After Breaking Off the Engagement, I Started Pursuing My Master-Chapter 37 - I can walk on my own

Chapter 37: I can walk on my own

“Where, where is that…”

In reality, Jiang Huai’s little thoughts could never be hidden from Chu Xianning. Previously, he had often sneaked peeks at her feet in the courtyard, and she had gotten used to wearing shoes just to spite him. These things were just unspoken understandings.

But now that Chu Xianning had brought it up, Jiang Huai’s forehead started sweating profusely.

“Is that not so?” Chu Xianning asked knowingly.

“Of course not!”

iang Huai straightened his back, “It’s just because everything about Master is beautiful, so I like it all.”

“So you want to take advantage of me?”

“That’s not true, my feelings for Master are purely filial.”

“You’d better be.” Chu Xianning glanced at Jiang Huai faintly.

Jiang Huai thought he had no hope of showing his filial piety anymore, but unexpectedly, Chu Xianning slowly lifted her long leg, revealing her calf wrapped in thin white silk stockings, the slender arc fully visible.

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Jiang Huai understood Chu Xianning’s intention in the next second, reached out to gently grasp her ankle, slipped off her high heel, and placed it neatly aside.

Her foot, wrapped in white silk, seemed to be veiled in a layer of hazy gauze. Chu Xianning’s toes seemed to stretch unconsciously, making the already sheer tip of the stocking even more transparent. Jiang Huai’s hands trembled as they touched it, feeling as if they were electrified.

Jiang Huai felt something was odd.

Why was Master so generous today?

To say that Chu Xianning truly believed in his filial piety, even Jiang Huai himself didn’t believe it. But at this moment, what he was holding in his hand was Master’s white silk foot. He had been craving his Master for a long time.

Last night he could touch it, and today he could even massage it?

Could it be that Master actually remembered that night he kissed her and was preparing to send him off, letting him enjoy something good before death?

With a nervous heart, Jiang Huai began to massage Chu Xianning’s foot, but gradually all his nervousness was thrown to the back of his mind, because Chu Xianning’s foot was white, fragrant, soft, and smooth.

Hehehehe.

When Luo Qingyu finished washing the dishes and came out of the kitchen, she saw Jiang Huai showing his filial piety to Chu Xianning. Her lips pouted slightly, and she quietly sat down on the chair next to Jiang Huai, whispering,

“What is Brother Jiang Huai doing?”

Chu Xianning’s cheeks showed no hint of shy blush, utterly indifferent.

And Jiang Huai replied confidently, “These shoes can be slightly uncomfortable to walk in, I’m massaging Master’s feet.”

“Oh…”

Luo Qingyu nodded obediently.

After a while, Chu Xianning withdrew her slender leg and said indifferently, “That’s enough.”

So Jiang Huai put her shoes back on for her, the shoe tips gleaming with a sharp cold light. Jiang Huai still couldn’t figure out why Chu Xianning was so generous today.

Unfortunately, after Chu Xianning put her shoes back on, she stood up and returned to her room.

Jiang Huai then turned to Luo Qingyu, winked at her, and took out a soft tape measure.

“Come on, let’s measure your foot, and I’ll make you some pretty shoes when I have time.”

Luo Qingyu obediently placed her leg on his.

.......

After coaxing Luo Qingyu to sleep, Jiang Huai walked out of her room. In the courtyard, Chu Xianning held a thin sword, piercing the air with sword flowers.

Sharp and graceful.

Petal Fairy Chu Xianning was already an eighth realm cultivator, but she still practiced swordsmanship frequently. Jiang Huai had been learning the sword from her since he was six years old, and after many years, he didn’t have such a deep obsession with the Way of the Sword.

The sword can cut through everything, but it cannot cut through coldness and loneliness.

“Where is your sword?”

Chu Xianning stopped her sword practice and asked him indifferently.

“I lent it to a friend down the mountain. That friend goes exploring various secret realms every day, so I lent it for self-defense.”

“I guess it’s a woman.”

“How did you guess?”

“If it were a man, you might not be willing to lend it.”

Jiang Huai’s mouth twitched slightly, okay, the fact was indeed so.

“Master.” Jiang Huai suddenly thought of something, looking at Chu Xianning’s cool eyes.

“Master looks exceptionally beautiful today, I want to paint a portrait of you.”

“You’re not focusing on the essentials.”

“Anyway, I don’t need to cultivate now, so what are the essentials?”

While saying this, Jiang Huai took out his easel. He was better at ink painting and knew some oil painting as well.

His painting skills were originally just average, but the first time he painted Chu Xianning, she complained that it was too ugly, so he reflected deeply and directly exchanged for high-level painting skills from the system store.

In an instant, he comprehended and reached the realm of a painting saint.

As he spoke, he stood in front of the easel and, after a moment of serious thought, winked at Chu Xianning,

“Would Master be willing to stand under that peach tree?”

Chu Xianning glanced at him disdainfully, a hint of reluctance seeming to surface in her eyes, but she still walked to the peach tree. It was late spring, and the peach blossoms were almost gone, with only a few lonely flowers still blooming.

Jiang Huai, afraid that Chu Xianning would lose patience, painted quickly. In less than the time it took for two sticks of incense to burn, he finished his painting.

Chu Xianning came over to look at the woman in the painting, her eyes seemingly smiling.

“I’m not smiling,” Chu Xianning said indifferently.

“It feels like Master is in a good mood today.”

“Do you know what day it is today?” Chu Xianning suddenly asked.

Jiang Huai was taken aback.

“It’s not Master’s birthday today.”

He remembered Chu Xianning’s birthday very clearly, as he racked his brains every year to pick out gifts for her. Chu Xianning glanced at him and said,

“Today is the day I brought you back from the mountain thirteen years ago.”

Jiang Huai suddenly realized and chuckled.

“How does Master remember such a day?”

“I just happened to think of it. Back then, you were much more likable than you are now.”

“So I’m not likable to Master now?” Jiang Huai felt even more aggrieved.

“Yes,” Chu Xianning answered bluntly.

“Feeling wronged.”

Jiang Huai looked at Chu Xianning, wanting to cry without tears.

Didn’t she know how much her few words could hurt him?

He felt like crying.

“Meeting Master in this lifetime is the happiest thing for me,” Jiang Huai said softly, looking at Chu Xianning’s face.

“You’re too greedy,” Chu Xianning said out of the blue.

“Am I?”

“Yes.”

“I was greedy when I was a child too. I used to love to act spoiled and ask Master to hold me. I liked the feeling of being held by Master, warm and soft, but as I grew up, Master refused to hold me anymore. It’s not that I became greedier as I grew older; it’s that Master became stingier.”

“You’re good at playing the victim.”

Jiang Huai took out his treasured peach blossom wine from his storage ring, hoping to change the subject, and looked at Chu Xianning.

“On such a memorable day, how about we, master and disciple, have a few drinks?”

Chu Xianning did not refuse, simply walking silently to the pavilion, and Jiang Huai quickly followed.

After setting up the wine cups, he also took out some snacks to accompany the drink.

Chu Xianning didn’t like to talk while drinking. To be precise, she didn’t like to talk at any time, so her courtyard always seemed cold and quiet. Her tolerance for alcohol had always been mediocre, and after just two cups of peach blossom wine, her usually cool cheeks began to show a faint blush.

Jiang Huai drank quietly too, but only because he was following Chu Xianning’s silence. He popped a fried peanut into his mouth, his gaze unwaveringly fixed on Chu Xianning’s pale cheeks.

But at this moment, his mind was filled with wicked thoughts. If Chu Xianning got drunk again, could he sneak another taste of her sweet lips?

Indeed, once there is a first time, there is likely a second.

Wicked thoughts quietly take root in the heart.

“When I took you up the mountain that year, I didn’t plan to take you as a direct disciple,” Chu Xianning suddenly said.

Jiang Huai was startled.

“I just wanted to bring you back to the sect and send you to another mountain to cultivate. But at that time, you… clung to me like a debt collector. Whenever I asked you which mountain you liked, you would hold onto my legs and refuse to let go, saying you wanted to follow me for life.”

Jiang Huai couldn’t help but laugh and cry at the same time.

As a child, he really was like a debt collector, relying on his cuteness to act spoiled around Chu Xianning every day. The usually cold Chu Xianning apparently had a maternal glow, and in the end, she chose to keep him by her side.

“I originally thought that after you married Luo Qingyu, I would let you move to her place. But then you lost your cultivation, and I always wonder if I owed you something in my past life that I must repay in this life.”

Chu Xianning’s voice seemed slightly annoyed, and Jiang Huai was amused.

Chu Xianning picked up a cup of wine, brought it to her lips, and drank it down. Gradually, her body softened, and she leaned on the table, her cool eyes slightly blurred. At this moment, Chu Xianning inexplicably seemed a bit adorable.

“I’ll kick you.”

Chu Xianning’s white silk-clad foot suddenly kicked Jiang Huai’s leg under the table.

“If Master feels wronged, then kick a few more times.”

“You think I won’t dare?”

As she spoke, her foot kicked him several more times under the table, each time very lightly. Jiang Huai could hardly hold back his laughter and eventually gently caught Chu Xianning’s leg.

“Alright, alright, no more…”

Before he could finish his sentence, Chu Xianning’s other foot inadvertently stepped between his legs.

It’s over!

Jiang Huai hurriedly grabbed her ankle and lifted that leg as well.

If Chu Xianning knew that a single step from her could excite him, it would be completely over!

“Alright, alright, we’ve had enough to drink, let’s go to sleep?”

Jiang Huai let go and moved in front of her. Chu Xianning was still leaning on the table, her voice lazy.

“I don’t want to move.”

“I’ll carry you.”

“No, you’ll just take advantage of me.”

“How would I dare to take advantage of Master?”

“You wouldn’t dare?”

Chu Xianning looked up, her eyes staring straight at his face for several seconds, then turned her face away and stood up.

“Anyway, I don’t want you to carry me, I can walk on my own.”