Broken Bonds

93

Chapter 93

Xiangguo Temple was full of chants and incenses.

Lin Yanyan went to the temple to finish the incense and gave silver teals, the old head monk invited her to rest in the guest room. 

After drinking a cup of tea, Lin Yanyan made an excuse to take a rest, retired the maid, put on a veil covering her face, and sneaked out from the back door by herself. Behind Xiangguo Temple was a peach blossom forest planted on the hillside—quiet and remote—and few people come here except monks in the daytime. But around this time was lunchtime for the monks, and the woods were even more silent.

Lin Yanyan stood under a peach tree and said, “Come out!”

Grumbling, strange wheels sounded and a black-clothed masked man pushed a man in a wooden wheelchair out.

“Lady Lin, long time no see. Did you come here unharmed?” The man in the wheelchair smiled. 

Lin Yanyan didn’t look back and said, “In Putuo Temple that day, what you said was serious?”

The man answered, “Naturally it is true. What are the lady’s thoughts?”

Lin Yanyan was silent for a moment, “I can cooperate with you, but you have to do one thing for me!”

“What is the matter?”

Lin Yanyan said her condition. The two sides reached an agreement and left each other. Only the peach blossom trees in the forest were the only ones who heard this conspiracy.

***

Yan Feili woke up dazedly in the afternoon and heard a baby’s smile in the yard: the cry, giggling, fragile, and moving. He felt a little strange, got up, walked out of the yard, and saw Qiu Yeyuan holding a one or two-year-old girl in his arms, squatting in the flower garden to tease her.

“Mother! Mother! Flower!” The girl yelled, pulling Qiu Yeyuan’s skirt. 

We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.

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“What?” Yan Feili looked at him in astonishment and then at the child.

“No… that. That… She is the child of the Moye. She, she…” Qiu Yeyuan stammered at a loss as to how to explain it, but Yan Feili understood.

“So that’s the case.” Yan Feili smiled.

But the strange thing was why did this girl call him ‘mother’? Generally speaking, it should be ‘daddy’. If he was ‘mother’, then who was ‘father’? All these questions were kept in Yan Feili’s mind without asking, he just stared at them with a smile. 

Qiu Yeyuan’s face flushed when he saw Yan Feili smile. He always felt that he should explain something, but he didn’t know how to say it.

The girl in his arms screamed, “Daddy! Daddy!”

Yan Feili turned his head to look and was surprised to see Beitang Ao and Ximen Yue walk into the inner garden together.

“Sect Master Ximen.”