After Abandoning the Ruthless Dao Swordmaster

In Wu Su’s perception, what happened last night could only be a mistake.

At the banquet, she had accidentally bumped into the distinguished guest, and Prince Jing had scolded her.

Later, she did… Wouldn’t it be a heinous crime if she did such a thing?

If that vicious Prince Jing knew about this, what would he do?

Wu Su didn’t want to be driven out of Prince Jing’s mansion. She wanted to work here indefinitely.

But what about the pearl earrings that had to be taken back?

From her jewellery box , Wu Su took out some pitiful silver hairpins and a few plain silver earrings with simple shapes.

These things are all rewards from Prince Jing’s Mansion, and they are not worth much.

Wu Su used her magic, but she couldn’t conjure a round pearl out of thin air.

Or… should she go back and look for it? Wu Su furrowed her eyebrows, thinking this might be a solution.

She pulled up her long hair and combed it into a simple bun, ready to find a good moment to leave.

Wu Su was originally a monster formed from a surge of chaos energy, and her body was weaker than that of ordinary people.

When she moved, she lost all strength, and leaned sleepily against the dressing table.

Last night… I was really tired.

She sighed softly, a little helpless, but not shy because of it.

She didn’t know about men and women, and she didn’t know what it meant. She only remembered the uncontrollable joy of last night.

It’s wonderful, but Wu Su doesn’t crave this feeling.

While Wusu was thinking, someone directly pushed the door of her room open.

“The door is unlocked, Wu Su, are you awake?” Lin Meng looked Wu Su up and down.

She saw Wu Su’s soft brows and eyes drooping, her expression was a little tired, and there was a faint pink on her cheeks.

Her radiant and shy appearance was somewhat different from her usual cold and dull manner.

“Why did you sleep so deeply last night?” Lin Meng asked.

“I was thirsty at night and wanted you to warm a pot of water for me. I knocked on the door for a long time, but you didn’t respond.”

“You wouldn’t…sneak out to do other things, right?” Lin Meng covered her lips, worried about her reputation with Steward Lu.

“No.” Wu Su said softly. When she lied, her expression was calm.

Steward Lu sent someone to bring over some food. It was the unused food from the banquet dining room last night. He brought it for you to eat.”

Lin Meng said in a dull voice.

Wusu does not need to eat human food to satisfy her hunger, but carefully cooked food can still be a delicious experience.

Therefore, if she had the opportunity to try it, she would not refuse.

Lin Meng and Wei Li were both present, and they would barge in and talk to her from time to time, so Wu Su couldn’t find a good moment to leave.

“The Steward said he would come to collect things later, Wu Su, have you tidied up yet?”

Lin Meng mentioned the clothes and jewellery that needed to be returned.

Wu Su’s footsteps froze for a moment. She still had to find the pearl earring. If she said she lost it, she would be punished.

Moreover, she thought that the distinguished guest would be very angry after waking up after last night, so if she went to search for the missing earring, he might be able to identify her.

She remembered that she was the one who held onto him last night, which was somewhat offensive.

Wu Su frowned slightly, and said softly, “It’s done.”

She opened the food box that Steward Lu had sent, and on the upper layer was a plate of cherries from a foreign country, which looked fresh and juicy.

Uncovering the next layer, there was a plate of steamed sea bass inside, but only the head and tail.

Last night, the dining room cooked sea bass and cut the most delicious part of the belly into sashimi.

The remaining parts of the fish could not be allowed to go to waste, so they were steamed by the chefs and given to the servants to eat.

Before, when Wu Su received food from the superiors, she only ate enough to taste the dishes, and Lin Meng and Wei Li split the rest.

Lin Meng hadn’t eaten breakfast yet, so of course she wanted to once again enjoy Wu Su’s share of the food, but Wu Su unexpectedly picked up the food box and walked into her room.

“Wu Su, what are you doing, I haven’t eaten yet!” Lin Meng complained.

“Didn’t Steward Lu give it to me?” Wu Su held the food box, turning her head and tilting it slightly to the side, her eyes vague and unfocused.

Her irises were as black as thick ink, flawlessly clear under the early morning sunlight, holding an inexplicable feeling of strangeness.

“Why are you so stingy?” Lin Meng asked.

Wu Su was about to speak when the courtyard door was pushed open from outside, and Wei Li, who had left Prince Jing’s mansion last night, walked in with a spring in her step.

“A’Meng, I brought breakfast back, you eat with me, leave her alone!” Wei Li took Lin Meng’s hand and smiled.

She held up the small paper bag in her hand, which should be steamed buns, judging by the portion, it was only enough for two people.

Wei Li didn’t expect Wu Su to join them.

Wu Su carried the food box and walked into her room.

There was a “click” sound from the door’s lock.

“I just said it last night, something was wrong with her. Could it be that she went to have a private meeting with Steward Lu?” Lin Meng whispered to Wei Li.

“Who knows?” Wei Li smiled, and whispered back,  “Whatever happened to her last night, I was quite happy..”

“What happened?” Lin Meng also became interested “What’s the matter with you, hurry up and say—”

“He kissed me!” Wei Li’s tone was sweet, and she had a look of embarrassment on her face.

“Ah, ah, ah…” The two chattered, occasionally laughing.

Wu Su was in her room, and heard their conversation clearly.

Just after midnight last night, she lost her eyesight, and moved by sensing objects around her, but her hearing had become much sharper.

Wu Su heard Wei Li’s shy and timid voice, “He kissed me——”

Kiss… She raised her hand and touched her lips.

His lips were cold, if she remembered correctly, that distinguished guest had kissed her for a long time.

The tip of the tongue had pried open her teeth and swept every corner between her lips and tongue, inseparable.

Does this have any particular meaning?

Wu Su picked up a cherry, and licked the bright red peel with the tip of her tongue.

Her white teeth gently bit the flesh, and the sweet juice splashed in her mouth.

Oh, it’s really sweet, Wu Su thought.

She took off the stems of the cherries and put them next to the food box.

Then she picked up her chopsticks and searched the head of the bass.

After a long time, the chopsticks picked up a fish eye.

This fish was plump and its eyes were extraordinarily large, just the size of the pearl earring that Wu Su lost.

The spell Wu Su used was very simple. She could only roughly change the shape of an object, and the spell would wear off after some time had passed.

She had tried it with her cheap jewellery just now, but wasn’t able to transform them into pearl earrings.

Wu Su carefully inserted the cherry stem into the fish eye, imitating the general shape of the earring.

When she touched the fish eyes with her fingertips, chaotic aura wrapped around the fruit stems and fish eyes, and a small illusion turned them into pearl earrings.

The stewards who take back the items will open them for inspection. As long as they don’t notice anything, she should get away with it.

Wu Su put the two earrings, one real and one fake, into the jewellery box, folded the borrowed clothes, and stored them safely in the brocade box.

She works slowly, her hands and feet are not very quick, but she is meticulous and patient.

Wu Su ate all the cherries and steamed sea bass by herself. She heard Wei Li and Lin Meng outside still talking about her.

She sat on the desk by the window and spread out a stack of letter papers.

These letters were written by a dead girl to her grandmother.

There were many mistakes in the letter, and the girl hadn’t studied for very long.

No one taught Wu Su how to read, and all the characters she knew came from these letters.

That’s why she was laughed at as illiterate.

The more spiritually rich creatures are, the more yin and yang energy they will produce after death.

The reason why Wu Su insisted on staying here was because she wanted to fulfil the wish of this human girl before she died.

She remembered that she was just a chaos-filled air current at first.

In her original chaos form, she had been able to feel many different energies around her.

Some energies are light and dusty, and some energies are dark and firm, but she wasn’t able to absorb these energies.

As a living being, her instinct is to survive.

Wu Su remembered that when she discovered those energies, there was a dying person lying in front of her.

Her name is Chen Wu, but her name is not important, she is dead anyway.

Chen Wu was very young, less than twenty years old, and her appearance was also ordinary, with a few freckles on her cheeks, which is a bit cute.

She leaned against the innermost end of an alley, covered her heart, and coughed heavily.

Wu Su appeared in front of her curiously, startling Chen Wu.

Chen Wu’s dry lips parted, and she stared at Wu Su with wide eyes, feeling that she was dreaming.

Wu Su circled around Chen Wu in the form of black and white air currents. She was very hungry and weak, and needed to absorb energy immediately.

She knew instinctively that Chen Wu’s breath of yin and yang would disintegrate between life and death, and this was her only source of energy.

Her breath was very cold, making Chen Wu shiver from the cold.

“Is…is it a dream?” Chen Wu whispered.

“When you die, I will absorb your energy.”

Wu Su informed Chen Wu that she would die if she didn’t eat soon, and she lazily leaned against Chen Wu’s neck.

She didn’t make a sound, and her communication with Chen Wu hovered on the edge of her consciousness, which made Chen Wu feel even more like she was dreaming.

Chen Wu flinched nervously.

Wu Su spoke again.  “In exchange, I get your dying energy, and I will fulfil your strongest wish before you die, is that okay?”

She is very polite, as a demon, even when asking about food, she has a conversational tone.

Chen Wu coughed violently again, spitting out a mouthful of black blood, her face pale.

She thought, anyway, it was all a fantasy dream before death, so she agreed.

She nodded.  Wu Su watched her die, the black and white chaotic air wrapped around Chen Wu’s neck.

She absorbed the energy of a dying mortal, and this was the first meal she ate in this world.

Wu Su took a brief look at Chen Wu’s life. Chen Wu came from a faraway country, and there was an elderly grandmother in her family.

Chen Wu’s life is not good, perhaps this is the normal state of many ordinary people in Yundu.

She went to the noble mansion in Yundu to find a job as a servant, but later she fell ill and never recovered.

The host family refused to treat her, so they kicked her out, and she died of illness on the street.

Chen Wu came to Yundu with yearning, she didn’t want her grandma who was far away in the suburbs of Hechuan to worry.

So every time she writes to her, she wants to tell her grandma that she is doing well.

She wrote in the letters that she climbed to the tallest pavilion in Yundu, and saw the city’s shining lights.

The real Chen Wu was dying on the sickbed.

She wrote that she had saved a lot of money, and then she would go back to Hechuan and build a big house for her grandma.

In fact, from the money she had saved, there was not much left for medical treatment.

Chen Wu wished that the illusion she wrote in every letter was true.

Wu Su wasn’t sure if the job would be good or not, but since she had absorbed Chen Wu’s dying energy, she would definitely do it for her.

So, relying on Chen Wu’s inherited memory, she got a stack of thick letter paper, each of which was a letter she wrote to her grandma in the country.

These letters have not been sent, and Tsurukawa is too far away, where does she have money to deliver the letters?

Wu Su recalled her memory, and she unfolded one of the letters on the table.

In the letter, Chen Wu wrote: “Grandma, I am very happy. I met two very nice girls in the place where I was working. They are very cute. They live with me. When I encounter things that I don’t know, I will ask them. ,very nice.”

Wu Su still retains the memory of Chen Wu.

Later, these two friends encouraged her to deposit all the wages she earned in Yinzhuang. Later, the owner of Yinzhuang ran away, and she could not get her money back.

Wu Su took the pen and made a checkmark on the letter, as if she had completed the contents of the letter.

Wu Su wasn’t quite sure what cute meant, but for this kind of thing, she would just think of Wei Li and Lin Meng as being cute.

Prince Jing’s Mansion sent people to take the brocade box back, but they didn’t notice anything unusual.

Wu Su was not on duty yesterday, so she will continue to work today.

After the matter of the earring was taken care of, she went to sweep the yard.

She was relieved to hear that the distinguished guest from last night had left Prince Jing’s mansion.

After what had happened the previous night, Pei Jiuzhi managed to remain calm after waking up.

He didn’t announce that he had been poisoned, he just pretended nothing had happened, bid farewell to Prince Jing, and left Prince Jing’s mansion.

With his sword behind his back, Pei Jiuzhi’s hand tightened on the horse’s reins.  Facing the bright morning light, he carefully studied the pearl earring.

Suddenly, his cheeks were a little red, and he didn’t know what to think of.

Pei Jiuzhi clasped his palms together, took the pearl earrings into his hands, and kept them carefully.

He had already arrived at the Yundu Palace, and the attendants at the side helped him off his horse.

“His Royal Highness, do you have any orders?” the attendant asked while saluting.

Pei Jiuzhi thought for a while, and said two things to the attendant.

“Send someone to investigate the whereabouts of that foreign incense maker last night, try to catch him alive, don’t startle the snake. I will explain this matter to my father.”

“Talk to Fourth Brother and ask him to check if any of the servants in the mansion have lost a pearl earring.”

His tone suddenly became a little strange, and he raised his hand to caress the bandage wrapped around his palm.

“If you can find the person who lost the earring, bring her to my Riyue Pavilion and treat her with courtesy. Don’t scare her.”