Chapter 1709
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Chapter 1709 Well-Matched
Lin Qiye and Jialan walked out of Yaopool side by side.
The cold wind and snow brushed against Jialan’s cheeks, but couldn’t extinguish that blush. She recalled the Heavenly Venerable’s words just now, feeling something indescribable in her heart.
She secretly glanced at Lin Qiye beside her, who seemed completely unaffected, sometimes with a relaxed expression, sometimes lowering his head in thought, probably pondering those profound and complex things like cause and effect or time.
The more indifferent Lin Qiye appeared, the more conflicted she felt. Finally, she steeled herself and gathered courage to speak: “Um…”
“What is it?”
Lin Qiye came back to his senses and turned to look at her, his gaze revealing concern.
The moment their eyes met, Jialan’s heart skipped a beat, and the words on the tip of her tongue suddenly became difficult to say… the blush on her face grew even deeper.
Seeing the inexplicably unnatural redness on Jialan’s cheeks, Lin Qiye slightly furrowed his brows. He looked at the sky full of wind and snow, then directly took off his cyan robe and draped it over Jialan.
Feeling the warmth from Lin Qiye’s palm, Jialan’s heartbeat became increasingly rapid.
“No… I’m not cold!”
“Not cold? Then why is your face so red from the cold?”
Jialan: o(╥﹏╥
Jialan took a deep breath: “Just now the Heavenly Venerable said… he said we are… well-matched?”
“Yes, he did,” Lin Qiye blinked. “What, don’t you think so?”
Hearing the latter part of his response, Jialan’s face instantly turned red as a little furnace. She never expected Lin Qiye to acknowledge it so directly. His words hit her right in the face, leaving her flustered.
“No… when he said well-matched… I… I didn’t say I don’t think so, but it’s just… argh!”
Both angry and embarrassed, Jialan stomped her foot on the snowy ground. All the snow within hundreds of meters instantly flew up, dense cracks spread across the mountaintop, and the rolling snowflakes gathered more and more, directly evolving into a roaring avalanche!
Jialan froze on the spot.
Lin Qiye stared at this scene in shock, his mouth twitching for a moment before he finally spoke:
“Uh… actually, if you have objections… you can just say so…”
“I didn’t say I have objections!”
Jialan was almost brought to tears by her own actions, gritting her teeth and emphasizing loudly.
“Yes, yes, yes, yes…” Seeing Jialan getting agitated, Lin Qiye quickly nodded in agreement.
Jialan pursed her lips, her chest heaving violently, her bright red face slightly turned to one side.
After a long while, she spoke softly:
“When the Heavenly Venerable said we’re well-matched, although… I was indeed a bit happy, but you’re the great hero who saved the entire human realm, even the Heavenly Venerable treats you as an equal, while I’m just a little maid expelled from Yaopool…
Even though I’ve taken the Immortality Pill, I’m still me. I don’t understand much about the human realm. The romance they talk about, I’ve only heard in little stories, and I have no idea how to love… Anyway, I don’t know how the Heavenly Venerable could make such a random matchmaking!”
Jialan’s voice grew quieter and quieter, until she finally buried her entire head in the collar of the robe, her red face emitting heat in the wind and snow.
Lin Qiye slowly stopped walking.
He looked at the red-faced Jialan and said seriously:
“Back when I was just an unnoticed reserve captain, you were the one who hid your strength and accompanied us reckless youngsters. If it weren’t for you, I would have died under the Amanomurakumo sword long ago… Now that I’ve reached this level, how could I abandon you?”
Although Jialan didn’t fully understand these words, she could feel the sincerity in Lin Qiye’s eyes, and his undisguised affection.
“And guess what?” Lin Qiye smiled. “They always called me a hopeless straight man, a romantic dullard, a bachelor doomed to die alone… I don’t know how to love or be loved, and neither do you… When two people who know nothing come together, isn’t that what being well-matched means?
Since neither of us understands, we won’t be bound by worldly perspectives, and can freely express love in our own way… Isn’t that a kind of romance too?
A romance that belongs only to us.”
Jialan stood stunned.
She stared at Lin Qiye for a long time, then suddenly came to her senses. It seemed she only just realized that Lin Qiye’s words appeared to be… a blatant confession?
It shouldn’t be like this… She initially just wanted to ask Lin Qiye what he thought about the Heavenly Venerable’s words, how did it evolve so quickly into this?!
Can a direct approach be this direct?!
“I… I think it’s too early to talk about this.” Jialan’s cheeks were completely red. She gathered her courage and glared at Lin Qiye. “We’ve only known each other for a few days! You’re just sweet-talking me… who knows if you’re trying to win me over, then force me to wear minimal clothing to dance?”
Hearing this, Lin Qiye couldn’t help but laugh… It seemed the psychological trauma left by Chen Bapi was still very deep.
But Lin Qiye wasn’t in a hurry. They had plenty of time left. Even if this era ended, there was still two thousand years later.
Just then, Lin Qiye seemed to sense something. His eyes narrowed as he looked up at the sky.
A pink cloud layer was rapidly approaching them, with a piercing buzzing sound echoing through the mountains. Hideous and terrifying Mi-Go rolled through the air like waves.
“They’re coming again…” Jialan’s expression immediately became serious.
Lin Qiye frowned, lightly waving his fingertip. The Amanomurakumo sword howled as it automatically flew into the sky, rushing toward the pink wave.
Since Lin Qiye first rescued Jialan, then went to Yaopool, returned to Chang’an, and came back to Yaopool… they had already encountered Mi-Go attacks three or four times along the way. Moreover, each time the Mi-Go appeared at very precise intervals, always two days apart.
But strangely, the number of Mi-Go hadn’t increased in these encounters; it had actually decreased, with less than a hundred appearing each time. Even without using [Predetermined Outcome] to link them, Lin Qiye could easily kill them with the Amanomurakumo sword.
This seemed like good news, but Lin Qiye didn’t think so.
Behind the Mi-Go’s arrival was the [Gate Key]!
It knew that this small number of Mi-Go couldn’t possibly take the Immortality Pill from him, so why did it keep sending these few Mi-Go to their deaths?
Lin Qiye had been pondering this the whole way, and could only think of one possibility… Its goal was no longer to reclaim the Immortality Pill, but to use its ability to locate the pill to send Mi-Go to observe him and Jialan.
His causality had been hidden, and the [Gate Key] could no longer observe his actions through the river of time, so it could only use Mi-Go for the simplest, most direct visual observation. Every two days it could pinpoint his location, and even know what he was doing…
In other words, the Mi-Go’s mission was no longer to seize the Immortality Pill, but to act as “paparazzi” who traveled through time to regularly track Lin Qiye and the Immortality Pill.
