SCWP Chapter 38

Retreat

Retreat

“Yield?” En Sihan, following behind Lin Qichi, repeated in confusion.

“It’s nothing.”

Lin Qichi maintained a gentle smile on his face, greeting passersby one by one.

In his heart, he cursed Qi Feiyu, blaming him for the slander.

There were many people in the training room, even if it was his own, it was inevitable to have some concerns.

Lin Qichi, recalling En Sihan’s different reaction when she heard Meng Yu’s name, remembered what the family head had temporarily instructed him to do yesterday. He turned to En Sihan and said:

“The Heavenly Master Association will have a gathering tomorrow, would you like to go?”

Lin Qichi returned to his room, where the talisman fire had not yet extinguished.

But it was almost out. The wind from the opening and closing of the door blew out the last little flame.

He decided to bring En Sihan along partly out of selfish motives. Such an important event like the Heavenly Master Association meeting, in the original world line, was where Ye Chenxi made his debut in the overall deployment of the Heavenly Master Association.

En Sihan had been staying in the Wen Ren residence. If the administrator wasn’t slacking off, he should be around Ye Chenxi, ensuring the stability of the world line.

He needed more information now. 041 only followed the established procedures and was hard to trick, so he could only get what he wanted to know from the administrator’s mouth.

As for that Qi Feiyu, he ultimately didn’t throw him to En Sihan. Although this guy’s words and deeds were very unethical, he happened to be inhabiting Meng Yu’s keepsake.

In order not to damage this precious gift, he could only tolerate him for now.

“What were you doing going to that pretty lady just now?” Qi Feiyu came back to his senses, and Lin Qichi had already brought him back.

“Can’t you tell who she is?” Lin Qichi ordered the servants to change the herbal tea; he now felt a psychosomatic stomachache whenever he saw something cold.

“Should I know her?” Qi Feiyu’s tone was still arrogant, as if being recognized by him was a remarkable thing.

“Don’t you find her familiar? Don’t you feel a sense of excitement when you see her?” Lin Qichi’s words came out of his mouth but struck Qi Feiyu’s heart.

“If you like her, go marry her.” Qi Feiyu said it calmly and lightly, but there was a faint threat in his voice.

“I’m asking about you.” Lin Qichi was confused by what he said. Didn’t Meng Yu tell him that he had already married in One Chi Alley?

Qi Feiyu was choked by him again, and he was also played with empty words. He really didn’t expect this guy to have such a double-dealing nature, secretly pondering how this guy could have played that fool so thoroughly if he weren’t here, ruining his lifelong reputation.

A hint of tender green flashed in Lin Qichi’s vision, and he chased it out, stopping with an unfriendly expression by the withered tree in front of the door.

The tree, which had been dead for a long time, was actually sprouting, and in this ghostly weather.

Lin Qichi asked, “Did you do this to the tree?”

Qi Feiyu: “No, he did it.”

Lin Qichi found it strange: “You can communicate?”

Qi Feiyu had obviously learned about some similar symptoms, and his face turned green as he said, “We don’t have multiple personalities.”

Even though Lin Qichi couldn’t see it, he could imagine that his face must look awful.

He couldn’t help but tease, “So you guys have roommates, why don’t you come out and meet me together?”

Qi Feiyu heard that he was implying that they had multiple personalities, secretly mocking this person for having a deep mind and a venomous tongue. Fortunately, the idiot wasn’t here now, or he would definitely be played through and through by this guy, ruining his lifelong reputation.

Qi Feiyu deliberately spoke ambiguously, every word and sentence seemed to be kneaded into honey and rolled around before he said, “Isn’t this just afraid that you can’t stand it?”

Lin Qichi only felt that he was inexplicable, he must have had some kind of stubborn illness again, his brain must have short-circuited. Filled with deep sympathy, he politely complimented back, “Indeed, my place is small, it can’t accommodate you.”

“You understand what I mean.” Qi Feiyu said it with difficulty, and couldn’t help but complain in his heart: this person really doesn’t respond to gentle or tough approaches, he just likes to hear people mock him.

Lin Qichi’s words were straightforward and frank, definitely not a flirtatious remark, his seriousness instantly extinguished any extra interest.

“I don’t understand, just say what you want to say.” Lin Qichi broke off a small piece of bark. It wasn’t that he didn’t trust Meng Yu, but that he couldn’t let his own love affairs involve this household, it was too unethical.

Qi Feiyu listlessly ended this unprovoked interest: “If you know the house is small, then expand it, especially the one on the bed, I’m afraid your waist will hurt from lying on it all the time.”

“I’m not paralyzed, how could I lie in bed every day? If I’m going to lie down, it would be in a rocking chair, preferably with the sun shining on me.”

Qi Feiyu was completely speechless by this retirement-like fantasy: “No ambition.”

“It’s human nature.” Lin Qichi couldn’t help but sigh as he thought of his own rare retirement life.

This tragic new job.

Lin Qichi took the bark back to the room, found a censer, and put it in to light it.

At first, only a small stream of black smoke came out, it must be too damp. Not long after burning, the censer was covered with white smoke, which lingered for a long time and couldn’t be driven away.

Qi Feiyu didn’t dwell on whether it was ambiguous or not, and quickly cleared himself of responsibility: “This needs to be explained by him, it’s really not me who did it.”

“Then you go offline?”

Lin Qichi covered a few more talisman papers on the censer, which, like the white smoke, floated leisurely around the censer, neither breaking nor taking effect.

Just a small effect reflected on the censer was so amazing. If it was that tree outside…

Wouldn’t it be able to wrap his entire house!

“I can’t temporarily.”

“Then explain it first?”

Lin Qichi lifted the lid and poured in the freshly brewed tea. The sparks went out, the smoke disappeared, and the talisman papers fell one after another.

As long as it wasn’t mentioning Meng Yu, Qi Feiyu was more yielding than forceful towards Lin Qichi: “What version of the explanation do you want to hear?”

“Will it hurt every brick and tile, every person in the Wen Ren family?”

“No.”

“Okay.” Lin Qichi slightly lowered his guard.

With his current abilities, he could only take care of the Wen Ren family. When the Ghost Gate node arrived, he could completely let go.

The Heavenly Master Association gathering, the Meng family’s back mountain wild graves, were coming soon.

Now that he had spoken openly with Qi Feiyu, he could also solve the source of his inability to draw talismans.

Lin Qichi was eroded by Yin energy and couldn’t directly look at the talismans. Qi Feiyu’s ghostly power was strong, so naturally, he wasn’t afraid of this bit of harm.

Drawing talismans had become a habit for Lin Qichi; if he missed a day, his heart would feel empty.

Qi Feiyu couldn’t argue with him, and the damage from the Yin energy entering his body was indeed caused by him. He could only do as Lin Qichi said and temporarily lend him his “eyes.”

That was the power of a Ghost King, the authority to see through everything.

Qi Feiyu guessed that he must have learned it from the Wen Ren family’s library, but only Lin Qichi knew that this was the ability that Qi Feiyu was taken away by Ye Chenxi in the original plot.

He originally thought of blocking him, but he didn’t expect it to still be there.

It seemed that there were still many altered plot lines.

Lin Qichi didn’t like being disturbed when drawing talismans. He warned Qi Feiyu in advance and then immersed himself in it.

The jade pendant cooled for a moment, and an icy chill surged up. Lin Qichi frowned uncomfortably, but his pen still didn’t stop.

After a moment, the jade pendant returned to its original state.

Warmth swept over and nurtured his body and soul, which had been eroded by Yin energy.

While Lin Qichi was practicing calligraphy, Qi Feiyu took the opportunity to slip away for a moment. In front of him was a solid mass of Yin energy.

Dimly, one could see the figure of a person inside, in terms of size, it looked like Meng Yu.

“Did you tell him?”

Meng Yu’s voice was lazy, like a sleep talk that hadn’t woken up yet: “What?”

“My name.”

“Your name isn’t unpleasant, don’t be insecure.”

Qi Feiyu frowned, knowing that he wouldn’t be able to get anything out of him, and turned to leave.

Although there were other questions, looking at it like this today, it might not be possible to have a pleasant conversation.

Meng Yu called him to stop: “If you want to swallow me, then hurry up, coming here every day to take a look, if you don’t find it annoying, then I can’t sleep well.”

“After you stop affecting me, I will naturally do so.”

“Forget it, anyway, after merging, someone will just say you have a bad brain, being separate might get you even dirtier evaluations.” Meng Yu’s tone was sincere.

“Who dares?” Qi Feiyu’s words just slipped out, and then he remembered Wen Ren Yi’s mouth.

It was clearly so soft, although often dry, but it wasn’t like its owner, who was so sharplyKilling people.

“How could he dare to say so?” Qi Feiyu wondered, turning back and complaining to Meng Yu.

“You have been influenced.” Meng Yu admitted that he had a moment of jealousy and unwillingness, but everything should end, he was already satisfied.

“Hahahaha,” Qi Feiyu’s tone was light, with a full sense of oppression, and he returned to that cruel appearance, “You’re right.”

“Actually, I quite like him.” Meng Yu said to himself.

Qi Feiyu was stunned and was about to retort when he heard Meng Yu continue:

“I probably… have fallen in love with him.”

Meng Yu’s phantom was blurry and difficult to distinguish, but it carried great emotional fluctuations.

Meng Yu spoke very slowly, but every word was questioning himself, as well as Qi Feiyu.

“Those… are they all really fake?”

“We have been looking for him for a long time.”

“Whether it’s true or false, I will investigate.” Qi Feiyu dropped these words and really left.

Meng Yu didn’t notice whether the other listener was gone, just repeating vaguely: “Really… a long time.”

Lin Qichi only felt that the surrounding temperature suddenly dropped sharply, not like an ice cellar, like an ice cave in the Arctic.

“You…”

Lin Qichi had just uttered a syllable when the part of his mouth that was making the sound was blocked by a mass of unknown, cold but very soft thing.

Qi Feiyu’s voice came from close to his ear: “Close your eyes.”

Lin Qichi knew the danger of this large mass of Yin energy, which was about to solidify. Without Qi Feiyu telling him, he busily closed his eyes.

His physical eyes were closed, but the power that Qi Feiyu had given him remained.

Lin Qichi clearly “saw” the bright color behind the Yin energy.

As soon as Qi Feiyu let go of him, he heard Lin Qichi’s silly words.

“So beautiful.”

“Then are you coming again?” Qi Feiyu’s eyebrows and eyes were charmingly bewitching, and a slight smile was captivating.

“That’s too embarrassing.” Lin Qichi still remembered the just now of mutualhate, and moreover, this was very sorry for Meng Yu.

“Try again.” Yin energy circled around Lin Qichi’s body, but it was very thin, as long as he wanted to struggle, he definitely wouldn’t be able to trap him.

“I’ll refuse politely, honey.” Lin Qichi smiled at him and broke free from the surrounding restraints.

Lin Qichi always felt that he was a firm marriage advocate. Little Fish was the only accident. Moreover, his lover seemed to have developed schizophrenia. It wasn’t fair to either of them right now. It was better to wait until it was cured before proceeding to the next step.

And…

“What are you worried about?”

Lin Qichi sat upright in the chair, his back pressed against the back of the chair, Qi Feiyu was still pursuing him relentlessly.

“Haha, nothing, nothing.” Lin Qichi’s intuition told him that Qi Feiyu definitely didn’t want to hear that answer, so he just dodged.

Honestly, it was certainly difficult for few people to resist a beauty suddenly sitting on their lap.

But Lin Qichi, relying on his conscience, the main point being that it was difficult to end, plus some external factors, stubbornly resisted.

It’s just that if he didn’t get up again, Lin Qichi felt that he could directly change his name to Liu Xiahui.

Qi Feiyu wasn’t in a hurry either, repeatedly closing the distance between the two, teasing him tantalizingly.

The temperature on the jade pendant gradually rose, so that Lin Qichi wouldn’t faint again in the Yin energy encirclement.

“I beg you, get down.” Lin Qichi couldn’t help but beg for mercy, the Yin energy had solidified into a solid body, and every time it floated on his body, it felt like being touched by the person himself.

Qi Feiyu leaned closer to look at his trembling eyelashes, the meaning was self-evident.

“So you can beg for mercy too?”

“I’m really going to be frozen to death by you.” Lin Qichi said, his teeth still chattering.

“Change this sentence, and I’ll get down.” Qi Feiyu narrowed his beautiful peach blossom eyes dangerously, the red in his eyes seemed to burn even more intensely.

“Spare me.” Lin Qichi raised his head and held up his hand to cover his eyes.

Bewitching was really bewitching, and cold was also really cold.

Originally, coming a small amount of times every night was enough to be unbearable, this time there was so much all at once, it froze away any lewd thoughts.

The heat on the jade pendant could alleviate the piercing cold of the Yin energy, but with a large amount of Yin energy surrounding him layer by layer, there was only that bit of heat source, no matter how hard it tried, it couldn’t completely alleviate it.

Lin Qichi had difficulty breathing, taking deep breaths little by little. The symptoms of chest tightness and shortness of breath after his body was eroded by Yin energy also began to appear.

Qi Feiyu busily retreated farther away, but the Yin energy didn’t move with him.

The extinguished censer lit up again with wisps of white smoke, which swept towards the desk together, gently enveloping Lin Qichi.

Qi Feiyu slightly hooked his finger, and a thin square outer skin peeled off the side of the withered tree outside the house that was close to the door.

The bark turned into the still-open censer, and with more combustible materials, the white smoke was even thicker.

Lin Qichi finally felt a little better. The Yin energy around him should have been taken away. His eyes slowly opened, looking in astonishment at Qi Feiyu, who had suddenly appeared in a solid, real version in front of him.