Even If You're My Senior, It's Still Forbidden - Chapter 60

Ji Weining had her own thoughts brewing in her mind. She asked, “Are you here to find Jin’an?”

“Yes.” She hadn’t expected to run into someone from Qingheng Mountain first.

She had no idea what kind of magic could pinpoint someone’s location.

“Where is Jin’an?” She clasped her hands behind her back, feigning seriousness as she met Ji Weining’s deep gaze. “I want to see her.”

“She’s already asleep.”

How would she know whether her own sister was asleep or not? A frown creased her brow as she pondered this.

Ji Weining revealed their relationship: “I am her senior sister.”

“Someone you’ve only known for a little over a month, how familiar could you be?” She was unaware of the relationship between the two, but her sister had only left her a little over a month ago.

Ji Weining retorted, “Why can’t we be familiar?”

By now, they were more than familiar with each other. Reflecting on it, Ji Weining’s ears flushed red under the cover of night, though the person before her wouldn’t notice the change.

Su Tongjing suggested, “Then let me go in and see her. I’ll leave after that.”

“No need.”

As soon as Ji Weining spoke, Su Tongjing quickly tried to slip past her and scale the wall. But how could she withstand Ji Weining? The moment she attempted to use magic, Ji Weining reached out and lightly tugged the hem of her robe, causing her to fall.

“Disrespectful elder,” Su Tongjing muttered under her breath, steadying herself with her heels, seething with indignation. She knew Qingheng Mountain was powerful, but she hadn’t expected Ji Weining to be this formidable. She couldn’t even hold a candle to her.

Ji Weining, puzzled as to why anyone would still try to force their way past her, cast a cold glance her way. “I haven’t even asked why the Su family forbids my junior sister from learning magic.”

Su Tongjing’s face darkened, and she finally replied stiffly, “Mother has her reasons for everything she does.”

Mother, Su Jin’an’s mother? Or her own mother?

Ji Weining couldn’t make sense of it.

“I have no say in your Su family’s affairs, but she is my junior sister, and I will intervene.”

In the next moment, Su Tongjing waved her hand, and a cloud of white smoke materialized before her eyes.

Ji Weining hadn’t expected someone to use such tricks in front of her. With a swift countermove, she dispersed the mist.

Su Tongjing, who had been preparing to climb the wall, froze in surprise. She hadn’t anticipated her magic being so easily broken by this person, and a trace of resentment lingered in her heart.

“It’s not like you.” are insane.

Lacking the strength to confront her, she could only curse inwardly.

Ji Weining rolled her eyes. “If your family doesn’t want Jin’an, why prevent others from taking her in?”

If they didn’t want her, she would.

“Since when have we not wanted her?” Su Tongjing finally snapped back, her anger flaring. After a moment to collect herself, she said coldly, “As long as her life lamp remains lit, we can find her.”

They would never abandon her. It was just that leaving the Su family would be safer for her than staying.

“But do you know what condition she was in when she returned to Qingheng Mountain?” Ji Weining hesitated, reluctant to continue.

“How could she be harmed?”

Su Tongjing clearly hadn’t considered this possibility. She never imagined Su Jin’an would come to harm. It was beyond her expectations, beyond everyone’s expectations.

“When she arrived at Qingheng Mountain, she was covered in demonic energy.”

“But, isn’t she immune to demonic corruption?”

Ji Weining pressed, “And the knife wounds? Who inflicted those?”

She had asked Mu Chanjuan, who said Su Jin’an was already injured when she found her.

“She’s injured?” Su Tongjing raised her voice.

A woman in black wearing a tail cap stepped out from behind Su Tongjing and asked coldly, “Is Jin’an injured now?”

Judging by her voice, she seemed to be of an older generation than them.

“She’s healed.” Ji Weining glanced at them and began sizing them up.

“We mean no harm. We just want to see how Jin’an is doing now.”

“Coming to Qingheng Mountain is her fate, and likewise, her trial.”

All this talk of fate and trials these people were always so cryptic.

She had always known, yet she could only accept it.

“I am Su Yu, the head of the Su family.”

The head of the Su family, huh.

“Ajing, go back first. I need to discuss a few things with her.”

“Yes.” Su Tongjing suppressed her thoughts and finally walked away.

“Please take care of Jin’an.” Su Yu handed her a Qiankun bag.

It was just like what she had read in storybooks being given a fortune to leave this place.

What kind of person did they take her for?

Ji Weining looked at her calmly, waiting for her to continue.

She had already prepared over a dozen tactful responses in her mind, ready for a battle of words.

“Jin’an will likely need your care from now on.” She took out five more Qiankun bags and stuffed them into Ji Weining’s hands.

“Our Su family still can’t protect her properly, which is why we didn’t dare let her learn spiritual power.”

When one lacks strength, the best approach is to keep her from exposure.

Of course, Ji Weining felt her words were half-truths and couldn’t be fully trusted, so she simply listened quietly.

“Jin’an has her own destiny.” And that destiny was Qingheng Mountain.

Su Yu didn’t elaborate further. She knew very well that Su Jin’an did not truly belong to the Su family.

“What else do you know?” Ji Weining asked her.

Everything about Su Jin’an was so scarce.

“She is not my child. She was bestowed by divine decree. She is simply Jin’an.”

Not Su Jin’an.

Just Jin’an?

“Then why tell me this?”

“Everyone knows that Ji Weining, the senior disciple of Qingheng Mountain, never gives up until she achieves her goal.” Su Yu looked up at her, hoping to find the answer she sought in her eyes.

Ji Weining understood her meaning. If Su Yu didn’t tell her, she would find countless ways to uncover the truth. So, it was better to just tell her.

“You’re quite open-minded. Then what is the meaning of these?” Ji Weining weighed the bags in her hand.

Su Yu laid out her condition: “I want you to ensure Jin’an doesn’t suffer even the slightest harm.”

“Agreed.”

Ji Weining accepted the Qiankun bags.

“If Jin’an needs anything, you can contact me. The Su family is not yet stable, so it might be a while before she can return.” Su Yu looked up at the dark night, where only a few stars twinkled.

“Naturally.” Ji Weining replied. Even without being told, she would do it.

Su Yu added, “She has a connection with you. Consider it fate.”

“If the Su family recovers and Jin’an doesn’t want to return, please don’t force her.” Ji Weining looked into Su Yu’s eyes, almost pleading.

She didn’t want Su Jin’an to go back.

She wanted her to stay here, always.

Always, together with her.

Su Yu had never considered this question. Originally thinking to follow the predetermined course, she ultimately conceded, “Alright, then let Jin’an decide everything when the time comes.”

“Mm.”

“What about the Northern Xu Ling Festival?” And why must the Su family get involved?

“The Su family can yield to other families, but the person must be Su Jia.”

Su Jia, not Shen Jia.

Su Jia carries half the bloodline of the Su family and is the sole descendant of the Shen family’s main lineage. Only in this way can she enter the Shen family’s inheritance. And they must abide by the divine decree to bring the foremost aristocratic family under their control.

“It’s necessary.”

“Take this.” Shen Yu retrieved another token from her sleeve, inscribed with “Hall of Wind and Snow.”

“This hall belongs to you?”

“Yes. In my youth, I came here with the Huangfu clan and established all of this.”

In the end, it became her own power in the north.

“Your spiritual power now is different from what the rumors say.” Ji Weining met her gaze.

She should be at the mid-stage of Deity Transformation, but now Ji Weining could only sense the late-stage Nascent Soul level. And Su Tongjing earlier had only the perfected Golden Core level of spiritual power.

“The Su family’s secret.” She smiled faintly.

Indeed, since they could align with the divine decree, there must have been some losses. Ji Weining had vaguely guessed as much. Members of the Su family seldom left their territory, so it was rare to see them emerge now and she had encountered two at once.

Oh, three her junior sister could be considered half a member of the Su family.

What was her relationship with the Su family?

Seeing Su Yu about to leave, Ji Weining pressed further, “What about Jin’an? What do you consider her to be?”

“Someone the Su family needs to protect.” Su Yu met her eyes and said no more.

To claim they wanted to protect her yet abandoned her in such a place, the thought made Ji Weining somewhat angry.

“If you want to protect her, then stay away from her.” Ji Weining waved a hand, not looking at her again, and turned back to her room.

Su Yu stood for a long time, gazing in the direction Ji Weining had departed.

Su Jin’an was still sleeping soundly. Ji Weining turned to her side and held her tighter.

“Senior Sister.” Su Jin’an murmured, feeling the pressure on her.

“Mm.”

“Loosen up a bit.” Su Jin’an patted the back of her hand, and Ji Weining relaxed her hold slightly.

Only by holding her close did Ji Weining feel at peace. She didn’t know if her junior sister felt the same, or if she could stay by her side forever.

She wanted to be with her, always together.

“Junior Sister.” Ji Weining called her softly.

By dawn, Ji Weining awoke to her surroundings, the daylight already bright, she had slept rather late.

“Senior Sister is awake.” Su Jin’an in her arms was playing with her loose hair.

Ji Weining didn’t respond or release her; instead, she held her even tighter.

“Does Senior Sister enjoy holding me this much?” Su Jin’an reached up to Ji Weining’s cheek and pinched it gently.

Ji Weining, still groggy from sleep, retorted, “If not you, who else would I enjoy holding?”

“Weining Senior Sister.” A knock came from outside the door.

“Senior Sister, it’s time to get up.”

They had been assigned two rooms but ended up using only one, who knew what the Shen family would think.

“Naughty junior sister.” Ji Weining finally released her and sat up.

Su Jin’an also propped herself up weakly on the bed, her expression contemplative as she quietly watched her.

Ji Weining rose and pushed the door open to find Su Jia standing outside.

“What brings you here?” She had already arranged most of the matters regarding Xu Lingjie, why was Su Jia seeking her out again?

Only then did Su Jia notice that Ji Weining had emerged once more from Su Jin’an’s room. The nature of their relationship was unmistakable.

Su Jia raised a hand to her lips, masking the surprise in her eyes.

“My mother has arrived.”

Su Jia’s mother, Su Nuo, belonged to the most renowned branch of the Su family’s collateral lines. Although her magical abilities fell short of the main family’s, she had inherited the Su family’s art of divination calculating the ways of heaven and earth, mastering all but the fate of humans.

“Indeed, it’s only proper to pay my respects.”

Joy was unmistakable on Su Jia’s face. Ever since she had gone to Qingheng Mountain, she had rarely seen her mother. As a child, she had lived with her mother away from the main family. But when she was six, her mother left for the Su family’s main residence, while Su Jia was forcibly taken back to the Shen family by Shen Ling, where she suffered mistreatment.

It was this that made Su Nuo realize she could not adequately protect Su Jia, prompting her to send her daughter to Qingheng Mountain. From then on, Shen Ling and Su Nuo became sworn enemies. Were it not for Su Jia, their relationship might have remained that of strangers rather than adversaries.

As they approached the doorway, they could hear the voices of Su Nuo and Shen Ling.

“I ask you, how did my Jia’er become a member of your Shen family? And why must she now fight for your Shen family’s cause?”

“Su Nuo, I know I was at fault back then. You must understand, that was never my intention.”

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