"That's weird... My head really hurts."
"What happened? Why do I feel like I've been out for a long ti?"
The female disciples slowly stood up, holding their heads. They felt a dull ache in their minds, and their mories were completely blank—they couldn't rember how they ended up on the ground.
But as they tried to recall, sothing vague started to co back to them... It seed like they had just...
"Brother Timothy!"
The mont they rembered themselves shouting "Brother Timothy" and running towards him in a frenzy, all the female disciples felt a wave of deep embarrassnt.
Even though it was the effect of the Blossom of Love that made them act that way, it was still incredibly humiliating!
Just thinking about what happened made them want to crawl into a hole and disappear.
"Maybe we should go apologize to Brother Timothy later."
"Yeah, that's probably the best thing to do."
Their eyes t, and they all looked down in sha.
anwhile, in the room where he had been assigned to stay, Timothy had already sat down.
He checked the reward he had just received from the system.
[Seraphic Six-Wing Mantle]
Reading the system's analysis, Timothy couldn't help but be a little surprised.
This was actually a Heavenly-level artifact!
When the Seraphic Six-Wing Mantle appeared behind him, it would allow him to soar into the sky, breaking free from the constraints of the world.
And beyond that, it seed to have other mysterious uses that hadn't been fully explained.
No wonder it was a treasure obtained by practically tearing apart the entire Blooming Sanctuary—its value was truly astonishing.
"Are those disciples still not awake?"
The setting sun cast a warm glow into the room, and Timothy felt a bit concerned.
After all, Holy Maiden Aeliana was a powerful Holy Emperor. Hopefully, she didn't hit them too hard and leave them all dazed and unable to recover.
Knock, knock, knock.
Just then, there was a sudden knock on the door.
"Co in," Timothy said calmly.
"Thank you, Brother Timothy."
Before long, a female disciple walked into the room, looking utterly mortified.
She was none other than Serena Grace, one of the top disciples of the Blooming Sanctuary.
"Brother Timothy, today we were all under the influence of the Blossom of Love and acted so disrespectfully towards you. Please, we beg for your forgiveness."
Serena was overwheld with sha as she lowered her head and presented a small, intricately carved wooden box.
It seed like this box contained her apology gift.
"Well, the real bla lies with the Blossom of Love, so there's no need to be too hard on yourselves," Timothy reassured her.
"Thank you, Brother Timothy!"
Hearing his forgiveness, Serena looked visibly relieved and excited.
She handed the delicate wooden box to Timothy, and as she did, she deliberately touched the spot where her na was engraved, her face showing a hint of shy embarrassnt.
"This gift is an apology to Brother Timothy. Please make sure to open it when you're alone."
"Huh?"
Timothy was taken aback.
Wasn't this supposed to be an apology gift? Why did it have to be opened in private?
"Please, Brother Timothy, don't forget. Goodbye, Brother Timothy!"
With that, Serena, her face flushed with embarrassnt, quickly left the wooden box behind and hurried out of the room in a flustered rush.
Knock, knock, knock.
Before Timothy could even find a mont to open the first wooden box, there was another knock at the door.
Another female disciple nervously stepped inside.
"Brother Timothy, this is my apology gift. I'm really sorry about what happened earlier..."
Although this wooden box was different from the last one, its contents were just as securely sealed. The disciple had also engraved her na on the outside, as if worried that Timothy might forget who she was.
And just like the previous disciple, she was blushing with embarrassnt...
Timothy started to feel a bit awkward, sensing that sothing was off.
But then, the knocking continued.
One female disciple after another entered the room, each bringing a gift, all of which were tightly wrapped.
Before long, the gifts piled up on both sides of the table, forming small mountains.
anwhile, outside the room, the disciples who had already delivered their gifts began to realize sothing.
"Wait a minute... What exactly did you all give Brother Timothy? Weren't we just supposed to offer simple apology gifts? Why do I feel like there's sothing strange about the way you all looked when you went in?"
"No way! I just gave a simple apology gift!"
"What did you give?"
"A basic spirit herb, as compensation for Brother Timothy... That's it!"
"You're lying! I don't believe you. There's definitely sothing fishy about the gifts you all gave."
"Especially Serena—she was the first one to go in, and her face was the reddest. She still hasn't cald down."
As the top disciple, Serena was imdiately put on the spot.
All eyes turned to her.
"Serena, co on, tell us what you really gave. You can't lie to us!"
"I just... I just gave a simple gift to apologize, nothing more," Serena stamred, clearly flustered as she tried to defend herself.
"No way, Serena! Your face is still so red. You definitely slipped sothing extra into that box!"
Serena's eyes darted around as she quickly tried to explain, "How could that be? I only have the purest admiration for Brother Timothy, nothing more!"
"Is that so?"
Amid the questioning, the disciples glanced into the room.
They saw that Timothy was in the process of opening one of the wooden boxes.
And the first box he picked up just happened to have Serena's na on it.
"Brother Timothy, no! Please don't open it!"
Gone was any pretense of calm. Serena was now in a full-blown panic, desperately trying to stop him.
But it was too late.
The box was already open, and a delicate fragrance wafted out, forming the shape of a heart in the air.
Inside was a letter.
And it was definitely not just any letter!
It was decorated with intricate pink hearts, and the content was written in neat, careful handwriting.
This letter was unmistakably a love letter!
"Serena, you really did sneak sothing extra in there! You even used this as a chance to confess to Brother Timothy!"
Seeing her love letter exposed in front of so many other disciples, Serena was utterly mortified. Tears welled up in her eyes from the sheer embarrassnt.
As the top disciple of the Blooming Sanctuary, her reputation was now in tatters. This was like a public execution!
How could she ever show her face in the Blooming Sanctuary again? Her dignity was completely shattered!
Just as Serena's emotions hit rock bottom, and she was ready to flee the sect in sha, Timothy opened the second wooden box.
Inside was a carefully prepared heart-shaped bento.
The next box contained a mory Orb with a recorded confession.
The one after that had a note with a disciple's contact information and her asurents.
And the next...
Every single one of these so-called apology gifts had sothing extra hidden inside.
For a mont, the disciples all stared at each other, too embarrassed to say a word.
It turned out, they had all been thinking the sa thing!
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