035 Push-ups, Shyness, Supermarket
Saturday, 8 a.m.
As usual, Qin Ren forcefully pried the small arms and legs wrapped around him, got out of bed, stuffed a pillow into the Pixiu’s arms, put on his sweatpants, and went to the balcony bare-chested.
“Morning.”
There was already someone on the balcony. Yu Yourong, sitting cross-legged on the yoga mat, her ears twitched. She slowly opened her eyes, turned her head, and her smooth, self-combed ponytail swayed gently behind her.
“Morning, Qin Ren.”
After living at his home for a few days, Qin Ren discovered that Yu Yourong had a habit of morning exercise.
But unlike him, who occasionally did push-ups on the weekend, Yu Yourong’s was the proper meditation of a cultivator.
Full lotus position, spine straight, shoulders back, head centered, hands in a meditation mudra below her navel, eyes slightly closed, tongue touching the upper palate.
Although her spiritual power was gone and she couldn’t absorb spiritual energy, Yu Yourong, who had entered the Dao with her body, still had her internal energy. So every day, she would first do breathing exercises like this. After the breathing exercises, she would go with Luo Yao to learn and observe the surroundings.
“You’re doing morning exercises too?” Yu Yourong looked at the bare-chested Qin Ren.
“Yeah, but I don’t meditate. I just do some push-ups to go through the motions.”
“Oh, foundation building…” Yu Yourong had her own understanding.
The yoga mat was lent to Yu Yourong by Qin Ren. Now that Qin Ren was also going to do his morning exercises, Yu Yourong stood up and gave it to him. Her fair, jade-like feet took two steps on the yoga mat, slipped into the pair of blue slippers that Cheng Siyun had left behind, and she walked to the coffee table, brought over a small stool, and sat down.
“Uh… you’re going to watch me?” Qin Ren got down. The yoga mat the girl had just been meditating on was still slightly warm.
“Mhm, I can help you correct your form.”
Qin Ren had taken her in, cooked delicious meals for her, given her a comfortable sofa to sleep on, and was even going to buy things for her. Yu Yourong felt that she should repay him in any small way she could.
For example, she had wanted to help Qin Ren with the dishes a couple of days ago.
But a certain Pixiu had become uncharacteristically diligent and insisted on doing them herself, so Yu Yourong had to give up.
Now, being able to give him some pointers on his push-ups, Yu Yourong thought, was also a form of repayment.
However, she soon discovered that push-ups on Earth were different from those on the Myriad Demon Continent.
“Your push-ups, you have to use your hands?”
“?”
Qin Ren lost his balance and fell onto the yoga mat. He turned his face and stared at Yu Yourong in shock.
“You don’t?”
“Mhm.”
Yu Yourong nodded and easily demonstrated a few push-ups with her hands behind her back, using only her feet. It was like an enhanced version of Michael Jackson’s 45-degree lean. Qin Ren’s eyes nearly popped out.
“You… you really don’t have any spiritual power?”
“No need for spiritual power. Just simple muscle control.”
“…”
Muscle control was spoken of so lightly by a snake clan cultivator. Qin Ren naturally couldn’t let her correct his push-ups anymore. He just started doing them his usual way.
“Fifteen, sixteen…”
Qin Ren had a habit of counting as he did them, just like some people like to write tally marks on their legs.
Yu Yourong sat on the small stool and watched for a while. As she watched, her attention gradually shifted from Qin Ren’s movements to his body.
Broad shoulders, strong arms, a firm waist and abdomen, the beads of sweat hanging on them…
The Flowing Cloud Sect’s snake clan was all female disciples. Yu Yourong had followed her master in cultivation for many years and had only seen some male mortals and other demon races when she went down the mountain for training. This was the first time she had observed a male mortal’s body at such a close distance.
Seeing Qin Ren’s body move up and down, his face flushed and breathing heavily, Yu Yourong couldn’t help but think of the time he had touched her reverse scale. Her hand subconsciously went to the spot below her navel, only to find that her reverse scale was actually slightly hot at this moment…
“Fifty!”
Qin Ren finished his fifty push-ups. He got up and saw, to his surprise, that classmate Yu Yourong was looking at herself in the small mirror on the coffee table.
“Got a pimple?” Qin Ren teased casually, because seeing the girl in this school uniform always made him subconsciously think of her as an active duty JK.
“No.”
Yu Yourong didn’t even know what a pimple was. She just hesitated and asked in a low voice.
“Qin Ren, my face… is it a little red…”
“It is a little. You don’t have a fever, do you?”
Qin Ren walked over to take a look, frowning slightly. He placed the back of his hand on her forehead.
“It’s not a fever, just your face… huh? It’s even redder?”
“…”
Yu Yourong was a little dazed and a little flustered. She stared at Qin Ren for a while, then suddenly turned her head away.
Qin Ren was stunned. He looked at his own bare upper body and guessed suspiciously.
“Are you shy?”
Yu Yourong didn’t speak. She turned her face back, nodded, and then turned away again.
Qin Ren went to the bedroom and put on a T-shirt. He came out and spread his hands.
“How about now?”
“It’s fine now.”
Classmate Yu Yourong returned to her usual quiet and calm demeanor. Qin Ren found it quite amazing.
“I know you were surrounded by women before. Mmm… you’ll get used to it slowly.”
“Mhm.”
———————
Today was the day to get daily necessities for Yu Yourong. The new RT-Mart that Qin Ren had been following would definitely be swarmed with uncles and aunties very early. So after breakfast, the family of three quickly set off.
“Qin Ren, this eminence wants to choose my own underwear this time.”
“When did I ever promise to buy things for you too…”
Luo Yao didn’t care, couldn’t hear. She stuffed her little hand into Qin Ren’s big one and continued to make demands on the way.
“The ones you bought for me are too childish. Little strawberries, little cherries, not domineering enough. This eminence wants to buy domineering ones this time… and for snacks, buy double portions of Want Want Little Crisps and Coke. It’s more auspicious…”
The greedy Pixiu chattered like she was chanting a spell, so absent-minded that she didn’t even look at the road. Anyway, Qin Ren was holding her hand tightly. As long as Qin Ren pulled, she just had to move her little feet.
…
When they arrived at the supermarket, it was, as expected, overcrowded.
50% off storewide, 40% off in the daily necessities section.
Such a temptation was not only attractive to uncles and aunties, but also to many young people.
If nothing else, classmate Yu Yourong, who was not familiar with the supermarket layout, had almost gotten lost twice in the crowd within the first five minutes of entering.
“Yourong—over here—… hiss!”
Qin Ren waved his arm at the somewhat dazed Yu Yourong in the crowd not far away. The other hand, holding Luo Yao’s, suddenly felt a pain in the web between his thumb and index finger. He looked down and saw Luo Yao biting him with her little white teeth.
“What are you doing, you unlucky kid? Are you going to transform and eat people?”
“Hmph…”
Luo Yao couldn’t be bothered to explain. She turned her little face away with a whimper and went to look at the ants on the ground.
Yourong, Yourong…
How many days has Qin Ren even known that random woman?
The High Immortal has been by his side for so long, and she’s never seen him call her Yaoyao a few more times…
A little girl’s thoughts were hard to guess. Qin Ren didn’t bother with her anymore. After summoning Yu Yourong to his side, he looked at the festive atmosphere around them, instructed her to hold onto the corner of his shirt, and then started to shop with the cart.
He was heading towards the daily necessities section, but the most conspicuous things at the entrance of a supermarket are usually all kinds of food and drinks. This led to the shopping cart being filled with all sorts of miscellaneous things scraped up by Luo Yao before they had gone far.
Including a lemon, a bag of Pu’er tea, a bottle of Hubang chili sauce, a box of green tea flavored xylitol, and a bag of turkey-flavored rice crisps.
“Qin Ren.”
Even Yu Yourong couldn’t help but whisper to Qin Ren.
“Luo Yao seems to be putting things in the cart. Is that okay?”
“It’s fine.”
Qin Ren had already anticipated this.
“This cart is just for her to play with. Let her mess around. When she’s done filling it up, we’ll just swap the cart and let her cry over it.”
“I see…”
Yu Yourong suddenly felt that Qin Ren was so clever.
Sigh, if only Master were as smart as Qin Ren…
