Chapter 15: Asking for gifts means adding some "medicine" from the Hehuan Sect...
The light laughter was like a feather passing by, bringing waves of itchiness. Shen Wenji's ears felt hot and alarm bells rang in his heart.
"Are you sure? Can you satisfy me?" Xie Yunqing repeated. His deep voice was particularly clear in the bustling city lights, with a lazy but dangerous magnetism.
He suddenly stopped and turned sideways, his tall figure casting a shadow in the light, completely enveloping her. His dark eyes glared over, their gaze fixed on her as if it had substance.
The night wind was cool and damp, lifting my clothes and hair, but it couldn't blow away the heat in my heart.
Shen Wenji's expression froze for a moment. She was a little confused, and always felt that Xie Yunqing's words hid ulterior motives.
"I..." She came back to her senses, her voice dry, trying to hold on to her bottom line: "Having said that, if you ask me to kill or set fire, I still have to think about it. Make requests within a reasonable range, don't be unreasonable."
"Puff..." Xie Yunqing arched his eyebrows, the flickering light flowed down from his deep brow bones, and a pair of smiling phoenix eyes collided into Shen Wenji's eyes.
In the dim, narrow corner between them, Xie Yunqing stood with his back to the light, hiding the river of lanterns behind him. Only his face could be seen clearly. However, his eyes, filled with tiny glimmers, were more dazzling than the lanterns themselves.
Xie Yunqing raised her hand and pinched Shen Wenji's earlobe. She looked up in surprise and happened to see his face close to her. His lazy voice sounded slowly: "What are you afraid of? I only made small requests."
"Who said I was scared?" Shen Wenji retorted with his neck stiffened. His voice pretended to be loud, but his body honestly took a half step back.
Her wrist was suddenly grabbed by a warm big hand. Xie Yunqing exerted a little force and pulled her back to his shadow, causing her to stagger.
He chuckled softly, his breath brushing against the strands of hair on her forehead: "Then why are you hiding?"
Shen Wenji was furious and shook his hand off, grinning and saying, "Are you going to tell me or not? You'll never get it again. If you keep on dawdling, go find Guanyin Bodhisattva if you want to make a wish."
"Tsk," Xie Yunqing raised his eyebrows, smiling instead of getting angry, "Is this your attitude towards compensation?"
This guy is beating around the bush and won't say it clearly. He must be up to something bad.
Shen Wenji was irritated by his slow and leisurely tone, so he simply gave up and said in a cold and expressionless voice: "I think it's more satisfying to kill and set fire for you. Tell me, who do you want to kill? I'll go right away."
"It's not that serious." Xie Yunqing suddenly stretched out a slender finger and gently pressed it against her lips.
The slightly cool touch was like an electric current running through him. Shen Wenji opened his eyes wide in shock, and all the words he wanted to say were swallowed back into his throat.
Xie Yunqing's fingers did not stay for too long. He just pressed lightly on her lips, then slowly slid down and finally landed on her fair neck.
His thumb gently rubbed the pulse point on her neck, as if he could easily control her life or death.
Shen Wenji's heart was in his throat. Would this guy let him pay with his life?
Her throat rolled with difficulty, and the fingertips of her hands behind her back had quietly gathered deadly spiritual power, and the magic spells were ready to be used, waiting for Xie Yunqing's next move.
The expected thunderbolt did not come.
Xie Yunqing leaned forward slightly, his hot breath faintly touching her earlobe. He raised the corner of his lips and said, "My request is very simple..."
His eyes swept over the inner garment on her body that had once been entangled with someone else and was now covered by his outer robe. His eyes were slightly cold, and his voice was low and hoarse with temptation: "Take off this inner garment that is stained with someone else's scent."
Shen Wenji: “!!!”
"Take it off? Here?" She looked like she'd seen a ghost. What on earth was Xie Yunqing's quirk? He couldn't even get past her clothes.
"..." Xie Yunqing stared at her silently for a long time, veins on his forehead bulging. He finally squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "Don't tell me, you really plan to undress in public?"
Shen Wenji: “???” What does this mean? Should I take it off or not?
Seeing her puzzled expression, Xie Yunqing closed his eyes and sighed deeply: "Find a closed and secret place, not here."
Shen Wenji nodded obediently: "Okay, I will take it off when I get home."
Xie Yunqing raised his eyebrows, a glimmer of triumph flashed across his eyes, and he added slowly, "You have to take it off in front of me."
Shen Wenji's breath hitched. Under her inner garment... there was only a corset and a thin petticoat. Taking off her inner garment in front of him would be equivalent to revealing her identity.
Like a cat whose tail was stepped on, she took a step back, tightening her arms around his large robe and angrily asked, "Why?"
"I have to supervise it myself to prevent some small-time liar from fooling me."
Shen Wenji gritted his teeth and said, "Don't dream, Xie Yunqing, don't go too far."
"Oh?" Xie Yunqing calmly watched her irritated expression and nodded in compromise, "Okay then, I'll change."
Shen Wenji just breathed a sigh of relief.
"Give me a gift." He said slowly.
"Gift?" Shen Wenji was stunned for a moment, and asked suspiciously: "Is this all?"
Xie Yunqing's lips curled slightly, and he said jokingly: "Why? Do you think it's too easy? Are you afraid that I'll suffer a loss?"
"No, no, no." Shen Wenji quickly shook her head. She wished she could relax a little, but she still had to be sincere. She raised her eyes and asked seriously, "What do you want?"
"Hmm..." Xie Yunqing thought for a moment, then suddenly asked a completely unrelated question: "What did you give to that Lu Ding An Yu?"
An Yu? Oh. It's Yan Xu's pseudonym.
After matching the name, Shen Wenji frowned: "Didn't I tell you? Someone gave it to him, I just passed it on. I almost forgot about it, how come you still remember it?"
"Just passing it on?" Xie Yunqing smiled gently and asked, "You don't know what's inside? This gift has nothing to do with you?"
Shen Wenji pursed his lips, silence was a silent answer.
The smile in Xie Yunqing's eyes disappeared, and he said coldly: "Didn't you ask me what I want? I want this, the same one as his."
Shen Wenji's brain short-circuited for a moment. The same style? This is not a gift.
The wooden box I gave to the furnace tripod contained all the specialties of the Hehuan Sect. How could I give those strange-looking things to Xie Yunqing? He would probably call me a pervert...
Her facial features wrinkled into a ball, and she said embarrassedly: "How about you change it? This one is really not very convenient..."
"Oh, it's not very convenient?" Xie Yunqing sneered, "I guess you're reluctant to give it to me."
"That's not what I meant..." Shen Wenji choked, unable to argue.
Xie Yunqing interrupted her, his voice tinged with a hint of deliberate grievance, and he whispered accusingly: "Although we have known each other since childhood, although you have never given me a gift, although..."
"Stop, stop, stop!" Shen Wenji got goosebumps from his pretentious tone and interrupted unbearably: "Stop being so sarcastic. I'm giving it to you, and you dare to take it?"
"Of course." Xie Yunqing agreed immediately without hesitation.
Shen Wenji: "..." Why don't you play by the rules? He dares to promise her but not to send her off.
Do I really have to give you a jade dildo, gauze clothes, erotic paintings...?
Forget it, he didn't know what was inside anyway, so he might as well find something to deal with it.
Shen Wenji pretended to be entangled, then suddenly clapped his hands, as if he had made a great decision: "Since you want it so much, then I will give it to you..."
Xie Yunqing was inexplicably looking forward to it.
She continued, "I'm giving you my favorite red bean cake."
Xie Yunqing was silent: "???"
He asked in disbelief, "Is this also what you gave him?"
"Yes!" Shen Wenji relied on the fact that Xie Yunqing definitely didn't know, and answered decisively.
"Do you want it? You asked for it yourself, don't cheat." Shen Wenji took out a small square package neatly wrapped in oil paper from his wide sleeve pocket and waved it in front of Xie Yunqing.
"You actually carry it with you?" Xie Yunqing took the red bean pastry.
"Haha." Shen Wenji explained with a dry laugh: "Yes, because I really like to eat."
It's true that she likes to eat it, but she doesn't carry it with her every day. The main reason is that she was in a hurry to leave today and didn't eat much, so she took the red bean cake that her mother specially prepared for her from the table.
Her mother's cooking skills were amazing, and she couldn't bear to eat it, so it was a bargain for Xie Yunqing.
Xie Yunqing smiled and said, "Thank you very much. I will definitely try it when I get back. I'm very curious about what it tastes like that you've been dreaming about."
After finally fooling the Buddha in front of her, Shen Wenji still didn't wait for her mother. She went to the teahouse to retrieve her clothes and asked Yan Xu to pay for the loss of some items. Finally, she returned to the Hehuan Sect exhausted.
Just after taking two sips of cold tea, Lingzhi brought the news that her mother had summoned her.
Shen Wenji rushed to his mother's bedroom without stopping. As soon as he entered, he saw his mother sitting in front of the table, holding a piece of red bean cake in her hand.
Seeing her come in, her mother suddenly sighed without any context, "You're still the same as when you were little, you love these red bean cakes the most."
Shen Wenji didn't know how to answer, so she asked what she wanted to know first: "Mother, why did you break the appointment today?"
"I thought you had guessed it." The mother did not give a direct answer.
Shen Wenji frowned, an absurd but increasingly clear thought emerging: "Are you trying to bring me and Xie Yunqing together? Did you also deliver the letter to him?"
"You're not that stupid." Her mother looked up at her approvingly. "I'm just helping you."
"But..." Shen Wenji sighed and advised kindly: "Mother, I know what's going on in my mind, I don't need your help."
"You know what's going on? I think you're just too timid to dare." The mother snorted coldly and said slowly, "If I hadn't given you this strong medicine, when would you have finally gotten it? Tell me, is it done today?"
Shen Wenji had a bad feeling and asked, "What's the deal? Mother, I don't understand what you are talking about."
"It didn't work?" Surprise flashed in the mother's beautiful eyes. She murmured, "The red bean cakes on the table..."
"I gave the red bean pastry to Xie Yunqing." Shen Wenji's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly realized, "Is there something wrong with the red bean pastry?"
The mother touched her nose and said, "It's not a big deal. I just added some of the Hehuan Sect's top-grade aphrodisiac."
Shen Wenji: "..."
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Susu: Silence is Cambridge tonight. Her mother really gave her a "big surprise." Urgent! How can I solve this? Urgent! He wouldn't really eat it, would he? . . [Crack][Crack][Crack]
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