Chapter 10: How to Coax Someone?

Shu Wan was shocked. 

She had not paid much attention earlier, thinking that after two days of treatment, Yi Chenlan would be fine. 

However, she hadn’t expected that his meridians had been so severely damaged. In this case, it seemed that her good intentions had caused harm. 

In the book, although Yi Chenlan had been crippled after coming out of the water prison, his life had not been in danger.

Zhou Yuan spoke coldly and then left. 

Shu Wan saw Yi Chenlan remain silent and thought that he must be feeling upset. She softened her tone and said: “Senior Brother Ah Lan, it’s all my fault. Don’t worry. I’ll help you recover.”

Yi Chenlan gave her a strange look. “…Why do you say that?”

“It’s because I insisted on having you train the Blazing Sun Manual…” 

Shu Wan felt guilty. It was all her fault for being too eager. She hadn’t realized that Yi Chenlan’s body was unable to withstand the intense force of the Blazing Sun True Qi and ended up injuring him.

What did that have to do with her? If he had been gentler with himself, things wouldn’t have turned out this way. 

Yi Chenlan quietly clenched his fingers. The reason he remained silent was because that strange feeling had arisen again. 

It seemed that he could not bear to look at Shu Wan. Every time she spoke to him with such gentle words, it made him want to run far away.

Don’t give him such things…

Don’t look at him with those eyes…

One day, these gentleness would be mercilessly taken away…

Yi Chenlan repeatedly warned himself: 

Don’t listen to her words; she doesn’t understand yet. 

Don’t look into her eyes; that expression is definitely not one of pity. 

Don’t trust her; she’s just toying with you. 

Don’t greedily desire more tenderness, as the despair of gaining it only to lose it will drive him mad…

But after living two lives, this was the first time someone had treated him so well. 

It wasn’t a few words of charity, nor was it malicious mockery. 

Yi Chenlan felt helpless. He had always been sharp at detecting malice disguised as kindness—but this time, he couldn’t tell.

Yi Chenlan’s face appeared calm, but the storm in his heart had just started to subside. “It has nothing to do with you. I’ll slowly adjust my meridians over the next few days. You should continue practicing with Brother Jiang.”

His tone was very stiff, trying to push Shu Wan away completely. 

Yi Chenlan thought to himself: It would be best if she outright disliked him. Yes, dislike. He didn’t need concern, nor did he need gentleness.

Dislike was the thing he was most familiar with.

He returned to being cold and didn’t even look at her anymore. 

Shu Wan felt frustrated. After all the effort, not only had she failed to help the little villain, but she had also made his condition worse. 

Now, it was over; he was angry.

Although he said it was unrelated to her, he wasn’t smiling anymore. 

He had always carried a gentle smile before. This time, with this attitude, he probably… was really angry, wasn’t he?

Soon, her suspicions were confirmed because Yi Chenlan began avoiding her.

He no longer trained martial arts with her. When she tried to find him, he claimed he needed to focus on restoring his meridians and would not meet anyone.

This made Shu Wan even more upset.

When writing novels, aside from the experiences, Yi Chenlan was portrayed as a perfect person. 

His appearance was outstanding, his personality gentle, and he had few demands in life. 

He loved swords but wasn’t obsessed with them, enjoyed martial arts but wasn’t cruel. 

He was open to all books and learning, didn’t indulge in playing or drinking, and had no bad habits… 

In short, she didn’t even know how to comfort him! She had never written about Yi Chenlan being angry—ah, this was so frustrating!

Of course, after a while, it wouldn’t even be considered anger… it would be considered corruption… 

If Yi Chenlan had already turned corrupted, she would immediately run as far away as possible and never show her face in front of him…

“Ahh, what should I do to stop him from being angry?!” Shu Wan messed up her little bun in frustration. 

Right now, she wasn’t really worried about anything else, but mainly about Yi Chenlan’s physical condition. She just couldn’t feel at ease if she didn’t help him with his recovery.

“Sister Wan Wan, what’s wrong?”

“Sister Wan Wan seems to have had a fight with her friend.”

There were two children, one boy and one girl, beside Shu Wan, exchanging questions and answers.

“Hmm… Sister Wan Wan fought. She’s not being good.” the little boy concluded.

“We’re good, we don’t fight.” the little girl happily added.

Shu Wan helplessly glanced up at these two affectionate little friends. They were her Third Uncle Song Anzhi’s twins. 

Jiang Xuanfeng, Shu Qi, and Song Anzhi had all been direct disciples of the previous Zhongshan Sect Sect Master Master Ci’an. 

Song Anzhi had always been close to his two senior brothers. After the battle at Snowy Night Mountain where Jiang Xuanfeng died, he had been particularly protective of Jiang Yang, the orphan of Eldest Senior Brother. 

Every time he saw Yi Chenlan, he had to suppress his resentment. He knew about Shu Qi secretly tormenting Yi Chenlan, but he chose not to act.

It wasn’t until later, when the truth about the exchanged children came to light, that Song Anzhi realized he had been protecting the wrong person all these years. 

The child he had wanted to care for was the one he had ignored. 

He wanted to make up for his mistake, but Yi Chenlan didn’t need it. 

In the end, during a martial arts purge, Song Anzhi was killed by the angry righteous people while protecting Yi Chenlan.

After avenging their father, his twin children still couldn’t calm their hatred and placed the blame on Yi Chenlan. 

They joined forces with Jiang Yang to oppose Yi Chenlan, right up until the end.

Shu Wan stared at these two still young children, her mind racing. Her little villain had never received any warmth in his life, let alone from family or friends. She should be adding more support to him.

At first, Shu Wan only wanted to raise Yi Chenlan’s favorability to prevent him from going down the path of corruption.

At least, she didn’t want him to cut her into three thousand pieces in the future. But as she kept trying to stop it, she wasn’t sure whether his favorability toward her had increased. 

What was clear, though, was that hers for him had grown tremendously—from trying to save her own life to genuinely feeling heartache for him. Now, she had even started looking for good friends for him, hoping he could live a little happier in his youth.

Looking at Jiang Yang’s actions and words, it seemed it was too late to make friends with him. So, Shu Wan decided to start with these two little kids. She cleared her throat and called: “Xiao Fang, Xiao Yuan, come here, come here. I have a question for you. What do you think of Brother Ah Lan?”

Song Yuan furrowed his little brows. “I haven’t played with Brother Ah Lan, so I don’t know. I’ll listen to my sister.”

Song Fang blinked her big eyes and looked at Shu Wan. “Sister Wan Wan, did you have a fight with Brother Ah Lan?”

Well… that was sort of accurate, Shu Wan thought for a moment. “I made Brother Ah Lan angry. He doesn’t want to see me now. Could you help me cheer him up?”

At this moment, her little villain was a super kind and patient little flower! If Song Fang and Song Yuan went to play with him, he would definitely be happy! And if he was happy, maybe he would forget about what happened before!

“Brother Ah Lan gets angry a lot?” Song Yuan asked shyly. “Is he easy to comfort?”

“He should be easy to comfort.” Shu Wan said without thinking. At this point, Yi Chenlan cherished any act of kindness. She had done well before, but she didn’t know why things had gone wrong this time. “You two go talk to him first. I’ll wait outside. When the time is right, I’ll go in. But you must pretend you haven’t seen me, understand?”

Song Fang and Song Yuan answered in unison: “Mhm! Got it!”

Shu Wan never could have imagined that if she had added the phrase “Also, don’t mention me once you enter the room” after that statement, everything would have been perfect. 

When she found herself in a bad situation again, she would have wanted to travel back to this moment and pinch both their chubby cheeks: “You two don’t know a thing! You’re a pair of pig teammates!”

But the current Shu Wan didn’t have the ability to foresee the future, so she happily led one child by the hand and, full of hope, headed toward Jingtong Pavilion.