[GL]Whose Wife Is Always Acting Pitiful? Oh, It Turns Out It’s Mine 60

Chapter 60: Swaying in the Wind and Rain

Xue Mu’s back and the back of her head slammed hard against the wall. Stars danced before her eyes, and a metallic sweetness rose in her throat, nearly making her vomit blood. Mu Ruo’s cold energy was too fierce. By the time she caught her breath, winter had arrived early in the room. Dugu Yuan’an had come upstairs and started fighting with Mu Ruo.

“Young Mistress!!” Xue Chang’s exclamation rang in Xue Mu’s ears. Immediately after, she was helped up. Panting lightly, she mobilized her internal breath to suppress the restless Gu worm in her chest and looked up ahead.

She saw Dugu Yuan’an push out both palms in mid-air. Even the surrounding air seemed torn by the coldness. The internal energy in her palms surged out, emitting thick white cold mist, heading towards Mu Ruo’s face. Mu Ruo retreated gracefully, twisting her wrist to push out a palm. The palm shadow was indistinguishable between reality and illusion in the icy mist.

The palm wind whistled past. Seeing that Mu Ruo was about to bypass Dugu Yuan’an’s palms and strike at her heart, she glimpsed a red shadow attacking from the corner of her eye. She dodged Dugu Yuan’an sideways, her palm move shifting from offense to defense, dissolving the power of the cold energy from the double palms. Her other hand held a wooden sword, simultaneously blocking the palm strike from Xue Mu. Under the dual effects of cold energy and fierce internal force, the wooden sword shattered inch by inch!

Mu Ruo and Dugu Yuan’an both borrowed the force of the opponent’s palm to retreat to the sides. Xue Mu didn’t pursue but also retreated, catching Dugu Yuan’an who was falling from mid-air in the room, pulling her into her arms, and shouting in a low voice, “A-Ruo!”

Mu Ruo gently patted the wood chips off her hand, her gaze sweeping over the intimate pair, and sneered, “Dugu Yuan’an, you dare to attack?”

Dugu Yuan’an pursed her lips. Suddenly, Mu Ruo said loudly, “Little Treasure, I thank your Xue Manor for raising me. Parting today, we shall never meet again!” Before her voice fell, she had torn the bed curtain, taken a bundle prepared long ago, grabbed the pitch-black cloak on the rack, and leaped down from the window of the private room.

Xue Mu was shocked and rushed to the window. In the wind and rain, Mu Ruo, draped in the black cloak, used her lightness skill to fly over the eaves and walls, escaping the pursuit of the Guardian Stars. She snatched a thousand-li silver horse, and her figure instantly disappeared into the rain curtain.

Xue Mu’s ears were filled with the chaotic sounds of heavy rain hitting various objects. She stared blankly in the direction where Mu Ruo disappeared. Unable to bear the heart-piercing pain any longer, she held onto the window sill and squatted down slowly. Xue Chang shouted from behind, “Young Mistress, I’ll take people to chase her!”

“No need to chase.” Xue Mu said softly.

“Young Mistress—” “I said no need to chase!”

Xue Mu said sternly, then coughed violently a few times, provoking the restlessness of the Gu worm in her heart. The pain instantly made her lose her voice. Her fist slammed hard against the wall!

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The shop girls silently cleaned up the messy private room. Xue Mu was taken to another private room by Dugu Yuan’an. Dugu Yuan’an slowly transmitted internal energy to her. Xue Mu also mobilized her own Yang energy, stimulating the fierceness of the Fire Poison, silently reciting the mantra of the Ling Heart Secret Technique to soothe the restless Gu worm.

After adjusting her internal breath, Xue Mu sat cross-legged, her gaze unfocused, staring blankly at a point in the air. Dugu Yuan’an’s voice called her mind back: “Mu Ruo’s skill is even deeper than I imagined. My Little Aunt said her internal martial art has reached the ninth level. I think the strength she’s hiding is not just the ninth level.”

Xue Mu turned her head to look at her and said, “What level are you at now?”

Dugu Yuan’an said, “My internal energy is far inferior to Mu Ruo’s. I went into seclusion before wanting to break through to the eighth level, but failed.”

Xue Mu reached out and pulled her into her arms, whispering, “Fortunately she didn’t really hurt you, otherwise I… how could I save you at this moment?”

Dugu Yuan’an lowered her eyes and sighed faintly. “Where do you think she will go?”

Xue Mu said, “I don’t know. Maybe she wants to go back to Jin Mountain, maybe she will go somewhere else. In short, she won’t return to Hanfeng Town, nor to the Xue Star Tower and the Dugu Manor. Yuan’er, I did poorly. I provoked her, so she thought of leaving.”

Dugu Yuan’an raised her face, her eyes very deep.

“Before you met her, she was already prepared to leave. This is not your fault,” she said. “Mu’er, her departure this time is presumably to track down that person who also possesses Soul Cold internal energy.”

Xue Mu was stunned and exclaimed, “Then does she have a clue, knowing who that person might be?”

Dugu Yuan’an hesitated. “I think she shouldn’t have any clues. The elders on Jin Mountain are basically all dead.”

Xue Mu said, “What about Mu Ruo’s parents?”

Dugu Yuan’an said, “My eldest uncle died eighteen years ago, and my eldest aunt died sixteen years ago.”

Xue Mu was startled, thinking that Mu Ruo lost both her father and mother at a young age. But after all, she was the heir of the Yu Clan, and the elders would protect her. Who could have thought that the disaster of extermination would happen later? Everyone she could rely on died, leaving only Madam Dugu, her aunt, and her cousin who also narrowly escaped from Jin Mountain covered in wounds.

“You… Yuan’er, is your father a direct bloodline of the Yu family?”

“No, my mother was a direct bloodline of the Yu family. After my mother gave birth to me and my sister, my father left Jin Mountain to roam the Jianghu,” Dugu Yuan’an smiled bitterly.

“You think because I call Mu Ruo’s parents Eldest Uncle and Eldest Aunt, my father is a member of the Yu Clan. Actually, it’s not like that. We juniors of the Yu Clan address elders uniformly using paternal titles. As long as it is the ‘Bright Light Generation’ bloodline, children born to either men or women have the opportunity to become the next family head. Although the ‘Hidden Darkness Generation’ is the unlucky one, when something really happens, they are the luckiest ones.”

Xue Mu thought for a moment and said, “So is your father still alive?”

Dugu Yuan’an said, “I don’t know. I never counted on him, nor do I know his name. Once he left Jin Mountain, the Yu Clan wouldn’t consider him a part of Jin Mountain, nor mention him again.”

Xue Mu’s heart ached for her. Hugging her tightly, she said solemnly, “Yuan’er, he doesn’t care about you, I care about you. If he gets old in the future and wants to enjoy family happiness and comes back to find you, I will definitely drive him eight thousand miles away so he can never come back to disturb you.”

Dugu Yuan’an laughed softly. “I knew it. Mu’er saved me and protected me since childhood. When you grow up, you will definitely cherish me even more.”

Xue Mu kissed her lips carefully and said, “These days I always wonder why I went up to Jin Mountain back then. Maybe it was destiny that made me go to Jin Mountain to meet you, save you from bad people, so you could be my wife in the future. Fate was already destined at that time.”

Dugu Yuan’an said, “That’s a good thought. Then I can only cling to you forever.”

Xue Mu’s depressed mood was swept away, her heart and eyes full of the lovely person in her arms. “Cling to me then! Better cling to me in this life, the next life, and the life after that—”

Dugu Yuan’an covered her mouth and scolded lovingly, “Shameless.”

The windows rattled in the wind. Listening to the wind and rain, Xue Mu thought: Where has Xue Xue arrived by now?