"Three nights?" Shu Qingqing swallowed the chewed lollipop.

She didn't know if it was because the lollipop she ate today was too sweet, but she actually felt a bit of a chill in her chest.

If she remembered correctly, Shang Duojin was the kind of person who disdained making these kinds of handmade things.

Even when taking mecha-making classes at the Federal Academy, he found it too troublesome and paid someone to do it for him.

Now, it's surprising that someone would spend three nights setting such a small diamond, which clearly requires a lot of patience.

Shang Duojin's expression was a little unnatural. He glared at Lei Ting and then cleared his throat: "Well... it's not as exaggerated as it says. I'm not that stupid. It would take me that long to make a necklace. It's just... I just happened to have something to do at the time!"

He is a simple-minded person, and his thoughts are usually written all over his face.

Seeing his guilty and awkward appearance, Shu Qingqing was amused and her gloom dissipated a lot, so she didn't expose him.

Instead, she took out the emerald green diamond necklace and put it around her neck.

Her neck was already slender and beautiful, and this necklace was the icing on the cake.

Shang Duojin looked at the necklace that Shu Qingqing had already put on. Because it suited her so well, he couldn't help but take a few more glances. He was already thinking about what kind of gemstones he should get for Shu Qingqing to make a necklace.

But Shu Qingqing didn't wear the necklace for too long. After all, it cost five million interstellar coins, and she would definitely feel bad if she accidentally broke it.

Seeing her start to untie the necklace again, Shang Duojin was displeased: "Why are you still untying it? It suits you quite well."

Shu Qingqing shook her head: "It is appropriate, but we can't be so ostentatious. Robberies do happen in interstellar space. It's better to put such valuable items away."

Shang Duojin and Shu Qingqing are not from the same social class. Although he cannot understand her thoughts, he still respects her.

After following her out of the company, I asked her curiously, "Now that we're going there, couldn't you have told me the location beforehand? I feel like I have cat claws scratching at my heart!"

"We'll talk about it when we get there." Shu Qingqing glanced around warily.

Thinking of that despicable woman, she was terrified that she knew about that place.

If she finds out, who knows what crazy things she might do next.

Since she wouldn't budge, Shang Duojin didn't press the matter further and followed her onto her aircraft.

He thought they would go straight to their destination, but to his surprise, Shu Qingqing took him on several transfers of public flying vehicles along the way, as if she was afraid that someone was following her.

She only relaxed her guard a little when they arrived at a very dense forest. She led him off the aircraft, grabbed his wrist, and entered the vast forest.

The forest area is about the size of a small city on the Empire Star. Shang Duojin didn't understand why they would choose to walk in such a large area.

But when his gaze fell on Shu Qingqing's left hand, which was holding his wrist, he suppressed his urge to ask her more questions.

As a result, spending a long time in the woods left him covered in weeds and dust.

This was hard for him to tolerate, as he was a bit of a germaphobe.

Although it was cool in the woods, it was still summer, and they walked quickly.

Both of them were sweating profusely by now.

Shu Qingqing still remembered that Shang Duojin was a germaphobe. Seeing his disheveled appearance, covered in dust and sweat, she stopped and led him to a pool of water that she was familiar with.

The pool water is clear and cool; touching it is very refreshing.

Both of them had a spare set of clothes stored in their personal brain bracelets. Shu Qingqing told Shang Duojin to go in and wash first, and to call him when he was done.

"Wash here?"

Looking at the pool water, which was relatively clear but clearly quite deep, Shang Duojin asked with some concern, "Could there be snakes in there?"

"No, I've been here many times before and washed up here many times. I've never encountered a snake. It shouldn't be a big problem."

Shang Duojin felt sticky all over, and he really couldn't stand it anymore.

Only after receiving Shu Qingqing's affirmative answer did he feel relieved enough to start taking off his clothes.

The little green snake, Thunder, had already gone down to cool off. While taking a bath, it asked in confusion, "But Master, aren't I a snake? Why are you asking if there are any snakes?"

Shang Duojin threw his dirty clothes onto the shore, waded into the cool pool, and rolled his eyes: "How can you be like an ordinary snake? You're a familiar beast, you can talk, and you have your own thoughts. Do you think you'd bite people for no reason?"

Thunder tilted the snake's head: "Of course not."

"That's it!"

Shang Duojin swam a little deeper into the water without saying a word and told Lei Ting that what he was afraid of was this kind of crazy snake that would bite anyone it saw.

"Whether it's poisonous or not is another matter; the main thing is that it really hurts when it bites!"

Thunder became interested: "Was Master bitten before?"

Otherwise, how could one have such profound insights?

Shang Duojin seemed to have been hit where it hurt, and immediately denied it guiltily: "How could that be? How could I be bitten by such a low-level snake? I..."

Before he could finish speaking, he saw a long, thin creature swimming towards him from underwater on the other side. Judging by its speed, it would be coming very soon.

This reminded Shang Duojin of the painful experience of being bitten on the buttock by a snake when he was a child, and he cried out for help: "Help! Help! Help!! You bad woman, help me! There's a water snake!!"

Shu Qingqing didn't go far, mainly because she was worried about Shang Duojin, who was going into the pool for the first time, and whether something might happen to him.

Suddenly hearing his anxious cry for help, he quickly turned around and ran to the edge of the pool.

Shang Duojin was paddling back to shore as fast as he could, but he was certainly not as fast as the water snake.

From Shu Qingqing's perspective, it was only a matter of time before the water snake caught up with him.

After gritting his teeth, he gathered fire-type familiar psychic power in his right hand and used it to scorch the water snake.

Like other wild animals, water snakes are naturally afraid of fire.

Although the water snake wasn't burned when she burned it, it was still frightened and quickly changed direction and swam away.

Shang Duojin didn't know if the water snake had left or not, and was still swimming towards the shore.

Just as he was about to reach the shore, he completely forgot that he was only wearing his underwear and climbed straight out of the water, dirtying Shu Qingqing's eyes.

"Ah!! Shang Duojin, you pervert, what are you doing?!"

Shu Qingqing recalled the unbearable scene that had just flashed before her eyes, and kicked Shang Duojin back into the pool.

"I've burned the water snake away. If you don't believe me, go back and see for yourself!"

Shang Duojin was already terrified. He didn't care whether the water snake had left or not; he didn't want to stay in this place for even a second longer.

So he climbed ashore a second time, yelling as he went, "I don't care, I'm not going down again! I was so close, the water snake almost bit my butt, you know that?!"

Shu Qingqing noticed that Shang Duojin was acting strangely. This time, she didn't kick him again. Instead, she turned away from looking at his well-defined abs, her ears burning red: "At least put your clothes on first!!"