Ch 42 – Where will you place your chess piece? I
“Wangxue, why didn’t you tell me earlier that you could fly? If I had known, I wouldn’t have climbed the stairs…”
A thousand meters in the air, Yino was being carried by the collar in the nine-colored divine deer’s mouth, looking with amazement at the mountain path falling away below.
The nine-colored deer raised its cute face, snorting haughtily.
Although she only spoke human language when agitated, through their interactions along the way, Yino had gradually learned to guess what the nine-colored deer wanted to express from its different calls.
For example, right now, it was saying: [You never asked if I could fly.]
“Never mind, it’s good for a man to exercise more.”
Yino sighed. Seeing that they were almost at the top of Ranmo Peak, Yino thought of something else and earnestly instructed:
“But Wangxue, when we get to the top, you must listen to me. Let’s be quiet when we go inside… I don’t know if Senior Sister is awake yet.”
“Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Although my Senior Sister is beautiful and kind-hearted, she usually has a cold face. When she gets angry, her eyes can be fierce. If she finds out I didn’t come home last night, I’ll probably get a beating!”
“Moreover, I brought a wild little deer to her home without permission…”
The more Yino described, the more uneasy the nine-colored deer’s spiritual eyes became, as if there was a tigress living at the top of Ranmo Peak.
Soon after, the nine-colored deer carried Yino down in front of the stairs at the top of Ranmo Peak.
“Shh—”
Yino tiptoed to the courtyard gate, putting his finger to his lips in a gesture for silence.
The deer also quietly followed behind him, obediently nodding.
A Man and a deer, crouching low, carefully pushed open the courtyard gate.
*Creak—*
Even when the door gap was pushed open, there was still this grating friction sound.
Yino carefully poked his head out from the doorway, briefly surveyed the situation, then made a gesture to advance.
The deer nodded, following him to crawl into the courtyard.
*Clack——!*
Suddenly, in the quiet atmosphere, the sound of a chess piece hitting the board rang out.
In an instant, Yino froze in place, his face turning pale.
But when he stopped, the deer behind him was still charging forward with her head down. her antlers, shimmering with nine-colored rainbow light, rammed into him, forcefully pushing Yino flying far away.
*Poof!*
Yino got up from the ground, spitting out a mouthful of dirt.
But when he looked up, he found a pair of silver high heels with wine-red soles elegantly crossed under the stone table in front of him.
Looking further up, there was a pair of black silk beautiful legs, while the inner thighs above the knees were tightly wrapped in moon-white, ink-wash style fabric.
Yino recognized this dress as the dance costume Yuyan had worn when she lost a bet and danced for him that night.
“—_—Have you seen enough?”
From above, the familiar tone and lines came again.
She wasn’t afraid of exposing herself at all, and even crossed those black silk beautiful legs high and low into a relaxed sitting position under her skirt.
In fact, Yino really hadn’t seen anything, as the dress was very long and could easily cover her knees even when sitting down.
“Senior Sister, you’re still not asleep so late?”
Yino’s lips twitched slightly as he closed his eyes and stood up from under the table.
He lightly scratched his face, greeting her very awkwardly.
In front of the chessboard, the woman wore a long ink-wash dress, her waist-length black hair pinned with two silver hairpins, woven into an exquisite embroidered knot at the back of her head.
She held a black chess piece, her cold gaze indifferent, and everything was as normal, with no emotion.
“The sun is already up, is there any need to sleep?”
Yuyan arched an eyebrow and spoke to Yino in a cold mocking tone.
A cold wind blew across the mountaintop, making the beautiful woman’s cold jade eyes seem even more lonely.
As she stared at him, Yino dared not make any more humorous remarks, like a student caught skipping class…
This excessively chilly atmosphere also made the little deer lie down obediently nearby, not daring to make a sound.
Yuyan turned her beautiful eyes to glance at the nine-colored deer, then locked her gaze back onto Yino’s extremely guilty face—
“Where did you go last night?”
She withdrew her cold gaze and spoke calmly, finally deciding to interrogate Yino first.
She asked while placing a white chess piece on the opposite side of the board.
Although she didn’t say it explicitly, Yino instantly understood the meaning in her eyes and obediently sat down on the other side of the chessboard to take over the white pieces.
“To be honest, I got lost in the back mountain last night…”
After pondering for a long time, Yino still decided to reuse the same story he had told Jinyue.
Upon hearing this, Yuyan immediately raised an eyebrow and looked at him with some suspicion.
“Lying.” She snorted coldly, displeased.
“I’m not…”
“Last night, Yunjin reported that she had finished showing you around the back mountain and parted ways with you at the main hall dining room—Since you had already parted, how did you get lost on the back mountain on the way from the main hall to Ranmo Peak?”
Yuyan recounted calmly while playing chess.
Her thoughts were very clear, and after not seeing him for just one night, even her chess skills had improved compared to before.
This time, it was Yino being questioned who became a bit nervous, even his chess moves were affected.
“Senior Sister, Yunjin probably didn’t tell you that we didn’t part at the main hall last night, but at the female disciples’ dormitory in the back mountain…”
Yino said seriously with furrowed brows.