The expression on Jiang Jianli's face was first confused, then gradually became clear.
She said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, "You brat, so you were just using me as a mouthpiece?"
At first, Jiang Jianli genuinely thought Gu Chengyin was going to support her to become the Sect Master.
In order to achieve the goal of swallowing the entire Azure Sword Sect.
After all, given Gu Chengyin's relationship with Shangguan Yunying, plus Shangguan Yuan's status as half a member of the Crown Prince's faction.
It could be said she was one of the only two candidates in Gu Chengyin's heart.
Why only two?
Because in Gu Chengyin's heart, the number one candidate was Jiang Qingshan.
So talking with Jiang Jianli for so long was actually just to get her to pass a message to Jiang Qingshan.
Gu Chengyin immediately said, "How can you say that, Madam?"
His tone was exceptionally sincere, so sincere it seemed completely genuine.
"You are Yunying's mother, and Sect Master Jiang is your father. At the end of the day, aren't we all one family?"
One family.
This time, Jiang Jianli understood completely.
Gu Chengyin was saying that the bloodline suppression and the intimidating aura from earlier.
Were put on for the entire Azure Sword Sect to see, for those elders and higher-ups to see, and were not directed at Jiang Qingshan.
No matter what, the relationship was there, and Gu Chengyin would definitely give this bit of face.
But this authority had to be established; he had to let the entire Azure Sword Sect know.
Who was the one who decided everything.
Jiang Qingshan was just caught in the crossfire as the Sect Master of the Azure Sword Sect.
That was why Jiang Jianli was needed to act as the middleman.
Because no one else could simultaneously earn the trust of both Gu Chengyin and Jiang Qingshan like Jiang Jianli could.
Jiang Jianli shook her head and said, somewhat amused, "Alright, I'll go speak with my father, but I don't know if he will agree."
Gu Chengyin said nonchalantly, "I'll have to trouble you, Madam."
After giving him a deep look, Jiang Jianli said nothing more, turned around, and walked out.
Inside the hall, silence returned.
Just when the sound of footsteps could no longer be heard, Lin Qingyan, who had remained quiet from the beginning to the end, suddenly spoke.
"So what you want is the entire Azure Sword Sect."
Her tone was very flat, but it sounded a bit off to Gu Chengyin's ears.
He turned his head to look at Lin Qingyan.
Her expression was cold and detached as usual, but her gaze was fixed on the mountains outside the window.
Was she blaming him for not telling her about this?
Gu Chengyin thought for a moment and said softly, "Auntie, it's not that I didn't want to tell you."
"It's mainly because I wasn't very confident about this matter, so I could only take it one step at a time."
Hearing this, Lin Qingyan turned her head and gave Gu Chengyin a faint glance.
This glance was as calm as an ancient well, but it made Gu Chengyin's heart skip a beat.
Then she turned back to continue looking at the mountains outside the window.
"Is that so? Why do I feel like you are very confident? Even without me, you could still take down the entire Azure Sword Sect, right?"
Gu Chengyin blinked. Lin Qingyan's tone was very calm when she said this.
But how come... he heard a hint of jealousy?
Was Lin Qingyan jealous?
As soon as this realization surfaced, Gu Chengyin couldn't help but start thinking back.
What point just now had provoked Lin Qingyan?
It couldn't be Jiang Jianli, could it?
It shouldn't be. After all, she was Shangguan Yunying's mother, and she was deeply in love with Shangguan Yuan.
Moreover, Gu Chengyin's surname was Gu, not Cao.
He had never had any improper thoughts. Even though he had talked quite a bit with Jiang Jianli just now.
It was all within the scope of business, without the slightest overstepping.
Lin Qingyan was not an unreasonable person either, so she wouldn't go so far as to be jealous of Jiang Jianli.
Since it wasn't Jiang Jianli, it could only be Shangguan Yunying.
Gu Chengyin suddenly remembered that when he was talking with Jiang Jianli just now, his words constantly revolved around the point of being "one family."
And the premise of being one family was built on the foundation of Shangguan Yunying.
Although this was to give Jiang Qingshan a reassurance pill.
To let Jiang Qingshan know that as long as Shangguan Yunying was there, his relationship with Gu Chengyin could not be severed.
But falling into Lin Qingyan's ears, the meaning was wrong.
Not only did he talk about being one family, but he also said it right in front of her.
Then what did he consider her as?
An outsider?
Naturally, she became jealous. But even if she was jealous, Lin Qingyan didn't deliberately show it.
Instead, her expression remained cold and detached, as if she didn't care about this matter at all.
But when a woman indicates that she doesn't care, it means she actually cares a lot.
Gu Chengyin did not hesitate.
He immediately stood up and walked to Lin Qingyan's side.
Lin Qingyan sensed his movement; her eyelashes fluttered slightly, but she did not turn around.
Gu Chengyin sat down beside her, then reached out, gently wrapping his arm around Lin Qingyan's waist and pulling her into his embrace.
Lin Qingyan did not resist, letting Gu Chengyin hold her as she leaned into his chest, her movements as natural as if they had done it thousands of times.
Gu Chengyin looked down at Lin Qingyan in his arms.
Although she was nestled in his embrace, her gaze still fell outside the window, refusing to look at him.
Her lips were slightly pursed, her brows gently furrowed, and there was a stubbornness in deliberately avoiding his eyes.
Everything indicated that she was jealous.
Who could have thought that Fairy Jingzhe, who stunned the entire Azure Sword Sect, would actually have such a side.
Just like a little girlfriend, being jealous while clinging to his embrace, waiting for her sweetheart to coax her.
Gu Chengyin slightly tightened his arm, hugging Lin Qingyan a bit closer, then leaned close to her ear and said with a smile:
"Is Auntie jealous?"
Lin Qingyan's body stiffened.
She didn't turn around and kept looking out the window, but the slight redness at the base of her ears betrayed her.
"I'm not your family member."
Lin Qingyan spoke, her voice cold, but her words clearly carried a hint of jealousy. "What is there to be jealous of?"
Hearing this, Gu Chengyin couldn't help but laugh dumbly.
Lin Qingyan was indeed jealous because of this.
However, he didn't feel anything else; he only felt that Lin Qingyan was truly cute when she was jealous.
Thinking for a moment, Gu Chengyin decided to give her a taste of her own medicine.
"Then..."
Gu Chengyin deliberately paused, then probed, "After we go back, I'll go propose marriage to His Majesty?"
"No!"
Lin Qingyan blurted out almost instantly.
She abruptly turned her head to look at Gu Chengyin.
Those cold eyes were now filled with urgency.
But when she met Gu Chengyin's smiling eyes, she froze.
Then she understood.
Gu Chengyin was teasing her.
Lin Qingyan bit her lower lip, wanting to say something, but swallowed the words back down.
She looked at Gu Chengyin, looking at his gentle eyes and the smiling corners of his lips.
The bit of jealousy in her heart suddenly dissipated.
Gu Chengyin was doing serious business, not deliberately provoking her.
The talk about being one family was just to win over Jiang Qingshan.
As for Shangguan Yunying and whatever, she was far away in the Divine Capital.
The current Gu Chengyin belonged exclusively to her alone.
Yes.
Exclusively hers.
There was no Shangguan Yunying, no Gu Xiaoli, no Cui Zilu.
And no... Luo Zhao.
In such a perfect world for two, why should she bicker over these trivial matters?
Lin Qingyan lowered her eyelids and buried herself back into Gu Chengyin's embrace.
A muffled voice came from his chest:
"I'm sorry, I was being too petty."
"Please don't hate me, okay?"
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s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
