After Breaking Off the Engagement, I Started Pursuing My Master-Chapter 63 - Quiet

Chapter 63: Quiet

It started to rain on Jiang Huai’s way back to the mountain.

He held up the bamboo umbrella Wen Wanwan had given him, and she accompanied him all the way to the foot of the mountain. When it was time to part, she tugged lightly at Jiang Huai’s sleeve. He understood her gesture, turned around, and gently embraced her.

“Tonight… it’s as if nothing happened, right?”

Wen Wanwan’s chin rested on Jiang Huai’s shoulder, her voice very soft.

Jiang Huai always wondered if this was one of Wen Wanwan’s cunning ploys. When a girl says she wants nothing, that’s usually when she’s the greediest. But he also doubted whether he was being too suspicious.

Sometimes lies and truth don’t seem that important; they become what you’re willing to believe they are.

“If Wanwan wants to remember, then remember it well, I will too,” Jiang Huai’s voice was gentle but firm.

Wen Wanwan paused.

Was this some kind of promise?

“Or maybe it’s better to forget…” Wen Wanwan’s voice grew quieter.

Jiang Huai turned his face, looking at her puzzled, “Why?”

“A secret.” Wen Wanwan refused to tell him the answer, just closing her eyes, her thick eyelashes trembling slightly.

Jiang Huai hesitated for a moment, then leaned in and lightly pecked her lips.

The sound of raindrops pattered on the umbrella.

“Can you tell me now?” Jiang Huai held the umbrella over both their heads, looking into the girl’s beautiful eyes beneath it.

“Because Wanwan knows that Senior Brother Jiang Huai can’t make promises to Wanwan yet. I’m always afraid that Senior Brother Jiang Huai will be troubled and restless because of thinking about today’s events… If we both forget, then we can meet again just like before.”

Wen Wanwan’s slender waist stood straight in the wind.

“So… it’s better to forget, just pretend that tonight I drank too much, and when Wanwan wakes up tomorrow, she’ll remember nothing.”

For a moment, Jiang Huai looked into her beautiful eyes and suddenly wanted to say something serious. Perhaps if he made some promise to Wen Wanwan, her eyes would shine even brighter.

But promises are things that, once spoken, must be kept.

Maybe Wen Wanwan didn’t weigh enough in his heart yet? Or was it because he was too preoccupied with his own concerns?

Jiang Huai didn’t know the answer, but he didn’t want Wen Wanwan to be unhappy.

“Senior Brother Jiang Huai doesn’t have to worry, Wanwan is not unhappy at all,” Wen Wanwan’s voice was serious.

“Wanwan never dared to fantasize that one day she could sit in Senior Brother Jiang Huai’s arms, kiss Senior Brother Jiang Huai, be held tightly by Senior Brother Jiang Huai… So, Wanwan is very content, not the slightest bit disappointed.”

“Wanwan is so considerate,” Jiang Huai said with a mix of laughter and tears.

Had she guessed even this?

“Well, I should go back now…” Wen Wanwan said softly.

Jiang Huai was about to hand her the umbrella, but Wen Wanwan shook her head, “Keep the umbrella, Senior Brother Jiang Huai. I’ll just use my spiritual energy to shield myself.”

She turned and walked a few steps, then suddenly turned back, playfully winking at Jiang Huai.

“If Senior Brother Jiang Huai has the umbrella, then next time it rains, I won’t have to worry needlessly that Senior Brother Jiang Huai didn’t come because of the rain.”

Jiang Huai was taken aback, then smiled, reminding her,

“Be careful on your way.”

“Mmm,” Wen Wanwan nodded obediently.

Jiang Huai stood still, watching her disappear into the distance before turning and slowly walking towards Guangxue Mountain.

Jiang Huai Jr. is hooked.

……

Wen Wanwan returned to her courtyard, entered her room, and gently pushed open the door. Inside, Wen Fufu was holding a script, looked up, stared at Wen Wanwan seriously for a few seconds, then suddenly burst into laughter.

“Come on, tell me, what naughty things were you doing outside just now?” Wen Fufu’s eyes were filled with curiosity.

“Nothing, nothing naughty…”

“Hmm, my sister always acts like this when she’s guilty, her cheeks flush, and her gaze drifts. Come on, tell me, what did you do with Senior Brother Jiang Huai?”

Wen Wanwan went to the bedside, took off her shoes and socks, and flopped onto the bed, burying her face in the pillow.

“I told you, nothing happened.”

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“I don’t believe it, hmm, you’ve got a man and you’ve forgotten your sister, you won’t even tell your sister,” Wen Fufu puffed up her cheeks, climbed onto Wen Wanwan, and started tickling her.

Wen Wanwan, ticklish, couldn’t stop laughing, and the two sisters frolicked on the bed for a while. Wen Fufu’s light gauze garment quietly slipped off, and the room was filled with spring warmth and fragrance.

Wen Wanwan covered her face with her hands, refusing to reveal anything, and Wen Fufu kept pestering her until Wen Wanwan couldn’t resist anymore. She leaned in close to her ear and whispered very softly what she and Jiang Huai had done in the bathhouse.

She thought Wen Fufu would blush, but Wen Fufu just glanced at her.

“Eh, I thought you did something really excessive.”

Wen Wanwan’s eyes suddenly filled with grievance, “Isn’t that excessive?”

“It’s just moving your hands, how is that excessive?”

Wen Fufu lay on the bed, looking at Wen Wanwan’s flushed cheeks, and suddenly laughed again, “Did you lick your fingers clean in front of him?”

“You, you, you!”

Wen Wanwan pounced on Wen Fufu, tickling her, pinning her sister’s fragrant and soft body beneath her, “What are you reading every day!”

“I can’t help it, I can’t go out every day, so I just read scripts to pass the time. There are so many interesting methods in the scripts, sister, do you want to read them together?”

“No,” Wen Wanwan turned away, seemingly very serious.

“Maybe Senior Brother Jiang Huai will like it? Men all seem upright and serious on the surface, but actually, they have a lot of perverted little thoughts deep down. They’re just too proud to say it out loud. Don’t you really want to find out? Maybe if Senior Brother Jiang Huai really likes…”

Wen Wanwan’s hands crossed over her chest relaxed, clearly swayed. Wen Fufu leaned in close, lit the small lamp made of glowing stone on the bedside, and Wen Wanwan looked at the script that happened to be turned to that Chapter, “The Mother-in-law sways her hips, and the son-in-law stands firm in gentle land…” and she blushed, “What are you reading!”

“Oops, that’s not right, let’s change it.”

Wen Fufu took out another script from under the pillow, but this time Wen Wanwan just saw the title “Sisters’ Harmony” and her eyes filled with grievance again.

“No, no, let’s change it again, sister, we can start with something more pure…”

Wen Fufu started to feel a bit guilty.

……

On Guangxue Mountain.

On Jiang Huai’s way back to the mountain, the glowing stones on the mountain were still lit.

The glowing stones usually needed spiritual energy to be activated, and Jiang Huai had no spiritual energy left. He thought he would have to walk a part of the mountain path in the dark, but the lights were bright as day all the way. The stone path paved with green stones was a bit slippery due to the rain, and Jiang Huai, distracted, slipped and fell.

He was distracted because he was still recalling Wen Wanwan’s lips, her body, and those clear, gentle eyes.

Come to think of it, aside from that time he took advantage of Chu Xianning when she was drunk. This was the first time in his life he had seriously kissed a girl.

Even with Luo Qingyu before, he had never kissed her lips, at most just her forehead and cheeks. But why was he so bold with Wen Wanwan? Was it because he was drunk or because he harbored some revengeful thoughts against Chu Xianning?

No, Chu Xianning is Chu Xianning, Wen Wanwan is Wen Wanwan. If he was nice to Wen Wanwan just because he wanted to get back at Chu Xianning, that would be too despicable.

Speaking of which, Jiang Huai realized he really wasn’t good at refusing.

He could firmly refuse Luo Qingyu, probably because Luo Qingyu always had a girlish demeanor in his heart, cute and adorable like a child. Or maybe it was because he knew that once he truly settled down with Luo Qingyu, he would no longer be able to chase the moon, so he hesitated and nothing came of it. But now that his marriage to Luo Qingyu was arranged, he spent the night in another girl’s courtyard, drinking and seeking pleasure…

Jiang Huai Jr., you deserve to die!!!

Jiang Huai had returned to his courtyard, but for a moment, he didn’t want to enter. So he sat down under the locust tree outside the courtyard. This locust tree had been here for many, many years. Every summer, Jiang Huai would pick locust flowers to make egg dishes or locust flower cakes, which Chu Xianning loved to eat.

From a young age, Jiang Huai had always thought of various ways to please Chu Xianning. He didn’t think this was being a Licking Dog. It was Chu Xianning who brought him back to the mountain and gave him a second life. He lived so leisurely and comfortably because of her, so it was only natural for him to be good to Chu Xianning. And other than being good to her, it seemed that he was really too greedy.

(TLN: Licking Dog, someone who is overly subservient or excessively flattering towards someone they are attracted to.)

Chu Xianning took you as her direct disciple and gave you a second life, not so you could spend every day thinking about kissing your master.

She and Luo Yueguan arranged your marriage, and there’s nothing wrong with the marriage, so you shouldn’t harbor any resentment towards Chu Xianning. If you harbor resentment because you can’t get what you want, that’s too dark and despicable.

Jiang Huai, oh Jiang Huai, shouldn’t you start curbing your greed and stop fantasizing?

Jiang Huai sat under the locust tree for a long time, listening to the rain hitting the leaves for a long, long time. He took out the half-jug of Forgetsorrow Wine he had left over from drinking in Wen Wanwan’s courtyard and drank it all by himself. Finally, when no more wine could be poured from the jug, he staggered to his feet. He pushed open the door, and the glowing stones in the courtyard were lit, bright as day.

Chu Xianning, in a thin white dress, had fallen asleep on the stone table in the pavilion.

There was a jar of wine on the table and the Go pieces scattered on the board beside it. Perhaps Chu Xianning had been sitting in the pavilion alone, playing Go with herself. Maybe she was still thinking about the game she lost to Jiang Huai during the day. Maybe she was just bored, or maybe she was secretly cursing Jiang Huai in her heart.

Jiang Huai had been with Chu Xianning for so long, but he could never guess what she was thinking.

The master is drunk and asleep again.

Jiang Huai walked into the pavilion, suddenly hoping for some ringing in his head, but there was none, only the sound of rain hitting the eaves reaching his ears.

The world seemed incredibly quiet.

He took off his clothes.