My Gentle and Pure Sect Leader Husband-Chapter 19 - Day of Wearing a Disguise

After changing her clothes, Yan Hongyin emerged from the secret chamber. The elderly nanny who had been waiting outside for three days visibly relaxed when she saw Hongyin’s rosy complexion.

“Nanny, I’m sorry to have worried you,” Yan Hongyin apologetically looked at the nanny, helping her sit down at the table.

The nanny waved her hand dismissively and gestured for Yan Hongyin to bring over the nearby food box. She took out the still-warm dishes. “Eat something quickly. You went into seclusion for three days without any instructions—it was terribly worrying.”

“Were you injured?”

Yan Hongyin picked up her chopsticks and began eating slowly while explaining, “I suddenly had an insight and secluded myself for a few days to capture that moment of enlightenment. I’m fine now.”

The nanny relaxed and nodded repeatedly. “That’s good, as long as you’re alright.”

“Nanny, did anyone come looking for me these past three days?” Yan Hongyin thought about her previous deal with Chu Liuxiang. Although she doubted he could solve the corpse case and find Yu Luocha’s portrait in just five days, she still asked.

To her surprise, the nanny replied, “Your timing is perfect. Half an hour ago, Jinyiwei sent a message saying Chu Liuxiang delivered a letter.”

As she spoke, the nanny took out an unopened letter from her sleeve and placed it before Yan Hongyin.

Yan Hongyin paused her eating but didn’t immediately open the letter. Instead, she asked about someone else. “How has… Ah Yu been these past few days?”

Her speech was hesitant, her gaze shifting, showing some guilty conscience.

The nanny, being experienced, could easily see through her thoughts. She placed the letter, which still carried a faint scent of tulips, on the table and scolded Yan Hongyin. “Look at you! If you truly care for that husband, why do you keep doing things that hurt his feelings?”

“I haven’t…” Yan Hongyin mumbled while biting her chopsticks.

The nanny snorted coldly. “Haven’t you? Let me ask you, since your marriage until now, have you consummated it?”

Yan Hongyin remained silent, lowering her head to eat.

“It’s one thing not to consummate on your wedding night, but a few days ago, I saw you two getting along well. I even specifically instructed the servants not to go to the back courtyard to avoid disturbing you newlyweds. And what happened? You suddenly rushed back into seclusion without even giving your husband an explanation before disappearing for three days! If you don’t have those feelings, why did you marry in the first place? Rather than continuing like this, it would be better to separate now before deeper feelings develop. We can compensate him financially.”

“Better than becoming a resentful couple entangled in all sorts of messy affairs later.”

Yan Hongyin knew she was at fault but still tried to defend herself. “Ah Yu has a good temperament. If I go explain now, he surely won’t blame me.”

The nanny looked at her with exasperation, as if looking at a child who had grown in years but not in wisdom. “For these three days, apart from coming out to take the food box delivered by Lianqiao, your husband has barely stepped out of his door. He’s been shut in his room for three full days. One day he didn’t even take the food box, not a drop of water passed his lips. When Lianqiao knocked, he only said he was unwell and wanted to rest. If this isn’t him being upset with you, then what is it?”

Hearing this, Yan Hongyin felt even more guilty and muttered. “…Then I’ll keep him company properly for the next few days.”

“Keep company? With what time?” The nanny tapped her finger on the letter on the table. “With this arrived, how will you have free time?”

Yan Hongyin thought for a moment and said, “Knowing Chu Liuxiang’s slippery style, even if he gets the portrait, he might not hand it over directly. He has thoughts of retiring and wouldn’t want to offend the Western Demonic Sect. Besides, I can’t take the portrait in the name of Jinyiwei in front of Western Demonic Sect members. The most reasonable approach would be to use a false identity as cover. Depending on the situation, if it’s not somewhere troublesome, I could bring Ah Yu along to enjoy the excitement and relax.”

With her martial arts restored, she was more than capable of protecting her husband against anyone below the Grandmaster realm.

****

In the bamboo grove courtyard

Yu Luocha opened his eyes as he finished his cultivation, exhaling deeply.

Yan Hongyin’s medical skills were the most remarkable he had ever encountered.

These five days of taking one pill daily had not only completely healed his internal injuries, but his meridians seemed to have been nourished and expanded several times by the medicine’s power.

When practicing his internal strength again, it felt divinely assisted. The internal energy that would normally burn and swell his meridians now flowed smoothly through his dantian and eight extraordinary meridians.

Unlike the previous two days when he had to divide his attention to deal with Yan Hongyin, these three days Yu Luocha had meditated and regulated his breath almost without sleeping or eating, except for the initial meals when his injuries were still healing. Today, he finally unblocked five of the acupoints that had been sealed by the golden needles, and his internal energy cultivation matched his peak period.

Yu Luocha clenched his fist, then slowly released it.

This feeling of complete control and having power at his disposal was still so intoxicating and proud.

Two acupoints remained, but Yu Luocha was in no hurry to unlock them.

He had a premonition that if the remaining two acupoints were unblocked, allowing the previously sealed internal energy to merge with the current energy in his dantian, he would definitely have a chance to break through to beyond the Grandmaster realm.

But Yan Hongyin’s previous words had given him great inspiration and indeed sounded a warning bell.

He recalled Yan Hongyin’s massage technique on his back in the carriage at the beginning. That method, which could stimulate the dantian’s energy in martial artists, was definitely a healing section of some internal energy cultivation technique, and it perfectly complemented the internal energy cultivation technique he had created.

Yan Hongyin’s medical skills would definitely be a great aid to him in the future, and the internal energy cultivation technique possibly in Yan Hongyin’s possession—

Yu Luocha’s glassy eyes flashed with naked ambition and desire.

—he absolutely had to obtain it.

Thinking about his interactions with that woman these past few days, Yu Luocha suddenly had a thought he had never had before.

To make Yan Hongyin willingly return with him to the Western Demonic Sect, he could either use force or… simply turn this pretense into reality.

He had never imagined himself truly having a wife, but if it were a woman like Yan Hongyin…

Yu Luocha got off the bed and lowered his head to straighten his clothes. Seeing the messy bedding that he and that woman had used separately three days ago, Yu Luocha’s brow twitched.

He was now that woman’s husband who had married into her family, so…

Yu Luocha stood beside the bed, hesitating, reaching out to tidy the disheveled bedding.

Just then, the window creaked as someone opened it from outside.

Yu Luocha’s pupils contracted, and he turned sharply to glare coldly at the window.

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Yan Hongyin carefully pushed the window open a crack, peeking through to see her husband of three days bending over to tidy the bed.

Even through just a window crack, Yan Hongyin could tell that the bed was still in the same state as when she had left three days ago, making her feel even more guilty.

Just then, the husband who was tidying the bed suddenly turned his head, his gaze sharp as a knife, directly meeting Yan Hongyin’s eyes.

Yan Hongyin had looked into many people’s eyes, but the coldness in these glass-colored pupils made her hold her breath for a moment.

Is this Ah Yu?

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How—how could this possibly be Ah Yu?

For a moment, she stood frozen in place, her hand hanging at her side outside the window unconsciously gripping the dagger at her waist.

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When Yu Luocha realized who was at the window, his heart skipped a beat, but he couldn’t retract his gaze in time.

In a flash, he closed his eyes and turned his head away from the window. His voice was cold with a hint of resentment, stiffly saying, “Why have you come back? To give me divorce papers?”

“If you have someone else in your heart, you can simply say so. We can separate right now, and I’ll leave with nothing!”