Chapter 277: 142. Lin Xiao carelessly lost three lives! She surprisingly won in the end! (Seeking subscriptions and monthly tickets)_1
Sacred Beast Garden.
"Yingying, what I’ve just said is everything Eldest Senior Brother wanted to tell you."
"Although Eldest Senior Brother really likes you, my engagement with Sister Yurong has already been announced to the entire sect. Plus, a Master’s orders are hard to defy. This is now an unchangeable fact, ah... sigh," Lin Xiao said with a guilty expression, cradling the little girl’s soft, smooth abdomen and, as usual, inhaling the fragrance of her twin ponytails.
However, what he hadn’t expected was that this time, the girl was surprisingly optimistic!
Uncommonly, she wore no makeup. Her lovely, bare face, as delicate as carved jade, lit up with a bright smile. She even reached out a small hand to pat his shoulder and comforted him, "It’s okay, Eldest Senior Brother! As long as it’s Sister Yurong, there won’t be any problems! Anyway, in the end... you’ll still be Yingying’s, you know~"
"Ah?"
Lin Xiao paused, slightly stunned. He somewhat understood, yet also didn’t quite grasp it.
He saw the little girl give a charming laugh, her hand moving to the hem of her skirt.
Lin Xiao quickly reached out to stop her. "Don’t! Eldest Senior Brother is getting married tomorrow. Let’s... ahem, discuss it another day!"
"Alright, alright, Eldest Senior Brother, you should hurry and prepare for tomorrow’s wedding."
Lu Yingying turned, planted a kiss on her beloved’s lips, then made a funny face and said, "Yingying needs to get busy too~"
"Wait!" Lin Xiao suddenly sensed something was off. "You... you little rascal! After placing Queen Ye’s royal Spirit Steed in the Sacred Beast Garden today, why haven’t you returned to the mountain? What on earth are you up to here in the Sacred Beast Garden?"
"Hehe, Eldest Senior Brother will find out tomorrow~" Lu Yingying winked mischievously. "At Eldest Senior Brother and Sister Yurong’s wedding tomorrow, Yingying will absolutely present a grand gift that will stun everyone, you know!" she added with a final, playful wink.
Although her tone was sweet and charmingly naive, somehow, it made Lin Xiao’s scalp tingle!
He wanted to ask more, but the little girl had already mounted her Lion Hawk Beast, "Meow," and soared away.
Wait, the direction she’s heading is... the Hidden Dragon Pool! The burial site of the eight-clawed White Hornless Dragon, the sect-guarding sacred beast left by the Founder Senior!
"Sigh, with so much going on right now, I just hope this girl doesn’t stir up any trouble," Lin Xiao muttered under his breath.
「Late at night.」
Phoenix Caw Peak. The Chairman’s Grand Hall. Back garden.
A voluptuous woman with her hair in a matron’s bun lay reclined on a jade couch. She wore a thin gauze nightgown, her full yet shapely legs elegantly crossed. In one hand, she held a wine flagon, drinking from it continuously.
"Master, please stop drinking! This is already your tenth jug of Immortal Brew! If you drink any more, even your Nine Heavens Divine Phoenix Body won’t be able to withstand it!" a graceful young woman attending her pleaded anxiously.
"What? Your Uncle Master Xiao can drink, but I, your Master, cannot?" Su Mei snorted, a flicker of jealousy in her alluring, expressive eyes. "Wanning, don’t try to persuade me today. Your Master is in great distress! I won’t stop until I’ve drunk my fill!"
"Master..." Zhu Wanning’s eyes instantly reddened. She asked weakly, "Is Master upset because of Wanning?"
"What else?" Su Mei said coldly. "You child, you’ve always been so competitive since you were little, always striving to be first in everything. Now that Guo Yourong from next door has snatched away your beloved! Why didn’t you make your feelings known today?"
"Not only that, but you... you’re acting as if nothing’s happened! Sigh! I, your Master, truly don’t understand you."
The more Su Mei thought about it, the angrier she became, and she took another large gulp of the strong liquor.
However, she drank too forcefully and couldn’t stop coughing.
Zhu Wanning, however, shook her head. "Master, you only see the surface. Wanning sees into a person’s heart."
"Senior Brother Lin... he has me in his heart!"
"I believe that before the wedding, he will personally come to Wanning and give me an explanation!"
Her beautiful eyes gazed with determination towards Divine Phoenix Peak.
"Nonsense," Su Mei scoffed. "You silly girl. If that man truly had you in his heart, would he agree to marry another woman?"
"That..." Zhu Wanning hesitated briefly, then said resolutely, "Senior Brother Lin... he must have unavoidable difficulties! Besides, Master, you saw the situation today. If Senior Brother Lin hadn’t agreed, how would Junior Sister Yurong have coped? And Uncle Master Xiao had already stepped forward to act as matchmaker. If Senior Brother Lin had refused, how could she, an elder of her standing, maintain her dignity?"
"You..." Su Mei sighed softly. "You silly girl... you’re truly foolish. Have you ever thought that everything he shows you, all his actions in front of you, might just be him deceiving you?"
Zhu Wanning smiled noncommittally, resting her chin in her hands. "If he’s deceiving me, then so be it. It’s like a moth; even knowing it will get burned, it still flies into the flame. Moths are just that foolish."
"You..." Su Mei was utterly speechless. She drained the wine from the jug in one go. After a long moment, she said quietly, "Do you know what makes your Master angriest?"
"What makes your Master angriest is that when I was competing with your Uncle Master Xiao, you, child... were still thinking of others!"
"Are you truly my most beloved disciple?"
As she spoke, the eyes of this voluptuous, mature beauty began to redden.
"I’m sorry, Master..."
Seeing this woman, whom she regarded as a mother, so heartbroken and tearful, Zhu Wanning felt an immense ache in her heart. Not knowing what else to say, she could only embrace her tightly.
This intimate hug from her beloved disciple instantly dispelled much of Su Mei’s anger.
Just as master and disciple were tearfully consoling each other...