Chapter 45: It Wasn’t Intentional

After buying all the meat and wine the Master demanded.

Both of their storage pouches were stuffed to the brim.

“Finally finished buying.”

Lin Yue stretched.

“Let’s go, Senior Sister? Return to the mountain?”

Chu Wanning stopped.

Her gaze subtly drifted to a small stall not far away.

There, an extremely plump vendor was carrying a straw bundle filled with bright red candied hawthorns.

The rock sugar gleamed temptingly under the sunlight.

Lin Yue keenly caught that look.

At the same time, the jade token on his chest began to flicker joyfully again.

Lin Yue was almost laughing hysterically inside, but he maintained an extremely composed facade.

“Oh, suddenly my mouth feels a bit tasteless.”

He patted his stomach with extreme exaggeration.

“Boss, two of the biggest candied hawthorns!”

He pulled out a low-grade spirit stone with extreme swagger, tossed it to the vendor, and took two bright red sticks.

Turning around, he extremely naturally handed one to Chu Wanning.

“Senior Sister, do me the honor? My treat.”

Chu Wanning looked at the candied hawthorn offered to her.

She swallowed with extreme difficulty.

“I told you… I don’t eat such worldly things.”

“Oh, if Senior Sister doesn’t want it, I’ll have to throw it away. Such a waste of the spirit stone.”

Lin Yue made an extremely regretful gesture as if to throw it away.

“Wait!”

Chu Wanning extremely swiftly reached out and snatched the candied hawthorn.

“Wastefulness is not the way of a cultivator. Since you already bought it, I’ll… reluctantly dispose of it for you.”

Lin Yue looked at her extremely stubborn expression and absolutely loved this trait.

Chu Wanning extremely carefully lifted a corner of her veil.

She extremely elegantly and lightly took a small bite of the topmost hawthorn.

Crunch.

The crisp sound of the sugar coating shattering.

The sweet and sour juice instantly exploded in her mouth.

At that very moment, Lin Yue’s own mouth also synchronously surged with an extremely rich sweetness.

The jade token’s heaven-defying perception-sharing function activated again!

He not only tasted that extremely stunning sweet-and-sour flavor, but he also extremely clearly felt the pure, explosive happiness in Chu Wanning’s heart!

‘He actually bought it for me! This bastard, he can be considerate sometimes!’

Lin Yue looked at the utterly satisfied, eyes almost crescent-moon-like peerless iceberg before him.

A gentle smile curled at the corner of his mouth.

He bit into his own candied hawthorn.

“It’s very sweet, isn’t it?”

Lin Yue looked into her eyes and asked extremely softly.

Chu Wanning extremely sheepishly turned her head away, but her voice softened.

“Passable. Barely edible.”

Lin Yue laughed extremely heartily.

He leaned close to Chu Wanning’s ear and said something extremely lethal in an extremely quiet voice.

“Senior Sister doesn’t need to hide it from me.”

“I know you feel it’s very sweet inside.”

“Because… my tongue just now also tasted your kind of… extremely happy yet extremely shy sweetness.”

Plop.

The candied hawthorn in Chu Wanning’s hand fell to the ground uncontrollably.

She whirled around, staring at Lin Yue with extreme panic and fury.

The whole person was like a cat whose tail had been cruelly stepped on.

“Lin! Yue!”

“You utterly shameless lecher!”

The sky above the Cloud Sea Market instantly echoed with the utterly collapsed roar of the icy Peak Lord.

And Lin Yue, extremely adeptly hoisting the large bundles, ran frantically and happily toward Lingxiao Peak.

“Senior Sister! Don’t draw your sword! This was bought with public funds! If you cut it, Master will stew me!”

“Shut up! Come here and die!”

Lin Yue raced ahead as if his feet had wings, while the sharp sound of sword qi chased him from behind.

Chu Wanning, overwhelmed by shame and anger, tapped her foot to fly into the air, the clear sword light wrapped in towering fury.

Her movement technique was extremely fast, and as her skirt fluttered, she directly caught up to Lin Yue.

Just as she raised her wrist to draw her sword, her spiritual power, thrown into chaos by her emotions, stumbled abruptly.

At the moment she lost balance, Chu Wanning cried out, and her whole body uncontrollably lunged forward.

The next second, her soft lips unexpectedly collided with Lin Yue’s warm cheek, barely brushing past the corner of his mouth, leaving an extremely soft yet flustered touch.

Time seemed to stop eerily at that moment.

Chu Wanning’s entire body stiffened, all her anger and shame frozen in her limbs.

The previously domineering icy Peak Lord seemed to have all her strength drained away, standing limply frozen in place.

Those usually cold, frosty eyes snapped wide open, moisture rapidly gathering, her pale cheeks reddening to the point of dripping blood, even the tips of her ears burning hot.

She took a quick step back, raising her hand to fiercely cover her lips, her fingertips trembling shamefully.

Holy crap, I messed up.

Lin Yue pressed himself tightly against the wall corner, observing the Senior Sister’s next move, afraid she might really kill him in anger.

There was no roar, no sword drawn, only extremely faint, aggrieved sobs, like a small beast that had suffered a great grievance, fragile enough to make one’s heart ache.

All the accumulated grievance, shyness, and helplessness burst forth, crystal tears uncontrollably rolling down her cheeks, silently falling along her jawline, sobbing softly.

Since meeting Lin Yue, Chu Wanning felt her heart was in chaos.

His simplest words, the sword heart she had firmly upheld, was crumbling bit by bit.

She felt like she was being toyed with by this man, yet she wasn’t angry.

That sword strike earlier had never intended to hit Lin Yue; she had only wanted to show the dignity of a senior sister to scare him.

But she couldn’t do it.

Lin Yue’s heart tightened, and the jade token on his chest burned and trembled violently.

The overwhelming shame and grievance from Chu Wanning flooded into his heart with extreme clarity.

The Ledger quickly chimed in with a cheeky tone: “Excellent, Lin boy, you’ve got her so soon!”

He had no time to respond to the Ledger’s teasing.

He immediately stopped, hastily put down all the bundles on his shoulders, and flusteredly approached, speaking extremely gently and soothingly.

“Senior Sister, I’m sorry, I’m sorry. It’s my fault. I shouldn’t have said those things. Please don’t cry.”

He carefully raised his hand, not daring to touch, only softly offered a clean handkerchief, his voice tender and weak.

“It’s my fault for making you angry. Hit me, scold me, whatever you want. Just don’t cry, okay? I swear I won’t tease you again. Really.”

Chu Wanning kept her head down, her shoulders shaking slightly, crying softly and pitifully.

She still refused to look up at him, but she no longer pushed him away, letting the unworthy tears wet the front of her robes.

“Don’t touch me. Let me calm down myself.”

Under the setting sun, it seemed only their voices existed.

Lin Yue patted Chu Wanning’s head and let her cry.