CH 36

The spells in the cultivation world were all left behind by their predecessors. In addition to the basic ones that were widely circulated, there were many secret spells that had never been released to the world.

One of the reasons why the Heavenly Dao Palace had become the leader of several major clans was because their secret library had collected many rare spells of the world. And in order to monopolize their power, these spells would only be passed on to the last disciples of the Heavenly Dao Palace1.

The Soul Shifting Spell was one of those rare spells.

Shen Wanqing finally understood why Feng Yaoqing and Ji Feichen had reacted like this when they first saw the contents of the letter. Perhaps, they had guessed that this matter might have something to do with Heavenly Dao Palace.

But the strange thing was that although the Heavenly Dao Palace had done a lot of dirty tricks behind the scenes over the years, they still did good deeds such as eliminating demons for the commoners as a front. How could they let a last disciple go and handle a Governor’s wife like this?

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Shen Wanqing felt that this was most likely a personal vendetta.

“Although I don’t know what plans this disciple of the Heavenly Dao Palace has, since they are around, you should be more cautious.” Ji Feichen reminded her in a low voice, “Don’t use that Blood Burning Technique again so as to not arouse suspicion.”

Shen Wanqing understood this point.

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It appears that the Governor was originally a poor scholar. After marrying the daughter of a hunter ten miles out of his old hometown, they gave birth to a son. Afterwards, he went to the capital city to take the Imperial Exam.

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Not long after he entered the capital city, the wealthy Zheng family took notice of this poor scholar. They felt that he was talented, so they spent money to train him and help him pass the exam with scholarly honor2.

Sure enough, the poor scholar was very promising, and he immediately won the favor of the emperor.

So the Zheng family wanted their daughter to marry him.

The Governor rejected the Zheng family’s good intentions, saying that he actually already had a wife and a child and that it was not suitable for him to marry their daughter. However, he would still repay their kindness, but the way of repaying their kindness did not necessarily mean that he needed to marry their daughter, right?

As soon as the Zheng family heard this, they said: It’s okay, we are very open-minded, you can make your original wife a concubine, we don’t mind.

When the Governor heard them say that his original wife would be a concubine, he said that it was absurd and that it would ruin his reputation, so he firmly rejected the Zheng family’s kindness, and then sent someone back to his hometown to pick up his wife and child to live in the capital.

However, as soon as he rushed home, he found that his original wife had disappeared without knowing why, leaving only a child crying next door.

So the Governor took the child back, and after a few years, under the pressure of all parties, he married the daughter of the Zheng family, and then placed the child under her name.

The Zheng family thought to themselves, “It’s fine. Anyway, when our daughter gives birth to a son, we can throw this child out to fend for itself.”

However, they did not expect that the Governor’s wife had a weak body and could not give birth to a child.

So she could only raise Xu Ziyin as her own son. But the more she raised him, the angrier she became, so the two of them pulled each other’s hair and fought in their home every day.

The Governor’s wife had a hot temper and did not speak sparingly.

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Xu Ziyin was the single son of the house. He was arrogant and had an even hotter temper, talking back with curse words.

Only the Governor suffered, because he was the only one who was a bit more shy and did not know how to curse people out, so he was really at a disadvantage. Thus, he was the first to arrive at the court every day, and the last to leave the court. If he had nothing to do, he would drag the emperor to the imperial study to chat for a while, which made the emperor very annoyed.

The emperor thought: It’s because of your familial discord that I have to get up earlier than the rooster every day, and I even have to be detained by you after court ends. I give you a salary, and I give you a big house to live in, why should I suffer this sort of grievance?

Thus he waved his hand and asked him to go back to his hometown to be the Governor, as long as he didn’t come to court, anything could be negotiated.

So the family went from pulling their hair in the capital, all the way to doing the same thing in Rong City.

But the neighbors felt that given such a situation, the Governor still didn’t get a concubine, then it must mean that he carried a true love for his wife, so they made up countless beautiful stories to praise their love.

In fact, the Government went bald trying to resolve their fights every day. When he thought about a concubine coming in and causing a two-person fight to become a three-person fight, he felt a headache incoming already.

So he didn’t find anyone else during this time.

After hearing about this chaotic family relationship, Shen Wanqing had a bit of a headache. She briefly summarized the information and wrote a secret letter to Ji Feichen to let them worry about it.

As a salted fish3, as long as it had nothing to do with the main quest, she only needed to be responsible for eating the mung bean cakes while lying down in her room.

However, in the afternoon, Shen Wanqing found that her salted fish life had been ruined.

Before it got dark, she heard a knock on the door.

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She wondered why Xie Wuyan had come to look for his pillow so early these days, and walked to the door to open it.

As soon as the door was opened, she saw Xu Ziyin leaning against the door in a very flashy posture, with one hand supporting his head, and his left foot resting on top of his right foot.

It was like the cringy pose of a man playing it cool in modern times with a rose in his mouth.

Shen Wanqing felt a little suffocated: “Master Xu, what’s the matter?”

“Miss Shen, the other day, I had offended you.” Xu Ziyin coughed, raised his head forty-five degrees to look at the moon, and released the emotions of a rich master who was experienced in love, “Although your identity is different now, in my eyes, it is still the same as ever.”

Shen Wanqing: “…”

“Boom.”

Before she could react, Xu Ziyin stretched out his hand to support the door next to Shen Wanqing, raised his eyes, and looked like a Casanova, deliberately suppressing his voice to the lowest tone possible: “Are you willing to give me, a chance to get close to you?”

Shen Wanqing: “No need.”

“It doesn’t matter.” Xu Ziyin expressed his affection, “I am willing to wait, and I am willing to let you see my sincerity.”

Once he finished speaking, he clapped his hands.

Immediately behind him, two rows of servants rushed out, holding trays of gold and silver jewelry in their hands, they all looked very dazzling.

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“As long as you are willing to give me a chance, these will all be yours.” Xu Ziyin said.

Shen Wanqing felt very interested when she saw so many jewels.

So she pushed Xu Ziyin out very ‘interestedly’.

But Xu Ziyin was still very persistent, and in just one afternoon all the way to nighttime, he had already run back and forth several times.

He insisted that the reason why he had been rejected must have been that the gifts he had given her were not good enough.

After he continuously stood at the door with jewelry, rouge, clothes, etc. while shouting loudly, Shen Wanqing took a deep breath and decided to place a Voice Locking Spell and a Sleep Inducing Spell on Xu Ziyin. 

However, for the last time, Xu Ziyin launched a gourmet attack: “Miss Shen, it’s almost night, I asked the kitchen to make some bunny-shaped buns and sour plum soup to help you cool off the heat.”

Shen Wanqing got up for once and opened the door: “Okay, come in.”

Hearing this, Xu Ziyin immediately walked inside the room happily, and then was pushed out by Shen Wanqing.

“Wait, I mean, the bunny-shaped buns and the sour plum soup can come in.” After Shen Wanqing finished speaking, she closed the door mercilessly.

The food had done nothing wrong.

Shen Wanqing entered the room, respectfully picked up the bunny-shaped bun, and was about to bite it down, but before she could eat it, she heard another knock on the door.

…F*ck, look at her violent temper.

Shen Wanqing was annoyed, she stood up angrily, and said aggressively: “This master, I’ll say it again for the last time, the most annoying thing in my life is a big man running into a girl’s room over and over again, so if there is a next time—”

When she opened the door, she discovered that it was Xie Wuyan.

He looked at her with that smiling expression that was not like a true smile, as if waiting for her to continue to speak.

Shen Wanqing felt that she was unable to speak properly anymore.

She shivered a bit, changed the direction of the sentence very sensitively, and then began to act like a cute and spoiled child: “…if there is a next time, you don’t need to knock on the door, you can just come in directly. We are all in the cultivation community, no need to be polite. I love big brother coming to be a guest in my room the most. Thank you, Big Brother Xie, do you want to eat the bunny-shaped buns, I especially reserved them for you~.”

Xie Wuyan glanced at her without any expression, not saying a word, and walked directly into Shen Wanqing’s room. He glanced at the bunny-shaped buns, and picked one up in disgust.

Shen Wanqing continued to act like a soft and gentle girl: “Try it, it’s delicious.”

Xie Wuyan took a bite.

The bean paste stuffing was a little greasy, so much so that his brows wrinkled up.

“It’s unpalatable,” he said.

Shen Wanqing didn’t believe it: “Let me try it.”

But just as she picked up the bunny-shaped bun, and before it was put into her mouth, Xie Wuyan pinched her chin and raised it slightly. His other hand took the bun away from her and put it back on the plate.

“It’s unpalatable.” Xie Wuyan still said those two words.

…Why won’t you let others eat it when you think it’s unpalatable?

Shen Wanqing felt that Xie Wuyan had become more and more domineering and unreasonable.

Then at this moment, the knock on the door rang again.

Shen Wanqing felt deeply fatigued.

She gritted her teeth and stood up, walked to the door, and opened it for the millionth time.

Still Xu Ziyin.

His face was slightly red, with a strange shyness: “Miss Shen, I was instructed by an expert and finally understood what you need.”

Shen Wanqing: “What do I need?”

Xu Ziyin held his chest with his hands: “A sincere heart.”

“…”

“As such, I wrote a poem,” he continued.

Shen Wanqing’s scalp went numb: “No need.”

“I would like to hear how sincere your heart is,” Xie Wuyan came over, put his hand on Shen Wanqing’s shoulder, and pulled her towards him, “Read it?”

Xu Ziyin: “…let’s forget it, I suddenly feel like I don’t have a heart anymore.”

The author has something to say: Xu Ziyin: Why am I different from the other side male characters! I’m so pissed! I want to become a cool guy too!