Except when he had to go out, Mu Jinyun stayed by Lin Banjian's side almost all the time when he was at home, doing everything himself. Lin Banjian also learned many things from him that she had never been exposed to before:
Poetry, chess, painting, playing musical instruments, even tea brewing and flower arranging...
She was amazed that Mu Jinyun knew everything, and she studied with extraordinary effort, absorbing everything she could learn like a sponge.
That day, Lin Banjian was riding on a ladder, adding the last ray of sunlight to the upper right corner of her spring mountain painting when Mu Jinyun walked in and looked at the girl with a focused expression.
Lin Banjian was wearing a light green gauze dress today. The skirt was very long. The wind blew through the window, making the green skirt look like a pair of transparent cicada wings.
She blended into the huge landscape painting in front of her, like a cicada emerging in spring, full of vitality.
She didn't notice him, focused on the pen in her hand.
Finally, she wiped the thin layer of sweat from her forehead and was quite satisfied with her work.
She lifted her skirt, intending to climb down the ladder and take a closer look at her "masterpiece" that she had spent several months working on, but when she turned her head, she saw Mu Jinyun standing behind her, looking up at her.
Their eyes met in mid-air.
Dust, like gold dust drifting in the air, swirled between the two.
Lin Banjian saw his smiling eyes, and the sunlight shone on his face, making even his eyelashes look golden.
He looked at her as she had just looked at her painting.
He hadn't done or said anything; he was just standing there motionless. But Lin Banjian felt something subtle, as if something was entering her body with her breath and blood.
She opened her mouth, "Jin..."
But this was accompanied by the creaking of the twisting ladder and her body tilting uncontrollably to the ground.
"Huh?"
She instinctively reached out, as if trying to grab something in mid-air.
Then, she heard an anxious shout.
"Half-seen—"
The first time he heard him call her that, he felt both anxious and pained.
Then she fell into a warm embrace.
She naturally wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Are you hurt anywhere?" He held her tightly, and she could even feel him trembling slightly.
She shook her head.
At such a low height, and with him catching the person in time, even dissipating his force to cushion the impact, how could they possibly be injured? He's a cultivator, how could he not know?
But he was worried, what if?
She was originally very delicate, and he had been pampered with a life of luxury for a long time, which is why she is in this state now. Even the slightest injury to her makes him feel heartbroken.
She jumped down from his arms, touched his face, and smoothed his furrowed brow. "I'm alright! Luckily, Jinyun caught me in time!"
He felt the warmth of her palm, like a feather gently caressing his heart, and he relaxed.
He put on a smile again. "I've had tea and snacks prepared in the courtyard. My servants brought back a kind of pastry called honey fruit from the south. Would you like to try it?"
Lin Ban's eyes lit up. "New dessert! I want to try it!"
She ran out impatiently, took a couple of steps, then turned back to look at him, "Jinyun, hurry up!"
"You go first!" Mu Jinyun waved his hand.
Lin Banjian made a face and skipped off towards the new snack.
He smiled as he watched Lin Banjian skip and hop away.
This is his girl, the one he raised, who belongs only to him.
From the moment he was born, when he was given the name "Mu Jinyun," it was destined that he would have everything.
Power, money, status, and looks—things others pursue their whole lives—he had already possessed from the very beginning, not to mention that his talent for cultivation was at a level that others could not reach.
But he always felt that he was missing something.
As he grew older, he realized that what he lacked was a heart, a heart that could bring him to life.
His idea was quickly confirmed. After meeting the people from the Star-Picking Pavilion, he almost immediately sent people to search for his "heart" that had been scattered elsewhere.
The moment he saw Lin Banjian, he knew that his years of searching had not been in vain.
After bringing Lin Banjian back to his side, he felt an increasing sense of fulfillment in life. Compared to before, he felt like a walking corpse who appeared perfectly normal.
Her joys and sorrows constantly affected him.
Just now, when he saw her fall from the ladder, his heart clenched instantly, and he even forgot to breathe.
Only when the soft warmth embraced him did he regain his senses.
Very good……
Unbeknownst to her, several tsunamis were raging in his heart every second.
When she looked at him with concern, he tried his best to become a normal person again.
He realized that his reaction was too extreme.
The ladder was only a little over a meter long, so even if he fell, nothing serious would happen, but he was still afraid and terrified.
But he reacted like this to such a small incident. What if something more serious happens in the future?
...Then let's not let it happen.
He is Mu Jinyun.
He can protect her for a lifetime.
Anyway, they're his people.
The image of her sitting on the ladder, like a cicada spreading its wings, flashed through his mind.
It might fly away...
This idea startled him.
No! I can't let her fly away! Where else could she possibly want to go besides him?
His hand under his sleeve gradually clenched into a fist.
We need to find a way to tie her to him forever.
Not only for himself, he wanted the whole world to know that she was his.
So……
The seeds buried in my heart sprouted.
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