The Daughter of the Enchanted in the Modern Age

Chapter 186

Xia Wanyuan turned to look at Jun Shiling. In the past, Jun Shiling would always make a fuss because he called her Sister Wanyuan. Today, she was surprisingly silent as she looked out the window, which made Xia Wanyuan a little uncomfortable.

“He was looking for me because the old mistress of the Wei family wanted to meet me,” Xia Wanyuan suddenly said as if she was thinking of something.

“Mm.”

“He told me that there might be another reason for my mother's death.”

“Mm.” 

Jun Shiling was still looking out the window and did not turn around.

“Wei Zimu gave me the fan. It's pretty cool. I feel she really treats me as her sister, the type of person close to her family, although I don't know why she treats me so well.”

“Mm.” 

Jun Shiling's aura gradually softened under Xia Wanyuan's words.

Xia Wanyuan looked at Jun Shiling's cold side profile, not knowing how to continue the conversation. At that moment, Jun Shiling turned around and looked at Xia Wanyuan with a deep gaze.

“Stupid, I never really get angry. I'm just teasing you. I believe you." Jun Shiling stopped, as if he had used all his courage to speak.

“Even if you don't choose me in the end, I will trust you. I will always respect your choice.”

Xia Wanyuan's heart skipped a beat. With a smile on his face, he took the initiative to reach out to Jun Shiling for the first time. "Hugging."

Jun Shiling had mentally prepared himself outside the dining room for an entire hour before he finally built a high mental defense. It collapsed under Xia Wanyuan's gentle "hug.

Only then did Jun Shiling release his hand that had already formed fingerprints and tightly hug Xia Wanyuan.

In a place where Xia Wanyuan could not see, the love and possessiveness in Jun Shiling's eyes surged in all directions, making one feel shocked.

Although he generously convinced himself to be mentally prepared not to have it, as he hugged Xia Wanyuan, Jun Shiling could not imagine what would happen to him without Xia Wanyuan.

Desire that could not be expressed in words, a strong sense of belonging that was hidden very deeply, a passion that had been suppressed day after day, but had grown like a weed, a wild grass, all softened under Xia Wanyuan's calming "hugs. The love that came out of his heart swept through every corner of his body.

"I love you," Jun Shiling whispered into Xia Wanyuan's ear. Xia Wanyuan froze.

This was the first time anyone had said this to her in her two lives. Although Jun Shiling's voice was extremely gentle, the heavy emotions that seemed real made him feel it himself.

Xia Wanyuan's heart softened. In the past, whenever Jun Shiling hugged her, she would always be in his arms passively.

He raised his hand and put it down again. After three times, he finally gathered his courage and hugged Jun Shiling back.

Sensing the gentle movements on his waist, Jun Shiling's body suddenly stiffened, and he hugged Xia Wanyuan even tighter.

“Can you give me a little more time?” Xia Wanyuan's voice sounded.

“Alright, I'll wait for you.” Jun Shiling lowered his head and kissed Xia Wanyuan's hair. Rarely did Xia Wanyuan not dodge this time, causing the flame in Jun Shiling's eyes to burn even more.

This was the first time Xia Wanyuan took the initiative to hug her. Jun Shiling was overjoyed. On the way back, he did not want Xia Wanyuan to let go.

"I'm hot. Depart." Xia Wanyuan wanted to retract her hand, but Jun Shiling held it tightly around her waist.

"No, how did you manage to run away after touching me?" Jun Shiling's eyes smiled as he held Xia Wanyuan's hand.

"Jun Shiling!" Xia Wanyuan was angry and embarrassed. He couldn't help but call Jun Shiling out loudly.

"Yes," Jun Shiling replied casually. "Mrs, what can I do for you?"

For the first time in her life, Xia Wanyuan felt regret. He should not have softened his heart and hugged Jun Shiling back now.

After fighting for a while, he was unable to escape. Xia Wanyuan directly used combat skills with Jun Shiling. What surprised him was that Jun Shiling easily neutralized his movements.

"Do you know how to fight?" 

Xia Wanyuan asked curiously. Normally, Jun Shiling rarely fought, but from Jun Shiling's actions just now, he was truly an expert.

“As the person in charge of Jun Corporation, you should have some martial skills. No need to fear anything.” Jun Shiling patiently explained to Xia Wanyuan, but his hands were still soft and could not break away from Xia Wanyuan.

“You are absolutely amazing.” Xia Wanyuan greatly admired Jun Shiling right now. How could he do something so extraordinary?

Due to Xia Wanyuan's actions and Jun Shiling's movements to suppress her, the two of them were now intertwined in a strange position.

Originally, Xia Wanyuan wanted to use her legs to press Jun Shiling's knees, but Jun Shiling avoided it. At that moment, Xia Wanyuan's right foot was kneeling between Jun Shiling's legs. The two hands pressed against each other, and the distance between the two of them was practically close.

Adam Jun Shiling's apple is up. Xia Wanyuan felt a flame in Jun Shiling's eyes. Not only did he not dodge, but his right leg rubbed against Jun Shiling's leg. 

"Are you letting go?"

Jun Shiling's body suddenly froze. The place Xia Wanyuan touched seemed to light up, and the temperature in her body seemed to instantly rise. Fire raged in Jun Shiling's eyes, but his hand seemed to be holding a piece of hot fire. He let go of Xia Wanyuan's hand almost instantly.

Between the two of them, it was he who did not dare to bet. He was afraid that he could not control himself, but he did not want to hurt Xia Wanyuan.

“You just took advantage of the fact that I have no resistance against you. Back to room first.” Jun Shiling helplessly pulled the pillow and placed it in front of him. Both of them knew what Jun Shiling was hiding.

Although Xia Wanyuan was the culprit, her face was flushed red. He hurriedly came out from Jun Shiling's embrace. 

"Hmph, CEO Jun doesn't have much self-control, but you blame me."

“I still have very strong self-control, but when facing you, my self-control is zero.” Jun Shiling was extremely helpless. He looked at Xia Wanyuan as if he could do nothing to her.

The glare of affection in her eyes made Xia Wanyuan's heart burn. "I'm going." With that, he left the car.

***

"You mean we can't find Xia Wanyuan's residence?" In the courtyard, Old Madam Wei drank tea and listened to the servants' reports.

“Ya, Old Lady. Our people are always distracted in the middle of the road. Furthermore, the radar in his car was useless. Someone has to protect him from behind.” The person in charge of tracking felt it was strange. The Wei family was not a small family. If they could intercept the Wei family's signals at any time, how frightening would their opponents be?

“Since you can't know it, there's no need to investigate. Let's retreat.” Old Madam Wei's expression as usual, made it impossible for her to express her emotions.

"Yes, Old Lady." The waiter left after reporting. Old Mistress Wei looked at Xia Wanyuan's life information on the table. His usually resolute face revealed some doubts.

***

"President, Xia Wanyuan's application for admission has been completed, but there is still a problem."

"What's the problem?" Cai Qin faced the ancient zither and practiced the song that Xia Wanyuan had left behind during the competition. The more he practiced, the more surprised he was. The current younger generation completely surpassed the older generation. How can they play to such high standards?

I've completely wasted my decade. I have been practicing for an entire month, but I still cannot master the aura and power in Xia Wanyuan's zither music.

"Miss Xia doesn't have an exam certificate." 

Official organizations like the Ancient Sitar Association usually needed to recruit one person through layered selection.

The passing mark for this association was that one had to reach level ten in the ancient zither level. However, after their verification, they realized that Xia Wanyuan had not even passed level one, let alone level ten.

Everyone agrees with the standards, but such difficult indicators need to be processed. Even if they wanted to jump to Xia Wanyuan, they had no choice.

"Has the level test in the first half of the year just ended?" Cai Qin stopped practicing zither and looked at the person beside him.

"That's right. It will be four months until the next exam. I guess it will be four months before Xia Wanyuan can join."

“It won't work. Our association will compete with the sakura country next month. Xia Wanyuan will be very helpful.”

By the way, that's pretty embarrassing. As the origin of the ancient sitar, China was supposed to bring the ancient zither art to a higher level. However, in the ancient zither competition that lasted for five years, the land of sakura became its champion.

The people from the Ancient Sitar Association all held back their anger, but there was nothing they could do. It wasn't easy for them to see a promising seedling like Xia Wanyuan. Cai Qin hoped that he could enter Xia Wanyuan into the association now and go to the competition with them next month to show those people what the true ancient zither art was.

“Then what should we do, President? There is no way to violate the procedure requirements.”

"Don't we have a dedicated reception channel?" Cai suddenly thought of a solution.

“President, it is something that can only be imported with the International Competition Gold Award. Xia Wanyuan also did not have it.”

“At the beginning of next month is there a World Music Competition in Olly country? Let Xia Wanyuan participate in that. If he wins the gold award, won't the procedure be completed soon?” Cai Qin thought of doing so and hurriedly searched Xia Wanyuan's number to discuss the matter with her.

The person reporting at the side laughed in his heart.

Even though Xia Wanyuan played well, the golden award for the World Music Competition? President, are you still sleeping? This dream is too big.

Ignoring the fact that our country's zither is not internationally popular, Western countries have always misunderstood and discriminated against China. For many years, not to mention gold awards, even if the Chinese entered the top ten, the country would brag about them.

Golden awards ... Did the president's brain go awry from practicing zither???

However, seeing Cai Qin chatting enthusiastically with Xia Wanyuan, he could only swallow her words. Forget it, I should be prepared to accept Xia Wanyuan into the association in four months.

Xia Wanyuan did not know much about the international competition, but she agreed with Cai Qin's enthusiastic invitation. After all, it was just playing the zither, so it wasn't difficult.

"okay!!! Xiao Xia, I know I didn't see wrong!!! I'll sign you up now!!” Hearing Xia Wanyuan instantly agree, Cai Qin's love for this young junior increased.

Not to mention a junior like Xia Wanyuan, even the masters in the association felt dejected upon mentioning the World Music Competition. They don't even dare to register, afraid of being made fun of internationally.

However, Xia Wanyuan's reaction was so calm. What a nice young woman!  Even if she did not get ranked in the end, Cai Qin felt that Xia Wanyuan's courage was well worth confirming.

At that moment, Xia Wanyuan simply wanted to ask, 'Where is Olly? What is World Music Competition?'

***

The next morning, Jun Shiling sent Xia Wanyuan to the Wei family home. He glanced at the elegant figure on the door and his eyes narrowed slightly. In the end, he simply said, "Call me if there's anything."

"okay." With that, Xia Wanyuan got down from the car.

Wei Zimu was waiting for him at the door.

As he watched the Phantom gradually disappear into the distance, a hint of confusion appeared in Wei Zimu's eyes. However, when Xia Wanyuan approached, this confusion turned into a smile.

"Good morning, Sister Wanyuan. Have you eaten yet?"

“I've eaten. Is Old Madam just looking at me or someone else today?”

“Besides you, there are other guests.” Wei Zimu accompanied Xia Wanyuan to the door and walked through the layers of the corridor towards the Old Lady's house.

"Hey, birds with the same feathers are really gathering together." A sharp female voice sounded in front.

The road ahead was suddenly blocked by a group of people, forcing Wei Zimu and Xia Wanyuan to stop.

“Wei Zimu, you're pretty fast. You found the wild girl so fast. As expected, wild people love to play with wild people.” A man in his twenties looked at Wei Zimu with disdain, and his words caused a group of people around him to laugh.

Xia Wanyuan looked up. He had seen this man before at the family banquet. From the looks of it, the eldest son of the Wei family, Wei Yang, was someone who was self-indulgent and lazy. His status was obviously much higher than Wei Zimu, but there was actually jealousy and hatred in his eyes when he saw Wei Zimu.

“Grandmother wants to see Sister Wanyuan. Give way.” Wei Zimu stood in front of Xia Wanyuan and protected her behind him.

“Pfft, we don't plan on doing anything to her. Who are you trying to show your appearance of saving beauty like a hero?” 

Although Wei Yang hated Wei Zimu, he was not stupid enough to fight Wei Zimu in the courtyard. He was still very afraid of Old Madam.

"Then please give way." 

Wei Zimu had always been gentle in the Wei family, but today, Xia Wanyuan was brought here by him, and she was humiliated in front of him. No matter how good Wei Zimu's temperament was, he couldn't help but speak more forcefully.

“Oh, wow, even the good old Wei Zimu was angry. My legs hurt and I don't want to walk anymore. I want to rest here for a while. You can take a detour.” As Wei Yang spoke, he stretched out his legs and stopped in the middle of the corridor.

The Wei family used the design of the Nine Zigzag Corridor. The outside of the corridor was filled with lake water. Xia Wanyuan and the others were about to arrive, but it would take a long time to return and reroute. Wei Yang was clearly making things difficult for them on purpose.

Wei Zimu's soft brows were slightly wrinkled. He could ignore how they usually bully him, but treating Xia Wanyuan like this really made him angry. Wei Zimu was about to speak when Xia Wanyuan patted his shoulder.

Xia Wanyuan looked at Wei Zimu, and she stood to the side. Xia Wanyuan walked over from behind him.

This was Wei Yang's first time seeing Xia Wanyuan up close. He was momentarily surprised by her appearance.

"Don't tell me that you think I'll be like you and worry about Old Madam?" Xia Wanyuan's cold voice sounded.

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