Love, Gun, Cupid

This is what annoys Jasmine the most. Even in her boyfriend's heart, Du Juan is probably second only to Lin Jiade's parents.

Jasmine also considered cooperating with the new victim, Gladiolus, to fight against Azalea, but firstly, she was unsure if Gladiolus was in cahoots with Azalea, and secondly, she was somewhat jealous of Gladiolus.

Why is it that her love with Lin Jiade is full of blood, tears and laughter, while Jianlan can understand Lin Jiade's heart just by the setting of a life box?

This is unfair, so unfair! It's an outrageous system!

Lin Jiade was unaware of the jealousy churning within his girlfriend, and even if he did, what could he do?

As the young man prepared dinner, Jasmine, feeling threatened by Du Juan's words, came to the kitchen and asked, "Is there anything I can help with?"

Lin Jiade had experienced Jasmine's cooking skills firsthand, so he said, "Could you help me wash the vegetables?"

"Okay."

As Jasmine was about to go find some vegetables, Lin Jiade put an apron hanging on the wall on her. Jasmine tugged at the slightly oversized apron and said, "Yours?"

"By the way, I'm planning to take the train to visit them next month. Do you want to come along?"

"But didn't you say that if your relationship with a high school student were exposed, your legs would be broken?"

"You can pretend to be my junior in school. My parents won't ask too many questions about this, and that way I can keep my leg."

"What if?"

“Even if I break my leg, I will stay with you,” Lin Jiade said earnestly. “I’ve already broken my hand for you once, so breaking another leg is nothing.”

Jasmine hugged him from behind, the air filled with tranquility and sweetness. Perhaps it was only a few seconds, or perhaps several minutes, before Jasmine whispered, "Don't talk nonsense, once... is painful enough."

There are a total of 62 chapters owed, 11 chapters have been replaced, and 51 chapters are still needed.

Chapter Twenty-Five: Worms V

After cuddling for a while, the two finally started cooking dinner. Lin Jiade took charge of the cooking, while Jasmine assisted him. Love acted as MSG, making the meal exceptionally delicious.

Since the cuckoo doesn't need to eat and the gladiolus can't eat, dinner was a private affair for Lin Jiade and Jasmine. But from the very beginning, Lin Jiade felt a faint gaze directed at him and Jasmine from the sofa.

He looked over and saw that the cuckoo was listening to music with her eyes closed, while the sword orchid's gaze met his in a flash.

"Hmm, what's wrong?" she asked, pretending not to know.

"I think you have something to say to me."

"No."

"Madam, we can't hide our relationship from each other, you just can't hide it from me, and I can't hide it from you either. You just have something to say... Ouch!"

Jasmine wasn't very emotionally intelligent, but she sensed that Jianlan was losing face, so she stepped on Lin Jiade's foot, interrupting him.

"Sorry, I stepped on you."

Jasmine looked at Gladiolus, nodded to her, and apologized on behalf of her boyfriend. At the same time, this was also a gentle way of asserting her dominance.

"Is there anything I can do to help you?" Jasmine asked.

Jianlan was a little embarrassed. After thinking for a few seconds, she stammered, "I want to... taste the food. What does the food of the living taste like? I'm so old and I still have a sweet tooth, it's really embarrassing."

The hypocrisy of adults and the constraints they are bound by are reflected in the inconsistency between Jianlan's words and actions. Jasmine shrugged indifferently: "It's nothing. Lin Jiade and I made a lot, but... how will you eat it?"

“That’s exactly why I hesitated to tell you. I have no physical body and can’t distinguish tastes, so I want to possess Miss Jasmine’s body and use your sense of taste to savor the food,” Jianlan said.

Jasmine doesn't trust Jianlan, but considering the relationship between Lin Jiade and Jianlan, she feels she can trust Jianlan for the time being.

So she nodded in agreement. Gladiolus floated behind Jasmine. The moment her figure overlapped with Jasmine's, Jasmine instinctively resisted for a moment, then relaxed her body and closed her eyes.

Jasmine opened her eyes again, looking happily at her palms, touching her cheeks, and then looking at Lin Jiade opposite her. Although she still looked like Jasmine, the person in front of her had a completely different temperament, becoming more mature, more...charming.

Jianlan reached out and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. She tasted each dish, chewing slowly and occasionally showing a surprised expression. Finally, she withdrew from Jasmine's body with satisfaction and thanked Jasmine once again.

Seeing this scene, Lin Jiade's peach dream swelled up. He imagined himself embracing three Jasmines: the honest Jasmine herself, the scheming Jasmine played by Miss Dujuan, and the mature Jasmine after being possessed by Gladiolus.

If each of them is like a jasmine flower, then is his being with them still considered cheating?

Lin Jiade patted his head, banishing the absurd idea. He got up to go to the kitchen, but was chased out by Jasmine.

Gladiolus went to help her, and the two talked from time to time. Jasmine's face was initially stiff, but as the conversation deepened, it gradually softened, and she seemed to like Gladiolus's appearance.

Lin Jiade sat on the sofa, glancing occasionally at Jasmine's profile as she worked diligently. Seeing the harmonious atmosphere between Jasmine and Gladiolus, he felt incredibly happy.

"Isn't it a kind of gratifying feeling that white slave owners get when they see their black slaves working hard?" Du Juan's voice rang in my ears.

Lin Jiade subconsciously echoed, "Indeed... no, what do you mean 'indeed'? Jasmine and I aren't in that kind of relationship! Besides, in terms of strength and wealth, she's the one on top, right?"

"To be honest, now, no matter which of your female friends comes, you'll have to be on the bottom."

"Hmph, that's how it is now, but who knows what the future holds. Lady Jianlan said my terrible magic can be rewritten, and the first spell to be rewritten is the detection spell. I, the modern-day Lu Su, will definitely make you look at me in a new light."

"Kelus Su was a terrible commander," Du Juan whispered.

Lin Jiade didn't hear it; he was chatting with Teacher Yang about learning methods.

Jasmine wants to be his junior, but besides doing practice problems, learning how to do them more efficiently is an even bigger problem.

So, he shamelessly added Ms. Yang's account, hoping to learn from the female PhD student. Considering that dating a minor was immoral, he referred to Jasmine as the child he was tutoring.

On the other end of the screen, Teacher Yang was squirming on the sofa. Lin Jiade's "gentle and shy" "pure" offensive greatly satisfied her vanity, and she laughed like a strange aunt.

The college entrance examination is too far removed from the time when the female doctoral student took the exam, but she cherishes her notes from her senior year of high school as a memento of her youth. Moreover, the college entrance examination in the Eastern Province has not undergone major changes in the past fifteen years, so her notes are still applicable.

She pulled it out of the dusty corner, along with a blue bead.

"That's strange, what is this?"

She brought the notes and beads to the sofa, took a picture of them, and sent it to Lin Jiade. When she pressed the voice button to ask him if he wanted them, it was exactly 20 p.m.

Suddenly, the blue bead emitted a light, and a crack appeared on the surface of her phone screen.

The same crack appeared on the surface of Lin Jiade's phone. He involuntarily fell into the crack, and the Gladiolus, who was working, was also pulled to Lin Jiade's vicinity because the Life Box was attracted to it.

With a gentle tug, Cupid conjured five chains that bound Lin Jiade’s limbs and waist, forcibly pulling him out of the crevice.

Lin Jiade stumbled and fell at Cupid's feet, the hem of the rhododendron skirt gently caressing his face. He looked up, and the holy light magic beneath the rhododendron skirt stung his eyes, causing him to scream.

“This is what you get for it, Lin Jiade.” Du Juan took a step back. “Our relationship hasn’t reached that level yet.”

"I did not do it on purpose!"

Lin Jiade sat up, and Jasmine opened the kitchen door and ran to his side, the magic brewing in her palm.

Thunder magic was an exorcism spell used by Taoist priests before the invention of gunpowder magic, which frightened Jianlan, who was considered an evil being, causing her to hide behind Lin Jiade. Seeing this, Jasmine switched to another Taoist spell.

“Wait,” said the cuckoo, “this is the gate to the Mirror Realm, which is only open to special people.”

"What's so special about me... that I have a girlfriend with a red dragon?" Lin Jiade asked.

"Be serious!"

Jasmine rolled her eyes and poked Lin Jiade in the back with her tail.

“No, it’s Ms. Gladiolus beside you,” Du Juan said.

Gladiolus was somewhat confused: "Me?"

Du Juan retorted, "Yes, don't you have any knowledge of the Mirror Realm?"

Gladiolus nodded: "Ah, yes, Mr. Lin Jiade asked me this morning, but I was explaining something more important to him and forgot about it."

The Lich Lady turned to Lin Jiade: "This is our third lesson. Lin Jiade, can you accept the existence of another world?"

Chapter Twenty-Six, Lesson Three

Lin Jiade shrugged: "Of course you can, Miss Dujuan is from the heavens."

"That makes sense. The Mirror Realm is a world similar to the Celestial Realm. They both have paths that allow for fast travel to our planet. I don't know about the Celestial Realm, but the connection to the Mirror Realm is through mirrors, or anything related to mirrors."

"That's why my phone screen..."

Gladiolus continued, "Well, at 20 o'clock, the Mirror Realm will try to absorb the special people on our planet, and at 6 o'clock, it will spit them out... if they are still alive at that time."

"The so-called special person is someone who, in the Mirror Realm, there exists something A, and in our world, there exists something A' that shares the same origin as A. The person who possesses A' is the special person who can enter the Mirror Realm."

Everyone looked at Jianlan, who said, "I think a fragment of my soul is in the Mirror Realm, which is why the Mirror Realm opened its gates for Lin Jiade."

“Yes, that’s the only reasonable explanation,” Du Juan said.

Just as Lin Jiade was about to express his opinion, new text appeared before his eyes—

The error is already reflected in the mirror. Are you a flock of birds or a lone worm?

“Mr. Lin Jiade?” Jianlan asked.

"Didn't you see it?" the young man asked.

The other three people in the living room looked at each other, all indicating that they knew nothing about it. This time it was Lin Jiade's turn to be surprised. He had always thought that Jianlan had created these words.

“Perhaps something in the Mirror Realm is calling you, Lin Jiade,” Jianlan said.

"No way, who else is after me? This is already troublesome enough... Ouch!"

Jasmine flicked Lin Jiade's butt with her tail. Some of what she said might be true, but it was too hurtful to say it in front of the person involved.

Lin Jiade also realized what was happening and gestured to Jianlan: "Sorry."

“It’s nothing, it’s just what happened,” Jianlan said. “What did you see?”

Lin Jiade repeated the three sentences that had appeared. The first half of each sentence explained the situation of the "mistake" in the "mirror," while the second half asked him how to choose to become a bird or a worm.

Worm: Made a mistake, lingering outside the mirror, all alone.

Birds: Correcting the error, they fly into the mirror, in flocks.

If the "mirror" refers to the realm of mirrors, then birds and worms represent two diametrically opposed choices for those in the know.

As an ordinary person, Lin Jiade takes the middle path. He can be a worm or a bird, and right now, he wants to be a worm outside the mirror, so that he can stay safe... even if the worm is making mistakes.

"Although this concerns a fragment of my soul, and the Mirror Realm's call to you, I suggest you be more composed, Lin Jiade."

Gladiolus suggested softly, "At least wait until I've rewritten some of your most frequently used spells and you've mastered them before considering this."

Lin Jiade wholeheartedly agreed, but he recalled his last conversation with Teacher Yang, during which Teacher Yang's screams suggested that she had experienced the same thing.

He has Du Juan by his side, but who is Teacher Yang? She may have already fallen into the Mirror Realm, while an ordinary person has been sucked into another world...

With a sliver of hope, Lin Jiade used Jasmine's phone to call Teacher Yang, but the line went dead. He sat on the sofa, rubbing his head in frustration, and called Mu Mian instead.

"What is it?" Mu Mian asked coldly.

"It's me, senior."