Chapter 700 The Jade Pendant Is Hard to Steal
However, she was preoccupied with the quiz tomorrow and didn't think much of it. She just gave him a couple more suspicious glances before going back to her room.
She assumed that once she left, Wan Qingzhou would definitely return to her dilapidated temple.
Unexpectedly, the person did not leave. Instead, he climbed onto the branch of a large tree outside the window and lay down. With just a slight turn of his eye, he could see the scene in Wen Zhiyi's room.
Lying on a tree branch, he had a dry blade of grass in his mouth, looking like he was going to stay up all night.
Back in her room, Wen Zhiyi took a shower first.
She came out wearing a bath towel, dried her hair briefly with a towel, and then went to change into her pajamas.
Wan Qingzhou, who was in the tree, had been waiting for her to sleep, but what he got instead was a "beauty emerging from the bath". His Adam's apple bobbed slightly, and after a long while he forced himself to turn his head away.
This girl, doesn't she even close the curtains when she changes clothes?!
He touched his pounding heart and his ears, which were burning up, and thought to himself that if he had known this job would be so difficult, he would never have agreed to Tang Zhi's request.
After finally suppressing the restlessness in her body, Wan Qingzhou turned her head to look at the room again after an unknown amount of time.
Wen Zhiyi had changed her clothes and dried her hair, and was now sitting at the table reading a book.
A kerosene lamp was lit on her table, its dim, yellowish light casting indistinct shadows of people in the room.
But he became completely absorbed in watching it.
Although she is focused when reading, she occasionally makes some cute little gestures.
For example, he might casually tuck his pen behind his ear, occasionally scratch his head, sometimes suddenly realize something, and sometimes have a smile on his lips.
He never knew that such a dry and obscure book could reveal so many interesting expressions.
Time passed by, and when it was around midnight, Wen Zhiyi finally got up, stretched, yawned, and turned off the kerosene lamp.
It's time to go to bed.
Wan Qingzhou regained some clarity, took a deep breath, and glanced at the pocket watch he was carrying.
12:05.
For most people, it takes at most one hour from the start of sleep to entering deep sleep.
Outside, the moon was bright and the stars were few. Her face kept popping into his mind. After a moment, he realized something was wrong, so he quickly took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and started counting the time with his pocket watch.
An hour passed quickly. At 1:05, he suddenly opened his eyes in the darkness and then lightly jumped down from the tree branch.
I walked a few steps to the windowsill, and indeed there was no sound in the room except for the quiet, long breathing of the person on the bed.
He gently pushed open the window, then flipped sideways and went straight into the house.
The room was completely dark, with only a few rays of light filtering in.
He moved quietly and walked to the bedside.
Wen Zhiyi lay on her back on the bed, her hands folded in front of her chest.
He thought to himself that he had offended her, and then bent down to take the jade pendant from her neck.
But just as he was about to lean forward, he suddenly stopped—
He saw Wen Zhiyi on the bed staring at him with her big, dark eyes wide open!
He instantly held his breath and dared not move again.
She's still awake!
His mind raced, trying to figure out how to explain, and after a long pause, he could only awkwardly extend his hand and greet her, "Hi, um... would you believe me if I said I was sleepwalking?"
The next second, Wen Zhiyi suddenly sat up with a thud!
Caught off guard, Wan Qingzhou was startled and instinctively took a step back.
When he met her big, dark eyes, his heart nearly jumped out of his chest. He could only chuckle and say, "You...you're not angry. I'll leave right now, I'll leave right now!"
After saying that, he quickly turned around and slunk out the window.
His steps were clearly not as nimble as when he arrived; he landed with a thud and then stumbled.
After a moment, he composed himself and quickly ran away.
What he didn't see was that not long after he left, Wen Zhiyi lay back down, looking nothing like she was awake. Soon, the breathing on the bed became long and drawn out again.
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Wan Qingzhou's plan to "steal the jade pendant" has failed in its first battle.
However, this failure seems to be just the beginning, and the problems that follow are even more difficult.
Because he discovered that every time he went out with Wen Zhiyi after that, there was almost always a little tail following her.
He had seen that person before at the foot of Lingshan Mountain. Later, through Wen Zhiyi's introduction, he learned that the person's name was Yan Heli and that they had a good relationship.
Because I was busy with exams recently and didn't have much time to go out, I've been sticking to her side every day since the exams ended.
He protested about this, but Wen Zhiyi said she was powerless to do anything about it.
It's not that she doesn't want to get rid of him, but she can only succeed two or three times out of ten, because he's too talkative.
In the end, it always ended with her impatient compromise.
However, while Wen Zhiyi compromised, Wan Qingzhou felt that she could not.
On one hand, he simply disliked this well-behaved student, feeling that he was definitely not as innocent as he appeared, and that these pretenses were all means to make Wen Zhiyi soften her heart towards him.
On the other hand, Yan Heli's hostility towards him was too obvious. Every time he came out, he seemed to want to stare a hole through him.
Wan Qingzhou rolled her eyes countless times in her heart, thinking to herself that this person was simply insane.
But since Wen Zhiyi had agreed, he could only grit his teeth and watch as the two of them turned into a trio.
It was precisely because of Yan Heli's relentless targeting that he had several opportunities to obtain the jade pendant, but all of them were ruined.
Thinking of this, Wan Qingzhou couldn't help but feel even more depressed. He thought to himself that he had to find a more suitable opportunity to shake off this guy and get the jade pendant.
This opportunity came very quickly.
With the Mid-Autumn Festival approaching, and since the Wen family was required to hold a moon-viewing ceremony on the day of the festival, Wen Zhiyi found it boring and suggested that they go on a boat trip on the Changping River a day earlier to enjoy the moon and have a good drink.
Wan Qingzhou felt this was a golden opportunity; as long as he got the person drunk, the jade pendant would be his for the taking.
Of course, it would have been even better if Yan Heli hadn't been there for this event.
He held onto a sliver of hope, but that hope was shattered when Yan Heli followed closely behind Wen Zhiyi.
He took a deep breath, deliberately ignoring Yan Heli, and said to Wen Zhiyi, "You're here?"
Wen Zhiyi was already excited when she saw the boat they had chartered: "This boat is huge, it could hold ten more people, right?"
After she finished speaking, she couldn't help but ask in confusion, "Where did you get the money to charter a boat?"
Wan Qingzhou said nonchalantly, "Chartering a boat doesn't necessarily have to cost money. A few of my friends agreed to help the boss unload the cargo for a day tomorrow, and the boss happily agreed to lend us the boat."
Wen Zhiyi gave Wan Qingzhou a thumbs up: "Amazing."
Yan Heli scoffed and said disdainfully, "They're all just shady tactics."
Wan Qingzhou maintained her smile: "If you don't like it, you don't have to come up. There are plenty of boats over there that you can charter. It's all very legitimate, just take one of those boats."
After saying that, he pulled Wen Zhiyi along and led her directly onto the boat, then turned around and prepared to set sail.
Upon seeing this, Yan Heli quickly exclaimed "Hey!" and pulled up his pants to run towards the boat, saying, "I didn't say I was disgusted! Wait for me!"
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