Let Me Explain, Fairy
Chapter 593 - 377: The Past

Chapter 593: Chapter 377: The Past

"..Sword Casting Valley?"

Tianyan clenched her skirt, her breathing slightly hurried as she stared at him blankly for a few moments, "How do you know about it?"

Xu Yuan rolled his eyes:

"What do you think?"

"The Historical Records?"

"..."

Xu Yuan smacked his lips, his eyes taking on a somewhat amused look:

"Do you realize how many years have passed since the timeline within the Illusionary Realm?"

As he spoke,

Xu Yuan’s face showed a hurt expression, letting out a deep sigh:

"Would you rather believe in these ethereal affairs than believe that I have regained my memory?"

Time,

can smooth over everything.

Ten thousand years before,

the Tianyan Divine Art that once intimidated the strong under the heavens, had already become an obscure secret in present Dayan.

The case of Yantian Art was so; not to mention the even more ancient Sword Casting Valley.

Seeing his forlorn look, Tianyan gently bit the corner of her lip with her small, pearly white teeth, but then she snorted coldly the next moment:

"Hmph, Xu Yuan, what are you pretending for? My suspicions exist precisely because you, this fellow, cannot utter a single credible word!"

There, the Washboard Saintess had been tricked out of her experience.

Busted, Xu Yuan wasn’t embarrassed at all; his melancholic sorrow instantly turned into a mischievous smile:

"You can’t blame me for that. When we first entered the Secret Realm, we were enemies. What if I truly opened up to you, and then you suddenly stabbed me in the back?"

Tianyan seemed to remember something, her gaze turning slightly cold:

"I have never betrayed you, whereas you..."

"I couldn’t defeat you, am I not allowed to keep a fallback plan? And Tianyan, you know me. I, Xu Yuan, have never been an upright gentleman unmatched in the world like Jade Son Yang."

"Despicable villain."

"So isn’t it quite normal for a despicable villain to use a little scheming?"

"...."

Tianyan trembled with anger at his words, her small chest heaving, and after taking a deep breath, her voice came out icy cold:

"You truly are as shameless as ever."

"Being shameless is also a skill."

Xu Yuan didn’t care in the slightest, instead staring straight into her eyes with a smile, "In fact, if I weren’t a bit shameless, you might still be preserving your chastity right now~"

"You bastard!"

Buzz!

A flash of embarrassed anger crossed Tianyan’s eyes as she raised her fist to smash it towards his lower abdomen.

Chills went down Xu Yuan’s spine.

The Washboard Saintess’s punches weren’t the same as those of his ex-girlfriends, who playfully hammered on his chest.

However, that delicate and jade-like fist ultimately did not make contact with his body, hovering an inch above him.

Good... good that the Washboard Saintess couldn’t bear to do it.

Xu Yuan let out a sigh of relief inwardly and looked up, only to meet Tianyan’s slightly teasing eyes.

They sparkled slightly under the light rain, like shimmering stars.

She was smiling.

Tch, the Washboard Saintess has learned to be bad, even starting to deceive people now.

Her slender fingertips gently stroked his well-defined muscles, her soft voice carrying complex emotions:

"You’re right...

"If you were a true gentleman, I wouldn’t have fallen for you."

"....."

Xu Yuan’s heart skipped a beat, and the corners of his lips unwittingly curved into a smile, but he restrained himself and said softly:

"Oh? With my appearance, enduring hardships for nearly twenty years wouldn’t move your heart?"

Tianyan’s fingers paused, staring at his handsome face for a few moments:

"I would probably just see you as a friend through hardship."

Look,

the upright gentleman has been taken out of the equation, those following the righteous path only get to hand out friend cards.

As Tianyan said this, she pulled back her gaze from sizing up his face:

"Appearance to me is but a dry bone..."

"But if you weren’t good-looking, I wouldn’t bother with you."

"...." Tianyan’s fist suddenly clenched tight.

"Though I never would have guessed that you, Tianyan, are the type who prefers marriage before love, is it because of the body’s plea...."

"Bang!"

The fist came down hard.

"Cough ah."

Xu Yuan coughed out a mouthful of saliva, his cheek twitching slightly from the pain, a hint of anger in his eyes.

"Heh."

With a brief eye contact,

Tianyan snorted lightly, withdrew her hand, and rose from Xu Yuan’s body to kneel and sit at the edge of the bed.

Xu Yuan chuckled softly, propping himself up, removing the splinters embedded in his flesh and stopping the bleeding, all the while saying morosely:

"I have yet to fully recover. If you keep provoking me like this and my will-spirit enters my brain turning me into an idiot, will you support me?"

"I can’t afford to take care of you, the Third Young Master from the Prime Minister’s Mansion."

Tianyan glanced back at him, "But perhaps it would be better for you to become an idiot. At least that way, you would avoid going out and flirting around."

Having said that, she withdrew her gaze and sat up straight on the edge of the bed.

Xu Yuan chuckled, unconcerned about the pain of the wood shards in his flesh, and shifted his body, intending to embrace the girl.

"I told you not to touch me."

Tianyan’s crisp voice rang out, and Xu Yuan’s movement instantly froze.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to move, rather he couldn’t move; Tianyan had immobilized him again.

In that moment,

Xu Yuan gazed at her slender back so close at hand, and suddenly felt an urge to learn the Heavenly Word Mantra.

He’d pay her back big time for this immobilizing vengeance!

Hmm? On second thought, it does sound quite thrilling.

After all, it’s quite like a literal freeze-time play...

"Filthy."

Although her back was turned, Tianyan could still detect the changes in his expression and said with disgust, "Disgusting."

"Then, weren’t you even more disgusting in the Illusionary Realm?"

Xu Yuan thought to himself but didn’t want to say it outright, realizing that this time Tianyan had only directly immobilized his body.

Tianyan fell silent for a moment, her petite back not turning as she spoke calmly:

"That was because of the Charm God Sakura’s poison."

"Oh?"

Xu Yuan showed a perfectly puzzled expression:

"Shouldn’t once be enough to suppress the Charm God Sakura poison? But why did you make me exert my energy to recover every time towards the end..."

"Can you shut up!"

Tianyan suddenly stood up, her fair cheeks flushed with anger, glaring at him furiously.

Xu Yuan blinked, looking innocent.

Agitated once more, Tianyan’s body trembled as she sternly said:

"Say one more word, and I’ll immobilize you for another day."

"You think you’re impressive because you have high cultivation?"

"What did you say?"

"I said I’m sorry."

"Hmph."

"......"

The conversation fell silent, and the sound of rain trickled in the background.

After a lengthy silence.

Tianyan sat back down on the bed’s edge, her back to Xu Yuan, sitting upright and asked in a faint voice:

"Do you really remember Sword Casting Valley?"

"...." Xu Yuan kept silent.

"Hmm?"

"...."

"Speak up!"

"...."

"Xu Changtian!"

"If I speak now, will you use the Fixed Character Mantra on me?"

"....do you find it amusing to irritate me?"

"Shouldn’t you be used to it by now?"

"...."

Tianyan said nothing more, flipping her left palm, and the iron staff she had used to admonish Bai Muxi appeared in her hand:

"Xu Yuan, I’m not joking with you."

"......"

Xu Yuan glanced at the iron staff thick as a ruler, and then at Tianyan, his eye twitching.

This little Ice Lump is even fiercer than the Big Ice Lump; at least the Big Ice Lump knew to use a wooden stick.

With that thought,

Xu Yuan seriously spoke from the bottom of his heart:

"In the seventh year of entering the Secret Realm, we were being chased and fled to Sword Casting Valley."

Tianyan didn’t respond, gripping the iron staff tightly, waiting for what he would say next.

"Hmm...."

After a moment of reflection, Xu Yuan saw a hint of expectation in the depths of Tianyan’s eyes:

"Hmm... it was also the first time I slept at your place."

"Crack."

The solid quality iron staff snapped in half.

Tianyan bowed her head, her body trembling, suddenly feeling that maybe it would be better to castrate this bastard after all.

Vulgar, disrespectful, disgusting, despicable, shameless!

What’s this ’sleep’? Can’t she simply say the word ’pledge’?

"Huff... Huff... Hah...."

Tianyan composed herself, maintaining an air of dignity and indifference:

"You actually remembered."

Xu Yuan said softly with a smile, leisurely speaking:

"Heh... naturally, because back then, I almost died in that desperate place trying to save you."

Tianyan’s trembling stopped abruptly, and looking at his calm expression, she averted her eyes, her voice weak as a mosquito:

"If it weren’t for me taking pity on you, I wouldn’t have given you the opportunity to take advantage of me, you scoundrel."