After military training, I haven't started classes yet, and I caught up with the Mid-Autumn Festival. Since it coincided with Saturday and Sunday, we had a three-day holiday.

  Lin Qingyao packed up her things and prepared to head home, thinking that she should cultivate properly for a while. In the past half month, she hadn't had the chance to cultivate, so it was time to do some proper cultivation.

  Lin Qingyao arrived at the entrance of Chengdu University and planned to take a taxi back. As she walked, she feared that it would be dark before she could find one.

  "Drip... drip..." A burst of horn sounded, Lin Qingyao turned her head to look.

  A sports car stopped beside her, and it seemed to be honking at her. Lin Qingyao furrowed her brow, shook her head, thinking she must have been mistaken, and turned to continue walking forward.

  At this moment, the red sports car moved and stopped beside Lin Qingyao. A head popped out of the sunroof, and he leaned against the car door, waving at Lin Qingyao: "Qingyao, it's me!"

  Lin Qingyao saw the man on the car wearing a formal suit and a deep blue tie, and she couldn't help but feel amused. What was this getup? Wearing such formal clothes to drive such a flashy sports car...

  The person in the car took off his sunglasses and smiled at Lin Qingyao: "Qingyao."

  Lin Qingyao smiled and replied: "Shaoye, what a coincidence."

  Shao Jingming's eyebrows jumped slightly. This woman, hadn't she realized that he had come specifically to pick her up?

  However, Shao Jingming was always thick-skinned. At this time, he smiled playfully and said to Lin Qingyao: "I came specifically to pick you up, I don't know if the beautiful lady can get in the car first?"

  When Shao Jingming said this, his face seemed to be written with a few big words: "Get excited, get excited, I can come and pick you up, how honored you are."

  Lin Qingyao found Shao Jingming's behavior quite annoying, but since he had come all the way to drive her, she didn't need to bother taking a taxi. Lin Qingyao wasn't one to be overly polite, so she simply opened the car door and got in.

  Lin Qingyao didn't notice that she had gotten into Shao Jingming's sports car, but someone with ill intentions saw the whole scene and their eyes were filled with anger.

  "Shaoye, you're going in the wrong direction." Lin Qingyao reminded him.

  Shao Jingming burst out laughing and, thinking he looked very handsome, casually tousled his messy hair in front of him before saying: "I didn't say I'd send you home."

  Lin Qingyao rolled her eyes: "Then where are you going to take me?" As for this young master who didn't play by the rules, Lin Qingyao had long been calm about it.

  "Go buy clothes," said Shao Jingming with a smile.

  Pfft... Lin Qingyao almost spat out a mouthful of old blood after hearing this, buying clothes? Was Shao Jingming trying to act out the rich young master and fallen woman trope?

  Lin Qingyao looked down at her own much thinner but still obvious swimsuit, and muttered to herself, "What a heavy taste Shao Jingming has, looking at the current self..."

  Somehow, Lin Qingyao didn't get angry at Shao Jingming's sudden behavior, but instead found it somewhat amusing. She smiled and said: "Young Master Shao, if you're looking for a woman, then you've got the wrong idea."

  Shao Jingming was driving, his foot slipped slightly, and he stepped on the accelerator, the German-imported supercar accelerated quickly, and the sports car suddenly sped up.

  Just as they were about to rear-end, Shao Jingming finally stepped on the brakes.

  Shao Jingming's heart still had lingering fears, and his tone was filled with helplessness as he said: "My aunt, how dare I have designs on you? You don't know, that day when you killed the bat, it brought me such great shock. My admiration for you is like the endless Yangtze River, and my worship for you is just like..."

  Lin Qingyao interrupted Shao Jingming's out-of-tune words and said to him, "Speak up, what is your purpose?" Lin Qingyao also saw it at this time, Shao Jingming was probably thinking of something.

  Sha Jingming was seen through, so he dryly said: "I want you to accompany me to an auction."

  Lin Qingyao raised an eyebrow: "Auction?"

  "Shao Jingming said with a gloomy face: 'You don't know, since that thing happened, I haven't dared to find a woman. This auction is being held together with a party, and...I couldn't possibly go alone, could I? I need a female companion.'"

  Before Lin Qingyao could respond, Shao Jingming blinked his peach blossom eyes, releasing electricity as he pleaded: "Just accompany me, I'm begging you."

  Lin Qingyao was astonished, when did this Shao Da Gongzi lack a female companion? Was the impact of the bat spirit last time too great for him? Did he decide to abandon evil and follow goodness?

  But Lin Qingyao didn't have such a good heart, going to be a shield for Shao Da Gongzi, directly returning: "No time."

  "Qingyao, come with me, and there will be a reward. You can choose any item from the auction goods, I'll give it to you as a gift." Shao Jingming said in a gentle tone.

  Lin Qingyao remained unmoved.

  Shao Jingming had no choice but to play his trump card to attract Lin Qingyao: "This auction, I heard that there are people with hidden motives attending too."

  "What's going on?" This piqued Lin Qingyao's curiosity.

  "Really? Eh, Qingyao, you're not from a hidden sect?" Shao Jingming asked in puzzlement. He didn't know much about the hidden sects either, only that at that time when he was attacked by the vampire bat, he spent a lot of money to investigate and found out that the hidden sect wasn't a single sect but rather a general term for some reclusive cultivation sects that produced "high-ranking individuals" like Lin Qingyao.

  This time he also heard that the people from the hidden door would come to attend this auction.

  Lin Qingyao pondered in her mind for a moment, since Shao Jingming would mistakenly think that she was someone with an ulterior motive, it meant that people with ulterior motives and herself had some common ground. To put it bluntly, it might be the Great Gate of Cultivation, so there was no harm in going to take a look.

  Lin Qingyao looked at Shao Jingming's annoying face and said to him: "Then let's go."

  "We have to go buy clothes first." Shao Jingming emphasized.

  Lin Qingyao smiled: "Is it wrong for me to be like this?"

  Shao Jingming looked at Lin Qingyao and sighed, "It's good that you're willing to go out with me, but if you dress like this, others will think the Shao family has gone bankrupt and can't even afford a woman's formal attire..."

  Lin Qingyao suddenly remembered that attending a banquet required wearing formal attire. She had been away from the Zhao family for too long, and even when she was at the Zhao's, it had already been two years since she last attended any banquets, so she had forgotten about this matter.

  Lin Qingyao nodded and said: "In that case, let's go choose clothes."

  Shao Jingming accelerated with joy, this time, the task entrusted by the old man will surely be completed? He thought happily and couldn't help humming a little tune.