This is my first time playing the female lead, what's wrong with the tea and snacks?

"Hmph, who told him to take my things for no reason and shatter my sword?" Su Yu sneered.

He actually found Li Cangyao quite inexplicable. He didn't covet the Xuan Yin Jade, but he just didn't want to return it...

[But host, waiting for Li Cangyao to come to you will probably take a lot of time, right? After all, he has a strong will, and given his status, he's unlikely to give in easily.]

Su Yu rested her chin on her rosy wrist as she sat in a chair against the stone table.

Have you forgotten my injuries?

"Only one-third of the injuries I sustained in the void have healed; a large portion of them have not yet recovered."

"Moreover, this Dark Mystic Miasma is highly corrosive, and if it is not refined in time, it will definitely get worse and worse."

“Li Cangyao knows this. When he sees that I have been grieving excessively for the past few days, he will definitely know that I will not care about this Dark Profound Miasma. When I become weaker and weaker because of his mistakes, he will definitely get angry.”

【6666】

[Besides saying "6," this system has nothing more to say. The host's tea skills have reached such a masterful level that this system can only marvel and humbly learn from them.]

Even this system has never seen a man so manipulative and scheming as to keep another man hooked.

"Keep it down, keep it down. I learned all this from Ye Xuan and the others. I still need to work harder." Su Yu coughed a few times.

[There's another problem with this system. You described the white crane as your precious possession, so what was your final explanation to Li Cangyao? Was it another heirloom from a relative?]

Su Yu: ".......It doesn't matter. Anyway, this is just a pretext. We'll see how it goes. We need to see his reaction first."

"Let's wait and see how things develop over the next few days."

For the next five days...

Li Cangyao was just loitering around the villa.

At first, he only strolled around a couple of times, but the more he went, the more frequently he passed by Su Yu's courtyard, no less than dozens of times.

Li Cangyao walked past the pavilion in the corridor with his hands behind his back. He stopped and his gaze involuntarily drifted to the courtyard on the upper right.

At this moment, Xiaoyue and Xiaohe quietly came out of the courtyard gate and closed it tightly behind them.

Upon seeing Li Cangyao not far away, he immediately ran over.

"Young Master, something terrible has happened! Fairy Qingyi's condition seems to be getting worse!"

"Hmph, I already told you not to worry about her, why are you all still concerned about her?"

Xiao Yue's pretty face twisted slightly. "Isn't it because you wanted us to keep an eye on the fairy, young master?"

Although she hasn't mentioned it directly these past few days, she's always picked up on the unspoken meaning – she simply wants us to take good care of the fairy...

Fortunately, she was quick-witted; otherwise, Xiao He would have angered the young master to death long ago.

Li Cangyao uttered a cold sentence, but although his expression was icy, his silver eyes still involuntarily glanced towards the courtyard.

He paused for a moment, then let out a soft breath. "How is she?"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yue hurriedly said, "Fairy's complexion is not good right now. Her blood and qi are poor, her lips are dry and chapped, and she seems to be getting weaker and weaker."

“She sits in the pavilion all day staring blankly at the fragments, doing nothing. She won’t eat the food we bring her, and she ignores us.”

"Young Master, Fairy Qingyi can't continue like this. Her health will collapse. Please go and persuade her!"

Li Cangyao's heart tightened. "Is she in such bad shape right now?"

"Um, it might be even more serious," Xiaoyue stammered.

"Young Master, perhaps you should... go and apologize to the fairy. Life must go on, and I can see that you, Young Master..."

"Alright, alright, you can all leave now," Li Cangyao said coldly, sounding somewhat impatient.

"Yes." Xiaoyue and Xiaohe exchanged a glance; they were just maids and couldn't get a word in edgewise.

With a helpless sigh, she had no choice but to obediently leave...

nightfall.

Li Cangyao's figure transformed into a phantom, flying across the rooftops unnoticed by anyone.

He soon arrived at the eaves of Su Yu's courtyard and quietly hid in a corner.

The silver moon in the sky was like a plate, and its bright moonlight poured down, illuminating the pavilion in front of the courtyard.

In the center of the pavilion, a woman dressed in white with an exquisite face sat gracefully, carefully protecting the fragments of a sword in her hands.

She was flawless, with exquisite features, and under the moonlight, she resembled a pure and immaculate lotus flower in full bloom, breathtakingly beautiful.

Li Cangyao carefully examined the stunningly beautiful woman before him.

Although he had sealed away his cultivation, his eyesight and hearing far surpassed those of cultivators.

Mu Qingyi's face was pale and bloodless, and she looked extremely haggard, with a sickly and broken appearance.

"As expected, that stupid woman..."

Hearing the clear yet violent cough coming from the pavilion, Li Cangyao's face turned ashen, and he suppressed an invisible rage within him.

How could she treat herself like this? Can't she take better care of herself?

Unsure of the extent of the risks associated with your injuries?

That's a poisonous creature from the void of the universe, the Dark Mystic Miasma!

Li Cangyao knew something was wrong with her ever since she stopped talking to him a few days ago.

However, he did not think it was his fault, and that he was only doing it for her own good.

He originally intended to leave the other party hanging for a few days.

However, he knew the extent of Mu Qingyi's injuries perfectly well.

Then he began to live inexplicably fearful every day.

Whenever I want to relax, my feet unconsciously wander to the courtyard.

After Xiaoyue's reports over the past few days, things are looking up now; it really turned out just as badly predicted.

"Is that spirit sword really that important to you?"

What does it really mean to you?

"Am I really wrong?"

The thought of how carefully she held that shard of sword, her hands covered in blood, made Li Cangyao feel a tightness in her chest.

At the same time, he became increasingly curious about the relationship between Mu Qingyi and the White Crane Sword.

But he is now completely unable to restore the white crane.

Because he had no spiritual power at all.

All he possesses is divine power!

Moreover, it is one of the most unique celestial powers in the Heavenly Realm.

Upon descending to the mortal realm, he sealed away his immortal power, leaving only a portion of his physical body.

This also makes it impossible to open one's natal space.

Opening the seal would not only trigger a backlash from the Heavenly Dao of the True Spirit Continent, but more importantly, it would expose oneself.

Therefore, he cannot use his divine power.

"Sigh~ Judging from her condition, it's no use not restoring that white crane."

Li Cangyao sighed deeply. A heart ailment requires a heart remedy, and the white crane was the root of her sorrow.

Since he can't fix it, we'll have to find a high-level weapon refiner to do it.

I can't just stand by and watch her continue to harm herself like this.

Perhaps because of her immortal roots and bones, she can hold on for a while, but as time goes on, some things will become irreversible.

One last glance at the white-clad figure, Li Cangyao's form transformed into a streak of darkness and vanished into the night sky, his trajectory leading away from the manor...

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