After Breaking Off the Engagement, I Started Pursuing My Master-Chapter 44 - Any Condition
Chapter 44: Any Condition
After a short while, Jiang Huai met with Luo Yueguan.
Luo Yueguan seemed to particularly favor light purple. She had changed into a light purple bustier dress that revealed her snowy shoulders. The dress was knee-length with a particularly high slit on the side, allowing glimpses of her legs as she moved. Her black hair was not carefully combed, adding to her lazy and casual appearance. Jiang Huai’s gaze fell on her blue eyes, and after a moment of distraction, he spoke softly.
“Sect Master Luo… you seem to be dressed inappropriately.”
“When you were little and I held you, you would wriggle around in my arms, rubbing your little face against my chest countless times. Now you’re saying that I’m dressed inappropriately in front of you?”
Luo Yueguan’s tone was always so proud and disdainful. Not only was she dressed inappropriately, but when she sat down, she crossed her long legs in an especially provocative manner, revealing a large expanse of skin through the slit in her dress.
Jiang Huai couldn’t argue with Luo Yueguan. When he was young, he was indeed not very proper. Besides taking advantage of Chu Xianning, he also got quite close to Luo Yueguan every time she visited because her body was soft and fragrant.
“Qingyu, why don’t you go take a bath?”
Jiang Huai winked at Luo Qingyu and spoke softly, “Soak for a while. It’s good for your body.”
So Luo Qingyu obediently left for the bath in the backyard, leaving only Jiang Huai and Luo Yueguan in the courtyard.
……
“Sect Master Luo.”
“Call me Aunt Luo,” Luo Yueguan glanced at him with a hint of pride.
“The engagement has been canceled, right? It’s better to call you Sect Master Luo.”
“Anyway, you’ll get engaged again in the future. By then, you might not only have to call me Aunt Luo, but you might also have to call me Mother along with Qingyu.”
“Sect Master Luo is willing to marry Qingyu to me again?”
“You’re angry, I know,” Luo Yueguan said without any change in expression.
“If you want to scold or humiliate me now, feel free. I’m just as foolish, selfish, and vain as your master thinks. Will that make you feel better?”
“I don’t mean it like that,” Jiang Huai sighed helplessly.
In truth, he didn’t really hate Luo Yueguan. When she learned that his cultivation was crippled and came to cancel the engagement, it was a reasonable move.
After all, what mother would want her daughter’s life to be held back?
His impression of Luo Yueguan was simply that she was a bit foolish, not knowing how to properly educate a child.
But who in this world isn’t a first-time parent, and who really knows the perfect way to raise a child?
“Then what should you call me?” Luo Yueguan glanced at Jiang Huai, her toes curling slightly.
“Before we get engaged again, let’s stick with Sect Master Luo,” Jiang Huai didn’t back down, but his eyes were inadvertently drawn to Luo Yueguan’s feet for a moment.
Damn it, he pinched his thigh hard.
This woman was incredibly perceptive, a true femme fatale.
If she got a hold of your weakness, you’d be done for life, Jiang Huai Jr.!
“You sent Qingyu away to talk to me about something?”
Luo Yueguan didn’t dwell on the issue of what to call her, knowing she probably couldn’t get him to change his mind.
“Some things I’m going to say might make Sect Master Luo uncomfortable, but I still need to say them. Qingyu’s previous state has a lot to do with you,” Jiang Huai said with a bit more seriousness in his voice.
Luo Yueguan couldn’t argue, her proud eyes lowering slightly. “I admit it.”
Jiang Huai was about to say more, but seeing Luo Yueguan’s lowered lashes and sincere admission of fault, he felt there was no need to continue. Admitting and correcting mistakes was a good thing.
“Qingyu has grown up. She has her own thoughts and can handle her own affairs. From now on, Sect Master Luo, you don’t need to restrain her or make decisions for her.”
“I… heard you,” Luo Yueguan bit her lip.
“Look at me and promise.”
Luo Yueguan looked up, her gaze falling on Jiang Huai’s face. Even though he was the younger one, his commanding tone made Luo Yueguan feel a subconscious irritation.
But he was right, so Luo Yueguan bit her lip.
“I… won’t treat Qingyu like that anymore.”
“That’s good,” Jiang Huai sighed in relief, glad that Luo Yueguan wasn’t as difficult as he had thought.
“I’ve heard that Sect Master Luo’s dance skills are particularly outstanding?” Jiang Huai suddenly asked.
“Why do you ask that all of a sudden?” Luo Yueguan was taken aback.
“I was thinking of having Qingyu learn dancing with you for two reasons. First, to give Qingyu something to do, and second, I hope you can spend more time with her. It’s good for the two of you to talk and chat more. What do you think?”
“I will teach her well.”
“Alright, then I’ll have to trouble Sect Master Luo.”
With that, Jiang Huai finally picked up the tea from the table and took a gentle sip.
The tea from Luo Yueguan was exquisite. Jiang Huai couldn’t name it, but he found it left a lingering fragrance on his lips and teeth.
“Good tea.”
Luo Yueguan tossed a tea bag into Jiang Huai’s lap and spoke indifferently.
“This is Snow Peak tea from the Fenlan Mountain, one hundred spirit stones per tael.”
The tea bag she threw to Jiang Huai weighed nearly a jin. Jiang Huai didn’t refuse it and silently accepted the gift.
Luo Yueguan glanced at Jiang Huai, “When will you leave?”
“I’ll stay with Qingyu in the sect for a couple of days before returning.”
“Why the rush to go back?”
“There are some matters to attend to at the sect.”
It wasn’t really that busy; it was just that Jiang Huai couldn’t bear the thought of his master being alone in the courtyard.
Besides, if he stayed here too long, what if his master thought Luo Qingyu had bewitched him and he never returned?
Luo Yueguan responded lightly, “I heard you took first place in the inner sect of Tianxuan Sect?”
“Sect Master Luo is well-informed.”
“How did you achieve that?”
“Immaculate Golden Body.”
“May I see?”
Luo Yueguan asked indifferently, and Jiang Huai looked surprised.
“What’s there to see?”
“I’ve also practiced the Immaculate Golden Body.” Luo Yueguan replied calmly.
After hesitating for a moment, Jiang Huai stood up, removed his long robe, and approached her. Luo Yueguan extended her hand, her fingertips lightly touching his chest, gently caressing it, causing a slight tickling sensation.
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Jiang Huai looked down at her eyes and felt the atmosphere was somewhat strange at the moment.
Luo Yueguan touched him for a while and then asked, “Have you reached the seventh level to perfection?”
“Yes.”
It seemed she knew her stuff.
“Wait a moment.”
Luo Yueguan reached out, fiddled with her earring for a while, and eventually took out several packets of spiritual medicine, which Jiang Huai recognized at a glance as materials for cultivating the Immaculate Golden Body.
“I bought these when I was practicing and had some left over. They’ve been sitting for a few hundred years, so I’m not sure if they’re still usable. Take a good look.”
Jiang Huai examined the spiritual medicine carefully. Although they had been stored for hundreds of years, they were indeed still usable.
The Immaculate Golden Body he practiced was a modified version, with only a third of the pain compared to the normal one. When he practiced the normal Immaculate Golden Body, the pain was so intense he would roll on the ground, and according to ancient records, the further one practiced, the more painful it became.
Curious, Jiang Huai couldn’t help but ask, “To what level has Sect Master Luo cultivated her Immaculate Golden Body?”
“Perfect tenth level.”
Jiang Huai’s eyes widened in surprise.
Luo Yueguan knew what he was thinking and answered lightly.
“You think everyone has a talent like your master, unimpeded from the start of cultivation? When I entered Qingxuan Sect, if I couldn’t become the most dazzling disciple, I would have been left to the former Qingxuan Sect’s Holy Son as a dual cultivation furnace.”
Jiang Huai had never heard Chu Xianning tell him any stories from the past. Looking at Luo Yueguan’s cool and slightly seductive eyes, he couldn’t help but become more curious.
After a moment of hesitation, Luo Yueguan spoke, “Both your master and I were found from the foot of the mountain. Unlike your master’s chosen forty-five meridians, I only had twenty-nine when I started cultivating.”
“She entered Tianxuan Sect and was taught by the seventh realm’s Snow Moon Fairy from the beginning, while I started in Qingxuan Sect as an outer disciple… and because of my appearance, I was coveted. If I didn’t excel, in the eyes of others, I was just a vase, an object that could be sent to someone’s bed at will.”
“Cultivating the Immaculate Golden Body to the later stages requires the support of meridians. How did Sect Master Luo manage to cultivate to the tenth level?” Jiang Huai finally asked out of curiosity.
“Enduring.” Luo Yueguan’s voice was cold.
“No matter how painful, you endure. Keep enduring, and eventually, you will refine it.”
She looked at Jiang Huai’s surprised eyes and suddenly felt an indescribable desolation in her heart, perhaps self-mockery or something else.
She turned her face away, looking at the flowers in the courtyard, “I’ve been especially strict with Qingyu since she was young because of this. In my era… if a woman was extremely beautiful and had no backing, she could easily be manipulated by others.”
“At that time, all I knew was to practice hard. Only by standing high enough could I look down on everything and not be seen as an object to be manipulated at will.”
“I thought the so-called hardships and loneliness could temper Qingyu’s temperament to be as tough as iron, but I neglected the fact that I am now the Sect Master of Qingxuan Sect, standing above thousands of cultivators in the Eastern Region. Even if Qingyu had no cultivation, I could protect her for life.”
“These are my mistakes, and I have no intention of excusing myself. I promised you that if I could make Qingyu smile again, I would agree to one condition from you. Tell me, what do you want me to do for you?”
Luo Yueguan seemed afraid her words might seem too light, so she leaned forward slightly, bringing her body closer to Jiang Huai, her breath almost touching his face.
Her lips shone slightly as she repeated softly.
“Any condition.”
