Chapter 350

Chapter 350: When I see Qing Qing, I think of my late parents
Wu Shao Zhen lowered his head to look at his palm. His five fingers slowly curled as he felt the strong power flowing through his body, and his mood lifted.

At last, he had reached Foundation Establishment.

He got up and walked outside. Just as he was about to step out of the cave, he turned back to glance at the bones scattered all over the ground. His brows faintly drew together.

After thinking for a moment, he cast a small spell and ground the bones completely into powder. Then he adjusted the curve of his lips and gave a self mocking smile. He had actually learned how to be nervous.

But when he thought of Bai Qing Qing’s gentle, peaceful smile, he could not help but hook his lips up again.

In a while, when Qing Qing saw him come out of seclusion, she would definitely be very happy. Then he would take the chance to confess his feelings.

After a period of deep thought, Wu Shao Zhen had finally decided to cherish the person in front of him.

He and the young woman in his dreams had been lovers in a past life. Whether he would ever have the chance to renew that fate was still unknown.

But Qing Qing was the one who had always stayed by his side and cared for him.

He was willing to accept Qing Qing and let her become his new family.

Everything from his past life could be treated as just a dream.

When you wake, a dream leaves no trace.

Excited, Wu Shao Zhen prepared to give Ye Cong Xin a surprise, not knowing that Ye Cong Xin had already learned his movements from the System.

Listening to the System’s voice constantly reporting that Wu Shao Zhen’s favorability toward her was rising and falling, slowly getting close to ninety, Ye Cong Xin’s lips curled in a smug smile. There were not many cultivators in this world whose hearts were free of distracting thoughts. Her long, gentle care of Wu Shao Zhen had not been in vain.

Since Wu Shao Zhen was getting ready to confess his feelings, she naturally had to fully cooperate and push this little play to its peak.

Ye Cong Xin sat in front of her dressing table to fix herself up. She changed into a long, pale moon white dress and put on accessories she usually did not wear. The look was a bit deliberate, and that was exactly what she wanted.

Pouring out feelings alone could not compare to the effect of two hearts beating as one.

She wanted to give Wu Shao Zhen a perfect sense of ceremony and completely win him over.

With both of them full of their own expectations, Wu Shao Zhen opened the Barrier Formation. At a glance, he saw Ye Cong Xin waiting outside, her eyes filled with faint worry and longing.

“Qing Qing…”

After calling out “Qing Qing”, Wu Shao Zhen suddenly froze in place, as if struck by a curse. His expression went blank.

His gaze was locked on the Moonstone Necklace on Ye Cong Xin’s neck. A heavy shadow of gloom rolled in his eyes.

He remembered this necklace.

No, it was more accurate to say he remembered the hairpin that matched this necklace.

After Wu Shao Zhen’s memories recovered, he remembered that he had not actually died at the hands of the Scarlet Flame Lion, but had been killed when a mysterious person pierced his heart meridian.

At that time he had been injured too badly to see the person’s face clearly. He only vaguely remembered a blurred voice, and the Moonlight Stone Hairpin that had been accidentally left behind.

Now, suddenly seeing a necklace with a design so similar to that Moonlight Stone Hairpin, it was hard for Wu Shao Zhen not to connect Ye Cong Xin with the mysterious person who had killed him.

When he compared their voices, the similarity was even more shocking.

This definitely could not be a coincidence.

Some details he had ignored quietly surfaced in his mind.

In the past, he had taken Bai Qing Qing’s kindness to him as a sign of how pure and innocent she was. Now that he thought about it again, how could there be someone in this world who would treat another person so well for no reason, so well they would give up everything without asking for anything in return?

Bai Qing Qing was clearly cruel and ruthless, yet she acted so naive and harmless in front of him. What exactly did she want to do? What did she want from him?

Thinking of how he had been willing to give up his past life lover and choose a woman full of schemes against him, the light in Wu Shao Zhen’s eyes cooled as quickly as embers after a fire.

Ye Cong Xin’s ability to read people’s hearts had long ago reached its peak.

Almost the moment Wu Shao Zhen’s words stalled, she realized at once that things were not going the way she had expected.

She carefully called Wu Shao Zhen’s name while madly urging the System in her heart: “System, hurry, check Wu Shao Zhen’s favorability toward me!”

[Ding! Wu Shao Zhen’s current favorability is 88 points.]

[Ding! Wu Shao Zhen’s current favorability is 68 points.]

[Ding! Wu Shao Zhen’s current favorability is 48 points.]

[…]

The continuous reports scared Ye Cong Xin so much that her soul almost flew out of her body.

“System, what is going on? Why is Wu Shao Zhen’s favorability dropping so fast? Damn it, did he find something out?!”

The System once again pretended to be dead with practiced skill.

Knowing she could not count on it, Ye Cong Xin could only turn her attention back to Wu Shao Zhen.

She thought: [If Wu Shao Zhen’s favorability toward me drops all the way to the bottom, I will kill him.]

Anyone who could not be used by her deserved to die.

Wu Shao Zhen carried a deep blood feud and had roamed the Cultivation World alone since he was young, so he had trained a sharp sense for danger.

At the same time Ye Cong Xin gave birth to the thought of killing him, a dense tingling spread across his skin.

Ye Cong Xin had noticed that something was wrong with him!

Realizing this, Wu Shao Zhen instantly became fully alert.

He had just reached Foundation Establishment, while Ye Cong Xin was a Golden Core cultivator. If she wanted to kill him, it would be as easy as flipping her hand.

So he could not tear things open with her yet.

Even if he had to pretend, he had to keep pretending.

He took a deep breath, letting his eyes slowly soften, and said: “Qing Qing, it is great that I get to see you as soon as I come out of seclusion.”

After speaking, he took the initiative to walk toward Ye Cong Xin. The distance between them grew smaller and smaller.

Ye Cong Xin’s gaze swept inch by inch across his face, not missing a single detail.

But whether it was because Wu Shao Zhen’s acting was too good, or because Ye Cong Xin wanted too badly to squeeze more favorability out of him, she could not find a flaw for the moment.

“System, check Wu Shao Zhen’s favorability one more time for me.”

[Ding! Wu Shao Zhen’s current favorability is 80 points.]

“Hm?”

Ye Cong Xin was extremely surprised.

Her instincts could not be wrong.

Just now, Wu Shao Zhen had clearly started to resent her. Why had it suddenly reversed?

“Qing Qing, why are you not speaking? Did my reaction just now make you sad?” Wu Shao Zhen’s face showed just the right amount of guilt.

“I am sorry,” he said. “It is just that when I saw Qing Qing, I thought of my late parents. Before, when my Father went into closed-door cultivation, my Mother would often wait outside for him, unable to sleep day or night, so…”

His explanation sounded reasonable.

Ye Cong Xin believed most of it.

“Brother Shao Zhen.”

Ye Cong Xin’s small face flushed. She lowered her head and twisted her fingers, acting like a shy little girl.

Wu Shao Zhen looked at her with a face full of doting affection, but there was no warmth at all in his eyes.

“Qing Qing, I…” he had just opened his mouth when a fierce aura rushed toward them, its force shocking.

Both his and Ye Cong Xin’s expressions changed at once. Their first reaction was to run.

But before they could move, a blurry shadow blocked their way in the blink of an eye.

[Ding! Fortune-Bearing Monster Beast Three-Eyed Leopard detected. Host, please begin your strategy!]

Ye Cong Xin used what little self control she had to hold back the urge to curse the System.

Was this really the time to talk about a strategy? She was about to become the beast’s meal!

Hua Tu looked to the left, then to the right, and finally fixed its gaze right on Wu Shao Zhen.

“It was you who killed the black falcon.”