After Becoming the Hero's Ex-fiancée

After Becoming the Hero’s Ex-fiancée Chapter 131

A Provocation (3)

But she saw that in those eyes that were still shrouded with sentiment a moment ago, desire was fading rapidly, and in its place was a stretch of extreme iciness. Apart from the boundless cold, there was nothingness.

The stars in the sky all dissipated, and there was no trace of the misty wilderness.

Zheng Wan blinked away the fog in her eyes, and exclaimed, “Cui Wang?”

Cui Wang straightened up and let go of her. In addition to being rumpled, his white robes were stained with suspicious water stains. He cast a cleansing arts over both of them, then stood at one side in silence.

Zheng Wan clutched at the openings of her robes and sat up, and Cui Wang threw an outer robe on her.

“Zheng Wan, you’ve gone too far,” he said.

...It was actually the outer robe she had insisted on putting in his infinity pouch back in the mortal realm.

She thought he would’ve tossed it long ago.

Zheng Wan gathered the openings of her robe together but found that she couldn’t do it up— the gathers had been ripped. Slowly, she tied the outer robe together tightly, and said with a bitter smile, “I’ve come to realise that whenever I do something bad, it’s either I get caught, or something even worse happens.”

Cui Wang did not say a word.

Zheng Wan could only see that those pair of tightly pursed lips showed a sense of fierce resistance, as if holding something back.

“Why aren’t you saying anything?”

Only then did Cui Wang look at her. “I don’t want to.”

“Fine, I’ll admit that I was the one who spiked the wine with peach blossom dew. However, it’s also because I— I had no other choice.”

Zheng Wan bit her lip. Her tender lips had already been violently rubbed by him when he drank the wine earlier, and after what they just did, they were so red as if they could drip blood. Now that she bit down on it, they seemed even more swollen.

The corners of Cui Wang’s lips lifted slightly, “You really have many things you have no choice about.”

“The love gu I placed on you did not only bind you, but also bound me to you. My arts is special—” Zheng Wan took out the translucent leaf of the ‘Non-Emptiness Sutra’ from her sea of consciousness, showing him only a bit of the second stage of the arts while covering the rest. “Look.”

“Besides you, who else can I look for to practice with?” said Zheng Wan with tears in her eyes.

She had taken the opportunity to examine herself internally just now; in that short moment between them, the vital energy in her nineteenth orifice had become much denser than before. With her ice vital roots, as long as Cui Wang was willing to cooperate, her cultivation would definitely improve at lightning speed.

Cui Wang looked at the arts and the corners of his lips twitched.

“Ridiculous.”

He flicked his sleeves and wanted to leave when Zheng Wan stopped him with, “If Zhenjun still wishes to practice closed-door cultivation uninterrupted, it’s best that you just give this some thought.”

“Otherwise, for the sake of my own cultivation, I might use this method every day. I would be in the wrong if that forces Zhenjun to be distracted and come out of seclusion prematurely or end your personal growth.”

“Are you threatening this Zhenjun?”

This was the first time Cui Wang addressed himself as “ Zhenjun” in front of her.

“I wouldn’t dare.” Zheng Wan’s face was pale, but her smile was extremely alluring. “It is unknown when Zhenjun  will break through, and it’s impossible for me to just wait in place. What’s more… There are nine teachings in Buddhism—to train one’s heart with mortal sentiment, and transcend the world by entering it—Zhenjun practises the Way of Impassiveness, yet your emotions have been violent and volatile recently, why not learn from Buddhist teachings and quench your heart with desire to practice impassiveness?”

Cui Wang looked at her.

“What a glib tongue.”

He turned around and left. Just as he was about to step out of the doorway, Zheng Wan suddenly laughed. Her voice was very clear in the quiet and empty night, and in the clarity, there was a trace of bewitching charm, “Is Zhenjun afraid to agree because you’re afraid you’ll fall for me?”

Cui Wang turned back abruptly and looked at her with his dark eyes. The woman had an outer robe wrapped around her and her hairdo was in a mess, yet that made her even more beautiful and charming. After a long time, he suddenly smiled, his eyes curving like crescent moons that have broken through dense clouds, dazzling as anything.

“A provocation?”

“Fine. No. 1, Jingqi Street, Fengwu City. I’ll be waiting there every first and fifteenth of the month.”

Zheng Wan received the round token and when he was about to leave, she grabbed him again. Cui Wang’s brows have already wrinkled into a small mountain range, and looked at her silently, as if he would kill her if she didn’t give a good explanation.

Zheng Wan was not afraid of him at all; she tiptoed and touched his lips with hers.

“The deal’s sealed.”