Do You Know How to Capture a Villain? - Chapter 72.1

Ji Qingzhou asked softly with a sprinkle of caution. Her tone reverberated fluffier and softer than the autumn wind that rippled on the water. Although the volume was barely audible, it floated into Shen Rongyu’s ears.

So, no more kisses?

Shen Rongyu was wearing a single garment at the moment, as his larger outer robe had fallen on Ji Qingzhou. His back was initially facing her, thus his beautifully contoured back was lit in the moonlight. His shoulders were broad and his waist was narrow. As he raised his arm to wipe his sword, the clothes on his back wrinkled a little, pulling out sharp ripples.

When Ji Qingzhou asked this sentence, Shen Rongyu’s hand stopped wiping his sword. He turned around and stared at Ji Qingzhou.

She was petite. Wrapped in his large robe and standing on the water, she stared at him so serenely.

Shen Rongyu pressed his feet to the ground. On one hand, there was a force that pushed him to stand up, but another force worked against him, preventing him from budging an inch.

He did want to kiss her, but he knew that this kiss meant nothing to her. Ji Qingzhou would not have any reaction to it, while he would only sink deeper and deeper into the quagmire.

Perhaps he was worried that Ji Qingzhou would trust him and rely on him so much, for he knew that she was a stubborn woman who would break through the southern wall when she decided on a goal.

Just like she knew that Jiang Qianke would kill her in the Formation class assessment, she still participated quietly and without complaint.

The thin ice in the depths of Shen Rongyu’s eyes turned into darkness. He stared at Ji Qingzhou — He knew she always avoided looking him in the eye, so he could show his emotions in his eyes as much as he wanted.

He said with a hoarse voice, “Zhuozhuo, that was a joke.”

“Okay.” Ji Qingzhou gripped her robe a little bit. She thought, Shen Rongyu is indeed a big villain, a veritable villain.

“Then I’m going to bed,” she said, turning her back to Shen Rongyu.

The moment she turned around, Shen Rongyu also did the same. The knuckles of the hand holding the sword has turned white — Deep inside, he concluded that he had fallen into a terrible situation.

Shen Rongyu tilted his head. Under his long and slender neck, the red imprint that continued to heat was burning his skin at this moment. It seemed that something hidden underneath his meridians and bones… was about to spurt out.

He closed his eyes. His cheeks, that were as cold as a banished deity, still had that indifferent aura. Under the layers of clothes,something beneath the thin black scars on his back seemed on the verge of crawling out, out from the very spot where the red immortal epiphyllum grew.

In the darkness, a faint red glow on the back of Shen Rongyu’s neck kept flashing through the gaps of his clothes. Under the heavy garment that no one could see, the stamens of an immortal blossom unfolded, and red spring seeped out of his body.

After Ji Qingzhou turned around, she walked away slowly. The moonlight slantingly shone on her, stretching her shadow.

If she were to turn her head at this juncture, she would see such a strange scene. What was more, she was also very familiar with the red qi that was oozing out of Shen Rongyu. It was the red qi protruding from the sea of blood.

She walked slowly, the thoughts in her heart chaotic. She didn’t know what kind of evil had possessed her just now, to ask such a question to Shen Rongyu.

How could he kiss me? What a joke!

Ji Qingzhou didn’t know that a strange scene was unfolding behind her. Shen Rongyu was still sitting upright, with a straight back and a cool and dignified demeanor. His movements of wiping his sword were graceful and leisurely.

In stark contrast to him, under his pure white clothes, endless red qi kept surging up and directly trailed after Ji Qingzhou. In the shadows torn from the moonlight, the red qi was trying to climb up Ji Qingzhou’s body, but decided against it in the end.

He calmed down and turned to entangle the slowly moving shadow behind Ji Qingzhou. The bloody qi could not catch the shadow, so he could only chase after her. Then, the ends of the red qi transformed into lips and gently kissed her shadow.

Since he wanted to kiss her, then kiss her it is. Kissing her shadow also counted as a kiss.

When the red qi kissed Ji Qingzhou’s shadow, she seemed to have sensed something and turned her head. However, the moment she turned, the red qi immediately shrank back, sinking directly into the pool behind Ji Qingzhou, leaving only a series of ripples as he lay dormant, like a viper waiting for its chance to take action underwater.

Goosebumps rose on Ji Qingzhou’s skin. She found nothing behind her, only Shen Rongyu who was wiping his sword with his back to her. His white robe was hanging down, his demeanor was cold, and his whole body seemed to be shrouded in a layer of pure and flawless light.

Shen Rongyu committed a very low-level mistake facing Ji Qingzhou just now. The red qi that sprang out of his body was naturally him too. When he saw Ji Qingzhou turning around — He turned his back to her as well so he should have been unaware of it.

However, he still spoke, “Are you still not going to bed, Zhouzhou?” It was as if he was trying to cover up something.

Ji Qingzhou didn’t notice his amateur-level mistake because she thought it was normal for Shen Rongyu to have eyes on his back, so she replied, “No, I just glanced back.”

She herself didn’t know she wanted to see when she turned around.

Ji Qingzhou turned around again. The red qi under the water came to shore, followed her with his eyes and crawled over. Just before her shadow hid in the room, he kissed her again, seemingly with a hidden pleasure.

Squeak— The door was closed. Ji Qingzhou stood still in the room and then raised her hand to touch her lips. The feeling of her fingers running over her lips was completely different from Shen Rongyu’s touch.

Why didn’t he kiss me? The red qi in the cultivation space clearly kissed her happily — Although he didn’t kiss her today.

Shen Rongyu was always so unpredictable that she couldn’t grasp his thoughts. Ji Qingzhou came up with this conclusion by the time she finished washing and climbed into bed.

She closed her eyes and dozed off. She didn’t know that after she had closed her eyes and sunk past sleep, a red stream of qi burrowed in through a crack in the window. He didn’t touch Ji Qingzhou, he just drifted onto the bedside table and merely gazed at her.

He watched Ji Qingzhou turn over on the bed and wrap her clothes around her head — The quilt she carried in the room was very thin, and one layer couldn’t keep out the cold at all.

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