He felt inexplicably depressed.
His eyes darkened, and he forced a smile. "Weak?"
He raised his hand and grasped her wrist, which was resting on his shoulder.
The long, slender fingers are all tightly bound together.
Gritting his teeth, he said, word by word, "You seem to have some misunderstanding about me."
"I forgot to tell you, I broke through another realm during my three days of seclusion." His thick, dark eyebrows rose slightly. "Now, I'm at the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm."
"What?!" Shen Zhiyi was somewhat stunned.
She belatedly exclaimed in surprise, "Then I pitied you for nothing?!"
Okay, okay.
Is this the academic superstar who claims to have underperformed but actually got a perfect score?
She hates it!
"What have you realized this time?!" Shen Zhiyi asked in despair. "How did you break through to a higher realm so easily?"
"Want to know?" Cang Liuyu lowered his gaze to look at her.
Shen Zhiyi nodded vigorously.
She was too eager to improve.
His dark, piercing eyes, filled with a deep, unfathomable gaze, slowly descended and settled on that fair, delicate face.
Cang Liuyu's Adam's apple bobbed, and he said in a deep voice, "The first step in cultivation is to remember that once a goal is set, it cannot be changed arbitrarily."
"Otherwise, we will regress instead of advance."
Shen Zhiyi hissed softly, frowned, and processed what he had said.
"I feel like I only half understand it..." she said wistfully.
Cangliu Yu closed his eyes.
When he opened his eyes again, a fleeting stubbornness flashed across his clear, open eyes.
In a secluded place, he stirred up a deep, unseen pool of water, its undercurrents surging, and seized her figure, wishing he could drag her into his gaze forever, so that she could never escape.
He parted his lips and spoke in a hoarse voice.
"It means..."
"No one you find can compare to me."
"Do you understand?"
Shen Zhiyi stared at him blankly.
A surge of heat emanated from his palm, scorching her skin.
She didn't know why her throat felt tight.
Silently pressing the small red powder in the storage bag, he nodded, "Understood."
It seems this medicine still needs to be administered...
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