“Senior Sister Chu, are you still unwilling to bow your head to the Sect Master? Why bother?”
Lin Rou’s frivolous voice echoed inside the cave.
She had thought that with Chu Mo’s temperament, she would definitely fly into a rage and curse loudly.
However, she had not expected Chu Mo to remain as motionless as an old monk who had entered meditation.
Heh. She does not want to pay attention to me. Lin Rou curled her lips in disdain.
She slowly walked to Chu Mo’s side, picked a clean stone, and sat down.
Her legs were crossed.
One hand lightly caressed her cheek as she spoke casually, “Recently, something major happened in the sect. It is related to you. Do you want to know?”
Upon hearing this, the iron chains on Chu Mo’s body made a light sound.
Like a trapped beast, she suddenly raised her head.
Her pair of black pupils were filled with bone-chilling killing intent and anger.
Her voice was hoarse, as if it had been sanded down.
“Bai Qingran’s matter?”
“It is your old lover, Pei Yunqing. He committed suicide.”
These words were spoken as plainly as if she were discussing today’s weather.
Yet to Chu Mo’s ears, they exploded like thunder.
Her pupils contracted almost imperceptibly in an instant.
Hearing the three words “Pei Yunqing” again, Chu Mo actually felt a long, dreamlike sensation of being separated from the world by many years.
The impulsiveness and passion of her youth, those beautiful filters woven by her childhood white moonlight, had long since shattered and withered.
The fervor had ultimately cooled inch by inch, turning into an ugly, baring-fangs-and-brandishing-claws mass that lay across Chu Mo’s heart.
Toward Pei Yunqing, Chu Mo could not say she hated him.
This sudden bad news only left her with thick shock and a faint trace of melancholy.
“He… why? Was it… forced by Red Sun Phoenix Heaven Sect?”
A cold laugh. Lin Rou shook her head mockingly.
“With Peak Master Su present, who would dare act so brazenly? Moreover, your tone sounds as if he is already dead. I have already saved the person. As for the reason he did this, Pei Ruanyan told me that he was trapped by love. Your heartlessness made him so miserable that he wanted to commit suicide.”
Chu Mo’s black pupils lowered.
The weariness inside them was so thick it almost dripped out.
She did not know how to describe her current mood.
She had loved two men.
The first was Pei Yunqing.
She had loved him to the point of life and death, to the point of shaking heaven and earth.
The year he was captured by the Demon Race, Chu Mo had done all kinds of ridiculous things.
However, after the Yan Qingge incident, she could not accept Pei Yunqing’s embarrassing state.
When that layer of blindfold called “white moonlight” was removed, she had suddenly discovered that the person before her was far from the beauty she had imagined.
The second was Bai Qingran.
All of her unbearable, violent, and ruthless sides had been poured onto him without reservation.
Their meeting had been an unfortunate coincidence.
In the time they spent together afterward, every inch had been filled with the desolation of fox blood.
She had never truly faced Bai Qingran.
Chu Mo had only treated him as a plaything whose life was completely under her control.
Yet only now did she finally understand that her love for Bai Qingran had long grown into a towering tree within her pathological, twisted possessiveness.
But now, because of her, Bai Qingran had fallen into Nalan Qingjue’s hands and was even being targeted by this deep-minded Lin Rou before her eyes.
Every second, Bai Qingran was like a little white rabbit that had fallen into a pride of lions, ready to be torn apart alive at any moment.
And Pei Yunqing had actually attempted suicide for her sake.
Powerlessness and disappointment in herself wrapped around Chu Mo’s heart like thorny brambles.
Drop after drop of fresh red fell inside her heart, creating layer after layer of ripples.
She had loved Pei Yunqing, yet she had betrayed him and wantonly vented her desires on Bai Qingran.
She had loved Bai Qingran, yet she had only seen clearly too late and had treated her beloved like a plaything to be ravaged.
No matter which love it was, both had failed and were incomplete to the point of making her nauseous.
Watching Chu Mo’s dejected and wretched state, Lin Rou felt a wave of satisfaction in her heart.
Lin Rou’s feelings for Bai Qingran had originated from that prescription.
At that time, it had been a desire for talent, an appreciation for ability.
She had never before met a man who was so outstanding in medical skills.
However, when she saw Bai Qingran’s incomparably beautiful face and his determination to fight to the death for Yan Qingge, her feelings had quietly changed.
Now, she had obtained Bai Qingran.
Yet her jealousy toward Chu Mo had also reached its peak.
Why?! You obtained everything of Bai Qingran! Even his first time belonged to you! Yet you never cherished him.
You only knew how to brutally ravage him!
If Bai Qingran’s fate was destined to suffer this kind of calamity, then why could it not be me, Lin Rou?!
If Lin Rou had been the first to meet Bai Qingran, she would definitely have gently woven an inescapable net for him that would last for all eternity.
He would forever sink into her gentle love until he willingly offered everything of himself, until he was willingly imprisoned by her forever!
That would have been such a wonderful pleasure!
Instead of like now, with so many pairs of eyes all staring at Bai Qingran.
“Chu Mo, although Pei Yunqing is inferior to Bai Qingran in every way, he loves you so much and you once loved him so much. Why not just give Bai Qingran to me? Would it not be good for you and Pei Yunqing to become dao companions?”
Lin Rou’s eyes were cold.
These words seemed to have been quenched in poison.
“Lin Rou… do not even think about it. I no longer love Pei Yunqing. The one I love is Bai Qingran. Unless I die, no one can take him away from me!”
Chu Mo gritted her teeth. Every word in her speech carried a scorching heat burned by rage.
“Hahahahaha. Senior Sister Chu, is that truly so?”
Lin Rou smugly took out that clean white handkerchief.
She waved it in front of Chu Mo.
The color and smell loudly proclaimed dirty filth.
With just one glance, Chu Mo’s face turned deathly pale, almost transparent.
Her entire body trembled like sifting chaff, as if she had suffered a tremendous blow.
The teeth in her mouth clicked and clacked, echoing an indescribable terror inside the cave.
“This beauty’s body is truly an exquisite flavor. Senior Sister Chu, if I say that Bai Qingran has already willingly offered himself to me, can you still accept him?”
These words were like an arrow of ice that pierced through Chu Mo’s head.
She only felt a mournful chill throughout her entire body.
Uncontrollably, her mind conjured up the erotic image of Bai Qingran turning and accepting pleasure beneath Lin Rou’s body.
That was a taboo she had only ever seen!
“Lin Rou! I will kill you!! I will definitely kill you!!!”
The roar from Chu Mo’s mouth was like a wild beast driven to a dead end.
Her eyes were covered in ferocious blood vessels. She struggled desperately as if she had gone mad.
The handcuffs deeply cut into the flesh of her wrists. Blood bloomed into the most frenzied blood-colored flowers on the ground.
This scene made Lin Rou tremble with excitement all over.
She extended her hand and lightly patted Chu Mo’s ferocious, distorted face.
“Save your strength, Senior Sister Chu. You should just continue reflecting properly here. After you come out, if you find Bai Qingran dirty, there is still a clean Pei Yunqing waiting for you.”
The unwillingness and hatred surging in Chu Mo’s chest were like a volcano that had been accumulating.
Her throat rolled back and forth.
Her black pupils held dark, stormy waves.
The pitch-black emotions churning in her heart were almost suppressed only by using every ounce of her strength.
She lowered her voice.
The words were almost forced out from between her teeth.
“Lin Rou, Bai Qingran would never do this… What dirty methods did you use on him?! You know best! You had better pray that I die inside this cave. Otherwise, I will definitely cut you into a thousand pieces!”
These threatening words made Lin Rou hook a mocking smile in disdain.
“Senior Sister Chu, you should first think of a way to leave this cave. If you are late, and Bai Qingran completely falls in love with me, then you will truly become a ridiculous and pitiful stray dog.”
After speaking, Lin Rou stood up and walked out of the cave with wild laughter.
Behind her were Chu Mo’s heavy, angry gasps.
On the way back to Yao Furnace Peak, the smile on Lin Rou’s face faded and gradually turned into deep calculation.
She had originally wanted to use this defiled white to break down Chu Mo’s psychological defenses.
However, it now seemed that she had ultimately underestimated Chu Mo’s love for Bai Qingran.
Still, the seed of discord had already been planted. Even if Chu Mo could still come into contact with Bai Qingran after she came out, this faint, intangible humiliation would be like a thorn that could not be pulled out.
It would always make this wild beast go mad at some point.
Especially since Bai Qingran was unaware.
This kind of righteous and confident denial from a lover would definitely make Chu Mo lose control.
The violence and cruelty that followed would only push Bai Qingran far away.
When he was lonely and helpless, licking his own wounds, she only needed to play the role of the one and only, irreplaceable salvation and tenderness.
Even if he was still full of wariness toward her, under Chu Mo’s madness and cruel ravaging, Bai Qingran would definitely come to her for help.
After all, she was the only one who could give him warmth and light.
For now, there was no need to consider Chu Mo. There were two other matters that needed to be handled first.
The first was Yan Qingge.
Having one more woman in Xuan Phoenix Sacred Sect who was thinking about Bai Qingran made Lin Rou feel as if a fishbone was stuck in her throat.
The second was the matter of the medical skills.
Although Pei Ruanyan had refused to loosen her tongue no matter what, right now Pei Yunqing was in her hands.
A weak and useless person. Yet he might know some useful information.
Combining the current intelligence, the secret that Pei Ruanyan was hiding was extremely likely to have countless connections with Bai Qingran.
Since it concerned Bai Qingran, Lin Rou had no reason not to dig it out.