Capítulo 1065: Chapter 847: The Mortal World (Part 2)

“Since it wasn’t your original intention, why meddle?”

Zhao Changhe turned his head to glance at her and again revealed that same aunt-like smile: “To protect the things that make me smile like this… I’ve fought my entire life, mostly for this.”

Ye Jiuyou’s heart skipped a beat.

To protect the things that make him smile like this… but now he’s smiling at me like this.

It’s like saying, “I will also protect you, just like I protect those two children.”

The feeling of being placed in the position of a child is really hard to comprehend. One should naturally feel angry about being belittled, but why does my heart feel all tingly instead?

Ye Jiuyou stuffed the last bit of cotton candy into her mouth and angrily threw away the stick.

How could Ye Wuming eat this stuff? It has no taste, like chewing wax!

“Come, come, this way.” Zhao Changhe suddenly grabbed her hand and pulled her into a shop nearby. Ye Jiuyou stumbled in, looked up at the shop sign: “Yan Zhi Zhai.”

Ye Jiuyou: “?”

Yan Zhi Zhai indeed sells cosmetics, but not just those, there are also many jewels and hairpins.

Zhao Changhe glanced around, dragged Ye Jiuyou to the jewelry counter, and then turned his head to look Ye Jiuyou up and down.

Ye Jiuyou was both embarrassed and annoyed: “What are you doing? I don’t want these things!”

Zhao Changhe looked at her long, straight black hair flowing like clouds and smiled: “I also think you don’t need any ornaments on your head. This natural long black hair is the most beautiful.”

Ye Jiuyou: “…”

Come to think of it, there’s hardly such a hairstyle purely with long, straight black hair in this world. Every woman’s hair has some decoration, even that extremely carefree chivalrous woman like Yue Hongling ties a ponytail. This purely loose long straight hair mostly looks ghostly to others, only this lunatic would say it’s the most beautiful.

“But there can be some jewelry elsewhere…” Zhao Changhe nodded at the counter, signaling to the shopkeeper: “Bring that jade bracelet over for me to see.”

The shopkeeper smiled: “This young master has a good eye. This is the best quality jade in the shop. Look at this luster…”

Zhao Changhe generously tossed a gold brick: “Is this enough?”

The shopkeeper’s eyes nearly popped out: “Of course, plenty.”

Ye Jiuyou was a bit speechless. With Zhao Changhe’s current eyesight, his ability to discern the quality of items undoubtedly surpasses any master in the Worldly Society. The mundane wealth of gold and silver is inexhaustible to him, it’s not worth praising. The fact that he even carries gold and silver is already bizarre, mostly due to the inertia from his early travels in the Worldly Society.

The problem is that she doesn’t need these things at all. Wearing a mundane item on her hand, it would break in a random fight. What’s the point?

If she really needed, it would be better to get a similar treasure that could store items and provide protection… But she’s never been interested, never collected them in the past epoch, and there shouldn’t be new ones this epoch, the resurgence of God Demon just started and has been mostly wiped out by this Zhao in front of her…

Yet here Zhao Changhe took the bracelet, held her wrist, and put it on her: “Logically, you should wear similar treasures. Ying Wu and the palace have quite a few… but those are second-hand, even burial items… I can’t give you those. When we have time in the future, we’ll find and craft our own treasures.”

Ye Jiuyou wanted to say that she has no qualms about burial items, she even plays with corpses herself. But she couldn’t say it, just stared blankly at him putting the jade bracelet on her, her heart in a muddle.

What on earth are you doing? Why give me this?

The smooth, delicate, fair wrist had not a single flaw. If there was one inadequacy, it was its inherent paleness, lacking vibrant blood color. But with this jade bracelet on, it suddenly added a touch of liveliness, making her instantly seem three times more human.

The old shopkeeper was praising: “This young lady indeed has jade-like bones and icy skin, so beautiful. The young master has sharp eyes; this bracelet truly suits the young miss.”

Ye Jiuyou twitched the corners of her mouth, looked up, and asked Zhao Changhe: “What are you doing? Why do I need this?”

Zhao Changhe smiled: “Because it looks nice.”

Ye Jiuyou had to admit it did indeed look nice, particularly suiting her skin: “But why do I need to look nice? What meaning does looking nice have for me?”

“Previously it held no meaning because no one looked at Ye Jiuyou with a gaze appreciating beauty, and Ye Jiuyou also didn’t need others to see her that way.” Zhao Changhe said seriously: “Now, there is.”

Ye Jiuyou got angry: “Why should I let you look?”

Zhao Changhe calmly responded: “Consider it so… when you’re silent before the mirror, you can see a bit of liveliness instead of eternally dead pale.”

Ye Jiuyou’s heart jumped again, forcibly said: “Are you crazy? Who looks at their wrist in the mirror?”

Zhao Changhe laughed, pointed again at the counter: “Shopkeeper, let’s see that set of blue sapphire necklaces.”

Ye Jiuyou: “?”

I’m not asking you for a necklace!

The shopkeeper was even happier, quickly took out the necklace. A big customer indeed! It’s said, looking like some rich playboy pursuing a naïve poor girl, with routine after routine. Yet how can any poor girl have such bearing, such jade-like bones and icy skin, this is truly strange.

Zhao Changhe took the necklace, reached to put it around Ye Jiuyou’s neck.

Ye Jiuyou stepped back half a step, her palm about to hit Zhao Changhe’s chest.

Zhao Changhe knew not to press too hard today, this wasn’t about taking advantage, so he didn’t move forward, simply saying: “Either I’ll put it on, or you put it on yourself.”