Chapter 531 485: Ye Liyuan Meets Nangong Jin Again, Paranoid About Being Cuckolded by Junior Sister Nangong

Junior Sister Nangong had said before that the current Ye Liyuan had forgotten all the bad things she had done. The "villainess defense mechanism" in her mind had also been destroyed in that bloody Thunder Tribulation.

The Ye Liyuan of today was nothing but a delicate, innocent flower.

'So... can I tell Liyuan about the tragedies she caused with her own hands?'

Unsure how to answer, Pei Yuhang fell silent.

Sensing Pei Yuhang's hesitation, the color drained even further from Ye Liyuan's face.

Silence, in itself, was an answer.

"Ah Han, you..."

In the suffocating silence, Pei Yuhang suddenly lifted his head, his gaze shooting toward the distance like a bolt of lightning.

As if sensing something as well, Ye Liyuan abruptly clenched her sleeves, her knuckles turning white from the force.

As a crisp, cool scent of bamboo drifted in on the wind, Ye Liyuan instinctively straightened her back.

"Brother Pei."

A voice as clear and crisp as shattered jade cut through the stagnant air.

With her robes fluttering, Nangong Jin appeared like a Nine Heavens Profound Lady arriving on moonbeams.

Her toes tapped lightly, and the hem of her skirt, embroidered with subtle silver-thread patterns, bloomed in the air like a snow lotus.

As she landed, she gave a slight nod. Her cool eyes swept indifferently over the Dao Companion pair before her, her gaze lingering for a moment longer on Ye Liyuan, who was wearing a white silk eye covering.

"Nangong Jin? What are you doing here!"

Hearing Nangong Jin's calm, cool voice, Ye Liyuan instantly bristled like a cornered cat. It was clear she did not welcome her junior sister to the home she shared with Ah Han.

Nangong Jin stood before the courtyard gate in a simple white dress, its hem fluttering gently in the breeze.

Her expression was indifferent, but when she saw Pei Yuhang, a nearly imperceptible flicker of emotion crossed her eyes.p>

"Senior Sister Ye has been gravely ill. As your junior sister, I had to come and pay you a visit."

"Visit me?"

Ye Liyuan was stunned for a moment, then let out a laugh of pure anger.

'You Fake Fairy, trying to seduce another's Dao Companion! You have improper designs on Ah Han! After you lured him to Guanxian Island, I went to get him back, and you used your higher Cultivation to bully me!'

'And now... you actually have the nerve to say you're here to visit me!'

'This grave illness of mine is all your fault!'

Pei Yuhang watched his Dao Companion in her wheelchair, looking for all the world like she was about to leap up and fight Nangong Jin to the death.

He quickly tried to soothe Liyuan. "Liyuan, why don't you go inside and rest for a bit? I'll talk with Junior Sister Nangong."

"No! Ah Han, what do you two have to talk about behind my back!"

Ye Liyuan shook her head forcefully, absolutely refusing.

"Liyuan... the Sect has given Nangong Jin a very important mission. This is no time for games."

Hearing Pei Yuhang's earnest, heavy tone, Ye Liyuan's expression shifted, a flicker of hesitation finally appearing in her eyes.

'Then Ah Han, that time you hid your whereabouts from me and secretly went to see Nangong Jin, was that also a Sect mission?'

The question rolled around on the tip of her tongue.

Ye Liyuan opened her mouth, but with a swallow, she forced the words back down.

Only a nearly inaudible whimper escaped.

Just as she was about to blurt it out, a terrible thought coiled in her heart like a venomous snake:

'What if... what if I actually find something out?'

'What if the answer pushes Ah Han even further away?'

Even now, Ye Liyuan still had nightmares when she slept, dreaming of that cold, lonely, heavy rain.

Dreaming of the Transmission Token that never received a reply.

'Ah Han will leave me...' Even the slightest possibility of that outcome...

...was something Ye Liyuan absolutely could not accept!

Just thinking about it made it painful to breathe.

She knew that, as she was now, she no longer had the courage to question Ah Han.

Even if he truly had betrayed her, in order to keep Ah Han by her side and maintain their relationship as Dao Companions, all Ye Liyuan could do... was pretend she didn't know.

Fairy Ye, in her wheelchair, suddenly began to cough violently, her frail body trembling like a leaf in the autumn wind.

She clutched Pei Yuhang's sleeve, her fingertips turning blue from the pressure, only slowly relaxing her grip after hearing his gentle, comforting voice.

"...Fine. You two can talk. I'll go rest for a while."

Seeing his Dao Companion choose to back down, Pei Yuhang pressed his lips together and silently pushed her back to her room.

"Liyuan, please wait patiently. I'll be back as soon as I'm done talking with Junior Sister Nangong."

Pei Yuhang knew Ye Liyuan harbored immense hostility toward Nangong Jin.

He thought of his Dao Companion's current weak condition and the senior sister's advice, worried that Ye Liyuan would overthink things and worsen her already poor health.

Ye Liyuan knew Pei Yuhang was worried about her. She tugged his sleeve and said softly,

"It's okay, Ah Han. You... go see Nangong Jin."

Putting on a smile to persuade the man she loved to go see the woman she despised most.

Ye Liyuan herself didn't know what she was feeling at that moment.

Pei Yuhang nodded and walked slowly out the door.

After Pei Yuhang left, Ye Liyuan struggled to push herself up from the wheelchair. She went to the window, quietly opened a crack, and pressed her ear against it, trying to hear what Ah Han was saying to Nangong Jin.

"Junior Sister Nangong, let's talk inside."

"Alright."

After the brief exchange came the sound of footsteps. Behind her white silk eye covering, Ye Liyuan's eyes flew wide open.

'Ah Han actually took Nangong Jin to the room right next to mine!'

In that instant, Ye L's mind went blank with a buzzing sound.

'My Dao Companion and my junior sister... a man and a woman, alone in a room together. What are they planning to do!'

Instantly, all sorts of terrible, obscene thoughts erupted from the depths of her mind like water from a spring.

An image uncontrollably appeared in her mind's eye:

Nangong Jin, the incomparably aloof White-clothed Sword Immortal in front of outsiders, follows Pei Yuhang into the empty room next door. The moment they're inside, her facade of cool indifference instantly vanishes, revealing her true, lewd self as a Fake Fairy.

She lets out a wicked cackle, her tongue darting out to provocatively lick the corner of her lips before she shoves Ye Liyuan's beloved Ah Han against the corner of the wall.

"Brother Pei, that bitch Ye Liyuan hasn't found out about us, has she~?"

Pei Yuhang leans against the corner, his long fingers stroking through Nangong Jin's hair.

"Don't worry, Jin'Er," he says. "My Dao Companion is a complete doormat. Even if she found out I was cheating, she wouldn't dare say a word."

"Oh, that's just wonderful~. Brother Pei, you'd better try to hold back a little later. We wouldn't want to be too loud and agitate my poor Senior Sister Ye, now would we~?"

As Nangong Jin speaks, she reaches out and parts the collar of the White-clothed Sword Immortal, her lustrous fingertips sliding downward—

"No! Absolutely not!!"

The sordid little play in her head was abruptly cut short by Ye Liyuan's sharp cry.

Fairy Ye was panting heavily, her chest heaving like turbulent waves in a storm.

She stumbled toward the wall, her slender, delicate shoulders trembling beneath her thin clothes.

"No... Ah Han wouldn't do that to me."

Ye Liyuan muttered over and over, telling herself that she had to trust Pei Yuhang.

But her body was more honest. She leaned against the wall, pressing her ear tightly to the cold surface, every nerve stretched to its limit, terrified of missing the slightest sound from the next room.

'Ah Han... he wouldn't betray me, right...? I'm just listening. It's not that I don't trust him.'

...

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「In the next room.」

Nangong Jin had just taken a seat when she glanced at the wall behind her.

With a flick of her fingers, she set up a sound-dampening Barrier and said to Pei Yuhang,

"It seems Ye Liyuan doesn't trust me very much."

"..."

Pei Yuhang shook his head with a hint of resignation. He took out a new teacup and passed it to Nangong Jin. As he poured the tea, the swirling steam blurred his slightly furrowed brow.

"Junior Sister Nangong, is there a reason you've come this time?"

"I simply came to see Ye Liyuan out of sect camaraderie, having heard she was gravely ill."

As she spoke, Nangong Jin raised a slender hand, lifted the steaming teacup, and took a sip. A few strands of her black hair slipped from her shoulder, appearing and disappearing in the steam.

"Could it be that Brother Pei doesn't welcome me either?"

Pei Yuhang looked at the perfectly serious Nangong Jin. He knew that, as a practitioner of the Forgetfulness Dao, she wasn't joking. If he were to say she was unwelcome, Nangong Jin would certainly never associate with him again.

He could only let out a soft sigh and say, "Of course I welcome you, Junior Sister Nangong. But Liyuan's body is very weak right now, and she's emotionally unstable... I'm afraid that seeing you would be too much for her."

Hearing this, Nangong Jin remained noncommittal and said nothing.

It was as if she didn't care at all what Ye Liyuan might think upon seeing her.

Sunlight cast the swaying shadows of the bamboo outside between the two of them.

Nangong Jin looked up at Pei Yuhang, and a flicker of nearly imperceptible emotion crossed her usually placid eyes.

"Brother Pei, you can't seem to get through a sentence without mentioning Ye Liyuan now."

"That day, you told me you were coming back to make a clean break with Ye Liyuan... but from the looks of it now, you can't bring yourself to do it."

"Does Brother Pei need Jin'Er to help you?"