Li Huairou stretched her waist, and the plot came into her head like a tide. She sat up with a frown—retribution had come. Although she’d been a court lady in her previous life, she’d followed Consort Dowager Hui for eating, drinking, and having fun all her life. Now, she had to cross into the world of martial arts.
“Huairou, are you awake? How is the injury?” A man pushed the door open and saw her sitting up. He was relieved, striding over and taking Li Huairou’s right hand to check her pulse. “Fortunately, the remaining poison has been cleared. As for the wound, it will be fine after a period of time.”
Li Huairou looked at the handsome man in front of her, and she couldn’t believe that the man—a compassionate person who rescued the wounded—would ultimately be used by the heroine and become her tool to eradicate her enemy and kill others.
“Ge, but I always feel something wrong. My stomach hurts a lot, and my whole body doesn’t have energy,” Li Huairou said, holding her chest.
When Li Huaike heard this, he was a little nervous. His younger sister had hurt her uterus, which might not be good for her ability to have children. But he couldn’t say this to anyone. “It’s normal for the wound to hurt. Believe in your brother—I will definitely heal you.”
In the final analysis, it must be that his medical skills were not good.
“In this case, you and I shall return to Happy Valley. The master left a lot of medical books, so I will definitely be able to find the problem and cure you!” Li Huaike said after pondering, but he was worried that Li Huairou would disagree, his gaze hesitant. The brother and sister had depended on each other since they were young; no one understood his sister’s mind better than he did. His younger sister liked Brother Tianluo—this time, Huairou had been injured because she’d blocked a sword for him.
She obviously didn’t know martial arts, but she’d blocked a sword for him.
But Brother Tianluo didn’t seem to have feelings for his sister. Li Huaike was a man, and he could tell whether a man liked a woman. Brother Tianluo only had brotherly love for his sister, not romantic love.
He was afraid that his sister would get hurt. If he could take this opportunity to take his younger sister back to Happy Valley and separate her from Brother Tianluo, maybe she would forget Brother Tianluo after a period of time. If her uterus was cured, it would be great to find someone with whom to live in peace and stability in the future.
Li Huairou said, “Okay! Ge, when shall we leave?”
“You’re that anxious?” Li Huaike was stunned.
“Mm, I’m very anxious. I’m still young, I don’t want to die, and I want to live well. Ge, did you know that when the sword pierced me, I saw my parents, and I saw my adoptive parents, and I suddenly understood that in this world, there is nothing more important than living well. Therefore, Ge, let’s go quickly. You must heal me!” Li Huairou took Li Huaike’s hand and said.
Let’s leave quickly. If we don’t leave, the time to meet the heroine will come.
Li Huaike was a little relieved to hear this. As a healer, he liked people who cherished their life.
“Okay, I’ll make arrangements, and we’ll leave tomorrow!” Li Huaike stroked his sister’s hair and smiled with satisfaction.
Outside the door, Fang Tianluo happened to hear the conversation between the siblings. He felt a little embarrassed.
To be honest, he really didn’t have any thoughts about Li Huairou. They’d become neighbors for several years when he was young, and they had accidentally met. As a result, Li Huairou had gotten entangled with him. In his heart, Huairou was still the little sister from his childhood memories.
But when danger came and Li Huairou stood in front of him without hesitation, Fang Tianluo was still a little moved. He also thought he didn’t have anyone he liked, anyway. Huairou was lovely and kind, and she was sincere to him. The feeling of being with her didn’t seem to be a bad one.
But when he finished collecting his thoughts, he suddenly heard those words.
How to put it—it felt a bit ironic!
Li Huaike explained a few words, had Li Huairou take a good rest, and went out to prepare the carriage.
Li Huaike looked up and saw Fang Tianluo standing at the door. “Brother Tianluo?”
Fang Tianluo scratched his head and decided to pretend that he hadn’t heard anything. “I came to see Huairou’s condition?”
Li Huaike looked a little gloomy. “It’s not very good. She said her chest hurt, and her body felt weak. My medical skill might not be enough. I want to take her back, improve my medical skills, and cure her.”
Fang Tianluo nodded. “Alright. If you need my help, just say it.”
Li Huaike nodded. “Okay.”
The next day, Li Huaike carried Li Huairou into the carriage, and under Fang Tianluo’s gaze, he drove the carriage away.
Fang Tianluo’s heart felt empty. When Huairou was around, she was always twittering, and sometimes she was annoying; now that she was gone, how come he felt a little lonely!
Forget it. I have to take revenge. I shouldn’t think about these messy things. Huairou can’t use martial arts, and it’s dangerous for her to stay by my side.
Fang Tianluo turned around and embarked on the opposite road. The next day, when walking through a forest, he heard a familiar voice. “Blockhead! Did you miss me?”
Fang Tianluo smiled helplessly when he looked at the girl who had descended from the sky.
In the carriage, Li Huairou breathed a sigh of relief. In this way, finally avoiding the heroine, Li Huaike would not know the heroine, and he wouldn’t fall into the heroine’s plotting and die. Li Huaike also would not be taken advantage of by the heroine because of his sadness, fall in love with her, and then be willing to be used by the heroine to kill others. In the end, the truth was revealed, and for the heroine’s sake, he was willing to bear all the sins and was killed by the hero.
This was a somewhat cliché martial arts story. The male lead, Fang Tianluo, had a bizarre life and a deep blood feud. Adopted from childhood, when he grew up, he stepped into the jianghu to search for the truth and avenge his parents. The female lead was Xiao Lingling, a quirky girl and confidant whom Fang Tianluo had met when he was traveling across the jianghu.
[Jiang hu (江湖) literally translates as “rivers and lakes”, but refers to the society of martial artists]
The two walked hand in hand, together, all the way.
After going through all kinds of hardship, Fang Tianluo finally found the martial arts secrets left by his parents. During his moment of happiness, he was attacked from behind. The last scene he saw before he fell unconscious was Xiao Lingling with a guilty expression.
When Fang Tianluo woke up, he found that his meridians had all been broken, and he was imprisoned in a dungeon.
[The channels in the body through which internal energy flows, similar to veins]
In his moment of desperation, Xiao Lingling, who was covered in wounds, appeared and killed the guard. And when they were overtaken by others, she fought to the death, finally rescuing Fang Tianluo and escaping with him.
Fang Tianluo refused to speak a word to Xiao Lingling, and Xiao Lingling did not argue. She silently took care of Fang Tianluo, taking him around to visit famous doctors, wanting to renew his meridians for him.
Xiao Lingling heard from a genius doctor that there was a prescription that could cure Fang Tianluo, but he was missing a single medicine called “lingzhucao”, which grew in the bitter cold in the far north and was guarded by beasts. Xiao Lingling finally found the lingzhucao after untold hardship, but she almost lost her life in the jaws of a beast.
No matter how much hatred Fang Tianluo had in his heart, looking at Xiao Lingling, who was dripping with blood but smiled at him while holding the lingzhucao, he felt touched and finally forgave her.
Fang Tianluo took the medicine. After narrowly avoiding death, he finally recovered. At this time, Xiao Lingling took out a secret book. It turned out that the secret book she’d handed off before was a fake—the real secret book had been hidden on her body. She’d been waiting for Fang Tianluo’s recovery to give it back to the original owner.
In the first place, she was the younger sister of the leader of the Baiyue Sect, and she had been lurking next to Fang Tianluo to seize the secrets left by his parents. But in the process of getting along with him, she’d fallen deeply in love with him. Who knew that her elder brother would go back on his word? And so Xiao Lingling betrayed the Baiyue Sect for Fang Tianluo.
What happened afterwards was that Fang Tianluo learned the martial arts in the secret book, rushed out of the jianghu, massacred his enemies on all sides, avenged his parents, and became the leader of the martial arts world, due to Xiao Lingling’s relationship with the Baiyue Sect. Finally, he took Xiao Lingling and lived in seclusion overseas.
According to the original plot, the Li siblings should have already met the heroine in this meeting. Because Li Huairou had blocked a sword for Fang Tianluo, Fang Tianluo’s attitude towards her had changed, and he took great care of her, which caused dissatisfaction to the heroine. The heroine plotted for her follower to disguise as a mountain bandit and rob Li Huairou.
After the tragic death of Li Huairou, the heroine plotted for Li Huaike to mistakenly think that Fang Tianluo’s negligence had caused Li Huairou be taken away, causing conflict between the two.
During Li Huaike’s period of anger and sadness, Xiao Lingling appeared. With her empathetic comfort and relief, she successfully walked into Li Huaike’s heart.
After that, Li Huaike stepped into the gentle trap she’d set, willing to become a murderous knife in Xiao Lingling’s hand.
When the last incident happened, Li Huaike died under the sword of the hero for the heroine’s sake.
In fact, many years later, Fang Tianluo had also thought about the cause of the death of the Li siblings, but at that time, he was living in seclusion on an overseas island with Xiao Lingling, living a life free from the world, and Xiao Lingling was pregnant. Fang Tianluo didn’t want to think and care about these things. After all, they’d just been passerbys in his life. He knew what was most important to him now.
In the end, Fang Tianluo and Xiao Lingling were actually the same kind of person, and both were equally selfish.
Therefore, it was most important to stay away from the male and female leads.
Because Li Huairou had injuries on her body, she didn’t rush the journey. She walked and rested along the way. It took a month to return to Happy Valley.
There were not many people in Happy Valley. Except for Li Huaike and his sister, there was only an old couple, a deaf person, and a mute person. They took care of Li Huaike and his teacher’s daily necessities. After the death of Li Huaike’s master, they only did some chores.
Seeing Li Huaike’s return, the couple was very happy. Babbling with excitement, they kept waving with their hands.
“Uncle Zhang, Auntie Zhang, this is my younger sister, Huairou. From today on, she will live in the valley,” Li Huaike introduced with a smile.
After the death of Li Huaike and Li Huairou’s parents, they’d been adopted by different people. Li Huaike followed his master to Happy Valley, while Li Huairou was adopted by a farmer couple. It was just that the two had always been in contact.
Speaking of it, the death of Li Huairou’s adoptive father was also related to Fang Tianluo. So after the death of her adoptive father, Li Huairou would always follow Fang Tianluo.
Li Huairou said hello with a smile. “Hello, Auntie Zhang, Uncle Zhang. Please take care of me in the future.”
Uncle Zhang and Auntie Zhang were a little excited. They had no children, but they liked children very much, especially beautiful, cute girls.
Auntie Zhang babbled excitedly. She turned around and was about to leave.
Li Huaike explained, “Auntie Zhang said that I will decorate the room for you.”
“Take it easy, Auntie Zhang, I’m not picky.” Li Huairou smiled.
Auntie Zhang turned around and gestured a few more times.
“Auntie Zhang said, ‘No, girls are delicate. You don’t have to be like a boy and not get pampered’,” Li Huaike said, smiling. Uncle Zhang and Auntie Zhang liked Huairou, and Huairou also liked them—it was great!
