Chapter 35.2

I’m Not Obliged To Coax You (2)

The moment she opened the courtyard door, Youyou came rushing. Ji Qingzhou broke the snow grass apart and slowly fed Youyou.

Shen Rongyu leaned on the bamboo platform in the courtyard and stared at her with his chin supported.

Ji Qingzhou took care of Youyou patiently, but she was sluggish. Oftentimes, Youyou just pounced on the snow dew grass and continued eating before she had sorted them out.

After feeding Youyou in such a muddled state, she turned around and looked at him. “Xiao Yu-shixiong, are we going to cultivate?”

Youyou sat on her head and wiped his mouth. His wings flapped and closed, and his claws scratched her head a little, but Ji Qingzhou didn’t reprimand him.

Shen Rongyu stared at her, and he began to tease the block of wood again. “Zhouzhou, give me a smile, and I will help you practice again.”

Ji Qingzhou didn’t fall for his bait at all. She pursed her lips and said, “Xiao Yu-shixiong, stop that.”

The two fell into a long silence again. Ji Qingzhou almost always made Shen Rongyu give in every time, because she insisted on what she decided on. Even if this stalemate progressed deep into the night, it didn’t matter. She was much more stubborn than Shen Rongyu was.

In the end, Shen Rongyu was the first to break the silence: “Come here.”

Ji Qingzhou thought that Shen Rongyu would ignore her. After all, she was so ungrateful, so she was startled and looked at Shen Rongyu.

“I’m counting to —” Count to three. Shen Rongyu initially thought that Ji Qingzhou was dawdling and wanted to urge her to move quickly, but he swallowed the rest of his words.

He sighed and said helplessly, “Forget it, come slowly.”

Ji Qingzhou took him at his word and took her time walking forward. She stood in front of Shen Rongyu and looked down at the silver Queen of the Night that embellished his robe around his waist. “Xiao Yu-shixiong, I’m just a little upset.”

“I met the beast in my first Beast Mastery Class. Elder Qu is nice, and said I may bring another there. But for the next class, do I have to bring another one there?” Ji Qingzhou informed him slowly. “I can’t give her such expectations, but she got unhappy, so I’m also upset.”

Shen Rongyu didn’t understand Ji Qingzhou’s sentiments. He could hardly understand the normal feelings of human beings. Besides, his affection for her had always been superficial and carefully designed.

When applying medicine on her, even the force of his fingertips that rubbed her palm was gentle and appropriate.

The person in Elder Qu’s story, the one who deceived the spirit beast, the one who abandoned it and caused it to die from starvation was none other than Shen Rongyu.

“It’s just a spirit beast,” Shen Rongyu said to her.

“En,” Ji Qingzhou replied.

Deep inside, she thought that spirit beasts were more than just spirit beasts. Even if cultivators are their masters, they also have to fulfill their master’s obligations.

However, she didn’t have time to dwell too much on it, because Shen Rongyu grasped her wrist, and she fell into his arms. In an instant, her consciousness entered their cultivation space.

In the cultivation space, Shen Rongyu was still fervently interested in her. His red qi clung to her neck, making Ji Qingzhou to tilt her head sideways. Her fingertips wrapped around these wispy swirls, and they tickled her palms, because the red qi constantly rubbed against her injuries today.

By the time they regained consciousness, it was already a moonlit night, and a lonely moon hung in the sky, shedding silvery light.

Ji Qingzhou retreated from Shen Rongyu’s arms. Unexpectedly, Shen Rongyu had actually kept his word. He apologized, and he no longer touched her earlobes in the cultivation space.

Nevertheless, he kept rubbing her palms, doing who knew what. She had given up a lot of space for him, yet he still stuck up to her, as if he couldn’t stand anywhere else other than hers.

But the moment she started cultivating with him, she temporarily forgot about Bing Shuang, because the lip-like red qi tenderly kissed her palm. She was struck with an electric shock-like sensation and was left with no time to brood over other things.

Shen Rongyu sent her back to her courtyard. Ji Qingzhou stood in the courtyard, intending to bid Shen Rongyu goodbye.

But Shen Rongyu sheathed his sword, and he called her, “Zhouzhou.”

Ji Qingzhou looked at him with a puzzled expression, and her eyes fell on his slender fingers.

He extended his closed hand, and in the next moment he unfurled his palm in front of her. An illusion of a silvery immortal epiphyllum appeared in his palm, along with the leaves of the blossom falling down his fingers.

A flower was blooming in the center of his palm, and this immortal epiphyllum was even more beautiful than what she saw in Elder Qiao Shu’s place that day.

False illusions have always been more intoxicating and beautiful than reality.

Ji Qingzhou liked this flower. She tentatively stretched out her hand and touched the petals. The slender petals containing shimmering light disappeared because of her touch and turned into a stream of light.

“Are you happy?” Shen Rongyu asked her, as if he wasn’t the one who said he wasn’t obliged to coax anyone not long ago.

No one would dislike such a flower, and Ji Qingzhou was the same. The corners of her lips were daintily raised, and she nodded in response.

She seemed to be alive again from head to toe, which reminded Shen Rongyu of how Elder Qiao Shu looked when he was serving his short-lived flowers.

This flower was too difficult to raise, and delicate at that.

Now that he thought about it, it was true.

Ji Qingzhou knew that Shen Rongyu was looking at her. His eyes might have a dazzling attraction in them, but her attention was all on the immortal epiphyllum.

She puffed out her cheeks and blew lightly at the immortal epiphyllum’s phantom. The phantom, like a gathering of fireflies, was blown away by the wind, and dots of plain white streaks scattered away, casting a pure and beautiful light on her cheeks.

Ji Qingzhou’s eyes were remarkably focused, and sincere joy radiated from her eyes. She liked it, and she was very happy, nothing more.

Shen Rongyu stared at her. The thin ice in the depths of his eyes remained like an indestructible city wall, but he seemed to be seeing that beautiful flower blooming in the corner of the wall again.

He folded his palm, and streams of light gathered into the palm. The surrounding area instantly darkened.

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