Volume 2 Chapter 11: Didn’t See Anything

When Qin Shi Meng arrived at Ye Yong’s mansion with Lil Huan, she found that he had already prepared everything- firewood, medicinal pot, screens, and so on.

“Really sorry for making you go through so much trouble,” Qin Shi Meng immediately apologized.

Lil Huan also quickly lowered her head and said, “I will never forget the Young Master Yong’s great kindness and favor.”

“No need to be so polite,” Ye Yong waved his hand and looked at Qin Shi Meng. She didn’t dare to meet his gaze and slightly turned her face away, as if she was visiting Ye Yong’s place for the first time and was looking around with wandering eyes.

Ye Yong knew what state Qin Shi Meng was in and didn’t think she was impolite at all. On the contrary, he found the Qin Empress, who was experiencing her first love, quite cute and completely different from the cold and glamorous image in the novel.

“Young Master Ye, where is Lil Xue?” Lil Huan asked curiously.

“She went out, and I don’t know where she is.”

“Didn’t you give her a transmission stone? Why don’t you call her back?”

“I forgot to give it to her earlier. As for calling her back, although Lil Xue is my maid, I cannot control her whereabouts all the time. She has the right to move freely.”

“…” Lil Huan didn’t mean it like that. She was just worried that the non-cultivator Lil Xue would get into trouble. But Ye Yong’s answer made her feel that Lil Xue was very lucky. Where else could she find a master like him? Just like Ye Yong, Qin Shi Meng had never restricted her freedom. But other young masters and ladies might not be the same.

Qin Shi Meng didn’t say anything, but she agreed with Ye Yong’s point of view.

“Well, don’t worry about Lil Xue. She’s probably in the kitchen learning how to cook,” Ye Yong said. When he was in closed-door cultivation, he couldn’t cook for Lil Xue, so he stored the spirit food in the storage ring. Lil Xue didn’t have spiritual power and couldn’t open the ring space. Since Ye Yong praised her cooking last time, she has been spending time secretly practicing.

Unfortunately, Lil Xue’s talent in this area wasn’t that great, and the things she made were only average. It was impossible to make them taste great without time and experience.

After Ye Yong carefully introduced the order of using the herbs to Qin Shi Meng and Lil Huan, he left.

As there was no one else in the room, Lil Huan began undressing. Although she was also 16 years old, she was half a head taller than Wu Xue. If Wu Xue’s figure was too much like that of a young girl, then Lil Huan was approaching maturity, developing normally with everything in the right places.

She quickly finished undressing and folded her clothes neatly, saying, “I’m ready, Young Lady.”

“Regardless of how much pain you feel later, do not come out of the herbal liquid, or all previous efforts will be in vain.”

“I know. After all, this is not the first time I’ve tried to forge a physique. I believe I can succeed this time. Young Lady, please don’t worry.” Seeing worry in Qin Shi Meng’s eyes, Lil Huan directly went into the medicinal bath without any further ado. The water was hot, but she just wrinkled her nose slightly before submerging herself in it, without making a sound.

Qin Shi Meng could see her determination and started putting the herbs into the bath according to Ye Yong’s instructions.

Meanwhile, Ye Yong, who had left the mansion, arrived at the kitchen and found that there was no one there, not even Wu Xue. After all, cultivators didn’t need to eat every day. Ye Yong had been in seclusion for several days, so even his senior sisters hadn’t come over.

It was now the afternoon, and most of the disciples of the Music and Art Hall were studying music, art, and knowledge in the Learning Hall. Ye Yong didn’t want to disturb them, so he went to the mountain gate, intending to ask Lu Xiao Xiao.

Inside her small house, Lu Xiao Xiao was unexpectedly not reading a book and instead was leaning over her desk, writing with the feather pen that Ye Yong had given her. She was so absorbed that she didn’t even notice Ye Yong approaching.

He stood behind her and glanced over her shoulder.

— Junior Brother Ye domineeringly pushed her into the corner, his hand against the wall, with his other hand holding up her chin, saying, “Woman, I told you that you can’t escape.”

“But we can’t…”

“I don’t care what others say, in my eyes there’s only…”

…

Realizing that a shadow was blocking part of the light, Lu Xiao Xiao turned her head and was scared out of her wits. She quickly covered her notebook with her delicate body.

“J- Junior Brother Ye! When did you come?”

“Around when Junior Brother Ye lifted her chin.”

“Um!” Lu Xiao Xiao blushed and wanted to bang her head against the wall. “Why can’t you just lie to me and say you didn’t see anything?”

“Then I didn’t see anything.”

“Waaah!” Lu Xiao Xiao buried her face in her arms on the desk and started crying.

Ye Yong was also helpless. He felt like no matter what he said, it would lead to this result. If he had known, he wouldn’t have gotten curious and try to see what she was writing earlier.

But Ye Yong really didn’t expect that Lu Xiao Xiao would be so elegant and have so much free time to write a domineering CEO novel with him as the protagonist. He wondered if the “she” in the novel was her.

“I actually think it’s quite interesting.” Ye Yong leaned against the desk. Although he had never read a female-oriented novel, he knew some of the writing techniques used in them, such as the use of elaborate rhetoric.

Lu Xiao Xiao was partly crying because she was shy, but also because she was afraid that Ye Yong would be angry. But Ye Yong not only didn’t get angry, he even taught her some writing techniques. She couldn’t believe it. She peeked at Ye Yong and saw that he was smiling at her.

Lu Xiao Xiao’s heart was beating like crazy. She quickly lowered her head and asked, “Junior Brother Ye, you…you’re not upset, are you?”  

“Why would I be? Honestly, I’m quite happy about it. After all, it’s proof that I’m charming, isn’t it?” As long as I’m not portrayed as the male lead in a BL novel, everything’s fine, Ye Yong thought silently.

He didn’t dare to say the rest of it. If Lu Xiao Xiao asked what BL was, was he supposed to explain? If he explained what it was, he might unlock Lu Xiao Xiao’s new interest in writing, and Ye Yong didn’t dare to think further.

“Can I still continue to write?”

“Of course, this is your personal hobby. You can refer to what I just said, it will make the scenes more intense and rich.”

“Okay…” Lu Xiao Xiao relaxed a lot. She wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes and tried the method Ye Yong suggested. She added some gorgeous and exaggerated descriptions, such as the female protagonist having rainbow-colored hair and the male lead’s one look containing several emotions.

Sure enough, she felt that it read much better, and the content was not as dull and empty as before.

Ye Yong gave her a few more pointers and felt that Lu Xiao Xiao did have a talent for writing female literature. In her work, the character Junior Brother Ye was written as cool, arrogant, and extremely domineering, making people pregnant by looking at them, extremely outrageous.

Huh? Wait a minute, wasn’t I here to ask where Wu Xue was? Ye Yong snapped out of it and finally asked his purpose.

“Oh, Lil Xue, she should be training with Senior Sister Bai in the Bamboo Lotus Forest. I saw them there yesterday.”

The Bamboo Lotus Forest was one of the many forests and gardens on Echo Mountain, and it was where Ye Yong had previously practiced the Swimming Dragon Steps.

“What are they training? Is she also learning how to paint?”

“No, no, you’ll know when you go. Lil Xue is working hard.”

Ye Yong walked out of the guard’s house with some doubts, sat on the little magic carpet, and flew towards the Bamboo Lotus Forest, located halfway up Echo Mountain.