Who says those who retire at the speed of light are not heroes?

The next second, Lu Xiaoxiao bit his shoulder and said, "You are fat!"

"No, it just feels softer." Lin Cheng's hand gently stroked her belly. Although it was soft, it was white and smooth, without any fat. Lu Xiaoxiao's belly felt so comfortable to touch.

Lin Cheng suddenly thought of something, "Do you want to take some nice photos?"

"It's rare to see you ask."

Lin Cheng took out his phone and showed her the photos he took of grapes and lychees last time. Lu Xiaoxiao looked at them carefully and then turned her head to the side. "So you did it with them... too?"

"No."

What surprised Lin Cheng was that Lu Xiaoxiao did not express any doubt. She finally understood what Lin Cheng had said before, that he had no need to lie. But the next second Lu Xiaoxiao sneered, "But I guess you did everything except do, right?"

"How can you accuse someone of innocence out of thin air!"

"Oh? So is it yes or no?"

Lin Cheng kept silent. Lu Xiaoxiao looked at him dimly, got off the bed, and opened her closet. "I knew... I want to take a photo shoot in Hanfu."

"You actually have Hanfu?"

Lu Xiaoxiao tilted her head, "What do you mean?"

"No, I mean... girls with big breasts are generally not suitable."

Lu Xiaoxiao muttered quietly, "I bought it out of curiosity before, but it doesn't really suit me... It looks weird on me, so I rarely wear it out."

"I started to get curious."

Lu Xiaoxiao picked out a crimson blue dress with Han style elements. Lin Cheng watched her put it on carefully. Lu Xiaoxiao had a tall figure, and the dress actually looked very elegant, except that her chest looked bulging, which made her look less fairy-like and more charming. Lin Cheng helped her braid her hair, picked out a white jade hairpin, stretched out his hand to her, and took her to the grass outside the villa to take pictures.

While looking into Lu Xiaoxiao's eyes, Lin Cheng suddenly realized something.

When getting along with him, Lu Xiaoxiao's eyes had long lost all the coldness they had when they first met, but the occasional little resentment was still there, like a resentful woman in the boudoir, with an inexplicable sense of cuteness.

It is now twelve o'clock noon. Lu Xiaoxiao came behind Lin Cheng, stretched out her hands and gently hugged his neck, her soft chest pressed against the back of his head. She lowered her head and whispered, "Are we leaving at six o'clock?"

"Yeah, but I'll be back soon."

Lu Xiaoxiao didn't say anything else, just hugged him gently.

261 I Suspect You Like Me

Half past five in the evening.

Lin Cheng accompanied Lu Xiaoxiao to finish dinner at home. Lu Xiaoxiao pressed him down on the sofa for the last half hour. Her waist twisted gently, making Lin Cheng dizzy. He surrendered after a while.

"Okay, get out of here now." Lu Xiaoxiao reached out and touched his lips.

"..." Looking at her seemingly proud eyes, Lin Cheng chuckled and leaned close to her lips, "Kiss me."

"No kiss." Lu Xiaoxiao turned her face away.

"Just kiss me." Lin Cheng put his face in front of her again and gave her a kiss. The next second, Lu Xiaoxiao hugged his neck and kissed him until he was out of breath. Lin Cheng felt that he was more like the one being demanded.

"Then I'm leaving."

"Ah."

"I will report to you what I'm doing every day." Lin Cheng waved at her.

"I know. Go ahead."

Lu Xiaoxiao walked him to the door and watched him get on his bike and leave.

..........................................

Lin Cheng met Ji Zhezhi at the train station.

Ji Zhezhi was wearing an orange Hanfu and her hair was combed into a flowing bun. Lin Cheng's eyes lit up. It was rare to see her wearing warm-colored clothes. He came to Ji Zhezhi and asked, "How do we get to the paradise?"

“Two days of train.”

Ji Zhezhi and he entered the station. This was an old train station. Lin Cheng had always been poor at finding his way, so he followed Ji Zhezhi silently and got on the train with her in front of the carriage. When they got into the carriage, Lin Cheng was stunned for a moment.

Because this section of the carriage was like a hotel room, with a big bed, bathroom, refrigerator, computer, and luxurious decoration. He originally thought it was a hard seat train, which would have been very torturous for two days and two nights, but when he saw the computer, he felt that everything would be fine.

"Where exactly is the paradise?" he asked curiously.

"You'll know when you get there." Ji Zhezhi came to the cabinet, took out two pairs of slippers that she had prepared in advance, and handed one pair to Lin Cheng. She sat on the chair, took off her white embroidered shoes, and stuffed her little feet in white socks with cute lace into the slippers.

"Aren't you going to take off your socks?"

"I don't want to show you my feet." Ji Zhezhi replied calmly.

"..."

She was obviously still resentful of Lin Cheng's shameless behavior last time.

After taking off his shoes, Ji Zhezhi lay down on the big bed by the window. Lin Cheng sat beside the bed and asked casually, "Where is the bed?"

"I bought you a standing ticket." Ji Zhezhi said calmly, "It's in the front carriage. You just need to stand there for two days."

"Doesn't your conscience hurt?"

"This is the only carriage that has been renovated. It's mine." Ji Zhezhi put her two white and tender feet together. "If you want to sleep here, beg me."

"I beg you." Lin Cheng spoke with resentment.

“Not sincere enough.”

Lin Cheng took out a bottle of orange juice from the refrigerator and took a big sip. "Then what does it mean to be sincere?"

"Give me a shoulder squeeze."

"..." Lin Cheng came to the bedside. Ji Zhezhi moved her body and turned her back to him. Lin Cheng gently put his hand on her shoulder and massaged her for a while. Ji Zhezhi said softly, "It's done."

"So I can have the bed tonight?"

"Sofa." Ji Zhezhi pointed to the large sofa in the car.

"That's fine." Lin Cheng was easily satisfied. He looked out the window. The train had already started moving slowly. Lin Cheng treated this trip as a journey.

Lin Cheng still doesn't know much about Utopia. Not only does he not know much, but even the alliance doesn't know much about it. Utopia has always been a particularly mysterious place. We only know that there are two major families, the Ji family and the Qin family, there, with a total of about one to two thousand people, but where exactly it is and what the strength of the people inside is, it is still a mystery.

Lin Cheng sat on the sofa, looking at the snow-white calf under Ji Zhezhi's skirt.

Lin Cheng didn't believe the words that he was bought a standing ticket. It was all a lie... Lin Cheng had already begun to suspect that Ji Zhezhi had some strange ideas about him.

Lin Cheng took a photo of Ji Zhezhi with his phone and sent it to Lu Xiaoxiao, saying that he would report to her. Ji Zhezhi turned around and looked at him, "What are you doing?"

"Report to Xiaoxiao."

"When we get there, the matter of Utopia must be kept secret and not leaked."

"Oh, okay." Lin Cheng nodded obediently.

The lights were on in the carriage, but the sky outside the window was gradually getting darker and gloomy, and there was no scenery at all. Ji Zhezhi closed the curtains. She had been looking at the scenery outside the window, but now that there was no scenery to look at, she shifted her gaze to Lin Cheng.

Lin Cheng was happily chatting with someone on his cell phone.

Ji Zhezhi did not make any noise to disturb him, but just looked at him quietly. After a while, when Lin Cheng looked up, he found that Ji Zhezhi was staring at him without blinking.

"Why are you staring at me?" Lin Cheng was puzzled.

Did Ji Zhezhi also see him smiling foolishly while holding the phone just now?

"Because it's boring."

"Then I'll chat with you for a while?"

"What to talk about?" Ji Zhezhi asked him.

But Lin Cheng couldn't answer it either.

The carriage was not that stable, and it was shaking slightly. Ji Zhezhi's eyes were staring at him without blinking, but looking at those eyes, he didn't know what to say for a moment. Lin Cheng thought seriously for a while, "Tell me about your childhood?"

"My childhood?"

"Yeah, what were you like as a kid?"

Ji Zhezhi really thought about it seriously for a moment, then spoke slowly.

"I don't remember my childhood very clearly. My parents loved each other very much. My father always had a stern face, and so did my mother. But they were both very kind to me. I was their only daughter, and I've been the eldest daughter of the Ji family since I was a child."

"When I was little, my father taught me swordsmanship, and my mother taught me principles. I have friends, too. I know some of my peers from the Ji and Qin families, but no one as close as you. Before coming to the outside world, we children from the Utopia didn't find it boring. The Utopia is much bigger than you imagine. There are also elders at home who often bring things back. I had a game console to play with when I was very young."

"Xiaotaoyuan occasionally gets the family's permission to go out for training, so every time a child goes out for training, many people will ask him to bring back more books or discs, so that we can observe the outside world through these."

"At that time, we would occasionally envy the world outside the books or discs. We knew its outlines, but we didn't particularly want to run away, because we were used to everything in the paradise. Do you understand? Habit."

"Later, my father connected the Paradise to an intranet, and my mother secretly gave me a mobile phone that I could use to access the outside world. That's when I started to learn about the outside world."

"The Internet is like Pandora's box to us. If we never knew how big the world outside is, and just stayed in a paradise, working from sunrise to sunset, and living a simple life, we wouldn't have so many desires, just like a bird in a cage. If it has been in the cage since birth, it won't yearn to fly out."

"Fortunately, I was born in a lucky era. These years, the family rules are no longer as strict as they used to be. My father changed many of the rules in the Utopia. Going out to see the world is no longer a capital crime as it was before. Apart from some old rules that must be strictly followed, our generation of young people is actually much freer."

"There's nothing interesting about my childhood. I just practiced swordplay, read books, learned embroidery from my mother, made medicine, and danced. My mother would teach me to dance in the yard."

Lin Cheng listened patiently. He was still curious about how Ji Zhezhi's personality was formed. How could there be such a cold-hearted person in this world? No... Ji Zhezhi was not cold-hearted by nature. She just disdained to show her emotions.

This seems to make sense. Ji Zhezhi looked at him and asked, "What about you? What about you when you were a kid?"

"Me?" Lin Cheng thought for a moment. "My memory is fuzzy. My parents died when I was seven or eight. I went to school until I was fifteen, when my abilities awakened. I put on a mask and became Sima Ming. I stayed in the Alliance for three years, went to the Abyss, stayed there for a hundred years, and then came back. That's it."

Everyone's story is actually just a short sentence.

Ji Zhezhi said lightly, got off the bed, walked to the kettle, filled it with water, took out tea leaves and a tea tray from her jade bracelet, and began to prepare tea seriously.

Watching her make tea is indeed a very pleasant thing. Lin Cheng looked at her quietly. Ji Zhezhi did not feel awkward because of his gaze. She was quiet and indifferent from beginning to end.

"So the milk tea that day was really just milk tea, right?"

Lin Cheng still hasn't gotten the answer from that day.

"Is it important?" Ji Zhezhi looked at him indifferently.

"It's not important, I'm just curious. How about you tell me the truth?"

Ji Zhezhi raised his eyes.

But after a moment, Lin Cheng suddenly realized that there was a white and tender little foot under the table, which had quietly lifted up and stepped on him.

"Okay, don't ask anymore."

"Isn't the place you stepped on not very polite?" Lin Cheng lowered his head and looked at the girl's white and tender feet wearing white lace socks.

"I specifically looked up the information." Ji Zhezhi poured the tea, "Isn't it exciting for a pervert like you?"

"What did you check?"

"It's hard to understand." Ji Zhezhi picked up the teacup, moved the teacup with her delicate hands, and said calmly, "I'm excited about silk socks, excited about smearing the gaps between girls' toes, excited about letting girls go out in dirty shoes, excited about..."

"Okay, stop, don't say any more." Lin Cheng grabbed Ji Zhezhi's ankles and put her feet down. He picked up the teacup in front of him and imitated Ji Zhezhi in moving the covered bowl. He looked into her indifferent eyes and said, "I have something I must ask you."

"You said."

"You have to promise me not to lie."

"You said."

Lin Cheng was quite surprised that she actually agreed, so he looked at her cold eyes and said, "Tell me quickly whether you like me or not. If you like me, please answer yes. If you don't like me, please give a 200-word reason."

262 Mysophobia

"Yes."

Lin Cheng was stunned. He didn't expect her to answer so quickly.

When he tried to read something from Ji Zhezhi's eyes and looked at Ji Zhezhi, he suddenly realized that looking at her at this moment was no different from looking in the mirror.

"Isn't this the answer you want to hear?" Ji Zhezhi asked calmly.

"Aren't you even trying to cover it up?" Lin Cheng was full of vigilance at this moment.

"If I don't like you, why would I lend you the Broken Branch Sword? If I don't like you, why would I not hate hugging you? If I don't like you, why would I want to meet you late at night, why would I want to give you a pillowcase I embroidered by myself? And why would I give you the chance to touch my ankle? As you can see, it seems that all the signs indicate that I like you, don't they?"

Even when he was saying this, Lin Cheng always felt that there was a hint of contempt in Ji Zhezhi's eyes.

"Isn't this the answer you wanted to hear? Lin Cheng, if this can't satisfy your narcissistic fantasy, then let me think about it again... Because you are good-looking? Because you have a gentle personality? Because you saved my life? Because you were once the Sima Ming that everyone admired? So I don't think I have any reason not to like you?"