Ink Blade Chapter 58 (Part 2)
Translated by Sylver
Chapter 58.2 Bai Hua (part 2)
Mo Ren said coldly, “It turns out that the person Young Master Bai Hua likes is not my palace master.” He tied his long hair again, and Chu Yan forcibly put on that majestic black gold cloak on him when he came, adding three points of majesty, but it made his face paler.
Bai Hua opened his beautiful eyes in surprise. “Your palace master?”
He immediately bent his eyebrows playfully, covered his lips and laughed. “You have reached this point now? Just a few months ago, Big Brother Chu was still kissing me.”
Mo Ren was indifferent.
Bai Hua pointed at his lips and blinked. “Hmm…Have you kissed yet? What about the matter of ‘sexual intercourse’? I heard that the secret guards of the Jiuzhong Palace are to abstain from desire, it wouldn’t be Guard Mo’s first time, right…”
Mo Ren just looked down at this person talking nonsense with cold eyes. After a few breaths, he casually hung the lantern on the fence.
Bai Hua teased him for a while, seeing that Mo Ren’s expression did not fluctuate at all, he sighed, “You are so boring.” He flicked his eyelashes and hummed softly: “Aren’t you afraid that Chu Yan will get tired of you in a few years?”
After saying that, the little beauty in white shook his head, as if regretfully saying: “Oh… no, Hua’er forgot. It seems that Guard Mo doesn’t have ‘a few years’ left.”
Mo Ren suddenly spoke. He said lightly, “Your master seems to not care about you.”
Bai Hua actually nodded happily, and said with a smile, “Yes. The master just wants to use me, which makes Hua’er very sad.”
Mo Ren said, “The palace master will torture you.”
Bai Hua: “I won’t confess anything. But… if Chu Yan comes to me for your antidote, I will say to him: Big Brother Chu, why not exchange your life for it——”
His voice twisted at the end because Mo Ren grabbed the chain on the fence, and the other end of the chain was connected to Bai Hua’s neck.
The iron chain rattled, and Bai Hua was dragged over by a huge force, his forehead hit the fence and bled, the chain around his neck tightened, making him almost out of breath.
The darkness in the distance was as deep as a tide. Mo Ren’s eyebrows were sharp under the light, like a knife, he strangled Bai Hua for a long time before letting go, letting the latter fall on the ground and cough terribly.
“Cough cough cough…”
Bai Hua choked for a while, gradually catching his breath. He held onto the fence with one hand, still looking up and laughing charmingly and dangerously.
“Guard Mo… cough cough, you are very lucky, Hua’er is very envious.” His lips opened and closed vaguely, “Chu Yan won’t get tired, he… cough cough, will treat you very well.”
“…Do you know?”
Bai Hua slowly blinked, looking at Mo Ren outside the prison fence, “People like Chu Yan… it’s okay if one doesn't move his feelings, but once someone enters his heart, he can’t see anything else.”
Mo Ren didn’t speak, Bai Hua laughed a few times by himself, and said in a daze. “I… sometimes I even feel that maybe after a few more years of grinding, I will give up on my master and really fall in love with Big Brother Chu. If there really is such a day, I might be a little bit happier.”
Mo Ren shook his head gently, his voice was low and cold, “You won’t.”
“Oh? Is it that I won’t give up on the master, or I won’t fall in love with Chu Yan, or I won’t live lightly?”
“…None of them.”
Bai Hua sighed with relief. “Then let’s assume it won’t.”
He asked again. “Guard Mo, can you tell me where I went wrong? I have been using ‘Drunken Life Dream Death’ all the time.”
Mo Ren said succinctly. “Those who do many injustices will kill themselves.” (TL: or “He who is unjust is doomed to destruction”)
“You don’t want to say it.” Bai Hua regretfully lowered his eyes and pouted, “But Guard Mo came here specially, isn’t it just to chat with Hua’er?”
“…By the way, doesn’t your palace master get jealous?” He raised his sleeve to wipe the blood flowing from his forehead to his nose, talking to himself, “After all, Hua’er is so beautiful.”
Mo Ren still ignored Bai Hua’s sweet talk, the guard thought for a while and said softly, “…The palace master and I had a very long dream.”
“In the dream, you poisoned the palace master for a full ten years. In the tenth year, I died, the dream ended, but the palace master’s dream seemed to be longer. After we woke up, we knew of your conspiracy.”
He thought this was absurd, and Bai Hua would certainly not believe it.
Unexpectedly, Bai Hua actually nodded, seemingly accepting this statement, and said, “When our Wuxian Sect was established, the teachings said: those who handle poison must not have a poisonous heart. If the followers use poison to commit crimes, the gods will punish them.” His delicate Adam’s apple rolled, and he laughed thoughtfully, “I didn’t believe in retribution for good and evil since I was a child, it turns out it’s true.”
“Then how did you die?” Bai Hua asked again, squinting his eyes, “Were you killed by me? I guess not, it must have been Chu Yan who killed you… How does it feel to be killed by your palace master?”
Mo Blade gathered his cloak and couldn't help but frown.
He didn’t like to see Bai Hua’s self-satisfied look, so he raised his eyebrows coldly and said, “In the dream, you have been instigating the palace master to kill me.”
“But the palace master never did.”
“As you wished, he made many mistakes, offended many people, and drove away many loyal subordinates.”
“He forgot many old things, his mind became abnormal, he suffered from headaches every night, and he loved you to the point of obsession.”
The guard’s voice echoed in the Punishment Hall, like a flowing cold stream. He suddenly looked up and emphasized word by word. “But the palace master did not kill me.”
Bai Hua’s face was a bit pale and ugly, and as Mo Ren slowly continued, he seemed to be insisting on something. “In the end, I died myself. Because it snowed that year, it was very cold.”
After he finished speaking, he couldn’t help but laugh softly, even his lips had a touch of softness. It seemed that the last knot of his previous life also quietly dissipated in this sentence he blurted out, and went with the wind.
Mo Ren was relieved, he had already probed Bai Hua’s attitude, and he was tired of chatting with this crazy beauty, so he didn’t bother to stay here any longer. He casually picked up the lantern, and wanted to turn around and leave.
But after only two steps, the lantern illuminated a familiar figure.
Chu Yan stood there in a daze, his eyes staring straight at him.
