There’s No Such Thing as Love in a Swordsman’s Heart

Chapter 5 – Compensation Sword

I have many wives, so giving you a sword is…is fine! QAQ

Jiang Su felt that he was extremely resourceful.

Although Zhang Wenxue was gentle and didn’t really like fighting, he was ultimately still the lord of the Still Water Sword Sect, and his swordsmanship was enough to rank in the Jianghu’s top 50. In Jiang Su’s eyes at this moment, this was like dangling Fated Relationship points in front of him. 

He solemnly asked, “Shixiong, what kind of girl do you like?”

Zhang Wenxue immediately returned to his senses. He was overcome by an unspeakable disappointment, and he murmured, “No need…”

Jiang Su looked down at him and thought that Shixiong was being shy, so he could not help but say even more enthusiastically, “Shixiong, there’s no need to be shy. When a son is grown, he takes a wife, and when a daughter is grown, she goes to her husband’s house. This isn’t something that can’t be talked about–”

Zhang Wenxue finally couldn’t stand it anymore and interrupted him, “Shut up!”

Jiang Su paused and stared at Zhang Wenxue in confusion. 

He felt that Zhang Wenxue seemed angry now.

“I don’t have a girl I like.” Zhang Wenxue took a deep breath and said, “Sect lords have many things to handle, and I have no time to think about such things.”

Jiang Su really understood that point. 

Yeah, so was he!

He was too busy practicing the sword, and he also had no time for love.

Zhang Wenxue looked at him, feeling utterly miserable. He felt as if he were a chicken talking to a duck and hated himself for mentioning such a matter. He simply bypassed the topic and asked Jiang Su, “Who did you save from the Falling Snow Cliff?”

Jiang Su immediately lowered his voice and answered mysteriously, “It’s the illegitimate son of a great hero.”

Zhang Wenxue couldn’t help freezing. “What?”

Jiang Su told him all about his previous speculations, and Zhang Wenxue understood right away. He could not help showing sympathy, but also lowered his voice to gossip with Jiang Su. “Shidi, I heard that the esteemed master of Swallow Pavilion mention that the pavilion master of the Fine Snow Pavilion has an illegitimate son, who is about twenty years old.”

Jiang Su didn’t agree. “He is so bad at swordsmanship that he wouldn’t be able to teach such a powerful son.”

Zhang Wenxue thought again, and another candidate appeared in his mind. Suddenly surprised, he said hurriedly, “Lin Fengnan, the Sheng Alliance’s leader’s shifu… When he was young, he seemed to have had a relationship with the female sage of Meiyou Palace. However, good and evil travel on different paths, and in the end, they could not continue together. But according to the rumors in the Jianghu, they really did have a child.”

He thought about it carefully, lowered his voice, and whispered to Jiang Su, “Senior Lin had a first wife. After Mrs. Lin died of an illness, he got to know the female sage of Meiyou Palace. Since then, he felt unworthy of his fellow comrades in the Jianghu, so he sealed off his sword to live in seclusion and never saw that woman again. And as for their child… They say that he has always stayed with Senior Lin and lived in seclusion with him in the mountains. Nobody in the Jianghu has seen him before.”

Doesn’t that all match up then!

Lin Fengnan was one of the top ten experts in the Jianghu, and he could indeed train up a son who was that good with the sword Besides, Lin, Mu, wasn’t it just missing a stroke! Lin Fengnan had wanted to conceal the identity of his illegitimate son and asked him to take a false surname, which was quite reasonable!

Jiang Su felt as if he had grasped the heart of the matter. He had solved the mystery of Mu Yichuan’s life experiences, but he was more and more distressed over Mu Yichuan.

With Mu Yichuan’s life experience… It was really difficult for him to step into the Jianghu. 

The righteous and evil combining was a big taboo of the righteous path, not to mention the trouble that Meiyou Palace’s demonic sect had been giving the Central Plains’ Jianghu for so long. Also, Meiyou Palace cultivated an ecstatic dual cultivation, which some people held in contempt. People of the righteous path could never accept such a “famous disciple.”

Zhang Wenxue just sighed emotionally, and said, “Emotional barriers are the hardest to overcome.”

After saying this, he couldn’t help but take a serious look at Jiang Su and thought, Aren’t I this way as well?

As the lord of the Still Water Sword Sect, he had inherited his shizun’s authentic Still Water Sword, but he was never able to keep his heart as still as water. For so many years, with great difficulty, he had just managed to eke out some progress with his swordsmanship, but Shidi had never seen through to his heart regardless. He had stayed where he was, but Shidi had gone farther and farther.

Jiang Su on the other hand was so scared that he trembled.

Emotional barriers?

Wait, Mi Yichuan had said that after Lin Fengnan had seen a picture of him, from then on he had fallen in love and was loath to part—

Jiang Su: “….”

Senior is already 50, right, is he an old tree in spring?!

….

A moment later, Jiang Su returned to the room.

He looked dignified and wanted to prove Mu Yichuan’s identity, so he took the initiative to say to Mu Yichuan, “Let me ask you a few questions.”

Mu Yichuan immediately replied, “Please go ahead, Senior Jiang.”

Jiang Su then said, “There are some things that you may not be able to answer because of your identity… You just need to answer me ‘yes’ or’ no.'”

Mu Yichuan was stunned, and felt that these words weren’t reassuring.

He knew that they were on different paths, but he didn’t think that… Jiang Su already knew.

He could only nod and answer, “Yes.”

Jiang Su asked him, “Does your father use a sword?”

Mu Yichuan replied, “Yes.”

Jiang Su then asked, “Your father is not surnamed Mu?”

Mu Yichuan hesitated. “Yes…”

Jiang Su: “Has your father ever had relations with Meiyou Palace’s–”

When he said this, he saw that Mu Yichuan’s expression changed. His eyebrows slightly furrowed, and his eyes looked gloomy. Jiang Su felt that he didn’t need to ask anymore.

It’s him! It’s him! That’s him!

Isn’t this Lin Fengnan’s illegitimate son?!

“So, you actually already knew.” Mu Yichuan frowned and whispered, as if he felt extremely guilty for deceiving Jiang Su. “The righteous and evil travel different paths, and I should leave now.”

However, Jiang Su pressed down on his hand and said frankly, “Don’t worry, I won’t tell anyone.”

Mu Yichuan was stunned and seemed puzzled. “But I am…”

“What do your parents’ mistakes have to do with you?” Jiang Su said, “In my eyes, you are just a seriously injured person, and there are no differences in this world between injured people. You don’t have to think much about it. Just focus on your recovery.”

Mu Yichuan tried to speak several times, but he couldn’t say a word.

He grew up in the order, and before he was twenty years old, he only practiced martial arts and swords every day. He had never left the order to step into the Jianghu and everything he knew about it came from his father’s stray comments. At that time, his father had told him that the righteous path people were always glib. If not, how could Wen Qingting use his words to trick the former leader of the order, Xie Wu, into going to Lingxi Mountain alone and being buried together in the “Invincible Heavens.”

After his swordsmanship became refined, he left the sect for the Jianghu, but only to eliminate enemies in the Jianghu for his father. He was the sharpest sword in his father’s hand, and he never needed to think about it. Of course, before killing those people, he wouldn’t talk to them to see if they were the crafty villains his father had described. 

All the way until today, now he felt like…the Jianghu wasn’t quite as he had imagined. 

There were actually also people like Jiang Su in the righteous path.

……

After a long time, Mu Yichuan murmured, “Thank you, Senior.”

Jiang Su really couldn’t hold back any longer. 

“How old are you ah?” Jiang Su raised his eyebrows, “Why call me Senior?”

Mu Yichuan froze, then replied, “I’m twenty-three.”

Jiang Su then said shamelessly, “I’m younger than you. You’re not allowed to call me Senior anymore.”

As soon as his invitation to the Wulin League was put on the bed, another thing suddenly occurred to him.

In terms of the moves he had exchanged with Mu Yichuan at the foot of the Falling Snow Cliff that day, Jiang Su felt that Mu Yichuan had excellent martial arts. He was easily in the top 50 in the Jianghu. The youth was young and had little experience in the Jianghu, so he probably wasn’t married yet. 

He immediately became interested. He leaned forward and asked, “Do you have a crush, young hero?”

Mu Yichuan: “I…”

Jiang Su: “If so, I will go matchmaking for you. If not, I will help you to get a blind date at the Wulin Assembly and find a virtuous wife for you. What do you think?!”

Mu Yichuan: “Ah?”

“That’s settled then.” Jiang Su was satisfied and said, “Take care of yourself. I’ll take you to the Wulin Assembly half a month from now.”

Mu Yichuan finally understood the meaning of Jiang Su’s words. What kind of scary place was the Wulin Assembly? He couldn’t go. If anyone really recognized his identity, he was afraid that he would implicate Jiang Su. He wanted to refuse immediately and hurriedly said, “I can’t go–“

Jiang Su interrupted him, “Because of your father?”

Mu Yichuan replied, “My identity… I’m afraid it’s inconvenient.”

“What’s the inconvenience?” Hearing what he said, Jiang Su could not help internally being angry with Lin Fengnan. He simply pulled at Mu Yichuan’s hand and said, “I’ll protect you. Let’s see who won’t let you go then.”

Mu Yichuan: “…”

Jiang Su felt that he was just saying what normal people would all say. He did not understand why Mu Yichuan looked at him with such a shocked expression, and he could not help thinking that Lin Fengnan had treated him so harshly. If outsiders were a little friendly towards him, Mu Yichuan actually looked this moved.

Jiang Su felt sorry for him again. He patted Mu Yichuan’s hand gently, but it was hard for him to come up with anything more to say. They looked at each other for a moment, and Jiang Su suddenly remembered Mu Yichuan’s sword. At Falling Snow Cliff, Jiang Su had knocked Mu Yichuan’s sword down into a cold pool, and he was afraid that he could not get it back. Lin Fengnan treated him so badly. When Mu Yichuan would return home injured and Lin Fengnan saw that Mu Yichuan’s sword was missing, would he blame him again?

Jiang Su felt guilty and pressed Mu Yichuan’s hand. After a long time, he said, “It’s a pity that I can’t swim.”

Mu Yichuan didn’t understand what he meant.

Jiang Su: “It seems that I can’t return your sword to you.”

Mu Yichuan returned to his senses and shook his head, saying, “This is not really a big deal. I still have at home……”

Jiang Su had already said in a loud voice, “I will give you one!”

Mu Yichuan: “…”

Jiang Su clenched his teeth, grasped Mu Yichuan’s hand hard, and said with difficulty, “When you can walk again, I’ll take you to my Sword Collection Pavilion, and you can pick whichever one you want.”

Mu Yichuan’s hand was gripped until it hurt. He really wanted to draw it back, but when he looked at Jiang Su’s expression, he didn’t dare move for a moment, so he had to let Jiang Su hold his hand and said earnestly, “Senior… Cough, Sir Jiang doesn’t have to give up any cherished possessions. I have a spare sword at home.”

Jiang Su: “…”

The child is so pitiful and sensible. Isn’t it just a sword!

He had collected a lot over these years. After going into a lot of trouble to build up the entire Sword Collection Pavillion, giving one or two to someone else should be…probably…most likely shouldn’t be an issue. 

After all, Mu Yichuan had lost his sword because of him. He had sent Mu Yichuan’s wife flying, so compensating…..compensating him was right and reasonable, as it should be. 

“It’s fine. I lost your sword, so I should compensate you.” Jiang Su said earnestly with tears in his eyes, “There are many wives… No, there are many swords, so you can choose whatever you want.”

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Juurensha: At least the misunderstandings are giving Jiang Su a good friend so far! He needs one after breaking his shixiong’s heart!

Opal: This misunderstanding….It’s like watching two trains barrel right past each other.