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"Lust is as natural as appetite. Everyone is like this. Indeed I take pleasure in your features, but I am much more in love with how cold you are to me and how you ignore me."
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Shen Qiao responded with a soft en: "Just looking at you annoys me. Instead of speaking with you, I would much rather exchange a word or two with Xie Ling."


Although Yan Wushi laughed, the smile on his face had become somewhat dangerous.


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He turned and gave another look at Shen Qiao. The other man had closed his eyes so as to circulate his qi again. The sight of his profile was like that of white jade, taking on a warm and gentle radiance under the sunlight. The teal collar of his robes covered the graceful contour of his neck. His cool and ascetic indifference betrayed a slight, nearly undetectable warmth.


Yan Wushi had seen countless beauties in his life. Among them, there were no lack of those who were as pure and untouchable as a flower growing upon the tallest mountains; yet he had never seen any that were like the man before him-resembling that of a god with his eyes closed, yet filled with the great tenderness of humanity with his eyes opened.
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"Ah-qiao, you aren't stupid. You're just soft-hearted, and that's what holds you back. When you approach matters and people, you almost always consider their good points; you're completely unable to anticipate the darkness in their hearts. Honestly, what would happen to you if I weren't around?"


If you weren't around, my days would go a hundred times smoother! Shen Qiao nearly blurted out.
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The face of this beautiful man had turned red from both anger and his coughing fit. He had coughed so much that there were tears in his eyes, blurring his vision. With the fire's soft brilliance spreading over them and his desire unfulfilled, Yan Wushi could not take his gaze from Shen Qiao's heaven-made beauty. A shame that he could only look and not feast.
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Su-niang asked: "Does langjun wish to buy this for a lover, for his sister, or for his older relatives?"

"What's the difference?" Yan Wushi asked.

Su-niang laughed: "I can tell that langjun hasn't ever bought clothes for women before. This matter naturally has quite a lot to know about. If you're buying clothes for your elders, then the colors shouldn't be too bright. They should appear somewhat modest. Having fewer embroidered patterns is also a new style now. If you are giving it to your little sister, then you can choose something in a light pink or light blue. The skirts and sleeves can also have designs such as butterflies and roses and such. If this is for an elder, then such designs would be much too frivolous."

"Then what about for a lover?" Yan Wushi said.

Su-niang repressed her disappointment: "If it's for a lover, then just pick their favorite color and design. What color does your lover like?"

Yan Wushi gave it some thought. "Sky blue?"

"Sky blue is quite difficult to wear well, unless your lover's skin is very fair."

Yan Wushi smiled somewhat. "Their skin is indeed quite fair."

"Then would you like to purchase something already made, or select some cloth and have something made now?" Su-niang asked. "If you would like something already made, we have all sorts of clothes in any sort of measurement you need. How tall is this young woman?"

Yan Wushi purely wanted to take revenge and have Shen Qiao have a taste of what it was like to be disguised as a woman. But upon hearing Su-niang's words, he could not help but find it rather interesting.


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Shen Qiao said, indifferently: "Then I cannot help but wonder if Yan-zhanglao has heard that Kunye, upon causing trouble at the Bixia Sect of Taishan mountain, met his death by my sword?"
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Yan Wushi: "If you call me by a different name, this venerable one will consider telling you, how about it?"

Shen Qiao, baffled: "What name?"

Yan Wushi: "What about Yan-lang?"
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Yan Wushi smiled: "The time you've spent out in the world, looks like it wasn't a waste, but you were cuter when you first woke up and couldn't remember anything, transparent as glass and ice, you believed everything that was said."

Shen Qiao's face darkened: "Because I was easy to trick, Yan-zongzhu must have liked that?"

Yan Wushi, satisfied: "A-Qiao knows me well!"

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