The Aloof Master Is Secretly Kissed Every Night by the Paranoid Villain - Chapter 10

Feeling a pang of guilt, Wen Shiqing wanted to do something for Xie Yuan.

Thus, while saying, “It is good that you understand,” he walked into the courtyard.

The Chunjing Villa was a courtyard built by the original owner of the body for the sole purpose of drinking wine and admiring flowers. A large-scale array had been established within the courtyard, capable of maintaining a spring-like climate all year round. However, because the array consumed too many spiritual stones, the original owner stopped activating it. He simply let the villa adapt to the alternating seasons, visiting to admire the blossoms only when the peach trees bloomed in spring.

Because no one had lived here for a very long time, this place had become bitterly cold and incomparably desolate during this month of the bitter winter.

Xie Yuan possessed no cultivation. If he lived here, he would absolutely be frozen to the point of falling ill.

Therefore, with a mere thought, Wen Shiqing retrieved spiritual stones from his storage ring.

Forming a hand seal, the spiritual stones scattered in all directions, embedding themselves into the remaining array within the courtyard.

Xie Yuan only felt a tremor beneath his feet, followed by a wave of warmth flowing from the soles of his feet into his entire body.

Afterward, the pond water in the courtyard thawed, the withered grass turned green once more, and the peach trees sprouted buds, grew leaves, and bloomed.

The bitter winter wind transformed into a gentle spring breeze brushing against their faces. Light pink petals drifted down one by one, kissing Wen Shiqing’s hair. Then, they fell intimately into the man’s open palm.

Xie Yuan’s breathing slowed down unconsciously.

He heard Wen Shiqing say to him, “You will be the one to take care of these twelve peach trees.”

“From now on, if even a single one is damaged, I will surely punish you severely.”

Having said that, he waved his hand, casually tossing a stack of book scrolls onto the stone table in the courtyard.

“With your aptitude, you are only worthy of practicing these pieces of trash. A person whose spiritual root has been destroyed should find his proper place and stop aiming for things beyond his reach.”

With his instructions completed, Wen Shiqing finally let out a sigh of relief. Maintaining a cold expression, he brushed past Xie Yuan.

It was not until a long time after he had departed that Xie Yuan finally snapped out of his thoughts. He rubbed the fingers that had just touched the man’s outer robe.

Within the silent courtyard, the youth’s slightly accelerated heartbeat could be heard.

【Host, do not think I do not know that you activated the array for him under the pretext of having him take care of the peach trees! You are being far too good to him!】

【Furthermore, those secret manuals were clearly selected by you with great care, being the absolute best items to help him get started. You certainly played a clever hand at substituting the real things with fake names!】

Wen Shiqing touched his nose guiltily: [But the Main System did not judge my actions as a character collapse either, did it? Just turn a blind eye to it, my baby 00.]

【…You! Enough with your sweet talk!】 The system’s face flushed red.

It still wanted to remain angry, but the host had called it baby.

【Forget it, let this be the last time!】

[Alright.]

Wen Shiqing agreed verbally, but he quietly added in his heart: I will still dare to do it next time.

Instead of returning to the Qinglan Garden, he turned around and headed back toward the Medicine Peak.

At the summit of the Medicine Peak, Lin Xiu’s disciple, Qin Ye, had just finished repairing the stone table that had been smashed into pieces by the Great Elder of the Qingfeng Sect.

Upon seeing Wen Shiqing, he lifted his head to greet him, “Daoist Lord Wen, why have you returned? Is there something the matter?”

Lin Xiu had originally been lying on a lounge chair to the side like an old man, basking in the sun. Upon hearing these words, he immediately flipped himself upward, preparing to flee.

Just as he had lifted half of his body, Wen Shiqing bent down and pressed a hand onto his shoulder. His other hand was holding that flask of fine wine from the Fenghe Building.

The rich aroma of wine filled the air.

“Ah Xiu, why are you running?” Wen Shiqing shook the wine flask. “I know you love fine wine. Earlier, because of Heng’er’s matter, I forgot to give this flask of wine to you. That is why I returned, yet you try to run the moment you see me. What kind of farce is this?”

“You bastard surnamed Wen, stop pretending!”

Lin Xiu swallowed his saliva, but he still stiffened his neck and spoke.

“Whenever you bring wine, it absolutely means nothing good is going to happen. If you want to ask me how to help that new disciple of yours repair his spiritual root, I am afraid I have absolutely nothing to tell you!”

“…”

Wen Shiqing could sense Lin Xiu’s underlying concern for him, which left him somewhat moved.

However, he still said, “I have already obtained the Meridian Fruit. The medicinal ingredients for the Samsara Pill only lack the Soul-Nurturing Grass and the Thousand-Year Penglai Branch, so that method is not entirely impossible.”

“You actually went out of your way to look up that method!” Lin Xiu’s face was filled with complete astonishment. “You even managed to get the Meridian Fruit… Just who exactly is that Xie Yuan to you, and why do you care about him so deeply?”

“I simply find him pitiful,” Wen Shiqing thought for a moment, then added, “Furthermore, this is also something I owe him. I want to do more things for him.”

Since he had come to perform tasks, he had to rely on constantly berating the villain in order to resurrect and return to his own world. Therefore, from Wen Shiqing’s psychological perspective, this was indeed something he owed Xie Yuan.

“You owe him?” Lin Xiu suddenly had a conjecture. His mouth fell wide open, and his voice trembled slightly, “Cou… Could it be that he is the s… son you fathered with some female cultivator?!”

“You abandoned that female cultivator, incurring a debt of romance. When you went out this time, you just happened to encounter that female cultivator on her deathbed, entrusting the orphan to you. Consequently, you felt that you owed Xie Yuan, who had suffered so much misery, so you brought him back to the sect to treat him well under the guise of a master-disciple relationship?!”

“???”

Wen Shiqing was completely dumbfounded by what he was hearing.

As for Lin Xiu, the more he thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed. He nodded repeatedly, “I truly never imagined you would be such a scumbag in secret. If those female cultivators who admire you found out about this, they would probably cry themselves to death. However, we agreed that if I did not date, you would not date, and if I did not have children, you would not have children. In the end, your son is already this big… You truly possess no sense of brotherhood at all!”

“Stop!” Wen Shiqing was finally unable to tolerate it any longer. He interrupted Lin Xiu’s wild and unrestrained imagination.

“He is truly not my son. I simply want to help him repair his spiritual root. Can you not just assume that my benevolence is overflowing?”

However, his explanation yielded little results. Lin Xiu wore an expression that said, “Brother, say no more, I understand you,” and nodded, “Fine, fine, fine, I understand. You do not need to explain any further. Since he is your son…”

“He is not my son!”

“Fine, fine. Since he is your disciple, I can understand your desire to protect him.” Lin Xiu raised his hand, and a damaged scroll appeared in his palm. “This is a damaged scroll that records the locations of the Soul-Nurturing Grass and the Thousand-Year Penglai Branch. Whether you can find them depends entirely on the fortune of you two, master and disciple. As long as you can gather all the medicinal ingredients, I will naturally help you refine the Samsara Pill. With my skills as a top-tier pill cultivator, I can definitely guarantee that the materials you worked so hard to collect will not be wasted.”

Wen Shiqing still wanted to argue, but he felt that it would be meaningless. Ultimately, he could only let out a sigh and thank Lin Xiu, “Thanks.”

“We are brothers, so it is only right.” Lin Xiu snatched the wine flask from his hand, opened the cap, and took a breath of the rich wine aroma. His narrow, fox-like eyes narrowed comfortably.

Then, he heard Wen Shiqing say, “By the way, regarding the matter of helping Xie Yuan repair his spiritual root, I hope you can keep it a secret from everyone, including Xie Yuan.”

“Ah? Why?” Lin Xiu was puzzled. “You have sacrificed so much, isn’t it just to repair your relationship? When the time comes, you can stage a scene of deep paternal… cough, deep master-disciple affection. How wonderful a happy ending would that be?”

Wen Shiqing shook his head.

“There is no need.”

Lin Xiu could see the resolute look in his expression. He shrugged his shoulders helplessly, “Alright, if you say we do not speak of it, then we will not speak of it.”