To seduce someone
A realisation flashed through Yu Qingluo’s mind when she saw Nannan excitedly skipping towards her and following behind him… Ye Xiudu stared at her while wearing a smile that was not a smile.
“Fu~” Yu Qingluo exhaled, fiercely turning her head to glare at Jin Liuli “What happened? Wasn’t number three absent on the ballot? Did you bring these people over here seeking for death?”
Jin Liuli silently turned her head upwards, staring at the roof beams, her face flushing as she felt uncomfortable while both her arms were still circling Nannan’s body. Her current position didn’t allow her to react in time to stop Nannan from moving and pushing the door open.
She had been continuously repeating ‘If you want to blame someone then blame your son’, ‘If you want to blame someone then blame your son’, ‘If you want to blame someone then blame your son’ in her mind over and over…
Ye Xiudu took stepped forward, he smiled coldly toward Yu Qingluo, who was inside of the room, trying her best to keep her cool. He then said: “Ghost Doctor? So, Miss Yu was actually the legendary Ghost Doctor?”
Yu Qingluo turned her head abruptly, speaking in a very serious manner: “Who said I’m the Ghost Doctor? I am not, I only came here to give a hand to the Ghost Doctor…”
“Mother, Mother! It was me.” Nannan excitedly raised his hands, moving them up and down as he spoke: “It was me who said it. It was me who said you are the Ghost Doctor. I have to tell you, Uncle Wen and the others are so silly, they even said you came here to meet the Ghost Doctor, mother. Hahahaha, they didn’t even know that you ARE the Ghost Doctor. Haha, you tell me, aren’t they really silly?! To be played in circles by mother in such a way, so funny!”
“……”
“??? “
“!!!!”
Jin Liuli turned her head while feeling worried, unable to keep looking straight any longer.
“Yu Qingnan! I dare you to say another word! I’ll forbid you from ever enjoying your life again!” (TL: She said ‘to drink, to eat and to sleep’. But it sounds so weird when TLD) Yu Qingluo simply felt like taking Nannan back into her belly to see if it was possible to give birth to him anew. She had clearly warned him just two days ago, forbidding him to tell her identity as the Ghost Doctor to Ye Xiudu and his people, but her warning went in one ear and out the other!
“Haha… hic….” the laughing sounds suddenly came to an end, Nannan looked at Yu Qingluo’s face, which was turning blue, with fear, he tried to hide behind Jin Liuli’s body. But remembering that Aunty Jin was also afraid of his mother, he changed his cover, turning to grab onto Ye Xiudu’s legs tightly.
‘Scary, so scary!’ Mother actually looked like she was ready to use this brutal method of torture[1] to abuse him, tooooo scary!!
Ye Xiudu lifted his eyes, sneering as he spoke with a deep voice: “You’re a pretty bold and confident one, to be playing us in circles, huh?”
Yu Qingluo shivered from head to toe, she had a vague feeling that Ye Xiudu’s anger had risen to an unprecedented degree, and all that anger was directed at… her.
Carefully taking a step in retreat, she tried searching for an escape route.
“Nannan, you follow Aunty Jin out, I have to say some words to say with your mother.” Ye Xiudu saw the kid who was tremblingly hugging his leg and his brows wrung slightly in distress, bending his waist slightly he picked up Nannan and directly delivered him into Jin Liuli’s arms.
Jin Liuli had been wanting to leave already, so without another word, she took the little guy to exit the room.
The door closed with a ‘bam’, the silence reinstated once again inside.
Yu Qingluo steered her gaze to look at the roof, cutting Nannan and Jin Liuli into a thousand pieces inside of her heart.
“Ghost Doctor? Heh, to think Miss Yu was this capable and has such impressive background… No wonder your medical skills are so outstanding, your every action so skilled and, you also had the valuable Ice Dew Pill in your hands.” Ye Xiudu picked up a chair, crossing both legs as he sat in front of her. Pouring a cup of tea for himself, drinking to moisten his throat.
Yu Qingluo continued to stare at the ceiling, ‘I hear nothing, nothing at all. Right, not a single thing.’
Ye Xiudu coldly snorted, “It seems that those 15 million tael treatment fees should be reduced a bit.”
Yu Qingluo abruptly turned her head, glaring at him fiercely: “Do you want to renege a debt again?”
“The Ghost Doctor fees, who would dare to renege them?”
“It’s all well if you know it, I…” Yu Qingluo nodded her head, satisfied. But, without waiting for her to finish she could only feel the flicker of movement of the person in front as Ye Xiudu had already stood up, right in front of her, with his right hand pinching her jaw in between his fingers. He stared at her with a dark face.
“Yu Qingluo, are you feeling proud of yourself right now? Do you feel that you are very smart by keeping all of us in the dark?” He should’ve known it earlier on. How could there be such a coincidence in the world? The Ghost Doctor showed up in Jiang Cheng, and at the same time the amazingly skilled in medical arts, Yu Qingluo, also appeared in Jiang Cheng. These two were the same person from the start.
He was careless indeed. Surprisingly, he didn’t make the connection between the two before.
Ye Xiudu was feeling very riled up, especially after hearing Nannan’s words, his mood turned unprecedently complicated. When faced with Yu Qingluo, he seemed always so passive and useless, unable to succeed, not even a single time.
Surprisingly, this woman was able of hiding such astonishing secrets, one after another, each capable of making others stunned in amazement.
Yu Qingluo felt her jaw hurt where she was being pinched, she moved her fingers up and tried twisting his arm but that didn’t cause him to move an inch.
“Ye… Ye Xiudu, calm down a bit. I didn’t hide it from you on purpose, really.” This man, where the hell did all this anger of his came from? ‘If you keep doing this you’re going to get my jaw dislocated, ok?’ she complained silently in her head.
“Ye Xiudu, this is all a coincidence, uh, it hurts…”
Ye Xiudu frowned, he relaxed his fingers a bit, allowing Yu Qingluo to relax a bit. Extending her right hand in a fast move, she quickly moved against the wound in his chest, pressing on it with increasing force.
But Ye Xiudu didn’t even let out a single sound and only kept coldly staring at her.
Yu Qingluo was speechless, seeing that his wound was about to be torn and bleed again she gave up and let go of her hand. Whatever, didn’t she already know that this man’s pain tolerance level was remarkably high? If he is not willing to let her go, even if she were to cut him a dozen times, he still wouldn’t falter an inch.
If he wants to pinch her jaw, then let him pinch. In any case, his pinching isn’t hurting her anymore, but this posture of theirs is a bit… ambiguous.
“Ye Xiudu, everything that happened today, it was really a coincidence. The reason I let out the news that I’d be at Fulong Tavern today treating patients was all to lure a man out here, it wasn’t for you guys. I… ouch! Let go, let go!”
“A man.” Ye Xiudu pursed his lips into a straight line, his eyes covered in frost. “Just to seduce a man?” [2]
“….” ‘Fuck me’.
Does he have hearing problems? When did she say that she wanted to seduce someone? Could it be that he is just like Nannan, automatically twisting other people’s words to fit his own weird logic?
Ye Xiudu suddenly released her, his expression filled with ridicule as he stared at her. “You wracked your brains out just to seduce a man.”
‘What?’ Yu Qingluo really wanted to sew his mouth shut. She pressed her lips tightly, words and phrases popping from in between them: “I said to ‘draw’ him out, not to seduce him. This man is an enemy to me, an enemy.”
Ye Xiudu stared blankly, immediately turning his body in an unnatural and stiff manner. His mouth was hooking up ever so slightly, but he still coldly snorted: “Why didn’t you just say so.”
Translated by C, The Apostle of Coffee
Edited by NoveLeo, Life is a Drama
Translator’s Notes
[1] He’s saying that a life with no eating, drinking and sleeping feels like brutal torture to him.
[2] Ok, let me try to explain. She uses “引” which, depending on what is the complement, can mean many things, like attracting, tempting, luring, drawing out. So I guess that what she means is as in “引出” – to draw out, to lure someone. But YXD understood it as “勾引” to seduce, to tempt.
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