I just want to repair a flute [Martial Arts]

The next day when he went to accompany Jellyfish Yinji again, Yun Chuxiu started a new topic: "You only let me say a few words every day and then drive me away. You are really wasting a lot of talent. Besides, you practice martial arts every day. Aren't you bored? Let's tell stories today!"

Jellyfish Yin Ji was still sitting on the stone bed with her eyes closed, and she didn't seem to want to pay attention to him: "Why do you like to talk so much?"

"Because I have a mouth! If you don't even let me speak, do you think I'm a dead person? But if you think I'm a dead person, why did you treat me well these days?"

Jellyfish Yinji opened her eyes and saw him looking at her expectantly. Her watery eyes on her palm-sized face looked particularly charming. She didn't know who she thought of, but her expression softened visibly and she sighed softly: "...then just tell me."

Yun Chuxiu looked at him with a rather smug look, which made her realize that the other party had obviously caught her weakness. However, he couldn't leave the Shenshui Palace after all, so what could he do even if he knew something? Thinking of this, Shuiji Yinji looked at his beautiful face like a silver moon, waiting to see what tricks he was going to play.

Yun Chuxiu unfolded the folding fan he had brought with him and asked her with a smile: "Although I am good at telling stories, I always follow the host's wishes. Palace Master, what kind of stories do you like to hear?"

"Of course, they are stories that you have never heard of. What's the point of those that everyone knows?" said Jellyfish Yin Ji.

"Don't worry about that. You've definitely never heard of the stories I'm telling you." Yun Chuxiu was confident. Of course, after all, he was telling stories from another world. "Well, I'll start. Today I'm going to tell you this story..."

One month after her marriage, Cui Jianyun, the wife of scholar Fan Sheng, went to the temple to burn incense. Suddenly, she smelled a strange fragrance coming from a woman on the wind. She couldn't help but recite a poem, which was also heard by the woman. So she followed the sound and came to meet Cui Jianyun. The two hit it off immediately. Cui Jianyun immediately decided to ask for this woman in marriage for her husband Fan Sheng. After hearing what she said, the other party immediately agreed.

However, the girl's name was Cao Yuhua, and she came from a scholarly family. Cui Jianyun was worried that Cao's father would not let his daughter be a concubine, so she pretended that she had not been pregnant for a long time and asked to be a concubine, asking her husband Fan Sheng to marry Cao Yuhua. Unfortunately, this was overheard by Fan Sheng's classmates, who exaggerated the story and told Cao's father. In a rage, Cao's father not only wrote a letter to make Fan Sheng lose his fame, but also took his daughter to the capital.

A few years later, the Fan couple changed their names and took the imperial examination again. When they arrived in Shangjing, they learned that Cao's father had been appointed as prime minister. Fan was so sad that he dared not take any action. However, Cui Jianyun did not give up his original wish. Cao Yuhua missed her day and night, and became depressed. Cao's father thought she was lonely in the boudoir, so he posted a recruitment list and wanted to recruit a few female disciples to accompany his daughter. Cui Jianyun immediately went to the door and lied that she was an unmarried girl from a poor family. As expected, Cao's father took a fancy to her and let her meet Cao Yuhua. Cao Yuhua was overjoyed and her heart disease was cured without medicine. The two of them also worshipped the heaven and earth in front of the gods and Buddhas in the room, fulfilling their old wishes...

Hearing this, Jellyfish Yin Ji, who had felt that there was something wrong with this story from the beginning, immediately narrowed her eyes: "...You told this story on purpose."

"Yes, of course I did it on purpose." Yun Chuxiu smiled at her with his neat little white teeth. "We share the same dream at night, the same makeup at dawn, the beautiful faces of the flowers in the mirror, singing together in the boudoir. Why did Cui Jianyun want to share her husband with Cao Yuhua as soon as she saw her? And why did Cao Yuhua agree to marry Fan Sheng so easily without even meeting him?"

"Ridiculous!" Jellyfish Yin Ji scolded him loudly. "I don't know how you made up this story, but there is no such thing in this world! It is already unacceptable for women to be together, let alone they-"

"What do you mean by 'unlawful'?" Yun Chuxiu interrupted her and refuted. "If two people want to be together, it's their own business. Although they can't escape their respective families, it has nothing to do with other people, right? Of course, Fan Sheng in this story is a bit unlucky, but he didn't suffer any loss. After all, if Cui and Cao want to stay together for life, they can't do without him as a shield!"

It had been many years since anyone dared to interrupt her like this. Jellyfish Yin Ji was almost furious for a moment, but when she looked at Yun Chuxiu's surprisingly bright eyes in front of her, she actually retreated for a moment.

This retreat had nothing to do with force, but rather the strength of each other's will. It was as if the ideas she had always insisted on were not worth mentioning in the eyes of the other party.

She sneered and asked calmly, "What happened next?"

"Cui Jianyun urged her husband, who changed his surname to Shi, to come and ask for her hand in marriage again. Cao's father had never met Fan Sheng before, but he admired his talent and agreed to marry her. Cui Jianyun then claimed to be Fan Sheng's original wife and wanted to marry her with her sister. Cao's father was old-fashioned and felt that they had to marry, so he agreed to her marriage. It was not until after the marriage that the two told Cao's father the truth of the matter."

Yun Chuxiu commented: "The girl Cui Jianyun in the story is really smart and bold, and has an indomitable courage. No wonder she can succeed! She pretended to be an unmarried girl to enter the Fan family, and pretended to be Fan Sheng's fiancée to face Cao's father. If she was not careful, it would be easy for the Cao family to crush her to death, but she did it! No wonder Cao Yuhua was obsessed with her and refused to give in and marry outside even after being separated for several years! Palace Master, what do you think?"

"What can I say?" Jellyfish Yin Ji never thought it was normal for a woman to like another woman. She turned pale with anger at his suggestive tone and asked back with a straight face, "Should I empathize with him about this matter?!"

"No, maybe Gong Nanyan feels it more deeply? After all, she dared to kill me for you, but you didn't even dare to say a word for her. Cui Jianyun did a lot for Cao Yuhua, but at the same time, Cao Yuhua did not fail to respond!" Yun Chuxiu hinted. "The palace master's reputation is known to everyone in the martial arts world. I originally thought that you were not a worldly person, but now that I have seen it with my own eyes, I am really disappointed."

He waited for Jellyfish Yin Ji's reaction, thinking that sometimes good and evil were just a matter of one thought, and the same was true for love and hate. Jellyfish Yin Ji was still stubborn at this time, but who knew if she would let it go in the next moment?
——But it didn't. What came towards him was the hand of Jellyfish Yin Ji. Her fingers were long and slender, and her nails were neatly trimmed. It was a very ordinary, seemingly weak hand of a woman.

However, when the hand hit his chest, Yun Chuxiu couldn't even stand steadily, and sat down on the ground. The next palm came in front of him in an instant, hitting him directly on the top of his head. Yun Chuxiu's heart almost jumped out of his chest. He raised his head in a trance, only to feel the palm wind as sharp as a knife coldly passing along his cheek, and then a burst of burning pain came over him.

The whole process happened in a flash. Not only did he have no room to resist, he didn't even see the other party's attack clearly. For some reason, Jellyfish Yin Ji withdrew her palm at the last moment, and squatted down nervously to try to pull him up. However, Yun Chuxiu looked at her cheek so close, and felt an unprecedented fear surge in his heart!
So... this is what it feels like to face an opponent that is impossible to defeat! It would be easy for the opponent to kill him. In the eyes of the opponent, he is probably easier to kill than an ant...!
He subconsciously shrank back. Jellyfish Yin Ji looked at the pale face in front of her that was covered in blood, and her expression couldn't help but dim.

For a moment, she suddenly looked pale and tired, like a lost old woman.

"You are still too young." She stopped trying to touch him, and stood up, turning her back. "Many things in this world are not right just because you think they are right. Little do you know that people's words are scary, and that gossip can melt gold... Cui Jianyun took such a long detour because she always knew that, on the surface, she could not stay with Cao Yuhua forever."

If they want to be together, they have to rely on another man whom neither of them loves. This is the cruelest truth!
Yun Chuxiu had just been knocked to the ground by her when he heard these words. He could not help but feel speechless: "...If anyone else said this, it would be reasonable and well-founded, but you really shouldn't say this."

"……Why?"

"Because Cui Jianyun is just an ordinary person, she really can't resist the harm from the outside world. This is the best result she can do. How can you blame her for this? But you are already one of the top masters in the world. You are still afraid of rumors. What's so scary about that? If you hate people talking about you, you only need to deal with one or two people and kill the chicken to scare the monkeys, and they won't dare to say anything nonsense in front of you."

"Even if they dare not talk behind my back, they can't stop talking. The reputation of Shenshui Palace cannot be ruined by my hands!" Shuiji Yinji said faintly. In order to maintain the reputation of Shenshui Palace, she could do anything. Therefore, she has always closed the palace gates and prevented disciples from going out at will. She suppressed her nature and stayed in seclusion all year round. Everyone in the world knew that Shuiji Yinji hated men, and Shenshui Palace was a forbidden place for men, but no one knew that the purpose of all this was just to cover up her special interest in women!

"That's how the world works. Those who are not tolerated by the world can only exist in darkness and never see the light of day..."

Yun Chuxiu: "..."

Yun Chuxiu wiped his face with his sleeve, feeling that his patience was about to run out: "In the final analysis, you just don't dare to face it. Is it really that difficult to admit that you are timid? Cui Jianyun failed once, but he was able to muster up the courage for Cao Yuhua. In the final analysis, you just don't have that kind of courage, nor do you have that kind of deep affection!"

"Besides, didn't you found the Shenshui Palace? Then why do you care about your reputation? Moreover, even if others don't know that you like women, your reputation in the world is not very good. Since you don't consider yourself to be righteous, why do you use the righteous standards to demand yourself? In life, isn't your own happiness the most important thing?" When Yuan Suiyun introduced her to him, he also said that Jellyfish Yin Ji was willful and had an unpredictable temper, which was why she was so frightening. Facts have proved that rumors in the world are unreliable.

Yun Chuxiu just felt that he could not understand her at all.

However, he was not the only one who was full of doubts. Shuiyun Yinji looked at his expression, which did not seem fake, with a deep gaze. Although she had not left Shenshui Palace for many years, she was not ignorant of the news from the outside world. How could such things change, such as the harmony of yin and yang, the laws of nature and human ethics? But why did he sound so calm and composed when he said it, as if she was just worrying too much?
In an instant, she suddenly realized something and asked in surprise: "Could it be that you have fallen in love with a man?"

"Yes, I am." Unlike her evasion, the other party immediately admitted it frankly, without any sense of violating a taboo. This young, beautiful child seemed to have a fire burning in his eyes that would never go out, which made Jellyfish Yin Ji feel ridiculous and envious.

That's what youth is all about. Once upon a time, wasn't she as stubborn as him, and once she made up her mind about something, she would never change it. But at that time, she had no interest in love at all, and was devoted to martial arts, never paying attention to any other things in the outside world, and she didn't know that one day, a mere emotion would torture her.

I really want to go back to that time, but unfortunately the thing that cannot be retained in life is the time that has passed.

Her thoughts drifted far away into the distant past. Jellyfish Yin Ji concentrated and thought for a while, then sighed in a low voice: "It's useless for you to tell me these things now. The reason why I asked you to come is not what you imagined. Well, just stay by my side and don't bother with these things anymore."

She took out a bottle of medicine from the cabinet in the corner of the room and threw it to Yun Chuxiu: "Apply it on your face, it won't leave scars. Go out, come back tomorrow to accompany me."

(End of this chapter)