A bracelet appeared on Qing Mo's fair and clean palm.
The decorations on the bracelet were neither expensive gold nor rare diamonds.
Instead, they were youthful, budding jasmine flowers waiting to bloom.
The jasmine buds were cloud-white with tender green calyxes, trailed by short, delicate green stems.
They were strung together by a slender wire, connected end to end in a tight embrace.
Qing Mo glanced at the jasmine bracelet in her hand, then looked up at Lin Yu.
He was smiling brightly.
On that somewhat fierce and wicked face of his, his smile was gentle and sunny.
Qing Mo stared blankly for a moment, a sudden flush of heat rising to her cheeks. She lowered her gaze as if fleeing, returning her attention to the jasmine bracelet in her palm.
Subconsciously, just like how one naturally wants to lean in and smell a beautiful flower.
Qing Mo pulled her hand back, brought the jasmine bracelet to her nose, and took a gentle sniff.
A faint jasmine fragrance filled her nose; the light and elegant scent was extremely pleasant.
Suddenly.
As if remembering that she was still supposed to be angry.
Qing Mo immediately reined in the girlish delight on her face, reverting to an icy demeanor.
Though still tough on the outside and soft on the inside.
Seeing Qing Mo's face turn cold, Lin Yu's heart skipped a beat.
Oh no!
Did she not like the gift?
Or were the buds not fresh and lacking fragrance?
That shouldn't be.
When I picked them out, these were the most fragrant ones...
...
Before Lin Yu could continue overthinking, Qing Mo suddenly reached out, offering her hand and the jasmine bracelet in her palm to him.
She turned her head away so Lin Yu couldn't see her expression, and ordered in an icy tone that carried a hint of endearing naivety:
"Put it on me!"
Lin Yu was taken aback.
?
What was going on?
He looked at Qing Mo.
Her face was turned away, so Lin Yu couldn't see it; he could only see her earlobes gradually turning from cool white to pink, and then to red.
Looking at her like this, Lin Yu felt pleasantly surprised and couldn't help but want to smile.
What was this?
Qing Mo's tsundere mode?
Did I unlock a hidden version of her?
Seeing that Qing Mo was no longer angry, Lin Yu plopped down beside her, pressed his body against her back, wrapped his arms around her waist, and rested his chin just above her shoulder.
In a posture that held her in his embrace, he gently put the cloud-white and tender-green jasmine bracelet on her wrist.
Held in his arms, Qing Mo didn't even put up a token resistance; she merely shrank her shoulders slightly and leaned softly against him.
Lin Yu's breath brushed against her ear and the crook of her neck. It tickled, making her ears feel so hot they practically burned.
This Lin Yu!
Qing Mo pursed her lips slightly, feeling quite indignant in her heart.
When did he become so good at handling women...
...
After putting the bracelet on her, Lin Yu didn't let go of Qing Mo. He just kept holding her like that.
He leaned against the sofa, and she leaned against him.
In this comfortable and relaxing tranquility, both of their gazes coincidentally fell upon the jasmine bracelet on Qing Mo's wrist.
After looking at it for a moment, Lin Yu nodded to himself.
He felt his taste was really quite good.
Qing Mo's skin was cool and white, making anything she wore look good, but whatever she wore just looked standardly nice.
After looking at it for a long time, it wouldn't give people a striking sensation.
But with this flower bracelet on, Lin Yu felt it was a perfect match.
The cloud-white buds were slightly parted, and the not-yet-fully-bloomed petals gave off a rich sense of vitality.
The cool white and cloud white complemented each other, highlighting their respective beauties.
The tender green stems tinged with yellow-green dotted throughout added a bright touch of life.
It was unimaginably beautiful.
Looks great!
Lin Yu appraised silently.
He just wondered what it would look like on Xia Muzhu and Tang Manman.
Emmm...
One of them had milky white skin, and the other had translucent white skin.
It seemed it wouldn't suit either of them...
Holding Qing Mo, yet thinking about two other women in his mind.
This made Lin Yu feel a bit guilty.
Perhaps Qing Mo felt the abnormal heartbeat behind her, or perhaps it was a woman's terrifying sixth sense, but she suddenly asked without any warning:
"Who else have you given this kind of bracelet to?"
"Only you."
Lin Yu suppressed the sudden chill in his heart and said honestly:
"I haven't given one to anyone else."
Lin Yu briefly recalled his past actions. He had never given flowers to Tang Manman, and while he often gave flowers to Sister Zhuzi, they were always bouquets, never a flower bud bracelet like this.
Hearing Lin Yu say this, Qing Mo nodded in satisfaction and added:
"You are not allowed to give this kind of jasmine bracelet to anyone else in the future."
"Okay."
Lin Yu nodded, agreeing to her demand.
Qing Mo paused for a moment, then added another sentence:
"You should give them to me more often."
Lin Yu couldn't hold back a laugh, feeling that she was being quite adorable.
His arms around Qing Mo tightened a little as he promised:
"Okay."
The two of them hugged for a while longer, feeling each other's warmth.
Qing Mo suddenly spoke in a faint voice:
"If I ever catch you having those thoughts again."
"I will capture you and lock you up for the rest of your life."
"Oh!"
"You finally look a bit like a domineering CEO."
Lin Yu said with a cheeky smile.
Qing Mo raised her face and calmly gazed at Lin Yu with her icy eyes.
Indicating that she wasn't joking in the slightest.
Realizing she was serious, Lin Yu dropped his cheeky smile and said gently:
"I won't."
"I just..."
"..."
"...just got stuck in a rut, that's all."
"I will never have those thoughts again."
Lin Yu promised softly.
"We're done talking about my matters."
"Isn't it time we talked about yours?"
"Hmm?"
Lin Yu's voice sounded ominous right next to Qing Mo's ear.
"Wh-what matters..."
Qing Mo asked, her voice tight and tinged with a bit of coquettish charm.
"Playing dumb, are we?"
Lin Yu applied a bit more force with his hands.
Qing Mo couldn't help but let out a muffled groan.
"How did Tang Manman find out about me and Xia Muzhu?"
"Stabbing me in the back, huh?"
"I think you're due for a punishment!"
Lin Yu's voice turned fierce, threatening her ominously.
"Th-then how are you going to punish me?"
Qing Mo's voice trembled, and the words slipping from her lips carried a delicate, pleading tone.
"Me..."
Lin Yu deliberately kept her in suspense, speaking slowly:
"I'll punish you by making you..."
"I'll punish you by making you sleep alone tonight!"
After saying that, Lin Yu pulled his hands back, stood up, and took a step away, creating a distance of over a meter between him and Qing Mo. Then, he turned his head and looked at her with a beaming smile.
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ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
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grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
