Rebirth of an Idle Noblewoman

Panda Novel

“And that’s how things are.” Yi Bing sat by the table, telling Gu Xiqiao everything. After he was done, he looked towards Jiang Shuxuan, who was sitting next to her, as cold as usual. He didn’t look any different than before.

But this person didn’t remember anything, except for Gu Xiqiao. Ever since he brought her back, he had yet to leave her side at all, not a single step.

Yi Bing let out a sigh of relief. “Fortunately, Big Boss still remembers you.”

“Does everyone know about this?” Gu Xiqiao asked seriously.

“Only I and Yi Tong are aware.” Yi Bing shook his head. Now were troubling times. If everyone else were to find out that Jiang Shuxuan had lost his memories, everything would become even more troublesome. “But the Elders Association requires Big Boss to make an appearance now.”

So once he found out that Gu Xiqiao had woken up, he rushed over here immediately.

“Go out and wait a bit,” Gu Xiqiao said, glancing at Yi Bing. Her expression had changed only in the beginning when she first found out, but after that she was being extremely calm.

Gu Xiqiao’s attitude made Yi Bing feel assured, and his heart finally felt like something heavy had been lifted off it, as though he had found his support pillar once again.

“Brother Jiang, you really don’t remember anything?” Gu Xiqiao asked, turning to Jiang Shuxuan once Yi Bing had stepped out.

Jiang Shuxuan pursed his lips. “I remember you.”

The moment he woke up, he found that he couldn’t remember anything. Everyone around him were strangers, and he was in a panic. He followed the familiar aura that was Gu Xiqiao and found her, and while everyone around him were still strangers, she was the only familiar face.

In fact, he had been afraid of letting Gu Xiqiao know about this, because Yi Bing’s reaction was huge when he first found out.

But when Gu Xiqiao found out, she wasn’t surprised, and there weren’t any other reactions on her face either. She just looked at him the same way she was looking at him now, which made him feel at ease.

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“Yeah.” Gu Xiqiao continued to look at Jiang Shuxuan, her fingers touching his pulse. His hand was chillingly cold, and it felt like ice when she touched him. There was nothing wrong with his pulse. “Then, do you remember how you met me?”

“I only remember you.” Jiang Shuxuan lowered his head, his voice slightly lost. He only remembered her, remembering that this person was the only one in his mind that he couldn’t forget. As for all the other details, he didn’t know anything.

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“It’s okay,” Gu Xiqiao reassured him, holding his hands. Her eyes were slightly misty as she looked at him, it was good enough that he remembered her. “That person just now is Yi Bing, Brother Jiang. He’s your most trusted subordinate, and you have to follow him to meet a few others. I’ll accompany you.”

“No, you rest. I’ll be right back.” Jiang Shuxuan was silent for a while, before replying.

“That’s fine too. You don’t have to talk when the time comes, if someone says something, you can just give them a glance.” Gu Xiqiao got up to see him out, and told him a little on how to treat those elders, and also explained some of the relationships and people that he knew.

Fortunately, he was known for being cold, and it wasn’t like he talked much to begin with. This bout of memory loss wouldn’t be too hard for him.

Jiang Shuxuan nodded obediently. He didn’t know anything, and he hadn’t planned on meeting those people, but now he listened to everything that Gu Xiqiao was telling him.

His had strong mental power, and it was easy for him to quickly remember all the people that Gu Xiqiao was telling him about.

When Gu Xiqiao disappeared from his sight, Jiang Shuxuan’s aura changed, dropping cold to the point that it felt stinging to the people around him.

“Big Boss,” Yi Bing looked at Jiang Shuxuan, seeing that he had gone the wrong way, his mouth twitched. “It’s this way.”

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Jiang Shuxuan paused in his steps, then turned around.

“Young Master Jiang.” Everyone in the ancient martial arts world was gathered in the hall, including the elders, patriarchs, heirs and also the administrator of the secular world—Feng Jiu.

Jiang Shuxuan sat in the only vacant seat, his head lowered and not speaking a word.

The great elder first first reported the happenings of the ancient martial arts world, before his gaze turned to Jiang Shuxuan. “As for the United States…”

“Hm.” Jiang Shuxuan spared a glance at the great elder, his voice low and cold.

The great elder was taken aback, Young Master Jiang seemed even more frightening than before.

From the start to end, Jiang Shuxuan only said a few words, and most of them were either ‘Hm’ or ‘I see’.

However, just these few words were enough to make these bunch of elders from the ancient martial arts world quake in their boots. They didn’t dare to say anything more unnecessary, cold sweat breaking out profusely.

Yi Bing, who was standing at the side, couldn’t help the twitching of his mouth. Miss Gu was awesome indeed, teaching Big Boss the way to deal with these people in such a short amount of time. He could use this method to deal with basically anything, and no one would probably notice anything different.

Feng Jiu who had been sitting at the side, seeing that the great elder had yet to raise any mention about him, finally couldn’t take it anymore. “Young Master Jiang, I’ll get straight to the point. I’m here today mainly because of Miss Gu, she’s really doing things so irresponsibly without looking at the overall situation…”

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When Feng Jiu started speaking, the second elder was trying his best to signal him to stop with his eyes. Of all the people you had to talk about, it had to be Miss Gu?

‘You want to die, don’t you? Right? You really want to die, right?!

‘Don’t you know both Jiang Shuxuan and Gu Xiqiao, both of them are terrifying in their own right!’

Sadly, Feng Jiu didn’t see the second elder’s gaze, and the old man gave up, his eyes twitching.

“And?” Jiang Shuxuan didn’t bother waiting for Feng Jiu to finish talking, raising his head to look at him. His onyx, black eyes were deep like the abyss, and with just a look from these eyes, it made people feel like they couldn’t breath. Feng Jiu obviously took the brunt of this look, he had yet to be done speaking, and Jiang Shuxuan’s reaction was already so big.

“Young Master Jiang, I can’t deny that Miss Gu is powerful, but these bunch of people nearly destroyed the entire city.” Feng Jiu tried to persuade Jiang Shuxuan. “I know that she broke the formation, but I also know that the formation wouldn’t have existed if it weren’t for her in the first place. You have your own rules in the ancient martial arts world, but we also have an agreement that no harm would come to the people in the secular world. This time, the entire Mingzhou was almost destroyed. Young Master Jiang, I hope that you can restrain Miss Gu and her team, their abilities are too strong, and if they continue to do things without thinking of the consequences, it simply will be disastrous for China.”

Jiang Shuxuan was the big boss of the Mahjong Army, who at the same time maintains the balance between the ancient martial arts world and the secular world.

Feng Jiu knew that this matter had to be discussed with Jiang Shuxuan to be taken seriously.

Feng Jiu had thought that Jiang Shuxuan would listen to his opinions. He had never heard of this name ‘Gu Xiqiao’ before, and so he didn’t think that she was anyone important.

But he didn’t expect Jiang Shuxuan to look at him with an indifferent expression after what he had said. “Say, if I were to ask you to leave your life here today, what would you do?”

His expression remained unchanged, and Feng Jiu tried his hardest to find any hint of joke in his face, but he couldn’t find any. A chill crept up his spine, and he suddenly realized that Jiang Shuxuan was serious, he was being super serious right now. He really was thinking of killing him right now.

Feng Jiu was shocked, and he couldn’t help but blurt out. “It’s precisely because of your current attitude, that she doesn’t feel any remorse at all!”

Feng Jiu couldn’t understand, the entire Mingzhou had almost died this time, and it caused a lot of disputes on the internet too. This made Feng Jiu extremely angry, all of these people in the ancient martial arts world were so powerful that they didn’t consider people from the secular world to be worth a life, did they?

The second elder was already banging his head against the table in front of him repeatedly. This idiot!

“I have this attitude right now, and I will always have this attitude. What else do you want to say?” Jiang Shuxuan’s fingers tapped on the table, making tapping sounds that probably signified that he was getting impatient.

Jiang Shuxuan didn’t remember anything, but there was an indescribable sorrow that grew in his heart suddenly.

It felt like he had been in such a position a long time ago—standing all by his lonesome on the opposite side of the entire world.

Gu Xiqiao, as well as the people at her side, had paid so much effort for the sake of saving the entire Mingzhou, saving countless lives in secret. No one cared about what they had gone through, instead, they were being accused and questioned by these people.

Jiang Shuxuan was feeling extremely angry.

Murong Feiye, who was sitting at the side, placed down the cup in his hands. His eyes were lowered, the corners of his mouth twitching. The guy had been put in his place and had his mouth shut up, just like that.

Feng Jiu looked at Jiang Shuxuan, a furious expression on his face! Of course he still had things he wanted to say! He was too used to this, wasn’t he? You should restrain her a little? But would you listen? But no matter how angry he got, he couldn’t do anything to Jiang Shuxuan!

What could he do? Why was there a person like Jiang Shuxuan in this world?

“Young Master Jiang, don’t get angry, we’ll handle this matter.” The great elder finally stood up. Since returning from Delxun Forest, Jiang Shuxuan seemed to have changed. His personality was unpredictable, and the great elder wondered whether Jiang Shuxuan would really just give one slap and kill off Feng Jiu if he got impatient anymore than this.

Jiang Shuxuan nodded and got up, striding out the door. He didn’t want to stay another second longer in this place.

Murong Feiye caught sight of Mo Li’s disappearing figure, shaking his head. He sent a text to Baili Bin—[Mo Li has met with your sister.]

Then, not bothered how Baili Bin would react, he left the place. He gave one last glance to Feng Jiu before he did, shaking his head again. Of all the things he had to say, he had to talk about Gu Xiqiao in front of this bunch of people. Was he really looking to die?

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Mo Li, who was standing by the gate, watched as Jiang Shuxuan left the place without so much as a glance at her. She couldn’t help but call out to him, “Brother!”

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She hadn’t entered the gates to hear what those people had been talking about, but since she heard that Jiang Shuxuan was here, she had rushed over to try to catch him, and now she stood here, intercepting him at the gates. She looked up at him, stubbornly refusing to avert her gaze.

Though his eyes had never stayed more than a second on her own face in all the time she had known him.

Jiang Shuxuan finally stopped, turning around slowly. He narrowed his eyes as he looked at Mo Li, his elegant face looking straight at her, and his eyes were his usual cold ones, as well as his voice. “You called me ‘brother’?”

In Gu Xiqiao’s explanations about his relationships and people, she had never mentioned a sister. If he had one, she definitely would have told him.

Gu Xiqiao wouldn’t lie to him, so the one who was lying was this girl then.

“Jiang Shuxuan, stop right there!” Mo Li stepped forward, wanting to pull on the corner of his clothes, but before she could touch him, her neck felt a chill.

She lowered her head to see the cold blades of the Seven-Frosted Blade resting there, feeling a prickle of pain from her neck.

“You’re lying.” Jiang Shuxuan stood, his hands clasped behind him, a chilling look on his face.

Mo Li stared at Jiang Shuxuan, feeling that he was even more unfathomable than before, but the smile was still on her face as she replied, “Who says? I’m not only your sister, but also the most important person to you.”

Hearing those words, Jiang Shuxuan’s face hardened further. The Seven-Frosted Blade let out a buzzing sound, flying straight towards Mo Li’s neck.

What nonsense, he couldn’t even remember who she was, how could she be his most important person!

Yi Bing was initially standing on the side, but when he saw what was happening, he paled. He immediately ran up to stop him, saying in a low voice next to his ear, “Big Boss, you can’t kill this person.”

Gu Xiqiao had said before, Yi Bing was someone he could trust.

Jiang Shuxuan hesitated a while, before withdrawing the Seven-Frosted Blade. He didn’t bother to give another look to Mo Li, turning around and leaving immediately.

Yi Bing turn to follow behind him, but he glanced back at her, giving a muttered greeting to Mo Li before he left.

“He’s getting less and less humane.” Mo Li sighed, regaining her spirit soon after as she watched Jiang Shuxuan’s disappearing back.

But what was with Yi Bing’s last look?

Murong Feiye had been standing not far away, watching this interaction. Only after Jiang Shuxuan left, did he come out and walk to her.

“Mo Li,” Murong Feiye started, a sly smile on his lips. “Do you know what happened to Jiang Tong?”

Jiang Tong? Mo Li frowned the moment the name was mentioned. She had been encased in ice for three years, and knew nothing about the latest happenings in the outside world. When she came back, all she heard from Shu Chen was ‘Qiao Qiao this’ and ‘Qiao Qiao that’, so she had gone to the great elder to find out who this person was. After that, she followed the second elder to Mingzhou, which lead up to where they were now.

Everything that happened in Mingzhou was so exciting and intense, Mo Li didn’t have time to look at the current happenings of the ancient martial arts world.

When Murong Feiye mentioned that name, she suddenly recalled that when she had gone back this time, Shu Chen had not mentioned the name ‘Jiang Tong’ once. The last she remembered, Shu Chen had thoughts of getting Jiang Tong to join their family, which made her heart skip at the thought. “Jiang Tong? What happened to her?”

That’s strange, Jiang Tong should have been the first person to lose her cool when Mo Li returned.

“Just wait till you get back to the ancient martial arts world, you’ll know.” Murong Feiye smiled in triumph as he looked at Mo Li.

The current ancient martial arts world had been turned upside down by Gu Xiqiao, and it was no longer the same as it was years ago.

“Murong Feiye!” Mo Li frowned, opening her mouth with the intention to use her charmspeak.

“You better not use your charmspeak on me again.” Murong Feiye tilted his head slightly to look back at her, a sinister smile on his face. “Otherwise, I’ll get Miss Gu to tell us how to make your charmspeak invalid to everyone else.”

He was already feeling irritated on the inside, and seeing Mo Li like this only served to make him feel more irritated, and so he didn’t tell her of Gu Xiqiao and Jiang Shuxuan’s relationship.

Mo Li abruptly swallowed the words that she had wanted to say.

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Gu Xiqiao’s smile disappeared after Jiang Shuxuan left. What had happened to Jiang Shuxuan? She took a deep breath, brushing aside those questions for now.

“Beauty Qiao, good morning! Hurry up and look at Weibo!” Jiji opened the door and greeted her.

“What happened to you?” Gu Xiqiao pulled out her phone, opening the app. The corner of her eyes were still on Jiji’s broken and battered body, her fingers pausing in what she was doing.

“Let’s not talk about it, I was slapped by Master Jiang.” Jiji whimpered. “Beauty Qiao, you have to get justice for me! Master Jiang is absolutely out of control now!”

Gu Xiqiao turned her attention to the page on the phone in her hand. “… That was a good slap.”

Jiji fell to the ground and cried.

Clicking on Weibo’s hot topics, the headlines caught her eyes, Gu Xiqiao read through it, feeling joyful.

The popular headline on Weibo was titled ‘Things We Regular Folk Don’t Know About’.

“Look at this, the first picture is a thick bolt of lightning. It was taken by OP on the balcony yesterday. OP actually went to Fairy Lake yesterday with some friends, but an earthquake happened. A group of soldiers came and led the regular folk away. OP was sick, that’s why I didn’t leave the hotel, and was able to witness such a scene! Take a look at the second picture, the dense silhouettes in the air! And those buildings beside the lake, it looked like it had been struck by lightning… [JPEG] [JPEG] [JPEG] [JPEG] [JPEG] Do you think this is something ordinary people will be able to do?”

“OP, if you want to photoshop pictures, you are also too exaggerated already man. 👋👋”

“OP, I suggest that you go to another hospital. 😀”

“OP, you’re great. 😀”

In the beginning, all the responses were similar, until a famous photoshop master finally posted a comment that said, “This picture, it wasn’t photoshopped.”

Because of this sentence, the entire Weibo exploded in an instant.

Most people were skeptical about it, but there were people who believed it. If it wasn’t photoshopped, then this was a serious matter. Especially since people from Mingzhou were commenting things like, “Last night, we couldn’t see any moon or stars. It felt like we had sunk underground!”

This matter had exploded so much that even the officials in Weibo couldn’t do anything to stop it.

If this continued on, the consequences would really be serious, and the ordinary people would start to panic.

Gu Xiqiao touched her chin thoughtfully, then reached out and forwarded this Weibo.

(Verified) For A Millenium: Have I told you guys that I’m actually from Mars? 👋 //@ OP

She hasn’t posted in Weibo for almost a month, but her fans still followed her Weibo all the same. Her influence was undeniable, and so her entire page has become like this:

“No selfie, not good 👋”

“Beauty Gu, you’ve disappeared for 36 days and 45 hours 😢”

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“What a coincidence, I am also from Mars.”

“Just say that you’re pretty, that’s enough. 🙂”

“Thinking of you saying this with such a beautiful serious face, fine! I’ll believe you no matter what you say!”

“I’m a descendant of a dragon1, a flower of our motherland, and a daughter of China. Have I said that? Do you see me showing off?”

“I’ve finally found the organization, I thought I was the only one left from Mars. 🐕”

“C*nt, the labour and capital aren’t humans also they don’t say anything!”

“The comments bow down to you, seriously.”

Those comments were still coming in, and a few minutes later, Li Yu reposted this Weibo that Gu Xiqiao had posted.

(Verified) Li Yu: Head back to Mars with me, sis. I’m your brother for real //@ (Verified) For A Millenium: Great, have I told you guys that I’m actually from Mars? 👋 //@ OP

“Officially, you both aren’t siblings. Please hit the blackboard and draw the key points1!”

“No matter how bright the moon shines at any time, my ‘god’ you will still be a single dog. 😀”

“My god and goddess are both bragging seriously right now, I won’t say anymore. My flying saucer is about to drive back to Bala Bala planet.”

“My parents actually told me that I’m a descendant of the Flame Emperor, this is a secret that I never dared to tell anyone.”

“Up there, you’re not only a descendant of the Flame, you’re also the descendant of Yanhuang1.”

Then, Song Guanjing, Ning Qing and a few other celebrities also reposted this Weibo, until the phrase ‘Have I told you guys that I’m actually from Mars?’ became a sort of catch phrase on the internet throughout the entire China, and the list of popular topics in Weibo also changed into ‘God And Goddess, Why Don’t You Guys Go Up To Heaven’.

A turmoil that had yet to start was toppled over by Gu Xiqiao in an instant, buried six feet under.

“Beauty Qiao, you’re the real awesome one here.” Jiji watched for a while, before finally saying that to her.

As expected of her! It was practically like murdering people without a trace, extremely sinister and vicious indeed!

The relevant departments in Weibo couldn’t figure out a way to suppress or divert this matter for a long time, and Gu Xiqiao had easily solved it.

She was flipping through the comments, only moving to turn off her phone when she reached Zhuge Yan’s courtyard. Just before she did, she saw a message that Li Yu had sent over.

Li Yu: Miss Gu, I’m in America, and I met an interesting person. [JPEG]

Gu Xiqiao opened the picture, and her hands paused. It was a picture of Gu Xijin, and she was standing next to a man. The photo was slightly blurred, but she could still recognize the person in it. The man was also familiar.

If he was familiar, then she should have met him before. With her good memory, how come she couldn’t recall?

Gu Xiqiao was deep in thought.

Until Zhuge Yan called her name, and she finally came back to herself.

“How are your injuries?” Zhuge Yan seemed to already know that she would come looking for him. He was sitting at the table in the yard, another cup of tea already in front of the vacant chair.

“It’s fine, not something I’ll die from.” Gu XIqiao sat in the seat where the cup was placed. She reckoned it would take a while more before she was used to so much chi in her body.

The chi circulating in her body was still too rampant, although Jiang Shuxuan had sorted it out, there were still bursts of energy pressure in her limbs and bones, which was something only she could slowly clear by herself.

Luckily, after that battle, even her opponent was badly injured, and shouldn’t be making a comeback anytime soon yet. They needed to take advantage of this downtime to improve the strength of the ancient martial arts world, and Gu Xiqiao was worried about it, especially since Jiang Shuxuan was in this state too.

Zhuge Yan’s expression relaxed slightly after hearing her words. When he had seen her, he already knew that her injuries were probably not too serious.

It’s just that his mind couldn’t help but replay the scene that happened yesterday night, and he opened his mouth, wanting to ask something, but then he decided against it, the corner of his lips lifting up. “Thank you for helping me save the flowers in the yard.”

Zhuge Yan’s expression was calmed as usual, and he took a sip of tea before continuing, “I didn’t understand some moves in the last chess game, we should have another game when we have the chance.”

Gu Xiqiao had come today to talk about the calamity and turning point, and didn’t expect Zhuge Yan to bring this up instead. Before she could reply, the door to the yard was opened.

Squeak!

A handsome figure stood outside the door, his expression was indifferent, and his ink eyes were dark. His eyes swept across the courtyard, pausing on Zhuge Yan, and it felt like his eyes got slightly colder.