We Agreed On Experiencing Life, So Why Did You Immortals Become Real?

Chapter 512: This Humble Girl’s Life Is in Young Master Xiao’s Hands

“Honestly. She comes without saying a word, then leaves without saying a word, and she will not even stay a few more days.”

Watching her mother disappear from sight, the young woman lowered her head and muttered.

But very soon, Tushan Jingci put away her emotions, lifted the long, slender legs beneath her skirt, and happily ran toward Xiao Mo’s courtyard.

She missed Xiao Mo again.

Yet just as the young woman ran halfway down the mountain, her steps slowed of their own accord.

She lowered her elegant head. The fingers of both hands hooked together unconsciously, and her mind kept turning over the things she had said yesterday.

Had she been... too unreserved yesterday?

Those storybooks often said so as well. The easier a woman was for a man to obtain, the less he would cherish her.

The harder she was to obtain, the more he would hold her in his palm like a treasure.

Since she had been so forward, could it be that Xiao Mo would not care about her as much in the future?

“Oh! Tushan Jingci! Honestly, what are you even thinking... Xiao Mo is not that kind of person!”

Tushan Jingci shook her head and forcefully threw all those messy thoughts out of her mind.

Besides, she had already made her feelings clear to Xiao Mo. At a time like this, what reserve was there left to fuss over?

To start fussing over it now would just be fussing for no reason.

And she liked him. Was there anything wrong with liking him?

When it came to liking someone, how could there be so many twists and turns?

Once her thoughts cleared, she lifted her head, intending to continue running toward Xiao Mo’s bamboo courtyard.

But before she could take a step, a refined and gentle voice reached her ears first.

“Young Lady, what are you doing here?”

Xiao Mo walked up from the mountain path, the corners of his mouth carrying a smile as he looked at her warmly.

A moment ago, he had noticed Tushan Jingci pacing back and forth on this little path, lowering her head to mutter to herself one moment, then shaking her head the next.

“I... I was not doing anything. I was only taking a walk here.”

Seeing Xiao Mo, Tushan Jingci felt her heartbeat growing faster and faster, thumping and thumping as though it were about to leap out of her throat.

And when she thought again of everything that had happened between them yesterday evening, a wave of shyness rose in the young woman’s heart, and even her cheeks quietly took on a thin layer of red.

But very quickly, Tushan Jingci steadied herself. She lifted her elegant head and blinked up at Xiao Mo, her expression carrying a trace of worry.

“Xiao Mo, did my mother come to see you last night?”

“She did.” Xiao Mo nodded.

“Then... my mother did not do anything to you, did she?” Tushan Jingci’s voice carried a hint of nervousness.

Although Mother had said she would not hurt Xiao Mo, what if Mother had secretly done something else to him behind her back?

In any case, Tushan Jingci kept feeling that her mother’s sudden visit to Cold Mountain Academy was definitely not as simple as she claimed.

“What could Madam do to me? She merely asked about my recent cultivation and gave me a few words of guidance.”

Xiao Mo’s expression was calm, and he smiled faintly. Naturally, he would not tell Jingci about his conversation with Madam Tushan last night.

“Really?” Tushan Jingci took a step forward. Those beautiful eyes looked at Xiao Mo carefully, carrying a somewhat scrutinizing gaze. “You really are not lying to me?”

An extremely swift trace of strangeness flickered through Xiao Mo’s expression, but Jingci did not notice it.

“I am not.”

“Mmm...” Tushan Jingci still stared into Xiao Mo’s eyes, her alluring fox eyes carrying a look that was half doubtful and half willing to believe.

“All right...”

At last, she took a step back, her tone carrying a touch of compromise.

“Since you say nothing happened, Xiao Mo, then nothing happened.”

“Come on. Come with me to the Headmaster. Mother said that in two months, we will leave Cold Mountain Academy and return to Tushan, so we should first go inform the Headmaster.”

Once she finished speaking, Tushan Jingci turned lightly. Her beautiful skirt hem lifted slightly, the corner of it brushing softly across Xiao Mo’s clothes before she stepped forward.

Xiao Mo followed behind her with a smile, and the two of them strolled toward Cold Mountain Academy’s main peak.

Looking at the graceful, slender figure of the young woman ahead, Xiao Mo kept feeling that Jingci’s pace today was a little faster than before.

And the atmosphere between the two of them seemed to have become more ambiguous as well.

But after thinking about it, he understood.

After all, once one person expressed their feelings to another, the relationship between the two could never be as pure as it had been before.

And although Jingci seemed lively, she was, at heart, a shy woman.

She had only spoken her feelings aloud yesterday. Facing him again today, it was inevitable that she would be somewhat bashful. That was only natural.

“If you like me, then from now on, I will make you like me even more.”

“If you do not like me, then from now on, I will make you fall for me.”

Xiao Mo recalled the words Jingci had said yesterday, and a faint smile could not help rising at the corner of his mouth. It was as though a warm current slowly flowed through his heart.

What a good girl.

But such a good girl.

How could the person she liked... be him?

“Xiao Mo, what is wrong? Why do you look so down?”

Just as Xiao Mo fell into thought, the perceptive Tushan Jingci turned around. Her eyes looked at him with concern, and her tone carried worry.

“Nothing. I was only thinking about how to tell Young Lady that Miss Liu has left Cold Mountain Academy.” Xiao Mo smiled faintly, shook his head, and casually found an excuse.

“Eh?” Tushan Jingci was slightly stunned, somewhat surprised. “Miss Liu left?”

“Yes.”

Xiao Mo explained to Tushan Jingci that Liu Shui had gone to Seeking Immortality Temple, and briefly introduced Seeking Immortality Temple and Daoist Yunxi to her as well.

Of course, there were some things that should not be spoken of, and those he naturally did not mention at all.

After listening, Tushan Jingci nodded gently. Although her expression carried a slight sense of loss, she was sincerely happy for Liu Shui as well.

“I had still wanted to ask Miss Liu whether she wanted to return to Tushan with us... I did not expect that a sect would take notice of her. But since you said that Daoist Yunxi is very powerful, then I believe Miss Liu will certainly achieve something in the future!”

“I believe so too. The next time we see Miss Liu, she will surely have walked farther along the Great Dao.”

Xiao Mo looked at Tushan Jingci. His tone was gentle, and carried a bit of encouragement.

“Young Lady must cultivate properly as well. The world is not peaceful now. Only the higher one’s realm, the safer one will be.”

“But I have you.”

The young woman’s eyes curved into two beautiful crescents. With both hands behind her back, she hopped lightly forward, her slender waist bending slightly as she looked up at Xiao Mo from below. Her bright face was full of smiles.

“You promised my mother, remember? You would protect me for a lifetime.”

Her voice was light and playful, carrying a natural dependence, and hiding joy beyond words.

“So...”

The young woman straightened and looked at him with limpid eyes, the smile at the corner of her lips growing even brighter.

“This humble girl’s life is in Young Master Xiao’s hands~”