"You bastard, what did you do for Sol to give you his wine before ? Huh? Spit it out! Co on, I won’t let you off you friend-stealing bastard!"
Mar-Dule yelled as he grabbed Byeong-ho’s collar. His words were slurred making it obvious he was drunk.
"Brother Mar-Dule, stop."
Cheong-su said as he and Cheong-san moved to pry Mar-Dule off of their youngest brother before he did sothing. Byeong-ho was already frowning, which ant sothing for soone who wasn’t confrontational, next he might just through hands.
"How annoying, he’s even more belligerent when he’s drunk."
Yoon-jae said before he took a sip from his cup of wine, finishing it. At this point, he was like everyone else with his face slightly flushed.
Without a word, Ushi, who was holding a jar of wine while standing behind him, poured him another cup full.
Before Yoon-jae started drinking he said.
"Aren’t you going to drink as well? Don’t just stand there waiting to pour wine, go ahead and drink too."
Upon getting Yoon-jae’s approval, Ushi happily poured himself a cup of wine. However, as he picked it up about to drink it, Yoon-jae’s ears suddenly prickled as a chirpy voice drifted in from the entrance.
Yoon-jae couldn’t help but instinctively turn his head to look. Then, without a word, he suddenly jumped up and practically flew towards the separate bedroom, his voice echoed as he left.
"Don’t follow ."
Ushi’s hand paused with the cup at his lips when he saw this and heeded Yoon-jae’s orders to not follow him. He turned to look at the entrances Yoon-jae did and he heard more voices outside. Soon he saw a rather beautiful girl at the doorway looking inside the room. They t gazes and Ushi upon seeing her had a realization dawned in his heart as to why Yoon-jae reacted like that.
Ushi watched the girl leave before he took a sip from his wine cup and thought.
’I wonder what the relationship between them is like for him to react like this, and why he was forced to leave the Kunlun Sect. Even the information network of the Miura Clan couldn’t figure out the reason.’
Ushi’s hand paused as a worried expression clouded his face.
’Don’t tell it’s because of his preferences?’
A frown made its way onto Ushi’s face.
’I an it’s a surprise for soone of his status, but it isn’t that uncommon in the cultivation world in general. With such long-life spans a few tend to get curious. Plus, as the son of a concubine, he’s not the future Patriarch of the Kunlun Sect, his older brother Yoon-min is, so there shouldn’t be any pressure for him to have heirs. No, maybe that’s part of the issue.’
Perhaps there were so issues because he was the son of a concubine.
Ushi scratched the back of his head and wondered when was the right ti to ask him about sothing like this. While he was in his thoughts, he saw Yoon-jae suddenly poke his head out of the separate bedroom.
After Yoon-jae looked around the room and then at the entrance, he sighed in relief before walking back to his seat. He glanced at Ushi who was observing him before he silently sat back in his seat and returned to drinking his wine.
Ushi opened his mouth wanting to say sothing, but he managed to stop himself in ti.
"I’m back."
Sol returned to the room with Cian following behind him. He looked at Yoon-jae and said softly.
"Senior Sister Yoon-ah wanted to tell you that she wants you to stop avoiding her."
After Sol had heard from Yoon-jae that he was the son of the Kunlun Sect’s Patriarch during the ti they t Ushi, he had put two and two together and figured out his siblings.
Yoon-ah was one of the four famous beauties of Jianghu, the Sumr Fairy. She was not only known for her extraordinary but her talents as well, and this showed itself as she was one of the Raising Stars of the Six Great Clans.
Yoon-min was a bit older and had already left the Academy a few years ago. In his generation, he was one of the top Sword Genius along with Byeong-ho’s brother Kwang-ho.
Yoon-jae released a tired sigh when he heard Sol’s words.
"It was easier avoiding them when I was in the Academy, but it’ll be difficult now that we’re stuck on this ship for a whole month. Why is my life so difficult?"
Sol looked at Yoon-jae and said softly.
"When my village was destroyed, the first thing I felt was anger then frustration and helplessness. It was only after I lost everyone did I realized how much having them ant to ."
Yoon-jae lowered his head and looked at the wine cup in his hand when he heard that. After a mont he sighed and explained.
"You guys are being serious for no reason. I wasn’t forced out of the Kunlun Sect because of my father or anything like that, I left on my own. But why I left has nothing to do with my preference for a partner, it’s not a secret. Instead, the reason why I left was because I was getting too handso."
"...."
There was a beat of silence after Yoon-jae said that.
Sol and Ushi paused before looking at each other with forced smiles. Cian was also looking at Yoon-jae with a strange expression.
He had never heard soone speak so shalessly. But the thing was, rather than being handso, it was more accurate to say Yoon-jae was beautiful.
Seeing their reactions, Yoon-jae frowned.
"What? I’m telling the truth! Whenever I visit the Training Grounds I... I would... ugh..."
Yoon-jae released a groan and he covered his slightly red face with his hand out of embarrassnt. He really didn’t want to talk about this, it wasn’t that serious, instead it was extrely embarrassing.
"What happened whenever you visit the Training Grounds?"
Sol urged as he was getting curious about Yoon-jae’s situation.
Yoon-jae sighed in his hand before mumbling.
"The disciples would all stare at instead of training, and whenever they received resources from the Sect, they would secretly leave them by my doorway. It got so out of hand I had to stop visiting the Inner Disciple and Core Disciple Training Grounds and was forced by the Elders to stay in seclusion. However, not being able to see made the situation even worse since they would just spend all their ti trying to sneak into my courtyard. Training was the last thing on their minds."
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