Chapter 540 - 269: Bad Woman

Chapter 540: Chapter 269: Bad Woman

"Greetings, Venerable Lord." The woman in yellow slightly bowed and saluted, her voice crisp and pleasant, her attitude neither servile nor overbearing.

Chu Xuan nodded lightly, "Yin He sent you?"

"Aside from the matter of Wugen Ping joining the Celestial Alliance, what else did she instruct you?"

The woman in yellow raised her head, "The Mistress asked me to ask you, do you remember her?"

This... of course, Chu Xuan couldn’t say: Excuse me, who are you?

He just smiled calmly and said, "Of course, how could I forget her?"

Saying so, Chu Xuan extended his hand, signaling the woman to present the letter.

The woman in yellow did not deliver it from a distance, but stepped forward, personally handing over a letter scented with a faint fragrance to his hand.

This fragrance must have come from Yin He, for the woman didn’t keep it on her person but just retrieved it from a storage artifact.

The moment Chu Xuan smelled it, he felt some memories start to stir restlessly in his mind.

Oh no! At the moment he received the letter, Chu Xuan knew that this Mistress Yin He must have had a close relationship with him, otherwise his body wouldn’t remember her like this, just by smelling a scent and forming an impression.

In other words, situations like with Little Phoenix, just being close acquaintances, couldn’t reappear; this meant Chu Xuan had to be responsible for yet another woman...

I mean, back in the day, was I really a human-shaped Casanova, getting involved wherever I went?

Chu Xuan hadn’t had time to consider how he should explain this to Qingqing, Haitang, and the others when he noticed the woman before him seemed to be intentionally observing his every move.

Only when their eyes met did she slightly bow her head and retreat step by step.

Chu Xuan sensed that the woman in yellow appeared young, but in fact, possessed a sixth-level cultivation, and it was perfectly polished too, merely stuck before the sky trench unable to progress further, indicating her actual age must not be young.

He wondered... Where did this sense of familiarity come from? Could it be that I have truly met her before?

Chu Xuan secretly knocked on his head, wishing it could remember everything it needed to recall all at once!

He didn’t immediately open the letter to check, but asked the person in the main hall: "What is your name?"

"Leng Yu." The woman answered calmly, her sword-like brows showing no trace of stage fright, seemingly not afraid of the legendary Celestial Evil Demon Venerable at all.

If this really was their first meeting, her psychological resilience was commendable.

As for the name Leng Yu, he had no impression, so Chu Xuan stopped pondering and opened the letter for a look.

On it was written only one line of delicate words:

"Lofty night, vainly keeping the long watch, who knew the beloved is not old, deceived by a sinful kite to the end."

Chu Xuan was a bit surprised, "A Kite’s Mishap."

This was a play he had seen in a previous life, by the same author who wrote "The Plum in the Golden Vase," Li Yu.

Of course, "A Kite’s Mishap" wasn’t that kind of erotic literature; its content was still a love story between a scholar and a young lady, using a kite as a medium to bring about a twisted fate.

It tells of the protagonist Han Qizhong, whose poem on a kite accidentally fell into the courtyard of the second young lady of the Zhan family, who rejoiced upon seeing it and responded with a poem.

After the servant retrieves the kite, Han Qizhong is full of praise for the unseen Zhan family young lady, and begins to admire her, intentionally writing a proposal poem on the kite, deliberately letting it fall back into the girl’s courtyard.

Unexpectedly, the eldest young lady of the Zhan family, who was plain and eager, picked it up this time, and immediately arranged to meet the scholar.

Han Qizhong went happily, only to retreat in horror upon meeting her, fleeing in embarrassment.

Later, Han Qizhong went to the capital for the imperial examination, became the top scholar, and it happened that the Zhan family patriarch was his immediate superior, who happily decided to marry his daughter to him.

Han Qizhong was terrified, trying to refuse repeatedly, but finally couldn’t resist, fearing committing "deceiving the sovereign and disobeying the father crime," and reluctantly complied, groaning inwardly.

On the night of the bridal chamber, he was in distress, until he saw the second young lady of the Zhan family, beautiful as an immortal, and realized the bride was the talented and beautiful woman he had set his sights on, transforming shock into joy, and finally becoming a happy couple.

The line from "A Kite’s Mishap" written by Mistress Yin He for Chu Xuan aims to use "Lofty night, vainly keeping the long watch, who knew the beloved is not old" to express her sentiment.

The first part tells of her waiting through lonely nights; the latter part doubts if Chu Xuan has already changed and is no longer the person he used to be.

Without a doubt, these theatrical lines were taught by Chu Xuan to Yin He back in the day, otherwise she wouldn’t write them to test his feelings.

Chu Xuan gently touched the familiar handwriting on the letter, inexplicably thinking of Li Qiumo from Wuyou Valley, and again recalled his decision to "cherish the one before him."

He then smiled helplessly, carefully put away the letter, and said to Leng Yu, "Your Mistress must have also asked you to relay some other words, right?"

Leng Yu nodded, "The Mistress invites you to meet her at Mist Traveling Boat, right now."

"Alright," Chu Xuan stood up without hesitation, "If I don’t go now, Yin He will be crying and sulking, calling me a heartless man."

Yao Yufei understood immediately upon hearing this—yet another old flame!

She couldn’t help but wonder, how many women did Chu Xuan get involved with back in the day??

Ji Mingyu bit her lip, initially wanting to stop him, but not knowing how to say it, so she resignedly held his hand, planning to go see that woman herself, to discover where her confidence came from.

Unexpectedly, Leng Yu said, "The Mistress asks you to go alone, without bringing anyone."

Ming Yu frowned, and before she could speak, Chu Xuan patted her hand and said, "I’ll be back soon, I shouldn’t stay long, can you wait for me here?"