Seven Unfortunate Lifetimes (Love You Seven Times)

Chapter 16

Edited by renderedreversed

That night, Shifu didn’t come back to Fengxueshan Manor. For most of the night, I sat at the manor’s front door, holding my knees as I waited. The cold mountain air felt like needles pricking my bones. My heart also turned cold.

The stars in the sky flew above my head. I stared blankly at the road outside of the manor, hoping that Shifu would suddenly appear. He would pinch my cheeks and yell at me, telling me to go back inside to sleep.

But Shifu didn’t appear. The one that appeared was Zihui. He covered me with a coat.

“Go back to sleep; I’ll look out. When your Shifu comes back, I’ll go wake you up.”

I stubbornly shook my head. Zihui no longer tried to persuade me. He sat down next to me instead, and together, we stared at the long road before us.

“Zihui, why do you want to be my husband?” Since there was nothing else to do, I opened my mouth and said: “Even though I and the people of Shengling Sect know each other very well, still, no one wanted to marry me.”

“En, it’s probably because I like you more than I fear your Shifu.”

“Why do you like me?”

Zihui paused for a moment and then said: “Guess.”

“I’m stupid, I can’t guess why.”

I put my head on my knees. I really wanted to sleep. Slowly, my eyelids grew heavy.

I honestly said: “I always felt that there was something strange in your eyes.”

“Ah?”

The person beside me seemed somewhat agitated.

“What’s strange?”

“I don’t know, but I think…in your heart, you’re probably not willing to be my husband.”

I closed my eyes. My head fell to the side, resting on a thick shoulder.

“Actually…if you are not willing, we can cancel it… I won’t force you.”

The person beside me didn’t say anything and I slowly fell asleep.

(Actually, I felt that Xiao Xiang Zi isn’t so stupid here. She saw right through Zihui. She’s just simple-minded)

The next morning, I heard a “sha sha” sound of someone cleaning the floor. Confused, I rubbed my eyes and took a closer look. It was Zihui cleaning the stone stairs using a broom.

The air had a strange smell. I vaguely remembered the butcher once told me that this smell was called wine. It was a wonderful thing, but the butcher never let me touch it. He said that when a girl drank it, she would become crazy. Now, I was a little stupid, but I was still rational. If I touched that kind of thing and became silly and crazy, Shifu would really not want me anymore. So, I had been keeping that kind of thing far away from me. In Fengxueshan, there were also no wine. I scratched my head and asked: “Zihui, how come wine has been spilled on the ground?”

Zihui looked at me, smiled, and said: “Shifu just came back. When he saw us sitting at the front door, he slipped. A bit of the wine spilled from the jar in his hand.”

“Shifu is back!”

My ears only heard those words. The other words had turned to smoke.

“Where is he?”

“He must be in his room right now…”

I didn’t wait until he finished speaking and quickly stood up, wanting to run straight into the manor. But I had been curling my legs the entire night and I stood up too quickly, so my legs went numb. My vision went black and I collapsed. I must’ve hit my nose very hard, because a flow of blood dirtied the ground. My head turned dizzy, my eyes were blurry. I only heard Zihui’s panicked voice yelling: “A Xiang lady, a Xiang lady!”