Chapter 40

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Swallow you up

Wu Dong’s eyes opened wider and wider as she stared at Yu Qingluo in total disbelief. She felt her legs weaken and feebly fell to the ground.

The voice that escaped her lips was almost inaudible like it was coming from a place far away from where they stood and not from her own mouth: “Y-you… you are, you are the Ghost Doctor?”

“Yep, haven’t you already witnessed it? My medical skills, I mean” Yu Qingluo looked at her condescendingly. She found out recently that she appeared to have become fonder of looking at other people in such a manner as she felt it gave her a certain sense of superiority.

Wu Dong moved backwards (TL: it says ‘took a step back’, but author-sama, wasn’t she sitting on the floor? Pls, logic), shaking her head in denial as she forced a smile to form in her lips: “It’s impossible, impossible! How could you be the Ghost Doctor? How could the Ghost Doctor be this young? How could he be a woman?”

Yu Qingluo took her words as compliments, so she moved her hands and fixed her hair before answering: “Yup, so you also believe that I’m an amazing person for accomplishing so much at such a young age? Do you also think that I’m such a heroine[1] on par with all those capable men around? A woman with such brilliant medical skills makes many unable to believe that it was actually a young lady like me the one to wield it, right?”

Ye Xiudu looked at her flabbergasted, but remained silent and abstained from commenting on the scene that just transpired. He finally understood that the behaviour she showed when she was in the Mo residence was already a very restrained and demure version of what she was displaying now, exposing her complete narcissistic self.

Nannan probably inherited this temperament from her and learned from her behaviour.

Wu Dong suddenly stood up from the floor (TL: See!! Still sitting!!), those scattered thoughts had finally settled down. She gave Yu Qingluo a stare filled with animosity, gritted her teeth and yelled at her: “No, you are NOT the Ghost Doctor! You are only pretending to be him, it’s impossible for you to be the Ghost Doctor! You are deceiving everyone!”

As soon as she finished speaking, she turned her attention towards Ye Xiudu, anxiously taking some steps towards him as she spoke: “Lord, don’t be fooled by her! This person’s behaviour is very suspicious. How can the Ghost Doctor be a silly little girl like her? How could she be someone with a name on par with my master’s? Lord, you must not believe her!”

“You don’t believe me?” Yu Qingluo jeered at her “So, are you telling me that he should believe you instead? The disciple of a famous talented doctor, after having her finger cut off doesn’t even give herself adequate treatment. Instead, she has to pretend to be a no-name embroiderer just to come seek treatment from me. Oh, right. And this disciple even dropped on her knees to beg me nonstop. The sound of your head banging against the floor just now was truly jarring. You tell me if this is known by your master isn’t he going to think that he really lost face this time? Is he going to lock himself in his home unable to face people anymore or maybe end his life in shame?”

Wu Dong’s pupils dilated: “You bitch! How dare you humiliate me! I’m going to kill you!!”

She already had a lot of hatred towards Yu Qingluo but even now she was still ridiculed in such a way by her. And it was even in from of the man she admired! In addition to that, just now that begging stance…

This rage, how could she bear to keep it locked inside her chest?

Wu Dong scanned to her left and right, before finally spotting and picking up a scalpel Yu Qingluo had left on the table before rushing towards her.

Yu Qingluo sneered, lifting the tip of her toes slightly from the ground, preparing to kick Wu Dong when she approached.

‘Bang’ Wu Dong’s body flew into the air, her back heavily slammed against the wall. She moaned in pain, her head falling to the side as she passed out.

Yu Qingluo slowly turned her head and her body trembled when she saw Ye Xiudu who unhurriedly retreated his foot in a calm and collected manner.

Sure enough… what an amazing ability. He could send a person flying so far with a single kick. That kick just now surely was painful.

If it was her instead, she figured that she wouldn’t be able to do more than kicking her sprawling down the floor[2]. Just how could her kick be as violent and bloody as his?

Ye Xiudu glanced at Yu Qingluo then bypassed her and walked over to where Wu Dong was laying, using only a finger to move the blade out of her hands[3], dropping it on the floor. Afterwards, without taking a single look at the unconscious Wu Dong, he took the scalpel from the ground and returned it to the table before going back to the beauty recliner and resuming his resting position.

“…” Yu Qingluo stared blankly at his sloppy series of movements, speechless.

A moment passed before she resigned herself to walk towards Wu Dong. Squatting down to take a look at her condition she immediately understood that she had two broken bones but still seemed to be breathing. Afterwards, she got up and only then looked at Ye Xiudu, asking the same question for the third time: “How should we deal with it?”

“It has nothing to do with me.” Ye Xiudu opened his eyes to answer before closing them one more time, contentedly relaxing with an ‘I don’t wanna meddle into another person’s business’ attitude.

Yu Qingluo took some steps forward, stopping only two steps away from him, then with a soft ‘hunf’, she said: “It has nothing to do with you? She betrayed you and you’re gonna act like it’s all good? Just now I heard Liuli (JLL) say that Wu Dong was apparently taken hostage by another woman. But why did that woman take her hostage? Why did she cut her finger off? And why would she appear here today? I don’t believe this is about me, a person who they don’t even know whether is a male or a female. I don’t think I have this much charm.

Ye Xiudu, that woman who took Wu Dong as a hostage has definitely done so in order to go against you. Wu Dong has betrayed you, can you really remove yourself from this situation?”

Ye Xiudu heard her saying so much without tiring herself and finally opened his eyes. After looking at her he moved his eyes, in a natural and relaxed manner, he bestowed the unconscious Wu Dong with a glance. A sneer formed in the corner of his lips: “Her? A traitor? Can a woman that has stayed in the Mo residence for less than 3 months, that doesn’t even know how to enter nor exit the residence, that only knows the 4 main bodyguards and the housekeeper but doesn’t even know her master’s name be able to sell me out? What do you think, in what manner is she worthy of me to consider this as a betrayal?”

“…” she suddenly sympathized with Wu Dong. To muddle around for such a long time without even knowing the name of the man she liked.

Ye Xiudu leaned forward as he kept laughing: “What did you think? How is she able to betray me? By telling other people that I sustained an injury and then recovered? Or that there was a probability of me showing up at the Fulong Tavern today to see the rumoured Ghost Doctor? Does it make any sense to tell others such pieces of information? Eh, or maybe she told other people that it was a woman named Yu Qingluo who rescued me. What do you think, is there such a possibility?”

Yu Qingluo lifted her head towards Wu Dong, staring at her. She then believed that Ye Xiudu’s guess was probably 100% accurate. She concluded that… she was probably on those people’s radar as well.

“I have no interest in what kind of person Wu Dong is.” Ye Xiudu was satisfied at the changes in Yu Qingluo’s expression, his mood suddenly turning joyful. “But since I dared to let her leave the Mo Residence alive, I was not afraid of what she was going to say. To want to get any information out of her is a waste of time. Heh, the things she knows are even more meaningless than the ones you do.”

At the very least, Yu Qingluo knew his name and knew how to come in and out of the residence. She also knew that he has a soft spot for Shen Ying and the others and knew that his wealth should be way more than those 15 million silvers.

Yu Qingluo’s heart skipped a beat. What did he mean? Is it possible that he won’t let her leave the Mo residence alive?

Pursing her lips, she asked him as to probe his attitude: “So, with me knowing so much, what if I betray you?”

Ye Xiudu laughed, his expression turned sinister as he spoke slowly, word by word: “If you are the traitor, I’ll swallow you up, bite by bite.”

“…. You’re too perverted, that’s not something I would want to do ei…”

“Shh, someone’s here.”

Translated by C, The Apostle of Coffee

Edited by NoveLeo, Life is a Drama

Translator’s Notes

[1] She doesn’t use the term woman, but a word for a headdress (a piece of cloth that if used as a hairband of sorts) that represents a very capable woman. So I chose to use the term ‘heroine’ in this sense. I always have that image where that singer ‘Pink’ has her hair tied in a band and shows of her arms in my mind (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/62/c7/f7/62c7f700dc6b300a8b304d423959e09b.jpg)

[2] 四仰八叉 – sprawled out on one’s back (idiom) – basically she’s telling how Wu Dong would end up after she kicked her. I had to change a bit, but I believe I preserved the meaning. (ED: Like Yamcha from Dragon Ball?) (TL: Yep.)

[3] I feel like this was described in a way that wants to show how disgusted Ye Xiudu is at the idea of touching her, so much that he used a finger to push the scalpel out of her hand to drop it before actually picking it properly xD. And he was even ok with touching the not-so-clean floor… Idk if other people were confused, but I tried to be faithful to what the author wrote.