Chapter 203 - Moonlight
Chapter 203: Moonlight
Jiang Huai had always known that Chu Xianning couldn’t hold her liquor.
Ever since he was young, Jiang Huai often saw Chu Xianning sitting alone in the courtyard, quietly looking at the moon while occasionally sipping a little wine. Back then, he was too young for her to share a cup with him, but Jiang Huai would often sit opposite her, listening softly as Chu Xianning talked about the people and events she had seen over the years. When Chu Xianning became tired, he would move behind her and gently massage her shoulders.
The incident that Chu Xianning mentioned from when he was fourteen, Jiang Huai had almost forgotten. Now, he was gradually recalling it. That time, Luo Yueguan brought a jar of fine wine from Qingxuan Sect to share with Chu Xianning. When she left, there were a few jugs remaining, and Chu Xianning would drink alone in the courtyard over the next few days.
At that time, Chu Xianning didn’t see him as a man, perhaps just as a child. It was summer, and she wore a translucent summer dress, her skin faintly visible under the light and shadow of the fireflies, looking like a fairy under the moon.
On the day when there was only one sip left in the wine jug, Chu Xianning couldn’t finish it, but it was too little to save for next time. So she called Jiang Huai over, lifted the wine jug with her slender hand, and poured the last bit into his cup. Her cheeks were flushed, her eyes hazy, and a hint of charm emerged as her gaze shifted. Jiang Huai, nearly stupefied, drank that cup of wine and talked with Chu Xianning for a long time. He still remembered the drunken Chu Xianning playfully pinching his face with her delicate hand.
Helping the drowsy Chu Xianning back to her courtyard, he watched her sitting on the bed, her head slightly bowed, calling her several times without a response. A wicked thought quietly rose in his heart, the system’s incessant dinging was secondary at that moment. He really wanted to just hold Chu Xianning’s cheeks and kiss her, satisfying his despicable and greedy desires. He had gotten so close, but in the end, he managed to restrain himself, only gently pinching her smooth cheek.
He didn’t expect Chu Xianning to remember that incident so clearly.
Jiang Huai had no desire to make excuses for himself; he was indeed a shameless scoundrel who harbored evil thoughts towards his master. But over the years, it had only been the two of them in the courtyard, a man and a woman spending their days together, with Chu Xianning having no guard against the young him. Yet she didn’t know that within him was a different soul, captivated by her beauty from a young age, with desires like a small seed quietly growing.
Jiang Huai’s mind wandered to a bizarre thought: if two monkeys were locked in a cage for twenty years, would they fall in love?
“How did you trick Lingxue True Person into giving you the wine?” Chu Xianning asked casually.
“Trick? I exchanged a formation diagram I drew earlier for it,” Jiang Huai replied confidently, picking up a piece of fish with his chopsticks and bringing it to his lips.