Chapter 245

Liu Xing said, "I want to invite Yuru to visit Manor Lantao. Is that alright?"

Jiang Sishui: "..."

Seeing the look in Liu Xing's eyes turn suspicious, he wondered inwardly whether this girl had taken the wrong medicine.

With Liu Xing's intelligence, it was impossible for her not to see what kind of place Manor Lantao was.

Yet a moment ago she was still jealous, and the next moment she wanted to bring Deng Yuru along — this baffling move truly left Jiang Sishui unable to make sense of it.

Deng Yuru, standing to one side, said nothing and quietly waited for Jiang Sishui's answer.

A few days earlier, Liu Xing had sought out the Zhenyuan Escort Agency to offer Deng Yuru an apology.

Deng Yuru was kind-hearted and bore no grudges; she had never blamed Liu Xing in the first place. With Liu Xing coming in person to apologize, the last little knot in her heart was instantly tossed to the back of her mind.

Afterwards, Liu Xing proposed taking Deng Yuru along to Manor Lantao.

After some persuasion, Deng Yuru agreed.

In the past, Deng Yuru would certainly never have allowed herself to share a husband with another woman...

But over the past two months, seeing one extraordinary woman after another, each more outstanding than herself, throw themselves into Jiang Sishui's embrace, and being influenced day and night, Deng Yuru's heart had begun to waver.

Especially now that even her childhood friend Liu Xing had followed him.

Deng Yuru suddenly saw the light.

After all, apart from being a philanderer, Jiang Sishui matched her image of an ideal husband in every other respect.

Thus, Liu Xing did not have to exert much effort before she won Deng Yuru over.

Of course, if Jiang Sishui found her distasteful and refused to let her enter Manor Lantao, she would not cling to him shamelessly either.

After confirming Liu Xing was not joking, Jiang Sishui agreed without the slightest hesitation: "Of course! As long as Miss Yuru is willing, the gates of Manor Lantao are open to her at any time."

Seeing him agree so cleanly and decisively, Liu Xing felt an inexplicable pang of sourness in her heart.

Even though the suggestion had originally come from her.

But the hearts of young women had always been complicated, fickle, even contradictory.

Afterwards, unable to refuse Lady Jin's warm hospitality, Jiang Sishui stayed for a meal with their family at the Jin residence.

During the banquet, the way Lady Jin looked at Jiang Sishui clearly showed she already regarded him as a son-in-law.

This made Jiang Sishui feel a few degrees more goodwill toward Lady Jin as well.

After eating and drinking his fill, Jiang Sishui chatted with the two elders for a while longer.

Only when the sky was beginning to darken did he take Liu Xing and Deng Yuru back to Manor Lantao.

3.7 "Hm? You said the Fairy Queen has returned to Immortal Water Palace?"

Hearing Youcao say this, Jiang Sishui frowned slightly.

Whether the Fairy Queen Lvmu harbored any romantic feelings for him, Jiang Sishui could not be certain.

But regardless, the two of them had already consummated their union.

If the Fairy Queen Lvmu were to deny it afterward and try to leave him, returning to Immortal Water Palace to continue as its Palace Master, Jiang Sishui would absolutely not agree.

Just as he was about to call Houjian and drag the Fairy Queen Lvmu back, Youcao added, "Yes. But she said she went back to fetch something, and that she'd return very soon."

"Oh? Fetch something? What thing?"

"I don't know, she didn't say."

"Didn't say... forget it, that's not important. As long as she doesn't run off, that's all that matters."

Jiang Sishui did not dwell on it further, and at once pulled Youcao into his arms to ease her loneliness.

272 Heaven's Punishment Arrow!

After sending Youcao into a baby-like slumber, Jiang Sishui went about his routine — writing in his diary and cultivating.

Later, when he was with Flower Fairy, the girl did not forget to whisper pillow-talk into Jiang Sishui's ear.

In so many words, her meaning was that the Fairy Queen Lvmu was making excuses to avoid him, and that Jiang Sishui should give the Fairy Queen Lvmu a thorough dressing-down next time, teach her a lesson, and reassert his authority as husband.

Although Jiang Sishui knew exactly what Flower Fairy was scheming, he also felt her words made perfect sense.

So he adopted her suggestion.

Flower Fairy was very pleased, and took the initiative to reward him once, letting Jiang Sishui thoroughly indulge himself.

The next day, early morning.

The Fairy Queen Lvmu had returned.

Seeing her, Jiang Sishui was somewhat surprised — it turned out the Fairy Queen Lvmu really hadn't been lying.

But even though she hadn't lied, he still intended to "punish" her once.

After all, he had promised Flower Fairy as much.

And Jiang Sishui had always been a man who kept his word.

And so, before the Fairy Queen Lvmu could even get a word out, Jiang Sishui drew her back into the memories of the previous night.

Afterwards, she could not even manage to utter a single complete sentence.

The sweltering summer passed; once the autumn rains came, a touch of coolness entered the air.

The pitter-patter of rain drummed against the tiles, an unceasing clamor that, oddly enough, made one all the more sleepy.

After a long while, the Fairy Queen Lvmu finally opened her drowsy eyes.

Memories flooded back into her mind; the Fairy Queen Lvmu's cheeks flushed faintly red, and she then stretched her somewhat aching body.

From childhood to now, she had never been this exhausted even when fighting for her life against an enemy.

"Awake?" a voice suddenly rang out.

The Fairy Consort Green Mother wasn't frightened either.

The moment she woke up, she had already sensed Jiang Sishui's presence.

Glancing toward a reclining chair by the window, the Fairy Consort Green Mother said lazily, "I returned to the Immortal Water Palace to fetch something to show you."

Jiang Sishui sprang up from the reclining chair in one bound, leapt onto the bed, pulled her into his arms, and said suggestively, "Straight to serious business the moment you open your mouth — nothing else you want to say?"

"Say what? Say it so you can laugh at me?" The Fairy Consort Green Mother shot him a glare.

Yet that glare carried not the slightest force of menace; on the contrary, it made her look all the more enchantingly alluring.

Seeing Jiang Sishui about to make a move, the Fairy Consort Green Mother gave a start, hurriedly dragged a wooden box beside her over, and shoved it into Jiang Sishui's hands.

"What's this?" Jiang Sishui's attention was successfully diverted.

The Fairy Consort Green Mother said coolly, "The thing hidden inside 'Heavenly Sword.'"

"Heavenly Sword?"

"It's the one I got from you in exchange."

"You broke it?"

"Mm."

"Why?"

"The ancient records of our Immortal Water Palace state that the true value of 'Heavenly Sword' lies not in the sword itself, but in what is hidden within it."

"So that's how it is."

Jiang Sishui asked no more and slowly opened the wooden box.

In an instant, a crimson-red feathered arrow came into view.

The red arrow lay perfectly still, its arrowhead gleaming with a piercing cold light; Jiang Sishui had only glanced at it once when goosebumples rose all over his body, as if the red arrow were about to pierce straight through him.

What an evil, uncanny arrow!

There wasn't the slightest fluctuation of energy — simply looking at it made him feel threatened.

"An arrow hidden within a sword — what is this red arrow?" he asked the Fairy Consort Green Mother offhandedly.

The Fairy Consort Green Mother said peevishly, "It's precisely because I don't recognize it that I brought it for you to see. I figured that, you being the head of the Xiaoyao Sect after all, you might just recognize it."

Hearing this, Jiang Sishui examined it carefully while thinking it over slowly.

"It looks somewhat familiar."

Jiang Sishui murmured to himself — it seemed he had seen something like this in his past life.

The feeling was exactly the same as when he had once seen the remnant fragment of "Ten Directions Annihilation."

Hm?

Ten Directions Annihilation?

Jiang Sishui's heart stirred.