Gu Chengyin stopped in his tracks, but he didn’t let go of her hand.
He turned around and faced Lin Qingyan directly.
Moonlight fell upon her face, illuminating those gentle yet deep eyes.
Lin Qingyan didn’t dare to look at Gu Chengyin.
She turned her head away, her gaze drifting,
looking at the moonlight outside the window, at the calligraphy and paintings on the walls, at the shadows on the floor.
She simply didn’t dare to meet Gu Chengyin’s eyes.
“Little Aunt.”
Gu Chengyin spoke, his voice calm.
“Are you acting as the heart demon again?”
Lin Qingyan’s heart skipped a beat.
She bit her lip and, after a moment of silence, finally spoke softly:
“You tried to control me, so I had no choice but to push the heart demon forward for you to hypnotize.”
Her voice was small, tinged with guilt, a hint of grievance, and a touch of self-righteousness.
Hearing this, Gu Chengyin finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He had thought that the damn system’s hypnosis had been undone again.
Turns out the hypnosis had been targeting the heart demon from the very beginning.
If that was the case, he found it much easier to accept.
Pushing the heart demon to the forefront and getting hypnotized—this was a rather novel example.
Gu Chengyin silently filed it away in his mind. He still lacked experience, and it was hard to guard against every trick.
What’s more, Lin Qingyan’s acting was truly formidable.
Entirely different temperaments, yet she embodied each one as if it were her true self.
Well, that wasn’t quite right either.
It seemed they were all parts of her genuine nature.
Coupled with the fact that her cultivation was at the Golden Core stage, even though his own Dao heart had broken through,
he couldn’t detect the slightest flaw. If it weren’t for being pushed to the brink by Gu Xiaoli,
who knows how long she would have kept acting.
When it came down to it, it was still this damn system that was the root of all trouble.
If only it were half-decent, he’d probably be at the Nascent Soul stage by now.
Gu Chengyin let out a helpless sigh and said,
“Little Aunt, you’ve got the order wrong.”
Though it sounded like a question, his tone carried a hint of affection:
“It was you who controlled me first, and I had no choice but to turn it back on you.”
Lin Qingyan choked up.
Of course, she knew the origin was her attempt to control Gu Chengyin,
to forcefully claim him, which gave him no option but to counter her.
Still, one thing was separate from another.
How could anyone refuse such a beautiful fairy as herself!?
So many would give anything just for a single glance from her, let alone her taking the initiative to offer herself.
But of all people, Gu Chengyin actually refused her.
If she hadn’t confirmed it herself, she would have started doubting if he was a eunuch.
Lin Qingyan pursed her lips, feeling terribly wronged inside.
At the same time, she stole a glance at Gu Chengyin.
His profile was clear and jade-like, his features gentle, yet his eyes held a trace of an elusive smile.
Was this... indulgence?
He wasn’t actually angry?
A sudden impulse surged in Lin Qingyan’s heart.
She threw open her arms, slid them around Gu Chengyin’s waist, and buried herself in his embrace.
Her face pressed against his chest, her voice muffled:
“Chengcheng, I’m sorry. I know I was wrong.”
Lin Qingyan held him tightly, as if afraid he might slip away.
“I swear, I’ll never do anything like this again.”
“I’ll go east if you say east, and never go west! Whatever you say, I’ll obey.”
Her voice was muffled and a little nasal.
“Really! I can swear a blood oath! Can you forgive me?”
Finally.
Finally, she was back in this embrace.
Lin Qingyan pressed herself against Gu Chengyin’s chest, greedily inhaling the faint scent of his presence.
It was an indescribable fragrance—like pine, like tea, or like the warm winter sun.
In recent days, staying by Gu Chengyin’s side as the heart demon, she couldn’t cuddle, couldn’t be affectionate, couldn’t do any intimate gestures.
Every time she saw him before her, she had to keep distance, pretending to be indifferent.
She had nearly gone mad from the restraint.
Now, finally.
She was back in his arms.
Lin Qingyan’s pent-up frustration and gloom vanished in an instant.
All she wanted was to hold him like this, never letting go.
If Gu Chengyin could forgive her and let her return to his side,
she would promise him anything.
No matter how demanding or outrageous the request.
Even if it meant killing the Emperor of Luo, she would not hesitate.
She had long found that emperor unbearable anyway.
Gu Chengyin looked down at Lin Qingyan in his arms.
Moonlight draped over her, illuminating her hair cascading like a waterfall and the faint blush on her ear tips.
He was silent for a moment, then suddenly smiled.
It was a faint smile, yet it carried a touch of helplessness and fondness.
But what could he do? How could anyone dislike such a wonderful fairy?
Gu Chengyin raised his hand, rested it on Lin Qingyan’s head, and gently rubbed it.
“Little Aunt.”
His voice was as tender as a spring breeze in March.
“Do you know what you did wrong?”
Lin Qingyan, still buried in his arms, murmured,
“I shouldn’t have controlled you. I shouldn’t have tried to take you by force. I shouldn’t have—”
She paused, her voice growing smaller: “I shouldn’t have pretended to be the heart demon to deceive you.”
Gu Chengyin shook his head.
“No.”
Lin Qingyan looked up, bewildered.
Under the moonlight, his eyes were deep as a pool, reflecting her image.
“What you did wrong,”
Gu Chengyin said, looking at her, each word clear and deliberate, “was not trusting me.”
Lin Qingyan was stunned.
“Not trusting that I care about you, and so you thought I would abandon you.”
Gu Chengyin spoke softly: “But, Little Aunt.”
He held her gaze, his eyes tender yet earnest.
“You are the most important person to me.”
“No one else can ever surpass your place in my heart.”
He paused, then said in a low voice:
“So it isn’t that I don’t like you, Little Aunt.”
“And it isn’t that I don’t want you. It’s just that I believe a fairy like you”
“shouldn’t be obtained so casually. That would be too unworthy of you.”
Lin Qingyan stood there, dazed.
Her eyes suddenly stung.
She opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but nothing came out.
In the end, she buried her face in his chest again, rubbing against it forcefully.
A muffled voice came:
“Chengcheng...”
“Hmm?”
“I’m sorry. I understand now.”
Gu Chengyin smiled and rubbed her head again.
“As long as you understand.”
Moonlight flowed like water, spilling over the two of them.
The room was very quiet, with only the sound of their breaths softly echoing.
At this point, Gu Chengyin could only accept reality.
Fortunately, Lin Qingyan could no longer sense his electric current, which gave him enough room to maneuver.
Besides, what he had said was truly from the heart.
Lin Qingyan was indeed the most important person to him right now.
From every perspective, she mattered deeply.
Lin Qingyan, buried in Gu Chengyin’s embrace, suddenly remembered something.
She lifted her head and looked at him, murmuring,
“But that damned cat...”
Gu Chengyin raised an eyebrow.
“She did it on purpose!”
Lin Qingyan gritted her teeth. “She deliberately provoked me just to make a fool of me!”
Gu Chengyin couldn’t help but laugh.
“So?”
Lin Qingyan pursed her lips, a glint of ferocity flashing in her eyes.
“So, I’m going to get revenge!”
Gu Chengyin looked at her like this and suddenly found it rather amusing.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
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nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
