Chapter 162: Watching the Sunrise

At the first quarter of the Yin hour, in the sweltering late summer dawn, the sky was just beginning to brighten.

At Wenyuan Academy, on the mountain path of Mustard Mountain, a green silhouette walked step by step over the stone stairs, muttering complaints under her breath.

This person was Li Yu, and she was speechless about Lu Fang asking her to watch the sunrise.

When they returned from the Buddha Kingdom trial grounds, Li Yu and Lu Ling talked a lot, but they were all about Lu Fang. She could feel that Lu Ling was intentionally trying to set her and Lu Fang up.

In fact, Li Yu still had a very good impression of Lu Fang. A man as brilliant as a small sun had made her refresh her understanding time and time again since they first met.

Before, perhaps her feelings for Lu Fang were just a bit of admiration and appreciation.

But ever since she watched the sunrise with Lu Fang at the trial grounds and heard his very obvious confession-like conversation, her feelings for him became complicated.

For example, she wouldn't have cared before that she hadn't been in contact with Lu Fang for a long time and hadn't spoken to him, but now, for some reason, having been back for only two or three days, she felt empty inside.

Yesterday, she received Lu Fang's invitation to Wenyuan Academy to watch the sunrise. She was quite happy at first, but today she got up early and was walking alone on the mountain path, and she felt inexplicably annoyed.

Not sincere at all.

What's so good about watching the sunrise?

How is this different from me watching the sunrise alone?

The more Li Yu thought about it, the more irritable she became. Usually, with her temperament, she wouldn't be this annoyed, but for some reason, she was very annoyed now.

Just as she was feeling irritable, she suddenly heard a voice from ahead: "Yo, what a coincidence? Do you want to watch the sunrise together?"

"Hmm?" Li Yu was stunned for a moment. When she saw Lu Fang in white, holding a large bouquet of red roses, above the stone stairs which had a slight mist, she burst into laughter.

"What are you laughing at?"

Lu Fang raised his eyebrows slightly.

Li Yu tried hard to suppress the smile on her face, but the corners of her mouth couldn't do it. She tilted her head, deliberately not looking at Lu Fang, and said, "I could have had a good sleep today. Little Martial Uncle, what's the matter? Making me come to Wenyuan Academy at this time."

Lu Fang shook his head with a smile, walked towards Li Yu, handed her the large bouquet of flowers in his hand, and said, "For you."

"How strange." Li Yu leaned back slightly, her eyes full of doubt as she looked at Lu Fang, and said, "Why give me flowers? What kind of flowers are these? Why are they wrapped up? But they are quite pretty."

After hesitating for a moment, Li Yu still took the bouquet from Lu Fang's hand. She lowered her head to sniff the flowers and smiled gently, "They smell quite good."

"Let me hold them for you." Lu Fang smiled and reached out his hand.

Li Yu looked confused and smiled, "You clearly gave the flowers to me, and now you want to take them back?" Although she said that, she still handed the flowers over.

"Let me 'help' you hold them for now." Lu Fang took the flowers and smiled, pointing towards the top of the mountain, "Let's go there; the sunrise should be coming out soon."

Li Yu clapped her hands lightly and said, "I feel like there's no need to go; you can see the sunrise standing here."

Lu Fang insisted, "No, didn't you say that? The sunrise seen from the roof of Wenyuan Academy is the most beautiful. Since we're here, wouldn't it be a pity not to go see it?"

Li Yu looked at Lu Fang with a bitter smile, looking like she was asking if he had made a mistake.

Lu Fang asked, "What's wrong?"

Li Yu chuckled and said, "What's wrong? Little Martial Uncle, don't you know? Men and women cannot appear in Wenyuan Academy together."

"Let's go up and try."

Lu Fang smiled and walked upwards. His pace was very slow, but exceptionally firm. Li Yu sighed lightly and took a few quick steps to catch up.

After walking a few steps, Li Yu suddenly discovered that the stone stairs not far away had turned into pure white, flawless clouds. She reminded, "Little Martial Uncle, be careful, the stone stairs in front have turned into clouds."

"Follow up quickly."

Lu Fang said without looking back.

"Oh." Li Yu hesitated, "Little Martial Uncle, you seem to know why? It wouldn't be a trap, would it?"

"Then do you want to come?" Lu Fang smiled lightly.

Li Yu hummed proudly and giggled, "Not afraid of you."

As she stepped onto the cloud-like stone stairs, Li Yu stumbled; these cloud stone stairs were softer than she had imagined.

Lu Fang seemed to have anticipated this, standing there waiting. Seeing her almost fall, he naturally reached out to support her.

"Why are these stone stairs so soft?" Li Yu smiled bitterly.

Lu Fang raised an eyebrow and said, "Do you believe me if I say it was intentional?"

Li Yu coughed twice and pretended not to hear, but her cheeks were flushed, and she was unnaturally tidying her hair.

"Look, what is that?"

Lu Fang pointed ahead.

Li Yu looked up subconsciously upon hearing this, her pupils shrinking violently. She saw that on the cloud stone stairs not far away, a sea of gorgeous flowers appeared, as dazzling as fireworks.

"So beautiful."

Her eyes were shining.

The gorgeous fireworks flashed by in an instant.

Lu Fang smiled, "Are you satisfied with the performance I prepared?"

"What is it? Isn't it just a little anomaly?" Li Yu was almost smiling like a flower, but she was stubborn.

"Let's go." Lu Fang didn't care about her answer at all, grabbed her wrist, and ran towards the cloud stone stairs.

"What are you doing? Why are you running so fast?" Li Yu struggled a few times but couldn't break free, so she simply stopped struggling and let him pull her along as she trotted upwards.

After running for about a few dozen steps, Lu Fang stopped and whistled.

Just as Li Yu was confused, six pure white unicorns pulling a shining carriage came towards them, stepping on colorful clouds.

"This..."

Li Yu couldn't help but cover her mouth and nose with both hands, looked at Lu Fang in surprise, and muttered to herself, "You arranged this too?"

Lu Fang nodded with a smile, "This is an anomaly condensed from Haoran Zhengqi."

A dozen breaths of time.

The unicorn carriage stopped in front of them.

Lu Fang stepped forward, pushed open the carriage door, and made a gesture of invitation, "It is a great honor to watch the sunrise with you today."

Li Yu walked in generously. Once she entered the carriage, she was stunned. The carriage was very spacious, filled with pink flowers everywhere.

"Why is it like a boudoir? Little Martial Uncle, how can you be such a person."

She shook her head with a smile.

Lu Fang stepped into the carriage and smiled, "Don't you like it? Then I'll change the color of the flowers next time? I saw pink flowers in the vase in your room before and thought you liked them."

"It's okay."

Li Yu said insincerely, "Aren't we going to watch the sunrise? Why are we in the carriage now? What are we going to do?"

Lu Fang nodded, "Actually, watching the sunrise isn't important; who you watch the sunrise with is the most important thing." ===== CHAPTER 163 =====