The Heroine Made a Pact With Senior Sister (GL) Chapter 54

For some reason, Mu Yinfeng discovered that she could now read Huixue’s emotions. It was not as clear as when she looked at other people, where one glance was enough, but it was no longer the blankness she had always seen before.
What was going on?
Mu Yinfeng raised her eyes, trying to meet Huixue’s gaze, but Huixue turned her face away.
“Do not look at me.”
Her voice was distant and cold, carrying a chill that kept people a thousand miles away.
But beneath that cold surface, Mu Yinfeng felt as if something was surging. Warm, or perhaps blazing. It was much like the ominous feeling that had risen in her heart the day Huixue was under the Affection Thread Seed’s effect.
It was scorching flame surging beneath a snowy field.
Mu Yinfeng remembered something Abi had once sent to her by voice transmission: “The Affection Thread Seed is frightening, but the conditions for its poison to flare are extremely strict. If someone never falls in love, it will never flare in their life. Even if they do fall in love, unless the feeling is deep, it is very hard for it to flare.”
That meant Huixue had already fallen in love when she looked at her, and that feeling was already deep.
Mu Yinfeng truly could not imagine what kind of person the cold, distant Senior Sister Huixue had fallen for. That person must be very beautiful, very strong, someone Mu Yinfeng could not even look up to.
Mu Yinfeng bit her lip. The tiny bit of hope she had felt at first scattered like smoke under Huixue’s voice. What virtue or ability did she have that could make Huixue’s heart move for her?
The greatest illusion was thinking the person you loved loved you back. Once that dream shattered, everything would turn into nothing. Mu Yinfeng was unwilling to keep thinking in that direction.
She was a little afraid. She was afraid that one day Huixue would leave her and go to the person in Huixue’s heart, the person who had triggered the Affection Thread Seed.
“Senior Sister, do you have someone you like?” Mu Yinfeng heard her own voice trembling, but she could not care about that anymore. “Is that person very good?”
Huixue still had her back to her. “Yes. That person is not good.”
“Why?”
“Does it have anything to do with you? Yinfeng, you already have an engagement with Chang Zui. Why ask me these things?”
Cold air rose from the spring, but Huixue’s voice was even colder than the cold spring.
Mu Yinfeng closed her eyes. “Senior Sister, I do not like Chang Zui, and I do not like this engagement. These are only Master’s wishful thoughts. When has Master ever considered what we think when she does things?”
“Is this not what you wished for?” Huixue asked back.
A cold wind swept past. Huixue’s mist-like, half-transparent long hair floated in the air. Cold waves rose on the spring’s surface and struck Mu Yinfeng’s body again and again, almost pulling her into the deeper cold current.
“No, Senior Sister. I have never liked Chang Zui.” Mu Yinfeng pushed through the water and walked behind Huixue. She stared at that snow-white back and held back the urge to put her hand on Huixue’s shoulder. “The one I like…”
The one I like is you.
Before she could say those words, the blood vine on her wrist suddenly blazed red. A burning heat roasted the cold spring water and steamed up a thick cloud of mist. Although she quickly put her hand into the spring, she still felt the heat was unbearable.
“Like what?” Huixue suddenly looked back. Her gaze was sharp, like an ice thorn piercing straight into Mu Yinfeng’s heart.
Her heart had not been pierced by Luo Han’s ice needle, yet under Huixue’s one glance, her whole body felt as if it had been pierced through.
The scorching feeling on her wrist gradually faded. Mu Yinfeng had just wanted to speak, but the moment her thoughts moved, the burning became stronger than before. It hurt so much she sucked in a cold breath and pressed her lips together tightly.
“The blood vine?” Huixue noticed the large cloud of steam rising beside Mu Yinfeng’s hand. “What is going on?”
Mu Yinfeng did not dare lift her wrist. She was afraid that once it left the cold spring water, the blood vine would burn her skin and flesh black.
Huixue slowly walked over. Tianbing had returned to her hand at some point. She suddenly threw Tianbing out, and Tianbing landed on the blood vine at once.
Tianbing’s cold fought against the blood vine’s heat. For a moment, Mu Yinfeng felt her wrist caught between extreme cold and extreme heat. Her bones nearly snapped, and her flesh felt as if it would melt. She clenched her teeth hard and refused to make a sound.
“Yinfeng, you…” Huixue sighed. Blue light spread from her fingertips. She quickly took Mu Yinfeng’s wrist, pushed Tianbing aside, and tapped several points around the blood vine. The scorching heat and the cold retreated at the same time. Mu Yinfeng lowered her head to look at her wrist and saw several pale blue snowflakes set around the blood vine.
“Senior Sister, this is…”
“This is the curse Yimu placed on you.” Huixue’s gaze was grave. One hand held Mu Yinfeng’s wrist, while blue light gathered at the fingertips of her other hand. She continued placing pale blue snowflakes around the blood vine. “She set a restriction in your heart. As long as you trigger that restriction, it will punish you. Yimu truly had no good intentions.”
Mu Yinfeng drew in a cold breath. If that was true, then the restriction Yimu had placed in her heart was this:
She could never speak the name of the person she loved. Even if she only moved with that desire, the blood vine would punish her.
“Yinfeng, my ice-snow seal can only seal the blood vine for a time. It cannot seal it for long. If you do not trigger the restriction, it should be fine.” Huixue looked at Mu Yinfeng and sighed. Then her hand closed around Mu Yinfeng’s wrist.
The ice-snow seal. Mu Yinfeng froze slightly. This was the top-secret seal passed down through Huixue’s snow woman clan. A snow woman could use this seal only a very limited number of times in her life. Someone who carried an ice-snow seal was also equal to half a member of the ice-snow line and could freely enter and leave the Snow Domain and Ice Domain.
Why would Senior Sister use such a limited chance on her? Mu Yinfeng lowered her eyes and thought hard, but she could not understand it.
At that moment, Huixue’s voice suddenly sounded by her ear. “Yinfeng, sit on that stone over there. It will be much better than staying in the water.”
“Which stone?”
Mu Yinfeng followed Huixue’s gaze. All she saw was a broad stretch of misty water. She could not see any stone at all.
Huixue reached out, took Mu Yinfeng’s hand, and slowly guided her in one direction. Mu Yinfeng felt the spring water grow deeper and deeper, but she still saw no stone. Just as she was wondering, the water surface suddenly split apart along a white line, and a square jade-colored stone appeared before her eyes.
“This is ten-thousand-year cold jade in the cold spring. It is a good place for healing and quiet cultivation. With my mark on you, the ten-thousand-year cold jade will not hurt you.” Huixue held Mu Yinfeng by the waist and helped her stand on the jade. The moment Mu Yinfeng stepped onto it, the jade suddenly released a white light. But the light seemed to sense the snowflake seal left on her wrist and vanished in an instant.
“Then Senior Sister, where are you going?” Mu Yinfeng looked at Huixue, who had turned as if to leave, and could not help asking.
“Do not worry. I am not leaving.” Huixue fished a fan out of the spring water, looking helpless. “When you dragged me down earlier, everything on me fell into the cold spring. If I do not look for them, will you?”
Mu Yinfeng felt embarrassed and said no more. She sat cross-legged on the cold jade and quietly adjusted her breath.
Her main injuries were still mental. The mental body she had made had been burned by the fire rain, and her true sea of consciousness had also been badly burned along with it. Fortunately, the cold air released by the cold jade could soothe those burns. Otherwise, if she were healing outside, she would need at least a week to recover fully.
The effect of the ten-thousand-year cold jade was truly extraordinary. In less than one shichen, Mu Yinfeng felt the burns in her sea of consciousness gradually repair themselves. Before the sun had even set, the burns in her sea of consciousness had already vanished completely.
She slowly opened her eyes and saw Huixue standing nearby. Worry filled Huixue’s usually calm face.
“Yinfeng, the Changyin Pearl is gone.”