[GL]Whose Wife Is Always Acting Pitiful? Oh, It Turns Out It’s Mine 168

Chapter 168: I Am Willing to Love Her

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“That’s not how you ask the question.” Xue Mu said hoarsely, “How did I know I would fall in love with Yuan’er?”

“After I got together with Yuan’er, I didn’t just abandon you directly. My relationship with you would still be as good as before. You ran away with Yu Hanhong, and I was afraid you would go astray. But what about you? You almost killed me on Huangding Mountain, and now you ask me why I don’t love you? Of course I love you! But I love you like a biological sister!” She said, “A-Ruo, since I have fallen in love with Yuan’er, I will be with her for a lifetime!”

“Then I’ll sever your lifetime.” Mu Ruo sneered, the corners of her lips curling up. “Yu Yuan must be frantic with worry now, right? How about I lock you up for ten or eight years first, and then go tell her you’re already dead?”

Xue Mu said angrily, “You heartless and unjust woman, why do you insist on harming her! Isn’t she your sister? You two are related by blood, why do you treat her like this?!”

“Look, I said these words, and you don’t think about yourself, but think about Yu Yuan being sad and heartbroken, calling me heartless and unjust.” Mu Ruo pressed her palm against her heart. With just a push of internal force, her vital acupoint would be destroyed, and she would die instantly. But Xue Mu just glared at her fiercely, fearless.

“I can suffer, can be tortured by you, but I don’t want Yuan’er to be sad for me.” She said, “You won’t understand. You only want others to love you, but you are unwilling to exchange sincerity for sincerity.”

Mu Ruo’s voice suddenly became sharp: “What did you say!” In her agitation, a little internal force leaked out. Severe pain came from Xue Mu’s chest. Sweetness rose in her throat, but she bit her tongue to swallow the rising blood back, her body trembling constantly.

Mu Ruo released her chest, clenched her fist, and punched the stone wall hard, looking furious. “I am unwilling to exchange sincerity for sincerity? Xue Mu, how dare you say such things! Have I treated you badly all these years? Have I not taken care of you all these years?!”

Xue Mu said, “But you are unwilling to tell me the secrets in your heart, unwilling to tell me your background, unwilling to let me share your pain. Yuan’er… she is different from you.”

“Ridiculous, just because Yu Yuan is willing to show weakness in front of you?” Mu Ruo sneered. “Xue Mu, you are truly cheap. She pretended to calculate against you, and you foolishly jumped into the web of love she wove for you, entranced and intoxicated. Truly pitiful.”

“—I am willing to love her!”

Xue Mu suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, speaking forcefully, determination in her eyes.

Mu Ruo looked at her, her expression having calmed down.

“Good, you are willing to love her, then you are also willing to die for her, endure ten or eight years of torture for her, right?” She said, “I have a hundred ways to grab Yu Yuan to accompany you. If you are unwilling, stay here honestly and don’t think about escaping—you have lost all your internal energy now, a cripple. Don’t think about dying either. If you want to commit suicide, I will grab Yu Yuan to accompany you on the road to the Yellow Springs. Try it yourself.”

After finishing, she stood up and walked outside the stone door, adding, “If you kick the food away, you’ll stay hungry for the next three days as usual—if you starve yourself to death, Yu Yuan will still die with you. Suit yourself.”

The stone door closed with a bang. Xue Mu fell into darkness again. Only her rapid panting remained in the room. Unable to lean against the wall anymore, her body collapsed to the ground, and she fainted.

After an unknown amount of time, she woke up again, only the thought of drinking water and eating food remaining in her mind. Although the food was cold, it emitted fragrance in the room. She crawled over slowly. Through the crack of the door, a little light revealed a wooden bucket filled with clear water. After struggling for a long, long time, she lowered her head to drink the water inside.

Once her lips touched the water, she could no longer control herself. She gulped down the clear water in big mouthfuls, actually drinking half a bucket in one breath. Her empty stomach bulged, but drinking water didn’t relieve her hunger. She picked up the bowl and swallowed the rice. There were six plates of meat dishes, four plates of vegetables, and two plates of pastries in the bamboo basket, but she didn’t touch a bite. She only scooped out the rice from the wooden bucket and ate three large bowls, then moved her body to the corner, far away from those dishes.

She sat cross-legged, trying to circulate energy again. Duke Wutu once said that as long as there was a bit of internal energy in the body, the “Thirty-Six Cycle Life Breath Technique” could operate freely. That bit of internal energy was like a drop of water. With the existence of this drop of water, it could slowly become a river, a great river, or even an ocean through this technique. Internal energy would be endless, generating as much as was used.

Now, she was only short of that “one drop of water.”

She didn’t know what iron the chain piercing her lute bones was made of. If she had internal energy, she could try to shatter it. But this punishment was created specifically for martial arts practitioners. Suppressed by this chain, how could she use kung fu? Thus, she fell into a predicament.

Fortunately, that Yu Hanhong needed her alive now, wanting her blood, and wanted to lock her up for ten or eight years. That meant he wanted to enhance his own skill by taking blood. She didn’t know what evil kung fu he learned that would require the blood of a person who had eaten the Gu King Blood Pill.

Thinking of this, Xue Mu felt confused again: How did Yu Hanhong know that she ate the Gu King Blood Pill and had the toxic power of the Black Mystic Poison Scorpion in her body? Back then on the mountain, Miaofu fed her the Gu King Blood Pill. Only Sect Leader Qi Qing and Yuan’er knew. Where exactly did Yu Hanhong get the news? Could he turn invisible and hide on Blue Wind Mountain back then?

At this moment, she could never have imagined that after blocking Yu Hanhong’s palm and fainting, the blood she sprayed splattered on Yu Hanhong’s human skin mask. He licked it and tasted the components in the blood. In that instant, neither the “Burning Soul Heart Sutra” nor the “Origin Returning Wonderful Method” mattered anymore.

What Yu Hanhong wanted most at that time had become her blood.

How could Xue Mu know the twists and turns in this? Therefore, no matter how she thought, she couldn’t figure it out. She only thought that Yu Hanhong might have followed them at some point and heard their conversation. Thinking about it, only after the three of them left Qiaqing Town did they talk about the components of the Gu King Blood Pill on the road—Could it be Li’er?

Thinking of this, Xue Mu broke out in cold sweat instantly!

Could it be that Li’er is a spy sent by Yu Hanhong?! Deliberately approaching them and staying in the Dugu Manor, then acting according to circumstances to contact Yu Hanhong. After the town calmed down, finding a time to lure her into the alley to fall into the trap, faint, and be taken away.

In that case, wouldn’t everyone still in the Dugu Manor be in danger? They have been in danger all along without realizing it at all!

Thinking of this, Xue Mu suddenly cursed. This curse echoed in the empty room, repeating again and again, until the sound slowly faded and returned to calm.