er, then you’ll know what happened.”
Shang Zhirong came over to the bed, saw the rotten face, and almost vomitted the things that she had eaten that morning.
Wu Yanlan hurriedly explained what had happened to Shang Zhirong.
Wu Yuxue cried: “Mum, it really wasn’t done by me! I really didn’t use huarong liquid to hurt Li-er!”
Shang Zhirong patted her shoulder: “Mum believes you.”
Wu Yuchu said angrily: “Mum! Are you going to side with xiaomei?”
Shang Zhirong’s expression darkened: “Xue-er said she didn’t do it, so it definitely wasn’t her.”
Wu Yuchu was so angry, he had nothing to say.
Song Yan and Wu Yanlan were angered half to death.
Just like this, the situation came to a standstill until Wu Chenzi arrived.
Internally, Wu Chenzi also sided with Wu Yuxue. He first ordered a group of physicians to come and treat Wu Yanli, then he ordered Wu Yuxue to return to her own courtyard to reflect on her actions. He then told Wu Yuchu and the others that he would account for the matter after it had been properly investigated.
No matter how internally dissatisfied Wu Yuchu and the others were, it was inappropriate for them to incessantly make a fuss over the matter before things were properly investigated, so they temporarily let Wu Yuxue go. However, this matter was very quickly leaked to the public.
Everyone found out that Wu Yuxue was the one who had created huarong liquid, that she had disfigured many women, and that she had even gone after her own biological niece. Amongst themselves, everyone was calling her a vicious woman.
As Wu Yuxue’s matter was being spread like wildfire, Wu Ruo was currently meditating at home as he watched Ji Xi teaching Dandan magic techniques.
After he heard about Wu Yuxue’s matter, he sneered derisively. Wu Ruo had already guessed that Wu Chenzi would side with Wu Yuxue and wouldn’t easily let others punish her. After all, this granddaughter had grown up by his side and was even closer to him than his own daughters. How could he bear to let this granddaughter suffer punishment? However, this matter was only just beginning; how could it end so easily?
Wu Ruo came back to his senses and said to Ji Xi: “Ji Xi, show me any one of your Mo clan techniques.”
“Is it because you want to compare if human magic is more powerful, or if Mo magic is more powerful?8Ji Xi actually uses two different words to refer to human ‘magic’ and Mo ‘magic’, but for our purposes, it’s not that important, so I didn’t make a distinction in their translations.He calls human magic 玄术 (xuan shu) and Mo magic 法术 (fa shu) but you can essentially understand them as simply different types of magic between different races.” Ji Xi arrogantly tilted his chin up: “I can tell you now, our Mo magic is definitely more powerful.”
Wu Ruo rolled his eyes: “I just want to take a look. Just any random technique is good enough.”
Dandan threw himself into Wu Ruo’s arms: “Let me do it, let me do it, Daddy, let me do it!”
“You haven’t even mastered anything, what can you do?” Ji Xi walked over to the side, and faced the false mountain in front of him: “Watch carefully.”
Wu Ruo hurriedly focused all his attention on staring at Ji Xi, afraid that he would miss any tiny detail; he didn’t even blink his eyes.
Ji Xi rapidly made a few hand gestures.
Wu Ruo could see a black light gushing forth from inside of Ji Xi’s body. It started first from his spiritual field, then, in a few quick laps, it came to Ji Xi’s wrist. From his hands, black qi condensed into ten over human heads that looked like demons that had escaped from hell, howling insanely. Following that, with a wave of his palm, the blackened heads whizzed forth, screaming, and struck the stone9A.K.A the false stone mountain he was standing in front of. With a deafening ‘ping’ noise, the stone was crushed into powdered shards.
Ji Xi flew over to Wu Ruo and asked smugly: “How about it?”
Wu Ruo: “…”
It went too quickly.
He had barely taken a good look at what had happened.
Dandan pouted: “It’s not powerful enough.”
These words made Ji Xi so annoyed that he slapped the back of Dandan’s head: “I didn’t even use half of my strength just now. If I used my full strength, then Hei Manor would be destroyed.”
As he said this, his and Wu Ruo’s expressions changed.
If you enjoy my translations, please consider dropping me a one-time tip or joining my monthly recurring membership tier on Ko-fi. Reading the novel chapters without an ad-blocker will also help to support my translations. Thank you!
