Su Yi the Son-in-Law

"Look, that's Su Yi!"

"A year ago, he was still the Outer Disciple Sword Leader of Green River Sword Mansion, rising swiftly to fame. But because of an accident, he lost all his cultivation and became a live-in son-in-law of the Wen Family. How tragic."

"What a pity for a great beauty like Wen Lingzhao. Such peerless grace and elegance, publicly acknowledged as the number one beauty of Guangling City, yet she actually married trash like him. Sigh!"

It was just when school was letting out.

Among the figures walking out of Pine Cloud Sword Mansion, men and women alike, their expressions turned somewhat strange when they saw Su Yi in the distance. The sounds of discussion rose along with it.

A helpless curve appeared at the corner of Su Yi's lips, and he also found it somewhat amusing.

It had been a very long time since he had experienced this sort of "treatment."

Thinking back to his previous life, across the Great Wilderness Nine Provinces, countless romantic heroes from past and present had vied to display their edge.

The Six Great Dao Gates stood tall, looking down upon the mortal world.

The Three Great Devil Sects entrenched themselves, their soldiers' blades throwing chaotic times into turmoil.

There were All Heavens Gods and Buddhas who dominated the winds and clouds, lifting the curtain of a great age, staining rivers and mountains as picturesque as paintings with blood.

Yet the one who alone reigned supreme over the Great Wilderness, whose sword suppressed the world of the Nine Provinces for one hundred and eight thousand years, was only he, Su Xuanjun!

Even existences as powerful as the Emperor Realm beings standing at the summit of the azure underworld had to lower their brows and drop their eyes, respectfully addressing him as "Your Excellency."

If those Old Guys from my previous life saw this scene, they'd probably laugh until their bellies burst...

Su Yi shook his head inwardly.

At this moment, he was tall and thin, his face refined and handsome. Dressed in a plain blue cloth robe, he stood with his hands clasped behind his back, his entire body giving off an air of calm leisure.

"However, there's one thing they said that's correct. The current me is indeed somewhat wretched..."

Su Yi's gaze narrowed slightly, and he fell into thought.

This body of his had originally been an unfavored concubine-born son of the Great Zhou Jade Capital City Su Family.

When he was five, his mother, "Ye Yufei," was gravely ill and passed from this world.

At fourteen, he entered Cloud River County's "Green River Sword Mansion" to cultivate.

In just two years, at sixteen, he leaped to become the number one outer disciple of Green River Sword Mansion, earning the fine reputation of "Outer Disciple Sword Leader."

But because of an accident, he lost all his cultivation.

Not long after, under arrangements made by the forces of the Jade Capital City Su Family, he became the live-in son-in-law of the "Wen Family," one of the Three Great Clans of Guangling City in Cloud River County.

"However, whether in my previous life or this one, who could know that the current me has long since ceased to be the former me..."

A strange emotion surged in Su Yi's heart. Deep within his eyes, an indescribable light seemed faintly to stir.

Clang!

As if sensing Su Yi's thoughts, a strand of clear, cold sword hum rang out in his mind, then immediately sank back into silence.

It was a mysterious immortal sword.

The sword's name was "Nine Hells"!

This sword was shackled by nine layers of "divine chains."

A year ago, on the night before Green River Sword Mansion's "Sword Debate Trial,"

when Su Yi broke through to the "Qi Gathering" Realm in one stroke, the phantom of the "Nine Hells Sword" quietly appeared in his mind.

And what he paid for this was all of his cultivation.

This was also the true reason Su Yi had lost all his cultivation back then.

During this year as the Wen Family's live-in son-in-law, Su Yi sensed the Nine Hells Sword in his mind day and night, attempting to unravel this sword's secrets.

And on the night three days ago, when Su Yi once again tried to communicate with the "Nine Hells Sword," he unexpectedly undid the first layer of the seal on the sword.

Because of this, he awakened the memories of his previous life, the ones belonging to "Su Xuanjun."

"Seventeen years passed as though in a dream; only today do I know that I am myself. A dream of Nanke—nothing could be more so!"

Su Yi murmured inwardly.

The current him was only seventeen years old, in the prime of youth, full of youthful spirit, just like the first rise of the morning sun, with everything brimming with hope.

"The present me may be in an unbearably difficult situation, but relying on the experiences and methods of my previous life, changing all of this isn't much of a problem at all."

Su Yi held his hands behind his back. When his gaze shifted, he occasionally gave others a sense of weathered depth wholly out of keeping with his age. It was a touch of calm left behind after experiencing the rise and fall of worldly affairs.

"No hurry. This reincarnation of mine was for the sake of breaking through the cultivation barrier I encountered in my previous life, so as to prove the supreme path of the sword."

"Now, the mortal world is still fine, and youth has only just begun. Sooner or later, there will come a day when I naturally return to the Great Wilderness Nine Provinces and properly settle the accounts from my previous life with those sinful creatures!"

One scene after another from his previous life quietly surfaced in Su Yi's mind.

There was the Bima Battle Emperor, the Qingtang Empress, the Golden Winged Great Peng, the Ascension Sword Court, the Six Great Dao Gates...

Hm?

Suddenly, as if Su Yi sensed something, he raised his eyes and looked toward the gates of Pine Cloud Sword Mansion.

It was just when school let out, and countless young boys and girls were walking out, the atmosphere lively and clamorous, their bodies exuding the youthful air that belonged to the young.

But at that moment, the noisy atmosphere suddenly sank into silence.

At the gates of Pine Cloud Sword Mansion, the crowd quietly parted, opening up a path.

Under the gaze of countless eyes, a young girl walked out of Pine Cloud Sword Mansion.

The girl was about fourteen or fifteen, her glossy black hair falling smoothly, her brows and eyes delicate and spirited, beautiful and moving. Her skin was as snowy white as congealed cream, the very makings of a beauty.

She wore loose, well-fitting blue robes, her whole person clean and simple. Her dainty, well-proportioned figure was coated in a hazy, dreamlike sheen beneath a touch of sunset.

She was like a fairy descending to the mortal world!

Nearby, many young boys stared until their eyes went straight.

Most of them were around fifteen, just at the age of budding admiration, in the green years of youth, and they had not yet learned how to hide the adoration and heat in their eyes.

Some thin-skinned boys had already lowered their heads, ashamed of their own inferiority, not daring to look directly at her.

The girls, meanwhile, wore all kinds of expressions: jealousy, envy, and gloom.

There was no lack of charming beauties among them, but compared with the girl in blue, they seemed somewhat inferior.

Like fireflies before the bright moon, they had no radiance with which to compete.

In the quiet atmosphere.

The girl in blue walked neither quickly nor slowly. Her features were delicate and fair, and her large eyes were deep and crystal clear.

Only, her expression was very cold, as if she were an iceberg standing aloof from the world, making others afraid to approach.

Wen Lingxue.

Having only entered Pine Cloud Sword Mansion a year ago, she had already become the "peerless prodigy" in the eyes of all the instructors, a publicly acknowledged ice-mountain beauty.

Even the mansion master of Pine Cloud Sword Mansion, "Xie Jiuwei," had once sighed with emotion that she was graceful and bright, pure as ice and snow, worthy of being a brilliant pearl of Pine Cloud Sword Mansion.

And in Su Yi's eyes, this young girl who would inevitably draw attention no matter where she went was Wen Lingzhao's younger sister.

She was also his... sister-in-law.

"The little girl's grown even more lovely."

A trace of a smile appeared at the corners of Su Yi's brows.

In the year since he had married into the Wen Family, almost everyone had looked down on him, mocking him coldly, ridiculing and jeering at him in every possible way.

Only Wen Lingxue had truly treated him as her "brother-in-law," and she often stood up for him.

"Brother-in-law, what brings you here?"

When she saw Su Yi's figure from afar, a touch of pleasant surprise appeared in Wen Lingxue's deep, gemlike eyes, and she was utterly astonished.

Immediately after, her rosy lips lifted into a smile from the bottom of her heart.

That smile was like bright sunlight suddenly appearing, and the iceberg melted along with it.

Quite a few boys' expressions went dazed for a moment, their hearts pounding violently.

"So beautiful..."

Someone murmured uncontrollably.

"She... she actually smiled..."

Someone's eyes were dazed.

"You might not believe me if I say this, but in this entire year, this is the first time I've ever seen the smile of our Pine Cloud Sword Mansion's number-one beauty!"

Someone sighed.

This drew many voices of agreement. In their impression, Wen Lingxue was just as her name suggested, her appearance exquisitely beautiful and spirited, but her temperament like lonely, sheer ice and snow.

Although everyone was classmates, almost no one had ever seen her smile at anyone!

"Alas, if I were as good-looking as she is, how could I still have failed to win over Senior Brother Xiao after all these years?"

A young girl's expression was complicated.

Even as girls, they had no choice but to admit that whether in bearing or appearance, Wen Lingxue gave these female classmates an absolute sense of pressure.

In Pine Cloud Sword Mansion, unless it was necessary, no girl was willing to keep Wen Lingxue company, for that would only make Wen Lingxue's beauty stand out all the more shockingly.

Under the gaze of all these varied eyes, Wen Lingxue changed from her earlier unhurried steps, her figure light and quick as she trotted in small steps to Su Yi's front!

The pupils of those boys all contracted, as if they had suddenly come awake.

"Just now... was Wen Lingxue smiling at that good-for-nothing?"

They seemed unable to believe it, looking at one another.

As far as they knew, although Su Yi was Wen Lingxue's brother-in-law, he was still a live-in son-in-law!

His status was awkward. Not only did the important figures of the Wen Family look down on him, even the Wen Family's maids and servants dared to mock and ridicule him.

This was something everyone in all of Guangling City knew.

As long as one was not blind, who could fail to see that Wen Lingxue was very happy at this moment?

Something was wrong!

Far too wrong!

For a moment, those boys could hardly believe their eyes.

Looking at the young girl's bright, beautiful smile before him, Su Yi smiled and said, "So this is what you're like at the academy."

This was his first time coming to pick Wen Lingxue up after school.

It was also the first time he had seen Wen Lingxue looking so cold and aloof.

In Su Yi's impression, during this year as the Wen Family's son-in-law, whenever she faced him, her brother-in-law, Wen Lingxue had always been bright and lively, adorably innocent and playful. She had never had the slightest connection to words like "iceberg."

"If I didn't keep a cold face at the academy, who knows how many annoying fellows would come one after another to bother me? That would be far too irritating."

Wen Lingxue smiled with her lips pressed together, her voice crisp and sweet, like the clear, tinkling water of a spring.

Su Yi came to a realization.

That was true. From the perspective of his past life, Wen Lingxue could already be called a first-rate little beauty. Once she grew a little older, she would surely blossom into even greater loveliness.

At this moment, Wen Lingxue looked around at the dull, stunned gazes of her classmates, and suddenly felt somewhat guilty. She pouted in vexation and muttered, "It's over. Just because I was too happy, the cold image I worked so hard to put on for a whole year has been completely ruined..."

Immediately after, the girl burst into a pfft of laughter and waved her hand with pride soaring to the clouds. "Forget it. Who cares what they think? As long as I'm happy."

"Good."

Su Yi smiled and nodded, then left together with the girl.

Only after watching their figures disappear did silence fall around Pine Cloud Sword Mansion.

A handsome youth asked through gritted teeth.

Everyone looked at one another. They could not figure it out either.

"A live-in son-in-law everyone in Guangling City sneers at, a good-for-nothing who lost all his cultivation—was marrying a great beauty like Wen Lingzhao not enough for him? He even wants to stretch his poisonous hands toward her younger sister? Damn him!"

Many of the youths were indignant, their hearts filled to the brim with jealousy and hatred toward Su Yi.

At this moment, even those young girls could not understand it, and found it very strange.

Wen Lingxue was such a proud and icy person. Not only was her cultivation talent extraordinarily dazzling, even her cultivation could be called among the very top of Pine Cloud Sword Mansion's current disciples.

She...

How could she possibly take a fancy to that Su Yi?

Even if Su Yi was her brother-in-law, according to the rumors, the one her elder sister Wen Lingzhao loathed and rejected the most was precisely this fellow!

On the way back to the Wen Family, Wen Lingxue blinked her watery eyes and asked curiously.

The girl was delicate and bright, her charming, graceful figure brimming with a radiant, lively youthful air.

"Your sister is back."

Su Yi said it casually, while inexplicably, a trace of subtle emotion stirred in his heart.

Wen Lingxue's beautiful eyes lit up, and she said in delighted surprise, "Sister... she's finally willing to come back?"

A year ago, on the very night Wen Lingzhao married Su Yi, she had suddenly left without a word and gone to Green River Sword Mansion in Cloud River County to cultivate.

Everyone believed this was Wen Lingzhao expressing her dissatisfaction with her own marriage, resentment lodged in her heart.

Even Wen Lingxue herself knew that her elder sister, Wen Lingzhao, was extremely resistant to and disgusted by this marriage, and had never once accepted her brother-in-law Su Yi in her heart.

But now, after a year had passed, Wen Lingzhao had returned!