Shen Liyan woke up? Even earlier than him. He was just pretending to be asleep, just like he pretended to be drunk last night.
He watched Lin Yunsi lie on the bed for a while, then sit up and curl himself up with a small quilt in the corner of the bed, like a little mushroom facing the wall and deceiving himself.
Shen Liyan couldn't help himself and went up to touch him. Lin Yunsi didn't move. Then Shen Liyan hugged him and the blanket and asked him, "What's wrong?"
"We...we..." Lin Yunsi didn't dare to look at him, "We...last night, that..."
He really finds it difficult to talk about this.
But Shen Liyan looked calm, touched his earlobe, and said, "It's okay, doesn't Yun Si feel comfortable?"
Lin Yunsi thought about it and realized that it was indeed possible, but the relationship between the two of them always felt a bit weird.
"As long as you feel comfortable, Yunsi, didn't we agree that we would treat you better after we got married? Then isn't it natural for us to be closer?" Shen Liyan said, "I was drunk yesterday and couldn't control my movements. I apologize to you. I will be gentler in the future. If you feel uncomfortable, I promise to stop."
This person's attitude is very good, but Lin Yunsi feels that there is something wrong with the words. How come he has decided everything that will happen in the future
But Shen Liyan didn't give him a chance to speak again. He got out of bed and poured him a glass of water, then found him some clothes to change. Soon, he brought in breakfast, which was all Lin Yunsi's favorite food.
Then the topic was never brought up again, and the two of them continued to live in this muddled state.
After the fake marriage, Shen Liyan treated him better and better as he promised at the beginning, and was very attentive to him. No one else had his ability.
The Shen family was also very good to him. The old man of the Shen family treated him even better than Li Yan, and taught him all his skills in alchemy. To say that he didn't benefit from it? That would be a lie.
Lin Yunsi is not the kind of person who is ungrateful. If someone is truly good to him, he will repay them double, so he will naturally remember these kindnesses in his heart.
So he was very careful to maintain the appearance of a fake marriage, for fear of being discovered by outsiders.
Therefore, because of the engagement, sometimes they need to hold hands or show some intimacy outside, and Lin Yunsi has become very skilled. To the extent that the distance between him and the other party is getting smaller and smaller, and he has become accustomed to doing certain things more and more.
Shen Liyan's method of boiling a frog in warm water does have some effect. Seeing that he has the person in his mouth, Lin Yunsi is becoming less and less disgusted by his excessive demands. It won't be long before they have a mutual understanding, and he will be able to really eat the person in his mouth.
Just at this critical juncture, a small accident happened.
After Shen Liyan became the young master, he had to take care of the Shen family's affairs. His seat in the alliance was still there, and his subordinates would only have more and more things to do. Lin Yunsi was also the chief of Diemeng. He had to train apprentices in the pharmacy, and he had to handle the affairs of the elixir and the Beizhou Alchemist Association.
Both of them were busy, so they had to be apart sometimes. The longest time was because of a troublesome matter. Lin Yunsi stayed in Beizhou for half a month. When he came to the Nanzhou Alliance to find Shen Liyan, he heard some rumors when he turned around.
—It is said that Shen Liyan has a new person by his side, who has been following him all this time in the alliance and giving him personal guidance, so they must have a close relationship.
Lin Yunsi knew that person, Qu Nanwan, who was born in the Qu family of Dongzhou. In the spiritual world, this family was also a well-known family of alchemists, and had a decent talent in alchemy.
Because the Qu family had a close relationship with the master chef of the Lin family's alchemy shop, this chef had come to live in the Lin family for more than half a year when he was a child, and stayed in the same alchemy room with Lin Yunsi, but the two were not playmates. When he was a child, Lin Yunsi always felt that the other party was a little weird. In short, his mind was not on refining medicine, so he did not have a close relationship with him, and they never had any intersection again after that.
I didn't expect that the next time I heard his name, it was related to Li Yan. However, when Lin Yunsi first heard it, he didn't think much about it. With Shen Liyan's current status and responsibilities, it is only natural for him to give guidance to other alchemists in the alliance.
He knew Li Yan's personality very well. He never said a word to people he didn't know, so he wouldn't doubt them for no reason.
But that time when he was brought over by the servant, before he even opened his mouth or showed his face, he saw two people alone together through a window that was just slightly open at the corner.
Qu Nanwan was two years younger than him, but his face was really good-looking. Unlike Lin Yunsi's baby fat that made it hard to tell his age, he was just the right amount of thin and frail, and looked very lovable. He started talking to Li Yan, and when Lin Yunsi came over, he just heard the last sentence: "... Then the young master of the Shen family can come to my room tomorrow."
Shen Liyan responded, and Lin Yunsi saw that he nodded.
If it was just ordinary advice, why did he need to go to the room? Li Yan was never the type to get close to people.
Maybe the two of them went to the room just to discuss important matters, but when Lin Yunsi looked over, Shen Liyan's actions made his heart sink.
He is cleaning the ashes from the stove.
Li Yan has his own special medicine cauldron, which is obviously the one used by Qu Nanwan after refining medicine. There are some dirty traces of ash on his face. He looks focused and serious, and did not notice the movement of someone walking outside.
Blocked by the tilted medicine cauldron, Lin Yunsi could only see the figures of two people as if they were overlapping.
For alchemists, cleaning the ash is not something that everyone can do. Shen Liyan has done it for Lin Yunsi, apart from himself, but now he does it less.
At that time, Lin Yunsi had spent who knows how long to get along with him to gain such a relationship. Now, the extremely noble young master of the Shen family is willing to do such a thing for Qu Nanwan, a girl she has just met. There is no need to ask about the meaning behind this.
Lin Yunsi didn't even go in. He stood there for a while, then turned around and left. He just felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, but he couldn't tell what made him uncomfortable.
Almost all of his energy in life was focused on refining medicine. He had developed aversion to things like love very early on and was really ignorant in this regard. He was also completely devoted to the people he trusted, and he believed everything Shen Liyan said.
He believed what the other party said: close brothers can do that, so much so that now he still can't tell whether it is jealousy. He feels that he should go to Shen Liyan to ask for an explanation, but at the same time he feels that he doesn't seem to have the position to do so.
The marriage was fake, how could he care? Who was the other party? Who did he really like? I was afraid that it would be even more embarrassing if he told the truth.
Not long after, Lin Qinghen, who was staying in Beizhou, saw Lin Yunsi come back. Compared with the excitement when she left to meet Shen Liyan, she couldn't stop crying when she came back. It was really rare.
"Who bullied you?" Lin Qinghen asked seriously, "Tell me, and I will go and take care of them for you."
Lin Yunsi has always been a good child, with a soft exterior but a tough interior. He has never seen such a miserable time before.
When he said this, Lin Yunsi couldn't stop crying. She buried her head in his shoulder, rubbing the moisture on Lin Qinghen's clothes. She choked and said, "No one bullied me. I just, just... I don't know what I'm thinking."
Then he told Lin Qinghen everything that had just happened. Lin Qinghen's brows furrowed more and more as he listened to him.
"Shen Liyan dares to cheat?"
If it was someone else, Lin Qinghen would have gone to pick him up in the morning, but since they had known each other for a long time, he felt that based on his understanding, Li Yan should not be such a person, so he asked again, "Have you gone in to ask? You can't just watch this part, you have to know the whole story."
Lin Yunsi lowered his head and shook it. Seeing his reaction, Lin Qinghen felt that this matter was becoming more and more strange.
According to Lin Yunsi's personality, he would rush in to ask for an explanation no matter what. He was not the kind of person who would keep things to himself and feel sorry for himself. After listening to the other party's detailed explanation, he finally understood what was going on.
"Fake marriage?! No... you guys are fake?"
Even Lin Qinghen only found out about this now.
The main reason was that it took a long time for his Pure Heaven Soul to merge. In recent years, he occasionally had to take a ten-day retreat. It just happened to coincide with the wedding of Lin Yunsi and Shen Liyan. After he came out of retreat, he even held the ceremony. Lin Qinghen didn't think much about it at the time. He always thought that the two people were in love with each other. Although it was a bit hasty, the two people looked very sweet after marriage. How could he care about whether it was true or not
It was not until he heard the whole story that Lin Qinghen, as a bystander, understood clearly.
"Silly Yunsi, you've been fooled by him. How can the young master of the Shen family have such a rule? Everyone relies on their own abilities," Lin Qinghen said helplessly, "You and he obviously like each other, so why can't you ask? Why go around in such a big circle?"
Lin Yunsi was also stunned. He sniffed and immediately stopped crying.
Lin Qinghen looked at him and seemed to have gone over the matter in his mind. He finally figured it out and his expression changed.
"He dared to lie to me?!" He gritted his teeth, "Okay, give it to me? Wait!"
First he cheated and deceived others, then he fell in love with someone else. He has really become more capable. Why didn't he do that before? How could he see it
At this moment, Shen Liyan had no idea that the frog in the boiling water had turned into a frog in the boiling water. He had been planning to make things clearer in the near future to bring his relationship with Yun Si closer.
Naqu Nanwan said that he and Yunsi were an old acquaintance from childhood, and knew some of Lin Yunsi's hobbies and habits that few people knew about. He did live in the Lin family for a period of time. Lin Yunsi was a loner when he was a child and was not close to his parents. It was always difficult for Shen Liyan to get to know him better. Now that he had such a person, he naturally had to ask more questions so that he could have some new ideas to coax Yunsi in the future.
But Qu Nanwan is really an unpleasant person. If it wasn't for a little information about Lin Yunsi, Shen Liyan would not say a word to such a person. He is not even skilled in refining medicine, which is a waste of the Qu family's talent.
The seven or eight medicine cauldrons in the alliance's pharmacy were all donated by Yun Si two years ago. They were the first batch of finished products he made when he followed Lin Qinghen to research and improve the medicine cauldrons. They took a lot of thought and were very precious.
The other students were all using their medicine cauldrons just fine, except Qu Nanyuan, who caused his furnace to explode while refining an earth-grade elixir. He was also clumsy when taking out the ash from the furnace and almost broke Yun Si's medicine cauldron. Shen Liyan couldn't bear it, so he pushed him aside and tried to fix it himself. It took him quite some time to finally save the cauldron, but at least it wasn't broken.
Now he was watching the sky getting darker, feeling a little strange.
Didn’t we agree that the matter could be dealt with today? Has Yun Si not arrived yet