Starting Cultivation by Marrying the Weaver Girl

Chapter 5: Escape

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The Weaver Girl snapped out of her thoughts and immediately pressed her palm against Lin Yao’s chest.

However, there was no blood as one might expect.

It felt more like she was caressing her husband’s chest.

Lin Yao grabbed her hand, flipped her over, and pinned her beneath him.

All fatigue and weakness vanished in that moment. Now, he was the true master of this manor.

“When did you realize that this was a Weaving Fate illusion I created?”

The Weaver Girl frowned slightly, though not out of discomfort from being pinned down by Lin Yao.

On the contrary, she found this handsome man quite intriguing.

Lin Yao stood up and lifted the Weaver Girl into his arms.

She was as light as a feather in his embrace, yet she remained calm.

“At first, I thought Xiu Niang was suspicious. The way she acted when facing this door didn’t seem like fear but rather an uncontrollable excitement, which is unusual for a personal maid. Secondly, after I obtained the marriage contract and pawn ticket, you weren’t in a hurry, as if everything was under your control. Finally…”

Lin Yao chuckled and pointed at the corpse on the ground.

“You seemed to have prepared everything in advance. You gave me Weaving Fate, planted a curse in my heart, and left me no way out, all to make me fight the Cowherd and eventually return the marriage contract to you, ending this farce of a wedding night. So, I guessed that all of this was your Weaving Fate.”

He placed the Weaver Girl on the wedding bed and sat down beside her.

“The rules of the Rebirth Inn state that you cannot lie, and more importantly, you cannot break your promises. What I needed to do was make subtle changes to your Weaving Fate, turning your illusion into my stage.”

As the Weaver Girl listened, a strange light flickered in her eyes.

To an outsider, the two of them looked like a newlywed couple.

The Weaver Girl leaned against the bed curtain, her fingers gently lifting Lin Yao’s chin. She studied the man before her, searching for any sign of weakness in his eyes.

But she failed.

Lin Yao’s gaze was filled with desire for her.

And this, ironically, became the most fatal point.

What she wanted to see was someone as calm and collected as Lin Yao completely surrendering to his desires, falling into depravity, and becoming one of her collections.

Lin Yao, fully aware of this, stopped holding back. He let the Weaver Girl believe he had lost his rationality, using his own desires to guide her and weave his own Weaving Fate illusion.

“Betting your life as the stake, using desire to break the situation, and overturning my world—Lin Yao, you truly are a special man. But whose face is it that you see in your desires now?”

Whose face?

Lin Yao himself didn’t have an answer.

The Weaver Girl had been setting up this place for over a century. Trying to break through her Weaving Fate in such a short time was a dead end from the start.

Likely, many grooms before him had also obtained Weaving Fate.

Perhaps Lin Yao’s choice was different from theirs.

The Weaver Girl had guided them step by step, leading them to the deepest despair amidst hope.

But the solution to this game had been revealed from the very beginning.

He was the groom, and she was the bride.

That was all.

Lin Yao took out the marriage contract, now stained with his blood.

In ancient times, weddings emphasized the importance of the marriage contract.

Even if the ceremony was performed, the wedding wasn’t considered complete without it.

Coincidentally, the blood Lin Yao had spat out had stained the contract.

The ritual was complete, and the game was over.

He handed the marriage contract to the Weaver Girl.

Her hand trembled as she took it. After staring at it for a long time, she returned it to Lin Yao.

“Fine. You only did this to solve the puzzle. But now, you are my husband. When do you plan to consummate our marriage, my dear?”

The Weaver Girl smiled sweetly, her arms already wrapping around Lin Yao’s neck.

Her red lips brushed against his, teasing and tempting.

To break the game, Lin Yao had already used Weaving Fate to stir up his desires.

Combined with the Weaver Girl’s actions, he was truly struggling to suppress his impulses.

Feeling Lin Yao’s increasingly heavy breathing, the Weaver Girl pressed closer.

Her teeth gently nibbled his earlobe.

“My dear husband, do you dislike me so much that you refuse to consummate our marriage?”

As she spoke, her already disheveled wedding dress slipped further, revealing her delicate figure almost entirely to Lin Yao’s gaze.

Desire surged like a tidal wave.

“No.”

Lin Yao bit his tongue, the sharp pain bringing some clarity to his mind, which was on the verge of being consumed by desire.

“The Weaver Girl’s rule was to make the restrained fall and the succumb to corruption.”

If he consummated the marriage, he would likely become one of her collections in the next moment.

But the most troublesome part was that Lin Yao’s own rule was to become the Weaver Girl’s husband.

Although they had performed the ceremony and signed the marriage contract, if the Weaver Girl insisted on consummating the marriage, he would be in a difficult position.

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Just as Lin Yao was racking his brains for a way out,

a soft thud sounded.

The ox hide fell to the ground.

The Weaver Girl’s movements suddenly froze, and Lin Yao seized the opportunity to get off the wedding bed, calming the restlessness in his heart.

He bent down to pick up the ox hide but found his hand stepped on.

Lin Yao looked up to see the Weaver Girl, who had somehow returned to sitting on the bed, gazing down at him with cold, authoritative eyes.

Perhaps this was the true demeanor of this celestial maiden.

Lin Yao pulled his hand free, rubbing the sore spot on the back of it.

“There’s an ox pen in this manor. The ox locked inside might be the one you mentioned. After it died, I obtained this ox hide.”

He didn’t try to hide its origin. If he angered this ancient celestial maiden,

even if she had only regained a fraction of her power,

the laws of this domain alone would make things difficult for him.

However, he didn’t explain the purpose of the ox hide.

“So it really is that beast.”

The Weaver Girl snorted coldly and continued,

“I advise you not to be fooled by that beast and become the next Cowherd. Otherwise, I won’t hesitate to kill you.”

Lin Yao frowned. He had guessed that this item was left behind by the old yellow ox from the original story.

But even in the original tale, the ox’s identity was never revealed.

He immediately asked, “Do you know the identity of this old ox, my dear?”

Hearing Lin Yao call her “my dear,” the Weaver Girl was momentarily stunned. But considering they had already performed the wedding ceremony, it wasn’t inappropriate for him to address her this way.

He was indeed cautious, but that was good. It would prevent him from dying too quickly after leaving this place.

“To tell the truth, that beast was originally a human. But he chose the path of the beast, enduring the suffering of the six domestic animals to achieve immortality. To escape this fate, he came to this small mountain village. Coincidentally, I was visiting the mortal realm that day and was deceived by him. The Cowherd took advantage of the situation and imprisoned me.”

At this point, the Weaver Girl resumed her pitiful demeanor, clutching Lin Yao’s arm.

“My dear husband, please don’t misunderstand me. Those two children were merely puppets made from my bloodline. They imprisoned me for decades, all for the elusive goal of becoming immortals. But all of this was just a trap set by that beast. Fortunately, its greed led to my release during the sacrificial ceremony. It thought I would flee, allowing it to possess the Cowherd.”

A mocking smile appeared on the Weaver Girl’s lips.

“But what it didn’t expect was that I went to the Rebirth Inn. Even if it meant becoming this half-human, half-ghost existence, I would take revenge on all of them! Thankfully, after a hundred years, I met a man like you, my dear.”

As she spoke, the Weaver Girl pulled Lin Yao toward the wedding bed.

“How do we leave this place?”

This time, Lin Yao didn’t hesitate at all. He pulled his arm free from the Weaver Girl’s grasp.

She wasn’t angry. Lin Yao’s departure was only a matter of time.

“Just dispel the laws of this domain. But after we leave, accompany me to the Rebirth Inn.”

“What is that place?”

Lin Yao remembered that the pawn ticket was also issued by the Rebirth Inn.

He was quite interested in this place, as it had allowed a celestial maiden to regain a portion of her divine power.

Such a place must be incredibly profound.

“It exists between life and death. Only those who refuse to reincarnate after death can enter the Rebirth Inn. Those who enter must state their wish and pay the corresponding price. As for my current state, my dear, you’ve already seen it, haven’t you?”

Lin Yao focused his mind, and the laws of the domain began to dissipate.

“But on the pawn ticket…”

“That was just the price to regain my divine power. The cost to maintain it is my body. After this retrieval, I can finally consummate our marriage, my dear.”

The Weaver Girl chuckled, her wedding dress restoring itself to its original state.

Lin Yao didn’t pay much attention to her words. The relationship between them was merely maintained by the marriage contract. They were both using each other.

“In that case, why don’t you return to the heavens?”

“The heavens?”

The Weaver Girl laughed softly, standing up and walking to the door of the bridal chamber. As she pushed it open, she said,

“My dear, you might be one of the few remaining mortals in this world.”

(End of Chapter)