When a Yandere Cannon Fodder Meets a Dark, Twisted Villain - Chapter 11

These words finally took effect, and the grip around her waist gradually loosened.

No matter how unwilling she felt deep down, Jiang Liuyue had never considered putting her beloved in harm’s way.

“I’m sorry…”

The voice, filled with apology, reached Shi Yining’s ears, leaving her momentarily stunned.

She had grown accustomed to the malevolent ghost being clingy and unreasonable; hearing her apologize so sincerely was actually a bit difficult to get used to.

“Jiang Liuyue, you…”

“It was I who failed to consider things thoroughly, nearly putting Miss Shi in a dangerous position. If Miss Shi wishes to punish me, I will have no complaints.”

The malevolent ghost had rarely shown such weakness. Recovering her senses, Shi Yining’s mind shifted. “Then I punish you by forbidding you from being as intimate with me as you were just now.”

Jiang Liuyue instinctively protested, “That won’t do!”

“See? You said you’d have no complaints, yet you can’t even accept such a simple punishment. You have no sincerity at all.”

“But to me, this isn’t a simple punishment… Miss Shi can hit me or scold me, but you cannot ask me to stay away…”

There was a hint of misery in her voice. Shi Yining’s heart skipped a beat, and she ultimately let the requirement slide.

“Jiang Liuyue, instead of saying all this, why don’t you think about how to recover your memory? Also, I told you before coming to the teahouse not to follow me. You promised, yet you didn’t keep your word!”

“Because only by staying by Miss Shi’s side is there a possibility of recovering my memories…”

“Jiang Liuyue, do you think I’ll believe that?”

“Whether Miss Shi believes it or not, it is the truth…”

Frustrated, Shi Yining simply stopped speaking.

In Yu Shang’s eyes, her Senior Sister had remained silent and looked to be in a bad mood.

She was worried, secretly thinking that her Senior Sister truly hadn’t moved on from Shu Mo. Despite acting indifferent before, she was clearly still very heartbroken.

“Senior Sister, that Scribe Lin has stopped speaking. Why don’t we leave the teahouse first?”

“Very well…”

After a moment’s thought, Shi Yining agreed.

Because of Jiang Liuyue’s earlier outburst, the teahouse was currently in chaos; it was indeed no longer a suitable place to stay.

As she left, she glanced at the third floor again and was surprised to find that the storyteller, Lin Zhiyi, had already vanished.

“Little Junior Sister, do you know when Scribe Lin left?”

Hearing this, Yu Shang looked up toward the third floor and let out a small exclamation of surprise.

“Strange, she was there just a moment ago. How did she disappear so suddenly? She doesn’t seem to have reached the Foundation Establishment stage yet; surely she hasn’t mastered teleportation?”

“This storyteller… perhaps her identity is truly extraordinary.”

“Senior Sister, should I try to investigate her secretly?”

Shi Yining pondered for a moment before nodding. “How about this: for the next two days, we will act separately. I will focus on looking for traces of the evil cultivators, while you, Junior Sister, will be responsible for looking into the storyteller. If either of us finds anything, we’ll use a voice transmission to inform the other immediately.”

“Okay, it’s a deal!”

Leaving the teahouse, Yu Shang quickly departed to gather information elsewhere.

Due to the previous disturbance, it wasn’t long before guards from the City Lord’s Mansion arrived to investigate.

At that moment, Shi Yining hadn’t gone far and happened to be stopped by the leader of the group.

Looking up, she saw a person with a heroic aura, wearing a high ponytail and clad in armor.

Gazing at that familiar face, Shi Yining was momentarily stunned.

It’s her. Why is she here?

“Since Fellow Daoist Shi was in the teahouse, did you see who was causing trouble inside?”

An inquiry reached her ears, interrupting Shi Yining’s train of thought.

“Naturally I did not. If I had seen them, how could I have stayed indifferent?”

“Are those words true?”

“If Fellow Daoist Wen does not believe me, why bother asking?”

“It was my intrusion. Please forgive me, Fellow Daoist Shi. After the hour of the Rooster (5 PM – 7 PM), do you have any free time? I would like to invite you to a gathering.”

Recalling the past, Shi Yining did not refuse and nodded in agreement.

She did not know that this action caused the malevolent ghost following her secretly to fall into a vat of jealousy once again.

The moment they returned to the inn, Jiang Liuyue manifested immediately.

“Miss Shi, that Wen Yue is not a good person. Why did you agree to the meeting?”

“Jiang Liuyue, since you know everything about my past and present lives, then you should also know that Wen Yue once did me a favor.”

The malevolent ghost gave a muffled hum of acknowledgment.

This favor wasn’t huge, but it wasn’t small either.

While following her sect’s orders to go to the Four Seas, Shi Yining had happened to meet Wen Yue and received her help in successfully dealing with a sea demon that was terrorizing the area.

Broadly speaking, she and Wen Yue had been acquainted for a long time, though they were only on nodding terms.

In her previous life, by the time her own reputation had been ruined, Wen Yue had already fallen into the demonic path.

Because of that past favor, she had looked into it and learned that Wen Yue’s family had been wiped out by several rival forces due to a dispute over a mineral vein. Wen Yue had been away and escaped the disaster. To seek revenge, she practiced forbidden arts, and her strength surged in a short time. She killed all her enemies, but the backlash from the forbidden arts was immense; she lost her mind as a result, killing anyone she saw, and earned the title “Ghost-Faced Asura.” Until the day Shi Yining died, she never saw her again.

In truth, the rumors of her “killing anyone she saw” were just hearsay; she hadn’t seen it with her own eyes and couldn’t judge their truth. It wasn’t impossible that she was being maliciously slandered. However, the fact that Wen Yue fell into the demonic path was undeniable.

Now that Wen Yue had invited her to meet, she wanted to take this opportunity to give her a warning so the Wen clan could be on guard.

According to the timeline of her previous life, the dispute over the mineral vein had already begun and was currently in its initial stages…

While Shi Yining was immersed in these thoughts, her waist suddenly tightened as the malevolent ghost pressed close against her.

“Miss Shi, I have an intuition… that Wen Yue harbors unspeakable intentions toward you…”

“Jiang Liuyue, what nonsense are you talking about?”

“I am not talking nonsense. When facing a love rival, intuition is always exceptionally sharp… With so many people coming out of the teahouse onto the street just now, why didn’t she stop anyone else, but stopped Miss Shi specifically?”

“That is naturally because she recognizes me.”

“And the way she looked at Miss Shi—it was all sticky and lingering. Anyway, it made me very uncomfortable just watching.”

“Jiang Liuyue, you are simply overthinking. In both my past and present lives, I have had very little interaction with her, and she has never committed an act of impropriety.”

“I am certain I am not overthinking… Does Miss Shi want to make a bet with me?”

“Bet on what?”

“Bet on whether she harbors unspeakable feelings for Miss Shi. If I am right, and one day she truly confesses to Miss Shi, then our ‘Three-Point Agreement’ will be null and void.”

“Jiang Liuyue, you…”

“If Miss Shi does not agree, it means you agree with my view and are just being stubborn and refusing to admit it.”

“Fine, I agree!”

Even though she knew it was the malevolent ghost’s provocation, Shi Yining still agreed, simply because she did not believe for a moment that Wen Yue would like her.

Aside from everything else, Wen Yue should be aware of her current reputation. While it hadn’t reached the level of infamy from her previous life, it certainly couldn’t be called good. How could Wen Yue possibly like her as she was now?

“Jiang Liuyue, since it’s a bet, there must be a penalty for failure, otherwise it wouldn’t be fair to me.”

“As long as Miss Shi does not make me stay away, I can accept any kind of punishment.”

Shi Yining was held in the ghost’s embrace, her mind racing through several thoughts.

“Jiang Liuyue, if you lose, our other agreement will be cancelled. How about that?”

As soon as she finished speaking, the grip around her waist tightened instantly.

“Miss Shi has such a cruel heart. That was something you already promised; how can you cancel it?”

Shi Yining pursed her lips, her voice turning slightly cold.

“Jiang Liuyue, if you want to bet, you must be prepared to lose. What is this behavior? Do you want to play foul? Do you believe that I could cancel that agreement right now?”

“Don’t…” a response came, seemingly carrying endless supplication, “Miss Shi, I agree…”

A drop of warm liquid suddenly fell onto her neck, and Shi Yining’s mind stalled.

Jiang Liuyue was crying again… Due to the contract, this malevolent ghost’s touch was no different from a living person’s to her. Yet she still couldn’t understand: a soul body is formless and essence-less, naturally having no tears. How exactly were these tears formed?

At that moment, as if possessed, Shi Yining used her fingertip to catch a bit of the tear that still held residual warmth and hadn’t dried, putting it to her lips to taste it carefully.

It was slightly salty, carrying a hint of bitterness.

When she realized what she had done, shame and irritation flooded her heart, and her voice suddenly became extremely cold.

“Jiang Liuyue, let go of me! Don’t play the victim in front of me; I won’t fall for it!”

As soon as she spoke, the ghost’s embrace tightened for a moment, then slowly loosened.

Perhaps having taken a blow, the ghost slowly retreated to the corner of the wall, silently curling her body and squatting down, her head lowered and buried between her knees.

Watching this scene, a pang of pain rose in Shi Yining’s heart for no reason.

“Jiang Liuyue…”

For a long time, there was no response.

This was the first time the malevolent ghost had ignored her. Shi Yining thought that her words just now might have truly been too harsh… Should she go over and apologize?

After a moment of hesitation, she walked forward slowly, gradually approaching that curled-up figure.

When she was nearly within arm’s reach, the originally pitiful ghost suddenly looked up and stood, pulling her into an embrace all at once.

Shi Yining’s body fell forward uncontrollably, and a warm sensation immediately touched her lips.

Jiang Liuyue had kissed her… No, to be precise, it was just an accidental touch, making contact and then pulling away instantly.

“I’m sorry…”

Another voice full of apology reached her ears, leaving Shi Yining uncharacteristically at a loss.

Was Jiang Liuyue apologizing for that accidental kiss?

In truth, she hadn’t felt any repulsion just now.

Gazing at that blurred face and remembering the sensation of that moment, Shi Yining felt quite uneasy deep down. she allowed the ghost to hold her in her arms without struggling.

Upon closer inspection, one could see a rosy flush gradually tinting her pretty face, spreading bit by bit to the tips of her ears.

She did not know that this change in expression was being fully observed by Jiang Liuyue.

The malevolent ghost was secretly overjoyed.

Miss Shi does not reject my touch!

The intoxicating fragrance drifted to her nose from time to time. Jiang Liuyue lowered her head, carefully burying it in her beloved’s embrace, exerting all her strength to restrain herself from doing anything more excessive…

Time passed drop by drop. After a long while, Shi Yining, having recovered her senses, gently pushed the ghost who was still clinging to her.

“Jiang Liuyue, it’s almost time… I have to go meet Fellow Daoist Wen.”

“There is still a quarter of an hour before the hour of the Rooster. Is Miss Shi in such a hurry to see her?”

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