Love from the Male Protagonist's Harem

LFTMPH Chapter 77-Opening of Lingqiao Part 1

Translated by Snowfall77

Senior Sister had actually been at the restaurant earlier?!!

Not knowing whether to laugh or cry, it took Xia Ge a couple moments to calm her expression.  Eventually she made an ‘oh’ sound and the two of them continued nonchalantly walking forward together.

But inwardly Xia was thoroughly flustered, her heart pounding irregularly.  It was too strange……Xia Ge had skipped class to go drinking.  Senior Sister should be punishing Xia Ge any second now with some book copying, right?

Although……if Senior Sister had followed them to the restaurant, why hadn’t she just apprehended Xia Ge on the spot……?

Nothing?  Not saying anything about it, yet still in the mood to play a song for Xia Ge?

What was going on?  This was baffling.  It wasn’t right.

Moreover, why would Senior Sister……follow?  When had she started following?

“Er, Chu Yao is the one who invited me to go……”  Xia Ge felt the need to justify herself, so she summoned up her courage and boldly placed the blame on someone else, “I, I didn’t know how to refuse her.  It was just……”

“……like that.”

Gu Peijiu: “Mmm, I see.”

Xia Ge: “……”  Wait, you see?  You don’t see anything, Senior Sister!

Suffering the pangs of a guilty conscience, Xia Ge kept waiting for Senior Sister to coldly announce how many times Xia Ge would have to copy the Danxun.  Yet Gu Peijiu simply kept walking on in silence.  While Xia Ge, choking back any further words, felt suffocated.

Did Senior Sister really not know how panicky Xia Ge was feeling?  Or was Senior Sister deliberately pretending?

The silence went on and on, and eventually Xia Ge’s illusionary memory of walking on a mountain with someone behind her resurfaced.

Halting, she turned around to find that at some point she’d started walking ahead of Senior Sister.

Against a background of endless snow-white blossoms, the young lady in elegant red and white had been quietly following Xia Ge.  Moon bright overhead, the night breeze blowing white flower petals from the trees, the young lady looked effortlessly picturesque, like a fairy flown down from the heavens.

“Why have you stopped again?”  Gu Peijiu asked, her voice like water flowing from a clear spring.

Rubbing her temples, Xia Ge answered: “No……that’s not……”  Why were you walking behind me?

“Mmm?”

Gu Peijiu came to stand beside Xia Ge, regarding her thoughtfully.

Xia Ge raised her head to look at Senior Sister and then bowed her head back down without saying anything.

What was there to say?  Senior Sister wasn’t walking behind her now.

Gu Peijiu: “What is it?”

A stumped Xia Ge: “……you, you’re very tall.”

Gu Peijiu: “……”

Abruptly reminded of things said in the private room at the black market, faint amusement appeared in Gu Peijiu’s eyes.

“Let’s go,” Gu Peijiu took Xia Ge’s hand, pausing before saying, “You’re still young.”

There’s still time for you to grow taller.

Gu Peijiu’s hand, being very soft and very warm, was in sharp contrast with the night’s cool breeze.

“Oh,” Xia Ge felt herself inexplicably blushing, “Senior Sister, when will we learn Danmai?  Cause right now I don’t have any spiritual power.”

Gu Peijiu: “Very soon.”

Xia Ge: “The master is too slow and he talks rubbish.  He thinks I don’t listen during his class.”

Gu Peijiu: “It’s all the same for everyone.”

Xia Ge: “I want to get spiritual power quickly.”

Gu Peijiu glanced at her.

Xia Ge returned the look.

Gu Peijiu: “Want it very much?”

Xia Ge, nodding energetically: “Very much.”

One hand holding Xia Ge’s, Gu Peijiu slightly raised her other hand. One by one, small points of red qi beginning to coagulate at Gu Peijiu’s fingertips, making vermilion fireflies.  Surrounded by moonlit snowy flowers, Gu Peijiu then joined two fingers to direct at Xia Ge’s brow a beautiful red string of spiritual energy.

Countless crimson lights flew towards Xia Ge, warm and delicate, carefully entering between her eyebrows before spreading throughout her entire body.  Slightly widening her eyes, Xia Ge’s black pupils took in the sight of the ethereal red specks and the pale, beautiful face of Gu Peijiu.  For a brief moment, Xia Ge forgot to breathe.

But good things never last forever.  The next second Xia Ge heard her system making piercing staticky noises, like a broke-down radio trying in vain to pick up a signal.  Next there came an ‘ah’ sound, white light flashing before Xia Ge’s vision.  Something resisted the incoming spiritual energy, causing its flow to reverse.  Pupils shrinking, Gu Peijiu abruptly dropped her hand, but not before seeing that Xia Ge’s wide open black eyes had the empty, spiritless expression of someone in a nightmare.

A resolute voice ringing in her ear.

Lost in a dream.

——Where your sword points is the battlefield I will fight and die on.

Who?  Who’s speaking?

“Xia Wuyin?”

Gu Peijiu’s hand made a sudden qi-gathering motion, then she pressed it against Xia Ge’s forehead   As clear spiritual energy poured in, Xia Ge swayed and came back to her senses, “Ah……”

“Ah, I’m alright,” Xia Ge shook her head, then put a hand to her temple, “It’s nothing, it’s nothing.”

The voice in her head had vanished, as if it’d never existed.

Gu Peijiu frowned at Xia Ge: “I opened your lingqiao just now.”

Opened her lingqiao?

A slightly stunned reaction quickly washed over Xia Ge.

She knew that those who had an opened lingqiao could draw lingqi into their body and convert it into spiritual power.  Basically, an open lingqiao was like a lingqi-gathering formation within the body, which then stored the lingqi for use at any time.

líng qiao  灵窍

intelligent heart; smart eyes.

‘spiritual orifice’   or   aura

https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E7%81%B5%E7%AA%8D/10264593

(TN-I’m too immature for ‘spiritual orifice.’  To quote Archer, “Phrasing!”)

蚌埠住了Bengbuzhuo, that is, the homonym of being unable to stretch , is used to describe one’s emotional impact, and one is about to cry/laugh, etc. [1]

https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E8%9A%8C%E5%9F%A0%E4%BD%8F%E4%BA%86/55807298

灵力  [línɡ lì]  mana; spiritual power

The word comes from video games , and it is a kind of credential used by the protagonist in the game to exchange for manipulating miracles. In a broad sense, it is equivalent to human ” physical strength ” (but please note that this statement is very inappropriate). Sufficient physical strength can move a large table, and “spiritual power” can make people do things that would not normally happen in this world.

https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E7%81%B5%E5%8A%9B/2075038