Chapter Thirty-Five Three Years

  Somehow I fell asleep, woke up and found that the time was up, feeling depressed. Okay, double update today! Thanks to Yu Hou Tingyuan for the reward of Xiangnang and Taohua fan. All the unpleasant and uncomfortable things in life can be summarized in four words: they will pass, so, let's work hard!

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  After a night of tossing and turning in bed, Gu Qingjin decided to stop intentionally hurting Gu Qingyao from today on.

  At this moment, Gu Qingyao walked in. Qingjin habitually raised her head to glance at Gu Qingyao, but found that today's Gu Qingyao was a stark contrast from the dejected and disheartened look of the past few days, as she actually had a sweet smile on her face as she entered.

  Seeing Gu Qingyao like this, Qingjin couldn't help but take a few more glances at her. Gu Qingyao noticed Qingjin's gaze and this time didn't avoid it like the previous days, instead she gave Qingjin a sweet smile and called out in a soft voice: "Second sister——”

  This shocked Qing Jin, except for the first day at school, starting from the second day, Gu Qing Yao began to deliberately avoid her, even the seats were not as close as the first day, but instead sat with an empty seat in between. I didn't expect Gu Qing Yao to recover so quickly, her recovery ability is truly astonishing!

  Qing Jin had already decided not to attack Gu Qing Yao, but seeing how quickly she recovered, she couldn't help but admire her. She knew that Gu Qing Yao wasn't someone who would easily compromise or be defeated. She wondered what Gu Qing Yao would do next and smiled faintly as she spoke to her, "Fourth sister, why are you so happy today?"

  Seeing Qing Jin's smiling face, Gu Qing Yao sat down beside her and said sweetly, "Second sister, do you still like me? I've been thinking these past two days..."

  Qing Jin looked at her pitiful little face and couldn't help but nod, but in her heart she thought, I never said I liked you.

  Seeing Qing Jin nod, Qing Yao continued with a close and intimate tone, "Second sister is so excellent, but no matter how hard I try, I just can't catch up. Yesterday when Mother came to see me, she saw my appearance and told me that Second Sister's excellence was also the result of her own efforts. Mother said that among three people walking together, there must be one who is a teacher, and that I should learn from Second Sister more often. If I work hard, I can become as excellent as Second Sister too. Second Sister, in the future when Mr. teaches something that I don't understand, can I ask you?"

  "Of course." Qing Jin said with relish, Gu Qingyao was able to get back on her feet at such a young age after such a failure, Qing Jin had to admit that this little girl was really not ordinary, and Gu Qingyao had a very capable mother!

  But isn't it more interesting this way?

  Because she decided not to confront Qingyu for the time being, Qingjin became subdued in class, listening attentively every day but no longer actively answering the teacher's questions. On the other hand, Qingyu began to become active in class, asking the teacher or Qingjin after class about things she didn't understand, with a diligent effort reminiscent of modern students' pre-exam cramming. The teacher was delighted by Qingyu's eagerness to learn and praised her several times in class, but couldn't help shaking his head when he saw Qingjin "slacking off" beside her.

  Qing Jin didn't mind, she majored in Chinese when she was in college and didn't travel through time and space. What the teacher said was all elementary school stuff to her. In her previous life, she actively attended classes just to get a good grade or to be able to boast about it. Now, she no longer cared about those things. She only came to class now to understand the rules of survival in this world.

  Those etiquette rules that she used to disdain and was unwilling to understand, were actually the ones she should have learned. After spending half a year understanding what she needed to know, going to school no longer held any attraction for Qingjin. In fact, she would rather spend her mornings tending to the flowers and plants she had personally planted. So, after discussing it with her grandmother Shen Shi and getting her agreement, Qingjin rarely went to school anymore.

  Before I knew it, three years had quietly passed by.

  That day, Qingjin sat alone at the desk in her room, on which was placed a pair of peony flowers that were just blooming. From time to time, Qingjin would touch the delicate petals with her hand, and suddenly she poked the petals of the peony flower and muttered to herself: "I really can't believe it, you're actually a man-eating flower."

  The entwined flowers that had been pinched by Qing Jin suddenly came to life and broke free from her hands, as if they had a mind of their own. Qing Jin stared at the flower stem that had instantly moved away from her, her eyes wide with incredulity. After a moment, she spoke up, "You're really petty, it was just a touch, why be so petty?"

  Upon hearing Qingjin's words, Huadu trembled with anger, yet kept a greater distance from her.

  Qing Jin rolled her eyes and stopped touching the petals. She still couldn't accept that she had grown a carnivorous flower. It was one of those strange, metallic seeds sent by the servants from the mansion two years ago. She had let Yuanyang plant it, but it hadn't sprouted for two years and was gradually forgotten. Who knew that recently, this seed suddenly sprouted, quickly grew branches, and bloomed into a beautiful double flower on the branch head? However, this double flower strangely only had flowers without leaves.

  Yuan told Qingjin about the strange thing, and Qingjin studied the intertwined flowers with great interest for a while but to no avail. Later, she wanted to get rid of this useless flower that had wasted her time, perhaps because Qingjin's tone was too evil at the time, which scared the flower. That night, before going to sleep, Qingjin suddenly received a message from the man-eating flower.

  At that time, Qingjin was frightened, whoever suddenly had a strange voice in their mind would be scared. Fortunately, Qingjin was a three-life person, and after figuring out the voice in her mind was actually the Double Lotus she had been studying for some time, Qingjin became excited. Could it be that she wasn't reborn in the era of her previous life's transmigration, but rather transmigrated to a country where people cultivated immortality?

  After a close conversation with the man-eating flower, Qingjin finally understood that she had thought too much. The seeds of this man-eating flower didn't know what era they came from, and their consciousness was only a fragmentary consciousness. Although it was more special than other flowers in that it could communicate with her, there were no other functions left.

  It's completely a useless existence, Qing Jin was even more convinced that she was a female supporting character. However, after learning that the flower didn't harm humans and wasn't poisonous, Qing Jin decided to keep it in her room. It may be useless, but having such a beautiful flower in her room was quite nice to look at. Most importantly, when she was bored, she could use it to alleviate her boredom.

  Just like now, Qingjin was thinking about these things when Yuanyang walked in from outside with something in her hand. Seeing Qingjin sitting there, she said to Qingjin: "Miss, the clothing style you sent to Liuyun Pavilion some time ago has been made into a set of clothes and they have sent it back for you to try on. Do you want to try it?"

  Upon hearing Yuanyang's words, Qingjin came back to her senses and lazily asked while lifting her head: "Is it done? What color is it?"