Do You Know How to Capture a Villain? - Chapter 70.1

Ji Qingzhou, who was diligently eating dumplings, thought of the immortal epiphyllum under the sea of blood in the cultivation space.

What kind of flower did Shen Rongyu want to raise?

It couldn’t possibly be her, though.

At times Ji Qingzhou was very calm and Shen Rongyu’s appearance normally wouldn’t confuse her — Because so far, the system has only unlocked level one of its functions, which only showed that Shen Rongyu’s affection for her might only be at the initial getting-to-know stage.

She lowered her head again and stuffed a mouthful of dumplings in her mouth. Shen Rongyu’s dumplings were of good craftsmanship, thin wrappers with a lot of fillings, much better than her own. His style of making dumplings was different from Qiao Shu’. He glued the two sides of the dumplings together, making it look like a gold ingot.

They took their time eating and when they left, the lone moon was hanging in the sky. The autumn wind was bleak, blowing on the mirror-like water surface. The withered yellow leaves rustled in the wind and fell on the water, causing ripples.

“Zhuozhuo, let’s get going.” Shen Rongyu picked up Burial Snow beside Sansan.

“Okay.” Ji Qingzhou picked Sansan as well.

Shen Rongyu felt her warm body temperature. Her soft body pressed against him as she hugged Sansan tightly.

With a tremble, he said to Ji Qingzhou, “If you are not using your umbrella, you can put it in your small purse, so you don’t have to hold it all the time.”

He suggested this same thing to Ji Qingzhou multiple times, but she always shrugged it off.

“Xiao Yu-shixiong, I find it alright to carry it like this.” Ji Qingzhou stepped on his Burial Snow Sword.

Shen Rongyu looked down at her. Her expression was still calm and wooden. Her eyes, however, were fixed far away, looking at the distant scenery.

Ji Qingzhou had been on White Water Island for so long but it seemed that she had not changed at all. She was still the same.

Shen Rongyu held her wrist when his sword took flight and Ji Qingzhou’s hand fit into his naturally. She didn’t blush, as if she had gotten used to his touch.

Well, it could be said that she changed in some ways. For example, facing him now, she was not as shy as she was at the beginning.

Shen Rongyu thought of the shameplant that Elder Qiao Shu planted. That plant had been teased so much that it no longer close its leaves.

Perhaps it was out of habit, and he was her habit.

Shen Rongyu gripped her slender wrist tightly.

Ji Qingzhou turned her head and asked him, “What are you doing, Xiao Yu-shixiong?”

They couldn’t cultivate on Burial Snow.

“Winding you up,” he replied.

It took some magic power for Ji Qingzhou to control Sansan when she went to Mingxin Lake today. She didn’t feel it, but Shen Rongyu noticed it.

Wisps of spirit qi seeped into Ji Qingzhou’s meridians from the place where their skin touched. Shen Rongyu could control the amount of spirit qi she could absorb, but this time he deliberately slowed down the speed of spirit qi injection.

Because he wanted to hold her for a while longer.

Ji Qingzhou was reminiscing about the taste of the dumpling meal tonight, until Shen Rongyu asked her something, pulling her back from her thoughts.

“Zhouzhou, why did you come to Xuanyun Sect?” It was his first time asking Ji Qingzhou this question — It was really strange for her to be here because she was out of tune with the cultivators in the sect. Moreover, she didn’t seem to be willing to pursue the cultivation path.

She was so indifferent to life and death. How could she pursue eternal life and the inexhaustible power brought about by cultivation?

Ji Qingzhou was a failure at lying, so she kept silent. All she said was a soft, “Xiao Yu-shixiong…”

Xiao Yu-shixiong was Shen Rongyu, and Shen Rongyu was the reason for her presence in Xuanyun Sect.

How could she honestly tell her reason?

But by chance, Shen Rongyu inexplicably answered his own question, “Because of me?”

He knew that Ji Qingzhou would not lie. That being the reason, it must be because of him.

Ji Qingzhou turned her head, looked at Shen Rongyu’s profile, and her eyes fell on the tip of his delicate nose.

She could only answer with a “Yes” or “No”, or… Silence would be tantamount to a default.

Shen Rongyu wondered. Did she approach him with some purpose right from the start?

Ji Qingzhou was silent. She just blinked.

“Since it’s because of me, why hide from me?” Shen Rongyu knew her too well. Almost every time he came into contact with her, he was the one who took the initiative.

The first time Ji Qingzhou took the initiative to find him was because of her donkey.

She threw herself at him the second time, that moonlit night when she pushed the door. Her eyes clapped with his, filled with undeniable surprise — She didn’t know he was there.

Ji Qingzhou could answer this question: “Xiao Yu-shixiong, I’m afraid of people.”

Shen Rongyu thought, What a coincidence, I’m not human.

He grasped Ji Qingzhouu’s hand and raised his hand up slowly. His fingers trailed over her thin arm lines until he came to the side of her neck. His fingers hovered under her ears but he did not touch her. A strand of her hair that was blown by the wind wrapped around his fingers.

A murderous intent appeared suddenly in the depths of Shen Rongyu’s eyes. Ji Qingzhou’s existence was too strange. It made him uneasy about his secret being revealed. Faced with such an existence, it went without saying that she should be killed, which was the most straightforward way.

He tried to kill her but time and time again he had failed to do so.

This time was no exception ——

“Do you know who I am?” Shen Rongyu’s fingers fell — Before he was ready to kill her, he actually felt afraid of scaring her. His fingers did not climb her neck and instead hovered hesitantly, not knowing where to place them. In the end, they remained on her delicate and small earlobe. He gently pinched it.

Ji Qingzhou’s earlobe was sensitive. She flinched a bit but she did not avoid him.

Of course, she did know who Shen Rongyu was — he was the villain, the same person who had committed heinous crimes. However, she didn’t know anything about Shen Rongyu’s past. Why was he involved with the Earth Vein Ghost Qi?  And why did he end up crushing the entire cultivation world? Was he a mortal, a devil, or something else?

Ji Qingzhou didn’t know, and she wasn’t interested in knowing either.

Unbeknownst to her, Shen Rongyu was one step ahead of her and became interested in her.

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