(Inside the small courtyard)
Jiang Xuan quickly responded, “Um… Liuyun, please wait a moment. I’ll open the door right away.”
As he spoke, he rushed to change his clothes and stuffed all the messy items in the room into his storage ring in a panic.
Moments later, Jiang Xuan opened the door, and Nangong Liuyun looked at him with a gentle expression, and asked, “Husband, I feel like you’ve lost some weight in just one day. And it took you quite a while to open the door… were you busy with something in the room?”
“N-No… it’s nothing… I just wanted to tidy up the room a bit to show you my best side, so I took a little time to clean up.”
“Oh? Then I must take a good look at my husband’s room.”
As Nangong Liuyun finished speaking, she stepped into Jiang Xuan’s room. She glanced around for a moment, and Jiang Xuan noticed her smile slowly fading.
Without saying anything, she turned and locked the door, an action that sent chills down Jiang Xuan’s spine.
Quickly, Jiang Xuan brewed a cup of spiritual tea and handed it over, “Liuyun, have some tea to warm yourself. Are you… not satisfied with my room?”
Nangong Liuyun didn’t take the tea.
Instead, she slowly sat down on the bed and asked calmly, “Husband, are you hiding something from me? First, there are several different traces of feminine aura on your body. I suspect they belong to different women. That means, after leaving the Nangong family yesterday, you met with multiple women. Second, this room has the aura of your childhood friend, Xia Xiaoyu, which means you spent the night alone with her. Third, when you heard I had arrived, your first reaction wasn’t to come greet me but to clean up the room. That suggests there was something here you didn’t want me to see. Am I right? Comparing how you looked yesterday to now, I already have a general idea of what happened.”
Jiang Xuan: “!!!”
At that moment, Jiang Xuan was completely stunned.
[I’m doomed. Xia Xiaoyu is going to be the death of me!]
[Wait, she seems calm… maybe there’s still a chance to salvage this.]
[Xia Xiaoyu’s cultivation surged yesterday, maybe I can push everything onto her? Not sure if she can handle it, but after all, it was her fault to begin with.]
Just as Jiang Xuan was scrambling to find a perfect explanation, Nangong Liuyun patted the seat next to her, “Husband, come sit beside me.”
Seeing her warm and radiant smile, Jiang Xuan felt a chill run down his spine.
He quickly said, “Liuyun, I can explain everything that happened yesterday…”
“No need to explain. I already understand most of it. It’s my fault for not protecting you well enough. You’re just a gentle man without much strength, and with such an attractive face, it’s only natural that some ill-intentioned people would target you. I just didn’t expect those people to be so bold, doing such things right inside the Jiang family. It’s alright. I’ll erase all these stains for you. As long as those people disappear forever, that will be enough.”
As she spoke in a soft voice, Jiang Xuan felt a shiver down his spine.
To others, her words might sound like an arrogant young woman boasting. But to Jiang Xuan, he could clearly sense that Nangong Liuyun was truly angry, even though her face showed no obvious emotion.
He sat down beside her and tried to reason, “Liuyun, I appreciate your kindness, but with your current strength, I don’t want you to get hurt for my sake.”
“It’s alright. I won’t let a single person who hurt you go unpunished. But the one who truly harmed you was Xia Xiaoyu, right? Husband, how do you think we should deal with her?”
Jiang Xuan: “…”
Seeing that Jiang Xuan didn’t answer immediately, Nangong Liuyun smiled again, but this time, there was a suppressed madness behind it. “By the way, she’s your childhood friend, and she managed to sneak into the Jiang family undetected by any of its experts. That must have involved your cooperation, didn’t it? So, does that mean you did it willingly? That you’ve already betrayed me from the heart?”
“No no no, it wasn’t willing at all. Here’s what really happened. Last night, Xia Xiaoyu sneaked into my room and asked me to break off the engagement with you. I firmly refused her. I thought she’d give up, but she got overwhelmed by sadness and fell into a state of demonic obsession. In that state, no matter how I called out to her, I couldn’t wake her up. And then, somehow… she… Liuyun, you have to believe me…” New chapters come out on NovelPing first.
Truthfully, what Jiang Xuan said wasn’t far from what really happened.
He had almost talked Xia Xiaoyu out of it, but who could’ve guessed she had another wild personality hidden inside her?
After hearing his explanation, Nangong Liuyun seemed lost in thought.
She nodded slightly and said, “Hmm, I believe you. But regardless of the reason, anyone who dares to touch my man won’t be allowed to live.”
At that moment, Jiang Xuan cried out inwardly, [Aiya, Xia Xiaoyu has been flirting with death all this time, and now she’s really finished. She provoked the big boss!]
[Sigh, should I try to help her? After all, in her normal state, Xia Xiaoyu is just a silly girl who hasn’t done anything truly bad. She is my childhood friend, and there are still some feelings there.]
[But… I’m not confident I can save her. If I mess this up, I might make Nangong Liuyun even angrier.]
After thinking for a while, Jiang Xuan still decided to give it a try. After all, his relationship with Xia Xiaoyu was complicated, and his kind heart couldn’t bear to watch her be wiped out.
So, on the surface, he tentatively asked, “Liuyun, could you let Xia Xiaoyu go… just this once?”
Before he could finish, Nangong Liuyun had already locked him tightly in her embrace. Her cold voice echoed beside his ear, “I never thought the husband I love would actually plead for his childhood friend. It seems you still have feelings for her. Heh… a disobedient husband needs to be punished.”
Jiang Xuan: “?????”
Realizing that the situation had taken a dangerous turn, Jiang Xuan quickly tried to backtrack, “Um… can we pretend I didn’t say that?”
“It’s already too late. I need to erase every trace of her aura from your body. Husband, you better be prepared. When I’m angry, I’m not gentle at all.”
As she finished speaking, Jiang Xuan was pushed down onto the soft bed, and the freshly changed clothes he had just put on were instantly shredded to pieces.
The moment Nangong Liuyun saw the clear traces left on Jiang Xuan’s body, the last thread of her rationality snapped completely.