Chapter 230.1: Leaving Cloud City
Baili Yu cursed silently when Tang Doudou looked towards him with suspicion. Why did he blurt that out? This was something Jun Xin had discovered in the past when he was following Tang Doudou in secret. Afterward, Jun Xin came and complained to him about this and he had noted it down.
Initially, he had just wanted to explain why the room was arranged like that, yet he ended up bringing up Jun Xin.
Baili Yu took advantage of the fact that Tang Doudou still hadn’t quite pinpointed the problem and hurriedly changed the topic to cover up this matter. “You haven’t eaten anything for the whole day, so you must be hungry right? I’ll instruct them to bring some food for you right away. After eating you should have a good rest. Don’t overthink things.”
After saying that, he walked out, completely unperturbed. It was just, on his way out he stumbled at the doorstep and his figure went askew for a moment.
“What was that?” Tang Doudou was befuddled. She had no idea why Baili Yu was so nervous.
However, she turned to look at the familiar arrangement in the room and was almost moved to tears. It has really been a very very long time since she had been able to get a good night’s sleep!
Tang Doudou tiptoed to the door and stuck her head out to check if there was anyone around before gently closing the door.
Then she rushed towards the bed and jumped on before rolling back and forth happily. Wah, this was really wonderful! This quilt was actually the one from Plum Garden!
This was truly too touching!
Tang Doudou rolled back and forth for quite a while. Then she seemed to hear faint shouting from outside.
That sounded like Nangong Yan’s voice.
“Is she making a ruckus to get Baili Yu’s attention?” When Tang Doudou heard that Nangong Yan’s voice was very agitated, she got off the bed and went to the door.
The distance between the rooms wasn’t very far apart. Based on where the sound came from, Nangong Yan was probably making a scene in front of Baili Yu’s room.
“Senior Brother, you can’t treat me like this! I’m Yan er ah!” A mix of sobbing and knocking sounds could be heard. It seemed that Nangong Yan had been angered terribly this time. Those mournful wails truly caused listeners to shed tears out of sympathetic heartache.“Yan er will behave from now on, so please open the door and let Yan er in!”
What was it that couldn’t be said in the doorway for her to insist on going into the person’s room to talk?
Tang Doudou rolled her eyes and then opened the door slightly. She wanted to see what exactly Nangong Yan was planning.
However, as soon as she looked over there, she suddenly felt that something was off. She hurriedly turned her head towards the side and saw a figure standing outside the room next to hers. If that wasn’t Baili Yu, then who else could it be?
What was he doing here?
She suddenly recalled what he said earlier, that his room was just next door…
Afterward, Tang Doudou looked again at the door that Nangong Yan was desperately pounding on and silently shedded a few bitter tears for her. She could have fallen in love with anyone, yet she just had to fall in love with a two-faced, cold, and detached man like Baili Yu.
Of course, those three attributes didn’t exist in front of her (TDD).
It was always so. The arrogance and coldness of a male idol was different depending on the person he was dealing with. He could be warm and caring too, but just not towards you, that’s all.
Tang Doudou sighed and then closed the door.
It wasn’t that she didn’t want to watch further, but rather that there wasn’t anything interesting to look at. Baili Yu already went into his room. Thus, even if Nangong Yan knocked down the door over there, she wouldn’t be able to get any responses from him.
After quite a while – Tang Doudou wasn’t sure whether Nangong Yan had become tired from knocking or if she had fainted from anger – but the noise that she was making earlier gradually faded.
A maid brought some food over for Tang Doudou. After Tang Doudou finished eating, she went to bed.
In fact, today wasn’t very tiring. It was just that getting poisoned wore her out mentally and made her feel very tired.
At that time, there had been a feeling of something wanting to burst out. What exactly was that?
Why would she have that sort of strange sensation?
What exactly did Yuner do to her? Why did that blood suddenly burst out like that?
She rubbed the spot where the blood had appeared from. It didn’t hurt, so she pulled her clothes down to have a closer look. She saw that there weren’t any scars on her shoulder; the only thing there was the fiery red fox-shaped birthmark.
What exactly was going on?
Tang Doudou’s head started to feel heavier the more she thought about it. Her eyelids started drooping and slowly closed completely. A while later, the sound of her even breathing could be heard.
Outside, the sky was gradually darkening. A black figure appeared outside her window. There was a soft creak, then Jun Xin jumped into her room.
He walked quietly towards the sleeping Tang Doudou.
He saw that she wasn’t covered by the quilt and was sleeping soundly sprawled out on the bed just like that, so he picked up the quilt from the side and covered her with it, pulling it up to her waist.
A trace of a smile appeared on his face and he was about to reach out and touch her little sleeping face when his facial expression suddenly changed. He turned around abruptly to look toward the doorway.
Jun Xin didn’t know how long Baili Yu had been there but he was leaning against the doorway with an unreadable smile.
Jun Xin withdrew his hand embarrassedly. “I was just helping to put the quilt over her.”
“The weather is so hot now, she’ll sweat if you cover her with the quilt,” said Baili Yu, smiling.
“I forgot.”
“Just don’t forget in the future.”
Jun Xin was quite shocked by these words. His eyes flickered as he looked at Baili Yu, but in the end he wasn’t able to discern whether Baili Yu’s words were genuine or not. He swept his gaze over the sleeping Tang Doudou and said, “This will be the last time.”
Even if this wasn’t, there wouldn’t be many more chances in the future, because Tang Doudou and Baili Yu were getting married soon. From then on, Baili Yu would be there to help cover her with the quilt.
He would no longer be able to sneak over in the middle of the night to see her and end up being captivated until dawn again.
Baili Yu didn’t say a word. It was unknown if he believed Jun Xin’s words. Jun Xin didn’t speak either. This continued until the small hours, then the two of them silently returned to their respective rooms to rest.
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Credits: Translated by Chiyomira, TLCed + Edited by Chiyomira
Chapter 230.2: Leaving Cloud City
Tang Doudou got up early the next morning and heard from the maid waiting on her that Nangong Yan had already left.
She suddenly felt that today was an unbelievably beautiful new day, even the air she breathed was clear and fresh!
“Where’s your Master?”
“He hasn’t woken up yet. If Lady Doudou has something to say, then you can just tell me.” The maid’s name was Qing Yu and her personality was quite cheerful.
“It’s nothing, I’m just casually asking.”
Baili Yu seemed to be needing more and more sleep recently. Sometime soon, she had to find Cang Baicao and ask him exactly how she was supposed to cure that Hoarfrost Poison.
“Lady Doudou, are you still planning to have your breakfast inside the room?” asked Qing Yu after Tang Doudou finished washing up.
“I’ll just eat inside the room.” Tang Doudou was puzzled by Qing Yu’s question. There were no tables in the inn’s hall. If she didn’t eat inside her room, then could it be that she should go outside and crouch at the doorway to eat?
Just as she was thinking this, someone pushed open the door roughly.
Before she could complain out loud about the rude and uneducated person, Jun Xin’s annoying voice appeared. “Hey, stinkin’ woman, let’s go downstairs and have breakfast together!”
“There are no tables downstairs, are you inviting me to crouch with you at the doorway and eat?” Tang Doudou sat in front of the dressing mirror. Qing Yu helped pull her hair into a small bun and secured it with a light blue jade hairpin.
“Lady Doudou, please have a look. Do you like it like this?”
Jun Xin gave a ‘tch’ and said, “No matter how you do it the result would be the same: ugly.”
“You came here so early in the morning just to mock me?”
“Tch. How could this young master have that much free time? I’m here to tell you that Cloud City has already made an announcement asking the participants of the matchmaking competition to leave immediately. The time limit is three days. If they don’t leave by then, they can only remain in Cloud City forever and might never be able to exit Cloud City again.” Since Tang Doudou was going to take a long time to get ready, Jun Xin invited himself inside and sat down at the side of the table not too far away from her.
Although she already knew that there would be such a day, but wasn’t this way too soon?
Moreover, they haven’t found the people that instigated those assassins. How would they be able to continue investigating if they allowed the people involved to leave?
“Su Yi has returned?” Something like making an announcement wasn’t something that Murong Yu and the rest could decide on their own, because the announcement would only be valid after being stamped with Su Yi’s seal.
Jun Xin shrugged. “How would I know anything regarding the great City Lord Su’s matters?”
“Come on, spit it out!” He was always running around, so if he didn’t know that then no one else would know.
“I really don’t know.” Jun Xin yawned, then revealed a mischievous smile. “Let’s stop talking about these irritating matters. I don’t even know when we’ll be able to meet again after I leave this time, so do me a favor and eat breakfast with me, alright?”
Tang Doudou was slightly depressed now. “Just go eat by yourself.”
Due to what Jun Xin had just said, she didn’t have much of an appetite anymore.
“No, I can only eat more when I’m looking at you.” Seeing that she had no intention to go, Jun Xin simply had Qing Yu move aside, casually picked up a few flower hairpins, inserted them into her hair, then dragged her towards the door.
Da fudge! What kind of reasoning was that?
Where could she find a second person as weird as him? She had to go even if she didn’t feel like eating. When she thought to this point, she stood up and said with an utterly helpless tone, “Stop dragging, I can walk by myself.”
This could be considered as Tang Doudou agreeing so Jun Xin turned around and said, “Let’s go.”
Tang Doudou gave Qing Yu some instructions, then went downstairs with him.
She didn’t expect that the sun was already high in the sky outside; it looked as if it was almost noon. Jun Xin, this stinkin’ brat, clearly came to find her to eat lunch, what breakfast ah!
Seeing that the inn had resumed its business downstairs, she couldn’t help but ask, “Are you guys leaving too?”
“If we don’t leave then could it be that we’re supposed to stay here and accompany you forever?”
“Oh…” That was right. The announcement stated that those who didn’t leave within three days would remain in Cloud City forever.
“Hey, if you guys leave, won’t I die from boredom?” Tang Doudou sighed, seeming quite depressed. She also wanted to leave ah.
There was nothing here at Cloud City that she was reluctant to part with, except perhaps a little in regards to Su Yi. Yet, Su Yi wanted to let her become some City Lord? Just the thought of it was laughable.
But would Xiao Bai leave this time?
There was no one in charge of the Alliance Head Residence yet. Could it be that she had to appoint someone else as the Alliance Head as well once she became City Lord?
In fact, she was completely overthinking things. Su Yi had sent someone to pick her up once she finished eating.
After she got back, Su Yi just said three sentences to her.
“You should just leave together with Baili Yu.”
“Be a good Alliance Head.”
“If there’s nothing serious, then don’t come back.”
Tang Doudou instantly went Sparta. Don’t tell her that this trip to Cloud City was all in vain? Not a fart had changed and he was already chasing her out again?
Hadn’t they already agreed that she would inherit the position as the City Lord?
Didn’t he promise that he would help her find a fiancé?
And now he was kicking her back to act as a lousy martial arts Alliance Head? She felt unbearable distress. If she didn’t have to inherit the City Lord’s position anymore, then letting her play around leisurely for a while was also not bad ah!
If she was the martial arts Alliance Head, she had to play cat and mouse again with that annoying Elder Yu. She couldn’t tell if Su Yi wanted to train her or what. And that Elder Yu had been bouncing around for so long, yet Su Yi didn’t lend a hand to deal with him.
Without waiting for her to ask more, Su Yi hurriedly ran away again. It seemed that something had happened, so all of this was being postponed.
When she returned to the inn, Baili Yu and the rest had already finished packing their belongings. By the look of things, they wouldn’t need the three days to get ready and leave.
Jun Xin was sitting on top of the roof as always. She couldn’t understand why he was so fond of rooftops. When Jun Xin saw Tang Doudou return, he revealed a shocked expression that was soon replaced by pleasant surprise as he jumped down. “You, did Su Yi let you come to send us off or let you leave together with us?”
After saying that, he looked nervously at Tang Doudou.
“Why are you being like this?” Tang Doudou rubbed her chin. She felt like Jun Xin was becoming weirder and weirder ah.
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Credits: Translated by Yuna, TLCed + Edited by Chiyomira
Chapter 230.1: Leaving Cloud City
Baili Yu cursed silently when Tang Doudou looked towards him with suspicion. Why did he blurt that out? This was something Jun Xin had discovered in the past when he was following Tang Doudou in secret. Afterward, Jun Xin came and complained to him about this and he had noted it down.
Initially, he had just wanted to explain why the room was arranged like that, yet he ended up bringing up Jun Xin.
Baili Yu took advantage of the fact that Tang Doudou still hadn’t quite pinpointed the problem and hurriedly changed the topic to cover up this matter. “You haven’t eaten anything for the whole day, so you must be hungry right? I’ll instruct them to bring some food for you right away. After eating you should have a good rest. Don’t overthink things.”
After saying that, he walked out, completely unperturbed. It was just, on his way out he stumbled at the doorstep and his figure went askew for a moment.
“What was that?” Tang Doudou was befuddled. She had no idea why Baili Yu was so nervous.
However, she turned to look at the familiar arrangement in the room and was almost moved to tears. It has really been a very very long time since she had been able to get a good night’s sleep!
Tang Doudou tiptoed to the door and stuck her head out to check if there was anyone around before gently closing the door.
Then she rushed towards the bed and jumped on before rolling back and forth happily. Wah, this was really wonderful! This quilt was actually the one from Plum Garden!
This was truly too touching!
Tang Doudou rolled back and forth for quite a while. Then she seemed to hear faint shouting from outside.
That sounded like Nangong Yan’s voice.
“Is she making a ruckus to get Baili Yu’s attention?” When Tang Doudou heard that Nangong Yan’s voice was very agitated, she got off the bed and went to the door.
The distance between the rooms wasn’t very far apart. Based on where the sound came from, Nangong Yan was probably making a scene in front of Baili Yu’s room.
“Senior Brother, you can’t treat me like this! I’m Yan er ah!” A mix of sobbing and knocking sounds could be heard. It seemed that Nangong Yan had been angered terribly this time. Those mournful wails truly caused listeners to shed tears out of sympathetic heartache.“Yan er will behave from now on, so please open the door and let Yan er in!”
What was it that couldn’t be said in the doorway for her to insist on going into the person’s room to talk?
Tang Doudou rolled her eyes and then opened the door slightly. She wanted to see what exactly Nangong Yan was planning.
However, as soon as she looked over there, she suddenly felt that something was off. She hurriedly turned her head towards the side and saw a figure standing outside the room next to hers. If that wasn’t Baili Yu, then who else could it be?
What was he doing here?
She suddenly recalled what he said earlier, that his room was just next door…
Afterward, Tang Doudou looked again at the door that Nangong Yan was desperately pounding on and silently shedded a few bitter tears for her. She could have fallen in love with anyone, yet she just had to fall in love with a two-faced, cold, and detached man like Baili Yu.
Of course, those three attributes didn’t exist in front of her (TDD).
It was always so. The arrogance and coldness of a male idol was different depending on the person he was dealing with. He could be warm and caring too, but just not towards you, that’s all.
Tang Doudou sighed and then closed the door.
It wasn’t that she didn’t want to watch further, but rather that there wasn’t anything interesting to look at. Baili Yu already went into his room. Thus, even if Nangong Yan knocked down the door over there, she wouldn’t be able to get any responses from him.
After quite a while – Tang Doudou wasn’t sure whether Nangong Yan had become tired from knocking or if she had fainted from anger – but the noise that she was making earlier gradually faded.
A maid brought some food over for Tang Doudou. After Tang Doudou finished eating, she went to bed.
In fact, today wasn’t very tiring. It was just that getting poisoned wore her out mentally and made her feel very tired.
At that time, there had been a feeling of something wanting to burst out. What exactly was that?
Why would she have that sort of strange sensation?
What exactly did Yuner do to her? Why did that blood suddenly burst out like that?
She rubbed the spot where the blood had appeared from. It didn’t hurt, so she pulled her clothes down to have a closer look. She saw that there weren’t any scars on her shoulder; the only thing there was the fiery red fox-shaped birthmark.
What exactly was going on?
Tang Doudou’s head started to feel heavier the more she thought about it. Her eyelids started drooping and slowly closed completely. A while later, the sound of her even breathing could be heard.
Outside, the sky was gradually darkening. A black figure appeared outside her window. There was a soft creak, then Jun Xin jumped into her room.
He walked quietly towards the sleeping Tang Doudou.
He saw that she wasn’t covered by the quilt and was sleeping soundly sprawled out on the bed just like that, so he picked up the quilt from the side and covered her with it, pulling it up to her waist.
A trace of a smile appeared on his face and he was about to reach out and touch her little sleeping face when his facial expression suddenly changed. He turned around abruptly to look toward the doorway.
Jun Xin didn’t know how long Baili Yu had been there but he was leaning against the doorway with an unreadable smile.
Jun Xin withdrew his hand embarrassedly. “I was just helping to put the quilt over her.”
“The weather is so hot now, she’ll sweat if you cover her with the quilt,” said Baili Yu, smiling.
“I forgot.”
“Just don’t forget in the future.”
Jun Xin was quite shocked by these words. His eyes flickered as he looked at Baili Yu, but in the end he wasn’t able to discern whether Baili Yu’s words were genuine or not. He swept his gaze over the sleeping Tang Doudou and said, “This will be the last time.”
Even if this wasn’t, there wouldn’t be many more chances in the future, because Tang Doudou and Baili Yu were getting married soon. From then on, Baili Yu would be there to help cover her with the quilt.
He would no longer be able to sneak over in the middle of the night to see her and end up being captivated until dawn again.
Baili Yu didn’t say a word. It was unknown if he believed Jun Xin’s words. Jun Xin didn’t speak either. This continued until the small hours, then the two of them silently returned to their respective rooms to rest.
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Credits: Translated by Chiyomira, TLCed + Edited by Chiyomira
Chapter 230.2: Leaving Cloud City
Tang Doudou got up early the next morning and heard from the maid waiting on her that Nangong Yan had already left.
She suddenly felt that today was an unbelievably beautiful new day, even the air she breathed was clear and fresh!
“Where’s your Master?”
“He hasn’t woken up yet. If Lady Doudou has something to say, then you can just tell me.” The maid’s name was Qing Yu and her personality was quite cheerful.
“It’s nothing, I’m just casually asking.”
Baili Yu seemed to be needing more and more sleep recently. Sometime soon, she had to find Cang Baicao and ask him exactly how she was supposed to cure that Hoarfrost Poison.
“Lady Doudou, are you still planning to have your breakfast inside the room?” asked Qing Yu after Tang Doudou finished washing up.
“I’ll just eat inside the room.” Tang Doudou was puzzled by Qing Yu’s question. There were no tables in the inn’s hall. If she didn’t eat inside her room, then could it be that she should go outside and crouch at the doorway to eat?
Just as she was thinking this, someone pushed open the door roughly.
Before she could complain out loud about the rude and uneducated person, Jun Xin’s annoying voice appeared. “Hey, stinkin’ woman, let’s go downstairs and have breakfast together!”
“There are no tables downstairs, are you inviting me to crouch with you at the doorway and eat?” Tang Doudou sat in front of the dressing mirror. Qing Yu helped pull her hair into a small bun and secured it with a light blue jade hairpin.
“Lady Doudou, please have a look. Do you like it like this?”
Jun Xin gave a ‘tch’ and said, “No matter how you do it the result would be the same: ugly.”
“You came here so early in the morning just to mock me?”
“Tch. How could this young master have that much free time? I’m here to tell you that Cloud City has already made an announcement asking the participants of the matchmaking competition to leave immediately. The time limit is three days. If they don’t leave by then, they can only remain in Cloud City forever and might never be able to exit Cloud City again.” Since Tang Doudou was going to take a long time to get ready, Jun Xin invited himself inside and sat down at the side of the table not too far away from her.
Although she already knew that there would be such a day, but wasn’t this way too soon?
Moreover, they haven’t found the people that instigated those assassins. How would they be able to continue investigating if they allowed the people involved to leave?
“Su Yi has returned?” Something like making an announcement wasn’t something that Murong Yu and the rest could decide on their own, because the announcement would only be valid after being stamped with Su Yi’s seal.
Jun Xin shrugged. “How would I know anything regarding the great City Lord Su’s matters?”
“Come on, spit it out!” He was always running around, so if he didn’t know that then no one else would know.
“I really don’t know.” Jun Xin yawned, then revealed a mischievous smile. “Let’s stop talking about these irritating matters. I don’t even know when we’ll be able to meet again after I leave this time, so do me a favor and eat breakfast with me, alright?”
Tang Doudou was slightly depressed now. “Just go eat by yourself.”
Due to what Jun Xin had just said, she didn’t have much of an appetite anymore.
“No, I can only eat more when I’m looking at you.” Seeing that she had no intention to go, Jun Xin simply had Qing Yu move aside, casually picked up a few flower hairpins, inserted them into her hair, then dragged her towards the door.
Da fudge! What kind of reasoning was that?
Where could she find a second person as weird as him? She had to go even if she didn’t feel like eating. When she thought to this point, she stood up and said with an utterly helpless tone, “Stop dragging, I can walk by myself.”
This could be considered as Tang Doudou agreeing so Jun Xin turned around and said, “Let’s go.”
Tang Doudou gave Qing Yu some instructions, then went downstairs with him.
She didn’t expect that the sun was already high in the sky outside; it looked as if it was almost noon. Jun Xin, this stinkin’ brat, clearly came to find her to eat lunch, what breakfast ah!
Seeing that the inn had resumed its business downstairs, she couldn’t help but ask, “Are you guys leaving too?”
“If we don’t leave then could it be that we’re supposed to stay here and accompany you forever?”
“Oh…” That was right. The announcement stated that those who didn’t leave within three days would remain in Cloud City forever.
“Hey, if you guys leave, won’t I die from boredom?” Tang Doudou sighed, seeming quite depressed. She also wanted to leave ah.
There was nothing here at Cloud City that she was reluctant to part with, except perhaps a little in regards to Su Yi. Yet, Su Yi wanted to let her become some City Lord? Just the thought of it was laughable.
But would Xiao Bai leave this time?
There was no one in charge of the Alliance Head Residence yet. Could it be that she had to appoint someone else as the Alliance Head as well once she became City Lord?
In fact, she was completely overthinking things. Su Yi had sent someone to pick her up once she finished eating.
After she got back, Su Yi just said three sentences to her.
“You should just leave together with Baili Yu.”
“Be a good Alliance Head.”
“If there’s nothing serious, then don’t come back.”
Tang Doudou instantly went Sparta. Don’t tell her that this trip to Cloud City was all in vain? Not a fart had changed and he was already chasing her out again?
Hadn’t they already agreed that she would inherit the position as the City Lord?
Didn’t he promise that he would help her find a fiancé?
And now he was kicking her back to act as a lousy martial arts Alliance Head? She felt unbearable distress. If she didn’t have to inherit the City Lord’s position anymore, then letting her play around leisurely for a while was also not bad ah!
If she was the martial arts Alliance Head, she had to play cat and mouse again with that annoying Elder Yu. She couldn’t tell if Su Yi wanted to train her or what. And that Elder Yu had been bouncing around for so long, yet Su Yi didn’t lend a hand to deal with him.
Without waiting for her to ask more, Su Yi hurriedly ran away again. It seemed that something had happened, so all of this was being postponed.
When she returned to the inn, Baili Yu and the rest had already finished packing their belongings. By the look of things, they wouldn’t need the three days to get ready and leave.
Jun Xin was sitting on top of the roof as always. She couldn’t understand why he was so fond of rooftops. When Jun Xin saw Tang Doudou return, he revealed a shocked expression that was soon replaced by pleasant surprise as he jumped down. “You, did Su Yi let you come to send us off or let you leave together with us?”
After saying that, he looked nervously at Tang Doudou.
“Why are you being like this?” Tang Doudou rubbed her chin. She felt like Jun Xin was becoming weirder and weirder ah.
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Credits: Translated by Yuna, TLCed + Edited by Chiyomira
