After Pretending To Have Amnesia, My Mortal Enemy Senior Sister Said She Loved Me - Chapter 5

“Senior Sister Xie, Moon Goddess Immortal Venerable has given orders. You may go back now.”

Xie Wenyin forced her large eyes open. Hearing the voice of the disciple standing guard outside the door, she rubbed her aching knees.

These guarding disciples were quite polite. They still called her Senior Sister. But from what they said, Senior Sister had come by?

Xie Wenyin stood up and walked out of Qingjing Hall, but she did not see Feng Ning anywhere.

The sun was gradually climbing higher, somewhat dazzling. Xie Wenyin had already gone an entire night without sleep, and the sunlight made it hard for her to keep her eyes open.

However, she did not plan to go straight back and catch up on sleep. Instead, she went to the outer sect and dragged out the two cannon fodder characters who had gotten her punished.

When the two saw Xie Wenyin’s stance, they were somewhat wary. But when they remembered that they still had leverage over her, they toughened up again.

Xie Wenyin did not immediately start angrily scolding them. Instead, without saying a word, she slowly looked the two of them up and down, left and right.

This was a psychological tactic she had learned from wandering around the internet in the past: silently sizing someone up made you look more imposing.

Sure enough, when the two saw this, they could no longer keep their composure. Stammering, they spoke first. “What are you looking at… Why are you looking for us?”

The groundwork was more or less laid. Xie Wenyin slowly said, “Stop pretending. You clearly know what I’m here to say.”

Seeing the two of them shove each other, both hoping the other would step forward and confront Xie Wenyin, she was speechless for a moment.

“I’ll be direct with you. Last night, the fact that I could be fooled into going with you was because my brain short-circuited for a moment. The secret you think you can use to control me is nothing in my eyes. You want to spread it? Then go ahead.”

After kneeling in Qingjing Hall for an entire night, Xie Wenyin had figured something out.

The despicable matter of asking for aphrodisiac powder had already been done by the original host. There was no changing that. But she absolutely refused to let anyone keep using this matter to control her.

Even if Senior Sister found out about it, at worst, her favorability would drop by a few dozen more points. She would definitely be able to rely on her own brain to earn that favorability back!

The two cannon fodder characters had expected Xie Wenyin to come settle accounts with them. They simply had not expected Xie Wenyin to have really grown a brain this time.

Even if the two of them went around spreading nonsense, they no longer had any concrete evidence. The aphrodisiac powder had all been given to Xie Wenyin, after all.

But their traces from fleeing Yuqing Pool last night might have been seen by the disciples practicing at night.

“You… really lost your memory?”

Both of them felt that the Xie Wenyin in front of them had become different.

“Of course.” Xie Wenyin crossed her arms and looked at the two of them, then changed the topic. “So I also don’t remember whatever grudges or ties you two had with me in the past. You don’t have to worry about old matters. As for what happened last night… I can also let it go.”

The two exchanged glances, waiting quietly for Xie Wenyin to continue.

“As long as you two can help me with one thing.”

“…What thing?”

Xie Wenyin curled her lips into a smile. “You must remember, before I lost my memory, those… uh, which disciples had relatively good relationships with me, right?”

The phrase “disreputable friends” reached the tip of Xie Wenyin’s tongue, but she swallowed it back and changed it to a more tactful expression.

“I know that. Junior Sister Chu, the cheat from Xiaoyao Den; Senior Sister Huang, who spent tens of thousands of spirit stones at Drunken Dream Tower…”

“…Stop.” Xie Wenyin immediately interrupted the other person’s long speech.

“Go tell them that I, Xie Wenyin, have lost my memory. I heard my reputation used to be very bad, so now I plan to turn over a new leaf. Tell them not to come looking for me anymore.”

She only hoped these disreputable friends would stop dragging her into the water.

“This…”

Xie Wenyin knew those people would not be easy to fool, so she continued explaining, “I know this won’t be that easy. I only ask that you two help me hold them off for one year.”

She had to cultivate properly within this year. She absolutely had to rely on her own strength to enter the inner sect again.

Only then could she change her reputation, which was already as rotten as it could possibly be, and make Senior Sister slowly change her view of her.

Although the two did not know what Xie Wenyin intended to do, in order not to be dragged before the Moon Goddess to receive punishment for peeping, they did not think any further and immediately agreed.

With a major worry resolved, Xie Wenyin strode back to her residence in the outer sect, smiling cheerfully.

She closed the door, then tried to enter meditation.

[Activating cultivation ×2 ability.]

Under the system’s prompt, Xie Wenyin closed her eyes and sensed the flow of spiritual power in her meridians.

“System, if I accidentally fall asleep, remember to wake me up.”

[…]

The system did not really want to pay attention to her.

The original host’s cultivation had been careless and sloppy. Xie Wenyin spent quite a bit of effort before finally straightening out the messy spiritual power in her spiritual veins. Afterward, she discovered that the spiritual power began washing through her body like mountain spring water.

In just one hour, Xie Wenyin felt that her cultivation had improved quite a bit.

This cultivation-doubling ability was truly extremely useful.

Xie Wenyin opened her eyes, and wild fantasies began to run through her mind.

She imagined herself standing at the highest point of the arena, proudly looking down on all the outstanding talents.

Then she imagined herself returning to the inner sect with her head held high and her chest out, while everyone respectfully called her “Senior Sister Xie.”

Then she thought of Senior Sister Feng Ning.

The other woman still wore that indifferent, cold expression, but there was a hint of warmth in the gaze she directed at Xie Wenyin. Finally, she slowly said those words:

“Junior Sister, you are not bad.”

At this thought, Xie Wenyin’s little face inexplicably flushed red, and she let out a silly “hehe” laugh.

[…Host, hurry up and stop fantasizing. Meditate properly!]

Feeling the back of her head being knocked a few times by an invisible current of air, Xie Wenyin quickly shook her head and continued entering meditation.

—

Xie Wenyin’s original residence in the inner sect was very close to Yuechu Peak. Every time Feng Ning entered or left Yuechu Peak, she would pass by it, but she had never once let her gaze linger on the other woman’s residence for even a second.

This time, returning from Qingjing Hall, Feng Ning turned her head slightly for some unknown reason and looked toward Xie Wenyin’s residence.

Seeing the room that had long since been emptied, Feng Ning paused.

She… had moved away?

Feng Ning pondered for a moment, then exhaled.

…Forget it. What did it have to do with her?

Feng Ning returned to Yuechu Peak. The small courtyard before her residence was where she spent the most time during the day.

The little courtyard was quiet and secluded. She liked sitting on the stone stool and shaving bamboo. The process of peeling away the bamboo skin bit by bit made her feel relaxed.

Her slender white fingertips pressed against the bamboo stalk, shaving it bit by bit until it became incomparably sharp.

Feng Ning placed the sharpened bamboo in the open space in front of her, arranging them neatly in a row.

Occasionally, a servant from the peak came to her side and handed her a cup of hot tea. The servants were people the Sect Leader and Wen Luoai had insisted on assigning to her. She was too lazy to say much, so she simply accepted them.

The servants were all happy to work for this Immortal Venerable who had few demands. In any case, they received their spirit stones as usual, and only more, never less.

The Immortal Venerable’s appearance was stunning beyond compare, her bearing elegant and refined. No matter what she did, the eyes of those passing by would be unconsciously drawn to her, making them stop in their tracks.

“Immortal Venerable, the wind is strong here. This servant brought a white feather robe.”

Feng Ning continued shaving the bamboo. Hearing this, she said,

“Thank you. No need.”

The servant could only stop her motion of draping the robe over her and made as if to withdraw. She knew her Immortal Venerable liked to be alone.

With a crack, the bamboo segment in Feng Ning’s hand was shaved until it snapped.

“…”

She looked at the short broken piece of bamboo in her hand and frowned.

The next moment, she called the servant back.

“Go to the outer sect and find Xie Wenyin. Tell her to get back here. She only needs to behave herself. There’s no need to put on that fake act.”

The servant accepted the order. When she turned around, she revealed an expression of disgust.

Like most people in the sect, she hated Xie Wenyin very much. Moreover, she was Feng Ning’s servant, so she naturally understood Xie Wenyin better than others did.

She knew clearly how that person had openly and secretly tripped up her master.

It was just that Moon Goddess Immortal Venerable always seemed to let Xie Wenyin do as she pleased. Even though she had punished her many times, those had all been minor punishments.

The servant muttered under her breath and unwillingly went to Xie Wenyin’s residence, then knocked on the door.

The sound of knocking entered Xie Wenyin’s ears. She took a deep breath, gathered in her spiritual energy, and ended today’s cultivation.

Opening the door, she saw a face she did not really recognize.

She searched through the original host’s memories for quite a while before finally remembering that the person in front of her was Senior Sister’s servant.

Although Xie Wenyin had bound herself to the original host’s memories, they were still someone else’s memories in the end. Every time she had to identify an unfamiliar face, she had to search for a while as if looking it up in a dictionary.

Because Xie Wenyin had a thoughtful expression on her face, the servant thought that she really did look as if she had lost her memory. Therefore, she spoke first:

“Fellow Daoist Xie, this servant is from Yuechu Peak.”

Xie Wenyin suddenly understood and let out an “oh.” “Oh, oh. Hello, Sister.”

Seeing her reaction, the servant looked at her in some surprise.

“Did Senior Sister need something from me?” Xie Wenyin asked.

The servant nodded. “Lord Moon Goddess told you to return to your original residence.”

Hearing this, Xie Wenyin felt a little delighted. She truly had not expected this senior sister of hers to be someone with a hard mouth but a soft heart. She was this concerned about her.

“Hehe. I didn’t expect Senior Sister to still care about me so much. But Sister, I’ll have to trouble you to report back to Senior Sister that I won’t be returning.”

The servant choked, not expecting Xie Wenyin to answer like this.

Moon Goddess Immortal Venerable, care about her? Who did she think she was? She was just an annoying troublemaker who only knew how to cause problems. The servant truly did not know why Lord Moon Goddess had called her back. She was called, yet would not return. Could it be that they had to invite her back?

The servant’s face darkened. “Care about you? Fellow Daoist Xie, I was saving you some face by not telling you the Immortal Venerable’s exact words. You should obediently go back.”

The exact words? Xie Wenyin could not help feeling curious about how Senior Sister had said it.

It was just that, looking at this servant’s displeased expression, she guessed it would not be anything nice.

“Then tell me. What did Senior Sister say?”

That servant seemed to have been waiting for her to ask this, and so she repeated the original words:

“Immortal Venerable said to tell you to get back there. Once you return, behave yourself. Why put on such a fake act?”

“…”

Seeing Xie Wenyin rendered speechless, the servant straightened her back, somewhat pleased. For someone like Xie Wenyin, there was no need to give her a good face.

But in the next moment, Xie Wenyin said,

“Isn’t that still Senior Sister caring about me?”

The servant was confused. “…What?”

“Senior Sister only told me to get back there. Why didn’t she tell you to get back there?”

The servant was stunned speechless by her words.

“Isn’t that favoritism!”

After Xie Wenyin finished speaking, she proudly placed both hands on her hips.

Servant/System: …Is that how you’re supposed to understand it???