Chapter 44.1

Ji Qingzhou froze. She opened her lips to apologize…

However, before she could say anything, Shen Rongyu interrupted her, “Don’t say anything.”

He turned around and walked straight to the yard where he lived, without looking back. Ji Qingzhou followed.

She felt that Shen Rongyu was acting a bit strange recently. She didn’t know what he was blushing about because they were clearly discussing a serious cultivation issue.

She raised her hand and stroked her lips. When Shen Rongyu pressed it just now, she felt the dissipated spirit qi being drawn back through him.

When they were cultivating in the past, she thought he kept holding her wrist because there were so many key meridians there, but now it seemed that wherever there were meridians in place, he could absorb spirit qi with a touch.

Shen Rongyu was indeed special. For example, she couldn’t do it herself, she couldn’t absorb spirit qi into her body no matter what.

Ji Qingzhou followed Shen Rongyu into the courtyard, but he didn’t take the initiative to speak. After leading her into the courtyard, he headed to the bamboo platform as usual, picked up a formation book and started to read it.

He didn’t speak a word, and Ji Qingzhou enjoyed this kind of silence very much. As long as the people around her didn’t make a sound or look at her, she could treat everyone around her as non-existent.

Thus, she walked forward calmly and took You You out of his nest to play with, moving with ease.

Shen Rongyu looked down at the book in his hand, and after reading it for a while, he realized that it was upside down.

He turned the formation book over. The texts on it were familiar, and he had long studied them countless times. He might be reading, but his attention drifted out of the corner of his eye to Ji Qingzhou, who was having a good time with You You.

You You was again nestled in her arms, holding half a green peach. He picked it up and toyed with it, unwilling to eat it immediately.

Ji Qingzhou brought the green peach to his mouth and whispered, “Eat.”

You You took a bite. Sensing the abundant spirit qi in it, his big eyes lit up immediately, and he licked Ji Qingzhou’s fingertips affectionately.

Shen Rongyu looked at her. On one hand, he didn’t want Ji Qingzhou to find out about his abnormality, but now that she truly ignored him, those strange emotions in him started to stir again.

Shen Rongyu thought, I should have let this piece of wood sink from the get go.

It took Ji Qingzhou a long time to realize that Shen Rongyu was staring at her. She hugged You You and turned her head away.

You You grabbed her shoulder and issued a series of “ying-ying-ying”.

As soon as Ji Qingzhou averted her gaze, Shen Rongyu returned his attention to the formation book he had erected. His thin lips were tightly pressed together, but he still exuded a calm and breezy look.

What’s wrong with him? Ji Qingzhou was really helpless. She secretly pinched the small mirror on her chest and called the system.

The system finally came online, and it gave Ji Qingzhou a very rational analysis, “Host, your target is shy.”

“Why is he shy?” Ji Qingzhou was surprised. “He obviously was the first…”

She kept silent, because only she knew what transpired in the cultivation space.

The system misunderstood her meaning, but it surprisingly managed to pick up where she left off, “You asked him if you can cultivate through the lips. Although…it’s strange for him to be shy, it must have been your words that made him shy.”

In fact, the system also guessed wrong because Shen Rongyu didn’t understand why Ji Qingzhou’s lips felt so familiar to him. After some contemplation, he realized his subconscious desire and blushed because of it.

Prior to this, he was not even aware of this matter, and he didn’t know anything about what transpired in the cultivation space.

Ji Qingzhou scratched her head. She didn’t mean to be provocative, so… couldn’t she ask such a question either?

She sighed softly, issuing a faint sound.

“What’s wrong?” Shen Rongyu heard this faint sigh, put down the unturned page of the formation book, and looked at her.

Ji Qingzhou put You You down. She didn’t know how to respond, so she whispered, “Nothing.”

Shen Rongyu’s eyelashes drooped slightly. He furtively observed Ji Qingzhou, who was sitting on the steps in the courtyard with a puzzled expression, and was a little at a loss.

“Have you finished feeding?” he asked out of the blue.

“He’s full.” Ji Qingzhou patted You You’s head, and the little guy let out a “burp”.

Normally at this point, Shen Rongyu would have asked her —”Zhouzhou, shall we cultivate?”

However, he stopped asking recently. He still hadn’t figured out this matter, but Ji Qingzhou’s strange appearance every time they cultivated together always lingered in his mind.

Ji Qingzhou sometimes felt that he was considerate. She concluded that Shen Rongyu might not want to cultivate today, and since he didn’t want to, she couldn’t force him.

Hence, she got up, hugged You You up to carry him to his cage and straightened her dress.

After a moment of contemplation, she said to Shen Rongyu, “Xiao Yu-shixiong, then I’ll be going back.”

Shen Rongyu was puzzled. Were they not going to practice?

His eyelashes partly lifted. An unidentified emotion gathered in his eyes and although he didn’t speak, he didn’t agree to Ji Qingzhou’s farewell. He wasn’t letting her go.

Ji Qingzhou stood on the spot for a long time until her feet became a little sore. She shifted her body weight back and forth between her two legs, and her figure also swayed back and forth.

“Come here and sit down if you’re tired, Zhouzhou,” Shen Rongyu instructed her.

Of course Ji Qingzhou listened to him and walked over obediently. She reached the bamboo platform, sat beside Shen Rongyu and put her hands on her lap, looking well-behaved.

She felt that Shen Rongyu was acting really strange since she finished putting on the jade pendant for him last night.

Ji Qingzhou’s gaze shifted furtively and landed on Shen Rongyu’s waist. The ugly jade pendant she gave him was still there.