𝐷𝑒́𝑝𝑎𝑦𝑠𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡「LCF x MDZS」

Chapter 18 -『The Sun, The Clouds, And The River Lotuses』

"I already stopped the bleeding, so please dress the wound for now. He'll wake up any time."

As Cale continues to talk to the Elder, Jiang Cheng glares at Su She from afar as he grits his teeth.

"A-Cheng."

Jiang Cheng was cut off from his glare when he heard his older sister calling for him.

"Shijie..."

Jiang Yanli sighs, relieved that atleast nothing happened to her younger brother.

Though she was now worried to both Weis again, since they both have a knack for attracting problems left and right.

"What happened?" Jiang Yanli asks, though there's a sharp tone at the end of her sentence.

"That's what I wanted to ask him." Jiang Cheng answers before walking towards to where Su She is, grabbing him by the collar and glared.

"Su She, is it? What happened inside that lake?" He threatened making the other Lans look at each other before speaking.

"Fighting inside Cloud Recesses is forbidden!"

Jiang Cheng scoffs, "Fighting? I haven't swung my fist yet, aren't I?!"

"Jiang-xiong..." The newly arrived Nie Huaisang tries to reason.

"Tell me what happened inside that lake!"

Su She flinched, before sputtering words that were almost incomprehensible.

"I don't k-know! After Wei Wuxian a-and I were plunged deep down the l-lake, the w-waterborne abyss o-only attacked him! I tried to pull him w-with me I s-swear!"

Before Jiang Cheng could tell how absurd his claim, Cale had come closer and held the younger by the shoulder.

"Calm down. It was my fault that the Waterborne Abyss attacked A-Ying."

Fault? How is that incident his fault?

Jiang Cheng's fists were coiled, the ugly feeling inside him kept swirling that he's afraid it will burst out anytime.

He let go of Su She's collar, burying his anger deep inside.

"Return to your rooms." Lan Xichen then says, making the Lan disciples and Nie Huaisang follow him with no questions asked.

"We should rest too." Cale says, which made the Jiang siblings frown as they eye how pale the redhead is.

Jiang Yanli inched closer to Cale before forcefully slamming her fist on his back.

"You should cough the blood out, A-Xun." She says with a menacing smile, making Cale choke from the rising blood on his throat and coughed painfully.

Cale kept coughing as Jiang Yanli kept pounding her fist on the redhead's back, making Lan Xichen hesitant whether he should stop the two or even help the girl in patting Cale's back.

"S-shijie spare me some slack." Cale pleads.

"Is it all out now?"

Cale feels like he should answer the question carefully.

"...N-noㅡack!"

Who the hell was he kidding? Jiang Yanli would slap his back no matter what answer he gave!

He coughed out the last chunk of blood that was peacefully resting in his chest before heaving a deep sigh, still shuddering at how vicious the girl is.

"There."

Before Cale could speak, a pie was then shoved to his mouth.

"Human! Have some apple pie, you must be hungry!"