On the way back to her room, Su Aoxue kept her brows furrowed.
As she approached her own door, she couldn’t help but scratch her head. “Every single one of them loves being a riddle speaker. Why…”
After all this time, it wasn’t just her who had a little secret—turns out everyone was a riddle speaker!
“Xiao Qing has been sleeping with Mom. I’ll have her keep an eye on things tomorrow.”
Feeling a bit irritable, Su Aoxue put a little extra force into closing the door when she entered her room.
Shen Yan, who was staying in the room next to Su Aoxue, was startled by the heavy slam.
Coming out of his cultivation state, Shen Yan looked at the small box on the bedside table. “That sound… seems like Xiao Xue is back.”
With that, he picked up the box that had been placed on the bed and headed to Su Aoxue’s room.
Before long, a knock knock sounded.
Su Aoxue, who had been lying spread-eagled on the bed, sat up in confusion.
After opening the door and seeing that it was Shen Yan, she recalled what had happened last night and immediately felt uneasy.
She asked warily, “What do you suddenly want from me?”
“Giving you something that you probably wouldn’t buy even if you lived to a hundred.”
“Wha—”
Before Su Aoxue could react, Shen Yan shoved the box into her hands.
Though the box wasn’t large, it had some weight to it.
“What is this?”
Shen Yan didn’t answer her question. Instead, he said directly, “Go back and figure it out yourself. There should be instructions inside.”
“And be kinder to yourself.”
Then he walked back to his own room, leaving Su Aoxue standing there in a daze.
“‘Be kinder to yourself’? What does that mean?”
“Something I wouldn’t buy even if I lived to a hundred?”
In an instant, Su Aoxue’s curiosity about the small box in her hands peaked.
Once she closed the door, she immediately turned around and crouched down right there, tearing open the box.
The next second, something soft bounced onto her face. “Pfft! What the heck?!”
Wiping her mouth, Su Aoxue looked at whatever had popped out of the box.
“Huh? A pillow? A body pillow?” It looked like a long, blue body pillow.
This left Su Aoxue confused. “This is what Old Shen meant by something I wouldn’t buy?”
“Buying a body pillow counts as being kind to myself?”
Despite her doubts, she carefully examined the other contents of the box.
Maybe she had misjudged Shen Yan?
Just then, she spotted what seemed to be a card inside the box.
“Still troubled by body coldness? Still having trouble sleeping because your body is cold?”
“Then this product is your perfect choice.”
“The body-warming pillow, specially crafted for female Ice Element Awakeners, features five temperature settings, soft and comfortable, warming your every day to come…”
“Specially crafted for female Ice Element Awakeners?!”
“Something to warm the body?”
“Huh? Seriously? Did Old Shen figure something out?”
“Is he hinting at me?”
Su Aoxue’s hand, gripping the card, gradually tightened.
Even her heartbeat began to quicken involuntarily.
She started to feel inexplicably flustered!
Su Aoxue’s mind felt chaotic. ‘Whew, no, calm down, calm down…’
If she had already broken through to the second level of the Visualization Concept, her emotions might not have fluctuated so violently.
After taking a few deep breaths, she slowly started to think.
She began to replay Shen Yan’s words from earlier.
‘No, that’s not right. Old Shen probably didn’t find out that I became a girl, not even in my previous life…’
‘If he had, he wouldn’t have felt so comfortable around me, since between men and women…’
Su Aoxue, who couldn’t figure out the contradictory relationship between men and women, thought for a long time but couldn’t recall the right phrase.
So she shook her head and quickly stopped that train of thought. If she couldn’t figure it out, she’d just stop thinking about it for now!
‘Old Shen said I wouldn’t buy it, probably because this thing is specially made for female Ice Element Awakeners, and he thinks I’m too embarrassed to buy something like that?’
‘Maybe this is just a coincidence?’
Thinking that way, Su Aoxue suddenly felt everything made sense.
‘If this thing was really made for that reason, I probably wouldn’t have bought it after all.’ Su Aoxue looked at the blue body pillow lying on the floor and didn’t know what to do.
In a daze, the phrase ‘be kinder to yourself’ suddenly flashed through her mind. ‘Be kinder to yourself?’
Muttering, Su Aoxue picked up the pillow from the floor, searched around, and found a knob.
She set it to level 3, then went to shower.
When she came out again, Su Aoxue had changed into the bathrobe from the bathroom.
Her two prominent mounds stretched the robe wide; the collar was slightly open, revealing a hint of cleavage.
This was the first time since she became a girl that she had fully relaxed her body after a bath.
Running one hand through her wet hair, Su Aoxue walked barefoot across the carpet to the bed, reached out, and gently stroked the blue pillow lying there.
“It’s warm… actually not bad?”
While she was drying her hair with a hair dryer, Su Aoxue suddenly heard the knocking again.
The knock knock seemed to strike directly at her heart, making her heart race uncontrollably.
“What do I do? Who could be coming for me at this hour?!”
One hand pressed against her chest, Su Aoxue spoke anxiously.
Just then, Ling Feng’s voice came from outside. “It’s me! Hurry up and open the door!”
Hearing it was Ling Feng, Su Aoxue rushed to the door and peered through the peephole to ‘monitor’ for a moment.
Seeing that it was only Ling Feng, Su Aoxue immediately opened the door.
Not giving Ling Feng time to react, she pulled her straight into the room and locked the door behind them.
When Su Aoxue turned around, she saw Ling Feng standing there with her arms crossed, a knowing smile fixed on Su Aoxue.
More precisely, on Su Aoxue’s chest.
“Oh, no wonder you were in such a hurry. You’re not wearing a chest binding, huh?”
Su Aoxue shyly covered herself. “Stop laughing, Sister Ling Feng. Did you suddenly come looking for me about something?”
“Nothing major, but it does affect you.”
Hearing this, Su Aoxue’s expression instantly turned serious. “What is it?”
Seeing Su Aoxue so tense, Ling Feng reached out and pinched her cheeks.
“Don’t be so serious about everything. Actually, it’s not that big a deal. You know that girls have their period every month, right?”
“Know?”