Chapter 35 I Want to See You
"Boss, the villain's favorability has risen to seventy points!" A bun-shaped system popped up out of nowhere and shouted excitedly.
Fu Ning stayed in the spiritual room, watching Song Jinghe carry her back to the room with difficulty, and said leisurely: "When I get hurt, his favorability increases. This law has been proven time and time again."
The little bun nodded, "That's exactly what happened."
Fu Ning smacked his lips. "I'm a little hungry, little bun, can you make me something delicious that I haven't eaten before?"
Xiao Baozi conjured up an ice cream cone for her and said, "Try it."
Fu Ning took the steaming white ice cream cone in his hand, licked it curiously, and immediately narrowed his eyes, "It's delicious."
System: "Boss, your spirit body eating is useless."
Fu Ning opened his eyes and threatened: "Come up with me, or I'll taste your chubby face."
The system flew far away and produced a bunch of things that Fu Ning had never seen before.
Fu Ning was feasting in the Spirit House, and Song Jinghe took out a brown pill from his storage bag and stuffed it into her mouth.
Fu Ning: "What is this?"
System: "Boss, can't you taste it yourself?"
Fu Ning: "I swallowed it directly without tasting it."
System: "...This is a top-grade longevity pill."
Fu Ning lay on the soft bed and stretched his body. "Huh? Does he not want me to die? The Longevity Pill can give me a few more breaths, but it won't do much."
The system said in a servile manner: "It seems that the villain is really tempted. You are really amazing, Boss!"
Fu Ning raised the corner of her mouth and nodded. She was very happy as long as someone praised her.
Fu Ning rested in the spiritual house for a day, and all the fatigue she had been feeling was swept away. It was more effective than sleeping for several days, and she didn't want to go out anymore.
It was only because the little kid kept hovering over her head like a spell, telling her to wake up quickly that she reluctantly opened her eyes.
Song Jinghe had been guarding Fu Ning's bedside, not even leaving at night. When he saw her open her eyes, he hurriedly called out, "Xiao Shuang."
Fu Ning looked at him and said nothing.
Song Jinghe's eyes were black, his lips were cracked, and a few strands of hair were scattered in front of his eyes. Fu Ning quietly sighed to the system, "How can Song Jinghe look so good even when he looks so haggard?"
System: “…” It discovered that every time the host praised the villain, it was when he was down and out.
Song Jinghe touched Fu Ning's hand and asked, "Would you like some water?"
Fu Ning nodded, and Song Jinghe immediately brought her a glass of water.
She took a sip and found the water temperature to be just right.
System: "Boss, the villains have taken good care of you. If we work harder, we will see the dawn of victory."
Fu Ning gulped down the water and said, "I'm not that optimistic. It's not easy to go from liking to loving."
Song Jinghe was silent for a moment, and finally said: "Xiao Shuang, I'm sorry."
Fu Ning was stunned, and looked at the bottom of the empty water cup. "Why do you feel sorry for me? Did you put drugs in my water?"
Song Jinghe's eyes flickered and he shook his head. "I apologize for my New Year's wish. I shouldn't have said those words."
He paused for a long time, looked at Fu Ning, and said in a low but firm voice, "Actually, I want to see you."
Fu Ning tilted his head and pretended not to understand, "If that's the case, why did you make a New Year's wish of not wanting to see me?"
Song Jinghe pursed his lips.
He couldn't say it out loud; those ridiculous temptations were nowhere to be hidden in Fu Ning's black grape-like eyes.
He could only save face by asking in return, "What about you? Why did you come back?"
Is it because you missed me? Song Jinghe was unable to ask the second half of the sentence, but he didn't know that there was hope in his eyes when he looked at Fu Ning.
Fu Ning saw it, she smiled and said, "Because I'm not feeling well, I'm afraid that Acai and the others will worry."
Song Jinghe's eyes suddenly dimmed. He gripped the wheelchair handle tightly, frowned, and asked, "So, you think I won't worry?"
"No." Fu Ning said, "I thought you would be happy to see that I was not doing well, so I came back to make you happy."
Song Jinghe's face turned pale. "Why do you think so?"
He even thought that Fu Ning knew that he had poisoned her, but that was impossible.
Fu Ning pouted, "Didn't you not want to see me before? In fact, you hate me, right? You are only reluctantly staying with me for the sake of the elixir."
Song Jinghe denied without hesitation: "I don't hate you."
Fu Ning pouted his chin and said aggrievedly: "Why don't you want to see me? Do you know how sad I was when I heard your New Year's wish?"
Song Jinghe was rarely at a loss. He realized that if he didn't explain things clearly today, there would always be a grudge between them.
"Because..." He lowered his head and hesitated, "Because I am not worthy of you. Xiaoshuang, you deserve better, not a cripple like me."
Fu Ning snorted in her heart. He was clearly trying to test her, but now he made her sound pathetic. If she didn't have the system, she would have been fooled by this man.
However, Fu Ning glanced at his considerable points balance, and then he pulled himself together and said, "Xiao Jing, it turns out that you have always thought this way."
She took out two small white flowers from her arms, and the overlapping petals bloomed in her hands. These were the newly cultivated Spirit Washing Grass.
She asked, "Remember what I said when I gave you these flowers?"
Song Jinghe looked at the petals and nodded. The image of the injured but vibrant girl had long been engraved in his mind.
She said she was in a good mood and the flowers were beautiful.
"Then do you understand what I mean?" Fu Ning took Song Jinghe's hand and placed the petals in his palm. "Xiao Jing, I want to tell you that I want to share all my happiness and beauty with you."
The floating flowers seemed to fall on Song Jinghe's heart. He never knew that a single word could be so destructive.
He clasped his palms together and carefully held the flower in his palms. Maybe he could preserve them permanently as dried flowers.
"Boss, the villain's favorability has increased by another five points! It's now seventy-five points." The system said happily, thinking to itself that these two people are quite compatible in some ways, and both have a strong addiction to acting.
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Fu Ning's poisoning symptoms occurred more and more frequently, and Song Jinghe didn't know whether he regretted it or had already given enough medicine, so he finally stopped putting the death pill in the food. Instead, he stayed with Fu Ning and fed her longevity pills from time to time to prolong her life.
Fu Ning taught swordsmanship every morning, and Song Jinghe had to follow. In the afternoon, she would refine pills, and Song Jinghe would help guide the swordsmanship. At night, she studied the toxicity of the Xiling grass, and Song Jinghe insisted on being a drug tester.
Xiao Dan felt that the two of them were more affectionate than before every night, and she couldn't help but protest and ask them to restrain themselves, otherwise she would not come.
Fu Ning knocked on Song Jinghe's wheelchair and said, "Did you hear me? Be more restrained."
Song Jinghe looked at her with a smile in his eyes and nodded.
Xiao Dan felt that she was impressed by them again and sighed silently. She wished that Zheng Caiye was not from the demon world.
In the blink of an eye, it was March, the season of lush grass and singing birds, and Fu Ning was preparing to set off for Pingzheng County, the capital of Quzhou Prefecture, to participate in the annual cultivation competition.
She has now reached the late stage of Kaiguang and is about to break through to the Jindan stage. It was only because of the effect of the [Maintain Status Quo] item that her cultivation level was still at the early stage of enlightenment.
Song Jinghe strongly opposed Fu Ning going to Pingzheng County, on the grounds that she was in poor health and would easily get injured if she participated in the competition, so it would not be too late for her to participate a year later.
Fu Ning found it ridiculous. Even though Song Jinghe was keeping her alive with the longevity elixir, she would not "live" until March next year due to the severity of her poisoning. Song Jinghe was just teasing her.
A Cai and the others also knew that Fu Ning had been in poor health recently, but they did not know the seriousness of the problem. Seeing that she was so determined to go to Pingzheng County, they no longer objected.
Song Jinghe was the only person who knew Fu Ning's physical condition. He was really worried and insisted on going to Pingzheng County with Fu Ning.
Fu Ning originally planned to take Xiaoya to Pingzheng County, but now with Song Jinghe, it is not a problem to let Xiaoya carry two people, but he doesn't know what to do with Song Jinghe's wheelchair.
The wheelchair was hung with a rope behind Xiaoya. At Xiaoya's speed, it might fall apart. But Fu Ning thought that the speed of finding a caravan to transport it was too slow.
System: "Boss, I have wheelchairs in my mall. You can buy one for the villain when you get to Pingzheng County. Anyway, this one was bought by Qian Qiaoqiao in my mall. It has been used for a long time and is a little worn out."
Fu Ning walked around Song Jinghe carefully and found that the wheel had indeed become somewhat uneven.
"Let's do it this way." Fu Ning made the final decision.
On the day of departure, Fu Ning said goodbye to the people in the mountain village, went into the mountain, whistled a few times, and called Xiaoya and Xiao Sanhua.
Fu Ning carried Song Jinghe onto Xiaoya's back. This was the first person other than Fu Ning to sit on Xiaoya's back.
Xiaoya was a little restless, so Fu Ning touched the back of its neck to comfort it.
Little Sanhua was meowing at his feet. Fu Ning squatted down and said, "I'm going out with your mother. Can you wait for us at home? If you're bored, you can go play with Xiaobai."
Xiao Sanhua called out several times reluctantly.
Fu Ning picked it up and rubbed it, "We will be back as soon as possible."
After saying that, she sat on Xiaoya's back and hugged Song Jinghe. She felt his body suddenly stiffen and patted him, "Get lower, don't let the wind blow you over."
Song Jinghe bent down as he was told, and Fu Ning also lay down, grabbing the hair on Xiaoya's neck, and almost lying on Song Jinghe's back.
The muscles on Song Jinghe's back were tense. Fu Ning moved his position unsatisfactorily. He looked up and saw that Song Jinghe's ears were red. He couldn't help but laugh.
After Fu Ning and Song Jinghe set off, two people came to the mountain village - Yan Qu and Shen Qingning.
After searching in other counties of Quzhou without success, they returned to their original starting point.
Shen Qingning took out Song Jinghe's portrait, and the image of the young man full of vigor and vitality gradually blurred in her mind.
She said: "When I think about it carefully, I always feel that the eyes of those people we asked around here at the time were not right."
Yan Qu thought about it and realized that those people's eyes were indeed evasive.
"So we can't ask directly this time." Shen Qingning said, "We sneaked into the mountain village, maybe Jinghe was locked up by them, otherwise we wouldn't have gotten nothing for so long."
The two men sneaked into the village and observed the people coming in and out, as well as the daily meal portions for three consecutive days. Finally, they unexpectedly found someone they knew.
Yunlan was practicing sword with someone in the yard. If it wasn't the same face, Shen Qingning would not have recognized her. The woman who was wearing gauze and had a seductive look on her face before, now had tanned skin and wore coarse cloth clothes, but her eyes were much brighter than before.
Yan Qu called out, "Miss Yun."
Yunlan raised her head and saw the two people on the roof. Instead of the joy she had before, she frowned.
They obviously came in without saying hello. Yunlan asked, "Why are you two here?"
Shen Qingning jumped down from the roof, “We are here to look for someone, but we didn’t expect to meet Miss Yun here.”
The girls in Yunlan's courtyard all remembered Yan Qu and Shen Qingning. Someone asked, "Who are you looking for? You were looking for someone in Suman County before, right?"
Shen Qingning had helped these women before, and although he didn’t know how they came to this remote mountain village, he was sure that they would not deceive him.
She took out the portrait of Song Jinghe from her arms and said, "I'm here to find my fiancé."
Someone exclaimed and was glared at by Yunlan.
Yunlan recognized the person in the portrait as Song Jinghe at a glance, but how could he be the fiancé of this female monk? Could it be that Song Jinghe cheated on Shuangjie?
A girl in the back whispered, "When did you get engaged?"
Seeing their reactions, Shen Qingning knew something was going on, and quickly replied, “We grew up together and got engaged when we were very young.”
Several girls began to murmur, "What's going on with the twin sisters?"
"Should we talk about it?"
They thought their voices were very quiet, but in fact Shen Qingning heard it clearly. When she heard the other woman's name, her face turned pale and she looked at Yan Qu for help.
Yan Qu frowned and patted Qing Ning on the back.
Yunlan saw the slightly intimate actions of the two and cleared her throat. No matter what, Song Jinghe was now Shuangjie's husband, and she couldn't let Shen Qingning destroy their relationship. She said, "There is no such person in our village. You have come to the wrong place."
Shen Qingning held her breath in her heart and said directly: "I have heard what you said just now. Who is Shuangjie? What is the relationship between Song Jinghe and her?"
One girl couldn't help but say, "Mr. Song is Xiaoshuang's husband."
Shen Qingning's eyes widened in disbelief, tears falling down, "Jinghe, has married someone else?"
Yan Qu couldn’t bear to see Shen Qingning sad, so he asked with a hint of anger: “Where are they now?”
Several women looked at each other, "Mr. Song accompanied Sister Shuang to Pingzheng County to participate in the competition."
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