64: Chapter Sixty-One The Profound Corridor 64: Chapter Sixty-One The Profound Corridor In the dark corridor,
Xu Yuan didn’t speak or urge her on, he simply placed his hand in front of her gently.
Su Jinxuan’s breathing was the only sound in this place, slightly hurried.
Biting her red lips tightly, her small canine tooth pierced the skin at the corner, blood oozing out without her noticing.
Xu Yuan watched her in silence.
Watched her struggle,
Watched her unwillingness,
Watched her wavering.
Having experienced it himself, Xu Yuan knew what Su Jinxuan needed at this moment.
Su Jinxuan took a deep breath and slightly loosened the arms that were hugging her legs.
This isn’t surrender, just a ploy to deceive this bastard…
Make him lower his guard towards her…
Yes, just to make him lower his guard, not to surrender…
As long as she wasn’t dead, as long as she could stay by his side, she still had a chance…
Thinking this, Su Jinxuan slowly reached out her trembling hand, attempting to grasp the only person she could touch.
But before she could make contact, the person in front of her drew back his hand.
“If Miss Su is unwilling, then let it be.”
Xu Yuan slightly lifted his hand, and the Blood Essence Meteoring Art silently activated, a flame rising from the palm of his hand.
The weak yet bewitching blood flame illuminated the gloomy and narrow corridor, the sudden light causing Su Jinxuan’s eyes to feel discomfort, but it was weak enough for her to still see the smile in the man’s slender eyes.
“…..” Su Jinxuan clenched her fists immediately.
Xu Yuan glanced at Su Jinxuan, who was crouching by the wall.
Without a word, he chuckled and walked away.
Su Jinxuan lowered her beautiful eyes, her breathing erratic and rapid, her fingernails unknowingly digging into the skin of her palms.
She was being toyed with by the man before her.
The complexity of her thoughts made her breathing even harder for a moment.
Yet Xu Yuan’s steps didn’t falter with her distraction, moving upward steadily and unhurriedly.
Slowly, the light and the footsteps both faded, and just as darkness was about to engulf Su Jinxuan again, she suddenly snapped back to reality.
Glancing at the despairing darkness below, she bit her teeth and got up, quickly chasing after the receding light…
Hearing the footsteps that had been following not far behind, Xu Yuan suddenly spoke with a light laugh:
“Seeing Miss Su not moving just now, I thought you had taken a liking to this secret chamber.”
Silence for two seconds.
Su Jinxuan’s clear voice traveled up from ten or so meters down the corridor:
“Rumors are indeed true…
Xu Changtian, your character is truly despicable.”
Miss Su shouldn’t talk nonsense, I consider myself to be quite mild-mannered.”
Su Jinxuan’s voice trembled:
Xu Changtian, you dare say you are mild-tempered after devising such sinister punishments?”
“What conflict is there between the two?”
Xu Yuan’s tone remained unchanged, still smiling: “Does researching punishments mean my character is despicable?
Also, Miss Su, haven’t you mistaken something?”
“The relationship between us is far from that of kindred or friends.”
His voice carried a touch of mockingly playful scorn:
“You wouldn’t expect this young master to return evil with kindness and treat you, who almost killed me, like a friend, would you?”
The long corridor dragged out his voice.
Su Jinxuan, who was following far behind, fell into silence at those words.
There was no further conversation,
and the two of them, one after the other, walked along the narrow passageway to the platform at its end.
The platform wasn’t large, but it had a stone door.
Su Jinxuan stopped two meters behind Xu Yuan.
Xu Yuan slowly turned around, looking at Su Jinxuan, who was silently looking down, and tossed a long black silk ribbon to her with a casual command:
Su Jinxuan caught it subconsciously, glanced at the ribbon in her hand, then looked up again, her gaze carrying a hint of wariness.
But Xu Yuan’s gaze was only calm as he looked back at her.
Su Jinxuan shifted her gaze away and began silently winding the black silk ribbon around her wrists……
Xu Yuan watched her actions with a strange look in his eyes.
He couldn’t understand what she was doing.
Su Jinxuan raised her eyes and coldly retorted:
“Aren’t you telling me to tie myself up?”
Her voice was quite cold, but due to her innate Enchantress Divine Physique, her words carried an unintentional trace of allure.
Xu Yuan looked helpless and shook his head:
“Who asked you to bind yourself?
The silk ribbon is for covering your eyes.”
Su Jinxuan’s gaze grew more vigilant upon hearing this.
Xu Yuan simply stared at her with an indifferent smile:
“You have no cultivation to protect your eyes; it would be for the best to listen to me if you don’t want to go blind, especially since it’s sunny outside today.”
Su Jinxuan pursed her red lips and looked away.
She realized what he meant.
After a few moments of silence, without speaking or thanking him, she just silently wrapped the long black silk ribbon over her eyes.
Darkness once again enveloped the surroundings.
The light before her eyes vanished once more, and the pervading darkness slowly brought back the creeping fear in her heart.
“Is it on?” he asked.
“Then I’ll open the door.”
As Xu Yuan finished speaking,
the stone door at the entrance to the secret chamber rumbled open.
Sunlight streamed through the stone door into the dark passageway, unfortunately, Su Jinxuan couldn’t see it.
In the lonely darkness, waves of a suffocating feeling, like drowning, swept over her.
She forced her body not to tremble with fear and groped forward according to her memory.
“You’re not thinking of walking out with your eyes covered, are you?”
A voice tinged with laughter came from in front of her.
Then, that person reached out and grabbed her wrist which was slowly feeling along the stone wall.
The comfortable warmth from his palm made Su Jinxuan involuntarily clench her hand.
Xu Yuan glanced at the noticeably tenser face of this Enchantress Divine Physique and said with a smile:
“Relax a little, I’ll let you know in advance if there are stairs, no need to be so tense.”
he led her out of the dark and silent secret chamber……