After Breaking Off the Engagement, I Started Pursuing My Master-Chapter 55 - Blowing Bubbles

Chapter 55: Blowing Bubbles

The night was long.

Jiang Huai glared at Luo Yueguan reproachfully.

Despite being over six hundred years old, she always acted disrespectfully in front of him. Where was the semblance of an elder at this moment?

Luo Yueguan was leaning back in her chair, her legs resting on the stool Jiang Huai had brought over. The bright light shone on her smooth skin, and the cold medicinal liquid touched her flesh, releasing a faint mist.

“This is the last time for acupuncture. Because we need to completely kill the stubborn cold poison, it’s really going to hurt this time. I’m not teasing you; you’ll have to endure it,” Jiang Huai reminded Luo Yueguan softly before starting.

“Okay,” Luo Yueguan responded softly.

Jiang Huai picked up the silver needle, and as soon as the first needle went in, he heard Luo Yueguan’s very soft grunt.

He turned his head to look at Luo Yueguan’s eyes. Her expression didn’t seem to change much, but a layer of sweat had already appeared on her forehead.

The cold spirit poison in her body was like a festering sore. It should be very painful, but Luo Yueguan didn’t really show it, nor did she scream as Jiang Huai had anticipated.

In an instant, Jiang Huai realized that Luo Yueguan had endured many hardships over her years of cultivation.

What was this pain to her?

He couldn’t really treat her like a little girl just because she had acted like one earlier.

Jiang Huai quickly picked up the second silver needle and gently inserted it into her body. Cold qi began to emerge from the needle, and his hand trembled slightly.

Luo Yueguan was momentarily stunned, “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing,” Jiang Huai shook his head.

The cold spirit poison had developed intelligence, knowing that it was him who had been thwarting it. When Jiang Huai completely removed the cold spirit poison, it began trying to burrow into his body. This act actually amused Jiang Huai.

His body didn’t have spiritual energy to sustain these cold spirit poisons. In a couple of days, those that entered his body would starve to death. It was just that he would have to suffer from the cold poison.

He quickly began to administer the third and fourth needles. Luo Yueguan at most just grunted softly, never crying out in pain. Her eyes were always on the serious Jiang Huai, not speaking to disturb him.

And she could clearly feel that with each needle, her body gradually became a bit warmer. This warmth made her feel especially uncomfortable. She had been used to the cold for hundreds of years, sometimes feeling like a cold-blooded snake with cold blood and a cold heart.

But the growing warmth in her body now felt so foreign.

Jiang Huai continued to administer the needles seriously, his complexion paler than before, even his lips seemed to have a slight purple tinge. Luo Yueguan felt an indescribable pain in her heart,

“Why don’t you… stop for a while, and continue the needles tomorrow night?”

“Strike while the iron is hot. If we don’t solve this in one go, it will be troublesome later,” Jiang Huai said softly, inserting another needle.

Luo Yueguan’s body trembled slightly.

Clearly, it was very painful when the needle went in, but she seemed not to be afraid at all, as if just by looking into those eyes, everything else was pushed to the back of her mind.

“Jiang Huai.”

“Hmm?”

“I have a question for you.”

“Two more needles, then you can ask.”

Jiang Huai looked at Luo Yueguan’s feet in his line of sight, gently piercing her soles with the silver needle. Luo Yueguan’s toes curled up, and her calves trembled slightly, seemingly spasming from the pain.

“The last needle.”

Jiang Huai picked up the last needle and inserted it. As the cold spirit poison quietly moved from the needle into his body, Luo Yueguan’s cold poison was completely removed by him. He turned to look into Luo Yueguan’s eyes, and she seemed tired from the pain.

“Does it still hurt?” he asked.

“Much better.”

“Wait a little while, and it won’t hurt once I remove the needles. What did you want to ask me?” Jiang Huai asked softly.

“Why… why are you so kind to me?” Luo Yueguan asked earnestly.

The question made Jiang Huai somewhat amused and exasperated, “Shouldn’t I be kind to you?”

“I can’t think of any reason why you should be kind to me, especially after how I treated you before.”

“Because you’re the good friend of my master. Besides, you were quite nice to me when I was a child. I remember when I wanted to learn sword casting, you gave me a lot of materials for it. And when I got into trouble at the foot of the mountain, you happened to be nearby and supported me, didn’t you? I remember all of that.”

“Is it just because of that?”

“What else?” Jiang Huai blinked innocently.

“Isn’t that enough?”

“Has your master ever taught you that being too kind can lead to being taken advantage of?”

“Just need to keep things in moderation.”

Jiang Huai didn’t consider himself a pushover, but often if he could lend a hand with little effort, he was willing to do so. The incessant beeping of the system in his head sometimes filled him with an inexplicable fear.

What if one day he couldn’t suppress his evil thoughts and desires?

Would he become a ruthless demon under the system’s influence?

“Why do you look so pale?”

“The poison spirits have hidden inside my body, it’s a bit cold… But in a couple of days, they’ll realize there’s not a shred of spiritual energy in me to feed on, and they’ll starve to death.” Jiang Huai’s body shivered.

Shivered from the cold.

A bone-chilling cold.

He suddenly felt a bit embarrassed. Luo Yueguan had endured much colder temperatures than him without showing any pain, and here he was, shivering after only absorbing a fraction of it.

Apart from the cold, his head was buzzing, a sign that his soul was slightly overexerted. Fortunately, he only needed some rest to recover. Luo Yueguan suddenly reached out, her slender, pale hand gently touching his cheek.

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“Hm?” Jiang Huai was taken aback.

Luo Yueguan’s eyes were fixed on him, silent, just gazing at him for a while, “I owe you a favor, Jiang Huai.”

“It’s nothing, don’t worry about it.”

“But I hate owing favors to people in my life.”

“Heh, weren’t you just saying earlier today that you’re a selfish and ungrateful woman?”

Jiang Huai replied playfully, but in the next second, Luo Yueguan lifted her legs, her calves swiftly moving to his chest, her toes lightly pressing against his chest.

“What are you doing?”

Jiang Huai reached out to grab her ankle, intending to move her leg away, but Luo Yueguan’s toes teasingly slid down, gently brushing against his abdomen.

“Do you want me…. to serve you with my feet?”

Her eyes were seductive and enchanting.

Unfortunately, Jiang Huai’s face did not show the embarrassment and panic Luo Yueguan expected. He looked at her expressionlessly for a moment, then grabbed her ankle and put her leg aside.

“Why do you always tease a pure-hearted young man like me?”

As soon as he said this, the atmosphere was completely ruined. Luo Yueguan, her chest trembling with anger, was at a loss for what to do with him.

“If you really want to thank me, I’m more interested in the little secrets about my master,” Jiang Huai said, looking at Luo Yueguan expectantly.

“Do you think I would tell you now?”

“…It seems impossible.”

“Good to know,” Luo Yueguan scoffed.

Just as Jiang Huai was about to go back to bed for a good night’s sleep, he realized that his limbs had become somewhat stiff, making it difficult to move.

He struggled to move his lips, “Help me, take me to the bed, I can’t move.”

Luo Yueguan came over and realized his body was as cold as ice. If it weren’t for his cultivation of the Immaculate Golden Body, he might have already frozen to death here. She knew how to handle this situation, picked up Jiang Huai, and headed to the bathhouse in the backyard.

“What for?”

“Soaking in the spiritual spring of Blazing Fire Spirit Jade will help.”

“Oh…”

So Jiang Huai didn’t struggle anymore, mainly because he couldn’t even if he wanted to. He was carried to the backyard bathhouse by Luo Yueguan, who began to undress him. Jiang Huai felt awkward.

“Can you leave one piece on, please?”

“Is the little boy shy now?”

Jiang Huai’s face turned red, but he really couldn’t resist Luo Yueguan, who proceeded to strip off his clothes one by one. Then she dragged him into the bath. The array in the spiritual spring was activated by her, and Jiang Huai felt his body gradually warming up.

Luo Yueguan sat on the steps of the bath, her slender hand supporting her cheek, gazing unblinkingly at Jiang Huai in front of her.

“Can you stop staring at me?” Jiang Huai spoke with a sense of grievance.

Seeing his embarrassed look, Luo Yueguan laughed even more joyfully, “I used to bathe with you when you were a child, remember?”

Luo Yueguan entered the bath, and Jiang Huai watched her approach from behind, scooping up water from the spiritual spring with a wooden ladle and pouring it over him. Luo Yueguan, who was slightly too close, inadvertently brushed her chest against his back, and her breath fell on his neck, causing Jiang Huai Jr. to become restless.

“What are you doing?”

Luo Yueguan held a piece of Blazing Fire Spirit Jade in her hand, placing it against Jiang Huai’s back and gently moving it around, whispering,

“Blazing Fire Spirit Jade can suppress the cold poison to some extent.”

“I can do it myself…”

“Can you even move your hands?”

Jiang Huai tried to lift his hands, but they were indeed stiff from the cold, so he stopped struggling and stood still, feeling… as if a mother was bathing her child.

Perhaps in Luo Yueguan’s eyes, he really was just a little kid.

Jiang Huai’s embarrassment faded until Luo Yueguan stood in front of him, looked down at him, and then flicked Jiang Huai Jr. with her finger.

Jiang Huai, infuriated, was about to explode, but Luo Yueguan had already swum away, laughing so hard she couldn’t straighten up.

“Hmm? Who made you swell up so much? Aunt Luo is washing your body, and yet you harbor lustful thoughts towards Aunt Luo. You deserve a punishment,” Luo Yueguan said, hands on her hips, looking self-righteous.

……

In the bathhouse.

Luo Yueguan, in a black dress, sat on the edge of the bath, her legs swaying in the water. She looked at Jiang Huai, who had buried his entire body in the bath, refusing to show even his head, and continued to tease.

“Hmm? Are you angry now? So petty.”

Jiang Huai indicated he didn’t want to deal with her and splashed water in her face.

This woman had no sense of shame!

Luo Yueguan swayed her white legs, “Alright, alright, don’t be angry. What if I tell you your master’s secret?”

Jiang Huai buried his head in the water, ignoring her, just blowing bubbles.

He didn’t want to deal with her!