The Predecessor Is All Over The Martial Arts World Chapter 10
byCoaxed by Wuming, Hou Danxue’s emotions calmed down slightly, and she buried herself in Wuming’s embrace.
“Are you telling the truth?”
“Of course, it’s true.”
Wuming’s hand stroked her lover’s head, soothing her.
Hou Danxue hadn’t expected Wuming to fall in love with her at first sight. She had thought Wuming was only tempted by the benefits she offered.
She, on the other hand, truly had fallen for Wuming at first sight.
That night, the darkness was deep. She stood by the wall holding a lamp, looking up at the person on the wall top.
The person was dressed in black and masked, clearly a thief, but the pair of eyes that were visible were unexpectedly calm and gentle.
She knew the person had spotted her, and they stared directly at each other until the maid beside her also looked up. Only then did the person vanish around the corner of the wall.
The person disappeared, but those eyes remained unforgettable to her.
At that time, she was in a difficult situation. Her uncle had already prepared her dowry and was planning to drive her out of the family soon.
She wondered, hearing that Young Master Huang was a scholar, would he possess such gentle eyes?
Then, a wave of nausea surged up.
She could not accept that the person with those eyes was a man; she had a physiological aversion to men.
The Five Essences Sect was a matriarchal sect, and through her mother, she had received the sect’s poison lineage. She possessed both strength and ambition.
Yet, being in a traditional, large family like the Hou Manor, her abilities could not be displayed, and her ambitions were suppressed. She watched helplessly as incompetent people gained resources she could not obtain, simply based on their gender!
When she reached adulthood and marriage was discussed, she suddenly realized she felt disgusted by intimate contact with the opposite sex.
That day was the first time her heart had stirred, so she desperately hoped the other person was not the gender she could not accept.
But, were there such women in the world?
The carefree Young Heroine in storybooks wouldn’t climb walls like a thief, nor would she fall in love with an Eldest Young Miss confined to the Inner Chambers.
However, perhaps she was simply ignorant and hadn’t heard such stories?
Once she ascended to power, she would hire a group of people to write such stories for her.
Because of that chance encounter, Hou Danxue’s heavy heart felt much lighter.
She had fallen in love with a pair of eyes, and therefore, she had to climb to the peak, embrace power, and then search for the person who possessed those eyes.
If it was a man, she would kill him. If it was a woman, she would keep her in the back courtyard for her admiration.
Wuming proactively seeking her out was something she hadn’t anticipated. It was too sudden. Wuming removed her veil, revealing an androgynous face.
Hou Danxue’s first reaction was to confirm the person’s gender.
If it was a man, he would have defiled the image of those eyes in her heart, and he must die.
At such close range, no matter how high the person’s martial arts skill, it would be enough for her to poison them to death.
But she encountered a rare probability: the person was a woman! She was actually a woman! Hou Danxue was ecstatic.
She had offended her, and she should be angry. She was indeed angry, but what she thought was that she needed to suppress it, to make those eyes that moved her heart well up with tears.
Wuming had come at the wrong time. Back then, Hou Danxue was weak, her fate manipulated by others, and she was utterly powerless to love her.
If Wuming had appeared when she held power, she could have offered all the best things in the world to her beloved. But at that time, apart from the title of an ornamental figure, she had nothing.
So she tempted Wuming with benefits, and later relied on her body to lure her into infatuation.
She was very insecure about Wuming loving her.
Or rather, people like her craved too much love; she didn’t expect the other person could provide it.
But it didn’t matter; she would actively demand it.
“You said you fell in love with me at first sight?”
“Is it strange that I fell in love with you at first sight, when my wife is so beautiful?”
Hou Danxue pursed her lips tightly. She was a little dissatisfied with this answer.
Beauty… beauty was a useless thing.
If Wuming loved her today because of her beauty, would she love someone else tomorrow for the same reason?
Her desire to bind Wuming to her side grew more urgent.
Wuming possessed high martial arts skills. Without constraints, she could withdraw from this relationship at any time, and this made Hou Danxue very uneasy.
“Bring those men over here!”
“Wife?”
“How many times do I have to tell you? Call me Family Head!”
Wuming was tall, and Hou Danxue had to stand on her tiptoes to touch her face. That severely undermined her authority as Family Head, so she changed to patting Wuming’s hand instead.
Wuming’s little scheme was exposed, and she felt inwardly annoyed.
The title “Family Head” sounded cold and distant. She didn’t know why Hou Danxue was so insistent on it.
What was her fault? She just wanted to be a little more intimate with Hou Danxue.
Why couldn’t they call each other “Wife”?
Wuming suddenly thought of Hou Danxue’s obsession with gaining power, and her mood brightened instantly.
Could it be that she thought the title “Family Head” sounded very dominant??
Hiss… if that was her preference, Wuming wouldn’t mind calling her “Husband” privately. What did it matter how dominant the title was? When she wanted to be dominant, didn’t she still have to coax her?
Hou Danxue was unaware of Wuming’s internal musings. Her subordinates brought all the men forward, and Hou Danxue glared intensely at these “love rivals,” grinding her teeth.
They looked very docile, adopting the posture of concubines, indicating their intention to show filial respect to her, the primary wife.
“We will certainly strive to ensure that the Family Head’s Wife conceives the Family Head’s heir! To ensure the Hou Family has successors!”
Hou Danxue prided herself on her self-control, but this sentence angered her so much she nearly fainted.
How shameless! They dared to openly speak of violating her wife and seizing her family property!
She had originally thought they were merely tempted by profit and could be granted a quick death. Now, she wanted to slice them into a thousand pieces!
“Family Head!”
Wuming anxiously embraced Hou Danxue. Hou Danxue’s face was abnormally pale, and Wuming was startled.
Hearing Wuming’s voice, Hou Danxue turned to look at her, becoming even angrier.
She was beyond comforting!
This person in front of her was too heartless. Didn’t she feel angry hearing such treasonous words? Was she the only one trying hard to maintain their relationship?
“Don’t you feel anything?”
“What feeling? Could it be… they are trying to poison us?!”
Why was Wuming’s mind full of fighting and killing!
Wuming noticed that Hou Danxue’s expression worsened after she voiced her guess. Had she guessed correctly?
These strangely sourced people were indeed harboring ill intentions!
“Don’t be afraid, Family Head! I’ll kill them right now!”
“It’s a misunderstanding!”
Wuming was swift. By the time Hou Danxue spoke to stop her, Wuming had already twisted one man’s neck.
The remaining men realized Wuming’s brutality. All their fantasies of love and fame shattered, and they screamed, retreating backward.
“Family Head?”
Hou Danxue walked up to the corpse and kicked it discontentedly. “He got off too easy.”
She clapped her hands, and the “concubines” running around the courtyard were restrained.
Hou Danxue fed them poison one by one with a cold face.
If they dared harbor such disgusting thoughts, they shouldn’t expect an easy death.
Wuming looked at the corpses bleeding from their seven orifices after consuming the poison. No, he was probably still alive, definitely in great pain, and still struggling.
Hou Danxue… she didn’t have a tendency toward sadism, did she?
The person Hou Chenghong, who had the deepest enmity with Hou Danxue, had only taken one poison pill and died instantly.
“Throw these bodies outside for public display. This is the consequence of daring to covet my wife! Also, Grandmother, she is old and truly should not overexert herself. She needs quiet recuperation.”
After arranging everything, Hou Danxue took Wuming’s hand and led her into the inner room.
“Family Head, your actions are too aggressive.”
Wuming could understand Hou Danxue killing those men. She wasn’t someone who enjoyed killing, but those men had crossed her bottom line.
They were merely puppets selected by Heng Xiangyan; their deaths were inconsequential.
But Wuming couldn’t understand Hou Danxue being so confrontational with Heng Xiangyan.
Heng Xiangyan’s influence in the Hou Family was immense. Hou Danxue had just become Family Head; she shouldn’t act like this. Her dissatisfaction should have been suppressed until she was firmly established in the position of Family Head.
“I grew up in this environment. I understand better than you how to be a qualified Family Head of a major clan.”
Hou Danxue stood on her tiptoes and pinched Wuming’s chin. “But I choose to be willful! I know the result of this willfulness means I’ll have to compensate for it tenfold in other matters, but when it comes to anything concerning you, I refuse to concede even a single step!”
Moreover, the disgust those men brought her by coveting her wife was far greater than the disgust Hou Chenghong caused by trying to marry her off.
She didn’t want to be disgusted anymore; she had to eliminate her grandmother’s petty schemes.
Wuming felt heavy-hearted upon hearing this. She was worried about Hou Danxue.
Wife and wife were one entity. If Hou Danxue lost power, Wuming wouldn’t fare well either.
It was already difficult for them as women to establish themselves in this world, and Hou Danxue was being so reckless in these matters.
How could she not worry?
Love, after all, easily leads to irrationality.
When she first saw Hou Danxue, the cold-faced girl’s eyes were filled with malice, like an iceberg that could freeze people to death.
But when she looked at Wuming, the malice in her eyes completely dissipated, leaving only a shimmering moisture, as if she were trying to elicit pity.
Wuming’s soul was captivated by that look; she nearly slipped off the wall because of it.
Later, she clearly lost her mind, going to great lengths to break through numerous obstacles and enter the other party’s Inner Chambers, even waking her up, just to warn her.
She shouldn’t have done that. It was unnecessary and too dangerous.
Her usual caution vanished whenever Hou Danxue was involved. The once-free Wuming became trapped in the Hou Manor’s back courtyard, tightly bound to Hou Danxue.
Wuming’s thoughts didn’t wander for long—Hou Danxue pressed her against the wall and forcefully kissed her.
Being forced to lower her neck was uncomfortable. Wuming lifted Hou Danxue into her arms, but Hou Danxue stopped kissing and gazed at her affectionately.
“I want to hear… the story of how you fell in love with me at first sight.”
Wuming’s face flushed red. She couldn’t speak at all.
This was too embarrassing.
She was usually a straightforward person, but when it came to romance, she was hesitant. It was almost always Hou Danxue who actively closed the distance between them.
“Wife, I was truly disgusted today. I want to hear something comforting.”
“I… I already said it. Family Head’s appearance is exceptional. I have never seen such a beautiful woman as the Family Head.”
Hou Danxue’s seductive expression couldn’t hold. She bit Wuming’s face in anger.
“That’s not it…”
Wuming winced in pain and freed one hand to push away the face pressed against hers.
“I’m giving you one more chance! Think carefully before you speak!”
They were fine just a moment ago. Why was she so temperamental now? Wuming truly couldn’t understand.
She thought she had met a person molded from snow, but reality told her she might have provoked a fiery little pepper.
“You’re silent! You! You’re silent at a time like this!”
Wuming was greatly alarmed. The development of events was wrong!
She was just slow to react. Why was Hou Danxue starting to act unreasonably? Since when was being slow a mistake!
“I knew it! You don’t love me at all! You only condescended to be with me for the wealth of the Hou Family!”
Tears welled up in Hou Danxue’s eyes. Wuming tenderly kissed her eyes.
“Family Head, I love you.”
“Then why did you have no reaction at all when you heard such outrageous words today?”
The incident was over, and the men were dead, but Hou Danxue still felt a sharp pain in her heart thinking about it.
How dare they! How dare they dream of coveting her wife!
“They looked very weak. There’s no way I could be forced by such weak people.”
“Hmph!”
Hou Danxue sneered, pulling away Wuming’s supporting hands.
“Family Head, where are you going?”
“I’m going to find someone else to have fun with!”
???!!!
Wuming was so angry she trembled. She immediately pulled Hou Danxue back into her embrace.
“It seems I’ve been negligent and failed to satisfy the Family Head!”
“Are you angry?”
Hou Danxue looked at Wuming’s gloomy expression and smiled.
“Family Head!”
“See? You also can’t accept a third party interfering between us. Tell me, if such a person truly existed, wouldn’t you want to kill her too?”
Having her inner thoughts exposed, Wuming looked slightly embarrassed.
However, she didn’t kill women. She would use her lightness skill to throw that person far, far away… If the person was found and persistently returned, Wuming might genuinely break her own bottom line.
“So you are possessive of me too.”
Hou Danxue smiled even more brightly. Wuming’s reaction greatly satisfied her, and the gloom in her heart vanished completely.
“Yes! I want to monopolize the Family Head! The Family Head can only have me.”
Wuming’s hand reached downward, but Hou Danxue caught it.
“Wait, I still haven’t heard the story of how you fell in love with me at first sight.”
“Family Head… is very special. To be honest, the first time I saw you, I noticed your cold, dark eyes. A woman who is both beautiful and wicked instantly captivated my heart.”
When Wuming mentioned “cold, dark,” a deep shadow appeared in Hou Danxue’s eyes.
That was truly frightening. Had her desire to imprison Wuming gone unnoticed?