The White Moonlight Subdues Everyone with a Suona - Chapter 32
Chapter 32: Na Na Na Na Na Na
“Was it not you people from Xueyu Peak who took the initiative to strike first?”
Master Qianming said with a stern expression, “Regardless, taking the initiative to lay hands on a fellow disciple is simply wrong. Nephew Shen, what say you?”
Being singled out in public, Shen Hege subconsciously wanted to admit fault.
However, the instant he opened his mouth, he received the gaze cast over by Ji Bingyu.
The words about to leave his throat suddenly veered in a completely different direction—
“Yes, exactly. Everything you said is right. Remember to drink more hot water.”
Master Qianming: ???
What was going to happen?!
Clearly, the other party was agreeing with his viewpoint, and at the end, he even remembered to express concern for him.
But why did it taste so completely wrong?!
Suppressing his rage, Master Qianming said, “Your junior sister hit someone first, and you indulged her afterward. Shen Hega, do you admit to this or not?”
Shen Hega subconsciously said, “This nephew admits it.”
He then recalled Ji Bingyu’s instructions. Hesitating briefly, he took a deep breath.
“This nephew naturally admits it. After all, everything you say is right. You are Master Qianming; how could Master Qianming ever be wrong?”
Master Qianming looked at Shen Hege in disbelief. He had a strong gut feeling that the other party was being sarcastically passive-aggressive.
Yet, Shen Hege’s eyes were innocent and sincere, and his tone was extremely earnest, leaving no room to pick out the slightest fault.
—But why did these words sound so infuriating!
Because this was precisely Ji Bingyu’s scheme.
Since Piaomiao Peak wanted to exploit Shen Hege’s personality weakness, they would simply fight fire with fire, using this exact angle to infuriate them to death!
Chang qingzi watched all this with a cheery smile without stopping it.
Rong Qingyuan raised his teacup, looking as if he had heard nothing.
Li Fuqing, on the other hand, was stifling his laughter, secretly giving his little junior sister a thumbs-up.
This was truly a Bulbasaur eating Bugles—so good it makes you croak!
The culprit, Ji Bingyu, was likewise stifling her laughter. She stole a glance at Rong Qingyuan’s expression, only to meet his smiling gaze looking back at her.
She hurriedly offered a flattering smile in return.
Hehe, just don’t blame me for corrupting senior brother!
After all, if a mess is made, master still has to clean it up!
Master Qianming was so choked up by Shen Hege’s words that a breath stuck in his chest.
He never expected that the last honest person on Xueyu Peak would also fall to the dark side.
Yet, Shen Hege was different from Li Fuqing.
Even when he seemed to be mocking, Shen Hege’s etiquette was impeccably in place, his expression respectful, and even his tone was flawless.
Seeing Master Qianming choked up and speechless, Yu Qianxue, standing to the side, couldn’t help but say, “Why must Senior Brother Shen use such a tone? This was your fault to begin with.”
Master Qianming had accidentally let slip before that this Senior Brother Shen had once, due to childhood arrogance, brought a friend from outside the city into the city to celebrate his birthday with him.
However, the good intention backfired, inviting demons into the house and causing a catastrophe.
Only after going through many twists and turns afterward did he become the soft, harmless person who was aloof from worldly strife today.
As a demon who grew up in the Demon Realm from a young age, Yu Qianxue had also heard of the “Qingyu City Tragedy.”
But unlike the human race, who viewed it as an untouchable, painful tragedy, to demon cultivators like them, it was an incomparably glorious past.
Especially after seeing Shen Hege, one of the victims, Yu Qianxue couldn’t restrain a sense of high-and-mighty sadistic pleasure from welling up.
Merely a defeated foe from the past, not worth mentioning.
Holding onto such thoughts, Yu Qianxue found it extraordinarily smooth to denounce Shen Hege, “Junior Sister Ji is younger and doesn’t understand reason or rules, which is barely passable. But Senior Brother Shen…”
Yu Qianxue didn’t finish her sentence.
She knew the wisdom of quitting while ahead.
Choking up slightly, tears filled her eyes right on cue, “Junior Sister Ji doesn’t understand, but could it be that Senior Brother Shen doesn’t understand reason either?”
Shen Hege blinked his eyes.
Unexpectedly, he, who had always been soft-hearted, felt not a single shred of guilt upon seeing Yu Qianxue cry.
Shen Hege couldn’t forget Yu Qianxue’s aggressiveness when facing him that day, as well as the mockery and pride filling her eyes when she intentionally used appearances to reflect on Second Senior Sister.
Perhaps in the eyes of others, his personality was gentle and slow, but Shen Hege was, after all, born into a wealthy family and had been raised as an heir for a long time during his childhood.
How could he possibly be a completely blank piece of paper?
He simply chose not to bother.
“Junior Sister Yu’s words are incorrect,” Shen Hege said.
“Haven’t I already admitted it?”
Recalling the magnificent scenes when Eldest Senior Brother Li Fuqing and Ji Bingyu argued in the past, Shen Hege suppressed a laugh, trying his best to put on Eldest Senior Brother’s arrogant posture of looking at people with his chin.
“It is Hege’s fault, alright? It is all Hege’s fault.”
Shen Hege let out a sigh, turning toward Master Qianming, “Since Uncle Master has already convicted this nephew in your heart, why bother talking any further? Why not just punish this nephew directly? This nephew said long ago that I am willing to bear all the blame.”
…
Fuck (a type of plant)
What a great move of retreating to advance!
Ji Bingyu never expected that Third Senior Brother could master it so thoroughly!
She originally thought Shen Hege wouldn’t last two rounds before getting defeated, and she was already prepared for battle, but was held back by Rong Qingyuan.
[Do not be impatient.]
The clear and cool voice entered her mind, like essential oil applied to the temples, extraordinarily refreshing.
Thus, Ji Bingyu didn’t speak rashly, and even more so, perfectly witnessed Shen Hege’s transformation afterward.
Especially at the very last moment, after infuriating the other party to the point of speechlessness, Shen Hege actually turned his head and secretly winked in Ji Bingyu’s direction.
Holy shit, Third Senior Brother has turned bad too!
—This was Ji Bingyu’s very first reaction.
Immediately following that, a sense of emotion spontaneously arose in Ji Bingyu’s heart.
Is this… the joy of raising someone?
[…Dad, do you want to know Shen Hege’s storyline in the original work?]
The Heaven’s Will, who hadn’t spoken in a long time, appeared once more.
Ji Bingyu glanced at Li Fuqing, who had already taken up the banner of retorting people and sworn to fight a three-hundred-round verbal war with Master Qianming, then looked at her master, who was sitting leisurely in his original spot and sipping tea, confirming that the overall situation was set.
Time to eat popcorn and watch the show.
[Alright, tell me.]
Following the Heaven’s Will’s narrative, Ji Bingyu finally realized what kind of situation she had actually turned around.
According to the original plot line, “Ji Bingyu” had always stayed in Xuantian Sect, and there were no four disciples under Master Qingxu’s seat.
Yu Qianxue still found an opportunity to speak with ridicule.
The difference was that this time, there was no “Ji Bingyu” to make a move and stop her, which instead allowed passing disciples to overhear.
Thus, rumors spread wildly.
Some said Shaoyang Yu was as ugly as a saltless hag; some mocked her for having once fought over a man with someone, only to have her face slashed by the original wife; others built on the momentum to fabricate rumors, claiming that the three people on Xueyu Peak were on extremely bad terms, and Shen Hege had long been dissatisfied with his two senior brothers and sister.
As time went on, Shen Hege became even more depressed and introverted.
Originally unwilling to leave the peak, he didn’t even want to leave his cave dwelling anymore.
One thing led to another, and gaps grew between the three.
Li Fuqing couldn’t stand the humiliation.
After an argument, he finally failed to restrain himself and injured Shen Hege, only to be punished by Master Qingxu later.
Through a stroke of fate, he went down the mountain and met the White Moonlight Beauty Ji Bingyu, who rarely left her home…
[Wait, wait, wait?!]
Ji Bingyu interrupted the Heaven’s Will’s words in horror.
She looked at Li Fuqing, who had already won and was puffed up with joy like a peacock displaying its feathers, and raised a soulful question in her heart in disbelief—
[Me, and, Li Fuqing?????]
[Yes.]
The Heaven’s Will said seriously, [According to the original trajectory, the White Moonlight Beauty Ji Bingyu was extremely skilled in the path of Qin, lute, and drum music. When Li Fuqing was heavily injured, she played a tune for him, causing a warm current to suddenly flow through his heart. He fell in love at first sight, and she became the white moonlight in the depths of his heart.]
[Grateful beyond words for her great kindness, Li Fuqing decided to devote his life to her. However, the Ji Bingyu in the original work was in love with Xuanyuan Fentian. She decided to leave, but Li Fuqing was unwilling to let go.]
[He swore that even if he had to exhaust all under heaven, he would possess this beauty. For this, he didn’t hesitate to return to the Demon Realm once more, provoking a war between the two realms.]
[From then on, she flees, he pursues, and they both find it impossible to escape.]
Ji Bingyu: ???
There were so many ridiculous points in this passage that she was rendered momentarily speechless, truly at a loss for what to say.
No, why play the Qin when someone is injured? This makes no scientific sense whatsoever.
If you put this in modern times, wouldn’t jamming the rooms of critically ill patients full of CDs turn every single case into a medical miracle???
And Li Fuqing dedicating his body to her to repay a favor??? Why was he so confident this wasn’t returning kindness with enmity???
Also, why must they throw around “exhausting all under heaven” at every turn? What on earth did “all under heaven” ever do wrong???
And what kind of figure in the Demon Realm was her own Eldest Senior Brother anyway???
Ji Bingyu had originally thought Li Fuqing was just a mental case who liked making frog noises and happened to be a Demon Realm rabbit, but now he seemed like a fellow with a storied past???
…
Ji Bingyu was full of complaints in her heart. She stared at the Heaven’s Will for a long moment, finally condensing a thousand words into a single sentence—
[That’s not right. Eldest Senior Brother’s body is only ten years old right now. How could this possibly pass JJ’s censorship?]
Ji Bingyu: Little kid, do you have many questions.jpg
While Ji Bingyu was locked in an intense internal struggle, Li Fuqing had already emerged victorious.
He successfully demanded four heavenly-grade treasures from Piaomiao Peak as compensation for mental distress, offering only a verbal apology of “we shouldn’t have resorted to violence” as Xueyu Peak’s compensation.
Li Fuqing: I’m just saying it, but I’ll dare do it again next time.
“Many thanks to Master for the compensation gifts. However, this time A-Yu taking the initiative to lay hands first was indeed wrong.”
Facing Master Qianming’s face, which was as black as ink, Rong Qingyuan’s expression was clear and distant, his tone neither fast nor slow, carrying an indescribable laziness.
Seated gracefully at the head of the hall, he remained completely unruffled even when gathered in everyone’s sight, smoothly putting an end to the matter with his final sentence.
“How about letting her play a tune for Master Qianming as a way of apologizing?”
—How about letting her play a tune for Master Qianming as a way of sending him off on his final journey?
For some reason, Ji Bingyu automatically translated Rong Qingyuan’s words into the sentence above.
Master Qianming made a prompt decision on the spot.
“No need! Giving compensation gifts is what our Piaomiao Peak ought to do, Master Qingxu need not be so polite!”
As he spoke, Master Qianming cast an implicitly desperate look at Ji Bingyu.
Shut your mouth!!!
Don’t force this old man to beg you!!!
However, Ji Bingyu had yet to sober up from the Heaven’s Will’s previous narrative.
Upon receiving Rong Qingyuan’s permission, she completely ignored Master Qianming’s resistant gaze.
In a daze, she summoned her suona, and with a heart full of shock and trembling hands, she began her performance.
How should one put it?
This tune was played with wild ups and downs, full of twists and turns like eighteen mountain bends.
Every time others thought she was about to crash off the mountain road, she somehow managed to steer back.
After three or four rounds like this, it nearly caused Master Qianming’s heart to stop beating.
You couldn’t say it was identical to Immortal Wind at the Lotus Pond, because the two of them were simply Li Kui and a malevolent ghost—they were completely, utterly…
(T/N:Li Kui is a famous character from the classic Chinese novel Water Margin. He is a muscular, hot-tempered, black-bearded warrior known for his raw physical power, fierce loyalty, and wielding two giant battleaxes. He represents brute, boisterous, physical force. So comparing two things to “Li Kui and a malevolent ghost” is a comedic idiom used to describe two things that are so drastically, absurdly different that they have zero relation to each other.)
UN! RE! LA! TED!
Master Qianming’s face had gone numb, while Yu Qianxue, who had still wanted to cause trouble, listened in a complete daze, at one point believing she was currently in the Demon Realm’s purgatory.
…Purgatory is fine too. Over there, there shouldn’t be any suonas, right?
Yu Qianxue thought in her dazed and hazy mind.
Li Fuqing was in no better shape, but he had prior experience, and seeing Master Qianming’s darkened expression brought him immense satisfaction, allowing him to momentarily overcome his fear of the suona.
“Little Junior Sister’s rendition of this tune was truly excellent.”
As long as it could infuriate the people of Piaomiao Peak, Li Fuqing could say anything, “This Spiritual Hall in the Ghostly Wind is rich in emotion, and the intonation is much improved compared to before. Every note penetrates the heart, wouldn’t you say so, Uncle Master Qianming?”
Hss—
Ji Bingyu and Master Qianming both gasped in cold air simultaneously.
Master Qianming truly couldn’t sit there any longer.
He hurriedly stood up, took his leave from the Sect Master, and led Yu Qianxue out of the hall doors.
That departing back had quite a flavor of fleeing in utter panic.
Since the people from Piaomiao Peak had left, there was no need for those from Xueyu Peak to remain either.
After taking leave from Chang Qingzi, Rong Qingyuan led his disciples onto the Qin boat and returned to Xueyu Peak.
All along the way, Ji Bingyu felt restless.
She would secretly glance at Li Fuqing one moment, knitting her brows, and secretly peek at him the next moment, pouting her lips, not staying quiet for even a second.
With Ji Bingyu looking like this, Rong Qingyuan also began to size up Li Fuqing, Shen Hege followed right behind, and even Shaoyang Yu, who had been watching coldly from the side, began to observe Li Fuqing closely.
What was so good-looking about this rabbit to draw so much of Little Junior Sister’s attention?
In the end, Li Fuqing truly couldn’t stand the feeling of being the center of attention. The first thing he did after stepping off the Qin boat was to grab Ji Bingyu.
“Little Junior Sister, if you have something to say, just say it straight.”
Ji Bingyu hesitated for a moment.
“Eldest Senior Brother… na.”
Li Fuqing now turned pale at the mere sound of na.
Like a lonely patient, he pulled out an extremely forced smile.
“Hmm?”
Not only him, but Rong Qingyuan and the others also turned their heads in unison.
However, Ji Bingyu, who was still in a daze, couldn’t care about all that.
“It’s just… after you finished listening to that tune I played just now…”
Ji Bingyu took a deep breath and spoke with solemn seriousness.
“Eldest Senior Brother, do you feel a surge of heat in your body?”
Well of course, who wouldn’t feel their blood boiling and want to hit someone on the spot after hearing that tune?
Thinking this way, Li Fuqing nodded.
“I do.”
Ji Bingyu asked again, “Then do you feel your four limbs going soft, your heart trembling, and a strange breath surging within your chest?”
Of course there was, who wouldn’t feel their heart tremble listening to those miraculously squeaky pitch transitions?
If it weren’t for constantly reminding himself that Ji Bingyu was his junior sister, Li Fuqing would have made his move long ago!
Thus, after pondering, Li Fuqing nodded again.
“I do.”
Ji Bingyu’s heart sank heavily, and she solemnly asked the final question.
“Then Senior Brother, do you feel like wanting to flee, or wanting to pursue, or feeling like you’ve already found it impossible to escape?”
Although the question was strange, who wouldn’t want to flee in front of a suona? Who wouldn’t want to pursue (their freedom)? And who wasn’t forced to stay in the hall, finding it impossible to escape?
This time, without the slightest hesitation, Li Fuqing nodded decisively.
“I do!”
Ji Bingyu turned pale with shock.
“It’s over! Eldest Senior Brother, you really have fallen in love with me!”
Li Fuqing: …???
Li Fuqing: !!!
Before Li Fuqing, who was dizzy from being hit by this single sentence, could react, Ji Bingyu spoke up once more with righteous indignation,”Although I am good-looking, wealthy, have a bright future, and am exceptionally talented, I am not going to like you!”
Ji Bingyu rejected him with righteous sternness.
“As the old saying goes, a rabbit doesn’t eat the grass near its nest. Senior Brother, we are destined to have no good ending!”
“Besides…”
Ji Bingyu looked at him with pity, her eyes filled with maternal love, “Eldest Senior Brother, you are too small.”
Feeling everyone’s shocked and condemning gazes, as well as her master Rong Qingyuan’s half-smiling look, Li Fuqing roared in grief and indignation—
“Ji Bingyu!!! How can you besmirch someone’s innocence out of thin air!!!!!”
