The Abused-Novel Female Lead Holds a Mad Brush - Chapter 28
Chapter 28: Beep Beep Beep Beep
By the cliffside, the sea wind blew piercingly cold, and the crashing waves struck the rocks with a barrage of sounds, as though unknown demons from the abyssal depths were roaring.
Clad in a suit of white robes, Xuan Yeyang wore a deeply sorrowful expression.
For the past few days, he hadn’t spent a single moment outside of grief.
His originally handsome, radiant face had become utterly haggard, and his towering, magnificent stature had thinned down considerably.
Ah, I truly love her so much.
Xuan Yeyang was moved beyond measure by his own deep affection, immersing himself completely in the perfect, virtual love created inside his own mind.
“Xue’er.”
Xuan Yeyang bent his noble spine, lowered his noble head, and cast down his noble eyes, plunging into profound remembrance and agony.
“That day, it was my incompetence… Although I know you would never blame me, I blame myself…”
Yu Jiaxue: “Crunch, crunch. Who says I wouldn’t blame you?”
“I cannot escape from such deep remorse… But I still have the Xuan family, and my parents and relatives. I cannot go down there to accompany you…”
Yu Jiaxue: “Munch, munch. An apology is an apology, why are you showing off?”
“But you must believe that I love you. Even though you are dead, you remain the true love of my life. Even if there are newcomers in the future, no one can surpass you… For your sake, I can do anything!”
Yu Jiaxue: “Crack, crack. Ahahaha, is that really true?”
“What are you laughing at?! I’ve endured you for a long time!”
Xuan Yeyang flew into a rage. Having his poetic moment interrupted, he could no longer tolerate it!
Xuan Yeyang strode toward the bushes, only to find that the overgrown, desolate, and eerie weeds of the past had been manicured clean and beautiful at some point.
In the middle of the weeds, there was even a pavilion!
The moment he saw that pavilion, a sharp pain shot through Xuan Yeyang’s eyes!
He immediately drew his sword, shouting alertly at the top of his lungs: “There’s an assassin!”
In an instant, all the Xuan family guards who heard the alert moved out at once, forming a tight, impenetrable ring around Xuan Yeyang in the middle.
Hiss—
Yu Jiaxue leaned back strategically: “The Xuan family guards defend the Young Master to the death!”
What a resounding declaration!
The Xuan family guards were greatly inspired, involuntarily shouting along: “The Xuan family guards defend the Young Master to the death!”
The roar thundered through the sky so suddenly that it scared Young Master Xuan Yeyang into a stumble.
999: […]
Pei Tianming: “…”
Yu Yinglian outside the mirror: “…”
How should they put it? Initially, when they saw the Xuan family guards outnumbering her so greatly, they were still a bit worried about Yu Jiaxue.
But seeing the opponent’s IQ now, they felt completely relieved.
The anger in Xuan Yeyang’s heart flared even higher. Glancing at the pavilion that was so blindingly golden it practically burned his eyes, he yelled in humiliated rage: “Pei Tianming! What are you laughing at?”
The moment Pei Tianming saw Xuan Yeyang, he thought of how he would have to dive into the water later, and said with extreme joy: “Because I thought of something happy.”
*The voice wasn’t right—it wasn’t him just now.*
Xuan Yeyang turned to the masked person beside Pei Tianming, his eyes narrowing dangerously.
“What about you? What are you laughing at?”
Yu Jiaxue: “I also thought of something happy.”
Xuan Yeyang twitched the corner of his mouth, stepping forward into the gazebo and releasing the powerful aura belonging to a Solitary Hero: “Don’t tell me the happy thing you two thought of is the exact same thing?”
Yu Jiaxue: “Ah, right, right, right! How did you know? It’s the exact same thing!”
Xuan Yeyang could no longer tolerate such humiliation.
With a slap of his hand, he flipped the melon seeds, fruits, and pastries on the table to the ground: “I’ve endured you for a long time!”
The Solitary Hero’s aura was far too intimidating; Pei Tianming instantly panicked slightly, subconsciously sneaking a glance at Yu Jiaxue beside him.
Underneath the mask, Yu Jiaxue’s brows were tightly knit.
To actually waste food! Unforgivable!
Yu Jiaxue said profoundly: “Me too.”
Xuan Yeyang froze, then sneered: “It seems you—”
“It seems you prefer the hard way over the easy way!”
Yu Jiaxue ripped off her mask: “Just now you said you were willing to do anything for me, yet now you flipped my table! It proves that everything you said was fake!”
Under the mask was an exquisite, peerless beauty, rare in the world.
Xuan Yeyang was stunned, then shouted in immense delight: “Xue’er! Xue’er, you’re still alive! Are you alright? Are you hurt—”
The stage hasn’t even been set up yet, and you’re already acting like a drama addict!
Yu Jiaxue gasped. That damned urge to win instantly took over her brain.
She couldn’t lose!
“Don’t call me Xue’er!”
Yu Jiaxue’s peak acting skills—the ones she used when tricking clients into redrawing—went live, her eyes instantly reddening: “I originally thought that after you sincerely apologized, I would forgive you.”
“Yet not only did you show no remorse, you even treated me so rudely! Saying you’re willing to do anything for me, yet you couldn’t even recognize my laughter!”
She pointed a finger at him in heart-wrenching accusation: “You couldn’t even recognize my laughter—it proves you don’t love me sincerely!”
Xuan Yeyang: “…?”
—
Outside the Water-Moon Mirror
Mu Yihe opened his eyes gracefully: “This is indeed a bit too much.”
Bailing said indignantly: “Yeah! Not even recognizing such a unique laugh—it’s utterly hypocritical.”
Even Master Wanren couldn’t help opening his mouth: “This action is indeed against common logic.”
“Exactly! He grew those ears for nothing!”
“Not recognizing Daoist Yu’s laugh—what’s the difference between him and a deaf person!”
Shen Xuezhu: “…”
The hand holding the teacup trembled imperceptibly.
Unity was achieved, and immersion was achieved as well. These were clearly good things, and things he was pleased to see…
Shen Xuezhu thought in confusion.
So why did he always feel like the Xihe Sect was developing in a weird direction???
—
Inside the Floating Life Dream, by the Cliffside
“So, as long as I jump down from here, you’ll forgive me?”
Facing Xuan Yeyang’s expression of deep affection, Yu Jiaxue was stone-cold and heartless: “Man, you have to jump until I am satisfied.”
What arrogant words!
For a moment, Xuan Yeyang even felt like he was being outshone!
Damn it!
“…Fine.”
He took a deep look at Yu Jiaxue.
His previous words of mourning had been overheard by too many people, so it was hard to back out now.
However, Xuan Yeyang wasn’t afraid. He had already ordered his subordinates to wait at the bottom to ensure his landing would be completely safe.
He would prove to Xue’er that he was the person who loved her most!
Carrying such grand ambitions, Xuan Yeyang leaped forward.
Yu Jiaxue: “No jump-off stance. Redo.”
Xuan Yeyang leaped a second time.
Yu Jiaxue: “Posture isn’t graceful enough. Redo.”
Xuan Yeyang leaped a third time.
Yu Jiaxue: “Where’s the difficulty coefficient?! Where’s the inward twist, spin, and arm strength?! You have none of them—why are you even diving? Redo!”
Xuan Yeyang leaped a fourth time.
Yu Jiaxue: “Tuck your knees, tuck your knees, tuck your knees! How many times have I said this tested point must be completed?! Why didn’t you do it? Redo!”
Xuan Yeyang leaped a fifth time.
Yu Jiaxue: “Do you want to wash my feet?”
Yu Jiaxue: “You don’t? If you don’t want to, why aren’t you suppressing the splash! If the splash gets any higher, it can wash my face! REDO!!”
Xuan Yeyang leaped N+ times.
Under the continuous leaps, even with the care of his guards, he was thoroughly exhausted in mind and body, practically crawling back up from the bottom of the cliff.
Xuan Yeyang’s nerves were stretched to the absolute limit. Hearing Yu Jiaxue pick faults once again and demand a redo, Xuan Yeyang could no longer hold it together.
“You don’t want me to dive at all! You just want to torture me!”
He looked so miserable that even Pei Tianming, who was watching the show, couldn’t bear it.
But Pei Tianming would never allow anyone to slander his ancestor!
Pei Tianming immediately turned his head, his face filled with accusation: “You—”
How could you think that?
However, another voice was even faster than him.
“You finally realized it?”
Yu Jiaxue looked at Xuan Yeyang in surprise: “So you really aren’t an idiot.”
Pei Tianming: “…”
He slowly stepped back.
Yu Jiaxue’s surprise was by no means faked.
Mainly, when she asked 999 to evaluate his IQ earlier, 999 had directly played dead, so she thought it was tacit agreement!
999: […]
999: […]
999: [Is there a possibility that I just couldn’t bear to look closely?]
The moment Yu Jiaxue said this, Xuan Yeyang’s mental state nearly collapsed: “I love you so much, yet you—”
“You love me?”
Yu Jiaxue interrupted him. She stared fixedly at Xuan Yeyang for a moment, then suddenly chuckled softly.
“You always keep this word on your lips, speaking it so easily. But if you think carefully, do you really love me?”
Xuan Yeyang said painfully: “Of course I love you!”
“Love? For the position of Young Master of the Xuan family, you could abandon me. For your fiancée, you could abandon me. To avoid making your parents angry, you could abandon me…”
“Power, desire, family… everything is placed ahead of me, and all of them are more important than me. Xuan Yeyang, the one you love isn’t me, but rather yourself—the version of you that acts so deeply affectionate, pure, and reckless when ‘loving me’.”
Xuan Yeyang was completely bewildered: “But I really love you, I truly thought about being with you in the future…”
He couldn’t go on.
Even he himself felt it was hollow.
“Fine. Even if you love me, what happens then? What about your parents? What about your fiancée?”
“And what about me, who was born ordinary and can’t fit into the Xuan family at all?”
Yu Jiaxue said calmly: “You’ve never considered anyone else. Xuan Yeyang, you’re far too arrogant. Even now, you don’t know where you went wrong.”
“True love isn’t like this. True love can tolerate everything. It wouldn’t fail to recognize my laugh, much less repeatedly abandon me in choices.”
Yu Jiaxue lowered her eyes as a gentle breeze blew, scattering her hair strands slightly. Amidst the rustling sound of her robes, her voice merged with the wind, becoming extraordinarily gentle, as if it would melt into snow upon her porcelain-white skin.
“Love should be a sigh emitted by this world. It is ethereal and formless, pure enough to reflect ten thousand scenes of the world, yet simultaneously heavy, dark, and vibrant enough to contain all filthy desires.”
“Love can appear in imperial halls and courtyards, or in wild mountains and forests. It is formless like the wind, scalding like fire, and thirsted for by all like water—coming without a trace, leaving without a shadow.”
“When it appears, even if it is merely a letter, one can glimpse that unhideable love between the lines. And when it perishes, even if two people gaze at each other, it is nothing more than flowers in the mirror and the moon in the water—an empty illusion.”
This speech was deeply thought-provoking, moving like the most wonderful movement atop Tianyin Pavilion, causing countless people to recall that pure white presence in their memories.
Daoist Master Yuanru looked far into the distance: “Sigh.”
Master Wanren fell into memory: “Sigh.”
Master Yiyao had a melancholic expression: “Sigh.”
Xi Luzhi secretly looked at her master.
Catching her disciple’s gaze red-handed, Perfected Master Ninggui shook her head: “Too many.”
She explained, “Your master hasn’t decided which one to sigh for yet.”
Xi Luzhi: “…”
Xi Luzhi: As expected of you!
—
Inside the Water-Moon Mirror, though their thoughts differed, everyone agreed on one point.
—This Daoist friend must be a female Daoist with a story.
Outside the Water-Moon Mirror, it was the same.
The forest was quiet, the waves fluttered, and the breeze blew gently.
Having heard this speech, Xuan Yeyang stood frozen on the spot as if struck by lightning.
For the first time, he developed doubts about his previous thoughts.
Did he really love the person in front of him?
Did he… really understand what love was?
999 sobbed: […Host!]
It had never expected its host could utter such profound and philosophical words!
Gods, this must be spoken by someone who has experienced countless passionate and heartbreaking loves!
Unaware of the massive waves inside 999, Yu Jiaxue raised a hand to signal Pei Tianming that he didn’t need to do the lighting and wind-blowing anymore. At the same time, she muttered in her heart: Look at that, I told you Xuan Yeyang’s IQ isn’t high—he actually believed it.
999: […]
999: […]
999: […Weren’t those words just now extracted from your past love experiences, spoken from the heart?]
Yu Jiaxue was greatly alarmed: “Don’t slander me! I’m a genuine, unadulterated single dog who only has eyes for her career!”
999: [Then where did you get so many beep-beep words?!]
Yu Jiaxue: “Heh, you don’t understand. Only people who have never been in a relationship can say these words. Just like how before experiencing certain things, one has ten thousand words to artificially express sorrow; after experiencing them personally, there’s only a chest full of bitterness, with nowhere to even start.”
999 felt dizzy listening: [I get it, Host means love must be experienced personally.]
Yu Jiaxue said disdainfully: “You didn’t get it. My point is that falling in love is asking for trouble.”
Indeed, an uneducated person who hasn’t completed nine years of compulsory education—can’t even do reading comprehension.
“I understand.”
The waves roared, the setting sun was about to fall, and as twilight approached, Xuan Yeyang suddenly understood many things.
It had always been him who was too arrogant.
He was arrogant to his relatives, so when they learned he had a beloved, no one in the Xuan family supported him; he was arrogant to his friends, so when seeing his miserable state just now, Pei Tianming remained indifferent; he was arrogant to his subordinates, so during his diving earlier, the Xuan family guards didn’t protect him to the death, and there was even the previous incident with the men in black…
Bit by bit, it was actually all his fault.
Xuan Yeyang blinked slowly, his eyes unexpectedly feeling slightly sour.
The arrogance and impetuousness of past days disappeared, and Xuan Yeyang’s demeanor instantly became much more stable.
“Miss Yu, I ought to apologize to you.”
Yu Guanghao, who was secretly eavesdropping: “?”
He had just used both hard and soft tactics, threatening Du Piaopiao with her parents and family that she must marry him.
In the end, before it succeeded, he received an urgent telepathic message ordering him to rush to the Xuan City cliffside immediately.
And then he heard this!
Yu Guanghao was in disbelief, his voice nearly breaking: “Sober up!”
Xuan Yeyang was calm: “I am very sober.”
Yu Guanghao said in heart-wrenching pain: “This venomous woman came up with a hundred wicked schemes and harmed you to this extent! Why must you apologize!”
Xuan Yeyang advised: “Don’t speak of Miss Yu like that. It was my fault to begin with.”
Yu Guanghao was so shocked that his voice rose even higher: “What fault do you have? A dignified man, handsome and romantic—isn’t that normal?!”
“Stop talking.”
Xuan Yeyang frowned in displeasure, raised his chin slightly, and dropped a sentence in an incomparably proud tone—
“You don’t understand love at all.”
Yu Guanghao: ?!
There’s no way to talk to him!
Yu Guanghao was so angry his chest heaved up and down. He finally turned around late to check out this female disciple his master had asked him to pay attention to.
With just a single glance, Yu Guanghao subconsciously held his breath.
For no other reason than—she was far too beautiful.
The sun was setting, and a few rays of rosy clouds fell on her face, seeming capable of melting that snow-like skin.
Skin like ice, cold and proud surpassing snow, a pair of eyes clear and lively, containing ten thousand words, looking as if they could speak.
She was far more beautiful than what was seen through the Water-Moon Mirror.
Yu Guanghao developed ideas, his voice subconsciously softening: “You are Yu Jiaxue?”
Yu Jiaxue’s eyes widened, leaning back as if startled.
Like a frightened little rabbit.
Ha, he knew it! Women—what ambitions or pain could they have?
When all was said and done, it was nothing more than playing hard to get!
The smile on Yu Guanghao’s face grew even softer; he even stepped forward, ignoring the presence of his fiancée, Du Piaopiao.
“You—”
“You’re a duck, yet you actually know how to speak human language?”
Pei Tianming: ?
Xuan Yeyang: ??
Yu Guanghao: ???
What kind of new insult method is this?
“Oh, wait.”
What he said just now didn’t seem like human language either.
Yu Jiaxue pondered, accusing: “You’re a duck, yet you don’t speak human language?”
Xuan Yeyang instinctively chimed in: “Isn’t that very normal?”
Yu Guanghao’s face turned faintly dark: “…Shut up!”
Yu Jiaxue looked at the pixelated monstrosity in front of her with heart-wrenching pain!
It actually had a human head on top and a duck body below!
An eyesore! Truly an eyesore!
Yu Jiaxue’s brows tightly furrowed.
As everyone knew, in games, no monstrosity appeared without reason.
So this must definitely be the boss she had to defeat in this RPG game!
Yu Jiaxue realized it!
She became excited!
She no longer cared about the previous question in the slightest. She said to Yu Guanghao at top speed: “I’ll give you two options. First, you walk to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Second, you run to the edge of the cliff and jump off.”
“Come.”
Yu Jiaxue smiled with nuclear kindness: “Which one do you choose?”
Yu Guanghao’s smile could barely be maintained.
What a novel, captivating tactic.
However, considering her appearance, Yu Guanghao didn’t mind playing along with her.
He narrowed his eyes and smiled again, pretending to be suave and elegant: “Miss Yu’s options seem unfair.”
Unfair?
Yu Jiaxue’s DNA kicked in, and a familiar line suddenly surfaced in her brain!
Yu Jiaxue abruptly stood up and slammed the table, scaring Xuan Yeyang into a shiver.
“I came to the duck pen today for only three things! Fairness! Fairness! And fucking FAIRNESS!”
Grabbing Yu Guanghao by the collar, she asked fiercely: “Are you jumping, or jumping at top speed?!”
When had Yu Guanghao ever seen such a shameless woman? His eyes widened, and for a time he was actually choked by his collar to the point of being unable to speak: “Y-You let go of me!”
This woman is terrifying!
After she took action, Yu Guanghao was shocked to discover that he actually couldn’t exert any strength throughout his body, firmly suppressed by her, with zero ability to fight back!
How could this be!
As he spoke, he secretly made eye signals to his guards, indicating for them to immediately attack and eliminate Yu Jiaxue!
However, someone was even faster than him!
A woman dressed in pink suddenly rushed out from the crowd, her dagger sinking into flesh before anyone could react.
Paying no attention to Yu Guanghao’s cries of pain, Du Piaopiao summoned her courage and stabbed it a bit deeper.
“I won’t marry you.”
Du Piaopiao’s hands were trembling, yet she remained firm: “You don’t love me at all. You deceived my parents, deceived my relatives, forced me to marry you, and now you want to deceive others.”
Du Piaopiao’s voice trembled, her tone completely changing.
“D-Don’t even think about deceiving other girls!”
If it were just her alone, perhaps Du Piaopiao would have merely wallowed in self-pity and complied with the flow.
However, realizing that Yu Guanghao actually wanted to lay a hand on other girls, Du Piaopiao instantly exploded.
Having her alone in the sea of bitterness was enough; no one else should join her.
The helplessness of her parents being duped, the panic of realizing Yu Guanghao’s true colors, the despair upon learning about the Yu family’s traditions…
All the negative emotions gathered at this moment into the arm holding the hairpin, stabbing viciously into Yu Guanghao’s thigh.
“Don’t come over!” Du Piaopiao yelled hatefully at the group of guards, “If anyone comes over, I’ll kill him!”
Yu Guanghao howled in agony!
Along with the pain came immense humiliation!
Women had always been delicate, with every ornament on their body designed to please.
Even though Yu Guanghao had bought countless accessories to gift different women, he had never realized that such a tiny object possessed such terrifying power!
“So pitiable.”
Yu Jiaxue wiped the corner of her eyes with a handkerchief, walked over, and patted Du Piaopiao’s shoulder comfortingly, while casually giving Yu Guanghao’s head a punch.
“What are you howling for? What do you have to yell about?”
Saddled with double pain in both head and leg, as a cultivator, Yu Guanghao hadn’t experienced such embarrassing humiliation in a long time.
He stammered intermittently: “Leg… my leg…”
“What about your leg?” Yu Jiaxue frowned, saying in displeasure, “Even if you lost a leg, what she lost was her love!”
Pei Tianming: “…”
Xuan Yeyang: “…”
The two couldn’t help trembling in fear.
How could there be such terrifying words in this world!
Du Piaopiao opened her eyes wide, watching Yu Jiaxue lift Yu Guanghao with ease.
S-So beautiful!
At this moment, in Du Piaopiao’s eyes, Yu Jiaxue was the most beautiful person in the world!
The lifted Yu Guanghao felt like he was about to suffocate.
“Head… my head…”
“What about your head?” Yu Jiaxue was even more disdainful.
“It’s not even a duck’s head—it can’t even be made spicy.”
Seeing Yu Jiaxue about to throw another punch, Xuan Yeyang spoke up: “Miss Yu, spare him!”
They were, after all, family friends; Xuan Yeyang felt that if Yu Guanghao were beaten to death just like this, he really couldn’t bear it!
Before Yu Jiaxue could speak, Pei Tianming was greatly alarmed: “Are you going to say that at that exact moment just now, you fell in love with him instead?”
“Spare him,” “Stay the blade”—wasn’t that usually a hero saving a beauty? That’s how it was acted out in storybooks!
This time, even Yu Jiaxue couldn’t help sneaking an extra glance at this junior.
What a weird thought process.
Xuan Yeyang’s forehead twitched: “Junior Fellow Pei is joking. I just feel that beating him directly to death isn’t good.”
Hearing these words while dizzy and lightheaded, Yu Guanghao’s vicious heart couldn’t help being moved.
He really is from the Xuan family after all, different from those scum—
“Why not let him dive into the water to redeem his sins!”
Xuan Yeyang said with righteous severity: “Start from the beginning and accomplish the goal I failed to accomplish just now!”
Yu Jiaxue’s eyes lit up, giving Yu Guanghao a kick: “What do you think?”
“…I-I don’t want to… I don’t agree!”
“Don’t agree? Haha, I know you’re just stubborn. Duck head, these are all tactics to attract me.”
Yu Jiaxue smiled evilly: “You must admit, you have indeed successfully attracted my attention.”
The four looked at each other and smiled.
For a time, the atmosphere in the gazebo was harmonious, filled with cheerful air.
In the next moment, Yu Jiaxue directly grabbed Yu Guanghao by the collar and walked toward the edge of the cliff.
“Today, whether you jump or not, you’re jumping!”
—
Outside the Water-Moon Mirror
Master Yiyao: “I want to terminate the competition early!”
Before Sect Master Xihe could speak, a voice rang out first.
“You can’t.”
Master Yiyao glared at the speaker, practically spitting fire, so angry he was almost incoherent: “Why can’t I?!”
The reason?
Shen Xuezhu tilted his head, thought for a moment, and said sincerely: “Because I really want to watch your Head Disciple dive.”
