Taoist Master and the Cat - Chapter 93

While handing the roses to Xie Jingyuan, she said regretfully, “These flowers are very beautiful, but they don’t smell good.”

Xie Jingyuan: “…”

He held the bouquet stiffly, and glanced at the passers-by. Everyone looked at them. There were even a few young women who were moving together pointing at him and Su Miaomiao11miao while happily discussing something.

Xie Jingyuan silently looked away.

In fact, that was not the first Valentine’s Day he and Su Miaomiao11miao spent together.

During elementary school, they often went out with the old lady. When they entered junior high school, Cheng Yue and the others would ask him out with Su Miaomiao11miao, including on Valentine’s Day.

Maybe when they were young at that time, adults would not misunderstand it as puppy love, but since they were high school students…

On February 14th, Xie Jingyuan deliberately remembered the date, and decided that he would never go out with Su Miaomiao11miao on that day every year.

In the gaming room, Su Miaomiao11miao exchanged the game coins and went to the claw machine again.

Xie Jingyuan held flowers in one hand and put his other hand in his pocket, watching her play absent-mindedly.

“Wow, you got it!” A girl’s excited voice came from another claw machine, and the two looked over at the same time. The girl in a skirt happily clung to her boyfriend’s neck and kissed him on the lips. The boy grabbed the back of her head as they continued to kiss.

Su Miaomiao11miao was still watching, when Xie Jingyuan suddenly raised his hand and tapped the top of her head, letting her turn her around.

Su Miaomiao11miao sneaked another look, then whispered to him, “Taoist Master, are they also high school students?”

Xie Jingyuan: “I don’t know.”

Su Miaomiao11miao: “I think so, didn’t you say that puppy love is not allowed in high school?”

Xie Jingyuan: “There are always people who like to break the rules, and they will bear the consequences themselves in the future.”

 What he said was so serious that Su Miaomiao11miao didn’t think about it anymore, anyway, she wouldn’t fall in love so early.

After grabbing a bunch of dolls, Xie Jingyuan went to the front desk and asked for a shopping bag, the kind with a white logo printed on it, nothing more than ordinary.

Dolls could be taken home, but roses were a problem.

When passing a trash can, Xie Jingyuan said to Su Miaomiao11miao, “This kind of flower is not fragrant, do you still want to take it back?”

Su Miaomiao11miao: “Mom likes roses the most. Every time dad gives her roses, she is very happy.”

Xie Jingyuan: “If uncle and aunt ask you where the roses came from, how would you explain?”

Just as Su Miaomiao11miao was about to say that it was from the jewelry store, she suddenly remembered that her parents didn’t want her to accept such an expensive gift. With a turn of her gaze, Su Miaomiao11miao grabbed the roses and put them on top of the trash can, placing them vertically like a decoration on the trash can.

“Let’s go,” Su Miaomiao11miao clapped her hands with a sly look on her face as she thought she was smart.

Xie Jingyuan took another look at the roses before catching up to her.

Back home, Su Miaomiao11miao put the two diamond bracelets into the safe.

She didn’t want her parents to see the one that the Taoist master gave her, and couldn’t let Gu Jialing who was about to return to school see it or the stinky bird would scold her in front of the Taoist master.

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The new semester started, and the students only saw the final exam results of the previous semester.

Xie Jingyuan was still first in both class and grade, Xu Shou was second in class and third in grade, and successfully regained his original ranking.

Gu Jialing made the most progress, squeezed into the top 20 in the class, and narrowly ranked 58th in the grade. In the next exam, he would be taking the exams in classroom one.

Su Miaomiao11miao’s ranking was actually the same as the midterm exam.

Having already experienced Su Miaomiao11miao’s concern about grades, Gu Jialing did not dare to show off.

Xie Jingyuan affirmed Su Miaomiao11miao’s performance, “You have training, so it’s already very good to be able to maintain your grades.”

How could a mere sentence appease Su Miaomiao11miao’s disappointment? She looked at Xie Jingyuan anxiously, and stretched out two fingers.

After eating in the cafeteria at noon, Xie Jingyuan took her to the school supermarket to buy two ice creams.

There were no special school activities that semester, and there was no long holiday like National Day. The students were all immersed in the textbook test questions.

Before they knew it, it was April.

April twenty-second was Friday.

After evening self-study and school, the group of four met downstairs in the teaching building and walked to the school gate together.

“Taoist Master, our birthday is on Monday, so why not celebrate it this weekend?” Gu Jialing walked backward with his hands in his pockets, looking expectantly at Xie Jingyuan who was walking between Xu Shou and Su Miaomiao11miao.

As early as when they reunited, the four members of Qingxu Temple discovered that their birthdays were actually on the same day, which showed that there was a destiny.

Su Miaomiao11miao said first, “I want a birthday gift, I can’t just eat a meal and make do.”

The Taoist master said that he would only give her gifts twice a year, and he gave her the one that was an exception that year, leaving only the birthday gift.

Gu Jialing immediately said, “I want one too, you can’t be partial, what you give me can’t be cheaper than what you give her.”

Xu Shou looked at them coldly, “Birthday gifts are given to each other. What will you give the Taoist master?”

Su Miaomiao11miao whispered, “Taoist master doesn’t need anything. He doesn’t like birthday gifts either.”

When she was two years old, she kissed Xie Jingyuan as a birthday gift, but he was disgusted by her.

On her third birthday, Su Miaomiao11miao climbed onto the desk in the study room at home, wanting to pick a book from the bookcase to give to Xie Jingyuan, but because the human body was not so dexterous, she accidentally fell off the desk and her forehead had a big bulge. After Xie Jingyuan found out, he said that he didn’t like gifts, and she did not need to give him any more in the future.