She... she seems to be about to ruin herself...

"Don't tease me, okay? I... I'm not worth that much!"

You're so valuable, honey!

Even disregarding her gentle and beautiful appearance, a young girl's heart is also precious.

Chen Yajie opened her pitiful peach blossom eyes, her two small hands holding Lin Mo's arm.

"Two thousand yuan, two thousand yuan..." the girl muttered to herself for a while, her eyes gradually becoming vacant, and she couldn't stop crying, "You bought me... Waaaaaah..."

"How could I buy you..." Lin Mo was stunned. What kind of bizarre thought process was this?

As expected, none of the beautiful girls in the intelligence reports are normal people...

"I bought it!" Chen Yajie said in a high-pitched, angry voice, both ashamed and frightened, before sobbing, "Mom said my bride price is only two thousand yuan..."

This bride price is cheaper than a chicken...

"You bought me all... what am I going to do... waaaaah..."

"Waaah...am I really going to become a bandit's wife...?" The girl's eyes were pleading, and after a moment of mental turmoil, she remembered what Lin Mo had told her that morning...

No matter how scared I am... I have to take responsibility... and I have to repay the favors I've done...

The girl choked back tears, took off a jade pendant hanging from her neck with a red string, and looked at him with a sorrowful expression:

"I...I'll give you the Buddha statue..."

"The Bodhisattva has been protecting me for a long time; she is very powerful."

"Can...can I finish my studies?"

Lin Mo was completely stunned. He took the jade Bodhisattva and immediately felt that it was not worthy of its name.

The Bodhisattva did not protect her at all.

He simply gave her a compassionate heart.

A gentle evening breeze stirred, causing her hair to flutter like willow branches, heralding a chaotic prelude.

Lin Mo didn't have time to appreciate Chen Yajie's gentleness.

The phone rang urgently with a message, a message from the other two girls, filled with their anticipation.

This tranquility was shattered completely...

Chapter 17 Lin Mo, I think I've lost you.

"Did your mother...call you home?" the girl asked softly as she heard Lin Mo's phone ring.

Lin Mo hurriedly silenced his phone, and upon hearing Chen Yajie's question, he laughed in exasperation.

He doesn't own any land!

I thought to myself that Jie Bao had a knack for abstract humor; she could crack hellish jokes the moment she opened her mouth.

You've been a bit offensive, Jiebao. Your future mother-in-law is doing well in the afterlife.

Do you hate me that much that you want me to go down to the underworld and find my mother?

If she knew how filial you were, she would surely rest in peace.

Let's go together, Jiebao, and become a pair of doomed lovers.

"Ah...isn't that right?" Chen Yajie saw Lin Mo turn fierce again, and realizing something, she took small, fearful steps back. "No...not yet, meeting the parents is too fast..."

"The Bodhisattva has already given you everything... You can't do that... The Bodhisattva will scold you..."

"Maybe, maybe I'll be able to pay it back in the future."

"We'll talk about it later." Lin Mo took a few steps forward, ruffled her hair as if collecting interest, and ran towards the school's back gate...

The girl thought she was about to be hit and didn't dare open her eyes. She only felt her hair being messed up, and when she opened her eyes again, Lin Mo had disappeared...

"Well..."

...

This farce has taken too long, not only leaving Jiang Wanfeng hanging, but also potentially delaying Li Qingran's plans...

What I thought would be a matter of ten minutes ended up taking almost an hour.

Lin Mo's running towards the back door was an instinctive action; Li Qingran's home was in a villa area not far from the school's back gate.

Despite the barrage of messages on his phone, Jiang Wanfeng only sent two, and the proud girl got angry and stopped replying.

The remaining 99+ are all Li Qingran; she has already entered the game...

[Qingran]: Lin Mo, I'm home.

[Qingran]: Where are you?

[Qingran]: I can't see you.

[Qingran]: Are you playing hide-and-seek?

[Qingran]: I can't find you.

[Qingran]: I will find you.

[Qingran]: There are many flowers on the mountain next to my house.

[Qingran]: Will there be epiphyllum flowers? Epiphyllum flowers are beautiful, I like epiphyllum flowers.

[Qingran]: I searched for a long time, but I couldn't find any epiphyllum flowers.

Qingran has initiated a voice call with you, but you have not yet responded.

[Qingran]: Did I lose you?

[Qingran]: Is it because your house isn't nicely built that you don't want to go home?

[Qingran]: I replaced the wooden boards in my house with pink ones.

[Qingran]: Is it still not good-looking?

Qingran has initiated a video call with you, but you have not yet responded.

[Qingran]: I will wait for you.

The message ended there. About ten minutes later, she sent another message.

[Qingran]: Please don't go.

This message had just been sent, and it was still fresh in everyone's minds, but it chilled Lin Mo to the bone.

Li Qingran's language is simple, her logic as naive as a child's, yet it evokes a pang of sadness in the reader...

Damn, something happened the very next day. Biyang's intelligence...

Lin Mo was just cursing in his heart when a pop-up window suddenly appeared.

Two night-blooming cereus flowers are in full bloom at the flower shop ahead.

The intelligence network finally showed some humanity, providing some information that could be of lifesaver in an emergency.

Lin Mo rushed into the flower shop in a flurry, grabbed two potted plants, and ran off, leaving the owner bewildered and furious, about to shout:

"Thief..."

"Ding-dong! Alipay account received 1,000 yuan!"

"Keep looking, boss!"

"Come on, wealth! Hahaha, wealth is coming!"

The boss was amused. Why did a little guy suddenly explode with gold coins so late at night?

Lin Mo didn't know how much this thing was worth, but it looked quite expensive, so he simply transferred all the money in his account to it, too lazy to waste any more time.

The world is vast, but Ran Bao is the greatest.

He can tell the difference between a full meal and a full meal. If he takes good care of Ranbao, he can make popcorn just by squeezing her little hands.

In no time, they arrived near the address Li Qingran had given them. The villa was dimly lit, not as brightly lit as they had imagined.

Lin Mo looked up and could faintly hear broken sobs coming from the second-floor window...

The computer screen emitted a dim light that stung Li Qingran's snow-white cheeks. In the game, she was the only lone Steve, suffering a brutal beating from monsters in the darkness.

The house, all alone, couldn't hold him.

The girl sat listlessly on the tatami mat, her ethereal eyes staring blankly at the shattered phone screen.

She didn't know, she didn't know why, but it hurt so much. Her heart kept shrinking inward, shrinking and shrinking... shrinking into a small cluster of sharp thorns, then stabbing outward, stabbing and stabbing...

She dared not turn on her phone screen again, dared not check his messages, afraid that opening them would only bring another wave of emptiness and despair.

After the last time she opened the phone and saw the blank screen, she suddenly lost control and slammed the phone to the ground. The screen cracked under the weight...

She hugged her knees, looking at her own body, her eyes itching and tingling, as if some strange sadness was about to well up and fall.

Tears fell onto her pale knees, absorbing the light in the room and magnifying the texture of her skin.

Why is her body so white and clean... There's nothing on it, so monotonous, so dull, just like her, like the message list on her phone...

She suddenly wanted to get herself dirty, not so clean, like... cracked like a screen... sliced ​​into pieces...

She picked up her phone and touched the cracks on it. The sharp, grainy texture was both terrifying and alluring... It seemed she was meant to immerse herself in this fear yesterday.

Instead of merely surviving to this day.

Just then, as the girl's thoughts became dulled, the dim phone screen suddenly lit up with a blinding light.

【默】:Looking out the window.

Even though the screen shattered into pieces of glass, she could still clearly make out his words.

At the same time, a gentle breeze swept by, dispelling the stuffiness in the room and carrying away the bitterness in her chest.

This wind, like magic, propelled her limp body.

She moved her already numb knees, knelt by the windowsill, leaned out, and strained to see.

"Ran Bao!!"

"Epiphyllum! Here!"

She was used to gazing at the empty sky and wasn't used to leaning against the window to look closely. At first glance, she didn't notice the boy shouting downstairs.

But from the moment she heard Lin Mo's voice, she decided that from now on, whenever she looked out the window, she would first look down...

The boy she could entrust her life to would surely stand under the dim light and dispel the fog in her vision...

It turns out that the sky isn't as alluring as it seems, but the earth itself brings just as much peace of mind.

She didn't want to fly away; she wanted to stay on Earth.

He and I traversed every inch of this land...

"Hey! Don't lean any further out... you're going to fall!"

Lin Mo watched as Li Qingran had half her body sticking out of the window. Her cool, expressionless face, perhaps from washing her hair, was disheveled, making her look like Sadako from a horror movie...

No, there's no such thing as a Sadako that beautiful.

How adorable would Ran Bao be if she turned into a female ghost...? Actually, it's not impossible...

"I'll get down..." Li Qingran leaned against the window, staring intently at him.

You can come down, but could you please not use such a bizarre method? If you've built a staircase, at least make use of it.

"You stay up there, I'm just bringing you some flowers. I'll leave after I drop them off." Lin Mo smiled at her and placed a pot of epiphyllum in the flowerbed that she could see easily by peeking out.

Li Qingran's gaze focused on the flowers, the resentment in her eyes vanishing in an instant.

He never left...

"I got stuck in traffic on my way home... and my phone was low on battery, so I didn't reply to your messages. I saw you said you liked epiphyllum flowers... and since I had some, I brought them to you."

Lin Mo tried to explain with clumsy acting and poor rhetoric, but anyone else could tell he was lying.

But Li Qingran wouldn't. She would only remember his efforts in her heart, even if they were fake.

She knew that the epiphyllum only blooms at night...and only for a short while.

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