The King of Curses

Chapter 242 Psychological Construction
"of course."

Cen Dongsheng nodded without hesitation.

"I am your master."

"Yes, since you are my master, please guide me to the end."

In the unique night of the underground city, the girl with a long ponytail put her hands behind her back and smiled brightly at herself.

Those sparkling pupils sparkled in the darkness, which was very impressive.

Looking at this beautiful smile, Cen Dongsheng's mood unconsciously became happy.

It seems that the brief melancholy she just showed is just a passing cloud and cannot cover up her growth and changes.

"You'll become stronger soon, Yutang."

He said.

The girl smiled and didn't answer.

*
"Let's go back first, Yunmei is still waiting for us."

"Ah."

When the two returned to the hall, they saw Jiang Yunmei sitting on a chair playing with her cell phone, looking bored. When she saw them coming, the girl pretended to be helpless and sighed heavily.

"Ah, you two finally came back."

"Sorry for the waitting."

Song Yutang said. Cen Dongsheng casually complained:
"It didn't take long, did it?"

"But I always feel like you guys came from far away."

"...? Weren't we just outside the door?"

"I'm talking about the psychological aspect."

Jiang Yunmei stood up and pretended to be very sad.

"You two must have become much closer, but you left me behind... Wow, there are three of us on this team, but one of us still has no name. This is the saddest thing in the world."

"Oh, do you want to join?"

Song Yutang asked back with some amusement.

The other person looked at her, then looked at Cen Dongsheng's face, and shook his head repeatedly.

"forget it."

"..."

Cen Dongsheng blinked.

For some reason, he felt as if he was being looked down upon.

"Senior Jiang, since you hate me so much, why don't we say goodbye here?"

He said to his apprentice.

"Yutang, let's go."

"it is good."

The master and the disciple worked in perfect harmony, and after talking, they really turned around and left.

"Hey, wait wait wait - wait for me a moment, this is so cruel!"

……

"Really? You two, master and disciple, are the type who can't take a joke."

On the way back to the hotel, Jiang Yunmei complained in a low voice.

"I tell you, only people with something to hide will go out of their way to avoid suspicion. If you two really had a clear conscience and were innocent, you wouldn't be anxious when I joked with you."

"Your words are just specious."

She deliberately used ambiguous words to provoke people's thoughts, but the master and disciple were used to this guy's jokes. Song Yutang only used a light sentence to make her speechless:

"You wouldn't have dared to make such a joke when Miss An was here just now."

"Uh……"

Jiang Yunmei choked.

"Yeah, I always feel like Senior Jiang is frightened."

Cen Dongsheng also followed suit.

“Is my girlfriend that scary?”

"It's not a question of whether it's scary or not..."

Jiang Yunmei murmured.

"Perhaps, she is the one who really feels guilty about her crime."

Song Yutang spoke slowly beside him.

“That’s…nonsense.”

……

The three of them returned to the door of the hotel and prepared to rest.

"I have other work to take care of. I have to meet with the Chao Working Committee with Sister Zhizhen tomorrow. You guys should go back and rest first."

At the fork in the road, Cen Dongsheng said to his two teammates:
"I will ask professionals to help with the matter of those tomb robbers and finding the source of the Dragon Suppression Nail."

"it is good."

"Then I'll take the first step."

Song Yutang looked at the direction the man was heading with a puzzled look on his face.

"Wait, that's..."

"what happened?"

Cen Dongsheng turned around.

At this moment, the girl next to Song Yutang grabbed her arm and said, "Let's go, let's go." Only then did she react and thought to herself that she was still very slow.

She smiled at the man.

"Nothing. Good night, Master."

……

The girls returned to the room.

Song Yutang packed her clothes in her backpack and was about to go to the bathroom when she saw Jiang Yunmei sitting quietly on the sofa, staring at her.

The other party did not turn on the lights. In the dim room, the eyes that activated the "clairvoyance" were as clear as the color of the clear sky and as beautiful as a gem.

"What's wrong, senior?"

Song Yutang felt strange.

"I'm watching you."

Jiang Yunmei spoke slowly.

"I see. So, why?"

"...Yutang, are you really okay?"

"Can't you see that I'm in a very relaxed mood right now?"

She is a little funny.

"Do you think I'm just pretending in front of Master?"

"...I can't rule out this possibility." Jiang Yunmei sighed, "But it doesn't seem to be the case at the moment."

"Thank you for your concern. I have figured it out."

"No, that's the problem."

Jiang Yunmei sat up straight and rarely showed her serious side in front of her teammates.

"If you really let it go, I'll be even more worried."

"?"

Song Yutang tilted her head, obviously not understanding.

But Jiang Yunmei has made up her mind.

She stated the conclusion directly without any hesitation or beating around the bush.

"——Yutang, you like Cen Dongsheng, right?" It sounded like a question, but the tone was more like an unquestionable certainty.

"..."

Song Yutang opened her mouth and suddenly felt her heart beating faster.

...seen through.

There was nothing that could be done about it. After all, the two had been teammates for a while. They were not only partners but also friends. They had a close relationship and spent every day together. With the senior's meticulous mind and sharp eyes, it was not surprising that she noticed her hidden love.

She tried to calm her breathing and get her heartbeat back to normal.

Well, no problem, she thought.

If it were before, Song Yutang might have panicked and subconsciously chosen to deny it, but now it was different. After hesitating for a moment, the girl slowly nodded.

"Yes, I have some feelings."

As she spoke, a faint blush unconsciously appeared on that pretty and lively face.

"Senior, please don't tell Master for now. Compared to you who can see my thoughts, he doesn't know about this yet. I... am not mentally prepared to tell him the truth."

"He really doesn't know, and I can promise you that I won't tell anyone about it."

Jiang Yunmei sighed softly.

“But that’s not the point.”

"…isn't that the point?"

"Yes, it sounds immoral to snatch a man with a girlfriend, but for me, Miss An is someone I don't know, and Teacher Cen and you are my companions, so I won't blame you, but will only wish you the best... But now, my thoughts have changed, it's better for you not to compete with that woman."

Jiang Yunmei's voice gradually became colder.

"I know you are anxious and frustrated because of the close relationship between Teacher Cen and the others. I didn't want to speak directly, but now I am more worried that you will be hurt more seriously."

"I don't understand, what do you want to say?"

"You...didn't forget my eyes."

She tapped her temple.

"Teacher Cen said that my 'clairvoyance' is very powerful. In terms of observation alone, it is one of the best abilities in the world of curse masters... Although I don't know why he is so sure, I just take it as true. So when we were eating just now, I used these eyes to 'look' at him."

"The conclusion is terrible. I don't see any hope of you winning. From the scale of presence, you are not on the same level. That person is like a star hanging in the sky, so dazzling that it is impossible to look directly at him. In comparison, humans living on the earth are too weak."

Song Yutang listened to her quietly and then laughed softly.

"You just sounded like you were talking about success or failure in love, how come you suddenly turned it into victory or failure in battle?"

"If it is an ordinary person, sometimes when their brains get hot, they may indeed make the choice of putting emotions over material interests, because they don't have many cards in their hands to begin with."

Jiang Yunmei responded seriously.

"But we are different. We will habitually use force to take what we want. If someone dares to rob us, we will just use our fists to settle the matter. We will never talk about fairness and morality."

“How cruel.”

Song Yutang said. But judging from her expression, she obviously had no objection to this judgment.

"Maybe it's the education I received since childhood that makes it easier for me to accept this kind of thing."

Jiang Yunmei sighed.

"It's only natural for a good match to happen, and for interests to be exchanged... People who don't have enough strength can't even keep what they have, let alone fight for it."

Her message was clear.

Love is like a battlefield. If you really tear your face apart and expose your emotional conflicts, the result is likely to turn into a battle between spell-binding masters;
Once the gap between the two sides becomes so large that one side has no hope of winning at all, this argument will no longer be meaningful.

"Thank you for your concern."

Song Yutang's expression remained calm and he gave his companions a faint smile.

"..."

"From your expression, you seem completely unmoved. It seems my words were in vain."

"No, it's just that your premise is wrong." The girl shook her head. "I never thought of arguing with anyone about anything."

"… Have you ever thought about it? You obviously like—"

"It's just a little bit of excitement, it's easy to control."

"..."

The other party said it lightly, but Jiang Yunmei was only half-believing and half-doubting.

Although she was also a novice and knew nothing about love, she had seen pigs run even though she had never eaten pork. When she was the president of the student union, she had seen many young men and women turn from love to hatred, and even fight each other...

"You still don't believe it? Then go tell Master and let him handle it. He can even kick me out of the team."

"Alas, you have said so much..."

What else could she do but believe it. It was the most she could do to remind him to this extent.

"Forget it, just know what's going on."

Jiang Yunmei sighed deeply, lay on her back on the bed, and felt extremely tired today.

Not to mention the physical fatigue, the main thing is the emotional pressure. It feels like the team will disband if it is not handled properly.

The relationship between men and women is indeed the most troublesome and the root of all evil.

She couldn't help but complain in her heart about the man who was the culprit -

Although it seems unfair to blame that guy for being completely unaware of the undercurrents around him, sometimes ignorance is a mistake.

"I have to ask Teacher Cen to compensate me for my mental damage..." she thought.

Seeing her acting so badly, Song Yutang chuckled and went to the bathroom to wash up with light steps.

*
The next day, Cen Dongsheng woke up from the soft bed.

He squinted his eyes and looked out the window, watching the "light" in the sky that was no less bright than the sun, illuminating the entire city.

For some reason, it seemed brighter than the previous two days.

Cen Dongsheng found that he got up late.

Of course, it wasn't because of the bad things he did last night - he really followed the agreement this time and just slept all night long while holding An Zhizhen's sweet and soft body.

Although it's a bit uncomfortable because it's hard, other than that it's a pleasure.

But for some reason, before he went to sleep, Jiang Yunmei sent him a lot of weird messages, such as "Teacher Cen, are you asleep? I can't sleep..." or "Teacher Cen, I think you don't care enough about the psychological development of the team members. Am I the only one who cares about the stability of the team?"

These words left Cen Dongsheng confused, just like the sudden depression that Song Yutang fell into during dinner last night.

How come you two both accumulate stress so easily? I work with you guys every day, but why don’t I feel any stress? Is this the difference between men and women?

"woke up?"

While Cen Dongsheng was deep in thought, his elder sister appeared at the door and said with a gentle smile.

"Let's eat together. Breakfast has been served."

……

Cen Dongsheng climbed out of bed and changed his clothes.

Today's breakfast was scallop congee and Cantonese teahouse dim sum, which was beautifully prepared but not very filling.

The woman sitting opposite remained silent, smiling as she watched the man wolf down his food.

"Speaking of which, do you need to prepare anything for this meeting with your subordinates?"

Cen Dongsheng asked.

"Not 'mine', 'ours'."

An Zhizhen corrected his statement first, and after thinking for a moment, she said:

"Well... there may be some divergences in cognition, so I have to synchronize with you in advance. Do you know that some people working within the Super Working Committee believe that you are the best expert?"

Cen Dongsheng was surprised.

"how come……"

But he soon figured it out, because An Zhizhen rarely took action in public; and in the largest and most well-known "clearing mountains and destroying temples" campaign, those troublesome sorcerers were all defeated by him.

The woman currently has no intention of revealing her abilities, so her image is inevitably shrouded in mystery.

In addition, there is another key point here: a top-class spell-binding master like Cen Dongsheng is already recognized as a top master by people.

It is hard for people who are not insiders, including some spell-control masters, to imagine how shocking the special spells above this are. There is an insurmountable chasm in between.

"You don't show up often, so people can only hear rumors about you." An Zhizhen said, "I am the leader of the Super Working Committee, and you are considered the 'strongest warrior' by the outside world. Our appearance together will make some people feel at ease."

(End of this chapter)