Chapter 40.1

Giving Him a Jade Pendant (1)

Ji Qingzhou was stunned for a long time after hearing what he said, and finally she finally confirmed that Shen Rongyu’s words did not mean rejection.

She lowered her head. Her eyes fell on the ugly epiphyllum she carved out, and then answered Shen Rongyu’s question.

“Xiao Yu-shixiong, anywhere is fine.” Ji Qingzhou herself didn’t know where to let Shen Rongyu put this jade pendant. It seemed that it didn’t fit well anywhere on his body.

“Since you gave it to me, it’s up to you to decide, Zhouzhou.” Shen Rongyu’s tone was tinged with laughter.

He seemed to be teasing her again, but Ji Qingzhou was totally oblivious to it.

Ji Qingzhou blinked, and glanced at the Burial Snow Sword that Shen Rongyu placed by his side. The hilt of his sword was bare, but most of the swords of other cultivators in Xuanyun Sect were adorned.

She thus suggested seriously, “On your sword?”

Shen Rongyu didn’t answer her, and he just gazed at her quietly. His eyes were too blatant, making Ji Qingzhou feel more and more embarrassed.

The way he was looking at her was like how the red qi in their cultivation space wrapped around her body – scorching hot.

“Zhouzhou, on my sword?” Shen Rongyu asked warmly.

“Yeah,” Ji Qingzhou answered firmly.

They fell into a long silence again, but Shen Rongyu still did not express agreement.

Bathed in his gaze, Ji Qingzhou’s gaze drifted uncomfortably across his chest, and she didn’t look at the sword anymore.

After a long time, she stuttered, “T-Then on your waist?”

“Okay.” Shen Rongyu replied. He responded quickly, for fear that Ji Qingzhou would go back on her word.

Ji Qingzhou had this feeling that she had stepped into Shen Rongyu’s trap. He clearly had the answer in his heart, but he just had to take it out from her mouth.

“En,” Ji Qingzhou responded.

Just then, Shen Rongyu stretched out his hand towards her. His slender fingers hooked on the jade pendant, and he called her, “Zhouzhou.”

“En?” Ji Qingzhou uttered the same word in a different tone, this time expressing doubts.

Since it’s a jade pendant you gave me, isn’t it just right for you to tie it to me?” he said so justifiably.

Ji Qingzhou’s hand trembled. Shen Rongyu had a belt and a waist sash on his waist, and this jade pendant was naturally tied to the sash.

His waist… Ji Qingzhou secretly gulped. Shen Rongyu’s figure was naturally superb, especially when she saw him unclothed that day.

But…is it really okay to do so?

Ji Qingzhou thought. Shen Rongyu was willing to accept the ugly jade pendant she gave him, then he asked her to tie this jade pendant around his waist. It didn’t seem to be an excessive request.

“Okay.” She uttered out that one word with difficulty, her face flushed to her ears.

Shen Rongyu looked down at her, put the jade pendant in her hands, and raised his arms obediently, so that Ji Qingzhou could fasten the jade pendant to him.

Ji Qingzhou really was clueless about the structure of men’s clothing, and there was no way she could actively take the initiative to figure them out.

Moreover, under the rendering of nervousness, her brain almost shut down, and she forgot that the jade pendant could be fastened without removing his waist sash.

— It was mainly Shen Rongyu’s actions that misled her.

Besides, he acted the same in their cultivation space, so it was inevitable that she got carried away with her thoughts.

Thus, after a long spell of psychological construction, Ji Qingzhou wrapped her hands around Shen Rongyu’s back. Even though his waist was narrow and his muscles were lean, Ji Qingzhou’s arms span was small, so it was as if she was hugging his waist when she wrapped her arms around.

Ji Qingzhou’s head was almost down to his chest. She didn’t dare to look at the patterns on Shen Rongyu’s clothes, and she just wanted to find the knot behind Shen Rongyu’s waist.

Despite fumbling about haphazardly a couple times, she didn’t touch him.

Shen Rongyu didn’t expect Ji Qingzhou to be stupid to this extent, because the silver buckle holding his waist sash was in front.

He didn’t remind her. After all, he was a wicked villain, so he kept silent and just watched her.

Ji Qingzhou felt that she had fallen into an embarrassing abyss. Shen Rongyu was still covered with a layer of outer robe, and she couldn’t go around to see the structure of his clothes — She couldn’t lift his robes either, that would be terrible.

She didn’t dare to ask him, because she could feel Shen Rongyu’s eyes fixated on her all this time.

Ji Qingzhou’s hand hovered in the air, and she began to think of a way. Under Shen Rongyu’s white tulle robe, the slender shadow of a woman’s arm was reflected. Her fingers hooked into the jade pendant blossom in her hand, swaying and reflecting a hazy light and shadow.

Her hands froze stiff for a long time because she was doing mental construction.

After a long time, Ji Qingzhou seemed to have made up her mind. She thought she’d better make a quick decision, otherwise she would combust from the heat radiating from her body at the moment.

“Xiao Yu-shixiong, it shouldn’t matter if I touch you, right?” Right after Ji Qingzhou finished uttering these words, she wished she could find a crack and burrow herself into it.

This question caught Shen Rongyu off guard. Her soft voice floated to his ear like a feather.

“Yes,” he answered.

Ji Qingzhou’s fingers inched down with difficulty. She closed her eyes, because it was really offensive.

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