Purple Gemstone's Effects (Two Chapters Combined)

Lin Li left the kitchen and first searched the living room for traces of the mouse.

After searching for a while without finding anything, he began looking elsewhere.

In the kitchen, Su Yue ladled some soup from the boiling pot and tasted it.

The saltiness was just right. She nodded slightly, turned off the stove, and began serving the soup.

Dinner was ready. Su Yue carried all the dishes to the table, untied her apron, hung it on a hook, and then called toward the living room.

"Lin Li, you can come eat now."

"Coming..."

A moment later, Lin Li arrived in the dining room. Seeing Su Yue walk out of the kitchen carrying two bowls of white rice, he said to her,

"I searched your house carefully, but I didn't find any trace of a mouse."

Su Yue placed the bowls of rice on the table. Hearing that Lin Li hadn't found a mouse in the house, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Earlier, after discovering that some small ornaments in her house had been knocked over, Su Yue had suspected that a mouse had gotten inside.

Almost every girl would be afraid upon encountering a creature like a mouse.

After forming that suspicion, Su Yue couldn't help feeling anxious whenever she imagined a mouse hiding in some corner of her home.

"Really? There wasn't one?" Su Yue pressed.

Lin Li picked up his chopsticks, placed a piece of sweet-and-sour spare rib in his bowl, and said to Su Yue, "I searched your house carefully. There really wasn't a mouse..."

"That's good, but just because you didn't find one now doesn't mean a mouse never got into my house! Maybe it came in, made a mess, and then ran away." Su Yue spoke worriedly.

Even now, she still believed