Let Me Explain, Fairy
Chapter 821 - 513: The First Encounter That Year

Chapter 821: Chapter 513: The First Encounter That Year

"We were just discussing what?"

As Lou Ji had spoken moments ago, the malicious beauty’s poisoning abilities originated from her. Within a few breaths after Xu Yuan realized he had been poisoned, he regained control of his body.

Straightening his posture, he casually helped his elder sister brush off the snow on her shoulder, murmuring to himself,

"Oh right, we were talking about how you planned to target my father after arriving in the capital. What happened then?"

"What else could happen? It failed."

Lou Ji brushed away Xu Yuan’s pretended movements and gently sprinkled some invisible powder over the body of the malicious beauty lying on the ground.

Upon contact with the body, after a brief silence, the beauty’s corpse quickly withered amidst the falling snow.

Xu Yuan watched silently but soon showed a hint of astonishment in his eyes.

It was common knowledge that those engaged in espionage carried powders that could dispose of corpses, but Xu Yuan suddenly realized that this woman was no ordinary person.

For someone who could render him helpless and dare attempt to control him in front of Lou Ji, the middle-aged beauty was likely a Primordial cultivator.

And this powder could actually...

"Spirit Dissolving Powder."

Looking at the empty human-shaped hollow in the snow, Lou Ji casually explained, "It’s useless against the living, this powder reacts with Origin Qi, and with a bit of cultivation, it turns into blue smoke..."

She paused for a moment, the corners of her lips curling up as she added,

"Oh, this was also concocted by your fourth sister, supposedly for etching precise Formation Patterns onto some scale armor. Later, I found it effective on the human body too, so I just renamed it and continued to use it."

"...." Xu Yuan.

Inwardly he lamented, ’Without Little Four, this family would eventually fall apart,’ as he saw Lou Ji already leaving this place without any sense of attachment.

Xu Yuan quickly followed and asked in a soft voice,

"Sister, did I hear that woman also call you ’sister’?"

"I thought you weren’t curious at all."

Lou Ji gave Xu Yuan a glance and spoke softly,

"Xin Ming... is a child I picked up from the back alleys."

The back alleys?

Xu Yuan raised an eyebrow.

He had heard of this place; it was in Di’an City.

Just as most lords in the world have a kind heart, unable to bear seeing others suffer, the Great Flame Imperial Capital was no exception.

Because the nobles couldn’t bear to see others suffer, they had all the unfortunate people driven to the back alleys.

In layman’s terms, a slum.

Just as Xu Yuan thought that the malicious beauty was a random high-ranking character that Lou Ji had come across, Lou Ji said softly,

"I found her in my second year in the capital. She was apparently only five years old then, about this tall."

As she spoke, Lou Ji lowered her eyes and gestured at her waist:

"She was wrapped in a rag, crouched in a corner trembling. I passed by and saw her, saw myself in her, so I gave her a piece of felt, and some food I snatched from other beggars..."

"Hold on." Xu Yuan interrupted Lou Ji’s narrative for the first time that night.

"Hmm?" Lou Ji looked up in surprise, waiting for Xu Yuan to speak.

Xu Yuan gathered his thoughts.

Firstly, after entering the capital, Lou Ji had set her sights on his father, preparing to plot and cling to power; but now, why had the conversation suddenly turned to her fighting with beggars for food?

After choosing his words carefully, Xu Yuan said softly,

"Sister, didn’t you say before that you were targeting my father?"

"Yes," Lou Ji said with an air of it being self-evident. "But didn’t I already tell you that I failed?"

"Did you go to the back alleys after failing?"

"...."

Lou Ji pondered for a moment and then chuckled lightly, saying softly,

"That’s true, one second planning to target your all-powerful father, the next reduced to fighting with beggars for food. The contrast is indeed stark, but that was out of necessity."

Speaking, Lou Ji lifted her gaze to the sky and spoke in a deep voice,

"The years I spent wandering abroad gave me a kind of illusion back then; I always believed that as long as I wanted to do something, I could definitely achieve it, but looking back now, it really was naive."

"Initially, my goal was indeed to get close to and use your father to my advantage, and I did try hard. After several setbacks, my plan finally succeeded in the third month."

In the forty-third year of Yongqing, Lou Ji met Xu Yinhè alone for the first time.

But at that time, her calculated approach seemed like a joke in his eyes.

In the tea-scented attic of the tavern,

the youth in luxurious clothing gently stroked the dirty, disheveled hair of the little loli, his voice soft and laughing.

"Little girl, don’t take this as an example, okay?"

Their first encounter ended with this semi-joking remark...

At this point, Lou Ji’s expression became somewhat complicated.

Xu Yuan watched his elder sister’s profile, feeling slightly curious:

"What, you felt something in your heart?"

Lou Ji glanced back at the young man with a wry look:

"I did feel something, but my heart was pounding so fast I almost suffocated and passed out."

"Nervous?"

"Scared."

"Ah? But from your story, my father didn’t do anything to you."

"Hmm... it’s probably a natural intuition."

"Intuition?"

"From a distance, I felt nothing, but upon meeting your father alone for the first time, all that was left in my mind was one thought—I must keep my distance from this person because my intuition told me that what stood before me was not a man, but a monster."

Lou Ji said softly, then scoffed lightly, her smile blooming:

"Looking back now, my initial intuition wasn’t wrong; the person standing before me was indeed a monster."

Xu Yuan remained silent.

He didn’t quite understand this metaphysical concept of intuition, but it seemed to actually exist.

Old Man Luo had once mentioned during their journey back to the capital that Qin Mo had once contemplated avoidance when he was planning to ambush the main character in Jingjiang Prefecture, but at that time, he chose not to trust his intuition and ended up dead.

Thinking of this, Xu Yuan suddenly had a thought.

This feeling, rather than calling it intuition, might as well be deemed a kind of ’luck’ related to fate.

The trait of the Big Ice Lump’s treasure-seeking had been verified time and again, and his and the Wrapped Chest Princess’s eyebrow pencil trait was evident to all.

Perhaps, in this world where cultivation is possible, the notion of ’Qi of fortune’ truly exists.

It’s just that cultivators had not yet discovered and utilized it...

His wandering thoughts halted abruptly because there was no need to ponder deeply, as contemplation wouldn’t change anything.

Even if the concept of fortunate Qi truly exists, the act of killing the main character of the plot had already shown that fortune is not absolute.

Man can conquer fate.

With that thought, Xu Yuan suddenly laughed softly:

"Sister, aren’t you afraid I’ll go and report you for speaking ill of my father?"

Lou Ji shrugged indifferently:

"He won’t care about these things."

"True."

Xu Yuan nodded in agreement, then asked again, "But do you think my father would just let you go like that?"

With a cultivation like his father’s, it would be impossible not to notice Lou Ji’s potential for cultivation.

Moreover, a nine-year-old loli who plotted for three months just to get close to him and ultimately succeeded—such an SSR-grade opportunity heading straight for his pocket would likely prompt Xu Yuan himself to start a loli-raising project.

Lou Ji’s explanation, however, did give Xu Yuan some closure.

Xu Yinhè had indeed noticed this little girl called Lou Ji, but he also saw her fear of him. So, it was best to go with the flow and not force things.

It was better to let nature take its course; if she could become someone significant, that would be for the best, but if she perished midway, then it could only be said that her capacity reached only that far.

And during the period of her wandering, Lou Ji naturally found herself forced to head to the notorious back alleys of Di’an City and adopt the girl who, even Xin Ming would hesitate to take in, and there she met the Dragon Granny who would shelter her.