Chapter 23.2

Substitute Marriage (9) – “You trapped me again!” (2)

The night was dark and windy, and three clappers sounded.

A group of night guards passed by outside the door. Li Ruo Shui who was inside the house stared at the bed tent with a nervous expression.

It wasn’t long before the pattern appeared again on the top of the replaced tent. This time, it wasn’t red eyes, but a few messy bloody handprints.

The window that had been locked suddenly opened with a creak that echoed in the stillness of the night.

The moment the window opened, Li Ruo Shui was unable to move, unable to even speak at this point, and she returned to that horrible feeling of a ghost pressing on her bed.

The trees swayed and rustled in the deep night air, bells rang from the corridor and the windows creaked in the night breeze.

Perhaps it was because of the resistance last night that annoyed them. The “little ghost” who never broke into the door and window, stuck his head out of the window and cracked a smile at Li Ruo Shui.

Li Ruo Shui took a deep breath and sang in her heart: I send you 365 blessings, auspicious light, surround me……

The little ghost pulled the window door with both hands and leaped on the window sill. The bells on his body rang eerily and he giggled, not like a child, but like an adult.

He jumped into the room, jingling, and then drew a knife from his feet.

If it was a mental attack before, now it might be time for a physical attack.

Zheng Yan Qing, who was lying on the couch, widened his eyes and whimpered, but couldn’t move.

Li Ruo Shui could only lie down too, her eyes glancing around at the roof, but she could not see where Lu Zhi Yao was sitting.

“Young girl, you scared my grandson last night, it’s time to collect some debt from you today.”

The little ghost approached slowly with the knife, and when he stepped into a beam of moonlight that peeked in diagonally, his face finally became clear.

There are wrinkles on the child-like face, and the eyes are narrow, as if only black pupils are left, how bizarre it is.

“Which girl have you ruined!”

Li Ruo Shui stared at him with wide eyes, her acupuncture points were unlocked at some point, and she couldn’t help but utter the spit in her heart.

“What did you say!”

The little ghost was poked and prodded, no longer slow, and with a tap of his toes he brought the knife to Li Ruo Shui’s eyes.

He smiled wickedly. The tip of his knife reflected light in the moonlight as he looked into Li Ruo Shui’s dark eyes and said with a smile, “Beautiful eyes, let’s take this first.”

Just as he was about to swing the knife, his expression froze and he quickly retreated three metres away.

A sword stood at the same place where he was standing. The snow-white scabbard glowed brightly in the moonlight, the tassels swayed, the sword broke through the wooden floor and was making a clanging sound.

Li Ruo Shui stood up, looked around the beams of the room, and finally saw him above the bed tent.

The little ghost was very arrogant at the beginning, but when he looked up and saw Lu Zhi Yao, he couldn’t help but take a few steps back. His expression was so serious that the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes flattened.

Lu Zhi Yao was leaning against a beam, sitting with his knees bent, fiddling with something in his hands, and streams of light flashed through occasionally.

The lustre was like spider silk under the moonlight.

“You promised me to catch ghosts.” Li Ruo Shui drew the sword and retreated below Lu Zhi Yao, only to feel bad in her heart.

“I didn’t break the promise.” Lu Zhi Yao curled his lips in an idle manner.

“I’ve already experienced the pleasure through the fight last time, and this time it’s time to teach the stances.”

Stances? Teaching?

Li Ruo Shui suddenly realised, no wonder he agreed to do it so simply this morning. She thought that he had been moved by her, but she didn’t expect that he was waiting for her here!

“You trapped me again!”

“Trap?” A few streams of light passed between Lu Zhi Yao’s hands, and when his wrist moved, Li Ruo Shui’s limbs and waist were wrapped: “I’m teaching you, how many people begged for it but couldn’t get it.”

Li Ruo Shui looked at the silver threads wrapped around her wrists and felt a headache.

She just wanted to give this blessing to others.

The little ghost’s eyes were fixed on Lu Zhi Yao and his mind turned around a few times, intuiting that he had stumbled upon a tough fight, and he planned to slip away, but before he could leave, he was wrapped in the silver thread around his ankle.

Lu Zhi Yao laughed softly, his face exposed in the moonlight was as gentle as water, and his gesture looked like a compassionate Buddha who has mercy on all.

“It would be best to stay and practice martial arts with her.”

He pulled the silver thread in his hand and a few drops of blood immediately oozed out from the little ghost’s ankle.

No way, he actually knows this move, but it’s not written in the book.

And looking at this dialogue, how come he was more like a villain than a bad guy.

With a bitter face, Li Ruo Shui’s right hand was manipulated to touch the hilt of the sword.

“Hold the sword with your five fingers and use force with purlicue.”

Li Ruo Shui had no choice but to do as she was told, and the next moment she was led and pulled out the sword.

“Point the sword to the ground, relax your body and keep your legs apart to maintain a good balance.”

From the beam came Lu Zhi Yao’s gentle voice, he sounded more patient than the best master in the academy.

He retracted the silver thread from the little ghost’s ankle and spoke in a soft tone, “If you want to live, you’d better attack directly, and maybe you have the chance.”

The little ghost looked at Lu Zhi Yao, who was smiling and laughing on the beam, and then at Li Ruo Shui, whose expression was full of hopelessness. He gritted his teeth and rushed forward with a dagger.

He might have a chance of survival only if he fights with this girl.