I chased after him, pulling out both a Sword Talisman and a Soul Scattering Talisman as I prepared to strike.
Just as I hurled the Sword Talisman, Yun Yao sidestepped and blocked my path.
"You can't kill him, or there will be big trouble," Yun Yao said to me with an urgent tone.
"What trouble? He already attacked me, the grudge is made, so why not kill him now instead of waiting for him to come kill me later?"
Yun Yao stubbornly said, "No, anyway you just can't kill him. My grandpa's birthday is coming up soon, don't make trouble."
Yun Yao stared intently at me, and I had never seen her look like this before.
I simply said that I hoped she wouldn't regret it later, then turned and left.
Yun Yao followed behind me, looking like she wanted to say something but stopping herself.
I never expected that one day in the future I would almost die at the hands of that brat.
And from that time on, I never compromised with anyone again—though of course, that is a story for later.
We walked all the way back to Yun Mansion without a word.
Jiang Yujie looked at my cold expression and Yun Yao's hesitant demeanor with puzzlement.
He asked what had happened, while I sat there smoking and said nothing at all.
Yun Yao explained the whole affair to Jiang Yujie.
For a moment Jiang Yujie was caught in a dilemma, and I knew he was also a scion of a prominent lineage.
Expecting him to have any decisive opinions of his own was simply out of the question, so I hadn't counted on him making any sense of it anyway.
Before long Grandpa Yun came out, and this was the first time he sat with us