Bai Suzhen, I really need to punish you properly.

"No!" Yin Xin shook her head repeatedly, fiercely protective of her mistress. "My young lady isn't married yet, how can you be alone with her in a room?"

Yin Xin later heard Zhu Yingtai talk about her relationship with Wang Xuan.

The two secretly pledged their lives to each other at the academy.

Of course, Zhu Yingtai didn't mention the two kisses or that Wang Xuan knew magic.

The former is too shameful, the latter is too bizarre.

Yin Xin had heard that girls shouldn't be too proactive with boys, or they won't be cherished.

Now that Wang Xuan knows the young lady's true identity, what if he loses control and becomes a beast when they are together in private?

"Sigh..." Wang Xuan sighed softly, feigning disappointment, "Alright, then I'll be going."

Zhu Yingtai quickly spoke up, "Um, Yinxin, what are you thinking? We're just having a normal discussion about the scriptures."

"But, Miss..."

Zhu Yingtai stepped forward and gently pushed Yin Xin's shoulder, as if coaxing a child: "Sweetie, it's getting late, you should go home now."

And so, with a mix of coaxing and pushing, they sent Yin Xin out the door.

The door creaked shut again.

Yin Xin didn't leave; she simply stood at the door.

If the two of them really do get all lovey-dovey and other people come along, she might as well stay here and keep watch.

She wasn't thinking of eavesdropping outside the door.

Inside the house, Zhu Yingtai walked back.

Wang Xuan stepped forward, took her small hand, and asked softly, "Have you been very busy these days? I haven't seen you come to the county office to see me."

During this period, there were two days of academy break. Although Wang Xuan was not at the county office, once in Hangzhou Prefecture and once on Xianling Island, he asked Bai Suzhen and found that Zhu Yingtai had indeed not come to see him.

Zhu Yingtai then reverted to her charming, girlish demeanor, gently pulling her hand away: "You still dare to talk? It's all your fault."

Wang Xuan held her small hand tightly, and the two sat down together on the edge of the bed.

"Why blame me?"

"The preface you wrote for me, 'Sending Off Zhu Sheng of Shangyu,' has become quite famous since it was copied by other classmates. Every time there is a ten-day break, people come to my door wanting to befriend me. Once, I had just stepped out of the courtyard gate when I saw students from other academies waiting at the gate. I was so scared that I had to pretend to be sick and rest in the room. I didn't even dare to go out of the door."

Wang Xuan frowned slightly, her tone displeased: "How can this be allowed?"

Zhu Yingtai chuckled and said, "If this continues, I'm afraid everyone in Hangzhou will come looking for me."

Wang Xuan thought for a moment and said, "In that case, I will ask the county to issue a document ordering all academies to strictly control their students and not allow them to crowd together at the gates of other academies, so that you can have some peace and quiet."

"No need, the holiday is coming soon."

"Before you go home for the holiday, go to the county government office. I will have one of my wives accompany you back."

"Huh?" Zhu Yingtai was very surprised. "Why?"

Wang Xuan smiled matter-of-factly: "If I don't go back with you, how will I know where you live, and how will I propose marriage?"

"Oh..." Zhu Yingtai suddenly realized, her cheeks blushing slightly. She then said, "I suddenly remembered that we don't need to wait for 'Wang Huaiyu and Zhu Yingtai' to be published. With just 'Preface to Sending Zhu Sheng of Shangyu', we may be famous in history."

"I never expected that a preface I wrote casually would have such a great influence. However, it was only after the publication of 'Wang Huaiyu and Zhu Yingtai' that the world realized that the famous Zhu Sheng was a beautiful woman."

Zhu Yingtai pursed her lips, her eyes flickering slightly: "At that time, people would definitely think that you had ulterior motives when you wrote the preface for me."

"Let them think what they want," Wang Xuan said nonchalantly. "I wonder how we'll feel when we attain immortality and hear this story again thousands of years later."

"Will we all be able to become immortals someday?"

"Of course I can," Wang Xuan replied decisively. "I'll find you a bunch of peaches of immortality and elixirs, and it'll be hard for you not to become an immortal. Come on, open your mouth, I'll feed you a treasure."

Zhu Yingtai obediently raised her pretty face and opened her cherry-like mouth.

Looking at her innocent and unguarded appearance, Wang Xuan's Adam's apple bobbed slightly, and he couldn't help but have impure thoughts.

An inappropriate image of her kneeling on the ground unexpectedly surfaced in my mind.

Wang Xuan cleared his mind of his confusion, took out a small, bright red fruit the size of a grape, and fed it to her: "This is a blood fruit; eating it will increase your strength."

Zhu Yingtai chewed on the fruit, clenched her fist with some doubt, felt it for a moment, and asked in confusion, "I don't feel any change."

"Try lifting the entire table."

Zhu Yingtai still looked like a delicate, frail scholar, but when she reached under the desk, she easily lifted the entire heavy desk in one go.

Zhu Yingtai was immediately struck by a miracle: "My strength has really increased!"

"I still have some pills here, but I'll give them to you after you begin your cultivation journey. Taking them now won't allow them to fully exert their effects." Wang Xuan also stood up and came behind her, smiling as he said, "Won't you feel less tired when I make you face the wall later?"

Zhu Yingtai raised the corners of her mouth and replied charmingly, "If you're willing, then make me face the wall."

Wang Xuan's heart fluttered upon hearing this. He lowered his head, gently placed a hand on her waist, and kissed her soft lips.

"I suddenly remembered a sentence."

"What are you saying?"

"If you blossom, butterflies will come. You are that butterfly."

"Am I a butterfly?"

Wang Xuan's eyes were filled with tender affection: "You are a beautiful, pink and tender little butterfly."

Zhu Yingtai blushed and subconsciously changed the subject: "Is there something you need today?"

Wang Xuan's eyes darkened: "I need to leave Qiantang."

"Will it take a long time? Is it dangerous?"

"Don't worry," Wang Xuan reassured gently. "It just means it might be a while before you can come back. Now that 'Preface to Sending Zhu Sheng of Shangyu' is gaining fame, you can't come to the school next year, lest your female identity be inadvertently exposed and bring trouble to your family. As soon as I get back, I'll go to your house to propose marriage. Just stay home and wait for me."

Wang Xuan touched Zhu Yingtai's face. Although she was dressed as a student, in Wang Xuan's eyes, her delicate beauty could not be concealed in the slightest.

"Okay. I'll wait for you to come to my house."

Wang Xuan lowered her gaze and said jokingly, "Besides, you wear a chest binder every day, and I feel sorry for them too."

Zhu Yingtai's cheeks flushed instantly.

Wang Xuan then asked, "How are you going to make it up to me later?"

"What kind of compensation?"

Wang Xuan suppressed a laugh and said seriously, "What if it shrinks because you're wrapped up so tightly?"

Zhu Yingtai's pretty face flushed red, both ashamed and annoyed. She glanced down, placed her small hands in front of her, and whispered, "No way."

"I was just kidding, but I really feel sorry for you. There are a lot of downsides to wearing a bra. You don't need to be so stubborn anymore, your strength is coming."

Wang Xuan kissed her again, gently prying open her lips and teeth.

……

Liang Shanbo, carrying a book, happened to pass by under the eaves outside the door.

"Silverheart, why are you standing outside?"

Yin Xin rolled her eyes inwardly: Of course, it's because those two people inside won't let me in!

She casually made up a lie: "Young Master Liang, I did something wrong, and my master made me stand as punishment."

Liang Shanbo was very enthusiastic: "It's so cold outside, let me put in a good word for you."

Yin Xin waved her hands repeatedly: "No need, no need."

Liang Shanbo, quite tactlessly, called out from outside the door, "Brother Zhu! Brother Zhu!"

Yin Xin looked speechless and angry: "I already said I don't need it!"

At this moment, Zhu Yingtai, her pretty face flushed and her breathing slightly disordered, was waving her little hand when she suddenly froze, staring blankly at Wang Xuan with her big, watery eyes, unsure of what to do.