Chapter 61: I Didn't Hide From You
Ye Fei grabbed a coat and walked out of the room. She stood under the tree and looked up at the boy in the tree.
Li Yuan nimbly leaped down, casting a slightly scrutinizing gaze at the girl in front of him.
Ye Fei coughed lightly: "Ahem! I haven't seen you these past few days... I guessed you were avoiding me."
“I’m not avoiding you,” Li Yuan replied calmly. “You’re in a classroom with wood-elemental spiritual energy, and I’m in a classroom with dark-elemental spiritual energy, so we can’t have classes together.”
"Where is the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion? I've been there these past few days, but I haven't seen you..."
“I went to the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion before you, and then my master made me cultivate in the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion’s cultivation room.” Li Yuan’s eyes were as deep as obsidian, and he answered innocently, “It’s not that I’m avoiding you, it’s just that our times just happened to be different.”
Ye Fei raised an eyebrow and stared at him, somewhat suspicious. Was that really all there was to it?
“Actually, I didn’t pay attention to what happened in the carriage that day,” Li Yuan said again, his voice as cold as ever. “I’m just not used to interacting with women.”
"That's good." Ye Fei stopped worrying and breathed a sigh of relief. "We're going to the Forest of Fireflies tomorrow. We'll wear cloaks the whole time and try our best not to be recognized."
Li Yuan nodded, then fell silent again.
During the time Ye Fei had known him, she had almost never seen him smile, as if he was born such a cold-hearted person.
As if recalling the old man's words to her, Ye Fei pondered for a few seconds. Since she had already met him, should she take this opportunity to get to know him better?
“And this—” Li Yuan took out several spiritual master techniques from the black ring on his hand, “My master asked me to bring these to you.”
Ye Fei took a look and saw that they were all spiritual techniques suitable for wood-type spiritual masters to cultivate.
Ye Fei felt a warmth in her heart: "After we return, I will personally go and thank the Seventh Elder."
"Um."
"Would you like to sit for a while?" Ye Fei pointed to the bench in the pavilion.
Li Yuan did not refuse and followed Ye Fei into the pavilion to sit down.
Ye Fei blinked, took a deep breath, and began to ask, "Li, can I ask you something?"
"you say."
"Are you from Lingyun Kingdom?"
Li Yuan's eyes flickered slightly; had she begun to doubt his identity?
A hint of displeasure rose in his heart, and he said coldly, "No."
"I saved your life in the backyard of the Ye residence before. Can you tell me why you were being chased?" Ye Fei asked again.
Li Yuan glanced at Ye Fei, noticing her intent gaze fixed on him, pursed his lips, and replied, "An enemy."
"A blood feud?" Ye Fei asked curiously, resting her chin on her hand. She quickly realized that her question was a bit inappropriate and explained, "Actually, it's because I've known you for so many days, but I've realized that I don't seem to know you at all..."
Her honest answer puzzled Li Yuan, but strangely, his mood suddenly improved when he learned that she didn't doubt him.
Understand him? Why go to such lengths for him?
Ye Fei thought of something and said with a half-smile, "Although I call you my little brother in public, I actually treat you as a partner... Unlike Su Haochen and Feng Ruyue, who seem close on the surface but have a lot of ulterior motives behind the scenes."
“I’ve always been a loner, trusting only myself and thinking that the partners I could entrust my back to were unimportant. But one day it suddenly dawned on me that there are no truly solitary people in this world.”
Ye Fei recalled the scene of being publicly besieged before her rebirth, and the light in her eyes dimmed.
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