[GL]Whose Wife Is Always Acting Pitiful? Oh, It Turns Out It’s Mine 48

Chapter 48: Voicing Grievances

When Xue Mu returned, she burrowed straight into the quilt and hugged Dugu Yuan’an, who hadn’t fallen asleep yet, kissing her cheek. “Yuan’er hasn’t slept yet?”

Dugu Yuan’an closed her eyes, her expression calm. “My wife hasn’t come back to let me kiss her fragrant lips. How could I fall asleep just like that?”

Xue Mu was hot all over. While adjusting to a comfortable side-lying position under the quilt, she hummed, “Yuan’er, this quilt is really too thick! If I weren’t hugging you, I definitely couldn’t stand it!”

“You can sleep in the small courtyard, or make a bed on the floor.” Dugu Yuan’an’s fingertips pressed against Xue Mu’s lower back. “Do you want to consider it?”

Xue Mu said, “I don’t want to! I want to sleep hugging you!”

Dugu Yuan’an patted her hip and yawned. “I didn’t refuse you either, did I?”

Her pat reminded Xue Mu of the soreness of being burned by fire in the cold pool that day. She pushed her hand away uncomfortably. “If you want to sleep, sleep properly. Why are you touching and moving around?”

“You are my wife…” Dugu Yuan’an waited until Xue Mu returned to feel sleepy. Just as she planned to sleep deeply, her lips were bitten and kissed randomly by Xue Mu. She said with a hint of dissatisfaction, “Does Madam want me to continue transmitting Soul Cold internal energy to you?”

That day in the cold pool, while saying she would send Soul Cold internal energy to Mu’er, she used her finger strength to press on her acupoints, preventing her from moving wildly. Mu’er repeatedly called for internal energy. While coaxing her, she used skillful force with her fingers. Until finally Mu’er’s voice was hoarse, and the Yin and Yang internal energies in her body clashed, she re-mobilized her internal breath to help Mu’er stabilize. Back and forth, it took nearly half an hour.

Xue Mu’s body stiffened, and she turned her back to ignore her.

Dugu Yuan’an laughed secretly. Extending her hand to cover her lower Dantian, she gently expelled internal force from her palm. Xue Mu said awkwardly, “Don’t touch me. Aren’t you very powerful? Starting tomorrow, I’ll ignore you. I’ll go straight back to the Xue Manor, back to the Xue Star Tower, just not back to your Dugu Manor.”

Dugu Yuan’an smiled. “Didn’t you say you wanted to tear down my Dugu Manor? Why not tear it down?”

“Of course I’ll tear it down. I’ll bring seven or eight Guardian Stars to tear down your Dugu Manor, move away all the big and small items in the manor, making Dugu Fengxing unable to afford a wife, Dugu Yunuo unable to afford a dowry, and making that little girl under your command jump with rage but unable to do anything to me, humph humph…” Xue Mu became more and more proud as she spoke. Anyway, if she was bullied, the Xue Manor and the Xue Star Tower were her backing, and Master would also stand up for her.

Dugu Yuan’an listened for a while and smiled. “Mu’er, did you forget the most crucial step?”

Xue Mu thought about what she said. “Which step did I forget?”

Dugu Yuan’an chuckled, her mood extremely cheerful.

“Clearly I was the one who bullied you. Why are you taking revenge on the Dugu Manor, on Fengxing and Yunuo, and even angering Zi’ang—what about me? Don’t you have any punishment for me?” she said. “Shouldn’t you take revenge on me?”

Xue Mu was speechless. After reacting, she said fiercely, “Then I’ll marry again, making you sit in a bridal sedan chair to come to the Xue Manor. Humph humph, making you serve me tea and water, run the Xue Star Tower, hand over all the martial arts secret manuals of the Dugu Manor, and stay in the room at night to be bullied by me!”

Dugu Yuan’an suddenly realized. “So this is Madam’s punishment.”

Xue Mu said, “As long as you know. I just don’t want to lay a hand on you.”

Dugu Yuan’an’s palm hadn’t left her lower Dantian yet. Hearing this, she released her palm.

Subsequently, Xue Mu heard the person behind her sniffle, and her heart panicked instantly. She didn’t say anything wrong.

Dugu Yuan’an was silent for a long time before speaking, “I wasn’t valued since I was young. My mother gave birth to me and my sister. We are twins and looked exactly the same when we were young. My sister was the rightful heir of the Yu Clan of Jin Mountain, while I was just someone who would be sent down the mountain after turning ten, to live as a descendant of a servant of the Yu Clan.”

Xue Mu looked at the red candle on the round table in the hall, listening silently.

“At that time, an elder in the clan saw potential in my aptitude, but I had already been selected to go down the mountain and wasn’t qualified to learn the Soul Cold technique. Feeling it was a pity, he secretly used profound internal energy and mental cultivation methods to guide me to open up the eight extraordinary meridians first—I was seven years old then and could already overcome the steepest terrain in Jin Mountain, climbing to the peak empty-handed. Although my sister’s aptitude wasn’t higher than mine, my mother doted on her very much because my sister was raised by my mother since childhood, while I was raised by a side branch elder.”

Dugu Yuan’an whispered these words, unknowingly wrapping her arm around Xue Mu’s waist. Xue Mu didn’t struggle or move wildly.

“Besides me and my sister, I also had a cousin, three years older than me. She was the only bloodline left by my eldest uncle. Her aptitude was also very high. At the age of ten, her Soul Cold Twelve Arts had already been practiced to the fourth level. She was the next clan leader already decided by the Yu Clan of Jin Mountain… At that time, who would have thought that the Yu Clan of Jin Mountain would be exterminated? Who would have thought that I actually survived by luck, while my mother and sister both died with regret.”

Dugu Yuan’an couldn’t help hugging Xue Mu tightly, both arms trembling.

Xue Mu remained silent, turned over to hold her in her arms, regretting speaking rudely to her just now, and whispered, “Why did they want to send you down the mountain?”

“Because of the ancestral instruction of the Yu Clan of Jin Mountain. Every generation of the Yu Clan’s direct bloodline must choose one descendant to go down the mountain, conceal their identity, and return to ordinary life. This is the way out left by the ancestors for the Yu Clan.” Dugu Yuan’an murmured, “I was chosen.”

Xue Mu then understood and said gently, “So the one chosen in the previous generation was Madam Dugu?”

“Yes.” Dugu Yuan’an leaned in her arms, her voice trembling. “Mu’er, don’t leave me.”

Xue Mu regretted endlessly, hugging her waist tightly. “I won’t leave you. I was joking. I know you have hatred and resentment in your heart. Yuan’er, you are truly amazing, living on with the obsession of revenge. I will accompany you.”

“No, that’s only part of it.” Dugu Yuan’an said softly, “I didn’t live on for revenge.”

Xue Mu said, “Then what for?”

Dugu Yuan’an stared at her pitch-black, lively eyes, tenderness flowing quietly in her gaze.

“So sleepy, I want to sleep.” After a moment, she said softly.

Xue Mu pinched her cool and soft earlobe and said gently, “Okay, sleep.”