Twin Lotus Flowers (Part 3)
Chapter Twenty-Three
After their conversation at the inn, Song Ling remained as usual, sticking close to her as before and doing her missions as usual, completely undisturbed by Song Ling's words.
Xie Yuan, on the other hand, was a little confused. She didn't quite understand what Song Ling meant by what she said that day.
Song Ling asked her to prove that she cared about him.
Doesn't she care about him enough?
How to prove this? It seems she has never considered this question.
However, she was much more patient with Song Ling than with others, after all, she was someone who hated trouble.
Well, in fact, she now has some doubts about whether her true feelings for Song Ling are mixed with some selfish motives.
She had never noticed these things before.
until.........
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I've been in Jingzhou for seven days, and the twin lotus flowers are still nowhere to be found.
Early in the morning, Xie Yuan sat listlessly in a corner on the first floor of the inn, propping her head up with her left hand. Cang Yue had taken Xiao Taosu to buy her favorite meat buns, while Xie Yuan yawned and flipped through the folk tales of Jingzhou, which were full of novelty about the magical effects of twin lotus flowers and various compiled strange and wonderful stories.
For some reason, Xie Yuan couldn't muster any energy early in the morning and looked listless.
When Song Ling placed hot tea and her favorite crystal shrimp dumplings in front of her, she only glanced at them listlessly before turning her gaze back to the title page of the book in front of her. The morning light, intertwined with the fine dust particles, shone through the half-open gauze window behind her, making it seem as if she could barely see the words.
Oops, where was she just looking? She blinked hard, trying to regain focus on the chaotic scene before her.
Suddenly, the book in her hand was snatched away. Xie Yuan was still in a daze when suddenly the world spun around her, and she landed in a cold, fragrant embrace.
"Master, are you sick again?"
A helpless sigh came from above her head.
Hmm? She's sick again?
Only after being reminded by him did Xie Yuan belatedly realize what was happening.
Her body is so fragile; she was sick not long ago.
"What are you saying? I'm just making up for any illnesses I didn't have before."
Xie Yuan nestled comfortably in his arms, without feeling any guilt whatsoever. Oh dear, he's finally got a filial disciple; he's made up for the good fortune he didn't get to enjoy in his past life.
Song Ling carried her back to the soft couch in his room and poured her a glass of warm water.
The girl leaned against the couch, lazily sipping water from his outstretched hand.
Song Ling sat on the edge of the couch, staring intently at her, her expression as languid and relaxed as a kitten.
"Why are you staring at me? Is there something on my face?"
Xie Yuan happened to look up and meet Song Ling's ambiguous smile, her eyes filled with a hint of doubt.
"Now we have it."
What is it?
Seeing the smile on his lips, her vexation from being sick lessened somewhat. His high ponytail swayed in front of him, and a small bell was tied to the end of one of the braids. She only noticed now that he was wearing a bell today.
Xie Yuan couldn't resist reaching out and gently grasping the ends of his silky black hair, then mischievously shook the bell.
"I'm here."
As the bell in her hand rang crisply, she heard the boy's muffled laughter fall beside her ear.
"Huh?" Xie Yuan didn't react for a moment and asked suspiciously.
“Master, you look like a kitten cuddling with me right now.”
Song Ling pointed to the ends of her hair that she was tightly gripping and said shamelessly.
"Well, you've really grown bold, daring to tease your teacher now!"
Thanks to Song Ling, she finally knows how to spell the word "shy." She was a little embarrassed and angry, and said that she was about to get up from the bed. Today she was going to teach him a lesson!
She had just made a move to roll up her sleeves, revealing a section of her moon-white wrist, when, before she could make her next move, she stood up too abruptly, causing her blood to circulate poorly, and she ended up falling directly onto the man...
Their lips happened to touch.
What? What kind of weird idol drama plot is this?
They parted abruptly, and she leaned on Song Ling's shoulder, her face full of unspoken words as she met his smiling eyes.
Would you believe me if I said it was an accident?
"I believe everything Master says, except..."
"Stop!" Xie Yuan raised a finger and gently pressed it against his thin lips, her eyes carrying a hint of intimidation as she warned, "You're not allowed to say anything out of line!"
"Didn't Master say he wanted to know what the truth was like?"
"This has nothing to do with your nonsense, does it?"
"Then, will Master still think I'm talking nonsense?"
The next second, in a dizzying moment, she was easily pinned to the couch by him, his arm around her waist.
Xie Yuan rarely felt a restrained sense of pressure from him. Although the smile on his lips seemed no different from usual, she still keenly noticed that he was different from his usual self.
Just as he was about to kiss her, she was so startled that she quickly turned her head away, and the kiss landed lightly on her fair collarbone.
"Song Ling! If you keep doing this, I'm going to get angry!"
"Then why didn't Master push me away, or..." Song Ling whispered a few words in her ear.
"You know I wouldn't do that to you." Xie Yuan frowned slightly and interrupted him coldly.
"Why not, Master?"
Song Ling was clearly being aggressive; how could she not see that he was forcing her to make a choice?
He always felt insecure, thinking that someone would leave him and abandon him.
What he didn't know was that she never doubted her favoritism towards him, and she never made a choice between him and anything else.
"I promise you."
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Xie Yuan was never a coy person.
She was once a powerful and influential figure, ranking first on the World's Most Influential Figures List.
Countless men fell to her sword, and she had countless suitors.
But as her master said, there is no attachment or hindrance.
She had no desires in matters of the heart throughout her life, and her only wish was to be free as the wind. She was also very good at cutting off unwanted romantic advances.
Anything that might bind her would be resolutely discarded by her.
In her eyes, the best solution is to not give others hope.
Later, she was bound by the system and forced to complete tasks, but in order to stay in this world, she felt it was feasible. After all, there is no free lunch in the world. If you want to get something, you always have to give something. It's not like she hasn't killed bad people before, especially since the system said that this person was an extremely wicked villain.
In the end, the main villain was just a three-year-old child.
Xie Yuan didn't know what she was thinking. She could have stayed in this world forever and lived a carefree life if she had killed him.
Why should we step out of our comfort zone?
She couldn't understand it in her past life.
In her second life, she saw his memories.
She was almost going crazy. Why did she treat him like this?
It turns out that in his eyes, she saw a scene of utter isolation and despair, a rebirth after facing death.
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"Master, will you regret it?"
"regret."
"I regret not meeting you sooner."
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Xie Yuan always believed that loving someone is innate.
Although she had never been in a relationship, she was largely self-taught in the principle of loving someone as if they were a flower.
Just like I'm nice to you for no reason.
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The Qian family is a large and powerful clan with considerable influence and connections. The renowned Qianxing Tower in Jingzhou is one of their businesses.
As its name suggests, the Thousand Star Tower symbolizes reaching out to touch the stars, and it is also the tallest building in the entire Northern Zhao Kingdom.
Even by modern standards, it would be considered an enormous project, as this exquisitely beautiful pavilion is a full twenty-one stories high.
It only receives royalty, nobles, and wealthy merchants; it does not accept ordinary people.
In this generation, the head of the Qian family had twins, a boy and a girl. It is said that when the twins were born, the mansion was filled with twin lotus flowers overnight, each one crystal clear and full, the twins conjoined.
They even had someone tell their fortune about their son and daughter.
Such a magnificent sight was indeed an auspicious omen.
The head of the Qian family was overjoyed, so that year he held a grand banquet at Qianxing Tower to entertain guests, and booked a ten-mile-long street for a continuous banquet, which was open to all the people.
This is considered a popular and beautiful story among the people.
The twin lotus has become a rare flower that is considered priceless by the local people.
It belongs exclusively to a thousand households and is generally not circulated in the market.
Xie Yuan snapped the book shut with her left hand, raised an eyebrow and glanced at the two people sitting side by side opposite her: Cang Yue, who was sitting upright, and Xiao Tao Su, who was holding her chin and listening intently, seemingly understanding but not quite.
And then there's that person next to her who insists on holding her hand...
I should have agreed to it later.
She squeezed his hand hard, gave Song Ling a helpless glance, and gestured for him to behave himself when he was out.
"So, after hearing this story, what are your thoughts on the Senka family?"
After all, this matter concerns whether Xiao Taosu can speak again, but this rumor is too fabricated and has no logic whatsoever.
Cang Yue suppressed his burning gossip-loving heart, trying hard not to look at the other side, but staring at the plate of melon seeds on the table. He was afraid that if he accidentally knew too many secrets, he would be killed on the spot by his boss.
Cang Yue's face turned pale with anger. Upon hearing her mistress's question, she immediately focused her attention and began to analyze the situation seriously.
“Miss, this rumor sounds completely unbelievable. I arrived before you and the eldest brother and went there to investigate long ago. But the fact that the Qian family has set up a forbidden technique using blood as an array in their own home is obviously not simple. As for the twin lotus, I think this matter is still questionable.”
Xie Yuan was quite surprised to hear the words "blood array." She was familiar with this thing; it was used to suppress great evil or to defy the heavens.
Putting aside how difficult the spell to draw a blood array is, it's not something an ordinary person can do.
She forcibly defied the script and sealed Song Ling's natal Gu, almost killing herself on the spot.
If it weren't for the system keeping me alive, I probably would have died a thousand or eight hundred times over.
"However, Cang Yue, you know quite a lot, even about blood arrays?"
Xie Yuan brought it up casually.
"You flatter me, Miss. Our boss told me all this. He's incredibly knowledgeable, hahaha..."
"Oh, so it seems your boss is quite knowledgeable, even knowing this..."
Xie Yuan smiled meaningfully. She could clearly feel that someone who had been leisurely playing with her fingers had subconsciously curled their fingertips upon hearing about the Blood Array.
As Cang Yue was laughing, she suddenly sensed that something was wrong. When she looked up, she received a cold, icy look from her boss that said, "You're dead."
But it was gone very quickly.
Because the eldest brother was grabbed by the collar and dragged away by the young lady...
Oh no, oh no, his loose tongue seems to have ruined things by accident.
From this moment on, his tragic life seemed to have no end in sight!
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