"Yuanyuan, don't change your seat. I like the smell of you. It's fragrant and pleasant, just like... just like dewdrops on flower petals in the early morning." Zhu Xiaojuan closed her eyes and acted intoxicated.
I don't smell!
Zhou Yuanyuan was amused by Zhu Xiaojuan's intoxicated look and couldn't help but lift her sleeve to her nose to smell it.
If Zhou Yuanyuan truly had a scent, it was the scent of spiritual energy. Zhou Yuanyuan was a cultivator, and even when she wasn't practicing, spiritual energy would cling to the surface of her clothes, forming a thin spiritual energy shield.
However, Zhou Yuanyuan didn't think Zhu Xiaojuan could smell spiritual energy. Ever since Zhu Xiaojuan revealed her inner thoughts, Zhou Yuanyuan suspected she was a cultivator and used her spiritual sense to scan her several times. Unfortunately, there wasn't a trace of spiritual energy on Zhu Xiaojuan; she was just an ordinary person.
"Yuanyuan, I know you are a good person. Good people always smell good, and you are the most fragrant one I have ever smelled." Zhu Xiaojuan looked at Zhou Yuanyuan with a smile, a mischievous smile flashed in her eyes.
Zhou Yuanyuan was speechless. She felt her brain wasn't working properly, at least not enough to keep up with Zhu Xiaojuan's somewhat unconventional thinking.
"Yuanyuan, I have decided. I want to be friends with you. If you don't agree, I will keep staring at you. As I look at you, I can hear what you are saying in your heart!" Zhu Xiaojuan said with a smile.
"Alright, alright! As long as you don't stare at me, everything else is fine." Zhou Yuanyuan compromised. They were just friends. Even if Zhu Xiaojuan didn't bring it up, Zhou Yuanyuan would eventually make her her best friend. As for Zhu Xiaojuan's claim of being able to hear Zhou Yuanyuan's thoughts, Zhou Yuanyuan was a bit skeptical. After all, Zhou Yuanyuan was a cultivator, and a powerful one at that.
It was well known that the more powerful a cultivator, the more rigorous their protection. A cultivator's methods were beyond the imagination of ordinary people. If Zhou Yuanyuan took precautions, even if Zhu Xiaojuan possessed a powerful "mind-reading" ability, she wouldn't be able to hear a single word from Zhou Yuanyuan's heart.
Zhu Xiaojuan is an interesting person.
"Yuanyuan, you're so nice." Seeing that her "friend request" was successful, Zhu Xiaojuan kept her word and stopped staring at Zhou Yuanyuan. For the rest of the day, Zhu Xiaojuan slept soundly on the table.
The teachers were used to it. Regardless of whether Zhu Xiaojuan paid attention in class or not, she always ranked last in the exams.
Today is Friday, the day when high school students are released from their “cages” and go home to visit their families.
After school, Zhu Xiaojuan did not return to the Zhu family's new home, but returned to the compound with Zhou Yuanyuan. After He Shumin's downfall, the He family's old house was bought by Zhu Xiangyang. There was no other way. The Zhu family had too many descendants, and the house in the compound alone was not enough for the Zhu family to live in.
Besides Zhu Xiangyang and his wife, only Zhu Manwen and his family lived in the compound now, sometimes coming back to stay with their parents for a few days. The rest of the time, Zhu Manwen's two younger brothers basically stayed in the former He residence, now the Zhu residence.
Zhu Xiaojuan and her mother, Chen Xiaoqing, arrived just after the Zhou family finished dinner. Chen Xiaoqing brought several kilograms of five-spice peanuts, which she had bought fresh and cooked herself with spices, and brought to Zhao Yunxiang to try.
Zhao Yunxiang and Chen Xiaoqing have been very close in the past two years. In addition, Zhao Yunxiang wanted to ask Zhu Xiaojuan to marry her son. Chen Xiaoqing's arrival made Zhao Yunxiang overjoyed. After a while, the two mothers talked about work, fashion, and parenting, and they were chatting enthusiastically.
Zhao Yunxiang and Chen Xiaoqing were chatting, and they were afraid that the two children would be bored, so they let them go play somewhere else.
With her mother's order, Zhou Yuanyuan had no choice but to take Zhu Xiaojuan back to her room. Honestly, she was a little curious about Zhu Xiaojuan's mind-reading ability, and wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to learn more about it.
"Yuanyuan, why are you so frugal? I'll ask my mother to order you a set of furniture exactly the same as mine tomorrow." Zhu Xiaojuan was shocked when she arrived at Zhou Yuanyuan's room.
A bed, a desk, a cabinet, and a stool are all the furniture in Zhou Yuanyuan's room.
Zhu Xiaojuan's boudoir was about the same size as Zhou Yuanyuan's, but it was furnished with a touch of class. While Zhou Yuanyuan's floor was bare concrete, Zhu Xiaojuan's room was covered in off-white shag carpet. The furniture and bedding were all from major domestic brands, with a sweet, princess-like style.
"No, no, I just like to keep it simple." Zhou Yuanyuan shook her head like a rattle.
It's not that Zhou Yuanyuan is being pretentious; she genuinely dislikes the current trend of complete furniture sets, like chests of drawers and TV cabinets. She finds them an eyesore. Besides, she simply dislikes hassle. Her ability to adapt to circumstances is her greatest virtue.
"Yuanyuan, I've made an agreement with my mom. I won't go back tonight. I'll stay at your house and sleep with you." Seeing Zhou Yuanyuan's refusal, Zhu Xiaojuan stopped pestering her and instead dropped a "bomb."
What? This "best friend" style of sharing secrets while sleeping in the same bed at night doesn't seem to suit an old woman like me! Zhou Yuanyuan was completely speechless. Perhaps it was due to her cultivation, but Zhou Yuanyuan felt that her personality had become much more aloof in this life. Aside from their partners, cultivators generally refused to allow anyone to get within three feet of them.
"I'm not used to sleeping in the same bed with someone else." Zhou Yuanyuan, not one to put herself in a difficult position, flatly refused. It was a rare two-day break, and Zhou Yuanyuan had even planned to go into her sea of consciousness to see the "Tree of Life." With Zhu Xiaojuan around, she couldn't do anything tonight.
"Yuanyuan, we're already good friends. How could you refuse this great opportunity to chat late into the night?" Zhu Xiaojuan pouted. She had so much to say to Zhou Yuanyuan! She'd slept on her desk all day, just to prepare for a nighttime chat. If Zhou Yuanyuan refused to take her in, would she go home and stare at the ceiling all night?
"Sister Xiaojuan, if you have something to say, just say it now. Even if we're good friends, we should have our own private space! If you do this, our friendship will be ruined in a minute," Zhou Yuanyuan threatened Zhu Xiaojuan. Zhou Yuanyuan agreed to be friends with Zhu Xiaojuan simply because she thought she was a good person to befriend. It didn't mean that Zhou Yuanyuan had to tolerate her having a little stalker like Zhu Xiaojuan around at home.
Besides, since Zhou Yuanyuan already knew that Zhu Xiaojuan could "read minds", how could she allow Zhu Xiaojuan to follow her 24 hours a day?
"Ah? Is that so? Okay then! I'll leave after I finish talking." Zhu Xiaojuan was a little disappointed.
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