Chapter 431: Chapter 429: Can’t Bear It Anymore, Go Die, Qin Le Yin!
"La la~ la la~ la la la~"
Yesterday evening, Yan Yi hummed a tune while stepping onto the stairs of the Tianhui teaching building after finishing her meal at the Doggy Dining Hall. Thinking about tonight’s date, she felt like a girl jumping into a spring in the midsummer, a challenger lingering on a cliff-side narrow bridge, a kid ready to unwrap a birthday gift, with her heart filled with anticipation, excitement, nervousness, and a heartbeat that’s pounding.
This good mood started from yesterday evening; she spent almost an hour choosing her outfit for the night. Because of the date tonight, the ordinary weather turned into good weather, the normal time seemed to slow down so much, and even the usual students all appeared cuter.
Finally, she got through the daytime, and next was the delightful, da?ting?ti?me~!
But before the date, Yan Yi had to go to her office first to pick up the ’toy’ she made. This was also one reason for her enthusiasm and anticipation — after she caught her sister’s bizarre reaction, saying all sorts of things, crying, pretending to be pitiful, throwing tantrums, she finally made her sister admit fault.
And as punishment, her sister finally agreed to try the new game Yan Yi begged for countless times.
Yan Yi herself was a top graduate of ’Luminous Stone Alchemy,’ scoring top marks, and Zhu Yan had repeatedly stated that if he retired, he would let her replace him as the lecturer for ’Luminous Stone Alchemy,’ so her craftsmanship ability was among the top ten in Yanjing.
Moreover, Yan Yi secretly hid some meteorite shining mineral fragments, and without much effort, she crafted a ’toy’ that was extremely satisfying, definitely making tonight’s date even more romantic and joyful.
"La la, la la... la?"
In a joyful mood, unable to resist employing Lingxu Battle Technique, Yan Yi nearly jumped up the stairs. When she reached the third floor, she suddenly saw a tall figure coming out of her research room.
At this time, it couldn’t possibly be any other members of the radio research group. Even though they worked indoors, sunlight affected them significantly, and they would never enter the research room to work at night if not necessary.
Shortly another slightly shorter figure walked out. Yan Yi slowed her pace and focused to see Niruo and Ming Shuangli!
After coming out, they hurriedly left via another staircase. Yan Yi’s eyes flashed, but she didn’t rush to follow; instead, she quickly went into her office to retrieve two items and emerged to see them already walking down the path outside the building.
Though Yan Yi considered herself quite capable, she wasn’t arrogant enough to compare to someone like Niruo — although she didn’t have much contact nor Niruo’s information, she could tell Niruo was a battle-hardened general, having wandered between life and death countless times. Such people’s spiritual power was often the sharpest and most sensitive, and Yan Yi’s not-fully-developed tracking skills would definitely be noticed by Niruo.
She took out a monocular telescope, observing Neruo and Ming Shuangli from about a hundred meters away, simultaneously hearing the mechanical vibrations from the telescope:
Ming Shuangli: "You’re quite close to Qin Le Yin, aren’t you? Since he has intelligence, why not just ask him directly."
Niruo: "I don’t have the habit of depending on or trusting others."
Ming Shuangli: "You think he would deceive you?"
Niruo: "Maybe not this time, but he will ultimately deceive me. That’s just our destiny... Hm?"
Niruo suddenly turned back to look at the teaching building; however, it was now late, the moon had risen, and the building appeared dark. He squinted for a while, and Ming Shuangli only noticed he stopped after a few steps, asking, "What’s wrong?"
Niruo didn’t brush her off, explaining, "Suddenly felt an itch at the back of my head, like being watched."
"Really?" Ming Shuangli came over and patted his head: "Still itchy?"
"...No longer itchy, thanks."
"No need to be polite, we’re very close!"
Inside the teaching building, Yan Yi let out a long sigh of relief.
She hadn’t expected to be noticed from such a long distance, thankfully she hadn’t followed closely but instead investigated through the ’Eavesdropping Telescope.’
In the heart of every ’Luminous Stone Alchemy’ scholar, the Divine Weapon is the ultimate masterpiece of Luminous Stone Alchemy. Every Luminous Stone craftsman strives to create more miraculous apparatus from luminous stones, or rather, to forge their own divine weapon. The luminous stone internal combustion engines and light energy-driven ships now changing the times were born from this aspiration.
Yan Yi was no exception, and due to the meteorite fragment opportunity she’s had, she attempted to make divine weaponry as well.
The ’Eavesdropping Telescope’ is her prized creation. As the name suggests, while observing the telescope’s field of view, any sound vibrations will also be detected by the telescope and transmitted, but because of the crude output device, it currently only supports the most awkward mechanical tones.
Yan Yi has seldom used this tool recently, except when initially pursuing Ning Xinyuan, she used it to gather information and admire her sister’s beauty. Afterward, she stored it away. She once used it to observe the principal from afar, and ended up being tapped on the head by the principal from a distance — the inability to weaken the perception of a Peak of Perfection martial artist sufficiently indicates there was still a considerable gap from divine weaponry.
Now it turns out even slightly stronger spiritual power Integration and Mastery martial artists can sense the telescope’s gaze.
But using it to scout Ming Shuangli was still fine. Yan Yi jumped down and landed, trailing far behind Ming Shuangli’s figure, trying to keep the telescope fixed on Ming Shuangli to avoid Niruo’s perception.
She initially just wanted to know what the two were secretly doing in the research room, but ended up hearing some unexpected information:
Ming Shuangli: "You’re really close with Qin Le Yin, aren’t you?"
Niruo: "A life-and-death relationship."
Ming Shuangli: "That’s very close then... Let me tell you a secret about Qin Le Yin, you absolutely mustn’t tell anyone! I promised Qin Le Yin to keep quiet!"
Niruo: "Then you shouldn’t have told me."
Ming Shuangli: "That won’t work, I’ve been holding it in for days. You have no idea how guilty I feel when I occasionally look at Shuiyun... If I don’t share it with someone, I can’t breathe!"
Niruo: "I can plug my ears, then you can say it, that way you won’t break your promise, and you can let your air out—"
Ming Shuangli: "I saw Qin Leyin getting cozy with his fiancée in the Tianhui teaching building!"
After several seconds, Niruo finally replied: "Good news, women just slow down the drawing of a sword. When it comes to the final battle, he will surely be defeated by me. By the way, what does his fiancée look like? What clothes is she wearing?"
Ming Shuangli: "He didn’t let me see what his fiancée looked like, but you could tell she has a great figure, her hairstyle is a side-twisted loose cloud bun, I think she must be very pretty. Her height is about the same as mine, wearing the ’Yun Luo’ series ’Ethereal White Garb’ released by the Wu Lian Chamber two months ago, and she’s wearing clogs!"
Niruo: "You remember the model of the clothes very clearly."
Ming Shuangli: "Of course, because I have a set at home too!"
Yan Yi could no longer hear the rest of the conversation. She fell into a strong dizziness, almost collapsing on the ground.
Yun Luo Ethereal White Garb!
It was the clothes Yan Yi gave to Ning Xinyuan on her birthday half a month ago!
If the Yun Luo Ethereal White Garb was just a coincidence, then the side-twisted loose cloud bun and clogs were undeniable evidence!
Ning Xinyuan especially loved this hairstyle and usually liked to wear clogs!
She froze for several seconds before quickly following Niruo and Ming Shuangli as they were about to disappear around the corner, continuing to eavesdrop.
Niruo: "...After telling me so much, do you feel much better now?"
Ming Shuangli: "Yeah, much better! Keeping this secret was suffocating me. Luckily, I have you, Niruo. I can tell you all my secrets directly then!"
Niruo: "I hope so, just don’t go telling others your secrets."
Ming Shuangli: "Hm? Niruo, are you trying to win favor? Oh, if only you were a bit more handsome—"
Niruo: "Do you know why Qin Leyin makes you keep the secret? Because with the information you revealed, as long as I intend to, as long as his fiancée is still in Yanjing, I can surely find her. Even if Qin Leyin doesn’t compromise, I can still use his fiancée to seriously wound him."
Ming Shuangli: "Of course I know the power, that’s why I won’t tell anyone else... But will you do it, Niruo?"
"No."
"Why not? Aren’t you enemies?"
"We are enemies, but not foes. One day, he will die by my sword, or I will die by his hand, but that’s all."
Ming Shuangli: "What if I demand you to use his fiancée to threaten him?"
Niruo: "I will follow your orders, but I will also state my attitude: dirty and despicable schemes will only make my sword hesitate, and will not increase our chances one bit, on the contrary, they will make Qin Leyin even more unrestrained..."
Ming Shuangli: "Alright, alright, I’m just joking! If it’s not a victory won fairly, even white rice wouldn’t be tasty!"
They chatted for a while and then parted ways, Niruo heading to the male teacher dormitory and Ming Shuangli heading to the student dormitory. Although it was still unclear what they were secretly doing in the laboratory, Yan Yi no longer cared.
She only wanted to verify one thing.
...
...
Ming Shuangli walked on the ’Scholar Road’ which is the path to the student dormitory, and suddenly saw a silhouette walking towards him under the streetlamp.
Teacher Yan!?
Having just rummaged through her laboratory, Ming Shuangli felt somewhat guilty and lowered his head, wanting to walk past quickly, but was stopped by Yan Yi: "Shuangli Palace, good evening."
"Good evening, Teacher Yan!" Ming Shuangli greeted with a smile.
"Have you eaten?"
"Yes, I have!"
"Heading back to the dormitory?"
"Yes!"
"Did you go to the lab to find me?"
"I... huh?" Ming Shuangli was stunned, then immediately laughed it off trying to cover it up: "No such thing! Teacher Yan, I have something to do, I have to go—"
Yan Yi crossed her arms and smiled casually, "Don’t try to trick me. Yesterday, while I was chatting with Teacher Qin, he said that when he went to meet someone, he happened to see you going up to the third floor to find me."
What, Qin Le Yin actually betrayed me first?
Ming Shuangli was furious inside, but outwardly could only smile awkwardly: "Oh, oh, I remember now. A few days ago, I thought Teacher Yan, your lipstick shade looked really nice, wanted to ask where you bought it, what shade..."
"By the way, Teacher Yan, you said Teacher Qin went to meet someone, do you know who he went to meet?"
Yan Yi shook her head, "I don’t know, do you know?"
Ming Shuangli blinked and finally shook her head, "I don’t know either, that’s why I asked you."
"Hurry back, students should study well. If you score 90 on the final exam of ’Situation and Policy’, I’ll gift you a lipstick."
"Mm, mm, I’ll work hard, Teacher."
As Ming Shuangli secretly stuck out her tongue and hurried away, she didn’t notice Yan Yi’s gaze suddenly becoming extremely grim.
The reason Yan Yi suddenly chatted with Ming Shuangli was actually to trick her into saying something—where did Ming Shuangli bump into Qin Le Yin?
However, Ming Shuangli did not refute what Yan Yi said about ’Qin Le Yin meeting her on the third floor.’
That means... Qin Le Yin and my sister’s intimate location... is on the third floor of Tianhui teaching building.
Or rather... it’s usually the place where my sister and I have secret meetings!
Her lab!
Just thinking of my sister wearing the Yun Luo pale white dress I gave her, with her favorite hairstyle, stepping on the most melodious wooden clogs, in our most familiar lab, with that dirty, despicable, shameless, vile, disgusting...
Thud!
With a loud crash, a big tree by the roadside slowly fell.
Yan Yi had no idea how she got back to the dormitory, she lay on the bed in a daze, not changing her clothes or taking off her shoes, hugging the pillow and watching the light beside the bed, unknowingly shedding tears, soaking the pillow.
What should I do...
I really, really, really like my sister... I don’t want to leave her...
After sobbing on the bed for a while, Yan Yi took a deep breath, sat up, wiped her tears, and smiled at the mirror.
She had decided.
She was going to forgive her sister.
Pretend like nothing ever happened.
Properly continue tonight’s date.
As long as my sister is still good to me, everything is good.
Yan Yi sat at the desk to touch up her makeup when she suddenly noticed a letter on the table, the sealing wax stamped with the word ’tea’—it was Cha Huan’s letter.
She opened the envelope, and upon seeing the contents of the letter, her slightly swollen eyes gleamed with a strange light.
"To Yan Yi:"
"Within three days, thieves will attack the Platinum Tower, Qin Le Yin serves as acting principal precisely to ambush these thieves. If you want to compete for the principal position, please go to assist Qin Le Yin in discussing the matter of guarding the Platinum Tower (if you refuse the task, it will lower my favorability towards you)."
"Also, aren’t you annoyed by those crazy suitors and the family’s marriage pressure? Qin Le Yin seems to be the same type of person as you, perhaps you can discuss with him about a fake marriage to mutually conceal."
"—Your understanding principal, Cha Huan"
I’m the same type of person as him?
Yes!
We both like the same person, of course, we’re the same type of person!
Fake marriage to mutually conceal?
Does that mean we continue to date my sister after marriage, essentially marrying her to both of us?
Sounds pretty good?
Yan Yi blinked and immediately tossed this thought aside!
Sounds good my foot!
That scumbag Qin Le Yin still wants to steal half of what’s mine!?
But when Yan Yi calmed down, she immediately realized this was an opportunity.
Didn’t it say Qin Le Yin is acting principal to guard the Platinum Tower? Didn’t it say the Platinum Tower will be attacked by thieves?
That means, as long as she swallows her anger, gains favor, pretends ignorance, assists Qin Le Yin in protecting the Platinum Tower, she has a chance to trap Qin Le Yin in a situation of inevitable death!
"Qin! Le! Yin!"
Yan Yi wiped the tears from her face, sneering, "I look forward to meeting you."
...
...
"Ming Shuiyun, the class bell has rung."
On the sixth floor of the Platinum Tower, Yan Yi smiled and said, "Aren’t you going to class?"
"I..." Ming Shuiyun glanced at Yan Yi and Le Yu, reluctantly walked into the Mechanical Ladder, not forgetting to say before leaving: "After class, I’ll go find Teacher Qin for dinner! Teacher Qin, you have to wait for me!"
Honestly, Le Yu prefers dining alone...
As the Mechanical Ladder clattered down, Le Yu looked at Yan Yi expressionlessly, "Teacher Yan, did the principal really ask you to come?"
"There’s a letter as proof, but I can’t show you. In the letter, the principal revealed some secrets about you."
"For some reason, when you said the principal framed me in the letter, it seemed very convincing," Le Yu said, taking a seat, "Please sit. Honestly, Teacher Yan being so enthusiastic about cooperating with me surprises me a bit, I wonder if Teacher Yan could explain... Teacher Yan?"
Yan Yi didn’t sit down, instead, she smiled warmly, circled the table, and approached Le Yu.
Le Yu blinked, "Teacher Yan?"
"Teacher Qin, I have a question I’d like to ask you." Yan Yi said softly, fingers lightly brushing Le Yu’s shoulder.
"I’ll do my best to answer your question."
"Have you ever been struck by lightning?"
As soon as the words fell, an arc of electricity sparked from Yan Yi’s right arm, like a thundering blade slashing towards Le Yu’s nape!
Can’t bear it anymore!
Seeing that Qin Le Yin can still breathe, still have intact limbs, still speak, Yan Yi felt the anger roaring inside her, jealousy boiling!
Have those hands touched my sister’s skin?
Have those eyes reflected my sister’s face?
Has that mouth kissed my sister?
Also, also...
How can I endure this! Can’t endure the filth and stench of him at all!
Can’t endure anymore!
Qin Le Yin, go to hell!