Chapter 76 Nine Links

Ye Jinshu's words sounded arrogant, but in fact they were not that arrogant.

She didn't even look down on him like she used to, nor did she use a deliberate sneering tone in her voice.

It was just a simple "Do you dare?" It was not a threat, it was just a statement of fact.

But it was this kind of Ye Jinshu that made Chu Yu feel uneasy. Compared to the current Ye Jinshu who seemed to not care about anything that happened, Chu Yu still preferred the old Ye Jinshu who could get angry at any time.

At least Ye Jinshu was easy to understand at that time.

But he couldn’t understand what Ye Jinshu said now.

Seeing that the hard approach didn’t work, Chu Yu could only try the soft approach.

He sighed, and his cold voice softened instantly: "Jinshu, you know that's not what I meant. I'm just worried about you and want to help you. Ever since you suddenly hung that strange sign at the gate of Anping Palace, tell me how long it has been since we last met. After all, I have always stood by you since I was a child. You are so cruel to treat me like this."

As Chu Yu spoke, he took out a string of nine linked rings and handed it to Ye Jinshu: "Here, this is a new product from Qizhen Pavilion. There are only two in total. The other one was taken by someone else. I bought this one by using my power to pressure someone else."

Ye Jinshu looked at the Nine Rings in Chu Yu's hand and found it familiar.

The Nine Links were given to her by Chu Yu in every life.

In her first life, she couldn't untie the nine rings no matter what she did, so she just left them casually in the palace.

Later, the Nine Rings disappeared at some point, but Ye Jinshu didn't care. At that time, she hadn't spoken to Chu Yu for a long time, so naturally she wouldn't care about his things.

After his rebirth, Ye Jinshu did not collect Chu Yu's Nine-Rings again. Not long after, the Nine-Rings fell into Ye Ruoyan's hands.

When Ye Ruoyan untied the Nine Rings in public, Ye Jinshu was smart for once and guessed where the Nine Rings in the first life had gone.

After another rebirth, Ye Jinshu verified this guess and confirmed that although Chu Yu was on her side on the surface, he had fallen in love with Ye Ruoyan since some time ago.

It was only after confirming this that Ye Jinshu discovered that the women Chu Yu later fell in love with all had a resemblance to Ye Ruoyan.

The previous five generations of Ye Jinshu had never solved the Nine Rings.

Did she not want to?
It's she who can't.

but!

Ye Jinshu met her sister Jiang! Sister Jiang knows everything and can do everything. She can win with just nine consecutive rings!
As for why she learned the Nine Rings in her previous life, we have to start from her previous life.

At that time, apart from checking the fields every day, the sisters in the whole village did nothing but play cards, gossip and eat melon seeds.

Four people, a plate of melon seeds, and two benches, sat down at the door. Everyone on that street was ruined in the eyes of the sisters.

Jiang Sisi is the most self-disciplined among the sisters. She believes that if they continue like this, the comfortable life will erode the sisters' will, and they must start to keep their brains clear!

So Jiang Sisi took out a nine-ring chain and began to encourage her sisters to think and research.

Ye Jinshu relied on her thinking ability which was always one step behind, and even when other sisters were able to solve the Nine Rings, she still couldn't understand the principle behind it.

Ye Jinshu sneered when he couldn't untie Chu Yu's Nine Rings, and felt depressed when he couldn't untie Jiang Sisi's Nine Rings.

Finally, Jiang Sisi couldn't bear it anymore and taught Ye Jinshu how to solve the Nine Links. She also patiently explained the principle to her many times before Ye Jinshu finally learned it! Now, looking at the Nine Links that Chu Yu handed to her, Ye Jinshu felt an impulse that she hadn't felt for a long time.

In the past, there had never been any change in the matter of the Nine Rings, that is, she had never untied the Nine Rings that Chu Yu handed over.

But now she has learned to understand the law. If she can solve the Nine Rings this time, does it mean that the endings of Jiang Sisi and Qi Ningyu will also change?

Ye Jinshu has no idea about her own future, but she thinks she can still give it a try for her sisters' future.

She reached out and took the nine-ring chain handed to her by Chu Yu, and a smile immediately broke out on Chu Yu's face.

He mistook Ye Jinshu's action as a sign of wanting to reconcile with him.

"Don't worry, Jinshu. Second brother is still on your side. I will plead for you in this matter." Chu Yu almost blurted out a plea in front of Ye Ruoyan, but when he thought of Ye Jinshu's attitude towards Ye Ruoyan, he took his words back.

He has been following Ye Ruoyan to help her these days, and feels that he can still have a say in front of Ye Ruoyan.

This time, Ye Jinshu's matter is big and small, and the main point of conflict actually lies with Ye Ruoyan.

Ye Ruoyan is now quite popular among the people. If she is willing to speak up, and considering that the emperor and empress are biased, Ye Jinshu's matter can actually be resolved quickly.

Chu Yu is not stupid, he understands everything, but he still insists on coming to Ye Jinshu to make a scene. In the final analysis, he is just jealous.

Jealous that now Ye Jinshu has other people around her who care about her and protect her.

Jealous that the fourth brother could abandon his original position and stand on Ye Jinshu's side without caring about others.

You know, Ye Jinshu was originally the girl who could only rely on him.

Now Chu Yu desperately wants Ye Jinshu to see him again and rely on him as before, which is why he uses this incident to scare Ye Jinshu.

Unfortunately, Ye Jinshu doesn't buy it.

Chu Yu could only be thankful that the little gadgets he brought could win Ye Jinshu's heart.

He began to explain how hard he had worked to buy the Nine-Ring Chain, so that Ye Jinshu would know the value of the gift he gave.

"This time, the Nine Linked Rings were brought from Dongchen Country. There are only two of them. They were originally treasures that were not for sale. They were placed in the Qizhen Pavilion and waited for the right person to solve them before they could be taken away. No one could solve them for a month, and the Qizhen Pavilion made a lot of money. The day before I bought the Nine Linked Rings, the Nine Linked Rings were solved and taken away by a mysterious person."

"It was also thanks to that mysterious person that the other Nine Links was put up for auction."

"Jinshu, do you know how much my second brother spent to buy this Nine-Link Ring?"

Chu Yu chattered for a long time, but found that Ye Jinshu ignored him. Instead, he kept fiddling with the nine rings in his hand, taking them off and putting them on again.

Chu Yu looked at it for a while and felt that Ye Jinshu was trying to solve it but couldn't. He smiled and said, "Jinshu, it will take more than a day to solve this nine-ring chain."

Chu Yu originally wanted to persuade Ye Jinshu, but after watching Ye Jinshu's actions for a while, he suddenly froze.

Ye Jinshu took the ring and put it on quickly and decisively, without any confusion.

It didn't seem like a random attempt without any clue, but rather like a confident answer that one already had.

(End of this chapter)