Don't be afraid, fairy, I'm blind

Chapter 271: The True Appearance of Senior Sister (6k)

The morning light shone through the window and fell on Wangshu's nearly perfect face, making it glow faintly.

Her face seemed carved by moonlight, soft yet sharp; her eyebrows were like willow leaves, her eyes were slightly hooked, captivating like a snake; her nose was straight and delicate, with a slightly upturned tip; her lips were soft and full, the color of a ripe cherry, as if hiding the secret of spring, making people want to find out.

This is definitely a face that can drive all men in the world crazy. It is almost a work of art that embodies all the beauty in the world.

Wangshu touched his face in the mirror, but suddenly felt a little strange.

Is this me?

The image of myself in my mind... seems to still be the face with the Jade Rabbit mask...

"Fairy Wangshu, you don't want the Bihua Pavilion that your junior brother just saved to close down immediately, right?"

The words of Venerable Qianhua were still ringing in Wangshu's ears, and he couldn't help but think of the conversation that day...

"Bihua Pavilion will not close down. I believe in you, Junior Brother!"

Wangshu clenched his fist and said with great certainty.

Venerable Qianhua just smiled and shook his head, "You think too simply. Your Bihua Pavilion started by copying our Qianhua Pavilion, thinking that you can carve out a niche with the low-price strategy. But have you ever thought that as long as Qianhua Pavilion also reduces costs and prices, what can your Bihua Pavilion use to compete with us? Even if all the clothes of Qianhua Pavilion are now half price, Qianhua Pavilion is still profitable."

Wangshu didn’t understand all this, but he could feel the woman’s confidence and her full malice towards Bihua Pavilion from her endless chatter.

She doesn't like this Venerable Qianhua.

"The chief always asks me to come here to exorcise evil spirits. If there are no evil spirits, I will go back."

Having said that, Fairy Wangshu was about to get up.

"Don't worry, Fairy Wangshu. I have already caught the evil spirit."

As Venerable Qianhua spoke, he took out a jade plate with a faint smile.

The jade plate was empty.

Venerable Qianhua turned the jade plate upside down, and another plate fell off. However, the moment this plate landed on the tea table, it turned into the shape of a tea table again!

If Wangshu had not seen the process of its change, he would have thought it was part of the tea table.

"Does Fairy Wangshu recognize this evil spirit?"

Wangshu shook his head.

"I named it Thousand Faces. It is a very special kind of evil spirit among flesh and blood creatures that does not kill people by brute force. It changes in a thousand ways, and its surface can become anything it wants to be. More importantly, after it changes, there is no trace of evil spirit at all. You must have seen many terrible evil spirits, and you think that many evil spirits cannot escape your eyes. But as long as its evil spirit is covered up, it is not afraid of being seen by you, because even if you see it, you will not recognize it. Fairy Wangshu, do you think it is magical?"

Venerable Qianhua raised his eyebrows and looked at the masked girl with interest.

"It's very dangerous." Wangshu said coldly.

"Yes, it is very dangerous. There was once a man who admired me and was bewitched by it. He used it to transform into my maid and tried to sneak up on me. He acted perfectly, but he was exposed when I punished him and I found him in time."

“So you’ve kept it till now.”

Wangshu stared with her eyes fixed. From the education she had received since childhood, those who associated with evil spirits were bad people.

"After I took it over, it has never harmed anyone again. It's better to say that I control it than to say that I raise it. Because if it wants to hide, even your chief may not be able to find the clues. Fairy Wangshu, please don't wrongly accuse a good person..."

"You are a bad person."

Venerable Qianhua was both amused and confused, and shook his head and said:
"Fairy Wangshu is too naive. Your enemies are not necessarily bad people. And I am not your enemy either."

"I'm not stupid. If you kill it directly, it won't hurt anyone. If you keep it, you're a bad person."

Wangshu's aura was solemn, as if he was about to draw his sword in the next moment.

"What about the head of the Heavenly Art of your Exorcism Department? Others may not know, but I know that he has many evil spirits around him. He is also a bad guy, why don't you punish him?"

This sentence made Wangshu's momentum stagnate, and he hesitated and said:
"The chief elder wants to use evil spirits to kill evil spirits. This can't be considered bad, but it can't be considered good either."

“Silly child…” Venerable Qianhua scooped up the thousand-faced spots with the plate again, and it merged with the jade plate again. “I kept it and didn’t do anything bad, so I can’t be considered bad, right? In fact, I don’t do anything bad, I will use it to do good things, great good things…”

"What good thing?"

Venerable Qianhua looked at Wangshu's Jade Rabbit Mask and spoke to the pair of clear blue eyes:

"I'm going to use it to give you a face..."

Wangshu's clear eyes widened instantly, and the girl's complicated thoughts were all revealed in these blue eyes.

The other party had no ill intentions, she really wanted to give herself a chance to save face...

But this is a secret that my master and I agreed on. Who would know?

Venerable Qianhua seemed to see through the girl's thoughts and said with a smile:

"I have seen too many women in Qianhua Pavilion. Who doesn't want to be seen? Those who wear masks occasionally may think that a face that is too beautiful will bring unnecessary trouble; but those who wear masks forever ultimately think that the face cannot be shown to others. Fairy Wangshu, don't you want to take off this mask?"

Wangshu stared blankly at himself in the huge mirror behind Venerable Qianhua.

The mask seemed to be welded to her face.

Of course she wanted to take it off, otherwise she wouldn’t have said to her in the Master’s Pool: “Master, I want to take it off.”

Master seemed very pleased at the time and encouraged her to “just do it boldly.”

But she clearly never thought there was anything wrong with wearing a mask before. On the contrary, it made her feel very safe as if there was always a mask between her and others.

What caused her change of mind?

Seeing the cakes handed over by her junior brother, she couldn't eat them; looking at the rouge and powder given by her junior brother, she couldn't use them at all; watching her junior brothers and sisters hiding and touching their mouths, she couldn't do it...

Looking at her junior brother's eyes that had turned dark, she couldn't help but worry. If her junior brother could see one day, would he also want to know his face under the mask?

"Why are you helping me?"

This girl, who had always had no desires, now had such a strong desire for the first time. She inevitably hesitated when faced with it.

"A pure heart cannot be deceived. What I say is from the bottom of my heart."

Venerable Qianhua bowed slightly and saluted, showing enough respect:
"First of all, of course, I want to see Fairy Wangshu's beauty reach its peak. This is the simplest wish of a tailor like me who makes beautiful clothes for women. Secondly, of course, I hope Fairy Wangshu can cooperate with Qianhua Pavilion. Because of your junior brother's disturbance, Qianhua Pavilion has had a bad reputation recently, but if Fairy Wangshu takes off her mask, she will definitely be able to turn things around for Qianhua Pavilion and even stabilize the country."

"What about Bihua Pavilion..."

"Let's be frank. I can stop making stockings and give this business to them forever, but they must also behave themselves. This is the limit of my concessions."

"But I can't..."

Wangshu is experiencing the greatest temptation in her life. Although she does not hate evil spirits instinctively, the education she received since childhood tells her that they are the common enemies of all living beings on the five continents.

"Fairy Wangshu, don't worry. The evil aura of the Thousand Faces is very weak. Even with the cover-up, the Evil-Repelling Order cannot detect it... With the naked eye, it is even more impossible to tell that it is evil. No one will discover it..."

As Venerable Qianhua continued to seduce her, Wangshu felt that she could hear the mask on her face breaking. This mask was her defense against the world, and now it began to break.

"Can it really... succeed?"

"Fairy Wangshu, please trust my craftsmanship. I can use it to mold any face you want. Just imagine the moment you take off the mask, everyone will be dazzled by your face. Women will envy you, men will admire you. What a glorious scene that would be!"

While Reverend Qianhua continued his impassioned speech, he carefully observed the girl's blue eyes that could not hide her emotions.

She could clearly see that the girl didn't seem interested in the picture she was describing.

She immediately understood something. As the owner of Qianhua Pavilion, she was familiar with the tactics of stirring up customers' emotions, so she said:

"But these are all insignificant roles. Women wear colorful clothes not only to be seen by the world, but also for the one and only one in their hearts. All the praise from the world combined cannot compare to the affirmation from that one and only one. When he sees such a beautiful face under your mask, how shocked he will be and how much he will admire you!"

Wangshu looked up stupidly, and she looked into the greedy eyes of Venerable Qianhua.

She knew that the other party had ulterior motives in saying these words, but she really couldn't refuse, and her hand had already covered the edge of the Jade Rabbit mask.

"Don't blame yourself, don't be afraid. You didn't use the Thousand Faces to harm people, you just didn't kill it... You just wanted a face, that's all! You didn't hinder anyone! What did you do wrong?"

"No one can blame you or stop you! They are not qualified to do so!"

The gold-rimmed glasses reflected the brilliance in Venerable Qianhua's eyes, and she finally completely broke through the defenses of this ignorant girl.

But the next moment, this strange brilliance turned into astonishment, a shock that struck the soul - because Wangshu took off her mask.

Under the mask was not the ugly or disfigured face that Reverend Qianhua had imagined, but... no face.

It was a shapeless chaos, and two blue pupils floated in the empty chaos like two stars.

This is definitely not a face a 'human' should have!
The astonishment in Venerable Qianhua's eyes suddenly turned into greater surprise. She discovered an incredible secret! !

"I'll give you a...perfect face!"

Reverend Qianhua said to himself excitedly and confidently.

Wangshu thought of the other person's expression when he said this, and she clearly felt a hint of deep malice in the other person's heart.

Her master had taught her since she was young to stay away from people with malicious intentions, and she had always done so.

But why did I choose to ignore this hint of malice this time?

Perhaps it was because from the moment she took off the mask, there was no turning back; or perhaps in order to get this face, she didn't want to look back.

"Fairy Wangshu, the Pavilion Master and the painters are all ready."

The maid stood outside the door and called softly.

The maid's expression was somewhat excited. As a cultivator from Zhongyuan Continent, had she not heard of the name of Fairy Wangshu?
Everyone coveted her true face under the mask, but she was willing to take off the mask for Qianhua Pavilion. I don't know how the Pavilion Master did it...

But it doesn’t matter. She only knows that she will be one of the first people to see the true appearance of Fairy Wangshu with her own eyes. What a moment worth looking forward to!
As long as the portrait is completed, this "breathtaking" face mentioned by the Pavilion Master will be forever imprinted with Qianhua Pavilion!
This maid, who had a decent appearance, suddenly felt a sense of honor, as if that face would grow on her face.

"Where is my junior brother?"

"Mr. You is still resting. The Pavilion Master said that he will probably wake up when you finish painting."

When Fairy Wangshu mentioned her junior brother, she looked conflicted.

You Su's compassionate yet angry expression yesterday could not be erased from her mind, and it felt like a thorn in her side.

Junior brother, don't be mean to me...

I won't be good this time... just this once...

"Take me there..."

Wangshu stood up and put on the special face scarf prepared for her by Venerable Qianhua to cover her entire face.

The maid secretly glanced at the still mysterious Fairy Wangshu and felt that she was like a bride with a veil on her head, who was about to have her veil lifted in front of everyone.

……

You Su slowly opened his eyes, and the memories before he fell into a coma came flooding back.

He reacted instantly and decided that he could not allow his senior sister to be bewitched by that woman and continue living with such a fake face.

But when he tried to get up, he found himself tied up with ropes, his wrists and ankles tied tightly together, making him unable to move.

"This perverted woman!"

You Su cursed angrily and tried to break free by brute force, but he was completely unable to do so. Not only was the rope too tough and contained mysterious energy, but also the special way it was tied made it impossible for him to exert any strength.

The Hehuan Skill can be regarded as an encyclopedia of boudoir secrets, and it also has records on rope art. It’s just that You Su doesn’t like this slightly forced way of playing, so he never tries it. But that doesn’t mean he has no knowledge of it.

You Su also gave up struggling, because he knew that this was called the Four-Horse Tie, a full-body tie with an extremely strong sense of restraint that he could not open by himself.

You Su couldn't help feeling a little discouraged and gritted his teeth.

He recalled the conversation before he fell asleep and felt complicated.

Senior sister has always been a good and sensible child, but she also longs for freedom, so occasionally she would do things that seem rebellious and paranoid to outsiders.

Although Senior Sister is forty-nine years old, her innate pure heart makes her as innocent as a child, and her emotions are clearly visible on her face.

Such a simple girl is most likely to be exploited by people with ulterior motives.

Venerable Qianhua must have seen the senior sister's desire to take off the mask, so he used the strange evil spirit to seduce the senior sister and thus reached a deal with her.

The senior sister knew that she shouldn’t listen to Master Qianhua’s advice to coexist with evil spirits, but she still couldn’t resist the temptation.

Senior sister's behavior yesterday was just like a child who had done something wrong and was covering up her wrongdoing with lies.

Senior sister would not lie, so she instinctively used the excuse of protecting Bihua Pavilion to cover up her selfish desire for a face.

You Su didn't know whether to blame her for not being firm enough, because her desires were really rare, just like a well-behaved girl from a poor family who never asked for candy. When she was given a cherry candy that she wanted the most by an outsider, even if she really took it, how could you bear to blame her.

What's more... You Su knew that she wanted this candy for him.

Senior sister should know that even if he is blind, he can see the face that the evil spirit has transformed into...

When the senior sister came out with that face, the look on her face when she looked at him was as expectant as it was disappointing after You Su got angry.

So out of shame after doing something wrong and under You Su's harsh questioning, the senior sister didn't dare to face herself, so she was afraid to admit her mistakes because that would destroy her always obedient image.

"it's all my fault……"

You Su felt very guilty. The first time his senior sister tried to force him to stay when he went out, he quickly forgave her. When he came back, he didn't blame her for using Xiaohua to mess with him...

It was because I was too gentle to my senior sister before, which must have made her feel that it didn't matter even if she made some small mistakes like before, so she accepted the temptation of Venerable Qianhua.

"Hey, have you heard? Fairy Wangshu has just left for Tianbingfang. Many painters are waiting there. We will be able to see her true face under the mask soon!"

"Of course I heard about it! I just saw Xiao Ye taking her there! I envy Xiao Ye so much, because I can see that face with my own eyes. How can a face be so mysterious?"

"Where would the gimmick come from? But it's just right, it helps Qianhua Pavilion!"

The sound of conversation gradually faded away in the corridor and entered You Su's ears. You Su frowned and sobbed:
"Senior Sister...you can't make the same mistake over and over again!"

You Su gritted his teeth, turned his self-blame into strength, and continued trying to break free from the ropes.

In fact, he was not simply angry because his senior sister was associating with evil spirits, after all, he was the same, but because he knew very well that this matter was definitely not as simple as showing up.

Once this face is exposed to the world, it can never be taken off.

Venerable Qianhua can not only continue to threaten the senior sister with the reason that the Goddess of the Exorcism Department is in association with evil spirits, but also make the senior sister more and more obsessed with this face, so that she can't extricate herself from the desire and obey Venerable Qianhua's words.

If this perverted woman's greed does not stop there, the consequences will be disastrous!

You Su's entire face was red from being tied up, his veins were bulging, and even his wrists and ankles were bleeding from the ropes, but he was unable to break free from the restraints.

There was a sudden glimmer of cruelty in the corners of his eyes, his pupils turned dark in an instant, and he actually began to pull his left arm with all his strength!

He did not stop until he felt a sharp pain in his shoulder joint as if it was dislocated. He actually wanted to tear his arm off to free his hand from the ropes, and then rely on the powerful recovery power given to him by Tai Sui to restore his left hand and untie the ropes!

His body's self-rescue prevented him from using his full strength, so You Su bit his lips and teeth until they bled. He didn't know how long it would take for his broken hand to heal, but he would never be trapped here and wait to die!
"Ah...ah!!"

Suddenly, a flash of white light crossed You Su’s vision, deflated all his efforts.

It was not until the white light stopped in front of him that he recognized what it was - a small flower!
"Xiaohua! Why are you here!?"

You Su was very surprised. Although he had previously opposed his senior sister taking Xiaohua in, he had let down his guard after spending so much time together.

He knew that Xiaohua had a very good relationship with his senior sister. On Lotus Peak, Xiaohua acted as his senior sister's hairpin, and outside the Lotus Peak, Xiaohua would hide in his senior sister's clothes. The man and the beast were rarely separated.

Xiaohua appears here, doesn’t senior sister go to the art exhibition?

Xiaohua's bright red tentacles moved, and You Su knew it was talking. However, only the senior sister could understand what Xiaohua said. He once asked the senior sister the reason, but the senior sister just said that she could understand it.

Could it be that my senior sister is here to give me some message?

"I don't understand!"

You Su didn't care about the severe pain in his left arm and shoulder, and seemed a little anxious.

Xiaohua shook her head, as if she disliked this idiot.

Suddenly, the small, white snake-like creature changed its size suddenly and turned into the huge sandworm at the bottom of the Yuhuan Pool, directly crushing the bed where You Su was lying.

Then Xiaohua's mouthparts moved and spit out something. You Su looked at this thing in surprise. It was the Jade Rabbit Mask that Senior Sister always wore on her face!

"What does it mean?"

You Su was a little confused, but he saw a note in the mask.

The handwriting was so neat and tidy that it was a little cute. You Su recognized it as Senior Sister's handwriting at a glance. Only Senior Sister would write so clumsily and seriously.

Junior brother, don’t you like my face?

"I don't like her! Go tell Senior Sister, whether I like her or not has nothing to do with her face!"

Xiaohua obeyed the order immediately and turned into a white snake in the blink of an eye, then burrowed into the ground and disappeared.

You Su knew there was hope and smiled.

But he became annoyed at the thought of being trapped there and forgot to ask Xiaohua to bite the rope off for him.

……

"Fairy Wangshu, you can take off your veil now."

Venerable Qianhua smiled faintly and looked at the girl sitting in the middle of the crowd.

Sitting around were ten of Kong Painting Studio's most experienced painters. Regardless of gender, age or status, they all looked at the quiet girl in the middle with fiery eyes, as if they were looking at a rare treasure that was about to come into the world. This painting would become a highlight in their careers as painters.

"How lucky I am! I can actually witness the moment when Fairy Wangshu reveals her true appearance!"

The old man who was speaking was vigorous and his eyes sparkled. In fact, he had a secret identity: he was one of the editors-in-chief of the Shenshan Celestial Fairy List and an important judge in determining the ranking of the fairies. He played an indispensable role in the fact that Fairy Wangshu had such a high ranking without revealing her true appearance.

The other painters all agreed, but after everyone had praised her to the utmost, Fairy Wangshu still did nothing. They looked at each other, and saw that the host, Venerable Qianhua, was a little at a loss.

"Don't be nervous, Fairy Wangshu, you are very beautiful, just take it off boldly." Venerable Qianhua had a smile on his face, looking gentle and amiable.

Wangshu's skirt moved slightly, and she suddenly stood up, her blue eyes shining brightly.

Her hand covered the veil, and everyone's breathing stopped and their eyes were attracted.

"Junior brother doesn't like it... then forget it..."

She murmured to herself and immediately pulled off her veil.

Everyone gasped in shock.

The true face beneath the veil...why is it still the Jade Rabbit mask?

(End of this chapter)