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Behind Songxi Road lies a branch of Beihanshan Mountain.

At first glance, the hilltop looks like a giant toad lying in the night.

It might not seem like much at first glance, but if you knew that evil spirits were lurking in this area, it would create an invisible sense of oppression that makes it hard to breathe.

To avoid any fear or pressure that might affect a novice, Cui Shi'an deliberately chose to meet her at the bus stop at the street corner.

He was carrying a bag again, inside which were bicycle protective gear that he had specially bought for Liu Zhimin at a "huge expense".

The moment Choi Si-an saw Yoo Ji-min get out of the car, he knew he had been overthinking things.

"Hey, are you kidding me?"

"Huh?" The girl in the white dress and veil asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Aren't you cosplaying the Virgin Mary?" Cui Shi'an scrutinized her outfit: a pure white ankle-length dress, a light shawl of the same color, an exquisite white lace veil on her head, and even a small silver cross hanging around her neck.

"What?! This is the outfit I wore to church!" the girl protested. "Don't you understand?"

"You don't have to dress like that..."

"Isn't tonight an exorcism? What if it works? I've been baptized with holy water."

Cui Shi'an understood, the battle robe, right?

Then he glanced at what she was holding:

"Why are you carrying so much rice... It looks like you're fleeing a disaster..."

"Is it a lot? It's alright." She shoved the two large bags of rice she was carrying into his arms, then knocked on the car window: "Driver, open the trunk, please."

Cui Shi'an followed her curiously to the back of the car, where a huge suitcase came into view.

"What's in here?"

"Equipment?" Liu Zhimin glanced at the bicycle helmet hanging on his backpack and said disdainfully, "Yours is too rudimentary. Look at mine."

She opened the box, and inside was a set of motorcycle protective gear, including a pink helmet with two cat ears on it.

"Isn't it cute?" She couldn't wait to put the helmet on his head. "Why don't you try it on? The size is adjustable."

Cui Shi'an would rather die than wear such a cute item: "You should wear it yourself..."

"Tch!" She glanced at it unhappily.

"I really don't need it..." Cui Shi'an wanted to say that his body was very resilient, but he swallowed the words back.

He noticed that Liu Zhimin had taken out a recurve bow with sleek lines and was adjusting it.

"This is?"

"Defense alone isn't enough!" She proudly pulled back the bowstring, her eyes gleaming with eagerness. "This is my weapon! What do you think?"

"Hey... don't get so excited..." Cui Shi'an said, both amused and exasperated.

"This thing can easily hurt people. What if the evil spirit possesses someone today like last time? You can't exactly shoot arrows at them, can you?"

"Isn't that easy?" She snapped the arrowhead off, then firmly bound the arrowhead to the shaft with tape, wrapping it tightly several times. "Isn't that enough?"

Cui Shi'an was speechless, then noticed a brightly colored plastic water gun at the bottom of the box: "And what's this...?"

"Your weapon," she replied, squatting on the ground putting on her knee pads without looking up.

"arms?"

Cui Shi'an picked up the water gun suspiciously to take a look, but she immediately stopped him: "Be careful, it's filled with highly concentrated salt water. I bought you waterproof gloves, put them on before you play."

Looking at her excited expression, Cui Shi'an was momentarily at a loss for words: "...Do you think we're going on a picnic in the valley?...Why didn't you bring a watermelon?"

Liu Zhimin ignored his words and soon armed himself from head to toe, especially the helmet, which looked like he was about to transform into Ultraman.

Even more surprisingly, Choi Si-an found a cross at the bottom of the box…

Then, she slung her recurve bow over her shoulder and excitedly glanced around:

"I'm ready, let's go!"

Looking at the pair of nervous yet expectant, bright eyes inside the helmet, Cui Shi'an found it quite amusing: "Excuse me, miss, don't you feel hot?"

Liu Zhimin blushed, as if... she was a little hot.

So she took off her helmet and held it in her arms, casually tucking her sweaty bangs behind her ears.

A night breeze swept by, and a few strands of hair clung to her smooth forehead and slightly flushed cheeks. A faint, sweet scent of shampoo mixed with her unique warmth wafted out and entered Cui Shi'an's nostrils.

Looking at her delicate face and her eyes that shone like stars, Cui Shi'an's heart skipped a beat for no reason, and his gaze involuntarily froze.

Liu Zhimin looked up and met his direct gaze.

The girl was slightly taken aback at first, then her cheeks burned even hotter, but a sly smug glint flashed in her eyes. She deliberately lowered her voice, adding a touch of coquettishness, "What are you looking at? Is it that pretty?"

Cui Shi'an nodded subconsciously, then suddenly snapped out of it, quickly averting his gaze as if burned, his ears burning instantly, so embarrassed he wished he could disappear into the ground.

Looking at his innocent yet flustered foolish appearance after being "captivated" by her, Liu Zhimin felt as if a honey pot had been overturned, making her feel sweet and bubbly. While feeling smug, her mischievous thought of teasing him surged up again.

She took a half step closer, lowering her voice even further, with a seductive trailing tone: "You...could it be...maybe~"

She didn't finish her sentence, but instead looked him up and down with her smiling, seemingly expressive eyes, her gaze full of a mischievous hint that she understood him.

"Hey! It's not that bad, okay?" Cui Shi'an retorted angrily, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

Why describe someone as a pervert?

"Then why don't you dare look at me?" she pressed, tilting her head.

"Who...who doesn't dare to look?!" Cui Shi'an stiffened his neck and quickly turned his head to glance at her.

In that fleeting glance, her smiling yet reproachful eyes were breathtakingly beautiful in the moonlight, startling him so much that his heart pounded wildly, and he quickly turned his head away.

"Tch," Liu Zhimin chuckled softly, her tone returning to its usual teasing, tinged with a hint of sourness she herself didn't realize:

"He chats so enthusiastically with female fans during his live streams, saying anything he wants, but he becomes timid and hesitant in real life."

"How...how can they be the same!"

"What's the difference?"

"Of course it's different!" Cui Shi'an blurted out without thinking, spurred on by her words. "After all, you're so beautiful!"

The moment the words left their mouths, both of them froze.

The night breeze seemed to pause for a moment.

Liu Zhimin felt her cheeks suddenly burn up, her heart pounded like a drum, and a huge surge of heat, a mixture of shyness and sweetness, swept over her entire body.

She hurriedly lowered her eyes, not daring to look at him.

But when she saw that Cui Shi'an was even more embarrassed than herself after he finished speaking, and wished he could disappear on the spot, she suddenly felt that if she also became shy, the atmosphere would probably become so awkward that it would freeze.

So, suppressing the flutter in her heart, she cleared her throat and deliberately spoke in a relaxed, even slightly teasing tone:

"Oh? Really? Well... should I put on my helmet? Just in case some people get distracted and it interferes with our business?"

Cui Shi'an was extremely embarrassed, but upon hearing this, he immediately grasped at a straw and urged impatiently:

"You should definitely wear one. What if a stranger or paparazzi recognizes you?"

"Okay~ I know~" Liu Zhimin drawled, his voice filled with barely concealed laughter.

She obediently put the helmet with cat ears back on, and in that unseen crevice, her smile was as radiant as a galaxy.

Unfortunately, that smile didn't last long.

Just as the two reached the depths of the street, a large black bird appeared out of nowhere and landed in their path without warning, startling Liu Zhimin into screaming:

"ah!!!"