Chapter 623 - 192: The Missing Senior Brother
"I said breaking your leg is saving your life!" Chu Keqing coldly shook her head, "If you don’t break it, you’ll die! My conscience is clear."
After speaking, Chu Keqing had someone take Luo Qing away to treat his injuries.
Then she took out her phone and sent Chen Yan a photo of Luo Qing’s broken leg.
After thinking for a moment, Chu Keqing sent a message: "Reporting to the senior, I have severely punished Luo Qing, expelled him from the Cloud Sect, and informed the channels. He will no longer use my name to cheat."
"As for Lu Xiuting, I will personally go talk to her, explain that the talk about the conflicting life charts between mother and daughter was Luo Qing’s nonsense. I will handle this matter properly, please don’t worry, Senior Chen Yan."
After sending the message, Chu Keqing turned around, walked back, and sat down on the chair in the main room. She picked up a bowl of tea beside her, only to find it had gone cold.
She gave a bitter smile and drank the cold tea.
As for Luo Qing... let’s deal with it this way.
Chu Keqing said to herself in her heart.
Actually, it’s painful too.
She remembered when she first started cultivating as a child, she was only thirteen, and among all the senior brothers of the Cloud Sect, Luo Qing treated her the best.
Because Luo Qing himself had no cultivation talent, after years of cultivation, he still couldn’t get started. Among the many senior brothers in the sect, Luo Qing had always been very self-abased. Plus, given his identity as the Sect Leader’s own son, his inability to get started added even more pressure, making him feel he couldn’t lift his head in front of the brothers.
And just then, as a young girl just starting to cultivate, she was the same as him, not yet initiated.
At that time, it was as if Luo Qing saw the young her as the same kind — a similar kind who couldn’t get initiated into cultivation.
He used to sneak out to play in the winter, and after getting beaten by the Sect Leader when he came back, he would secretly call her outside and hand her a still-steaming plum blossom cake he took out from his pocket.
At the beginning, when the master was teaching, and she couldn’t recite the equations of the Zodiac cycles, Luo Qing would hide behind the master and make faces at her, silently mouthing the next formula cues...
In those initial days, Chu Keqing was very grateful to this "Senior Brother Qing," who was several years older than herself, treating her as though she was his own sister.
Hmm... when did this attitude start to change?
It was after I got started in cultivation!
When that day came, having sensed the existence of Primordial Qi and officially entered cultivation...
Chu Keqing vividly remembered that day, sitting and meditating, suddenly her spiritual sense opened, she felt the presence of the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi. Excitedly, she shared this breakthrough with her master.
The master was overjoyed, and many senior brothers also offered congratulations.
Only Luo Qing, stood aside then, stunned, looking at her from afar, his face was ashen.
The way he looked at her then, shocked, angry, and with a weird sense of grievance, as if she had betrayed him or wronged him somehow.
She tried speaking with him many times, to get close, but Luo Qing coldly said to her: He was a useless person without cultivation and unworthy of being friends with cultivators!
Later, as she continued to cultivate, progressing rapidly, demonstrating astounding talent, surpassing one senior brother after another...
Luo Qing’s attitude towards her became stranger and stranger.
At first, he distanced himself, and his attitude grew colder and colder each day.
Then, years later, as she gradually became a leader within the sect, he started to get close to her again—yet this closeness felt like hypocritical flattery.
Luo Qing’s attitude became more deferential, even groveling.
But...
The one who got beaten by the master back then, face bruised, yet secretly pulled her aside and said indifferent-sounding words: "Don’t worry, I’m thick-skinned. My father is used to beating me ten times, a hundred times. Here, little sister, don’t be scared, have a plum blossom cake. I saw someone selling it on my way here, thought you liked it..."
Yes, the senior brother who told her "Don’t be scared, have a plum blossom cake," had long disappeared without a trace.
Chu Keqing drank down the cold tea, feeling a heat in her eyes she couldn’t stop.
"Luo Qing, oh, Luo Qing, don’t blame me, I’m truly saving your life!"
Others may not understand Chen Yan, but how could Chu Keqing not? Chen Yan’s methods, Chen Yan’s temper...
How dare he offend Chen Yan several times, and now, even provoke Lu Sisi!
Chu Keqing deeply understood the change in Chen Yan now!
In the past two or three months, every time Chu Keqing met Chen Yan, she clearly felt the massive increase in Evil Qi around him! This senior’s murderous intent was growing.
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Chen Yan, at home, received the photos and WeChat messages sent by Chu Keqing.
After glancing, he understood her intentions.
She used this method to save Luo Qing.
She took the initiative to break Luo Qing’s leg and took on the aftermath issues with Lu Xiuting herself, so Chen Yan, out of consideration for her, decided not to trouble Luo Qing further.
After thinking, Chen Yan replied with the word "Good," planning to leave the matter alone.
But after he sent the "Good," a few minutes later, Chu Keqing called directly with a voice call.
Chen Yan was surprised but pressed to connect.