Dimensional Store: Welcome to the Apocalypse Apartment - Chapter 291

Chapter 291

Simple imitation would only make Ya Qianyu more wary.

That wasn’t the effect she was after.

When Gu Huaiwei stepped out of the room, she caught the flash of amazement that crossed Ya Qianyu’s face.

“Do I look good?”

She had absorbed so much Magnetic Value that even if Ya Qianyu didn’t like her, he wouldn’t find her repulsive.

Ya Qianyu smiled with malicious delight. “Of course you do. Every Red Thread on this wedding dress was dyed red with the blood of Changge’s fellow disciples and comrades-in-arms. It was originally meant to be worn by Gu Changge, but Sister Changge doesn’t seem to like it.”

“So it was prepared for my sister.” Gu Huaiwei wasn’t angered by his words. She sat down by the bed with a trace of disappointment and looked at him with those lovely eyes.

Compared to her sister, Gu Huaiwei’s eyes were far too aggressive.

Ya Qianyu didn’t like that.

But Gu Huaiwei deliberately kept looking at him that way.

She was like a cat with its claws tucked away-docile on the surface, but only waiting for someone to come closer before swiping at them.

“Palace Master, when you married my sister back then, you gave her a token of love. What about mine?”

Ya Qianyu sneered and slowly walked toward her.

“Are you trying to seduce me?” His voice was low, and as he bent down to look at her, there was a hint of scrutiny in his gaze.

“You can take it that way.” Gu Huaiwei met his eyes even more boldly, making no effort to hide the ambition in them. “Can’t I replace my sister in your heart?”

Ya Qianyu’s expression instantly darkened. Looking down at those hateful eyes of hers, he said coldly, “I’ve told you before. In front of me, you are to keep your head lowered.”

“There are already plenty of women in your harem with their heads lowered, Palace Master. You shouldn’t be lacking one more.”

Gu Huaiwei answered him blow for blow.

Though Ya Qianyu looked furious, he didn’t actually punish her.

In the end, the fitting of the wedding dress ended with Gu Huaiwei arguing back the whole time and Ya Qianyu storming off in anger.

But over the next two days, he kept turning up in Gu Huaiwei’s room again with that obnoxiously smarmy attitude.

He Xueyi had once analyzed Ya Qianyu’s personality in front of Gu Huaiwei.

The less someone was within his control, the more he liked them.

He kept saying he liked obedience, but the reason he had remained obsessed with her sister all these years was precisely because, beneath her gentle exterior, her heart had been rebellious.

If her sister had truly stayed, she would have gone from white moonlight to plain rice.

But her sister had left.

Her sister had escaped his control.

And so she had become his eternal white moonlight.

On the night before the wedding, the night was dark as ink, candlelight flickered, and red gauze draped softly around the room. Dressed in red, Gu Huaiwei leaned sideways against the bed.

Ya Qianyu pushed the door open and entered, a faint blood-colored flame curling around his body.

He walked straight to the table and set down a gift box. Inside lay a finely crafted Purple Jadeite Space Bracelet, its jade clear and lustrous, top grade.

“Throw away that trash bracelet from Xu Sanyuan. I won’t allow my bride to wear something from another man.”

Gu Huaiwei lifted her eyes to look at him. In the candlelight, her face was washed in a soft, gentle glow. She neither submitted nor resisted; she simply sat there and looked at him.

“I told you to throw the bracelet away. Stop playing mute in front of me,” Ya Qianyu said irritably.

Gu Huaiwei deliberately covered the bracelet with her hand and said with extreme care, “This is something my sister left for me. I can’t throw it away.”
“You idiot. Xu Sanyuan gave that to Gu Changge. Trashy bracelets like that are all over the streets. How could it possibly compare to what I gave you?”

“True,” Gu Huaiwei said with a bright smile as she reached toward Ya Qianyu’s waist. “But what you gave me still can’t compare to what you gave my sister. Is there only one bracelet? I’m much greedier than she is.”

Ya Qianyu seized Gu Huaiwei’s wrist in one swift motion, squeezing so hard it felt like he might crush it.

His voice was icy, his gaze dark. “What are you trying to do?”

“Just wanted to see if you’ve got any other nice things on you.”

“Greedy woman.”

Gu Huaiwei pulled her hand back and rubbed her reddened wrist. “I’ve never denied that.”

Ya Qianyu let out a cold snort and turned to leave again. But this time, when he reached the doorway, he stopped. It looked like he wanted to turn back, yet he forcibly restrained himself.

“The wedding is tomorrow. Behave yourself, and I’ll treat you well in the future.”

With that, he left.

“Should I congratulate you in advance on your wedding, Shop Manager Miss?” He Xueyi asked. He held the lotus pastry Ya Qianyu had specially sent over, eating it with leisurely elegance as if he were here on vacation.

“Did you finish the work I assigned you?”

A few crumbs from the lotus pastry still clung to the corner of He Xueyi’s lips. Smiling, he said, “Mu Lanwo has gathered the manor’s disciples and they’re on their way here. Bai Miemie has already set all the explosives in place. Lin She has also gone to notify Xu Sanyuan to act tomorrow.”

“What about the thing I asked for?”

“Here.” He Xueyi tossed over a jade pendant.

Then, not entirely at ease, he added, “Be careful. Don’t push it too far.”

Gu Huaiwei closed her fingers around the pendant.

Before tomorrow arrived, she had to get her hands on that Time Artifact first, then destroy the Blood Flame Palace in one stroke and avenge the humiliation her sister had suffered all those years ago.

This jade pendant was a magical artifact capable of invading a cultivator’s spiritual consciousness and searching out the deepest secrets buried in the depths of their mind.

Gu Huaiwei needed to use this jade pendant to find the spatial artifact Ya Qianyu kept hidden on his person.

Without that item, Ya Qianyu would have no way to drag everyone down with him.

That night, Gu Huaiwei, dressed in red wedding robes, knocked on Ya Qianyu’s door.

The instant she stepped into the courtyard barrier, Ya Qianyu sharply sensed her presence.

“Go back.”

Ya Qianyu didn’t open the door.

“It’s late and the dew is heavy tonight. I started thinking about my sister again. Can you stay with me for a while?”

Silence filled the room.

Gu Huaiwei feigned weakness, her voice unsteady and flustered. Lifting her skirt, she sat down on the steps with her back to his door.

“I know you’re only thinking of marrying me because you still can’t let go of my sister.”

“But is it really worth it? You trapped her for two hundred years, and she trapped you for a lifetime.”

“Actually, my sister did mention you to me before. It’s just that when she spoke of those things, she never told me your name.”

The room’s door opened.

Ya Qianyu stood there in a black sleeping robe, moonlight falling across his face. His expression was gloomy. “Come in.”

Gu Huaiwei immediately rose with a smile, brushed the dust from her skirts, and walked inside.

Quietly, she placed the jade pendant at the Formation Eye of the barrier.

Seeing how lightly she was dressed, Ya Qianyu tossed her a cloak.

“How did Gu Changge talk about me in front of you?”