4456-4474 Meeting Leng7

Entry 4459 Chapter 4456 冷家2

4456 SL is no longer poor. Now that she’s attained greater authority within the Apothecary Association, SL can use most resources free of charge. Of course, she still needs Vice President Mi’s permission for the most expensive items. It’s just that now that SL’s helped solve their financial problem, how can they refuse her requests? Because of that, SL often goes to the Apothecary Association to gather materials to refine poisons for her little black cat.
One day, SL’s jewel rings. It’s from Tang Yalan so SL picks up. The one who answers is not Tang Yalan but Murong Mo’s familiar voice.
“Hey Su Luo, very presumptuous of me to disturb you.” Murong Mo sounds very happy.
SL frowns. For something to make Murong Mo this happy, presumably, it’s not something SL would be happy with. SL unhappily humphs but doesn’t speak.
“Are you not curious as to why Tang Yalan’s communication jewel is in my hands?” Murong Mo sounds like she’s grinning, as if she’s already grasped victory.
“Speak.” SL’s voice is cold and indifferent.
“Ah so cold. It seems our belle Su and little Miss Tang are not as close as it’s said?” Murong Mo laughs.
SL’s patience towards her is limited and coldly asks, “Anything else to say?”
“You really don’t care about Tang Yalan life or death?” Murong Mo asks. [it actually said Murong Mo’s life or death]
SL leisurely, “I may have forgotten to tell you, Tang Yalan’s family and the Nangong family are related. If you want to treat Tang Yalan unfavorably, you had best measure yourself.”
This is an oversight on Murong Mo’s part, but she pretends not to believe it. She senses SL is going to hang up soon and quickly dumps an address on SL and threatens if she doesn’t come within 15 minutes, SL can expect to find Tang Yalan’s head. Murong Mo doesn’t wait for SL to answer and decisively hangs up.
SL frowns slightly then goes to find Fei Junping to check on Tang Yalan. SL confirms with Fei that Tang left early in the morning and has not returned. SL starts to half believe what Murong Mo said is true. It’s a pity Xiao Ke is not here. Otherwise she would just charge into the Dragon’s pool and Tiger’s den. SL believes Murong Mo could’ve just as easily had this done to Fei Junping to get at her.
SL is unfamiliar with the Capital so she directly calls and asks Tang Muyao where the address is. Tang Muyao frowns and says the address is Leng property, what’s wrong? SL’s frown deepens. SL has never met anyone from House Leng before, but she has an impression of them. The Leng’s are one of the Top Four families of the Spirit World. They openly stand as enemies against the Nangong.

4457 SL arrives at the address. The doors open silently for SL. She enters. They silently close. There’s no one around. SL can faintly hear music deeper in the courtyard. SL follows the music. After an incense sticks worth of time, she reaches the door of the inner courtyard. Without hesitation, she slaps the door open with her palm. SL is slightly startled at what she sees. She was expecting an ambush with swords drawn, arrows nocked.
The courtyard is luxuriously decorated. A graceful dancer is lightly stepping. On both sides, are beautiful women holding instruments. At the end of the courtyard is a man wearing a blood red robe, sitting on a soft couch, radiating a sense of danger. He’s not very old, about the same age as NL. The man in red is lying on the couch with one hand supporting his head. His clothes and body are covered in jewels and gems. SL feels there’s a coldness and loneliness to him. Even though someone has come through the door, he doesn’t react. After while, he looks indifferently at SL.
“Who are you?”
SL frowns slightly, inwardly she’s thinking, am I in the wrong place? Did Murong Mo trick me?
“You’re the stupid girl that little Murong gal tricked?” he says lazily while raising an eyebrow.
SL lightly coldly humphs, “Murong Mo?”
“Of course I’m here.” Murong Mo enters through a curtain along with Murong1, Tang Yalan and several others SL met at the Murong Estate. No one who’s close to NL is here. SL frowns at this group, then grumpily looks at Tang Yalan. Tang Yalan rushes over to SL and grabs her arm, saying the others had told her SL would come but she didn’t believe them.
SL frosty eyed, “You don’t know why I’ve come?”
Tang Yalan innocently shakes her head. SL turns to the smiling Murong Mo who’s also looking at her.

4458 Murong Mo: “Those invited have arrived. Still trying to figure out why you’ve come? What’s the point? This is Young Master Leng’s gathering. What, Young Master Leng has invited you, and you would still refuse?”
SL almost has the answer she’s looking for.
“Which Young Master Leng?” SL asks haughtily, uncaring.
Silence.
Everyone looks at SL likes she’s an idiot. Ignore how calm and even Leng 7th Young Master appears right now. He may explode at any moment for he’s known to have a bad temper. Who in the Capital doesn’t know Leng7? The only one comparable to the matchless NL is Leng7. SL’s never heard of him? Every one of them is scared of Leng7’s temper and dare not take a breath. Leng7 looks at and examines SL, his eyes are like penetrating ice blades.
SL is not afraid of anyone’s gaze, but for some reason his eyes make her a little nervous. SL is unaware that Leng7’s eyes have an unusual ability.
“You’re nervous.” Leng7 lips curve.
By his side are the two beautiful women. One holds his sword. The other is always waiting on him and pampers and sees to his every whim. He clearly lives a luxurious lifestyle.
SL lightly looks at him, “I’m not nervous.”
They go back and forth about her being tense, and her denying it. SL thinks to herself Leng7 has the same sense of dominance NL has. Leng7 says he’s not as sharp as a certain someone. SL starts to wonder if he can read minds. SL tests him by thinking in English. He shouldn’t understand if she uses English.
Ah, his pupils dilated, he seems confused.
Leng7: “…”
Leng7’s eyes seem a bit dazed, he’s unable to guess her meaning so he gives her a puzzled look.
No way, can he really read minds? I’ll give it another test.
SL starts to inwardly, madly berate Leng7, ‘After looking at your face, I believe your mother and father were not serious when they created you. You grew up to look in such an abstract way that it’s simply a breakthrough in the human imagination. Some people, need to have someone point at their nose for them to understand they are being cursed at…’
As she curses him, SL sees that Leng7’s face is growing more and more black. It appears he may explode at any time. Well then, it seems after testing and examination, Leng7 really can read minds.
Leng7: “Courage is not small.”
SL pretends to be innocent, “What?”

4459 Leng7 moves closer to SL. SL inexplicably panics and retreats until her back’s against the wall. Leng7 puts a hand on the wall and leans down. SL can feel his warm breath on her ear.
His voice has a strange quality to it as he sneers, his voice lowered, “You are the very first to prove that I can read minds.”
Ordinarily such a position would be seen as highly ambiguous. So, SL starts sneezing.
After three sneezes, SL waves her hand, “My apologizes, I’m really not used to your body odor, Achoo!” She sneezes some more.
Leng7’s face has truly become black. So black that it looks like a cloud that’s about to rain. Leng7 has always been trying to compete with NL. Whether it be through status, identity, cultivation level. All are almost the same as NL. Such a person is adored and admired by millions. Although SL has only known Leng7 for all of 5 minutes, she’s already slapped his face a several times. Under Leng7’s intense pressure, everyone else is utterly silent, even the music has stopped. No one wants to attract his attention.
Leng7 lightly coughs into a fist, his lips curve slightly, “No wonder he fancies you. A little bit interesting.”
“Thank you for compliment.” SL calmly looks at him and indifferently smiles.
Leng7 has a lazy look, he smiles at her but it doesn’t reach his strange eyes, “Do you know what I’m thinking?”
SL shakes her head.
Leng7 is straight to the point, “You should know, things he likes, I will steal.”
“Oh?” SL’s eyes narrow slightly, she has a bad feeling.
“People he likes, I will also steal.”
SL shallowly smiles at him, “So, do you like me?”
Murong Mo looks with surprise at SL. The reason Murong Mo got SL to come was because of Leng7, but she’s surprised at how relaxed SL is.
Leng7 has a small shallow smile, “I like talking with smart people. You’re very smart, so I like that.”
SL looks at him from head to toe, she looks like she’s smiling while touching her lips, “You want to steal the person Nangong Liuyun likes. So in reality, the person you like is…” SL gently whispers four words into his ear.
Leng7 clenches his fists. The veins on his forehead bulge.
He viciously glares at SL, but he can’t get a single word out, “…”
The crowd looks in amazement at SL. Although they can’t tell what SL said, they can tell Leng7 is really annoyed. This Miss Su Luo is a little bit too formidable isn’t she? Leng7 is known for his cold indifference. He doesn’t show his anger often, but when he does, kill without amnesty! Blood shall flow! How many times as SL annoyed him now? And yet Leng7 still hasn’t killed her!

4460 They admire SL for being able to annoy Leng7 and live. The two women at Leng7’s side are used to Leng7 killing people. They’ve never seen him so tolerant of someone.
SL appears relaxed while smiling at Leng7, as if looking at a familiar friend. This is Leng7’s first time meeting someone like SL, wise, observant, sharp tongued, cutting wit, agile reactions, and an imposing manner.
“Truly worthy of being someone he fancies.” Leng7’s second time saying this and he pauses. He says he wants her all the more. SL is displeased and asks if he really thinks that’s even possible.
Leng7 is upset and thinks he’s being far too nice to this little girl. Then he wonders why he hasn’t killed her already. Normally, someone who makes him this angry would’ve been killed ten time over by now.
He drops it, and orders for lunch to be served. After the servants bring everything in, he orders SL to sit. At this point, SL is thinking entirely in English to protect herself.
Leng7 coldly snorts but inwardly admits it’s effective. This is the first time someone who’s realized that he could read minds failed to panic, but instead immediately reacts. Some people really do pleasantly surprise others.
Pleasantly surprised? Leng7 frowns, absolutely not!
Leng7 orders SL to eat. SL doesn’t want to sit but Leng7’s two maids easily force her. SL is depressed to find even Leng7’s maids are much stronger than her.
SL silently picks up her chopsticks. There are a lot of people here. Leng7 sits at the head, with SL on his left, Tang Yalan is next to SL, Murong Mo and the others are further down. Tang Yalan, this silly girl, she sees a table full of food and happily starts to eat. Murong Mo and the others also start.
SL does not, she wryly smiles. Leng7 orders her to eat. SL raises her head to give him this pitiful look.
Leng7 glares at her, “Are you flirting with me?”
SL coldly humphs, “I’m not used to this taste. May I have something else to eat?”

4461 In reality, SL’s fine with the food. Everyone else at the table is being served the same. It’s just that hers has a colorless odorless poison. If it’s colorless and odorless, how did SL detect it? First of all she has a keen sense of danger, but more importantly, she has her little black cat. Her little black cat is a future Myriad Poison King. As soon as the little black cat saw the six dishes before her, his ears perked up and he became very excited. For him to be excited, SL judges the poison to not be weak.
SL looks at Leng7 and purposely starts to think in normal speech.
SL puzzled to herself, ‘So Leng7 is trying to poison me to death? But didn’t he just say he was interested in me? So this poison is really to intoxicate me, and then he’ll force himself on me?’
Leng7 just so happened to have been taking a drink of water. As soon as he hears what she’s thinking, he sprays everything out and starts coughing. Everyone looks curiously at the always calm and indifferent Leng7. When they see how black his face has become, they hurriedly look down.
Leng7 glares at SL, his mood, murderous. He will not allow SL to once again offend him.
SL looks at him, “You haven’t answered. Oh, then I’ll assume you agree. Since Leng7 has agreed to this matter, then it can’t be taken back.”
So saying that, with a smile, SL takes her little black cat from her space and puts him on the table. Everyday he’s only able to eat the poisons refined by SL and he always ends up half full. It really does make him anxious. He may be hungry, but he’s always elegant in his actions. Still, he’s afraid Leng7 will yell at him so he eats quickly and finishes the meal in less than 2 minutes.
During this process, Leng7’s face is black the whole time.
The poison was a test Leng7 prepared. He will not just accept anybody, even if it is someone NL has vetted. He plans on giving SL three tests, and she just passed the first. It doesn’t matter if SL were capable of reading his mind. If she ingests the poison she will die. If she passes his three tests, he will steal her. She’s trapped whatever she does. Seeing SL pass his first test so easily does not leave him pleased.
SL leisurely stands and pulls on the gorging Tang Yalan and then faintly smiles at Leng7, “We’ve had lunch, and the hour is late, we’ll leave first.”

4462 A maid blocks her way. Leng7 asks if she thinks she can just come and go as she pleases. SL asks Tang Yalan how she came to be here. Tang says she was just strolling the streets when someone knocked her out. When she came to, she was here.
SL sneers at Leng7, “The one who has designs on my people is you. Murong Mo only carried it out?”
Leng7 doesn’t deny it, “She doesn’t have the brains.”
Murong Mo blankly points at her own nose, “…”
Didn’t she trick a certain someone into coming to lunch. Isn’t she well behaved during lunch? Murong Mo feels wronged and angrily pokes her food.
SL folds her arms, “Speak then, what else is there?”
A maid places a chair behind Leng7 and he sits. Then he points at the dancer and tells SL to sit there. The dancer quickly gets on the floor and bends her back for SL to sit on. It’s obviously not the dancer’s first time.
SL: “…”
SL is not used to sitting on other’s backs. What does her space not have? With a loud noise, SL plops a large luxurious chair right in front of Leng7. SL’s chair is much more imposing and larger than Leng7’s. Leng7 can see the smug look in SL’s eyes and coldly smiles. He then tells her what else he wants her to do, since she asked.
“Dance.”
“What?”
He says she has to dance and if she succeeds in enticing him then she passes. SL refuses the pervert. [TIL the Japanese and Chinese characters for pervert, aka hentai, are the same]

4463 Leng7 grasps Tang Yalan’s neck and starts to strangle her. SL tells him to stop. Leng7 asks if she’s thinking of telling him the Tang’s are related to the Nangong. He’s already killed a female cousin of NL’s, much less this girl who is even more distantly related.
SL curses him,”Leng Yun Jing [Cold Cloud Respect], you are a perverted murderous madman.”
Leng7 licks his lips, “This title, I like.”
SL: “…”
Leng7 kindheartedly, “Since the nickname you’ve given me isn’t bad, I’ll give you another choice.”
SL glares at him frostily.
Leng7 mockingly smiles and tells her she can leave now, but then he’ll break the little girl’s neck. SL knows the other choice being for her to stay and dance. Obviously, it will be recorded and sent to NL.
“I choose option 3.”
Leng7 lectures her and says women are soft-hearted, and that makes it hard to do great things. SL responds that his heart is ruthless [hot] and brutal [cold]. [Seems to be using a similar form of speech as him]
Leng7 moves really close to SL and leans over her. He has an odd smell to him. SL unconsciously covers her nose. The originally ambiguous atmosphere of their positions clears up.
Leng7: “…..Are you also as disappointing with Nangong Liuyun?”
SL very seriously shakes her head, “He smells of fragrant grass. It’s a very nice smell. You cannot compare.”
The last three words really annoy Leng7.
“Courting death!” Leng7 jeers. He stands and moves towards a higher location before turning back to sneer, “You do have a third option. This choice has no guarantees on your life, adorable little girl.”
Leng7 watches from a higher vantage point as SL is surrounded by a troupe of 49 dancers using a 7×7 formation. Leng7 says to let the wonderful show begin.

4464 SL sees nothing wonderful about this show. The dancers swirl and swell around SL like the ripples in a pool after a stone drops. SL’s mind starts to grow heavy, as if mesmerized by the dancing, and she starts to get drowsy. With a start, SL fights off the drowsiness and glares at Leng7. Leng7 has a mocking sneer on his lips.
SL can’t help but admire his eyes at that moment, but in her mind, she curses him, “Pervert!”
Leng7 is reading her mind and understands the underlying meaning. He’s not mad, and is actually very pleased, his eyes brighten.
SL refuses to entice him by dancing. The dancers are actually quite strong. SL realizes as time passes, their effect on her will only strengthen. She can’t just defend, she needs to go on the offensive. As they continue to rotate, SL closes her eyes, but she still feels nauseous, dizzy, and an urge to vomit. SL senses the dancers are using a form of extreme softness. Can only an extremely powerful force break it? SL looks at Leng7 with a faint smile, her eyes cold, as if to say, your 7 x 7 Circular Dance isn’t anything great.
Upon seeing SL so confident, Leng7’s eyes reveal a strange look, he starts to doubt.
SL suddenly vomits blood all over herself. The front part of her dress and skirt are completely covered in her own blood. Leng7 faintly looks at her, his 7 x 7 Circular Dance isn’t that great, and yet she vomited blood? SL gives Leng7 a sly and mysterious smile. Leng7 feels a powerful sense of horror at this. What is this girl doing? Leng7 becomes more vigilant. SL takes out a tube of red lipstick and applies it. She then takes a deep breath, opens her mouth, and her face distorts into a savage expression.

4465 Leng7 is confused.
SL begins to sing the First Divine Song, something from her original world. [The author actually wrote the syllables. It’s utterly bizarre when having a text to speech function read it. Raw here]
The 49 dancers were swaying gently like willow trees, dancing to soft music when it’s interrupted by this ferocious sounding noise. Leng7 feels like he’s been struck by lightning. Sitting in his chair, Leng7 points a finger at SL and opens his mouth but nothing comes out. He watches as SL, with flaming lips and bloody mouth, sings to the dancers with that horrible sound. If Leng7 can’t keep calm, how can the others? The other young men and women stare with stupid looks on their faces.
More importantly, the dancers who were assaulting SL have weaker spirits than the others. Now that they’ve been exposed to SL’s 10 Star, Sound of the Grand Dao, “Perturb” Divine Song, it completely unsettles them and their dance falls apart. The dancers were using a formation so once it falls apart, their power falls dramatically. SL is watching in all directions while still singing, so she quickly notices the weakest of the dancing girls. SL stares at this girl with an evil look and sinister smile, then changes the lyrics to her song to something possibly weirder.
Sound of the Grand Dao is not something a normal person can resist, much less this Divine Song. So the girl being stared at by SL starts to get a splitting headache. She can hear her companions yelling at her, encouraging her, but she really can’t handle it. The girl faints while hugging her head. The formation is greatly weakened and SL feels the pressure slacken immensely. SL repeats the process and one by one knocks the dancers out. With each use, SL’s gains new insights into the technique and her sound attacks become even more powerful. The dancers grow weaker as SL grows stronger. SL just looks at a dancer, sings at them, and they fall over.
SL started singing her Perturb song 4 minutes and 23 seconds ago, after she’s done, all the dancers have fainted.

4466 SL’s song will leave a mark on these dancers for the rest of their lives. SL raises an eyebrow and scornfully glances at Leng7. She proudly thumbs her nose at him, as if to say, Didn’t this young lady say, the 7 x 7 Circular Dance is no big deal.
Leng7 stares at SL with this amazed look, “……”
The calm as a mountain Leng7 really was given a good scare by SL. However, thinking back, this girl really is clever and quick witted to use such a messed up song to disrupt the formation and take the dancers down one by one. She was able to narrowly escape from death in less than 5 minutes. She really does pleasantly surprise people.
Leng7 comes to, smiles, then stands. He’s dazzling.
SL looks at him, her eyes a bit proud, “How was my singing?”
Leng7 beckons her with a crooked finger with the air of a king. SL is suspicious but goes up to him. When SL gets close, Leng7 grabs her closer and closely observes her face, his eyes bright. SL’s eyes narrow slightly, she senses danger. SL backs away, but before she can, Leng7 bends down and wipes her lips with a finger.
“So ugly.” He wipes the lipstick away.
SL glares at him, “Does this count as a pass?”
Leng7 shallowly laughs and nods, “Of course.”
“Then can I take someone away?” SL grumpily humphs.
Leng7 chuckles, his voice lazy and husky, he waves a finger at her,”No.”
SL is truly furious and glares at him, “What else do you want?”
Leng7 tells her he’s set three tests for her, but she’s only passed two. SL asks what if she refuses his third test. The distant Tang Yalan gets sucked towards Leng7’s outstretched hand. Leng7 unblinkingly stares at SL. Leng7 speaks no further, he just smiles threateningly at her.
SL gives in, “Only a third test?”
SL is inwardly furious, but outwardly calm.

4467 “Only a third test.”
“What’s the third test?” SL unhappily glares at him.
Leng7 tosses Tang Yalan away and tells SL that the third test will be a bit difficult considering it’s her. SL coldly humphs at him asking which test he prepares is not difficult? Leng7 puts on a serious face, and tells her this one will be especially difficult.
“Oh?” SL is curious.
Leng7 indifferently tells her she must defeat him. SL looks at him like he’s an idiot.
“Are you crazy?!” SL glares at him and points at her own nose, “I defeat you?
Leng7: “Yes, you must defeat me.”
SL coldly laughs at him, “I don’t talk to madmen.”
Defeat Leng7? Excluding NL, who among the younger generation dares claim they can defeat Leng7? SL has only cultivated for 300 years, how could she compete with him?
Leng7 sees that SL really is angry and pats her on the back with a finger, “I haven’t even finished speaking and you’re already so angry. You’re allowed outside help.”
SL’s eyes brighten, “Anyone I please?”
SL cannot do it herself, but she has access to the experts the Apothecary Association can call on. Leng7 looks at her compassionately, “You’re only allowed to request one person. You know who it is.”
SL is slightly startled. Although she had this faint sense already, it’s only when he says this that his true objective is revealed. His name is Nangong Liuyun, and NL is sure to ignore Leng7. But what if it’s SL? Back at the Murong Estate, just how much did he safeguard her? All Leng7 needs to say is that SL is in his hands, how could NL not come?
SL glares at Leng7 and tells him she will not tell NL. Leng7 gently pats her shoulder and assures her that he’s already done so. SL clenches her fists and says he won’t come. Leng7 corrects her and says he’s already on his way.
SL is startled again, is it possible? It’s already been two months since she stopped talking to him. Would he really come for her? If it were the previous NL, she would have no doubts, but this NL…SL is drawn back to NL’s cold remarks in the Jing Courtyard. He did not seem one bit concerned how his words hurt her. When recalling this, SL’s heart freezes over. This sort of NL has already broken up with her. They’ve grown further apart, will he still come because of her? SL is doubtful.
At this moment, NL is not as relaxed as SL imagines. These last two months he’s not been in the Capital. He’s been in the Central Continent’s most dangerous Great Taboo Forest.

4468 House Nangong Headquarters, Intensive Ward. After awakening from a coma three days ago, NL stares at a purple rose in a daze. He’s staring at the rose, but seems to be seeing someone else. Chu3 comes in, his expression sours when he sees NL staring at the pot of purple roses. He deliberately moves to block NL’s view of the roses. NL frowns. Chu3 is upset and tells him what he did was pointless, even if he replants the 7th purple rose, Nangong Liuxing is beyond saving. NL tells him to shut up. Chu3 swallows what he wants to say, but still says NL needs to take care of himself, and not disappoint himself and others.
At this time, Leng7 messages NL. Leng7 anticipates that NL would not pick up so just leaves him a message. NL indifferently glances it over.
A simple message: “Su Luo is with me.”
A short message, but the bandage wrapped NL frowns and his expression darkens. Chu3 looks at NL helplessly. Even though Grandfather Nangong let NL use his communication jewel during his downtime, NL never made any calls, but just steadfastly stared at it as if waiting for someone.
NL suddenly starts moving and puts on a white robe. Chu3 grabs him and asks where he’s going. NL tells him to let go. Chu3 is furious and starts lecturing him about how dangerous it was to enter the Great Taboo Forest, that he almost died for these five pots of purple roses, that 10 days ago, when he was found, they thought he was dead as they carried him out. Does he not know how to cherish the life he barely snatched back?
NL firmly, “If you’re my brother, you will make way.”
Chu3 sneers, “Look, with your current strength you can’t even push me aside. How are you going to leave?” How many people would go crazy at the chance to kill you? “Do you want so badly to accompany Ning3 and Liuxing?”
“Shut up!” NL is usually calm but he shows anger here.
Chu3 feels a bit uneasy and pats his own mouth, “Where are you going? With your current health, do you think you’ll be able to leave the Nangong Headquarters?”
[Author originally wrote Xu3 instead of Liuxing. In Ch 4470, the author said she made some mistake with somebody’s last name and meant Liuxing.]

4469 NL gives Chu3 a dark look. Chu3 feels the urge to run away.
However, NL pats Chu3 on the shoulder and lightly says, “Chu3, thanks a lot for reminding me.”
Poor Chu3 then gets his jacket stripped off by NL, knocked out, and then stuffed into bed. NL easily pretends to be Chu3 and walks out.
Once out, NL tries repeatedly to make a call but it fails to connect. His frown deepens. Because of his privilege, NL is able to ride at the fastest speed on his dragon horse and arrive at the address. Unlike SL, he doesn’t need to enter via the front gate. In keeping with his status, he lands gracefully from the air in the middle of the courtyard.
At this time SL and Leng7 are still in their confrontation. SL has waited a long time. Her face is cold, and the longer she waits, the more disappointed she is. After all, she still hopes that he has her in his heart. In the middle of this disappointment, NL drops in, king like in stature and air. He gives people distant sense, as if they can only observe from afar. To approach is to profane. Everyone is silent and watches NL, including Leng7.
As everyone watches, NL leisurely and elegantly strolls towards SL before finally standing before her. They’ve not seen in each other in two months. Under these snooping eyes, NL looks at her as if he has countless things to say, but doesn’t know where to start. SL’s clear eyes look back and observe him. It’s been two months since they last met, he seems to have gone through some changes, but he’s still at the center of attention with his looks. His eyes are gentle, as if she were the most precious treasure he holds in the palm of his hand.
SL suddenly feels a sense of grievance. Since he cares, why did he indifferently ignore her for two months? Thinking of these past two months, SL’s red lips thin as she hatefully turns her face away from him!
Leng7 leisurely approaches at this time, arms crossed, happily humming and smiling at them. He doesn’t even hide the amusement he feels, as if watching a play. NL’s gaze calmly sweeps over towards Leng7. Leng7’s slowly and casually extends his hand to SL’s shoulder. Before he can touch SL’s slender shoulders, NL coldly asks with intent to kill, “You don’t want your hand anymore?”

4470 Leng7’s hand pauses in mid air, he smiles at NL, then withdraws his hand as a fist and unhappily asks, “You serious?”
NL coldly humphs and takes SL’s hand, “I’m taking her to leave.”
To SL’s surprise, Leng7 agrees, “You can take her. Go. Go.”
From his relaxed appearance, SL understands he will use Tang Yalan to threaten SL.
“Let go of me.” SL coldly glares at NL, The Leng Pervert is letting me go now so in the next moment he can threaten Tang Yalan. “Don’t forget, Tang Yalan is a relative of yours.”
Leng7 applauds, “You’ve learned to read this Young Master’s mind.”
SL doesn’t bother looking at him and continues to stare at NL. Her meaning is clear, if you want to take her away, you’ll also have to take Tang Yalan.
NL gives her a slightly displeased look, “You’re a mud buddha trying to cross a river and you still want to spend time on other things. You really are something.”
SL angrily throws off his hand, “I don’t need you to manage my affairs. Leave!”
NL and SL have a staring match. SL shows no weakness! NL gives up first and rubs his eyebrows as if he feels a headache coming on.
NL glares at Leng7, “Is it fun to watch another family quarrel?”
Leng7 is leaning against a tree with arms crossed. He rubs his chin pondering, then nods, “Watching other families isn’t fun. However, for Nangong 2nd Young Master to actually argue with a girl, as your rival, for the first time in my life, I feel fortunate.”
SL hatefully glares at NL, she bares her fangs like a little lion, “Who’s of your family? Do not ruin my clean reputation!”
Leng7’s smile is as bright as the sun. NL looks at SL with a headache, then helplessly sighs.
NL coldly humps at Leng7, “Let’s duel, your terms.”
Leng7 is surprised. Back then, Ning3 liked NL so much, she used much of her own blood to raise the purple roses, weakening her own body to the point she had to use a wheelchair. Even with such a sacrifice, it never entered NL’s eyes. But now, heh heh, it looks like this girl is worth fighting for. If SL could read minds and hear Leng7’s thoughts, just how many fewer detours would NL and SL’s relationship take?

4471 Leng7 is smiling, but it’s not a relaxed one. Leng7 declares they will settle it within 100 moves. NL slowly shakes his head and says, against him, he will finish it in one. Leng7 is mad.
Leng7 looks arrogantly at NL, “I treat you as my only rival, but you ignore me out of contempt. Nangong Liuyun, you will soon know what it’s like to hold me in contempt.”
NL’s lips curve and tells Leng7 to make his move.
Neither SL or Leng7 are aware that NL was so seriously injured looking for purple roses in the Great Taboo Forest, that he fell into a coma and almost died. He only woke up three days ago and his wounds have only just stopped bleeding, the poison in his body still hasn’t been detoxified. He should be bed resting instead of taking part in a duel. Because of his indifferent attitude, no one thinks that his body is currently swathed in bandages and unhealed wounds.
Everyone else retreats knowing a fight is about to begin.
NL looks gently at SL, “First withdraw to the side, be good.”
He speaks in such a gentle way, one could drown under his pampering. It’s as if they never had a fight over Ning3!
NL, how can you take it for granted that I would still like you? SL coldly humphs and retreats. She doesn’t really care. SL believes NL is far stronger and that Leng7 is the lesser. NL cannot lose.
Leng7 throws the ‘one move’ line back at NL and says he would like to see how just one move is enough. Leng7 uses a big fiery explosion on NL. Everyone is puzzled as NL just stands there in the flames. Even if NL is stronger than Leng7, he can’t be that much stronger.

4472 Leng7 is puzzled at first, he frowns, then he’s surprised!
“NL, you are ruthless!” Leng7 points at NL and shouts at him, “Things have gotten this far, would it kill you to say a single word? Am I such a petty person in your eyes?!”
This man! He’s obviously seriously injured. He can’t exert any force and he still tries to take on my Mysterious Ice Spirit Seal? That’s my strongest move! Simply seeking his own death.
Leng7 hatefully glares at NL and says NL is holding him in contempt. When Leng7 sees the clear fresh smile on NL’s face, Leng7 feels the urge to go up and smash that smiling face. Wounded to the point where he almost died, and yet still smiling? How is this person the smartest in the world? Isn’t he the greatest idiot?
Leng7 isn’t done, he turns and gives SL a displeased look, “You’re also an idiot!”
SL puzzled, “What?”
Leng7 ignores SL but points at her, “Nangong Liuyun, I will steal this great idiot away from you!”
Leng7 leaves in a bad mood. He did all this, kidnap Tang Yalan, lure SL, then lure NL, all so he could have a match with NL. He wants to defeat NL, but not a badly injured NL! The victory would ring hollow, he would rather die. Leng7 is in an incredibly bad mood.
Once Leng7 leaves, everyone else quickly retreats as well. Murong Mo is the fastest to run away. Now only NL, SL, and Tang Yalan are left.
NL is still standing there, he hasn’t made a single move. He still looks clean and fine. SL does not know why Leng7 left after only one move, nor did she understand his words. If she had really paid attention she would’ve figured it out, but right now she’s telling herself over and over again, don’t think about NL, don’t think about anything to do with NL. SL is unaware that NL is suffering a burning pain.
NL frowns and takes a few steps towards SL, and even gives her a domineering look while reaching for her hand, “Come with me.”
SL sneers and looks at him mockingly, “Nangong Liuyun, in your heart, what am I? Am I a toy at your beck and call? You want to play with me, so you come teasing. You don’t want me, so break an arm and toss me aside? What makes you so confident that you can recover what’s been lost? If I have given you cause to have such an illusion, then I apologize. Now, I’ll tell you clearly. We – already – have nothing to do with each other.”
SL throws off NL’s hand and walks away. SL strides off very quickly, even anxiously.

4473 Tang Yalan looks back and forth between SL and NL. Yalan is worried about SL and chases after her. It starts to rain. When Yalan finds SL, she’s squatting under a tree hugging herself. Her back looks lonely and sad. Yalan has a complicated look while standing close by to SL. Big Sis Su has never told her about NL. She was stunned when she saw the way SL and NL talked with each other. What’s more, she’s very excited to have found that the God like, look down upon everything, Nangong 2nd Young Master is actually actively courting SL. Moreover, SL even very proudly refused. This really does make one feel incredibly excited! However, NL is to be pitied too.
Tang Yalan squats down and tries to tell SL how badly hurt NL is. SL doesn’t respond. Yalan looks like she’s going to cry and as tells SL that when NL walked over to SL earlier, there were two lines of blood. Yalan starts to shake SL when she doesn’t respond. Yalan describes how NL’s shoes are filled with his own blood and his shoes are leaving bloody footprints behind.
SL wipes away the rain and tears, takes a deep breath, then faintly looks at Yalan, “Don’t mention that person’s name again!”
Yalan looks wronged, “…”
“If you don’t go, then I’ll go!” Yalan yells angrily at SL and runs off.
SL frostily, “You want to go, then we don’t need to be friends any more.”
SL walks away.
SL can’t help but think about what Yalan said about NL’s injuries. SL blankly turns around, but doesn’t see anyone or any evidence of that through the rain. Has Tang Yalan learned how to lie? SL leaves more quickly.
After being yelled at by SL, Tang Yalan doesn’t dare go look for NL, but she remembers her sister in law telling her that Chu3 is a very good friend of NL’s. Yalan puts some distance between herself and SL before calling her sister in law to contact Chu3.
In the continuing downpour, NL continues to follow after SL step by step. He really is losing a lot of blood. He’s leaving bloody footprints behind but they’re washed away by the rain.

4474 NL is a mess and looks horrible in the rain. He continues to follow after SL even if he can’t see so much as her shadow.
By the time Chu3 receives news, NL has already collapsed on the ground.
The rain stops.
NL is covered in his own blood, red all over. NL has fallen into a roadside pit. It’s filled with his blood. Chu3’s legs start to shake at this sight before he calls out ‘Gong2’ and rushing forward. The Longfeng clansmen Chu3 brought along are even faster. They grow red eyed at the sight of their future Clan Chief like this and begin to panic.
SL cries the whole way back while walking. Her mind is a mess. She feels like she’s the only person in the world, that she’s all alone. She doesn’t know where to return or go.
Right then, Grandpa Sea Emperor wakes up and tells SL he can sense the aura of one of the Twelve Artifacts. Sea Emperor tells SL that it’s the Mysterious Ice Spirit Seal. SL is surprised and confirms with him it’s the same one Leng7 possesses. Sea Emperor says it is, but he also senses another Artifact nearby in the Capital.