A change? Qin Li was slightly taken aback. He decided to stop worrying about what would happen to his body after practicing the Only I am Venerable Technique for six months. A real man faces death head-on. If you die, you die; if you live, you live forever. There was nothing to be afraid of! So, hearing what Shangguan Shiyu said, his interest couldn’t help but shift to his fiancée.
In truth, Qin Li had long sensed a change in Shangguan Shiyu. When she was near, his cultivation speed was two to three tis faster than usual. And every ti, Qin Li sensed that Shangguan Shiyu seed to be enduring sothing. It was as if her whole body was itching, yet she gritted her teeth and refused to leave his side.
Furthermore, from Qin Li’s perspective, Shangguan Shiyu was much more cheerful than when they had first t. She even occasionally joked with him. Her visits had also beco much more frequent. In the past, she would co once every five or six days, but now she ca every two or three. Sotis, she would even visit for several days in a row.
The residents nearby all knew that the family who had recently moved in was connected to soone important. There were many rumors speculating that Qin Hanyue was the mistress of so big shot, and Qin Li was his illegitimate son.
It had to be said that the curiosity to pry into others’ private lives was human nature! Whether it was the poor folk living in the north of the city or the mature-minded Qin Li, no one could escape that burning appetite for gossip.
"What kind of change? Tell about it!" Qin Li said, smiling at Shangguan Shiyu. But in the next instant, the smile froze on his face. His jaw dropped, his eyes filled with disbelief, and he exclaid, "This... how is this possible? What’s going on?"
Having lifted her veil, Shangguan Shiyu was as beautiful as ever. Her features were like a painting, her gaze captivating. Her face was so exquisite that it would inspire no profane thoughts in anyone!
It was just that her originally light blue skin had beco even fainter! Although one could still tell at a glance that her skin was blue, it was countless shades lighter than when Qin Li had first seen her!
In the past, if Shangguan Shiyu had walked the streets of Yellow Sand City without her veil, she would have certainly frightened away many pedestrians. People have an innate fear of the unknown. But the Shangguan Shiyu of today gave the first impression of an absolute beauty! If the light were a little dimr, you wouldn’t even be able to see her blue skin!
Shangguan Shiyu fixed her beautiful eyes on Qin Li, then took off her gloves. She revealed a pair of slender, delicate hands. They were the sa faint blue, and just as incomparably beautiful!
"This... is all thanks to you!"
Shangguan Shiyu said with a faint smile. No one knew how much bitterness was hidden behind that smile!
The first ti she noticed the blue on her hands seed to have faded a little, Shangguan Shiyu thought she was dreaming, that it was a hallucination! She had a large mirror specially installed in her room. In the past, the biggest taboo in Shangguan Shiyu’s room was a mirror!
Ignoring her handmaiden’s confusion, at the first opportunity, Shangguan Shiyu had impatiently stripped naked and stood before the mirror, examining herself over and over. She still clearly rembered her expression at that ti—her face was streaked with tears!
The exquisite, beautiful young woman in the mirror looked like a complete stranger. Heaven knows how long it had been since she’d last looked in a mirror. Previously, her maids had always handled her grooming and makeup. After this incident, Shangguan Shiyu changed. She no longer let her maids dress her or do her makeup; she did it all herself.
A rumor gradually began to spread throughout the Shangguan Family: Shangguan Shiyu had found soone she loved; a woman adorns herself for the one who delights in her!
Only Shangguan Shiyu herself knew the real reason. Every ti she returned ho after parting with Qin Li, she would ticulously inspect every inch of her skin. She knew that her strange illness was truly, slowly getting better!
’Although I don’t know why,’ Shangguan Shiyu believed, ’as long as I stay by his side, I will, sooner or later, beco a normal woman!’
A... woman of peerless, youthful beauty!
Her feelings for Qin Li had naturally changed from initial indifference to her current gratitude... with a little bit of affection mixed in. After Shangguan Shiyu told Qin Li the reason for the change, Qin Li was speechless for a long ti, a tempest raging in his heart. ’Could this be fate?’
Two people, both ill-fated, had t and produced such a trendous change! Qin Li didn’t even know what words to use to describe how he felt. In short, he was definitely overjoyed!
"Congratulations!"
After a long silence, Qin Li finally managed to say this.
"You’re the first person to know about this!" Shangguan Shiyu said, as if moved by so inexplicable impulse. Imdiately, a blush rose on her cheeks, and she shyly lowered her head. A beauty’s bashfulness only added to her incomparable loveliness!
Qin Li stared blankly. ’I can’t take this,’ he thought. ’At her age, back in my world, she’d be just a girl starting middle school, yet she can be so enchanting. What will she be like when she’s older? She’s going to be an absolute bombshell!’
Shangguan Shiyu grew flustered under Qin Li’s gaze, but for so reason, she couldn’t bring herself to scold him for being a cad...
"Wow, it’s snowing so hard!" Qin Xue’s cry of surprise suddenly rang out from outside, shattering the delicate, intimate atmosphere between the two.
"Snowing?" Qin Li stood up, walked to the window, and pushed it open. A gust of damp, cold air imdiately flooded the room, and a few cotton-like snowflakes drifted inside.
Shangguan Shiyu’s eyes were filled with delight as she said, "Heavens, Yellow Sand City hasn’t had a snow this heavy in over a decade! It’s so beautiful!"
By this ti, Shangguan Shiyu had already put her veil back on. ’Perhaps it was just a subconscious habit. Or perhaps... only in front of this young man would I let my guard down and open my heart.’ In any case, Shangguan Shiyu didn’t want anyone else to see her face.
Qin Xue was standing in the courtyard, and in just a few monts, a layer of snow had already collected on her head. She was cheering like a child.
Qin Li saw a trace of longing in Shangguan Shiyu’s eyes. He smiled and asked in a low voice, "Want to go out and play?"
Shangguan Shiyu hesitated for a mont. Qin Li continued, "When I say go out and play, I an I’ll take you out of the city to see the snow!"
"Ah?" Shangguan Shiyu was startled, then said, "What about those Guards? They’ll follow us."
Qin Li gave a slight smile. "Don’t worry, I can lose them!"
Qin Li’s smile was like that of a demon luring one to fall, looking down upon Shangguan Shiyu’s heart, which was as pure as a blank sheet of paper. Shangguan Shiyu had never done anything rebellious in her entire life! But that didn’t an she didn’t want to try just once.
"Is that... okay?" She tilted her head, her beautiful eyes clearly filled with intense longing.
"It’ll be fine!" Qin Li continued to tempt her. "I can take you to stand on the very top of a towering Ancient Tree and look out over the entire city!"
"Really?"
"Really!"
"Okay... when do we go?"
Qin Li looked at the snow falling heavier and heavier outside and said with a smile, "Now!"
"Then let’s go quickly!" Shangguan Shiyu’s expression was now like that of an impatient child. Where was there even a trace of her past coldness?
Qin Li called Qin Xue over and told her that if the Shangguan Family Guards asked, she should just say he’d taken their young miss out to have so fun and would definitely bring her back by evening.
Qin Xue could only agree helplessly. There was no helping it. Even if she didn’t agree, Qin Li had ways of spiriting Shangguan Shiyu away from right under the noses of the Shangguan Family Guards without them noticing a thing. So she could only tell Qin Li to be careful.
The snow on the ground was already as thick as a palm’s width, and it was still falling steadily. Clearly, the chance of an accident in this weather was very small.
The Shangguan Family Guards would also never have imagined that their "goody two-shoes" young miss would actually do sothing so rebellious.
Qin Li stood in the courtyard, circulating the Innate Purple Qi in his body. A faint, almost transparent shield of purple qi ford, blocking the goose-feather snow. Qin Li suddenly asked Shangguan Shiyu, "Do you know any combat skills?"
Shangguan Shiyu paused, a slight blush on her face as she said, "I’m only at the first stage of the Profound Level. I’m not really interested in all the fighting and killing, so I haven’t really cultivated much..."
Qin Li’s face twitched a few tis. He looked up at the sky, speechless. ’Alright, there really are a lot of geniuses in this world. Look... my fiancée reached the first stage of the Profound Level without even really cultivating. If those Martial Artists who train desperately day and night heard this, how would they ever face the world again!’
Qin Li grabbed Shangguan Shiyu’s arm and said softly, "Let’s go!"
Their bodies abruptly lifted off the ground. Profound Level Martial Artists normally couldn’t achieve this level of flight, but Qin Li’s Lightweight Skill, after transforming into a combat skill, had beco one of the world’s rare Flying Combat Skills! A single Flying Combat Skill was sothing you couldn’t trade for even ten High Level combat skills at an auction house! The families who possessed one treated it as a secret not to be passed down to anyone outside the Direct Lineage!
Flight was sothing nearly every human dread of. Shangguan Shiyu felt like a bird, soaring swiftly through the swirling snow! The feeling was intoxicating!
The heavy snow obscured everyone’s vision, making it impossible to see clearly more than a few ters away. Therefore, when Qin Li took Shangguan Shiyu over the high city walls and out of the city, absolutely no one knew.
Qin Li sped along with Shangguan Shiyu until they arrived before a Forest. Just then, the snow from the sky began to lessen, and after a mont, it stopped completely!
The world between heaven and earth was a blanket of silver-white!
"Ever built a snowman?" Qin Li released Shangguan Shiyu’s arm and asked with a wide smile.
"No..."
"You poor child. Co on, I’ll teach you how to build a snowman!"
User Comments
0 comments from readers