I Alone Am Immortal: My Rebirth and Leisurely Cultivation

Chapter 180 Sleeping Beauty

After evening self-study ended, Li Yan and Mei Mengqian had just met up with Jiang Yingzhu at the stairwell near Class 8 on the fourth floor when they heard her shouting loudly:

"Hey, did you guys hear? This afternoon someone was going to jump off a building, and I was right there. I just made a quick move and saved them!"

Jiang Yingzhu raised an eyebrow at the two of them. "So, how about it? Handsome or not?"

"Why did I hear that someone whistled when others couldn't hold it in anymore?" Li Yan looked at her.

"Why are you looking at me? It wasn't me," Jiang Yingzhu said matter-of-factly. "I'm a good person!"

Li Yan turned to look at Mei Mengqian, raised his hand, pointed his thumb at Jiang Yingzhu, and wore a meaningful smile that resembled a certain meme.

"She's panicking!"

Mei Mengqian smiled and looked at Jiang Yingzhu, who was already glaring angrily and raising her fist, trying to reason with her.

"Zhuzhu, what's going on? How many school rules is this now?"

Jiang Yingzhu shrugged and explained the process to the two of them in detail.

The main problem is that Mei Mengqian doesn't know that Li Yan observes the school with his divine sense every day, so there's nothing he doesn't know.

"I didn't expect that woman to be so fragile, and that last blow was no exaggeration."

"Anyone would find this unbearable," Mei Mengqian said, squeezing her legs together, feeling a sense of empathy.

However, she didn't feel sorry for Liang Xueyi and the other two, since they were the ones who started the insults.
If we hadn't been delayed for a while, we wouldn't have run into Gan Tiantian.

Back home, Jiang Yingzhu started doing her homework, with Mei Mengqian helping her.

She wrote almost every day at school.

Li Yan was fertilizing the flowers on the balcony when Jiang Yingzhu looked up at him.

"You're playing with shit again, Li Yan. You're getting more and more backward."

Li Yan ignored her, so she wouldn't have time to rest and would continue to do her homework obediently.

Mei Mengqian's face was contorted, and her shoulders trembled.

Wearing gloves, Li Yan grabbed another handful of fertilizer, sprinkled it into the potted plant, and then used a shovel to bury it evenly little by little.

Foolish mortals cannot see the vast amount of spiritual power he used in this action.

The process of fertilizing is like heating up a pan before cooking, which allows the flowers to have some benefits in advance.

Li Yanqian's flowers are a deep cyan with a slight bluish tint. Seeing them inevitably brings to mind the saying, "The student surpasses the teacher."

Mei Mengqian and Jiang Yingzhu seem to be having trouble sleeping lately because of their upcoming stage performance.

These two pots of flowers were prepared by him.

After fertilizing, he sprinkled water on the plants.

Then, Mei Mengqian and Jiang Yingzhu, who were looking up at him, saw the flower buds of that pot of blue-green, unnamed flowers suddenly bloom.

It felt like witnessing a miracle of life; the emotion I felt at that moment was indescribable.

"so beautiful!"

Jiang Yingzhu's eyes lit up, and she and Mei Mengqian immediately came over.

I approached the two potted plants in full bloom and looked at them from left to right.

Mei Mengqian even leaned closer to a beautifully blooming flower and took a deep breath.

The delicate fragrance enters the nasal cavity, still very light, smelling like a combination of lily and lavender.

Jiang Yingzhu followed suit, leaned in and took a sniff, then asked Li Yan.

"what is this flower?"

"Sleeping Beauty, a special variant of the rose."

Li Yan glanced at the two of them and said, "Its fragrance has a calming effect."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Yingzhu was taken aback, then suddenly clutched her head and said:
"Oh dear, I was wondering why I'm so dizzy. Li Yan, I can't take it anymore, I need to sleep. Can you do my homework for me?"

"Mmm-hmm." The clever little one next to him nodded in agreement.

"Don't pretend with me. The sleep aid only has a mild effect. You need to hold it in front of you for an hour or two to make it work."

Li Yan rolled his eyes.

"Damn it!" Jiang Yingzhu, having suffered from her lack of education, angrily went back to do her homework.

Mei Mengqian followed behind her, feeling a little embarrassed, after all, he should understand such a clear principle.

What flower can make you faint just by inhaling its scent?

Li Yan carried two pots of blooming Sleeping Beauty flowers out of his room and placed them in the bedrooms of the two people.

This is a flower that he cultivated using spiritual power and improved using special techniques.

There are no real roses like this.

You could call it a mutated variety, since this flower wasn't actually refined into a real magical artifact.

After the Sleeping Beauty toy was placed in their room, the two girls, having finished their homework, indeed went to bed much earlier than usual.

In the past, Jiang Yingzhu would always drag Mei Mengqian along to play games for a long time.

Although their bodies are nourished by the Qi-Nourishing Pill, they are still essentially mortals.

Therefore, Li Yan felt that it was better to stay up less at night.

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The next morning, Jiang Yingzhu woke up early.

She stared blankly at the still dark sky outside the window.

Why did I go to bed so early last night?
My sleep quality is pretty good, it seems like it's only a little past 5 a.m.?

Jiang Yingzhu wanted to lie down and continue sleeping, but found that she didn't feel sleepy at all.

She turned to look at the flowers on the windowsill, her eyes filled with suspicion.

"It must be this thing that's causing the trouble, humph!"

Jiang Yingzhu snorted softly, feeling as if her evening had been stolen away.

A loss of 100 million!

As she stepped out of the room, she saw Mei Mengqian finish washing up. The two exchanged a glance, confirming each other's suspicions.

"Mengmeng, do you think we're sleeping so soundly? What if we suddenly become sexually aroused? While we're sleeping..."

"Probably not?"

"How could he not? He's a complete scoundrel!"

Jiang Yingzhu said while washing her face, "Haven't you ever played that kind of game, Mengmeng?"

"The main characters in the game will prepare things like hypnotic incense and sleep-inducing products beforehand, place them next to the female lead, and then start doing *hehehe* while she's asleep!"

Mei Mengqian rolled her eyes, her cheeks feeling slightly hot from what she had just said.

"You said it yourself, it's a game."

"Whee!"

Because they got up early, the two of them got hungry quickly, so they went downstairs to buy breakfast.

When Li Yan woke up and finished washing up, there was breakfast ready to eat.

After finishing their meal, the three of them rode their bikes to school.

Just as I was about to cross a pedestrian crossing without traffic lights, I found myself surrounded by a group of people.

There was a car parked there, the brand of which Li Yan didn't recognize; it looked unassuming yet ordinary.

The car windows were all tinted, so you couldn't see inside. Li Yan figured it must be very expensive.

In front of the car lay an elderly man in his fifties or sixties.

At that moment, small groups of people were gathered there, pointing and whispering.

Most passersby only glanced at it briefly before quickly moving on.

Li Yan and his two companions went over to join in the fun.

"Ouch! Someone's been hit and killed! Ouch!"

The old man lay on the ground, wailing softly and loudly, sounding very pitiful.

Beside him were two other people, speaking in unison and pressuring the driver to get out of the car.

"Was it a real collision or a staged one?" Jiang Yingzhu muttered.

"If there really is a collision, he might not even be able to scream," Li Yan said calmly.

Just as they were discussing this, a man wearing a black leather jacket and with his hair neatly combed came down and made a phone call.

Soon, to everyone's astonishment, a team of urban management officers arrived and took away the old man lying on the ground, as well as the two men who were singing in unison.

The three men initially resisted, but one of the city management officers, who was leading the team, delivered a sneak elbow strike, and they immediately stopped resisting.

"Oh no, I forgot to film the Douyin video."

"They've run into a brick wall trying to scam me!"

The people around her were talking excitedly. Jiang Yingzhu felt that she had just arrived and already encountered a climax in the plot, which was great.

Mei Mengqian watched the urban management team drive away and said softly.

"Isn't this a misuse of public resources?"

"Whether it's for personal use or public use, that old geezer isn't a good person either. Evil people will be punished by other evil people." Jiang Yingzhu said with her arms crossed, clearly hating evil.

Upon arriving at the classroom, Li Yan and Mei Mengqian sat down and overheard the people in the rows in front and behind them discussing the old man who had staged an accident to extort money.

Many people just pass by and see it, since it's the only way to get to school.

But they didn't see the whole thing.

Guo Cailing, who usually arrives at school very early, said:
"That old man has been lying there for half an hour!? He really isn't afraid of the cold."

"What happened next?" Yu Qingya asked with great interest.

She lives on campus and has long been tired of exploring the area around the school. She has nothing much to do all day long and is very bored.

“Cai Ling arrived before me; he was still lying there when I passed by,” Yu Bing said.

Mei Mengqian was also familiar with the three of them and joined in the conversation.

"I know that later, the car owner called a group of urban management officers, who carried away the old man and two others who were helping him."

"Well done!" Yu Qingya clapped her hands and cheered. "The bad guys are getting old now. Last time I was on my way home, I got a little carsick. An old lady insisted that I give up my seat. When I refused, she cursed at me and pulled my clothes. The furry hood of my coat was crooked because she pulled it."

Yu Qingya was wearing a black hooded down jacket with white frayed edges on the hood. It had a detachable zipper.

The zipper on one foot is broken now, which looks a bit awkward.

Yu Bing nodded in agreement, "That's right! Last time I went to buy candied hawthorns, there was an old man selling them, but I didn't buy from him because I thought they weren't clean, and then he said I was impolite!"

"Yeah, yeah, you're actually doing well."

Guo Cailing was also inspired to share, "The security guard in my apartment building is an old man. He doesn't let delivery drivers in unless you buy him cigarettes. He has stopped me from ordering delivery several times."

“He even opened some of them without permission. When I went to get food, I saw him spitting into other people’s Coke.”

"Ugh, how disgusting!" Lin Yufan was doing her homework and wasn't really interested in the conversation, but she couldn't help but exclaim when she heard this.

"Oh, the food delivery services in my neighborhood are also being blocked. Could it be that they'll be too..."

Behind them, Chen Xiyuan adjusted his glasses.

"Actually, this kind of thing is easy to understand once you analyze it."

Upon hearing this, everyone looked over, and Guo Cailing said somewhat angrily:
"You can still understand someone like that!?"

"Of course." Chen Xiyuan smiled faintly, his face revealing a wise look that seemed to have seen through everything.

"Most of the elderly people you're talking about are in their fifties or sixties, or even earlier."

"Anyone who has studied history knows what a terrible period it was. Let alone education and personal qualities, it was very difficult to even survive."

"If we compare that era to a stinking sludge, how could one emerge from it unsullied? I really could, and I'm one of those elderly people we see every day."

Yu Qingya frowned. "The past is the past, and the present is the present. Now that we no longer face survival challenges, must we simply endure their stench?"

(End of this chapter)