Chapter 49 Chapter 49 Then, kiss me and I will believe you...
After they parted at Rimu Xueyuan, she hadn't seen Gu Zhi for a long time, and she just spent her days doing nothing in Li Xuanbai's Lingjue Pavilion.
Li Xuanbai had been at odds with her recently. It seemed that she had chosen Gu Zhi in front of him that day, which had offended him deeply. These days, although he still had to carry her up and down the cliff, he rarely joked with her. Every day when they met, he would snort coldly, without saying a word, and then say with a half-smile:
"Are you thinking of me at this time, Chu Jiaojiao?"
She had nothing to say and rolled her eyes from the bottom of her heart.
Not only that, sometimes he seemed to use some tricks to play hard to get. He got a list of the top ten beauties in the world from somewhere, and dragged her to appreciate them together every day. He insisted that she rank them and determine who was better, and also asked her to give one, two, three, four reasons.
She was extremely annoyed and couldn't stand it. Later, when she saw Li Xuanbai, she would roll her eyes and walk away.
It’s not that she wants to give up Li Xuanbai.
Because she knew that Li Xuanbai would fall for it.
This kind of despicable and lazy guy who is always unruly is like going against his will if you listen to him. If you treat him with indifference, he will feel itchy and can't do anything to you.
Nan Qiongshuang had seen many men like this. No matter how he jumped up and down every day, she just ignored him and flipped through the list of beauties under her nose again and again in a good mood. Sometimes she even made comments based on her ability to judge people and sincerely suggested that he marry one of them.
Soon, Li Xuanbai collapsed.
One day, she leaned on the Luohan bed and carefully flipped through the "New Eight Beauties of Yangzhou" that had been stuffed into her. Picking a grape with her fingertips, she said, "For today's batch, I suggest you pick the fourth one."
Across the narrow table, Li Xuanbai, who had been observing her expression gloomily, was extremely impatient. Upon hearing this, he suddenly pulled the book away and said, "Chu Jiaojiao, I want to ask you what you mean!"
"What do you mean?" He asked knowingly while holding a grape in his mouth.
"What do you think?" The person opposite raised his eyebrows.
"Oh, you're talking about this." She nodded, indicating that she understood. "Just because you like me, does that mean I have to like you?"
The person asking the question takes it for granted, while the person listening feels as if a storm is about to come:
"Shouldn't it be?"
She laughed coldly, lowered her head, continued to put the grapes in her mouth, and turned a page:
"There is no such thing as a must in the world."
Li Xuanbai hissed, took two steps forward, and leaned over to her side, pressing his knees beside her. He supported one arm on the mahogany fence behind her and used his body to push her into the corner of the bed without allowing her to resist.
She didn't even bother to move her fingers, which were pinching the pages of the book. She glanced at his swaying and sparkling red earrings, and met his eyes, which were trying hard to suppress his anger.
"how?"
He smiled, then lowered his smile a little, until the tip of his nose was almost inches away from hers.
I don't know whether the voice was coaxing or threatening:
"...Do you like the one with the surname Gu?"
Nan Qiong Shuang raised one eyebrow, teasing and disdainful:
"How could I possibly like him?"
Li Xuanbai was silent for a moment after hearing this.
He leaned down again, lowered his eyes, almost touching her forehead, breathing slightly, staring at her lips.
His expression was a little dazed: "Then, kiss me and I will believe you."
He was born gorgeous and arrogant, sharp as a sword that had seen blood, but now he showed a kind of forced patience and helpless obedience.
Nan Qiongshuang placed the grapes between her fingers on her lips and paused.
Looking at his affectionate expression, she smiled and said, "If you don't believe it, so what."
The person in front of him was no longer angry after hearing what he said. He closed his eyes and turned his head to chase after him. Their foreheads touched, their noses intertwined, their lips slightly opened, and their breaths intertwined.
But suddenly he froze again.
Nan Qiong Shuang stretched out a slender index finger and slowly pushed the round green grape between his lips.
Her hand rested lazily on the side of her face, and her index finger pushed him away. She still smiled nonchalantly, "I have nothing to prove to you. It's up to you."
The person opposite was stunned for a moment, then stood up straight. He took the green grape that was stained with a little of her bright red lipstick, played with it between his fingertips, lowered his eyes, and laughed:
"Whatever I want?"
There was an unbearable silence.
Finally, he put the grape into his mouth:
"Come on, I'll take you to see something."
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Because he was quarreling with her, he ignored her every time she asked him to take her hiking.
Unexpectedly, he was in such a good mood today and brought her all the way to the mountain gate.
The distance to the mountain gate, whether it is Muxueyuan or Lingjue Pavilion, is really not short, so except for a quick glance in Gu Zhi's arms on the day she entered the mountain, she has hardly ever taken a close look at this place.
At first glance, I understood why the people from the Tianshan Sect couldn't come down the mountain after going up.
The mountain gate is over a thousand feet high, rising from the ground. Standing at the bottom and looking up, even if your neck almost breaks, you still can't see the end.
Inside the gate, there is some unknown mechanism, which extends far along the mountain gate, and it is also unknown where it ends.
She looked at the huge gate, smiled, and thought to herself that she was right not to impulsively take the jade token that day.
If she didn't prepare in advance for such a door and mechanism, she would definitely not be able to get down.
Li Xuanbai suddenly grabbed her waist from behind, and with a tap of his toes, she was suddenly suspended in the air. The ground she was standing on was instantly several feet away from her. She was stunned for a moment, and Li Xuanbai lightly stepped on a few petals in the wind and jumped onto the huge tree on the side of the road in front of the mountain gate in a few steps.
Standing on a branch, he put her down and said, "Watch here."
The branches were round and she tilted them slightly. She quickly grabbed Li Xuanbai's arm and asked, "What are you looking at?"
Li Xuanbai let her use his strength, and when he saw that she had stood firmly, he withdrew his arm and glanced under the tree. "It seems that no one has come yet." He sat down cross-legged on the branch.
Nan Qiongshuang really didn't know what she was brought here to see. Seeing him sit down, she also sat down carefully, with her legs dangling in the air.
"How long will it take?"
Li Xuanbai deliberately ignored him and lay down on the tree branch with his hands crossed behind his head.
He is narrow-minded. If you ignore him once, he will ignore you back.
Nan Qiong Shuang rolled her eyes again and looked around bored.
Looking up, I could see a small, shimmering disk in the distance, beneath the glaring sunlight, amidst the dense forest in the valley. It looked like a massive building, only a tiny portion visible above the crown of a giant tree, the rest of it submerged in the forest.
She shook Li Xuanbai up: "What is that?"
Li Xuanbai sat up and took a look, "The Nine Lights Reverse Wheel on the mountain."
"Nine Lights Reverse Wheel?"
"The destructive mechanism on the mountain, once triggered, will destroy the entire mountain." He casually pointed to a distant branch. "The lines on these branches are darker than those on ordinary branches. Do you see? This is the tree connected to the Nine Stars Reverse Wheel. If someone activates that thing, all the trees on the mountain connected to it will burn together."
This mountain gate is so high. If it really catches fire, it will be the end of us.
She gently traced the lines on the branches with her fingers, carefully examining them. She felt that they seemed to have more ravines and grooves than ordinary branches. "Are there many trees like this on the mountain?"
"A lot. Very, very, very—a lot." He lay back down again, crossed his legs, and laughed. "Someone come and open that thing someday? That would be really interesting."
Nan Qiongshuang glanced at him silently.
Is it a joke, or is it what you really think?
"By the way," he sat up suddenly, one hand rummaging through his clothes, "I'll give you something."
After saying that, he threw it over lightly.
Nan Qiongshuang took it with both hands.
It is a flute with a white jade pendant with a double dragon playing with a pearl at the end.
"When people on the mountain see my things, they feel as if they've seen me. They're all wary of me. If someone gives you a hard time, just take them out. If you need to find me, just blow on them."
Nan Qiongshuang always liked to spin something like a short knife in her palm. Now she took the flute and played with it skillfully in her palm. Suddenly, it occurred to her that the flute was something that was put into the mouth to be blown. How could she share it with others?
So I glanced at him.
But although he lay back leisurely, his eyes were gazing at her meaningfully, and that look was simply... unpredictable.
She understood immediately.
He waited deliberately to see if she would be willing to share the flute with him.
But she didn't go with him that day, and he still cares about it now, even testing her on these trivial matters.
She shook her head helplessly and turned the flute in her palm: "Then I'll keep it."
Li Xuanbai's expression finally relaxed. He turned his head away and snorted unhappily.
But suddenly, I heard human voices coming from under the giant tree.
The dense forest canopies beneath him were layered, and the shadows of the trees swallowed up half of the path out of the mountain. At this moment, dozens of white-robed disciples walked out from under the shade of the trees, forming two rows and lining up all the way to the mountain gate.
On the narrow mountain path, a figure was surrounded by the crowd and walked in front. When he reached the mountain gate, he turned around and saluted slightly to everyone behind him.
Today, Gu Huaijin is finally going down the mountain.
Nan Qiong Shuang sat on the branch of a giant tree, watching coldly as the people below said goodbye to everyone politely one by one. She didn't know what she felt, but just smiled faintly.
At this moment, everyone suddenly exclaimed in surprise, "Elder."
Huide actually walked out from the shadows of the trees below. Today, Gu Huaijin was going down the mountain and specially left the Bodhi Pavilion to see him off in person.
Gu Zhi was flattered to see Huide come out in person to see him off, and bowed deeply.
Huide clapped his hands on his back with satisfaction, then smiled as he fingered his rosary beads. "I've been worried about your life's most important event for a long time. I've mentioned it to you several times, but you always refused to listen. Now you've finally come to your senses. I'm so happy for you."
"Junior dare not."
"These days, I heard you were planning to go down the mountain and get married, so letters from women have been pouring in. Adding the portraits of women that have been brought into the mountains, there must be at least a hundred of them. I had someone count them yesterday, and there were forty-three portraits and two hundred and seventy-three pieces of letter paper. Have you carefully read all of them?"
Gu Zhi lowered his head: "Yes."
"I wonder what you think after choosing for so long? Is there anyone you particularly like?"
"Picking and picking...it seems," he paused, and suddenly, for no reason, glanced at the treetops above his head.
In the dense green, Nan Qiong Shuang sat in the shadow of the trees. When the wind blew, the leaves swayed, and the light and shadows danced. Her face was almost half bright and half dark, with a smile on her face.
His voice suddenly became hoarse, and it rolled in his throat for a long time without uttering a single syllable.
Huide: "Which one?"
Everything was completely silent; even the mountain wind, the chirping of insects, and the swaying of the trees seemed to have ceased. Across the waves and the crowd, they stared at each other from afar, almost imperceptibly. The person, surrounded by stars, seemed unable to speak, but simply gazed at her with longing.
She tightened her grip on the flute slightly.
Everyone was completely unaware. Huide asked, "But is it Huang'er from the Hengshan Sect, the one you grew up with?"
He silently withdrew his gaze: "Exactly."
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