Chapter 80: Confirmed It's Him
Translator: Tim Editor: Tehrn
Yun Bing hadn't left the house for the entire day. She didn't even go out to buy vegetables. She could only focus on when Ye Mo would wake up and kept heating the congee again and again, but he still didn't have any signs of waking up.
If Ye Mo's breathing wasn't normal, she would have thought that he wouldn't survive.
She had never seen someone unconscious for so long. But even if she didn't go out, she still knew that what was happening outside wasn't trivial as she could see the street full of police car patrolling every so often.
She really couldn't understand who Ye Mo had killed and why it would cause such a ruckus.
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In the house Ning Qingxue lived at, other than Su Jingwen and her parents, everyone else had left, so Ning Qingxue got up and ate something. She was staring at that Silver Heart Grass when Li Mumei suddenly ran in.
"Qingxue, you can get up!?" Li Mumei was joyful from the bottom of her heart.
"Yeah, I feel much better, Mumei, what happened?" Ning Qingxue looked at the hurried Li Mumei and asked.
Li Mumei then realized that she was going to say something, "Qingxue, I heard that Song Shaotan was killed in Ning Hai last night. The person who killed him also killed five other people; however, one seemed to have a bigger background than Song Shaotan, but I don't know who it was."
Ning Qingxue thought for a moment and asked, "Mumei, do you know who the other people are?"
Li Mumei shook her head and said, "I don't know either, I have no news of the other people. I only knew from a friend. However, this thing got pretty big, and many journalists came to Ning Hai. I know a lot of journalists from Beijing so I might have more information tomorrow."
Why did Song Shaotan come to Ning Hai? Was he the one who ordered people to injure her? Then who killed Song Shaotan? Ning Qingxue suddenly thought of Ye Mo and immediately asked, "Mumei, did you get the blood analysis back?"
"Yeah..." Li Mumei gave the report to Ning Qingxue. Ning Qingxue looked, and she became quickly excited.
"What's wrong? Qingxue?" Li Mumei hurriedly asked.
Ning Qingxue shook her head and said, "No... Nothing, I'm going in to sit. I'll come out later." Then, she walked into the room.
Li Mumei looked at Ning Qingxue and thought that she had just recovered and might be feeling tired, so she didn't bother too much.
However, Ning Qingxue was elated because the blood type was exactly the same as Ye Mo's: they were both B type. Although it was far from sufficient to know if it was Ye Mo through blood type, Ning Qingxue still firmly believed this was him.
She seemed to feel Ye Mo came back. Was he related to the incident of their death last night? If it wasn't Ye Mo, who else would dare to touch the Song Family's people? Ye Mo dared to kill even Song Shaowen so why not Song Shaotan too? Besides, he had the motive for it.
Knowing that it was entirely possible that Ye Mo came back to save her, she finally felt relieved in her heart. After all, she had already admitted that Ye Mo was her husband, so if he had seen her body, it wouldn't really matter.
However, Ning Qingxue suddenly felt unrested. If Ye Mo came to Ning Hai and killed Song Shaotan, then wouldn't he be in a very dangerous situation right now? What if he still hadn't escaped out of Ning Hai? Ning Qingxue became worried, and now, she wished that the person who came last night wasn't Ye Mo.
Because if Ye Mo really did it, then he wouldn't be able to escape from Ning Hai with the Song Family's power.
"Huh, Qingxue, you're alright?" Xu Wei asked in surprise. She knew her injuries were grave. The hospital even gave out her final days but now, Ning Qingxue stood in front of her perfectly fine. What was this?
"Yeah, I've recovered already, perhaps the hospital misdiagnosed. My injuries weren't that serious," Ning Qingxue nodded and said.
Xu Wei was dubious. Ning Qingxue went to the best hospital in Ning Hai, one that was famous even in the country. How could they make such a serious mistake? Besides, she had seen with her own eyes Ning Qingxue being hit with that stick.
Seeing that Xu Wei didn't really believe her, Ning Qingxue quickly changed the subject: "How come you didn't go to work again today?"
"Sigh, why are your tones exactly the same, yesterday, Ye..." Xu Wei suddenly stopped. She suddenly remembered that Ye Mo told her yesterday not to tell Ning Qingxue, but she had almost forgotten today.
Although Xu Wei had stopped her words in time, Ning Qingxue had discerned it and asked, "What happened yesterday? Did Ye Mo come back!?"
At the same time, Ning Qingxue had subconsciously grabbed Xu Wei's hands.
Xu Wei looked at her hands that were tightly clutched by Ning Qingxue. She knew she had spilled it and had no way to keep hiding it. She sighed and said, "Yesterday Ye Mo came back and looked at the flower pots for half a day. Then, he asked me about you and left. He probably went to the hospital to see you. What, did you not see him?"
Ning Qingxue suddenly let go of Xu Wei's hands and mumbled, "It really was him, he's alright! He came back, so he was really the one to..."
"Qingxue, go rest, you just recovered, don't walk around everywhere. Xu Wei, we'll eat together later, her mom and I are cooking right now." Li Mumei saw Ning Qingxue who stood at the doorway and walked over.
"Qingxue, why is your face red? Are you hot?" Li Mumei saw Ning Qingxue's face was as red as an apple and asked concerningly.
Ning Qingxue was thinking about Ye Mo who came over last night and didn't know if he heard her words. Thinking about how she had called him Lao Gong, she felt really embarrassed and hoped he didn't hear it. But now, she was 100% sure that the one who came last night was Ye Mo. She felt comfortable and even a little bit of sweetness in her heart.
Now that Li Mumei asked, Ning Qingxue immediately thought that since Ye Mo came yesterday, then he must have killed Song Shaotan to avenge her. Thinking about the events from last night, she realized that Ye Mo might still be escaping and immediately felt worried.
"Qingxue..." Li Mumei saw Ning Qingxue's face change rapidly and felt more worried.
Ning Qingxue shook her head and said, "I'm fine, Mumei, you told me earlier that you know a lot of journalists in Beijing. Can you invite one out and let me see tonight?"
Ning Qingxue wanted to know what happened last night through the journalist as a way to inadvertently find out about Ye Mo's situation.
"Qingxue, you want to see a journalist? Don't you hate them?" Li Mumei spoke but seeing Ning Qingxue didn't say anything else, she immediately continued, "Okay, I'll ask tonight. If all goes well, I should be able to get one or two."
Chapter 81: Awake
Translator: Tim Editor: Tehrn
When Ye Mo woke up, it was already midnight. Suddenly, he felt that there was someone in his arms, and although there was no light on, Ye Mo's spirit sense made him realized that this person was Yun Bing.
Before Ye Mo fainted for the second time, he knew that he was at Yun Bing's home. Therefore, he had closed off all his sense to recover. If he hadn't done that, there would have been more drawbacks. Perhaps it might have even resulted in him forever staying at the 2nd stage of Chi Gathering.
After discovering who it was, he couldn't care too much. He didn't even say one sentence before going into a cultivating state. He didn't know how long he closed off his sense for, but he didn't expect to wake up with Yun Bing in his arms.
But soon, Ye Mo understood what had happened. Yun Bing must've wanted to lean on the bed and sleep for a while, but after she had fallen asleep, it was cold at night, so she subconsciously moved towards the blanket. From how she didn't take her clothes off, it could be seen that she didn't have a good sleep for the past few days.
Although Ye Mo knew that Yun Bing saved him yesterday, he couldn't understand why Yun Bing would try to find him before dawn since his relationship with Yun Bing was stale. Yun Bing even harbored enmity toward him, so why would she be willing to save him?
Ye Mo covered Yun Bing with the blanket and took her hand away as he prepared to get down. Regardless of whether or not Yun Bing saved him because she knew him, he couldn't stay here. If Yun Bing woke up and wanted to cause even more trouble for him, he would be scared of having to hurt her. After all, she had saved him, and if Yun Bing hadn't brought him back, then the consequences would have been dire no matter who had found him.
This time, he had been overconfident. Although he knew that his power wouldn't be the highest here, he was still a bit shocked when he met an actual opponent. After all, people didn't cultivate Chi here.
Just when Ye Mo wanted to get off the bed, he found that the corner of his clothes was tightly grabbed by Yun Bing, so he simply checked up on his wound. He had already cured the wound of broken hand bone, and as for the wound on his back, Yun Bing had put some cream he didn't recognize, and together with his spirit Chi, it was pretty much healed already.
He looked at his clothes and realized that the shirt was a bit weird. He even started to suspect if this was Yun Bing's clothes. Ye Mo didn't bother to break away from Yun Bing's hand, he just awkwardly took the shirt off. He suddenly remembered about his bag and wondered if Yun Bing had brought it back. After all, all his things were inside there.
His money, his clothes, his documents, and even a lot of medical herbs inside, but those weren't even the most significant part. The remaining seeds of his Silver Heart Grass were also inside the bag, and those were his most valuable belongings. It would be over if he lost these seeds; besides, a piece of Purple Heart Vine was also inside.
Thinking about this, Ye Mo scanned out with his spirit sense, but immediately, his heart sunk as he didn't find his bag in the house. That meant that Yun Bing didn't bring back his bag. Now, he didn't have clothes, and Yun Bing didn't bring his bag back either. He didn't even have a cent on him.
Ye Mo even wanted to immediately go out and look for his bag. After all, the contents of the bag were too important for him. But before this, he had to ask Yun Bing.
He couldn't care if Yun Bing was still asleep and immediately started shaking her.
"Huh..." Yun Bing was shaken awake by Ye Mo and immediately screamed in shock, but soon she understood that it was Ye Mo and quickly covered her mouth. When she took her hands away, she then found out that she was grabbing a shirt and was the one who put this shirt on Ye Mo.
Yun Bing blushed and crawled up awkwardly: "Oh... You... you're awake?"
Ye Mo nodded, "Yes, thank you for saving me, I want to know if you have brought my bag back?"
"Bag?" Yun Bing frowned. Last night when she dragged Ye Mo onto the car, he seemed to have something in his hand. She didn't really look at it and just stuffed it into the car. She didn't know if that was the bag Ye Mo was talking about. However, since Ye Mo asked about that bag immediately when he woke up, it meant that bag was paramount for him.
Yun Bing immediately turned on the bed lamp and saw Ye Mo who sat there was frowning. She had a sudden awkward feeling, they were sitting side by side at the head of the bed at midnight while Ye Mo was shirtless. They looked exactly like a couple.
She suddenly thought of the scene described in prose. She forgot who wrote it, but it described this scene, "Midnight, the husband sat up and ignited a cigarette. He smoked, and his eyes were frowning. I know, it's for his child's school fees tomorrow..."
Child? Yun Bing suddenly thought of Ting Ting. That family was really cruel. It had been a few years already, but they wouldn't even let her see Ting Ting once.
"What's wrong?" Ye Mo looked at Yun Bing's changing face. But before Yun Bing could answer, he asked again, "Hum, did you remember where you put the bag?"
"Ah..." Yun Bing suddenly came to reality. She didn't expect her to wander off. She hurriedly said, "I remember I put some stuff in the trunk, I don't know if it was your bag since I was in a rush at the time and forgot. I'll check the car now."
She was about to go out after she finished.
Ye Mo quickly stopped her and said, "Wait, I'll go, just tell me where your car is."
Yun Bing shook her head: "You must not go out, they are looking for you everywhere. If you go out now, they will apprehend you."
"You know what I did?" Ye Mo looked at Yun Bing in surprise. He thought about how she knew that he killed Song Shaotan.
Yun Bing rolled her eyes towards Ye Mo and said, "Yesterday morning, six people were killed in a mansion in Ning Hai, and don't tell me you don't know about that. I just went out to look for you but met you on the way. Ye Mo, you're an adult now. Is killing something that should be done? Why don't you use your brain and think? Impulsiveness is a devil! Sigh, I have no idea what's going to happen to you, but I know that you'll be living a life on the run."
After she had finished, Yun Bing shook her head. Although she approved of Ye Mo saving people, she still thought it was unfathomable that Ye Mo killed 6 people.
Ye Mo didn't care about the latter part of what Yun Bing said. He just asked, "How do you know I killed? Why did you go look for me? And, how would you know I was there?"
Hearing Ye Mo's words, Yun Bing's face showed some guilt, "Ye Mo, sorry, I was looking for you to apologize to you. I know that you were saving me that day as well, but I only understood when I found the SD card from the camera. The reason I went to look for you yesterday was that I saw that Shi Ying on the news of Ning Hai Technology University and thought that he looked like you. I was prepared to go there, but fortunately, I met you on the road."
"Looks like me?" Ye Mo thought that he used a layer of Chi to cover his face at the time. They shouldn't be able to capture a clear image. How did Yun Bing know?
"I just noticed his face was similar to yours, that's why I tried my luck and went out to look for you. Tell me, are you Shi Ying?" Yun Bing seemed to have forgotten about other things now.
Ye Mo nodded, admitting that he was Shi Ying. He also understood why Yun Bing was saving him and didn't look for trouble. It was due to that card.
"Since you know I'm a killer, why aren't you scared? Are you that calm with every killer you meet?" Ye Mo suddenly asked.
Yun Bing was stunned; she now realized that she really wasn't scared of him at all, she was only concerned and didn't even think about being scared. Had she always been that bold? But when she was with Ye Mo, she really didn't feel scared at all. Now that Ye Mo asked, she couldn't help but to shake her head and say, "I was just a bit worried about you, but I wasn't scared, perhaps because you had saved me before, or maybe it was that you only killed the people that deserved to die."
Chapter 82: Yun Bing's Sigh
Translator: Tim Editor: Tehrn
Hearing Yun Bing's words, Ye Mo remained silent for a while, he had overestimated himself yesterday. He only went there because he was curious about Hu Qiu at the time and didn't expect Song Shaotan to be there as well. However, Ning Qingxue was injured because Song Shaotan sent people there, so he couldn't resist but to kill him.
This had greatly deviated from his original plan. Originally, it wasn't much even if he killed Song Shaotan. He could leave Ning Hai during that night, but he hadn't expected Hu Qiu to be so much stronger than he had estimated and ended up heavily injured. If Yun Bing didn't bring him back, perhaps he would be at the Song Family compound already.
Even if he had a strong background, he wouldn't be able to leave once he was in the Song Family's hands, much less since he had no background anymore.
"What to do now?" Ye Mo suddenly realized that he had no way left right now. Ning Hai must be in lockdown. If he had been in the 3rd stage of Chi Gathering by now, then he would be able to leave Ning Hai easily. But now, he was only in the late phase of the 2nd stage.
Seeing Ye Mo's silence, Yun Bing thought that Ye Mo heard her words and wanted to go check if his bag was in the car. However, she was suddenly grabbed by Ye Mo, so she looked at him in confusion.
Ye Mo shook his head and said, "Don't go."
The reason Ye Mo didn't let Yun Bing go out was because, after his injuries, his spirit sense could surprisingly reach out to a distance of 12-15 meters. When his spirit sense scanned out, he found two people in casual clothing seemingly monitoring the people coming and going. Although he didn't know if this was related to him, Ye Mo still felt that it was better to be careful.
"Why?" Obviously, Yun Bing didn't know people were monitoring them and was curious why Ye Mo didn't seem to care about that bag all of a sudden.
Ye Mo couldn't say he had a spirit sense, so he said, "It's not safe to go down to the parking to get things in the middle of the night. Besides, it's easy to be seen by people and become a target of suspicion."
Yun Bing thought about it awhile and believed that Ye Mo's words were true, so she didn't insist.
Ye Mo estimated that since even Yun Bing was able to deduce that he had killed these people, the Song Family would definitely be able to find out that Ye Mo was the murderer. It seemed that he should leave Ning Hai as early as possible. After this thing, he could no longer go to Luo Cang.
He sighed and thought, "Plans really couldn't keep up with changes." He still wanted to find a place to settle down and plant his Silver Heart Grass before going to the desert. But now, he couldn't do that.
"You should get some sleep," Ye Mo turned around and said to Yun Bing.
"Aren't you sleeping?" Yun Bing thought that there was only one bed in the house, if she slept there, Ye Mo would have no place to sleep.
Ye Mo shook his head: "I'm not tired. You can sleep first." He really wasn't, and at this time, he wasn't in the mood to sleep anyway. Since his plans were gone down the drain, he had to make new ones.
Looking at Ye Mo who didn't even have a shirt on, Yun Bing hesitated for a while before saying, "There's still a few hours of night-time, and the bed is really big, we can sleep on one side each."
Ye Mo looked at Yun Bing in surprise. He didn't expect Yun Bing to say something like this. She didn't seem like an open person, but he didn't want Yun Bing to think too much, so he nodded and said, "Fine, go to sleep, I'll just lean on the bed for a while."
He thought that he could cultivate on the bed as well anyway, and a few hours would pass really in a flash for him. Right now, he hadn't fully recovered yet, so he shouldn't be careless.
Ye Mo sat there and went into a cultivating state really quickly. However, Yun Bing wasn't so stable when she slept which didn't match her cold face at all. She just turned once and hugged one of Ye Mo's leg again.
Although Ye Mo was cultivating, he could still feel Yun Bing's body and the softness in front of her chest. Regardless of his past life or this life, he was a virgin in both as an ordinary man and as a cultivator. Although he was enticed, he cast the thoughts away hastily and didn't pay any more attention as he continued to cultivate.
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A few hours passed very quickly indeed. Ye Mo was still immersed in cultivation while Yun Bing slept very well; the corner of her mouth slightly raised up, seemingly in a good dream.
Perhaps after that incident, she had never been able to sleep so well. She felt as though she held something dependable and no longer had that feeling of hollowness from before, so she held very tightly with her hands without the slightest intention of letting go.
After Ye Mo had cultivated a big Chi cycle, he opened his eyes and saw that the sky was not completely lit up yet. He looked at Yun Bing who shrunk her head into the blanket while her body was pressed on him completely, and Ye Mo felt that it was getting hotter. Although he wanted to remove Yun Bing's hands, she seemed to stick onto to him very tightly.
Seeing her sleeping so sweetly, he sighed and didn't try to wake her again. He continued to cultivate to his next big cycle. He estimated that after he was done, Yun Bing should be up too.
When Ye Mo entered the next big Chi cycle again, Yun Bing suddenly woke up, and as soon as she opened her eyes, she immediately found out that she was hugging Ye Mo's leg. She got scared and immediately let go. Although the sky wasn't fully lit, she just felt there was a hot burning sensation on her face.
But immediately, she thought of Ye Mo, "Did he really sit like this for the whole night?" Seeing that Ye Mo still had his eyes closed as if he was still sleeping, Yun Bing finally released a sigh of relief. Luckily Ye Mo was asleep; otherwise, that would have been too embarrassing.
However, when she thought again to what she was feeling, she realized that she had this worry-free serenity when she had hugged Ye Mo's leg as she slept which had made her very comfortable and didn't feel any worry or fear. Furthermore, the aroma from his body was also very pleasant, it even gave her a sense of otherworldliness.
Yun Bing looked at Ye Mo's sleeping young face and couldn't help but to touch her already 30-year-old face. Although it was still young and smooth, she still felt a bitterness in her heart and suddenly felt that perhaps it wasn't a good thing to go back to Beijing to see Feng Rong. There were some things she didn't dare to think about, but it didn't mean that they didn't exist.
Was Feng Rong still the same as he used to be many years ago? She knew that she was no longer the Yun Bing from all those years ago, she only wanted to see Feng Rong and ask him why he simply left without notice all those years ago, and why he never had contacted her before.
But now, she felt this was unnecessary. So what if he remembered her? So what if he didn't? If something similar happened again, would he disappear again? Was this sort of man reliable? So what if he could take her to America? Perhaps she simply missed Ting Ting too much, but even if she went to Beijing, would she even be able to see Ting Ting?
Ye Mo was still asleep. Yun Bing looked down at her curvaceous body, she thought about that day when Ye Mo saw her body and suddenly felt this burning sensation from the bottom of her heart. She started to shake and felt she was entranced, so she quickly left the bedroom and drank a cup of cold water. Finally, she was able to gradually calm down.
When she went back to the bedroom again, she didn't dare to stay on the bed. She watched Ye Mo quietly before making an almost inaudible sigh after some time as she never would have thought she would have sexual urges toward Ye Mo. However, she still had a logical mind and knew that Ye Mo and she were two people on different paths. Whether it was now or in the future, they would have no more encounters.
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Although Ning Zhongfei and Lan Yu persuaded Ning Qingxue again and again, she just wasn't willing to leave this house. They were helpless, so they could only let her be. Li Mumei stayed behind with Ning Qingxue for the moment, but they needed to return to Yu state.
"Mumei, how is it?" Ning Qingxue still kept remembered Li Mumei saying that she would be able to invite out a few journalists. She wanted to know from the journalist how the case was progressing so she could know Ye Mo's current state.
"I've asked, and tonight, the police department of Ning Hai City will hold a press conference, and one of Jingwen's friend will be there. We'll go together tomorrow to see that person, but Qingxue, I feel that this thing is actually beneficial to us, so there is no need to see the journalists," Li Mumei said.
Of course, Ning Qingxue knew what she wanted to ask about, but she couldn't explain to Li Mumei, so she could only say, "It might be related to me, let's go make sure."
Li Mumei knew that it was someone from the Song Family that had died. However, since it was Ning Qingxue's wish, she couldn't really stop her.