Just returned to his own residence, Lin Mo saw Gu Zi sitting on a stone chair in the courtyard, contemplating something, shaking his head, blushing, and slapping his own face from time to time.
Lin Mo looked utterly perplexed. Could this kid have found a girl he fancies?
At this moment, Gu Zi also noticed Lin Mo’s return. The moment he looked, he froze.
His senior brother, usually dressed simply and plainly, looked exceptionally handsome today dressed up like this.
“What are you thinking about?” Lin Mo asked, approaching Gu Zi.
“I just realized today, Senior Brother Lin, how handsome you are!” Gu Zi spoke his true feelings.
“I’m well aware of that myself,” Lin Mo said with a smile.
Gu Zi had thought a lot that afternoon.
His senior brother was so good to him, yet he felt he had nothing to repay him with.
Although his senior brother’s peculiar habit was indeed strange, it was the only thing he could do to satisfy him.
“Senior Brother, I…” Although he had already decided, the words were truly hard to utter, and Gu Zi couldn’t bring himself to say them for a moment.
“If there’s anything, just say it. If Senior Brother can help, I will definitely help you,” Lin Mo said, mistaking Gu Zi’s intention for asking him to play matchmaker.
“No, I don’t need Senior Brother’s help with anything.” Taking a deep breath, Gu Zi said with a blush, “Senior Brother is extremely good to me, so I am willing to give you whatever you desire!”
What the heck?
What do I desire? Why don’t I know myself?
And what can you even give me!
Lin Mo was utterly bewildered. Seeing Gu Zi’s face red all over, a strange feeling arose within him.
“Senior Brother doesn’t quite understand what you mean.”
“It’s alright, Senior Brother. I know this is difficult for you to talk about, but I understand. After all, there are many people with strange fetishes in this world.”
Lin Mo frowned.
“So, Senior Brother, please don’t steal. If you like them, I can give them to you directly.”
Saying this, Gu Zi began to take off his shoes.
Lin Mo’s frown deepened.
Gu Zi continued to take off his socks, completely oblivious that Lin Mo had already retreated at lightning speed.
He lowered his head, bent his waist, and respectfully offered his smelly socks: “Senior Brother, if you need them in the future, you can tell me directly. You don’t need to steal them. If you feel the smell isn’t strong enough, I can wear them for a few more days…”
“Huh? Senior Brother, where did he go?”
Looking up, Gu Zi finally realized Lin Mo had disappeared.
Returning to his room, Lin Mo blocked his sense of smell and coldly shouted outside, “If you dare take off your shoes in front of me again, I won’t hesitate to cut off your feet.”
The coldness in his words was real. Gu Zi shivered all over.
He only thought that his senior brother cared about saving face and quickly put on his socks and ran away.
Sensing Gu Zi’s departure, Lin Mo felt utterly speechless.
It seemed Gu Zi had discovered the pair of socks Lin Mo had drawn from the System.
What is this situation!
“System, can you adjust the items you dispense?”
“Even a pair of clean socks would be fine. Why do you have to pick out used ones from others last time?”
【Host, I’ve told you that the prizes for the lucky draw are random, and I can’t control these things.】
Lin Mo would be a fool to believe the System.
How could it be such a coincidence that out of thousands of worlds and billions of prizes, he happened to draw something belonging to someone by his side?
…
It had been half a month since Shen Ke’er had taken to her bed.
Recently, she could already get out of bed and walk.
As her entire body was covered in black poisonous glands, she had no choice but to wear a veil.
Lin Mo was practicing his sword in the courtyard.
When Shen Ke’er arrived, she noticed her senior brother had changed his attire.
For a moment, she didn’t recognize him.
After a while, she finally came to her senses.
A wave of emotion surged within her.
She had never realized how handsome her senior brother was.
Composing herself and putting aside her former arrogance, she stepped forward and respectfully said,
“Senior Brother, Ke’er pays her respects.”
Putting down his sword, Lin Mo knew Shen Ke’er’s intentions well.
“I see. You can go now if there’s nothing else.”
“Senior Brother…” Shen Ke’er stepped forward and gently tugged Lin Mo’s sleeve, her tone carrying a hint of coquettishness.
Lin Mo coldly shook off her hand.
In the past, when Shen Ke’er made mistakes, the original host would soften and forgive her with that same attitude.
But he wouldn’t!
“Senior Brother, you raised me since I was young. Are you truly going to abandon me now?” Seeing Lin Mo’s demeanor, Shen Ke’er became somewhat anxious.
After leaving last time, she thought Lin Mo was just angry and would soften after a few days and come to see her.
But who would have thought that Lin Mo would not visit her at all for half a month?
Even now, when she actively played weak and acted cute, her senior brother was like a stranger, his expression indifferent, completely unwilling to bother with her.
If Lin Mo truly intended to abandon her, she would not only have to live with this unsightly face but also be unable to cultivate. The prodigy of the Sect would fall into becoming trash…
How could she accept such a fate?
The most skilled and knowledgeable person she knew, besides their Master, was this senior brother beside her.
Moreover, this senior brother indeed possessed the ability to save her.
How could she not cling to this life-saving straw?
“Where is your gentle, considerate, and good junior brother, Ye Kai?”
Lin Mo sneered inwardly. Now she was trying to play the emotional card with him?
Where was that sincerity before?
When she had something, she came to him for help, but when she didn’t, she would be doting on that junior disciple, badmouthing him to Ye Kai, calling him cold-blooded, and bullying fellow disciples?
It was a classic case of “Busybody Zhong Yan when there’s trouble, carefree Xia Ying Chun when there’s none.”
Truly shameless.
Shen Ke’er lowered her head, her voice faint, “Junior Brother Ye doesn’t have the Spirit Herbs that can help me, nor does he have the means to treat my wounds…”
During these past few days, Ye Kai had indeed accompanied her.
Every day he would dote on her, asking if she felt uncomfortable, if she was feeling any better.
She saw all of this.
But were mere questions and concern useful?
They couldn’t alleviate her pain or help her detoxify.
Now, only by seeking Lin Mo, only by seeking this senior brother, could she regain her beauty and cultivate again.
Seeing that Shen Ke’er was still protecting that good junior brother with her words, Lin Mo scoffed, “So, if I have something, you must have it? If I know how to do something, you must have it too?”
Did she think she was the Daughter of Heaven?
Anything she wanted, she could have?
Did the original host’s possessions just fall from the sky?
Those rare Spirit Herbs were painstakingly snatched from hordes of Demonic Beasts.
The medical skills he possessed were not taught by True Lord Yuehua; he had painstakingly figured them out through early mornings and late nights.
This Shen Ke’er only knew that the original host had them and knew how to do them, but didn’t know how much blood the original host had shed to obtain those Spirit Herbs and how much time and effort were spent learning those treatments.
Lin Mo felt disheartened that the original host had taken in such an ungrateful wretch.
But he couldn’t kill her. This was the original host’s Junior Sister, not his own.
It was fine as it was; let Shen Ke’er fend for herself.
If the original host hadn’t picked her up as a child, let alone having the chance for an immortal destiny, Shen Ke’er would have been lucky to even survive.
Lin Mo was too lazy to say anything more. He summoned the Liuli Sword and flew away by Sword Riding.
Shen Ke’er watched the figure that disappeared into the sky, leaving her behind to be lost in her thoughts.
She still didn’t understand. She hadn’t done anything heinous. Why was the senior brother who raised her unwilling to save her or help her?
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