456: Are you kidding me?!

Discovering that Ye Su had placed a large handful of items in her right hand, Li Mengyao instinctively stretched out her left hand as well to prevent them from falling to the ground.

When she saw clearly that what Ye Su had given her was a handful of oddly shaped pebbles, Li Mengyao's brain couldn't process it for a moment.

"Are you messing with me!"

After being stunned for a moment, and realizing that what she held was truly just a handful of ordinary stones, Li Mengyao thought Ye Su was playing with her again and was so angry she almost threw all the stones back at him.

"I'm not messing with you!"

Fearing that Li Mengyao might really throw all the stones at him, Ye Su hurriedly raised his hands, signaling for Li Mengyao to wait a moment:

"These aren't ordinary stones!"

"Not ordinary stones?"

Hearing Ye Su's words, Li Mengyao calmed down from her anger and brought the stones in her hand up to her eyes to examine them closely.

But no matter how she looked at them, the stones in her hand were nothing more than pebbles commonly found by a creek, at most just looking uniquely smooth.

Unable to make sense of it, Li Mengyao looked up in confusion: "What, is it possible to cut jade out of these stones?"

Li Mengyao hadn't forgotten that this stinky man before her, although seemingly unreliable most of the time, had a sharper eye than the experts outside.

The first time she brought him home, not only could he instantly identify that Li Shanhai's painting was a Qing Dynasty imitation of a Ming Dynasty fake, but he could even spot jade in the stone materials on the display stand while leaving.

Could it be that this handful of stones in her hand were all raw jade materials?

Are there raw materials this small, about the size of a thumb?

"These stones are all so small; even if there really were jade inside, it would probably only be the size of a fly, and it would likely be ground into powder if cut!"

Ye Su shook his head, denying Li Mengyao's guess:

"Of course they aren't raw materials. These stones are so tiny, how could they possibly contain jade."

"Then why did you say these aren't ordinary stones?"

While feeling discouraged, Li Mengyao stared intently at Ye Su's face, preventing this stinky man from playing with her again.

Ye Su leaned in close to Li Mengyao with a mysterious look and whispered:

"These stones were specially blessed by a master I found; as long as you carry them with you, they can bring good luck to the wearer."

"Oh—" Li Mengyao drew out the sound, revealing an expression of sudden realization: "So they were blessed by a master, and they can bring people good luck, is that right."

"That's right. If it weren't for our relationship, I wouldn't have told you."

"I knew you were messing with me!"

Li Mengyao flipped her mood as quickly as turning a page, threw the stones in her hand onto the sofa, and lunged fiercely at Ye Su.

Ye Su didn't expect Li Mengyao to suddenly attack, and caught off guard, he was tackled onto the sofa armrest by her.

Li Mengyao took the opportunity to straddle Ye Su, grabbed his neck with both hands, and shook him vigorously:

"Master, huh! Blessed, huh! Bring good luck, huh! I'll strangle you right now and see if these crappy stones can bring you good luck and make you come back to life!"

With his neck being strangled, Ye Su didn't struggle but started howling:

"She's murdering her husband!"

This one sentence completely got under Li Mengyao's skin; she changed her hands from strangling Ye Su to covering his mouth:

"What husband, what are you shouting about! There are people outside!"

Ye Su was unmoved, pried Li Mengyao's hands away with a cheeky grin, and raised his voice a little higher: "Murdering her husband!"

"Hey!"

Li Mengyao was exasperated, constantly trying to cover Ye Su's mouth, resulting in the two of them wrestling into a ball on the sofa.

In the process of struggling and wrestling, the two inevitably had physical [contact], causing Ye Su's hot-blooded body to inevitably undergo some "subtle" changes.

When Li Mengyao noticed something was wrong, she blurted out a question:

"What else are you hiding, it's poking..."

Before she finished speaking, Li Mengyao realized what it was, her face instantly flushed red, even her earlobes seemed ready to drip blood, and she wanted to spring up from Ye Su's body.

However, because her hands had been held by Ye Su during the scuffle, she not only failed to get up but, with Ye Su's instinctive tug, she instead lunged toward his chest.

"Ah!"

As she lost her balance and fell forward, Li Mengyao instinctively braced her elbows on Ye Su's chest, preventing them from truly pressing together.

Even so, Li Mengyao was still startled by this sudden accident and let out a gasp.

Fortunately, she reacted quickly, immediately restraining herself from crying out again, and looked up guiltily at the office door.

Seeing that the employees outside didn't seem to have heard her gasp and no one pushed the door open to check the situation, Li Mengyao let out a deep sigh of relief, like a deflated balloon.

Subsequently, the anomaly beneath her pulled Li Mengyao back to reality, and she looked down at Ye Su again.

Their eyes met; Li Mengyao's eyes were full of shyness and annoyance, while Ye Su's face carried a bit of embarrassment.

"Let me go already!"

Li Mengyao gritted her teeth, grinding them together, and managed to squeeze a few words through them.

"Oh."

Ye Su replied, only then remembering to release Li Mengyao's hands.

With her hands free, Li Mengyao didn't dare to continue straddling Ye Su; she immediately sprang up from him like a startled rabbit and then straightened her messy clothes to hide the panic in her heart.

Thinking of her out-of-character behavior just now and the sudden "accident," Li Mengyao felt her face burning as if it were about to catch fire.

However, amidst the bashfulness and embarrassment, Li Mengyao felt a strange sense of secret joy deep down.

Hmph!

Acting like you don't care about me, but now you're reacting to This Miss!

Realizing she had just thought such a bold, suggestive phrase, Li Mengyao's face became even hotter.

"Uh..."

On the other side, Ye Su, because his "little brother" was being too "promising," had undisguisable embarrassment on his face and stammered an explanation:

"I'm a man in my early twenties, after all, and there's nothing wrong with my body, so it's normal for this to happen..."

"You're still talking!"

An annoyed Li Mengyao grabbed the tissues from the coffee table and threw them hard at Ye Su's chest:

"You stinky pervert!"

Ye Su felt a bit guilty and didn't dare to be cheeky anymore. After catching the tissues, he obediently placed them back in front of Li Mengyao.

Seeing Ye Su being uncharacteristically submissive in front of her, the shame and anger in Li Mengyao's heart gradually dissipated, and she pointed to the stones on the sofa and said:

"Next time you dare to use these crappy stones to mess with me, see how I deal with you!"

After speaking, Li Mengyao clenched her fists and waved them fiercely at Ye Su.

But coupled with her face, this threatening gesture had no effect other than perhaps exciting a criminal.

Ye Su had finally recovered from the embarrassment by this time and picked up the [Lucky Stones] on the sofa one by one.

After confirming all ten were there, not a single one missing, he handed them to Li Mengyao again, and explained seriously:

"I wasn't kidding you; these stones were really specially blessed by a master I found. I tested them yesterday, and they are actually quite effective."