Chapter 24.2

Substitute Marriage (10) – “I really don’t want this blessing.” (2)

“Who said the sword is important? There is nothing that cannot be parted with,” he spoke in a soft tone, like a gentle summer breeze, without any sense of loss.

“A sword — isn’t there one right here?”

Li Ruo Shui looked at the corpse at the side with wide eyes. Her heart was beating fast, and her palms were sweating as she gripped the hilt of the sword.

What did Lu Zhi Yao mean? He wouldn’t want her to kill someone, would he?

“I’m just a novice……”

“You’re quite lucky to have just learned sword moves—”

Lu Zhi Yao stood behind her, slipped his hand to her wrist, and raised the sword to the crowd. “And you already have an opportunity to learn how to carry the sword and move it.”

“I really don’t want this blessing.”

Li Ruo Shui regretted it now. She knew his temperament, yet she had thought he had some kindness in him.

“Let’s go together.”

The men in black on the other side were originally shocked, but some soft sounds came from the carriage and they had to attack.

As the crowd charged forward with their swords, the curtain of the carriage was lifted a little, revealing a corner of the white skirt and a pair of girl-like curious eyes.

Li Ruo Shui froze, her mind spinning around, but was interrupted and distracted by the men  in black who rushed forward.

“Here comes the sword.”

Lu Zhi Yao’s tone rose as he held Li Ruo Shui’s wrist and began to teach her what he called sword movement, looking exuberant.

Between the clashing sound of the swords and knives, Lu Zhi Yao took the initiative to step into the encirclement with Li Ruo Shui, letting out a low laugh that only a villain can have.

He pressed Li Ruo Shui’s neck vein with his left hand and held her wrist with his right hand, leading Li Ruo Shui to resist and attack.

His pace was brisk and his laughter melodious. He seemed to be the happiest man in the world at that moment.

“Killing is such a joy, you’ll love it.”

Bullshit!

Blue veins appeared on her forehead, not because she was angry, but because she was using all her strength to control the sword and trying to fight against Lu Zhi Yao’s grip.

She was tired, but Lu Zhi Yao found it more interesting.

Every time the sword was about to touch someone’s heart, he could hear the sound of Li Ruo Shui inhaling a deep breath, and she would pull the sword away from him with extra strength, after which he could hear her unconsciously mumbling something as she let go of her breath.

She was probably cursing him or begging the useless gods and Buddhas.

It was strange that she didn’t come to him no matter what happened, but instead, she begged towards those nebulous things.

“I’m just a novice. There’s a long way to go, brother. It’s too much to kill someone right away!”

Li Ruo Shui’s pace was messy. While trying to block the sword, she also needed to suppress the madness of the man behind her. No one was more tired than her.

Perhaps the moonlight was beautiful tonight, or perhaps he was just too happy. He withdrew his hand and pushed Li Ruo Shui out of the encirclement.

“Learn well.”

Li Ruo Shui staggered out of the encirclement and raised her eyes to look at him with dismay.

At this time, Lu Zhi Yao seemed to have been unsealed. The smile on his lips was as clear and soft as the moonlight tonight, but his strikes were deadly and ruthless.

The person in the carriage lowered the curtain and knocked on the wall of the carriage. The little ghost immediately leapt on and cracked his whip to accelerate and leave this place of dispute.

Li Ruo Shui looked at Lu Zhi Yao’s intoxicated expression and frowned.

Lu Zhi Yao’s smile looked kind and gentle, but in reality, he simply treated people like animals to be slaughtered.

To him, killing people was just a game that brought him excitement, but in order not to cause unnecessary trouble, he chose to do this thing that was within a reasonable range. That was why he would choose to take bounty orders for a living back then.

But at the end of the day, people are nothing more than game props and lambs to be slaughtered by him.

Even with Lu Fei Yue and Jiang Nian, his attitude was only a bit nicer. If killing those two could cause an interesting incident, he would definitely draw his sword without hesitation. He would say a few high-sounding remarks and then do it directly.

So in his eyes, is she just one of the lambs to be slaughtered?

She had previously received a medium rating from the system, indicating that the previous strategy method was undesirable or not enough.

But—

As he had said before, how could a person love when they didn’t have love in the first place?

Would she always be at a medium rating? Would everything she did be useless? Could she return home at all?

The men in black fell one by one, littering the ground in the carriage’s departure.

Lu Zhi Yao’s clothes were stained with blood, turning a deep black in the night, like a landscape painting made by splashing ink on his robes.

With a long sigh, he threw the sword in his hand to the ground with a clanging sound.

The inexplicable depression and irritation he had felt for so long dissipated at this moment. He laughed, suppressing his eyelashes and fingers which were trembling with excitement, and turned towards Li Ruo Shui.

“How is it? Is there anything you don’t understand about the moves just now?”

He asked her in a half-crouch, his robes disheveled, his eyelashes slightly arched, and the warm blood slid down his cheeks, revealing a faded yet soft beauty.

But halfway through the question, his body stilled itself.

The depression and irritation that had been vented returned, even worse than before, and overwhelmed him as if to drown him.

“You’re afraid of me too.”