Chapter 13: Do you believe this is a talent?

Outside the door, Qi Ma held two apples in her hand, looking puzzled.

Inside the room, Qi Yun and Lian Qingxue looked at each other with confusion on their faces.

"What are you looking at? Don't let Auntie come in!" Lian Qingxue whispered to Qi Yun.

"Cough, Mom, we're busy right now!"

"Oh, is it inconvenient for me to come in?"

"Not...not particularly convenient."

Qi Yun looked a bit embarrassed as he watched Lian Qingxue hiding under the blanket.

"Okay! The apples are on the table outside."

They heard Qi Ma's footsteps gradually fading away. Only then did Lian Qingxue breathe a sigh of relief. Her head popped out from under the covers and she glared fiercely at Qi Yun: "You almost got us caught!"

Qi Yun...stared blankly at Lian Qingxue.

Lian Qingxue followed his gaze downwards and saw that she had rushed too quickly and exposed most of her shoulder outside of the blanket. There was even a hint of undulation visible beneath it.

Swoosh!

Lian Qingxue immediately dove back into the covers. "You're still looking!"

"I didn't see anything!" Qi Yun said seriously.

Lian Qingxue remained silent inside her cocooned state.

Yeah right!

Just as Qi Yun was thinking about how to ease this increasingly awkward atmosphere...

The door creaked open again. Outside, they could hear Auntie Qi's voice filled with concern: "Ahem ahem! I'm not an old-fashioned mom or anything like that but you guys are still young so you need to be careful! Especially since Clear Snow is still young - someone has to take responsibility for her safety!"

After speaking, they saw a small square package with jagged edges slide through the crack underneath their door - full of security measures.

"...."

Qi Yun looked at Lian Qingxue, who was on the verge of tears under the covers.

You really are my mom!

Forget it.

I'm tired.

Let this awkward world be destroyed.

...

After Lian Qingxue finished getting dressed, she finally spoke to Qi Yun. Two hours had already passed. She should go back now. But she was too scared.

"Qi Yun, how can I face your parents?" Lian Qingxue couldn't imagine what kind of impression she had left on Qi's parents.

"What is there to face? You know that my mom sees you as her own daughter now. I'm the worthless son," Qi Yun replied.

"But...she has misunderstood," Lian Qingxue said, glancing at the small package on the ground and quickly looking away in fear.

"Misunderstood? We just need to make sure she doesn't misunderstand anymore," Qi Yun said with a smirk.

"How do we do that?"

"It's simple - let's turn our fake relationship into a real one."

Lian Qingxue jumped up in shock. "You wish!"

"I meant it as a joke! Don't take it seriously!" Qi Yun quickly changed the subject and asked if her clothes fit well instead.

"They're fine." Lian Qingxue nodded but then gave him a sideways glance. "How did you know my size so easily? Do you have experience with this?"

Qi Yun coughed awkwardly and denied having any experience before saying, "I swear I only have this talent when it comes to you."

Lian Qingxue hummed skeptically but didn't say anything else about it.

...

Until Qi Yun saw Lian Qingxue off.

Holding the square package, she reluctantly went to her mother and said, "Mom, you are really my biological mother. I haven't done anything with Lian Qingxue yet, but you gave me this!"

Qi's mother lay on the sofa watching TV without even lifting her eyelids.

"Keep it. You'll need it sooner or later!"

As soon as she heard these words, even though he was reborn, Qi Yun was stunned.

Indeed, whether you were reborn or not, your mother is still your mother.

After thinking about it for a while, Qi Yun silently put the square package in his pocket.

Hmm...he would need it sooner or later.

Thinking of this made Qi Yun sigh involuntarily.

The pure money relationship had been tainted!

It was all because Lian Qingxue was too tempting!

He couldn't resist!

...

In the half month before Chinese New Year's Day, Lian Qingxue came to study with Qi Yun every day.

Yes...pure studying together.

Although both of them intentionally avoided their previous awkwardness, every move they made and every glance they exchanged between them even made Qi's mom unable to bear watching anymore; she felt sour enough to lose teeth over it (a Chinese expression meaning extremely jealous).

Recently when he looked at himself in the mirror after getting up, Qi suddenly realized that he seemed to have undergone quite a big change unconsciously: the slight dark spots and acne marks on his face seemed to have disappeared; his facial features also appeared more refined and energetic; the muscle lines between his chest and abdomen were like knife carvings; looking at the six-pack abs on his stomach.

Qi nodded satisfactorily: "A man should have a good waist."

Lian Qingxue also gradually began feeling something wasn't right.