"Master~ So, from now on, we're officially in a pet-master relationship?"
Su Li seized on these few words in Xuan Qing's words, met Xuan Qing's gaze, and teased him in a sarcastic tone.
Xuan Qing was indeed amused by Su Li's joke. His expression changed, and his clear eyes became even more serene as they shifted.
Of course he could see that Su Li was just teasing him on purpose. How could someone as rational and intelligent as her not understand the deeper meaning behind his deliberate actions and attempts to get closer to him these past few days?
So he didn't follow Su Li's meaning and complete the joke, but chose a more direct approach:
"Of course not."
The cat demon's gaze was deep and unwavering, and Su Li immediately sensed the absolute determination in its eyes:
"I just feel that since you know I love you, if you agree with what I just said, wouldn't that mean you feel the same way about me?"
Zuli was stunned!
She hadn't expected Xuanqing to be so blunt, nor had she expected him to reveal his thoughts so quickly.
What Su Li hadn't considered was that Xuan Qing's feelings for her were not new. However, it had only been a week since she had come to regard Xuan Qing as a person!
So even though Su Li could sense Xuan Qing's thoughts, she still hadn't figured out what she was thinking.
For a moment, Su Li was stumped by Xuan Qing's question and fell silent.
Before she could come to a conclusion, Xuan Qing, who was sitting by her bedside, had already casually lifted a corner of the blanket that Su Li had draped over her shoulders.
Then I put my feet in.
Su Li was startled by the icy temperature of those feet. She quickly pulled her legs back, paused for two seconds, and looked at Xuan Qing in surprise:
"Why aren't you wearing socks? Cats aren't afraid of the cold, but you're bringing the chill in with you!"
As she spoke, she took all the blankets off her shoulders and quickly covered the two of them.
Fortunately, the heating stones that Xuanqing brought were really useful. The temperature in the bedroom rose quickly, and even with my upper body exposed, I didn't feel cold!
After all that commotion, the room fell silent again.
It was only then that Su Li belatedly realized that she had accepted Xuan Qing crawling into her bed too naturally.
But since he's already inside, kicking him out would seem a bit deliberate.
Besides, she herself might have harbored desires for Xuanqing deep down.
After all, it's understandable that she would be tempted by Xuan Qing's face, his fair and tender yet muscular body!
A moment's hesitation cost her the perfect opportunity to kick the tall man next to her off the bed.
Su Li watched silently as Xuan Qing, who very consciously pulled out a new pillow from the ground next to hers and lay down on it.
Beauty is desirable, but it does take up a lot of space.
That slender body took up half of her two-meter-wide bed!
Thus, Xuanqing returned to Su Li's bed every night.
Su Li adapted to this relatively quickly. Although they didn't draw a clear line between their sleeping positions on the bed, Xuan Qing at least maintained his gentlemanly demeanor, and his sleeping posture hardly changed every morning.
Su Li's sleeping posture is not bad. Although she always turns over a few times after falling asleep, fortunately she has never touched any places she shouldn't have.
The outside temperature eventually settled at minus sixty-three degrees Celsius.
This is an extreme cold that is almost unbearable for humans.
Before the previous snow had even melted, less than half a month later, another blizzard swept across the land.
Su Li sat behind the floor-to-ceiling window on the first floor, leaning against an oversized beanbag chair, with a charcoal stove burning beside her and a pot of jujube, goji berry, and rose tea sitting on it.
She held the teacup and slowly sipped it.
Outside the French windows, snowflakes fell quickly, covering Xuanqing's clean courtyard with another layer of white in no time!
The snow outside the courtyard wall had accumulated into a thick layer, and the high pile of snow outside the wall was even faintly visible.
With such thick snow, even mutated creatures would probably find it difficult to walk through it.
Su Li felt that she really hadn't heard the sound of any mutated creatures when she went out these past two days!
All that could be heard was the howling wind, rushing through every crevice in the rocks on the mountaintop, emitting a shrill and tragic scream!
However, the mutated creatures' movement being hindered might actually be a good thing for humans who are also trapped in the blizzard and unable to move.
At least for now, we don't have to deal with extreme cold and the cold wind while fighting off those man-eating monsters!
The snow started falling three days ago.
On the day it snowed, Su Li had Xuan Qing use teleportation to send some supplies to Lin Dongqi and the others at the foot of the mountain.
At this time, the group was unaware that Xuanqing could transform into human form, so the black cat still appeared before them in its cat form.
In addition to food, Su Li also brought hand warmers, foot warmers, and blankets. Su Li also gave everyone a military overcoat.
I received this military overcoat from a shop in the Yucheng Small Commodities Market that specializes in selling camouflage work clothes for migrant workers.
Su Li examined it carefully and felt that the workmanship was not much different from what she had seen when she was in the army!
In case you need to go out on patrol, nothing is warmer and more windproof than a military overcoat!
That evening, the group at the foot of the mountain contacted Zuli via walkie-talkie.
It was only then that Su Li realized that the five people down the mountain, including Xu Xiaojie, had all moved into Lin Dong's house.
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