Why Aren’t You Cultivating Immortality? (GL) Chapter 61

The air pressure was very low. A tense, drawn-sword feeling filled the area. As an outsider, An Huaigu keenly sensed something was wrong. Seeing the panic on Bai Moqing’s face, An Huaigu felt she had to say something to ease the mood and help Bai Moqing out.
“Little…” Before she could say Bai, Sikou Yan stepped forward and grabbed Bai Moqing’s wrist. Smiling, she looked at Xiao Xing. “President Xiao, are you not going to let me listen to the matter of you being the third party between Moqing and me?”
Th… third party?
An Huaigu’s eyes widened in shock. Her gaze drifted toward Xiao Xing. President Xiao was the third party?
She suddenly remembered the intimate photos of Sikou Yan and Bai Moqing on Weibo. If she did not think about them, it was fine. The moment she did, messy thoughts poured into her mind like a rushing river. An Huaigu backed toward the door and held onto it. She should not have run around. Now that she knew such a huge thing, would she not suffocate from holding it in?
Xiao Xing was so angry she laughed. She turned back and looked at Sikou Yan. “Third party?” Her gaze swept over Sikou Yan’s hand gripping Bai Moqing. “What kind of play does Best Actress Yan want to act out? Twist black and white, then rise from mistress to main partner?” In a flash, she pulled Bai Moqing into her arms.
There were only a few steps from the stairs to Bai Moqing. An Huaigu saw Xiao Xing vanish from where she stood and appear beside Bai Moqing. Her heart felt as if it had been struck by a hammer. One breath stuck in her throat, unable to rise or fall. “President… President Xiao…”
Just now, President Xiao had not taken even one step, right?
Had An Huaigu seen wrong?
If An Huaigu had not spoken, Xiao Xing would have almost forgotten she was here. Xiao Xing turned to look at An Huaigu. A thread of divine sense passed through An Huaigu’s eyes and entered her mind. An Huaigu’s head grew heavy, and her body slid down like mud. She fainted beside the door.
At this moment, no one had the mood to worry whether An Huaigu would catch cold lying on the floor.
Warmth came from behind. Bai Moqing turned her head. Her delicate brows and eyes were full of anger. A cold smile curved Xiao Xing’s lips. “Sikou Yan, is your target me, or Xiao Mo?”
Xiao Xing’s gaze was as sharp as a bloodthirsty sword. Under the pressure of Xiao Xing’s divine thought, Sikou Yan could not move. Sweat rolled down her forehead. Her legs went weak, and with a thud, she knelt before Xiao Xing.
Sikou Yan’s reaction surprised Bai Moqing. Every sign before this had shown that Sikou Yan’s cultivation was no lower than Xiao Xing’s. How could Xiao Xing control her so easily now?
Bai Moqing glanced at Xiao Xing in confusion. At that moment, Xiao Xing let go of her.
Bai Moqing was Xiao Xing’s only weak spot. No one was allowed to touch her. Yet Sikou Yan had moved against that weak spot again and again, testing Xiao Xing’s bottom line over and over. Xiao Xing released Bai Moqing, bent, and grabbed Sikou Yan. With an icy expression, she warned, “You can approach me, but you absolutely cannot approach her.”
“Cannot approach her? Are you afraid I’ll let her know what you did before?” Sikou Yan smiled proudly. Even kneeling, she still put on a superior air.
Bai Moqing could not stand seeing Sikou Yan act arrogant and reckless in front of Xiao Xing. She sighed. “Sikou Yan, no matter what A-Xing once did to me, I will not separate from her. Even if everything you said is true, I will not hate her.”
She sounded like a foolishly loyal bottom who would gladly suffer no matter how awful the top was. But since meeting Xiao Xing, Xiao Xing had never done anything wrong to her. Xiao Xing was not awful, and Bai Moqing was not foolish.
The past Sikou Yan spoke of was too distant and impossible to prove. It could not become a reason for Bai Moqing to leave Xiao Xing.
If one day Bai Moqing truly had to leave Xiao Xing, it would only be because she had died.
Holding Xiao Xing’s hand, Bai Moqing’s gaze was firm and unmoving. “I only believe her.”
Sikou Yan, who just now had looked proud and certain of victory, suddenly deflated after hearing Bai Moqing’s words. A deep, sorrowful aura spread from her body. Sikou Yan smiled bitterly and shook her head. Her awareness blurred and scattered, and she collapsed in front of them.
The sudden fainting caught Bai Moqing off guard. “Sikou Yan…” Bai Moqing instinctively reached out to support her, then remembered Xiao Xing and drew her hand back. She turned to ask Xiao Xing, “A-Xing, why did she faint?”
“Huaigu!”
Before Xiao Xing could answer, Tang Yue’s voice suddenly came from the corridor. It was hoarse with panic and cracked from urgency. Then came the sound of high heels striking the floor at a run.
Tang Yue had originally been in the office with Zheng Yanfei. Zheng Yanfei had asked her to come out and see where President Xiao had gone. She had not expected to walk out of the office and see An Huaigu lying at the entrance to the emergency stairwell.
Tang Yue’s shout brought over Zheng Yanfei and Wen Rushui. Secretary Wang, busy in the office, also heard it and came out.
Before Tang Yue arrived, Xiao Xing took Sikou Yan to the rest room.
“Huaigu? Huaigu?” Tang Yue’s face was full of worry. She lifted An Huaigu and let her lean in her arms, then reached for her phone. Her phone was not on her. Tang Yue was so anxious her eyes reddened.
Bai Moqing walked to them, crouched down, and said, “Assistant Tang, Sister An is fine. She will wake up soon.” As she spoke, she lifted An Huaigu out of Tang Yue’s arms in a bridal carry.
Every floor of the company had a rest room, and this one was not far from the emergency stairwell. Bai Moqing carried An Huaigu into the rest room. Seeing Xiao Xing and Sikou Yan also there, she turned to Tang Yue. “Assistant Tang, close the door. Don’t let anyone else come in.”
As soon as she finished speaking, An Huaigu gave a soft sound in her arms and slowly woke.
Her head ached faintly, as if someone had struck her from behind with a dull stick. Her mind was hazy. An Huaigu held her temple and slowly opened her eyes. Seeing Bai Moqing, she called in confusion, “Little Bai?”
Her gaze moved from Bai Moqing’s face to her chest, then to her own body. Finding herself in Bai Moqing’s arms, An Huaigu blinked strangely. “Why am I in your arms?”
There was a shadow beside them. She turned and saw Tang Yue standing there, lips pressed into a line, eyes red and full of tears.
“What happened to me?” An Huaigu rubbed her head, and her awareness slowly returned.
Bai Moqing carefully placed her on the sofa recliner and glanced aside without speaking.
A row of gray fabric sofa recliners stood in the rest room. On the one beside An Huaigu lay Sikou Yan, eyes closed, tears sliding from the corners of her eyes in thin lines.
Tang Yue said, “You fainted at the stairwell.”
“Fainted?” An Huaigu remembered that she had run up to the rooftop to look for Bai Moqing. After circling the roof and failing to find her, she had come down.
When she walked out of the stairwell and was about to return to the office, she saw Xiao Xing walking toward the emergency stairwell. The emergency stairs were used during fires and earthquakes, and very few people walked there. Guessing Xiao Xing had gone there to look for Bai Moqing, An Huaigu had hurried after her. Then…
Then she woke up in Bai Moqing’s arms.
She had no memory at all of how she fainted.
Seeing An Huaigu still dazed after waking, Tang Yue’s worry did not lessen. Instead, it grew. She held An Huaigu’s hand and said, “Huaigu, I’ll go with you to the hospital for a checkup. Let’s see if something is wrong with your body.”
Xiao Xing stood nearby. She immediately agreed to Tang Yue taking An Huaigu to the hospital. After they left, Xiao Xing turned toward Sikou Yan. Sikou Yan had not woken since fainting. Xiao Xing used divine sense to inspect her body, but saw nothing.
Bai Moqing walked to Sikou Yan’s side. Seeing the tears at the corners of Sikou Yan’s eyes and remembering her bitter smile, Bai Moqing felt an inexplicable ache for her.
A knock sounded at the door. After two knocks, Zheng Yanfei pushed it open. “President Xiao.”
Seeing Sikou Yan lying on the sofa recliner, Zheng Yanfei did not show much surprise. She took the initiative to explain. “Yanyan said she wanted to see someone very important and begged me to bring her here. At first, I thought the person she wanted to see was President Xiao. Only later did I learn that the person she wanted to see was named Bai Moqing…”
Learning from someone else how much Sikou Yan missed Bai Moqing felt even more uncomfortable than hearing Sikou Yan say it herself. Pressing down the anger rising in her heart, Xiao Xing said, “Take her away. As for cooperation with Yangjing, it ends here.”
Ends here meant there would be no future chance to work together. Zheng Yanfei had heard of Xiao Xing’s way of doing things. Her methods were decisive. Her word was final. Once she said something, she would not take it back.
“It does not matter if we do not cooperate, but this person…” Remembering Sikou Yan’s instructions, Zheng Yanfei hardened her heart and said, “Forgive me, but I cannot take her away.” After saying that, she left without looking back, not worried in the slightest that something might happen to Sikou Yan if she left her here.
The room fell quiet. Xiao Xing looked thoughtfully at Sikou Yan and asked Bai Moqing, “If I made her disappear from this world, would you hate me?”
Would she hate Xiao Xing? Bai Moqing thought about it and found that she truly would not. Even if Xiao Xing made Bai Moqing herself disappear from the world, she would love her as always.
Bai Moqing shook her head. “No.” She held Xiao Xing’s hand and lightly squeezed it, her eyes smiling. “No matter what you do, I like you.”
“Where did you learn sweet talk like that? The little cat demon?” The anger in Xiao Xing’s heart scattered, and she smiled along with her. She stroked Bai Moqing’s cheek. “I will not make Sikou Yan disappear. But you have to tell me where the two of you went earlier and what you did.”
“I didn’t know why she had come here, so I took her to the barrier side…”
After all those tests and provocations, this was the result she got. Sikou Yan could not accept it. She wanted Bai Moqing to remember the past, but she could not let her remember everything. It was far too difficult.
Sighing quietly in her heart, Sikou Yan opened her eyes and got off the recliner. Her movement made the two look over. Meeting Bai Moqing’s gaze, Sikou Yan said, “You will remember.”
She turned her head and glanced at Xiao Xing. “This is only the beginning.”
Watching Sikou Yan vanish before them, Bai Moqing thought over what Sikou Yan had just said and asked in confusion, “A-Xing, what does she mean?”
Xiao Xing gave an unconcerned light laugh. “She is formally declaring war on me.”