I looked at him with a bewildered face, "Take off... what?"
We were home, and I wanted to check on my mom's condition.
"Take off, your, clothes," Yu Longting said coldly.
I shivered and asked, "Mine? Or yours?"
Yu Longting looked at me as if I were an idiot, "Mine."
"Oh, why do you want me to take off yours?" I obediently did as he said but couldn't help asking.
I wanted to go to my mom, but I dared not easily anger him.
Xuanjing was severely injured by Yu Longting, my mom shouldn't be in any danger...
I had no choice but to comfort myself in my heart.
Yu Longting leaned over and covered my lips, his voice wicked, "I saved you, shouldn't you take the initiative?"
"..." I really wished I could chop off the hand that I had just used to undo his clothes.
I turned my head away, hoping to avoid the kiss.
But he forcefully grasped my chin, leaving me no choice but to accept it.
What followed was quite a fight with a Goblin.
I was terribly bullied by Yu Longting.
I didn't know when I had passed out; I only woke up around noon.
No trace of Yu Longting could be found around me, probably he had run off somewhere to heal his injuries...
As soon as I woke up, I went to find my mom. She lay in her room's bed, in a dazed state with a slight fever.
Seeing her at home and not injured,
my hanging heart finally settled down.
I applied a fever-reducing patch to her and fed her antipyretics, and her fever subsided before long.
"Wanwan, was what happened last night a dream or real?" My mom woke up, grabbed me, and asked nervously.
I nodded with difficulty, "It's real, you were possessed by Xuanjing, which seems to be a very powerful Fox Immortal. It can control a person through possession..."
"Then you... Are you alright? I saw you being put into the bridal sedan, and no matter how I tried, I couldn't catch up. After that, I knew nothing," my mom said with a worried face.
From my mom's description, I guessed she might have fainted outside.
Maybe, probably...
It was Yu Longting who brought her back...
I clasped my mom's cold hands, "I'm fine. Yu Longting saved me and even brought me back."
"He saved you? But I... I remember I tore up the cheongsam." My mom's face turned pale, "It wasn't on purpose. At that time, my body was out of control..."
I looked at my mom with mixed feelings, paused, and then told her what I saw when I got up, "The cheongsam is still hanging on the living room wall, unharmed."
"Was it just an illusion at the time?"
"But I also saw you cutting up the cheongsam with the Yin Yang Scissors."
"What?!!"
After that, the air was filled with a heavy silence.
Everything that happened was too bizarre; that cheongsam could return on its own after being thrown away, and it could still hang intact back in its original place after being cut up...
I cooked noodles in the kitchen and ate with my mom.
In the afternoon, I rummaged through boxes and drawers for a long time, finally finding my dad's tattered notebook. I brought it up with my mom, "Mom, I want to learn what's in here."
The Su family held a grudge, and Xuanjing had always been looking for opportunities to take revenge.
Always relying on Yu Longting, there would come a time when he was unreliable.
Moreover, this guy is capricious, and he has always harbored a grudge for my dad causing his death...
"Wanwan, learning this is very difficult and requires a lot of talent," my mom sighed with some helplessness.
I said, "I'm not afraid of the hardships. Whether I have the talent or not, I'll know only if I try. Besides, by learning this, I could reopen the tailor shop, providing an extra livelihood for the two of us."
"Alright, if you want to learn, then learn," my mom wrote an address on a piece of paper and told me, "Go find Granny Wu."
I was quite curious, "Who is Granny Wu? Do you mean to take her as my teacher? Aren't we, the Su Family, the only ones who know Life and Death Embroidery?"