"You're one thing, but why didn't I?!" Ya Wen protested.
Chu Xinxin: "What do you mean, 'I'm fine with it'? I'm not worthy of a young and handsome male cultivator?"
"You're being too kind; the Pavilion Master might hear you," Ya Wen sighed sadly. "Alas, you're already taken, while I'm all alone. This doesn't conform to the rules of Heaven!"
"Heaven said he never set such a rule." Chu Xinxin was also worried. Why didn't anyone ask her? Did she think that her own opinion of her beauty was just her own?
"Sister, why don't you just grab someone and ask them?" the system suggested. "The male cultivator opposite you, wearing royal blue robes and carrying a sword, secretly glanced at you six times in one minute. He's at the Foundation Establishment stage, which meets the kidnapping criteria."
After drinking a few glasses of wine, Chu Xinxin's mischievous thoughts amplified once again. She whispered something in Ya Wen's ear, and Ya Wen smiled knowingly after listening.
The male cultivator opposite him was from Xizhou and his name was Liu Hong.
After Liu Hong had stolen countless glances at the two beautiful female cultivators opposite him, one of them suddenly winked at him and beckoned him.
He thought he was seeing things, but after taking a few steps closer, he realized that it really was looking for him.
The female cultivator watched him point to the dimly lit garden on the right, chuckled, and walked over first.
Liu Hong was overjoyed and immediately put down his wine glass and followed.
As soon as he entered the garden, his hands were bound by a chain that appeared out of nowhere. When he tried to call for help, his mouth was immediately sealed shut.
Chu Xinxin and Ya Wen worked together to pull the man behind the artificial hill. Ya Wen took out her spirit sword and held it to the man's neck, threatening, "If you dare to shout, I'll cut off your tongue." Then she tore off the seal from Liu Hong's mouth.
Chu Xinxin began to question, "Tell me, why do you keep peeking at us, but keep asking the female cultivator next to you for the telepathic password?"
Liu Hong thought his life was in danger, but he didn't expect to be asked this, and he immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "My two aunts, you scared me to death."
"Don't try to establish connections, answer properly." Ya Wen was probably a little drunk too, and the spirit sword moved a little closer.
"I'll talk, I'll talk!" Liu Hong shrank back a bit. "We wanted to ask you for the password, but every time we walked up to you, you looked us up and down with a very aloof and disdainful gaze, so we didn't dare to speak. That's why we asked the female cultivator next to us."
Yawen: "Nonsense, those were clearly friendly and cordial looks between us!"
"I'm telling the truth." Liu Hong was so anxious he almost cried. "Your whole faces are practically screaming 'You male cultivators are all trash,' who would dare to ask you anything? If you don't believe me, go ask someone else."
Chu Xinxin & Ya Wen: ......
"Okay, I'll trust you for now." Chu Xinxin raised the chain and counted eight times before letting Liu Hong go.
Ya Wen glanced curiously at the dark black chain and asked Chu Xinxin, "Xinxin, where did you get this chain? It works so well that it automatically binds people when it touches them."
"This is called the 'Loving and Companionate Chain,' exclusively crafted by Master Tianji. I'll ask him to get you one next time..."
After Chu Xinxin and Ya Wen finished speaking, they turned around and saw Xiao Linyi watching them from the pavilion next to them.
"Sect Master...Sect Leader." Chu Xinxin sobered up considerably from the shock. "When did you arrive?"
"I've been here the whole time." Xiao Linyi's expression was not good.
Seeing that things were not going well, Ya Wen said goodbye and slipped away.
Chu Xinxin suddenly remembered that she was still holding the loving chain in her hand. She immediately put her hand behind her back and tried to secretly put it back into her storage ring. Unexpectedly, Xiao Linyi grabbed her hand first and picked up the chain. The chain sensed the other person and automatically wrapped their hands together.
Xiao Linyi examined it carefully; it was the one Chu Xinxin had tricked him into leaving in Zichen Palace that day.
"I can explain." Chu Xinxin decided to confess and receive leniency.
Xiao Lin thought of eight eights, and the chain fell off with a sound. He then put the chain back into his storage ring and asked Chu Xinxin in a deep voice, "So, you used the 'Love and Affection Chain' to deceive me that day just to find a place to stay?"
Chu Xinxin raised her hand and swore, "Yes and no, I just want to live with you!"
To increase credibility, she pointed in the direction where Liu Hong disappeared and said, "He also has improper thoughts about me, but if he dares to kiss me, I will end him with a sword."
The implication is, "You were the one who kissed me first that night, so you can't blame me for this," and there's an even deeper meaning: "I only kiss you."
Xiao Linyi held her hand, which she had sworn to heaven, and pulled her closer to him. Suddenly, he smelled a slightly sweet scent of wine on Chu Xinxin.
She drank tonight too, but didn't kiss the male cultivator from earlier. However, that night at the inn, she kissed him on her own initiative...
Xiao Linyi's heart felt like it had melted, a warm current flowed through his limbs and bones, and the bone-deep pain brought by the Spirit Dispersing Pill was no longer so unbearable.
"Let's go back to the main hall. Emperor Liang has brought out his treasured Snow Plum Wine, which he has kept for many years. You will like it."
Chu Xinxin blinked. Hmm? That's it? So easy to talk to...
The two returned to the main hall. Chu Xinxin's eyes lit up when she smelled the wine. She took a jar and sat in a corner, drinking it with relish. Xiao Linyi poured wine for her beside her. The couple followed each other perfectly, as if it had always been this way.
Halfway through the drinking session, Xiao Linyi was summoned back to the inner cabinet by someone sent by Emperor Liang. A while later, Emperor Liang sent someone to find Chu Xinxin and asked her to go to the inner cabinet as well.
As soon as Chu Xinxin stepped inside, she saw Xiao Linyi talking to a woman. The woman was slender and dressed in a flowing, dark-patterned brocade palace dress. She had a beautiful face, but her gentle and graceful temperament added nine points to her already seven points of beauty.
Xiao Linyi had his back to Chu Xinxin, so Chu Xinxin couldn't see his expression, but judging from the woman's expression, the two must have been having a pleasant conversation.
Chu Xinxin paused, a detail immediately detected by the system: [Sister, are you jealous?]
"You know what, it really does feel a bit strange." Chu Xinxin thought for a moment, "A little bittersweet, and a little unhappy."
"Sister, this is Chu Shu, the eldest daughter of the Chu family in Zhongzhou, Chu Qian's elder sister."
Upon hearing this, Chu Xinxin thought, "Hmm? If they have a grudge, then it's not too much for her to go and stop the conversation, is it?"
"Sister, don't go over there yet." The system stopped Chu Xinxin. "Let me tell you, Chu Shu told Xiao Linyi that she would have her sister Chu Qian apologize to you. Xiao Linyi said that since she's so sincere, she'll just bring out the phoenix egg to make amends. Hahaha, did you see that? Chu Shu's smile is completely gone."
Chu Xinxin immediately felt relieved: "I knew it! Xiao Linyi's favorability towards me is 9999%, how could he treat this Miss Chu differently..."
Huh? What 9999? What am I talking about?
Chu Xinxin and the system were stunned.
[Holy crap, sis, Xiao Linyi's favorability rating is 9999! Oh my god! Sis, pinch me, am I dreaming?!]
Chu Xinxin brought up the data panel and looked at it three or four times. That's right, Xiao Linyi's favorability rating had just risen to 9999 at the rockery!
"Damn, I'm awesome."
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