This Place is Not Suitable for Us to Stay, Prepare to Head Out.

The vast Jade Mountain range separated the wasteland at the northwest and the snowy mountain of the southwest. There was a peak where the Jade Mountain range and the southwest corner of Central Plains touched, which was called Elegant Jade Peak.

There were two options for travelling from the Evil Sect to Elegant Jade Peak. One path was to climb the north slope of the Jade Mountain and cut straight through the plateau. The other was around the Jade Mountain, through the Central Plains’ hinterland, then along the ancient road in the southeast to scale the mountain.

The Tengyun Pavilion was located in the southern part of the Central Plains, just east of Elegant Jade Peak.

From the wasteland to Gu Feidi’s Pavilion, they could choose to pass through Qian Province and go straight to the southeast, or go south along with the Jade Mountain range, pass through Liao Province, then travel eastwards. However, the second route would require a detourTeo prepared an awesome map of both potential routes. which would add an extra day in their journey compared to the Qian Province.

Now that Gu Feidi had some doubts about the Wujiang Sect, he would naturally avoid travelling through the Sect’s territory. Thus, the two discussed their new route through Liao Province, and the extra day detour was no issue.

They set out the next morning, and their horses galloped along the main road, the three of them arrived at the next town at dusk.

The town was not small, and there were many shops set up on the street front. Su Yang picked the first inn that was decent looking and dragged Gu Feidi and Mei Shisan inside. Once they got to the room, Mei Shisan followed the inn worker to the horse stable, while the other two walked upstairs to the room.

When they were walking down the corridor, a door beside them suddenly opened from the inside with a loud bang. A young boy around fifteen to sixteen years old rushed out without looking and stumbled straight into Su Yang.

As someone who practised martial arts, Su Yang stopped the energetic boy’s momentum and held him steady.

In the middle of his movement, the gauze cover from his straw hat fluttered and exposed Su Yang’s face in a tiny crack. The young man looked up at Su Yang. As if he had spotted something from the gap, his eyes suddenly burst out in a hint of panic as his whole body froze.

“Liu Lang!”

A loud cry came from inside the room. Then, a man in his twenties came out in a hurry. Seeing the situation, he immediately apologised, “My apologies…My brother is sick and often not in his right mind. Please forgive him if he caused any offence.” He reached out to pull the boy away.

Out of nowhere, the moment the young boy was touched, his whole body trembled as he landed on the ground kneeling with a loud thump, right in front of Su Yang.

Su Yang: “…”

Gu Feidi stepped in front of Su Yang to protect him. “You should keep a closer eye on your brother if he is ill.”

The man abruptly nodded as he bent over and pulled the shivering boy up from the ground then half-dragged and half-hugged him back to the room.

Su Yang also followed Gu Feidi into their room, completely baffled. 

He removed his straw hat, collapsed on the couch, and frowned. “Those two just now were so strange…could that young boy be abducted and was pleading with us for help?”

Gu Feidi broke into laughter. “The man’s concern for the youth is genuine. They must be real siblings. The young one might suffer from an illness to the head since he was behaving differently from that of ordinary people.”

Su Yang agreed with Gu Feidi as he turned away and tossed the whole thing to the back of his mind.

Later that day, they went to the main hall for dinner, as usual, to inquire about any new information, but there was nothing they hadn't heard before.

Back in the room, Su Yang prepared half a basin of water to wash his hair.

In this time period, the only thing he couldn’t adapt to was a lack of personal hygiene. Even after over two years had passed, he still couldn’t stand not bathing and washing his hair for too long. It was non-negotiable in the wild, but as long as he was in a suitable place, he must wash his hair and wipe his body, at least.

As he was about to wet his hair, the door was pushed open as Gu Feidi entered with a copper pot in his hand.

“I knew you planned to wash,” He said with a smile. “I asked the kitchen for warm water. Since today is cold, don’t wash your hair with cold water.”

Su Yang stopped and let Gu Feidi add water to the basin like a well-behaved child. 

After testing the water temperature, Su Yang voiced a “Thank you” before dipping the tip of his hair into the water, and then scooped up the water to wet the root of his hair.

Gu Feidi put down the copper pot, removed his wristbands, and rolled up his cuffs, coming toward Su Yang to help him wash his hair.

Su Yang wanted to hide on impulse. “I can do it myself. You go and keep yourself busy!”

Gu Feidi gathered Su Yang’s hair and chuckled. “Nothing needs my immediate attention. You hold the basin while I help wash your hair. Think of me as one of your servants that helps keep up your strength.”

This behaviour was a bit ambiguous, which made Su Yang’s heart speed up. 

Subconsciously, he felt that this behaviour was over the top, but his body was honest as his hands propped up the basin, letting Gu Feidi stroke the roots of his hair.

Creating foam from the bean powder bath soap, Gu Feidi asked while using his fingers to untangle Su Yang’s hair, “You weren’t very fond of your long hair when you were in the House of Jade. Now, with your hair getting shorter and shorter, I can hardly bind it together. How would you wear your hair crown on your coming of age at twenty?”

Su Yang never thought as far as his coming of age.

If they went by the rhythm of the original plot, Gu Feidi probably killed the Evil Sect’s Young Master before he reached the age of twenty. Now he doesn’t want to follow the script. He planned to ask to re-enter the House of Spirited Jade after they removed the Poisonous Gu at the snowy mountain. He had no plans to return to the Evil Sect.

Therefore, he assumed he would skip his coming of age ceremony.

Seeing that Su Yang didn’t reply, Gu Feidi advised with a smile, “Don’t cut your hair anymore, let it grow out. You look very beautiful with long hair.”

Feeling gloomy, Su Yang pouted. “My short hair isn’t beautiful?”

Gu Feidi confirmed, “Not beautiful…”

Su Yang raised his hand, wanting to slap the other man.

Gu Feidi quickly pressed down Su Yang’s neck. “Hey! Watch the water. Keep your head down!” Then he chuckled. “You look very charming and elegant with your short hair. I like it as well.”

The ‘I like it as well’ made Su Yang’s ears glow red.

He muttered, “This is nothing. At least I still can braid it. You should have seen me when my hair was shorter…”

With an affectionate smile on his face, Gu Feidi used the clean warm water in the copper pot to wash out the foam on the silky hair. He wiped the majority of water off the hair with a cloth, gathered a handful of hair in the hollow of his palm, and as he was carefully combing it, he used his internal energy to dry it.

Once he was done, he removed his own hairband, looked at Su Yang and asked, “Help me as well?”

Since Gu Feidi helped him, Su Yang didn’t have the heart to reject, so he rolled his sleeves to his elbows and washed Gu Feidi’s hair.

Gu Feidi’s hair was supple and strong. It felt wonderful in his hands. Su Yang combed the hair all the way from the root to the tip with his fingers. He wanted to yell at himself for being reckless in cutting his hair too short.

“Fine, I promise,” Su Yang rubbed Gu Feidi’s hair. He smirked. “I won’t cut my hair anymore. I will grow it out.”

Gu Feidi tilted his head slightly to catch Su Yang’s eyes. “I know you feel washing your hair is troublesome…but worry not, I’ll wash it for you.”

Su Yang faked his disdain. “Tsk, enough of your sweet-talking…”

Once they were done, Gu Feidi took the basin and emptied it out. He asked the inn waiter for more water and brought it back to their room to clean their bodies.

Su Yang accepted the basin and went around to the back of the folding screen. He removed his outer coat and robe and put them over the folding screen. As he was about to loosen his last article of clothing, he suddenly heard a door closing. When he looked out of the divider, he didn’t see Gu Feidi anywhere. He must have exited out. 

After a moment’s thinking, Su Yang suddenly realised, Is Gu Feidi still being shy? It was him who was stripping. What did Gu Feidi have to hide about? Sure enough, the young man was still too young and thin-skinned.

—Totally pushing the time when they were admiring the moon while drinking good wine out of his mind. About the one who ran away first after a single kiss. 

After he wiped his body clean, the non-waterproof makeup on Su Yang’s face naturally was also washed off. However, seeing that it was getting late, he thought he would not go out and see people again the rest of the night, so he didn’t re-apply the makeup. He sat on the couch with his hair scattered, ready to meditate. 

Soon, Gu Feidi pushed open the door and walked in. When he saw Su Yang was dressed neatly, he sighed in relief internally. 

Mei Shisan was guarding outside their room as usual, while Gu Feidi and Su Yang sat on the couch, meditating all night without a single word.

When morning light shone into the room, Su Yang walked to the bed and sat on it. He took out his makeup tools and, as he was about to apply his disguise, there was a sudden knock on the door.

Mei Shisan entered and brought in a pot of tea and two bamboo steamer baskets. He said it was breakfast prepared by the inn and sent by the inn’s servant. 

Such VIP treatment from a high-class inn, Su Yang was moved as he sighed inside his head. They even provided breakfast for two! He put down his tools and pulled Gu Feidi to sit next to him at the couch table.

Unbeknown to anyone, as soon as Su Yang took a sip of the tea, he frowned—the tea was light, but why was it so bitter?

Before the red flag could go off in his brain, the Apparition inside his body suddenly reacted. It instantly spread a chill throughout his body and rushed straight to his throat and abdomen, almost freezing the tea in his mouth.

He made a muffled sound. 

Gu Feidi put down the teacup that he was about to bring to his lips and asked in deep concern, “What’s wrong?”

Su Yang grabbed Gu Feidi’s teacup out of his hand and slammed it on the table. He frowned and replied, “The tea might be poisoned…”

Gu Feidi echoed in shock, “Poisoned? Are you all right?!”

Su Yang reassured, “I can’t be poisoned, because Half-Withered Crimson could cleanse the poison…Shisan! Go seize the culprits!”

Mei Shisan had already rushed into the room in alarm. He immediately accepted the order and went out of the room.

Gu Feidi grasped Su Yang’s wrist in worry.

Su Yang patted him placidly on the back of his hand and soothed, “Don’t worry. It’s nothing. I’ll be good as new once I use my internal energy.”

When he just transmigrated into this world, Su Yang tried to commit suicide by poison. It was a fruitless attempt as the elders informed him the Six Night Flower Burial had the effect of restraining poison. As long as the poison was treated in time, he would never die from poison. 

Now, with the Half-Withered Crimson, the nemesis of hundreds of poisons, Su Yang was afraid of no poison. He calmly used the mental skill to dissolve the poison from the tea in a matter of minutes. 

Mei Shisan pushed open the door and threw the tied and muted innkeeper and his employee on the ground, closing the door with his backhand.

The two were scared into shivering, but they immediately rose and knelt down, heads touching the ground as they begged for mercy. 

Gu Feidi reached for the cloth from the innkeeper’s mouth, and as the owner was about to yell for help, Mei Shisan silenced him with a sword right at his neck.

“One shout from you and you will be dead before you hit the ground!”

The landlord trembled violently and obediently shut up.

Gu Feidi was not in a hurry to interrogate, as he untied the owner’s hands and moved him to sit down at the dining table, he picked up the teacup and handed it to the man. “Have a drink of tea first to calm your frightened nerves.”

The man sneered and stuttered, “Gre-great hero…if you have anything to say, we can ta-talk it out…”

Gu Feidi chuckled. “Drink first.”

The landlord accepted the teacup. The tea surface swayed with the trembling hand. He glanced at it before awkwardly raising the cup to his lips for a drink.

Gu Feidi snatched the cup of tea and handed it to his employee. Su Yang came forward to untie the second man’s hand. The servant held the teacup and looked at the three dangerous men. 

“Drink,” Gu Feidi ordered with a calm face.

The guy was shaking like a leaf. Not knowing the reason for all of this, he listened to the order and lifted the cup to his mouth.

Gu Feidi grabbed the cup again and put it on the table. He sighed. “They know nothing. They are innocent.”

Su Yang asked Mei Shisan, “Is this servant the one who brought you breakfast?”

Mei Shisan confirmed, “Yes, this subordinate would never remember this incorrectly.”

Gu Feidi questioned the innkeeper, “Was the breakfast served to the customers made in-house?”

The man nodded.

Gu Feidi shifted a new question to the servant. “Did you meet anyone when you delivered our breakfast today?”

The employee pondered over the question, and his eyes suddenly brightened. “When I saw you exiting your room, this one went to the kitchen to serve breakfast. As it happened, a guest informed this one that he wasn’t accustomed to the flavour of our cuisine and requested pepper…This one left your meal on the stove to keep it warm and went to get the pepper for that guest…”

Gu Feidi’s eyes narrowed. “Which guest?”

The servant thought for a moment and recalled, “I think he was a guest at the upper level as well. I think it was…the brothers, one of them was ill in the head. They said they were travelling to seek the Elegant Jade’s Miracle Doctor for medical treatment.”

Su Yang suddenly raised his head and exchanged a glance with Gu Feidi. 

Gu Feidi got up and dashed out of their room. He kicked open the door where the brothers were staying—the room was long empty.

Su Yang had no time to apply his makeup, so he followed Gu Feidi and hastily tied his straw hat. He saw the cold expression on Gu Feidi’s face, he asked, “What do we do now?”

Gu Feidi bit down and decided, “Prepare to head out, this place is no longer appropriate for us to stay.”

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  1. Immortal Fujoshi

    The boy who is being called ill….is he one of those boys whom previous su yang captured?????

    Thnx for this beautiful translation ❤️

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