Chapter 25: Thin?

  "Chengyuan, where did you get this from? One look and I can tell it's a fake. The craftsmanship is so rough, it's probably made by an amateur."

  Li Zhen said: "Is this made of jade? How can there be such strange jades, with red, black, blue and white ones. Although I have heard of red jade, ink jade and white jade, they don't seem to be like this. This one looks like it's man-made no matter how you look at it, and I've never heard of a blue jade stone either."

  Cheng Youli said: "Lan Yuemei and Lan Baoshi are indeed here."

  Yu Zhuo said: "Cheng Yuan must have been deceived by someone, let's go find him and settle the account."

  The four of them finished speaking and looked at Zhang Chengyuan, waiting for him to recount how he was deceived.

  Zhang Chengyuan shook his head, a bit dejected, and said: "This jade pendant wasn't bought, it was carved by me myself. The color was also dyed by the jade shop at my request. My family's wealth is modest, where can I afford to buy various high-quality natural jades with uniform colors? I had to rely on artificial processing. This is a small token of my sincerity, please don't despise it, four sisters."

  Lee Hyori widened her eyes, glanced at Jang Sung-won and said, "You think this is enough? You're too cheap! If you make a lot of money later, buy me the best one." While saying that, she put the necklace on her white neck and turned to look at Yu Jaehwan and others, then said, "How's it? Isn't it pretty?"

  Yu Zhuohuan, Li Zhen, and Cheng Youli chimed in: "Not bad, I'll try it on too." Originally, they didn't think this small gift was anything special, but since Zhang Chengyuan gave it to them, they became interested in wearing it. As soon as they put it on, they immediately felt a warm, comfortable, and refreshing sensation that touched their hearts, and they all started to feel delighted.

  To be honest, Zhang Chengyuan didn't have much artistic talent, and the necklaces he made were not very visually appealing. Even Zhang Chengyuan himself felt that they couldn't match up to the beauty and status of the four girls. Seeing them not being picky at all, he was deeply moved, and his eyes became slightly moist. After cultivating for so long, the only thing he still found hard to let go of was "affection" - familial affection, friendship, or romantic love.

  The four girls giggled and admired each other for a while, when suddenly, Sung Yu-ri exclaimed in surprise: "Hey! Hyori's fox has nine tails!" They counted again and indeed it had nine tails. Lee Hyori immediately called out unhappily: "Sung Yu-ri, why did you give me a jade pendant carved with a nine-tailed fox that eats human hearts and livers from legend, while the other three are cute animals like black bears, penguins, and white swans? Do you think I'm the worst to you?"

  Yu Zhuo said, "What's wrong with the nine-tailed fox? At least it shows you're very charming and can capture people's hearts. Unlike me, this black bear, chubby and all, they must think I'm fatter, that's why they gave me this."

  Li Zhen said: "This penguin is not good either, walking on the road like a wooden puppet, must be mocking my poor dance skills. Still, Yu Li's white swan is the best, both beautiful and pure." As soon as they thought of Li Zhen's nickname "wooden man", the other three girls burst out laughing, causing Li Zhen to take revenge with several punches on Zhang Chengyuan's shoulder.

  Those few punches didn't hurt Zhang Chengyuan, but he quickly pretended to be pitiful and fell down. Li Zhen, who had no ill intentions, immediately softened and let him off, even comforting him by stroking his back for a while.

  At this time, Sung Yu-ri also said with a bit of dissatisfaction: "What's good about being a white swan? Every day there are toads who want to eat it up, I don't want to be pestered by men every day."

  The four women began to scold Zhang Chengyuan's "evil intentions" one after another, saying that Zhang Chengyuan didn't even dare to lift his head, and in his heart he exclaimed: "Confucius was right, it's really difficult to raise girls!" But he didn't dare to refute a single sentence, fearing that the four sisters would launch an even stronger verbal attack.

  Enduring the scolding of the four sisters for a while, Zhang Chengyuan couldn't help but feel impatient. With a sudden thought, the true energy in the four jade pendants began to stir.

  Right after that, the four women only felt a warm flow in their bodies rising from their lower abdomen, automatically circulating along the route taught by Zhang Chengyuan. It turned out that Zhang Chengyuan knew that Li Xiaoli and others were busy with work and didn't have time to practice step by step, so he came up with this method, wanting to use his own true energy to activate the true energy he had previously given to the four women, making it automatically circulate and grow stronger, and when the time comes, strengthening their bodies and delaying aging would be a natural result.

  As soon as the true energy merged, the four women couldn't help but stop blaming Zhang Chengyuan anymore. One by one, they hastily closed their eyes to feel the circulation of the true energy. After a while, seeing that there was no problem inside their bodies, they finally felt at ease and looked at Zhang Chengyuan, asking: "Chengyuan, I feel that there is a flow of true energy in this jade pendant that resonates with the true energy in my body, making the true energy in my body become active and circulate automatically. What's going on?"

  Zhang Chengyuan explained: "The true energy in the jade pendant and the true energy in your bodies are all from my body, sharing the same root and origin. Naturally, there will be a kind of inexplicable connection between them, just like the feeling of being connected by blood between parent and child. Its existence is to make it easier and faster for you to enter a state of cultivation, and even allow the true energy in your bodies to run automatically after you fall asleep, so that you can improve your cultivation as soon as possible without delaying your work or rest time."

  Yu Zhuo Xuan asked: "Then how should we activate the true energy within this jade pendant?"

  "There are two methods. One is that I will activate it for you, just like what you felt earlier. The other is that you can activate it yourself by hanging this jade pendant around your neck or grasping it in your hand and concentrating your mind on it, the true energy will naturally be activated."

  Li Zhen: "So it was you who played a trick on us earlier! You scared us half to death! You deserve a beating!"

  Lee Hyori, Ok Joo-hyun, and Sung Yu-ri: "He really deserves a beating. He's getting more and more impudent, even daring to fool around with the sisters! Let's get him together!"

  Lee Hyori poked Zhang Chengyuan's forehead with her fingers, Yu Zhen went to pat Zhang Chengyuan's chest, Li Zhen followed up by knocking on his back, and Seungri took the opportunity to pinch Zhang Chengyuan's face, which made her envy extremely, even smoother and more delicate than hers, and she couldn't help but gently bite Zhang Chengyuan's face.

  In fact, Sung Yu-ri had wanted to do this for a long time, but in the past, she wasn't as close with Jang Sung-won as she is now, so she felt a bit embarrassed and didn't have the opportunity. Now, for some reason, she naturally did something intimate. It's only natural that people have such desires, it's not surprising. The strange thing is that Jang Sung-won looks too good in Sung Yu-ri's eyes, and he put away his usual cold expression in front of her sisters, looking exceptionally handsome and cute, making Sung Yu-ri unable to resist the temptation and do what she wanted to do deep down. It's like when some adults see a very cute child, they often have the desire to lightly bite them a few times.

  However, Zhang Chengyuan grew up and was treated like this for the first time. He was stunned by Seung-yi's sudden kiss, staring blankly at her with his eyes wide open. Lee Hyo-ri, Ok Joo-hyun, and Lee Jin also saw Seung-yi's actions and were momentarily stunned, then burst out laughing: "Oh! Yoori likes..."

  Cheng Youli's face had already turned red, and she was bright red when she realized what she had done. She stammered: "I didn't... I didn't! Don't talk nonsense." Jumping up, she ran to the other side of the sofa and sat down sideways, not even daring to look at anyone else.

  Lee Hyori said in a strange tone: "Seung Won, this is Yoo Ri's first kiss, you're lucky."

  "Where is it? Didn't even touch lips." The voice got lower and lower, the expression also somewhat unhappy.

  Yu Zhuo Huan said with a smile, "Cheng Yuan is indeed too handsome and cute, I even want to kiss him. It's normal for Yu Li to do so." Upon hearing this, Cheng Yu Li's face slightly cleared up. Li Zhen and Li Xiao Li also took a glance at Zhang Cheng Yuan and nodded in agreement.

  Lee Hyori suddenly bent down and gave Jang Sung-won a big kiss on the cheek, then sighed and said: "Oh! I suppose in a year or two, when Sung-won grows up, he won't be as cute as he is now. It's good that Yoo-ri has a good eye to seize the opportunity."

  Seeing Lee Hyori show up like this, everyone wasn't that surprised because they all knew that this older sister's behavior would sometimes be so direct and straightforward that it would leave people speechless. Moreover, even more outrageous things had already been done before, so something as minor as a kiss on the cheek was hardly worth mentioning.

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