JSCMU-Chapter 89: A Flaw

Ye Danxia, thrown to the ground, revealed a look of disbelief.

Even though she knew, after everything that had happened, Gu Jinghong would never care for her again.

Still, when he truly showed her no mercy and instead attentively served another woman, Ye Danxia couldn’t help but felt waves of resentment.

It felt like everything that used to belong to her was now being forcefully taken away by Yun Jin!

Zhao Wuji looked at Ye Danxia’s pitiful appearance and couldn’t stop himself from shouting angrily, “Arrogant! Far too arrogant! Gu Jinghong, you’re only supposed to serve as her servant for three months, yet you’ve completely learned her arrogant and domineering ways! Your own little junior sister was already injured this badly by you, and not only do you feel no remorse, you even lay hands on her again! How is such behaviour any different from that of a demon?!”

Zhao Wuji couldn’t personally come down himself, but with just a glance, a few disciples naturally stepped forward and helped Ye Danxia up.

Ye Danxia stood there weakly and aggrieved, softly saying, “Master, please don’t blame Second Senior Brother. I… I can stand just fine.”

As she spoke, Ye Danxia gave Yun Jin a pitiful glance.

Actually, adding another chair would have been easy. But she simply couldn’t stand the sight of Yun Jin taking the seat that originally belonged to her.

“What are you looking at?” Yun Jin raised her chin. “I happen to be short on a maid. Why don’t you stand behind me and be my maid? Then I won’t hold that previous matter against you.”

Yun Jin was completely serious, this was her genuinely offering Ye Danxia an opportunity.

Ye Danxia couldn’t help showing a trace of humiliation on her face. She looked at Yun Jin in disbelief.

They were about to begin a public trial, yet how could this woman still be so bold and unrestrained?

She is a noble Celestial Spirit Root cultivator!

Be her maid?

She must be dreaming.

She was just about to speak.

But Gu Jinghong spoke up first in a pitiful tone. “Master, I don’t want to stand next to her.”

Isn’t having me as your servant enough?

Yun Jin gave him a glance, slightly annoyed, “The more servants I have, the better. You’re not qualified to have any opinions.”

Gu Jinghong’s eyes turned slightly red, looking even more aggrieved. He even glared at Ye Danxia, as if treating her as some sort of imaginary rival.

Ye Danxia: “???”

Has her Second Senior Brother gone mad?

Ye Danxia couldn’t help but say, “Xiao Jin! You ordered Second Senior Brother to injure me, I’m the victim here! I’m even willing to give you a chance. Why don’t you be my maid, and we’ll call it even?”

As she said this, she felt like she regained the upper hand and finally smiled.

Yun Jin gave her a calm glance. “Since you’ve already made your decision, then there’s no chance to regret it. Ye Danxia, you’d best take care of yourself.”

Though Yun Jin spoke lightly, Ye Danxia’s heart gave a sudden jolt.

Did she leave some kind of flaw in what happened last night?

Why…

Why was Yun Jin so confident?

“Hall Master Yue, what are you standing there dazing off for? Why don’t you start the trial already?” Yun Jin looked over at Yue Lin, clearly annoyed.

One sat high, the other low.

But in terms of presence alone, it felt like Yun Jin was the judge.

Yue Lin gritted his teeth!

Who was the one dazing off?

Weren’t you talking nonstop, not giving me a chance to speak?

Yue Lin let out a cold snort and said, “Last night, Gu Jinghong used Ye Danxia’s feelings of guilt to lure her to Heavenly Sword Peak. In the forest, he gravely injured her and then attempted to kill her. If not for the defensive artifact she carried, Ye Danxia would’ve already been dead. At that time, Yun Jin was hiding not far away. Given the master-servant contract between them, we reasonably suspect Gu Jinghong’s actions were under Yun Jin’s orders. These events were witnessed by the Sect Leader himself and cannot be false.”

“Now, according to sect rules, this matter will be publicly tried. Yun Jin, do you have any objections to what I’ve just described?”

As Yue Lin finished, he glared hard at Yun Jin.

Last time, Ruan Jun suffered greatly at Yun Jin’s hands and had to go into closed-door cultivation in the back mountains.

He himself had to endure Zhao Wuji’s indifference for quite a while.

Zhao Wuji cherished this little disciple the most. This time, with Ye Danxia involved, he had to handle it cleanly and thoroughly.

“I object,” Yun Jin said lazily. “Everything you just said is complete nonsense.”

Yue Lin’s expression changed on the spot.

Zhao Wuji immediately burst into anger. “Yun Jin! I saw it with my own eyes, how could it be false?!”

“Sect Leader,” Yun Jin looked at him in disbelief. “Even mortals know that seeing isn’t necessarily believing. With your level of cultivation, how can you still say something so absurd?”

Zhao Wuji’s face darkened. “Then explain! How could it be false? The wounds on Danxia’s body are still clearly visible!”

Ye Danxia took the chance to show a weak expression.

Yun Jin replied unhurriedly, “According to what the Hall Master just said, Gu Jinghong injured her in the first strike and then tried to kill her afterward, right?”

Yue Lin nodded. “Such actions are truly inhuman.”

“Although I agree with you in calling him inhuman,” Yun Jin smiled, “I have one question. Ye Danxia survived his attack because she had a defensive artifact, correct? So if she could be ambushed, how could the auto-defensive artifact also be ambushed?”

“What nonsense are you spouting—” Yue Lin began to speak, but suddenly his expression changed.

“If it’s a passive defensive artifact, then it should have responded at the very first moment she was ambushed. How could Gu Jinghong have severely injured her?” Yun Jin pointed out.

“This…” Sweat suddenly formed on Yue Lin’s forehead. He unconsciously glanced at the Sect Leader.

Zhao Wuji also had a flash of surprise in his eyes.

He turned to look at Ye Danxia.

There was indeed something odd about the chain of events.

“Danxia,” Yun Jin looked at the flustered Ye Danxia with a bright smile, “I heard that this type of artifact only fails to activate under one condition…when the user harms themselves. It’s quite clear now where that wound on your body came from.”

The surrounding crowd immediately erupted into whispers.

There really was something off with this story.

So Ye Danxia actually stabbed herself to frame Gu Jinghong? That was… too ruthless.

Everyone’s gaze toward the seemingly delicate and weak Ye Danxia subtly changed.

Even the senior brother who had been teaching Ye Danxia herb identification began to rethink his impression.

Even if this Junior Sister Ye had great talent, it was better to keep some distance. One must remember, Gu Jinghong ended up in this state because he stood up for her, yet she didn’t hesitate at all to scheme against him.

If it were oneself, no matter how wholeheartedly one taught her, if any conflict arose in the future, she would definitely not hold back.

Ye Danxia seemed to sense this change and her eyes immediately turned red, her voice trembled, “You… you’re spouting nonsense!”

Her mind raced, and she spoke slowly: “That defensive artifact of mine was specially refined by Master, it’s an artifact that requires active activation! I didn’t expect Senior Brother Gu to attack me at first, so I didn’t activate it, which is how he succeeded!”

As she spoke, Ye Danxia looked pleadingly at Zhao Wuji.

Normally, life-saving artifacts given to low-level disciples would automatically activate upon sensing an attack.

The artifact Zhao Wuji gave to Ye Danxia had no reason not to include this function.

What Ye Danxia said just now was a gamble.

A gamble that Zhao Wuji would be biased toward her.

A gamble that Zhao Wuji would help her cover up this lie.