Love, Gun, Cupid

"It's good to be alone."

"Is someone trying to hog the place...?"

Distinguishing between locals and outsiders, between sociable and unsociable personalities, between high and low grades, between family backgrounds and ordinary people, between beautiful and not-so-beautiful people...

These differences can become reasons for bullying, but in Jasmine's case, Lin Jiade is more worried that she will accumulate anger and, if she returns to school and someone ignites the fuse, it will turn into a bullying incident on campus.

It doesn't matter what the bully does, but Jasmine is very sensitive about being from another race, so this matter is unlikely to end well.

“I’m fine,” Jasmine shook her head. “As an alien race that has certain needs from the Empire, I’m seen as someone who can be won over, so they allow me to go to school with human children and act alongside human magic researchers.”

Furthermore, if I agree to be your girlfriend and you demonstrate control over me, the Empire will even award you a medal and a bonus.

Lin Jiade became serious: "I will not use your affairs as a stepping stone to advance my career. I would never do something so despicable."

"Yes, I know, that's why I can tell you calmly."

Lin Jiade handed her a thermos containing his homemade nutritional drink. Jasmine took it and drank a cup. She glanced at the time and said, "It's time to study."

"You've worked hard, let's go to the movies."

"What movie?" Jasmine asked.

"A horror movie, I read online reviews saying it's scary."

"It was Dujuan's idea, wasn't it? Only she would think of something so despicable." Jasmine stretched out her hand. "Is this your purpose? To hold my hand."

"You don't mind?"

Jasmine gave Lin Jiade a strange look: "Why should I mind? I have feelings for you."

Can't you be a little more coy?!

It's not good to say this to Jasmine, because the ambiguous idea of ​​hoping the woman will be more reserved is a mixture of vanity, timidity, and feudalistic thinking in a virgin.

Perhaps to conceal its ugliness, people have given it a beautiful name—pure love.

Lin Jiade took Jasmine's hand, but not in the library; he felt it wouldn't be appropriate. On their way from the library to the cinema, the people striving towards the same goal subtly offered each other assistance, bringing them closer together.

Their hands touched, separated, crossed, and then palms met. Lin Jiade held Jasmine's hand; Jasmine's hand was small and delicate, while his hand was large and rough.

As if drawn to the warmth he conveyed, Jasmine's fingers clasped around the back of his hand, the cool sensation transforming into an itch that spread across her skin.

Lin Jiade was bubbling with joy inside. He tried to appear calm, but his face was beaming with happiness. He stole glances at Jasmine, who seemed a little lost, experiencing a novel moment in her life... no, in her dragon's life.

Lin Jiade was delighted to have taken Jasmine's virginity, and he greedily wanted to take more of her virginity, and also hoped that Jasmine would take him.

For a moment, the dopamine released in his brain gave him the illusion that he was the happiest man in the world.

When it came time to buy tickets, their hands parted, and Lin Jiade asked, "What movie do you want to see?"

"Isn't it a horror movie?"

"You mentioned it in the library before..."

"It doesn't matter what kind of movie it is, the important thing is to watch it with you."

Lin Jiade looked down and met Jasmine's upward gaze. Her expression was so earnest that it made his heart pound. He knew that Jasmine's affection was not the same as love, but he still fantasized that Jasmine was confessing her feelings to him.

They ended up going to see a horror movie anyway. Lin Jiade bought some plain popcorn and orange juice. They were seated in a small screening room, which wasn't crowded. Jasmine and Lin Jiade ignored their numbers and sat together.

"If you get scared later, you can hug my arm."

Remembering Jasmine's physical condition, Lin Jiade added, "Of course, don't hug her too tightly. I don't want to have to go to the orthopedics department halfway through the movie."

Jasmine nodded. Seeing how seriously Lin Jiade spoke, she couldn't help but feel nervous, thinking that this horror movie could scare her.

An hour later, she was eating popcorn out of boredom, occasionally taking a sip of orange juice through the straw. She looked at Lin Jiade next to her with a speechless expression. He was clinging to her arm with a look of fear on his face, and his head was practically resting on her shoulder.

"Your physique and your terrifying fetish for being aroused by non-human structures are enough to terrify even ghosts," Jasmine thought.

The contrast between Lin Jiade's everyday life and his real-life behavior left Jasmine both helpless and amused. At the same time, a vague feeling compelled her to reach out and touch Lin Jiade's head.

"It's like a rare video of early humans domesticating lions."

The Barbary witch in charge of surveillance muttered something in the back row. She thought it was disgusting that she was spending such precious time watching high school students' innocent romance instead of having fun with her handsome boys.

She couldn't stand it anymore and decided to go outside for some fresh air. Anyway, Brother Drinking Water had told her to keep a close watch and avoid any conflict, so going out for a while in the middle of the movie wasn't a big problem.

Thinking this, she got up and went to the restroom, took out a women's cigarette from her pocket, lit it, and puffed away. A short while later, she saw a woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat and dark sunglasses enter, carrying a parasol.

"Is anyone inside?" the woman asked.

The Barbary witch interpreted this as a question about whether there were any available slots, and she shrugged and said, "No, please use this one."

"Okay, thank you."

A woman walked past her, and a gust of wind blew in through the window, closing the toilet door. The Barbary Witch felt a chill run down her spine. She quickly turned around, and a parasol opened before her, its floral shadows blurring her vision.

A .44 caliber revolver emerged from under the parasol. The hand holding the gun pulled the trigger three times, the cylinder spun twice, and the Barbary witch's body trembled three times.

The Barbary witch knelt on the ground, weakly raising her head. The woman holding the umbrella and gun crouched down. The shadow of the umbrella created a dark world for the Barbary, and in the darkness, a pair of pink heart-shaped pupils became the only light.

Manchester United beat Tottenham 3-1, hence the extra chapter.

Chapter 46 The Date 3

Lin Jiade acted awkwardly while watching the horror movie, but quickly recovered after the movie ended and drank most of the remaining half glass of orange juice in one go.

"Why?" Jasmine asked, "If you're not good at watching horror movies, why insist on watching them?"

Lin Jiade paused for a moment, then replied somewhat embarrassedly, "It's precisely because I'm not good at it that I'm trying to overcome it. If it were just me, it might not matter, but now... I want to become a more successful person."

Jasmine didn't care about being "successful" or "unsuccessful"; her values ​​differed somewhat from those of most people. So she didn't dwell on it much and asked, "Why are you afraid?"

"When I was a child, I went to play at my relative's factory. I didn't know that the factory produced funeral items. One day, I sneaked in to play hide-and-seek and fell asleep in a very secluded spot."

When I woke up, it was dark, the factory was locked, and the funeral items were half-hidden in the moonlight streaming in through the window…

Lin Jiade smiled sheepishly: "Even now, I'm still a little afraid of the dark, and funeral items make me uncomfortable. Gradually, it turned into a fear of death. I'm actually quite timid."

“No, you’re a pervert,” Jasmine said.

"???"

"You're a coward, but you didn't turn and run away when you met someone like me. It just shows that your lust has inflated more than your fear."

Jasmine stopped talking midway and looked at Lin Jiade, who was covering his face, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Some were hit hard."

"Is there any bias in my words?"

Lin Jiade waved his hand: "No, you were just telling the truth, and the truth is the most hurtful."

Jasmine was somewhat puzzled: "Lust is a desire shared by all intelligent life, so why do you feel guilty about your instinct to reproduce?"

Lin Jiade explained: "Because we separate ourselves from animals, wisdom enlightens us, morality and law constrain us, and we constantly fight against the animalistic instincts that we cannot let go of."

Therefore, we often feel embarrassed when they have the upper hand.

Jasmine nodded, thinking that she wouldn't say anything like that again.

Lin Jiade took her to a restaurant across the street. It was a small restaurant run by a husband and wife. The husband was the chef, the wife was in charge of the accounts, and they also hired three waiters to take care of everything from cleaning to serving the food.

They specialize in beef noodles, and the restaurant is clean, reasonably priced, and delicious. During my first year of university, last year, when even Lin Jiade himself couldn't stomach his cooking, he often ate here.

Jasmine stared blankly at the counter. Lin Jiade turned around and saw that the proprietress's child, who was still in high school, was wearing a school uniform that was so ugly it was 100% recognizable.

He laughed and said, "Yes, their children are also our alumni."

“I know her,” Jasmine said.

"Classmate?"

"Ah."

"Should we say hello?"

Jasmine replied indifferently, "No need. We have no contact anymore, and we won't in the future, so there's no need to be polite with her."

Lin Jiade didn't know what to say, so he changed the subject and waited until the beef noodles were served before sharing the joy of noodles, braised beef, and fruit beer with her.

As night fell, the two walked hand in hand back into the apartment complex, but let go of each other when they reached the bottom of the building.

Lin Jiade asked, "Would you like to come to my house for a visit?"

Jasmine shook her head: "No, today's rehabilitation work is not finished yet, and you still need to take a potion to cast a strengthening spell. I don't want to distract you."

"you know?"

"Someone told me."

Lin Jiade scratched his head: "Du Juan? Ah, actually, there's no need to say anything..."

"No, this needs to be said. If you don't tell others how good you are to them, they will never know and will never remember your kindness."

“I study magic for myself, Jasmine. I want to reach your level and see the same view as you.”

“It will be tough, but I believe you can do it,” Jasmine replied.

The elevator reached the seventh floor. Jasmine waved goodbye to Lin Jiade, and the silvery-white cage continued upwards. The Dragon Girl's good mood began with her afternoon date and ended with her encounter with Du Juan after opening the door.

"Good evening," Du Juan said with a smile.

Jasmine looked at the other person warily: "Why are you here?"

"You have no conscience. I even took care of a third wheel for you this afternoon."

"Who?"

"A necromancer with Rank 3B magic, but because cremation is the norm in this city, she couldn't find any construction materials and became a useless person."

Du Juan paused for a moment, then continued, "She accepted the mission from a mind mage named Drinking Water Bro who possesses second-level C magic. The mission was to assist Drinking Water Bro in suppressing any potential accomplices you might have."

Meanwhile, Drinking Water Guy and another old swordsman named Tuna are targeting you, and will cast a spell on you as requested by their employer.

Do you have any candidates for the employer of telepaths?

Jasmine's face turned deathly pale, fear and anger alternating across her features. Under Du Juan's gaze, she whispered, "It's Bai Long, the murderers who killed my family."

“Wow, you don’t look right in front of Lin Jiade right now,” Du Juan said nonchalantly. “Your enemies couldn’t infiltrate Fuxing City directly, so they hired five nobodys in the industry.”

You and I both know these people are just there to feed you, to assess your current strength. But in reality, your enemies have overestimated you; even these five people have a greater than 50% chance of killing you.

Jasmine nodded: "I know, I had a feeling this day would come."

"That's why you hesitated. The crisis made you reject Lin Jiade, but your wishful thinking about the crisis made you rely on him... You can't keep struggling like this. Should you rely on him to overcome the difficulties together, or push him away and keep him away from the risks? You must make a decision as soon as possible."