Chapter 017 “This fiancé thing” (05/09)
“Ah-Jin, have you ever loved someone?”
At Xie Chenyang’s words, Wei Jin’s brows furrowed slightly. This person wouldn’t be about to start talking to him about his feelings for that Demonic Sect spy, would he?
“No.” So there’s no reason to ask me about feelings.
Xie Chenyang’s hand on Wei Jin’s waist couldn’t help but gently caress it. “I had never been in love before either until I met you.”
Wei Jin’s heart skipped a beat.
Xie Chenyang remembered the events of the last world and closed his eyes. “When your sword pierced through that wall and carved a door, it was at first sight that I realized what love was.”
A love that was lost and then found.
Wei Jin’s hand soothing him on the back froze slightly. He should scold Xie Chenyang for being impulsive. On the contrary, he could hear the genuine affection in his tone.
“Ah-Jin, that kiss when I woke up on that day… I didn’t mistake you for anyone; rather, I couldn’t help myself,” Xie Chenyang said softly. “I haven’t been that intimate with anyone else besides you, so how could I ever think of you as someone else.”
“Then that Demonic Sect traitor…”
“I didn’t do anything with him! Nothing happened between me and him that night; it was only because he purposefully staged himself in that manner, and afterward I was even less close to him.”
Wei Jin’s throat was a little dry.
“Wanting to talk to you all night long is fake, wanting to sleep with you in the same bed is real.” Xie Chenyang’s grip on his waist tightened. “In your view, we have known each other for only a few days, but in my view, a single glance lasts 10,000 years. Ah-Jin, I sincerely mean every word that I’m saying; do you trust me?”
Although he was coached by the system to say certain words, these feelings indeed originated from his heart. It was just that his sincerity was helpfully paraphrased into words by the system.
Wei Jin’s heart was a bit disoriented. There was no denying that Xie Chenyang’s blade skills had amazed him that night. And after he went back and saw the way he had collapsed in his arms covered in blood, it was something that he couldn’t help but feel pity for.
Yes, pity.
When Wei Jin had carried him on their journey and his fellow disciples had tried to carry him instead, he hadn’t cared that they had injuries; rather, he simply hadn’t wanted to. He thought about how he wouldn’t have felt the same emotions if he had instead been Ah-Fo.
If a longtime friend and companion were unable to achieve this, why would a person he had just met do so? Wei Jin wasn’t someone who couldn’t even face his own heart honestly. That was why he knew that he’d developed feelings from amazement to compassion for this person who had suffered.
“Ah-Jin, I shouldn’t have been so abrupt.” Xie Chenyang slightly tilted his head and kissed Wei Jin on the ear. “But I don’t want to wait. One more day of waiting means one less day of spending time with you, and I love you. For the rest of your life, would you like to spend it with me?”
“I’m willing–” Wei Jin hadn’t even finished speaking when Xie Chenyang couldn’t help but hold his face and kiss him on the lips.
A breeze brushed by, fluttering their clothes, as their hair danced in the air.
Finally being able to embrace his lover again, Xie Chenyang was so excited that his core grew hot1😉🍆.
Wei Jin was surprised at his familiarity and suspected that his earlier statement of never having been intimate with anyone else was a lie, but gradually became immersed in the lingering sensation of his love-filled kiss.
The kiss ended.
Xie Chenyang gently wiped the corners of Wei Jin’s lips, looking at his blank and relaxed face; his eyes were smiling and contained a seductive warmth.
[He is still the same. His ears are red, but his face still has an indifferent and cold façade.]
System: “This is called Expression Management; you should learn it.”
[Heh, that’s because you haven’t seen his expressions when he’s passionate with me.]
System: “Why would I want to see that?”
[You are not allowed to see, of course. He is my lover, I alone can see him like that… your mosaic mechanism is perfect.]
Xie Chenyang tugged on Wei Jin’s hand. “Come back to the sect with me; otherwise every time I want to see you, I have to climb the mountain. It’s rather tiring.”
Wei Jin’s voice was faint: “Very fatigued?”
Xie Chenyang nodded honestly.
“Then you don’t have to come to me.” Wei Jin jerked his hand away and disappeared back into his cabin.
Xie Chenyang baffledly watched his trip: [Why is he angry?]
System: “Hah?”
[Good System.]
System: “Just now in that sort of situation you should instead have said, ‘I wouldn’t be too tired to come and see you, even if I had to go through a mountain of daggers and fire! But I want to be with you at all times, so come back with me, okay?’ Or something like that.”
What’s wrong with being honestly tired? Xie Chenyang tugged at his hair: [So troublesome, ah; it’s just plain tired, ah.]
System: “So if he’s not willing to go back to the sect with you, you’d stop coming to see him because you’re tired from climbing the mountain?”
[No, ah. Although it’s tiring if he doesn’t want to go down, I’ll definitely still have to come and see him.]
“Then it’s not.” Ugh, human hearts are so hard to understand anyway.
Then his host ran into the house, picked up Wei Jin, and ran down the mountain.
“Xi Yang!”
Xie Chenyang: “I want to see you every moment; just come back with me.”
“Let go of me. I’ll walk by myself.”
“Really?” Xie Chenyang put down Wei Jin. Wei Jin turned around and headed back up the mountain.
Xie Chenyang’s eyes widened as he attempted to catch him. Wei Jin avoided his hand. “Wait here for me while I go back to get my sword and luggage.”
Xie Chenyang: “Oh.”
After receiving their hero invitations, all the sects, despite their differences, had their men packed up and ready to move out.
The first thing Xie Chenyang did after bringing Wei Jin back to the Sabre Sect was to call the disciples to him. “This is Wei Jin, my spouse. From today onwards, he is the Sabre Sect’s other master, and you should treat him as you would me.”
The disciples only paused momentarily before calling out in unison, “Second Master!”
Wei Jin had saved their lives, and they didn’t have a bad impression of him. They were happy to hear that he was going to be with their Master. At one point, they had worried in their hearts that the Master would not be able to let go of that spy from the Demonic Sect and would fall for his tricks again.
Now that the Master had been able to find love elsewhere; it couldn’t have worked out better!
Wei Jin noticed the expectations in his new disciples’ eyes and was speechless: “…”
Disciples: Jiā yóu2加油 / jiā yóu to add oil to top up with gas to refuel to accelerate abbr. for 加大油門|加大油门[jia1 da4 you2 men2] to step on the gas fig. to make an extra effort fig. to cheer sb on, Second Master! Please be sure to lock the Master down; don’t let him be deceived away!
“Oh? Isn’t Ah-Yang my fiance?” A soft voice sounded from behind the group.
Xie Chenyang turned around and saw Ruan Zhou’s gentle face. The two disciples from White Crane Valley beside him lowered their heads, not letting their emotions show.
Wei Jin glanced at Xie Chenyang thoughtfully.
Xie Chenyang felt a chill run down his spine. “I’m not! We aren’t! That was just a childhood joke!”
“My mother and auntie had already agreed on it, so it wasn’t a joke,” Ruan Zhou said with a sigh. “You all go on ahead.” The disciples from the White Crane Valley who were following Ruan Zhou glared at Xie Chenyang before heeding their young master’s order and retreating.
Wei Jin cast a glance at Ling Yi. Ling Yi quickly understood and, with a wave of his hand, led the disciples of the Sabre Sect away as well. Soon, there were only three people left in the courtyard.
Ruan Zhou gazed at Xie Chenyang’s irritable and annoyed eyes and said helplessly, “Are you that anxious that you can’t wait until we’ve left before announcing this?”
Xie Chenyang said, baffled, “Why should I wait until you’ve left before announcing that Ah-Jin and I are together?”
Ruan Zhou let out a light sigh and said, “In what capacity do you think I brought the disciples of the White Crane Valley here to collect the bodies of the people of the Sabre Sect?”
Ruan Zhou shook his head. “If it weren’t for the engagement between you and me, the alliance between our two sects, why would my disciples be willing to… Otherwise, wouldn’t it be an unwarranted invasion?”
You’d think he was coveting the Sabre Sect if you didn’t know. Despite this disaster, the Sabre Sect was once the number one sect in Jianghu. A skinny camel is still bigger than a horse3A lean camel is bigger than a horse is a common saying , which means that even a starved camel is bigger than a horse. It also means that people who are particularly good at something are better than those who are new to this field even if they suddenly become poor in this field. — Baidu; no one knows if the Sabre Sect still had any hidden reserves.
Xie Chenyang: “I thought it was because of the friendship between our two sects…” But on second thought the famous Sabre Sect and White Crane Valley did not have a deep friendship. It had only been due to his illness that his family sought help from White Crane Valley. After that, their mothers had exchanged letters, but purely as a personal friendship between the two women.
So, as soon as Xie Chenyang said this, he knew that it was not right.
“My mother was very worried after she heard that the Famous Sabre Sect had been attacked and overrun by the Demonic Sect,” Ruan Zhou said with a bitter smile. “And she came up with this absurd idea of asking me to bring reinforcements.” White Crane Valley had always shunned conflict and stayed out of the Jianghus’ struggles. Without a reasonable justification, they would never have come to the Sabre Sect to clean up the mess.
Xie Chenyang didn’t understand these social-political twists and turns very well. In his mind, as long as his fist was big enough, anything was possible. However, the remaining people in his villa were numbered in the twenties, so he came up with the idea of gathering other orthodox practitioners to attack the Demonic Sect together.
On the way back, he’d been prepared to take his disciples and work hard to collect the bodies. When he saw that everything had been handled in an orderly manner by the White Crane Valley, he was grateful and thought hard about how to repay the first clan to offer a helping hand. But, before he could come up with an idea, he learned that they had helped for such a reason.
“I am deeply grateful for your help and sincerely apologize for failing to understand the situation and causing you to lose face.” In the eyes of the disciples of the White Crane Valley, he must be a scumbag who uses people and then discards them. Sigh.
Ruan Zhou: “I was the one who didn’t make it clear. I thought you had understood my hints.”
Xie Chenyang: “Huh? There were hints?”
Ruan Zhou: “…” His gaze became somewhat complicated. “I thought that either my display of familiarity and intimate address when we first met, or in the mountains back where I said that a family doesn’t need to be polite with each other…are both considered hints.”
They hadn’t seen each other in years, and for Ruan Zhou to come up and be so intimate–he thought Xie Chenyang knew what was going on. “It’s me who didn’t make it clear. I should have approached you privately to discuss this.” Ruan Zhou shook his head. “Now that it’s over, let’s not talk about this.”
Xie Chenyang: [Really? System, did you catch his hints?”]
System: “Huh? Didn’t I say when we first met that he’s your fiancé, hahaha.”
Xie Chenyang: [Wasn’t that you joking!?]
System: “… ” It was indeed then.
Wei Jin coughed and said, “Well, given the circumstances, I’ll…”
Xie Chenyang grabbed his hand. “No, stay with me.”
Ruan Zhou sighed lightly. “I will talk to my disciples and explain to them that our marriage contract is no longer valid. We’ll stay afterward in the capacity of accepting the heroes‘ invitation and attending the heroes’ conference.”
Xie Chenyang was moved. “Thank you; you’re truly a good person!”
Ruan Zhou’s eyes turned apologetic. “However, after this, they may be a bit less civil, so please be patient with them, Master Xie.”
Xie Chenyang nodded his head nonchalantly. “I understand.” After all, in their eyes, he had been a scum to their Young Master of the Valley, ah.
Ruan Zhou: “Well, then I will leave the two of you alone.”
Seeing his back, Xie Chenyang exclaimed, “For your generous assistance, I will send a gift of thanks befitting you!”
With a wave of his hand, Ruan Zhou was gone.
Xie Chenyang then looked at Wei Jin’s grim face and leaned on him. “As you can see, I honestly don’t have that kind of relationship with him.”
Wei Jin lowered his head. “What kind of thank you gift do you intend to send?”
White Crane Valley was quick to collect the corpses and organize the funeral arrangements for the fallen members of the Sabre Sect, and the amount of financial resources and manpower spent was not your average favor.
“Don’t worry, I have an idea.”
Thinking that perhaps the Famous Sabre Sect had some grand gift that could satisfy White Crane Valley, Wei Jin did not ask much.
After that, the disciples of White Crane Valley made themselves into guests, and all of them settled into a side courtyard; those who had no room to do so directly withdrew back to White Crane Valley. The Famous Sabre Sect was left without staff, and only the twenty-one remaining disciples were made to work together and became incredibly busy.
Krone: somehow, I’m worried about this idea xD
Edit: Krone
Proofreader: Choux_choux
