This kiss was far more intense and passionate than before, causing her to collapse into his embrace.
Though she had initially leaned down to him, his arms gently encircled her, like vines entwining her and drawing her into a fragrant, leafy shade. The faint taste of bamboo perated her mouth, its cool crispness dispelling the irritating sumr heat and sending tingles through her nerve endings, leaving her dizzy and intoxicated.
Her waist unconsciously weakened, slumping to one side, but his arms supported her as she continued to breathe in his scent.
He tilted his head back slightly, revealing his prominent Adam's apple and alabaster neck. At first, his lips barely parted, restraining himself as he waited for her to make the next move. Sensing her softness and stillness, he finally ventured forward cautiously.
His long fingers applied the slightest pressure, pressing her closer to him. His breathing grew more fervent, his tongue deftly exploring, sending shivers across her scalp.
In this romantic haze, they shared each other's worlds, like inseparable vines clinging tightly to one another in the boundless spring sunlight.
As the kiss ended, she felt as if her breath had been stolen away. Her mind remained blank, and when she finally ca to her senses, she realized she was pressed against the bamboo grove.
Xin Yunmao lounged casually in the rattan rocking chair, truly acting as a quiet bamboo mat, allowing her to collapse onto him. He lazily set the chair swaying. Having just pulled her into his arms, he showed no intention of changing position.
He had finally succeeded in his experint - the rocking chair could indeed support two people.
A gentle breeze swept by, causing the ancient rattan chair to sway back and forth, even inducing a sense of afternoon drowsiness.
"Wait, how did we..." Chu Zhishui struggled to regain her faculties. Holding her head, she tried to recall their conversation, but it was as if she'd been sprayed with amnesia bubbles, a chunk of her mory inexplicably lost. "What was I about to tell you just now?"
She was certain he had cast so spell on her, like the bewitched scholars in ancient tales, suddenly becoming infatuated and forgetting their original purpose.
Xin Yunmao gazed at her intently and reminded her, "You wanted to humiliate and defile , and you succeeded."
"..."
Chu Zhishui's face flushed crimson. "Stop talking nonsense!"
His Adam's apple bobbed as he glanced at her lips, seemingly still unsatisfied. "What are you afraid of? I already said I'd absolve you of any guilt."
The two kisses seed to have unleashed his true nature, reverting him to his usual shaless and nonsensical self, with no trace of his earlier awkwardness.
Chu Zhishui bit her lip in embarrassnt, increasingly feeling that he had feigned innocence to lure her in. He usually maintained an air of purity and chastity, blushing like a shrimp at the slightest provocation, but at the crucial mont, he had tricked her into taking the bait.
Afterwards, he even adopted the attitude of having been ravished by her.
What a green tea bitch! What a scher!
"No, I originally wanted to have a serious talk with you today. Last ti was a misunderstanding. I'm very happy that you're blooming..."
She hadn't expected that before finishing their serious conversation, they'd end up doing such unserious things.
Chu Zhishui held her forehead, intending to stand up and distance herself slightly from Xin Yunmao. However, he had been supporting her with his arm, and now he sneakily withdrew it, causing her to lose balance and fall back into his embrace.
Xin Yunmao, acting as a cushion, cheerfully responded, "Mm, now I understand."
Seeing his contentnt, Chu Zhishui felt increasingly annoyed, feeling deceived. She asked suspiciously, "Wait, how co you're blooming now? Didn't you say before that you didn't know about it?"
The timing of this blooming was off. There had been several occasions before when he had played dumb!
Hearing this, Xin Yunmao looked embarrassed. He confessed, "I only recently discovered that I apparently couldn't bloom before."
Chu Zhishui's face was expressionless. "Are you a disabled bamboo? Missing so functions?"
"I'm not disabled!" Xin Yunmao was provoked by her words and said shafully, "It's just that so of my abilities were suppressed by the dragon fla!"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk."
"..."
Xin Yunmao irritably ignored her strange look and explained, "After the great battle, I cut off one of that dragon's claws, but he enveloped in dragon fla. Our powers beca entangled, causing to be constantly scorched by his and his followers' five poisons and eight sufferings, which in turn made irritable."
"My original na was Yunmao. Because of this incident, I beca known as Xin Yunmao. Nas are very important to us, and this kind of damage is irreversible. For a long ti, I couldn't resolve it. After becoming a god, we could see human desires, so I never accepted followers. If I got too involved with mortals, I would be affected by their five poisons and eight sufferings, polluting even more severely."
This was the origin of his obsession with cleanliness, maintaining an indifferent attitude towards the mortal world. Otherwise, he would be further burdened by endless desires.
"No wonder you asked to call you... last ti," Chu Zhishui hesitated. She had thought he was just being thick-skinned, not realizing his true na was Yunmao. She continued, "Wait a minute, you never accepted followers? Are you sure?"
When she first t him, he seed to be proselytizing, grabbing her and not letting her leave.
"You're the exception," Xin Yunmao said proudly. "After all, you're my only follower, and a rare human god, untainted by the five poisons and eight sufferings."
"Pardon my asking, but what's a human god?" Chu Zhishui asked weakly. "I'm human."
"Heaven and Earth made a god, but I think they were wrong, so I made you a human god. I can be your follower too."
"...You're so chuunibyou."
It was like elentary school kids playing house, taking turns being god - he's god on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, she's god on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, with Sundays off.
Xin Yunmao twirled a lock of her long hair, finally having the chance to play with it between his fingers. He continued, "In Qi Wu, my pollution worsened, but when you called into your ntal world, there were no five poisons or eight sufferings there, so the dragon fla extinguished."
"This is a remarkable feat that neither I nor that dragon could achieve, so you are undoubtedly a human god." He brought her silky hair to his lips, silently and reverently kissing it.
Whether it was him or that dragon, even after being deified by Heaven and Earth, they still couldn't escape greed, anger, ignorance, arrogance, and doubt.
Endlessly pursuing power and longevity, perhaps wanting a human woman to achieve immortality, or perhaps unwilling to have his position shaken, that dragon harbored murderous intentions towards him.
This, in turn, bred resentnt in him, giving rise to hatred and arrogance. The dragon fla sealed off various emotions, causing him to adopt a resistant and rejecting attitude towards all things in the world.
"Are you secretly playing with my hair?" Chu Zhishui turned her head vigilantly but didn't notice anything unusual. She looked him up and down and asked, pursing her lips, "So if there was no dragon fla, when would you have blood?"
She was indeed very curious about the exact timing.
Xin Yunmao was taken aback. He seed to suddenly rember sothing and asked with furrowed brows, "Then when did you start to like ? I've already blood, but you haven't said anything."
Chu Zhishui didn't expect him to counterattack. She froze, at a loss for words. "..."
Faced with his expectant gaze, her cheeks gradually turned pink. Her lips moved slightly, wanting to express her feelings, to complint his beautiful flowers, or to confess so of her emotions, but she felt particularly shy and couldn't even muster her usual eloquence.
Seeing her blushing, Xin Yunmao nodded knowingly. "No need to say it, I understand."
She said dryly, "What do you understand?"
"It was love at first sight for us," he gazed at her and said with certainty. "You had ulterior motives from the beginning, coveting my looks."
"..."
Heavens above, earth below, his old problem had resurfaced!
Hearing this, Chu Zhishui pinched his earlobe to stop his words. She smiled and said, "I've been thinking, maybe I'm after your essence as a bamboo, your bamboo characteristics."
"What bamboo characteristics?" He beca coy at her touch. "To make bamboo chairs and mats?"
"No, the empty-headedness and thick skin."
"???"
Don't ask her what she likes about him; sotis when she sees him acting this foolish, she can't figure it out either.
Regardless, from today on, she would be accompanied by a courtyard full of bamboo flowers for a long ti.
Chu Zhishui looked at the bamboo flowers swaying in the wind, then glanced at Xin Yunmao beside her. A faint smile appeared on her lips as she promised softly, "Even though your power is starting to weaken, I'll take good care of you."
Xin Yunmao: "I've already said, even if I weaken for another few hundred years, I still..."
"You don't have to go to the bureau in the future if you don't want to. You can stay at ho and wait for ."
"..."
The more Xin Yunmao heard, the more uneasy he felt. He wanted to say that his current demonic energy was completely sufficient, at least for her hundred-year lifespan, but she was already speaking as if she intended to keep him as a pet.
Thinking carefully, his temple was still built in her courtyard, and even the antique rocking chair he was sitting on was bought by her.
The next day, at the Huaijiang Observation Bureau, in the director's office.
Hu Chenrui pushed open the door and entered. As soon as he ca in and saw Xin Yunmao sitting on the sofa, he showed a look of surprise: "Divine Lord, what are you..."
What wind had blown him here?
He had never co here before.
Xin Yunmao sat quietly in the room. Seeing that Hu Chenrui had finally shown up, he said in a calm tone, "Give so money."
Hu Chenrui: "?"
Hu Chenrui spoke diplomatically: "Divine Lord, even if your love life isn't going well, you shouldn't turn to cri."
"Who says my love life isn't going well?" Xin Yunmao lifted his chin proudly and sneered, "Back then, you used as leverage to get quite a few benefits from that peacock. Did you think I didn't know?"
"..." Hu Chenrui was montarily speechless. He forced a smile and said, "I thought Divine Lord didn't care about such things."
"I didn't care before. Considering you just had a brief chat with and got assigned to this place, I couldn't be bothered to make a fuss about it," Xin Yunmao frowned. "But that doesn't an I'm a fool who doesn't know about your inco."
Hu Chenrui, being quite socially adept, had only exchanged greetings with Xin Yunmao during the great battle. They weren't really familiar with each other, yet he was directly selected to co to Huaijiang, believing that the fox could keep things under control.
Hu Chenrui tried to dodge the issue with a smile: "Divine Lord, you see, to receive a salary here, one needs to be officially employed..."
"Then solve that problem."
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Well, well, the noble and upright bamboo god had already resorted to using connections to solve his employnt status.
Hu Chenrui hesitated: "Actually, if you want to make money, there are many ways to do so. Why must you join the Bureau?"
Even though Xin Yunmao's supernatural power had weakened, he hadn't lost his innate abilities. Making contracts with demons and humans outside would bring in more inco.
"But she doesn't like thods that involve cheating," Xin Yunmao lowered his eyelids, light dancing in his eyes as he said softly, "Besides, I want to do the sa things she does, to experience her work and life."
Hu Chenrui was stunned. After a long silence, he sighed and said, "Fine, but I should tell you in advance, the Bureau was only established after the founding of the nation, so when we calculate your back pay, it will be from the Bureau's establishnt until now."
After all, Chu Zhishui had earned plenty of money, and the Bureau currently couldn't spend it all, so giving him so back pay wouldn't be an issue.
Xin Yunmao calmly said: "No need to give it to , just transfer it directly to her."
"That would be against regulations. The account na has to be yours," Hu Chenrui chuckled. "Besides, handing over your salary card is one of the pleasures of being a human male."
"...Oh."
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