Chapter 20

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(Hiyah! This is the extra chapter in celebration of Mother’s day! Enjoy 😀 )

She wants to kill him

Invited over?

Yu Qingluo’s face froze for an instant, and glancing at the housekeeper behind her she packed the things she had taken out and leisurely stood up: “Is it to pay the bill?”

The housekeeper’s lips twitched. This Miss Yu really wasn’t an easy person to deal with.

He didn’t say much, just motioned as if inviting her to follow him and walked out first.

Yu Qingluo took some steps forward, before turning around and explaining briefly to Shen Ying: “If you still want him to keep his life, you should stay here and personally protect him. I don’t have a second ice dew pill to offer.” Yes, I’ll not take it out even if I die.

Shen Ying nodded eagerly and then moved a chair to sit next to the bed.

Yu Qingluo lowered her eyes and then followed the butler without turning back.

The Mo residence was really big, and they took several turns before arriving in front of an especially cold and clean courtyard.

“The Lord is inside, Missy Yu, you’re invited, please go ahead.”

The servant’s steps had stopped and it looked like he wasn’t going to follow her inside.

Yu Qingluo shrugged then climbed up the steps on her own, looking at the courtyard’s name written above “Solitary Pavilion” [1]. Yu Qingluo thought to herself that Ye Xiudu truly chose well the name of this courtyard where he lived in. Since it seemed to… give off such a strong bleak and desolate atmosphere.

She raised a hand to knock a few times on the door. But, on second thought, she came to charge a debt and the debtor is this Lord, so there was no need for such politeness.

And so, she immediately put on a ‘you-own-me-a-lot-of-money’ face and opened the door without a word.

The housekeeper, who was just walking down the steps to leave, staggered and almost planted on his face. After recovering from the shock, he hurriedly left this place, where right and wrong were bound to collide. He had always had this hunch that this Missy Yu… should not be provoked.

As soon as the door was opened, Yu Qingluo’s wolfish gaze swept the person sitting on the couch in the right corner of the room and she ended up blurting out: “Finally saw the Lu’s mountain…”[2] true face.

Although the whole room seemed enveloped by a cold and quiet atmosphere, and even if Ye Xiudu’s person whole aura screamed ‘strangers-do-not-approach’, Yu Qingluo couldn’t bear but sigh emotionally. She has lived two lives but still felt like his appearance gave her an everlasting impression. Such a stunningly unblemished man with an appearance and temperament that blended perfectly together. It truly made her feel a strange impulsion to stretch her hands to rub that face of his.

Taking a deep breath in her mind, she forced herself to calm her surging emotions down, not letting out her sudden impulse dominate her. Tightening the hands placed on both sides of her body she took a step forward calmly facing Ye Xiudu.

(TL: gurl, u horny. No horny!)( ED: ‘BONK!’)

“What are you looking me for? Are you planning on paying back those 15 million taels?” She was really afraid that he would renege his debt.

Ye Xiudu raised his eyes slowly. This was also the first time he saw her face-to-face, so close. He thought that this woman’s temperament was certainly very dissonant from her outside appearance. She had this gentle and fresh-looking face but her words were pointed and ruthless, without a single hint of hesitation in them.

But he had to admit that she had what it got to act in such an overbearing fashion.

“Right side of the chest.” After giving Yu Qingluo a brief once-over, he closed his eyes again, slowly speaking such words.

The woman standing in front of him was taken aback, what did he mean? The right side of the chest? Whose?

“I need to recover within 4 days.” he added another sentence.

Yu Qingluo understood this time. What he meant was that he was injured on the right side of his chest and needed to be treated. Not only that, but he also needed to be healed within four days?

Couldn’t he please, explain this clearly? She just met him and didn’t know him this well yet.

Wait, that was not the point.

The point was… what’s his relationship with her to be speaking in such a domineering tone, demanding her to do things for him? She was just a lost little lamb, not his slave nor the likes of a lowly wench such as that Wu Dong was.

Yu Qingluo snorted, and while still looking at him she used her feet to move a small stool next to the table. After sitting down on it she poured herself a cup of tea… to moisten her dry throat.

The room fell into silence, but Yu Qingluo was neither too eager nor too nonchalant and Ye Xiudu was neither proud nor hot-tempered enough to break it. The first thought that if the man facing her really must be treated by her hands, he has to at least show some sincerity. Even without the addition of some hundreds of taels, at least showing some honesty in his tone would make her comfortable and happy enough to do a good deed today. The other felt that the woman had a very arrogant temper, so arrogant that even in his own territory she was still acting this rampant, thinking of herself as the centre of the world.

Ye Xiudu began to lightly tap his finger against the armrest, after a while, his low voice sounded: “Wu Dong is gone.” So now there’s no doctor inside the house.

Yu Qingluo’s hand holding the teacup to her lips paused slightly, she frowned. What does this have to do with her?

“Because of you, I drove her away.”

“Pfft…” Yu Qingluo almost choked on the tea she was drinking and turned her head to glare at him. Does this person not get the ambiguity in his own words?

Although she was glaring at him, he was unmoved. She was very uncomfortable with his nonchalance and couldn’t bear but letting out a sneer: “Because of me? What does she going away has anything to do with me? The one she poisoned was your own subordinate. It was your choice to drive her away, so how can you just put all of this on my head?”

“If you didn’t show up in the Mo residence, she wouldn’t be jealous and would not end up attacking Peng Ying. You were her actual target. And in the dispute among the two of you, I chose to be on your side. So…” in conclusion, she was the cause. Still, he remembered about what the housekeeper previously told him – before leaving the residence, Wu Dong’s face had started showing some black pustules all over it. And this was probably caused by this woman in front of him.

“Oh, thanks so much for staying on my side, the side of a stranger you only met once.” Yu Qingluo wanted to spit on his face.

“Hm, you should feel honoured.”

“…” Couldn’t she just use a needle to send him straight to Heaven? Yu Qingluo thought that her son was the most shameless person to ever step on earth, but it turns out that there was an even higher mountain ahead. He could say such shameless words without batting an eyelid. She was also stumped by this skill.

Putting down the cup, Yu Qingluo didn’t feel like playing any tricks on him anymore, in any case, she couldn’t help him heal up. She would be foolish to trouble herself with these matters that wouldn’t benefit her in the least.

Patting some invisible dust off the hem of her clothes, she adjusted her hair and turned to leave.

Ye Xiudu, still on the couch, raised his brows slightly, watching her silently. But seeing her touch the door as if meaning to leave, he opened his mouth again: “15 million taels…”

Yu Qingluo quickly retreated her hand and abruptly turned back, moving fast until she was standing right in front of Ye Xiudu’s couch, looking at him coldly: “You want to renege the debt?”

Ye Xiudu smiled, his mood improved for no apparent reason. His lips curled in a hook that looked capable of hooking someone’s soul away. Yu Qingluo’s heart raced a bit at that smile. This bastard, why give this damn smile for no reason, don’t you know that you look good enough to incite a disaster?

“No, I don’t want to renege the debt”

“Then, are you planning on settling it now?”

“No.”

Translated by C, The Apostle of Coffee

Edited by NoveLeo, Life is a Drama

Translator’s Notes

[1] – The name of the courtyard starts with ‘独’, which is read as ‘du’, the same as the one in Ye Xiudu’s name. The meaning of this ideogram is “solitary, independent, alone”.

[2] – 终于见到庐山真面目 is an entire sentence. If anyone is aware of where this came from, please put it in the comment section, but the translation is basically ‘ The true face/appearance of the Lu mountain was finally seen’ and as I saw in my searches it is used to refer to a mystery that was finally unveiled/revealed before a person’s eyes.