"What are you doing?" she asked, staring at him warily.

Xie Xiao: "If you move any further, you'll fall."

Li Ruo looked back and saw that it really was true. "...Thank you."

Why don't you just let go?

Xie Xiao still held her, his gaze deeper than ever before. He swallowed hard. "I know the timing is wrong, and my status is not worthy, but as you said, 'Are kings and generals born with special privileges?' If I achieve great success in the future, will you stand by my side?"

"Okay, okay, you'll make me a general?" Li Ruo tilted her head back, staring wide-eyed at his face getting closer and closer.

Why did this author have to write the male lead so handsome? She finally understood what "charming and irresistible" meant, and it made her adrenaline surge and her face burn.

Xie Xiao's face was almost fixed above hers. "I mean that kind of thing."

"Which one?" If she moved back, she would fall. Li Ruo was stuck, her waist almost touching the stone. Looking at that handsome face that was taking advantage of her, her eyes widened.

Suddenly, a dog barked.

"The boss!"

Little Li shouted from below, "Boss, are you up there?"

Xie Xiao: ...

Next time we go on a mission, we'll definitely send Leonardo DiCaprio to the front!

Li Ruo had already kicked him away, but in her panic she didn't know where she kicked him, which made him groan.

"Hey, your brother's calling you."

"You kicked my brother so badly!" Xie Xiao's face twisted in anger. How ruthless! Did she want to make him live like a widow?

"I didn't mean to." The culprit had already run off.

When Xiao Li saw Li Ruo come down, he thought, "Huh? Sister Ruo is here too?" He felt that there was something wrong with his appearance.

"You'd better have something urgent to attend to." Xie Xiao walked down, his gaze fixed on Li Ruo, deep and resentful.

Li Ruo felt her face might be a little red, and not wanting anyone to notice, she turned away and waved, "Go back now."

Little Li felt the atmosphere was strange. "Boss, that woman has brought out a lot more stuff."

Xie Xiao frowned. "I'll go back first."

"Good night." After saying that, Li Ruo turned and left first.

It's like they're running away from something.

Old Wang, who appeared behind the barbed wire, smiled at Xie Xiao and said, "Good night, Boss."

Xie Xiao: Goodnight my ass.

He watched helplessly as the woman went through the barbed wire fence, then glared at Little Li and said, "Go back and I'll punish you by making you do manure shoveling for a month!"

Little Li, who was inexplicably punished: ...Waaah, why?!

The boss's expression was terrifying.

What they didn't know was that after Li Ruo entered the room, her heart was pounding, and the scene from just now kept replaying in her mind.

What does that mean? Does Xie Mu Niao really have feelings for her?

The plot has seriously deviated from its original course.

The pairings we ship can be unpopular, but they can't be weird.

What about the female lead? This is why she remained indifferent to him despite having some suspicions. She had been fantasizing about the male and female leads a lot while reading the book, but ended up fantasizing about herself instead.

Could it be due to his unique physical condition?

To cater to the tastes of countless male readers, the author of "Brother Xiangtian Dapao" created a character who is attractive to women.

It's possible that the reason I feel he has other feelings is due to his constitution.

So be it! May all demons and monsters flee at once!

Li Ruo took two deep breaths and saw Liao Fusheng walking over with a notebook in his hand.

Liao Fusheng was somewhat surprised when he saw her. "Why is your face so red?"

"Really? Oh, maybe it's because I was warming myself by the fire just now," Li Ruo said. "Why are you bothering with my face when you're not working properly?"

Liao Fusheng said, "I'm just a little curious."

"Please, you're just a Taoist priest."

"Can't a Taoist priest be curious?" Liao Fusheng was stunned for a moment. "Although I am a Taoist priest, I am not a person without feelings."

Li Ruoxin thought so too, "Then you've come at the right time. Do you know how to exorcise evil spirits?"

"Huh?" Liao Fusheng was stunned again. "Are you possessed?"

Li Ruo nodded very seriously.

Liao Fusheng's expression was somewhat solemn. "I can draw you a peace charm and also calculate your future fortune."

"Really! Why didn't you say so sooner?" He had been a contractor for so long that he had almost forgotten that his main job was as a Taoist priest.

Liao Fusheng dared not say, because his fortune-telling was sometimes accurate and sometimes not; his interest lay more in construction.

The two went inside and huddled together. One of them was seriously drawing talismans, while the other watched with great interest.

After drawing the talisman, Li Ruo took it, folded it neatly, and solemnly put the talisman into her sleeve pocket. "Amitabha, good, good."

People who pray to gods and Buddhas are simply seeking peace of mind.

Liao Fusheng's lips twitched slightly, then he took out his compass and a tortoise shell. "What would you like to ask, benefactor? Your future or your marriage?"

With this setup, you could easily become a street fortune teller by simply setting up a sign.

Li Ruo sat upright: "The future depends on human effort, but marriage is a bit mysterious. Let's just say it's fate."

Liao Fusheng asked for her birth date and time. Li Ruo had exchanged birth dates and times when she married Song Zhijing, so she naturally remembered her birth date and time.

Then Liao Fusheng asked her to throw tortoise shells onto the compass.

Both sides of the tortoise shell were facing upwards, seemingly pointing eastwards.

"The combination of Yin, Mao, and Chen forms the Eastern Wood element. Since you have Yin and Mao in your birth chart, you will have a marriage opportunity in the Ren Chen Dragon year."

Li Ruo was stunned for a moment, "Will you get married?" Is there no hope of dying alone?

"Is that person faithful? Does he mean he can only be devoted to me for the rest of his life and can't mess around with other women, not even flirting with them?"

"Yes, you should be single-minded."

"So hasty?"

Liao Fusheng immediately sat up straight and calculated with his fingers, "It's like this, because you have the help of the Moon Virtue Nobleman in your destiny, the initiative is in your hands, and the other party should be... should be quite obedient."

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