Love from the Male Protagonist’s Harem - Chapter 45-2

LFTMPH Chapter 45-Let’s Not Owe Each Other Anything Part 2

Translated by Snowfall77

Surprised by Xia Ge’s words, Su Chan stared blankly at her for a second before genuinely laughing, eyes crinkled up in amusement: “Xia-Xia, this box doesn’t hold your ancestor’s ashes.”

Xia Ge: “……”

Aren’t you the one who told me earlier that it did? Fucking liar! Fuck.

She’d really believed that that box held her poor Lingxi ancestor’s final remains.

And if the box wasn’t holding someone’s ashes, what was in there? Some rare book of martial arts tricks? Anyway you looked at it, Su Chan had come here to steal!

Deciding not to open the box, Su Chan instead tucked it into a sleeve. Then she walked back to Xia Ge, saying softly: “Xia-Xia, it really is time for you to rest.”

Xia Ge wanted to talk back. But before she could, she was enveloped by a sweet fragrance, the beauty’s enchanting visage floating in front of her eyes like a dream.

Then everything went dark as Xia Ge slipped into unconsciousness.

The stone chamber fell completely silent.

Su Chan watched the girl quietly sleeping for a long time.

“”

Was it an illusion?

The girl’s eyes reminded Su Chan of that person.

“You resemble her and you’re her disciple,” Su Chan finally muttered to herself in a low voice, “That’s why I shouldn’t kill you.”
Correct, it was like that.

——“Goodbye, Ah Tang.”

At that moment, Su Chan had wanted to murder this child.

It had been too much alike.

——The way that person had said goodbye to her, the heart-wrenching sorrow it’d left behind.

The never-ending ache.

She, that person, had made it clear. She was truly leaving, not saying a careless farewell, but absolutely throwing everything aside.

To be left all alone in the world……who could want that?

Unfeeling, yet gentle.

The beauty slowly laid her body down next to the sleeping girl. As her delicately-boned hand caressed the sleeper’s chin, Su Chan’s gaze was blurry.

Then she slowly gave the same answer she’d given so many years ago, her voice warm and tender.

“Mm, goodbye.”

“May your journey be good.”

——I’ll wait for you to come back.

= =

When Xia Ge woke up, the pale light of dawn was coming up over the horizon, and mist rolled over the back mountain.

Sickle in one hand, runestone in the other, Xia Ge discovered she was leaning against a fir tree. Casting confused glances at her surroundings, Xia Ge’s brain felt muddled.

She was……out of the tomb?

Sluggishly peering down at herself, Xia Ge found her outer black attire as ripped up as before, practically reduced to rags. Yet her belt was neatly tied and her snow-white underclothes still covered what needed to be covered.

Her appearance might be embarrassing, but at least she wasn’t indecent.

Clutching the sickle’s handle, Xia Ge managed to stand up bit by bit. Her body was pretty stiff, everything feeling numb, even the wound in her gut. Which meant, Xia Ge thought to herself, that something wasn’t quite right……

Xia Ge flung back her head and bit one of her own fingers.

Teeth marks were left deep in the flesh, yet Xia Ge barely felt a sting.

A very mild pain when she should’ve endured far worse.

It was like her body was still in a semi-paralyzed state. Sure, she could move, but the misery of her wound in gut was also strangely faint.

This meant……what?

Still using her sickle to help keep herself upright, Xia Ge finally noticed there was a feeling of something in her collar and pulled it out.

Made of soft, snow-white silk cloth, it was a scarf with what appeared to be two boldly written sentences inked on it, the penmanship oddly extravagant and carefree. Or maybe pretentious described it better, seeing as the script style was so old-fashioned.

Really? You couldn’t just say it properly? As expected, the Demon Sect Master really knew how to put on an act.

Irritated, Xia Ge stared at the words for a long time before laboriously managing to get the gist of the message.

Basically, the poison of the black vines was almost out of Xia Ge’s system, but the poison of the dagger had been too toxic. So, since the third favor owed Xia Ge had been getting to Danfeng’s entry examination, Su Chan had fed Xia Ge additional medicine. Xia Ge’s body would remain semi-paralyzed for about half a day, and as long she didn’t go looking for trouble, her wound shouldn’t impair her that much.

Huh……

Finished reading, an expressionless Xia Ge immediately dug a hole in the dirt and buried the scarf in it. Then she tried to put her sickle and the teleportation runestone into her silver ring.

The system had to ask: [……Is It Alright To Just Bury That Scarf Like That?]

Xia Ge softly snorted: “That thing is no good, same as its owner.”

System: [Why Bury It Here Though……]

Because it was something that belonged to the Master of the Demon Sect. No two ways about it, if Xia Ge was accidently discovered with it, things would get exceedingly troublesome.

She was already hiding too much. Xia Ge didn’t have the fortitude to hide anything more.

Xia Ge: “Few people usually come to the back mountain……but since apparently certain people love to come here, why not bury their things at a place they’re fond of?”

System: [……] How did being fond of a place mean you’d want your stuff buried there?

Meanwhile, the silver ring was being uncooperative, and it was only on the fourth try that Xia Ge managed to put her sickle and runestone away.

Her body was mainly numb, almost no pain, no exhaustion.

A little thankful for that, Xia Ge absentmindedly touched a jade pendant at her waist, thinking for a second that it was Guilongyu.

Although she quickly realized that it wasn’t.

The shape was all wrong. Instead, it was her identifying jade pendant.

Right, her identifying jade pendant……

Right……

Xia Ge froze, her expression turning unsightly.

Wait, she would have needed this pendant to……

The system checked on the time and issued a gentle reminder: [Host……It Appears That Danfeng Entry Examination Has Already Started The Second Calling Of The Roll.]

So why aren’t you moving?

Bitterly confronting the vicissitudes of life, Xia Ge deeply sighed: “I have only just remembered something very important.”

System: [???]

Stone-faced, Xia Ge continued fiddling with the jade pendant, eyes like a salted fish: “I seem to have……forgotten to register for the examination.”

System: [……]

Xia Ge: “……”