The Divine Beast Record of The Dragon Sons: Yaizhen - 5

Chapter 5

The moon is bright and clear, softly casting a light golden halo.

In the huge garden full of flowers, the thin and tender crape myrtle is in full bloom, and the tree is shining brightly, reflecting the moonlight, as if it is lightly dyed and shining among the leaves in the dark night; the graceful roses lie quietly surrounded by green leaves, like a beauty lying on a green couch, with a variety of purple and red colors. Unlike the bright beauty in the day, which has slightly lost its nobility and pride; it has its own fragrance, which is carried gently by the cool night breeze.

In a corner covered by dense branches, a pair of bare feet stepped on the soil, their toes were covered with mud, their skirts were rolled up to their knees, and they were lying flat on their knees in the garden. The ground air was warm and sweet, the night dew was cool and refreshing, and there were occasionally a few insects. The sound is crisp and clear. Although it is not as good as Tianshan, it is still a small supplement.

Except for Shenwa, which girl has a bed and doesn't want to sleep on it? She has to come here to absorb the long-lost nourishing earth energy, sip the cool night dew, and admire the bright moon hanging high in the sky?

With such beautiful scenery, she should have forgotten all the troubles and enjoyed it to the fullest, but since entering the human city, eating a lot of human food, and learning human sentimentality, she can only sigh quietly and complain to the moon in the sky:

"I thought he would say something good, but I didn't expect... He and I have always had the relationship of the one who eats and gets eaten, spat, nothing new..."

The moon is speechless and bright.

"Do you think he's weird? I think he's getting weirder and weirder. His eyes, tone, and movements... are all weird. He treats me like a tonic every day and he has to drink a few mouthfuls before he is willing to do anything. I don't feel any physical discomfort. It’s comfortable, but I don’t know what he wants to do…”

Human beings strictly observe the distinction between men and women, and their host prepared adjacent rooms for her and Yaizhen to rest. But everytime, she ends up waking in his bed - to guard him of course. He sneaks into her room after the maid leaves, then take her back to his room. She knew that he was afraid of her running away. Good spiritual ginseng was hard to come by, so he had to keep a close eye on her. She could understand that, but eating her mouth, sucking her tongue, and biting her red ginseng skin while complaining, "Even if it's not a female, at least it would be nice to be a male..." She was really confused by these weird words of his.

She doesn't mind being eaten by him, this sentence comes from the bottom of her heart.

It was better to help him replenish his body and increase his strength than to let other monsters swallow her up. She would rather turn into Yaizhen's flesh and blood and become a part of him, rather than benefiting someone she didn't know or even hated. So now when Yaizhen's mouth came closer, she opened her mouth very resignedly and cooperatively, waiting for him to explore the "ginseng juice".

"There is no distinction between male and female spiritual ginseng, and it's not that the male is more nourishing or the female is less nourishing. I really don't know what he is complaining about. I am already very nourishing and sweet. Why is he dissatisfied? Does he still want to find another branch? Are you going to participate?!" This time, she looked at the slightly bowed white rose above her head with a sour tone.

The flowers have no solution and secretly exhale their fragrance.

There was another thing that bothered her.

The martial arts competition in Wujiazhuang to recruit a groom.

She finally understood the meaning of that competition. It turned out that it was like several male tigers fighting each other and biting each other. The winner in the end got the right to mate with the female tiger. The only difference was that humans have an extra "marriage" thing, one male and one female, get married together and become husband and wife.

She had never seen what "getting married" meant, so she was quite excited at first. She encouraged Yaizhen to get married once so that she would gain experience, but in exchange she received a cold look from Yaizhen.

Not only did Yaizhen not want to marry, Wu Chengfeng also didn't want to marry. Since the two of them had the same aspirations, there was no need to talk further. However, Wu Weiwen refused, saying that Wujiazhuang could not afford to lose face, so he insisted that Yaizhen stay for two more days so that he could convince his beloved daughter. Yaizhen didn't want to do it at all. It was because Shenwa wasn't tired of living in a human mansion yet that he reluctantly agreed.

As for why she was upset, it was even more inexplicable. She was originally clamoring to convince Yaizhen to get married, but the more she understood the meaning of the words "marriage" and "husband and wife", she actually felt that her chest was tight and tired, and she could not feel happy.

Tonight, Wu Weiwen deliberately brought Yaizhen and Wu Chengfeng together and held a banquet. He said he wanted to entertain Yaizhen, but in fact he hoped that he and his daughter would have more opportunities to get along with each other. Although she had a place to sit at the banquet, she couldn't grab the food with her hands as she pleased. She had to imitate how humans hold it, let alone use chopsticks to pick food. She couldn't even separate the two chopsticks smoothly. She couldn't swallow a bite of this kind of food with her hands and feet tied up, so she made up a random excuse of "not hungry", exited the dining room, and went here to enjoy the embrace of the earth and moon.

She still prefers to sit across from Yaizhen at the small table, where she can catch this and eat that without restraint, and no one cares whether her hands are greasy or she looks ugly when she eats.

She doesn't like sitting at the same table with others, doesn't like Wu Chengfeng sitting next to Yaizhen, doesn't like Yaizhen and Wu Chengfeng drinking with each other, and she doesn't like Wu Weiwen's sentence on the left, "The two of them are incomparable", and the sentence on the right, "The talent and beauty of the man and woman are a match made in heaven."

Before she left the table, Yaizhen whispered to her to stay in the room and not run around, but she refused to do so. Huh, tell her to be obedient, why don't you leave the table and go with her? Do you really want to have a drink and dinner with Wu Chengfeng?

She ran straight to the flowerbed in the garden courtyard to recharge her batteries. Not touching the mud for too long had damaged her vitality and made her a little tired. She took advantage of Yaizhen's lack of time to pay attention to her and replenished her energy.

"If not for the red rope around me, I would have escaped long ago. I wouldn't have had to worry about this or that. In the past, in Tianshan, I only had to worry about growing taller and stronger. I had nothing to worry about. Admiring the moon and being drenched in the rain is nothing like it is now... it's so complicated, all caused by that stinky eye dragon!"

In Tianshan, no one bothers or thinks about anyone at all. Now, no matter what she does, says, or thinks, there is a "Yaizhen" stuck in her mind, disturbing her and affecting her with his frivolous smile and intense eyes... confusing her to no end.

Shenwa turned over and lay on her side, smelling the fragrance of mud. The familiar smell always taught her to relax her mind and take a few more greedy breaths. It was different from the faint salty sea smell on Yaizhen's body. Recently, she had been stuffed into Yaizhen's arms too often and she was used to smelling him. The breath of the open sea that she has never smelled in my life...

Shenwa was about to fall asleep in a daze, when the rustling of branches and leaves behind her woke her up again.

It must be Yaizhen, it's probably because the eldest man finally had enough to drink and eat, and after cultivating a relationship with Wu Chengfeng, he was willing to go back to the room, only to find that his ginseng, which can relieve people's drunkenness, was not in the room, and she was not in the room. 

She ignored him and deliberately continued to turn her back to the visitor, burying her head in the mud, not allowing herself to smell the strong and powerful smell on his body. She knew that she was absolutely no match for his temptation, and will press her face deeply against his. 

There was a heavy breath on the back of her neck, and when she realized something was wrong, the warm and slippery tongue had already slid across the delicate skin of her neck——

She jumped up, covered her neck, looked back, her eyes widened, and fell to the ground.

It's not Yaizhen, it's a demon with red horns. Although its arms are human-shaped, they are covered with thick black hair.

"Sure enough, it's not a rumor. A spiritual ginseng is really here... The fragrance of this ginseng is unmistakable..." When the bull demon's nose twitched, white mist could clearly be seen spraying out.

"Who are you?!" She was so disgusted that she couldn't get rid of the wetness on the back of her neck that made her hair stand on end.

"I didn't believe it when the big owl said it had seen it, but Yiyi also said that the rare spiritual ginseng appeared in the city. Something so hard to get decided to run around the human city on its own..." The bull demon's purple tongue stretched out long and slid around the corner of his mouth, unable to lick up the saliva that kept dripping. "The supplement that all monsters most want to take is right in front of me..."

It stretched out its thick furry hooves to catch her. Shenwa reacted quickly, dodged past, and burrowed into the rose bush. The human form was too big and was too much in the way. She hid among the green leaves, and immediately restored her ginseng shape for hiding. If she encountered such a monster in the past, she would simply escape into the ground and never see it again. Now trapped in the d*mn red rope, she could only seek cover!

The ginseng is small and flexible. It moved slowly against the branches and leaves without making any sound. The movement of the bull demon's left rear side was a little slow. She estimated her agility and its mobility. It shouldn't be difficult to escape from it. This reassured herself and told herself not to panic too much. She peeked through the leaves and saw that the bull demon was rummaging for her in the rose bush where she had disappeared. She suppressed a smile and moved to the next flower bush, widening the distance between her and the bull demon, and successfully leaving the garden. She just has to step out of the short stone fence and go straight back to her room. Don't worry, the bull demon won't dare to invade a place full of humans!

Everything went according to her plan. The bull demon was still sniffing her scent all over the garden. He didn't even notice that she had climbed over the stone fence. She silently looked up to the sky and laughed arrogantly. She was about to jump off the fence but before she stepped on it she was lifted off the ground. Her body was caught alive by the vulture's fierce momentum, and she flew into the air——

There is another harpy?!

"Big osprey! I discovered it first!" The bull demon puffed and jumped underneath.

"Whoever catches it first will own it! Caw - Caw -" The powerful whirlpool of the big osprey's wings made the ginseng tremble.

"At least let me have some ginseng tentacles!" the bull demon yelled "Moooo".

"That's not possible. This ginseng is small, I don't even think it's enough. How can I share it with you?!" The bird's claws tightened, holding the ginseng tightly, and the sharp claws almost pierced her body, hurting her.

"Don't be greedy!" The bull demon threw a strong wooden stick at it. The bird demon dodged it, flapped its wings, and was about to fly high into the sky. If it was taken away like this, it would definitely end up eaten with not even a crumb left behind. Shenwa tried to struggle, but it was completely useless. The angry bull demon became smaller and smaller and farther away in front of her eyes...

There was nothing she could do but scream. There was only one name she blurted out without thinking when she was helpless:

"Yaizhen! Yaizhen, come and save me - I'm going to be eaten! Yaizhen -"

On a dark night, the moon was obscured by night clouds at some point, and there were only a few stars, but there was a silver lightning that cut through the sky. The rumble of thunder that should have followed the silver light was not heard for a long time, but instead it was a weird screeching sound that continued, and then the rain fell, splashing all over her——

Rain doesn’t smell like this.

That shower of rain originated from the broken left wing of the bird demon, which was so red that it blinded her. The screams continued, and the silver lightning stayed in the night sky, conspicuous. After she saw the true face of the silver lightning, it struck down again, this time cutting off the sharp claw that the bird demon used to catch her, and she escaped from the bird demon. Escaped from captivity.

"Ao Yong!" It's Yaizhen's dragon sword! The living dragon sword was a sharp steel kn*fe. At this time, it turned into a small metallic dragon and flew towards her as she fell from the sky. The dragon's tail rolled up and wrapped around her twice, protecting her. When the body landed with her, half of it was inserted firmly into the mud in the shape of a kn*fe, and the other half of the soft body lowered her down, preventing her from falling into the mud.

But after landing, the bull demon was waiting there.

The two swishing sounds came up and then disappeared——

The horns of the bull demon that took two steps towards her were cut into pieces. The electricity coming form the dragon sword was like a light. It circled around it once before returning to Shenwa. The bull demon's strong body collapsed like a landslide and returned to its original appearance, but his breath has ceased.

Silence returned to the garden, with only the sound of wind and the rustling of leaves.

She looked left and right, thinking where Yaizhen was controlling the electric dragon sword. She searched for a while, but couldn't see Yaizhen. She turned to ask the sword: "Have you been...following me?"

The silver-white little dragon was as arrogant as its owner, looking at her with a look in his eyes that said: Nonsense.

"Did Yaizhen ask you to do this?"

The dragon sword's eyes are light green, like flawless and clear jade. It would be perfect if there was more tenderness and less contempt in them.

"Who else can order the my sword besides me?" Yaizhen appeared on the path in the back garden and walked leisurely. The night breeze ruffled his hair, mixed with the faint smell of alc*hol. He was slightly drunk, and his smile became even more lazy. "It has been following you for a long time, and it usually doesn't show up easily. Only if you wail out my name will it jump out and k*ll the monster that wants to steal the spiritual ginseng to eat." Fortunately, he had taken precautions.

"How could you have expected that a monster wanted to catch me?"

"Isn't spiritual ginseng very rare and hard to find? You are both lazy and love to run around. There's no demon who doesn't want to taste a spiritual ginseng. If you're placed here like a fish line with sweet and fat bait, how many gluttons will you attract? D*mn it, what if I was not careful?" He approached her and gently stroked the little sword's head with his hand, making the little sword feel comfortable. Shenwa was jealous at the sight.

Hu, hu, hu...didn't he see that she was in shock and needed to be comforted?

"You didn't listen when I told you to stay in the room. You ran around and almost made other monsters fat. Where do you calculate this debt?" The disobedient child deserves to be taught a lesson. There's a spell he cast outside the door. As long as she doesn't go out, her scent can be easily hidden inside, and no demon can detect her traces, so she is naturally safe. He specially warned her that if she thought she was Ma Erdongfeng, then he would let her experience for herself the fate of a bad boy. After experiencing the shock, she would be good in the future.

He... he... actually scolded her?

Shenwa pursed her lips, her face full of grievances, and mentally scolded Yaizhen from head to toe, and then back again.

It was obvious that he wanted to get along with Wu Chengfeng, and he was greedy for drinks and food. If he had left the table with her, how could she have encountered a bull demon and a bird demon, and almost been eaten dry?

It was obviously him who made her upset, so she thought of relaxing in the garden to admire the moon and breathe in the earth's energy.

It was obviously him who tied a red rope around her body, preventing her from escaping. Otherwise, why would she need to cowardly call his name for help? A mere bull demon or bird demon wouldn't even think of touching half of her ginseng whiskers.

It was obviously him...it was all his fault!

"I'll take you back and wash you first. I'll see that you're covered in mud and dirty bird blood. I'll deal with you after you're clean." Yaizhen picked up the depressed and gray ginseng with just two fingers, and used his sleeves to help her wipe off most of the blood and sweat. A simple "Are you injured anywhere?" is all she wants. Is that so hard?!

"That bird demon scratched me so painfully. Its claws were so long and sharp that they almost pierced my belly. Also, the bull demon licked the back of my neck to taste it. The touch of its tongue was terrifying and thick. It was wet and smelled so fishy that I almost vomited..."

This behavior was very much like coquettishness, but she couldn't help but do it. She shortened her hands and grasped his long fingers that were wiping her face to calm down the slight trembling.

Yaizhen spent all his strength to hold back his anger and wanted to go back to the garden and cut the bull demon into pieces. Her back - no, her whole body from ginseng leaves to ginseng whiskers, no one can touch it except him!

"Yaizhen?" She noticed his strange reaction - his whole body suddenly stiffened - and wondered if he was angry? On the other hand, she was not satisfied with the delay in waiting for further comfort from him and called him in a low voice.

"...There won't be a next time. No one can touch even half of your ginseng hair." Yaizhen stared at her with firm eyes.

That's right, that's right, he just wants to coax her, lie to her, and comfort her like this. Even if he just talks casually, it's still very useful to her.

It's been like this all the time lately. His words, smiles, and eyes can make her feel at ease, and easily calm her frightened and pounding chest. It seems that as long as he is around, throw all her worries to him and he will bear them all of them.

Relying on him more and more, trusting him more and more

...I am becoming more and more dependent on him.

Is this okay?

She was uneasy, but her body was more honest than her thoughts. She relaxed and put her whole body weight on his hand.

Before being boiled into a ginseng soup, it should be okay if she lets go a little bit...

If Shenwa stayed in Wujiazhuang to see the daily life of ordinary people, staying there for more than ten days was more than enough, but she hadn't even asked to leave yet. Yazhen had to suspect that she really planned to see her marry Kai Chengfeng to satisfy her strong curiosity.

"That's not true." After hearing his question, Shenwa immediately rejected it.

Waiting for him to marry Wu Chengfeng? She rejects this statement even more than he does!

"Then why don't you want to leave Wujiazhuang?" He was very annoyed by Wu Weiwen's unending questions and wanted to leave immediately.

"Hehehehe..." She smiled mysteriously, narrowed her bright eyes, and whispered in a low voice in the room where she and him were the only ones: "There's a very interesting place in Wujiazhuang. You can go to the theater. I haven’t seen the end yet, and I don’t want to leave like this.”

"Watching a show?" Yaizhen couldn't remember where there was a stage in Wujiazhuang.

"It's wonderful."

Yaizhen couldn't help but think of the words of the ginseng collector: A Lingshen is as naughty and playful as a child. It is said that if someone tells a story in the mountains and forests, it will come and eavesdrop.

True to the word, just by looking at the radiance on her face at this moment, you can tell how much she is looking forward to the theater time.

"Where is it?" Yaizhen wanted to know what the opera was that was holding her back.

"It hasn't started yet, we have to wait a while."

Her "moment" was half an hour later, when she took him to visit all the shops on the street and eat two bowls of hot porridge from a street shop.

Shenwa did not change her secretive behavior, put her slender fingers on her lips, and walked as lightly as a cat, forcing him to imitate her petty behavior. She led him through the porch and out of the garden, walking around and around, until they reached a rather remote place in Wujiazhuang, separated by a wall from the outside of the house. He, who had excellent hearing, heard the conversation between a man and a woman. 

Shenwa squatted down, walked forward a few feet with a ridiculous look, and stopped at a moon-shaped flower window, where she could hear it more clearly.

"...What do you want me to do?! You really don't care?! You don't care at all, do you?" The woman cried, yelled, and asked, but the man didn't answer.

"I accidentally wandered here once and heard someone talking. I thought it might be the maids and long-term workers of Wujiazhuang... I don't know what happened, but it seemed that there was an evil person who wanted to destroy their relationship and force the female human to marry another guy. ." Shenwa started to make a summary of the previous situation and whispered in Yaizhen's ear.

Yaizhen didn't know whether to admire his intelligence or despise her slowness.

There was no need to look through the moon-shaped flower window to see the faces of the man and woman speaking, he already knew who the female human was from the voice alone...

The apple of Wujiazhuang's eye, Wu Chengfeng.

"Why are you silent? Don't you have the courage to tell my father that you want to marry me? I will not marry a man of unknown origin. I have liked you almost all my life... Do you really want to force me to death? I am determined I will not be wronged to marry someone other than you, I recognize you! I will save myself for you even if I die——"

"Don't say anything about whether you will die or not!" A male voice joined in, excited and stern.

Yaizhen raised his eyebrows, and was quite surprised that the male voice was "him".

Shenwa was fascinated by what she heard, and felt novel and interesting about the tenacity of the female voice. Love was unfamiliar and unknown to her, and the depth of affection was even more difficult for her to understand.

Why would you love someone so much that it doesn't matter if you die?

How do you choose someone you love and then never change your mind?

"Then you and I should go plead with father... The two of us should beg him together. You're the most suitable candidate to be the son-in-law of Wujiazhuang. No one is more familiar with everything about Wujiazhuang than you. It can be regarded as being established in your hands. Dad will definitely understand..."

"Chengfeng..."

When Shenwa heard this name, her eyes were so wide and round, and she looked at Yaizhen in disbelief. He shrugged, unlike her who was slow and unexpected. She murmured "Miss and the long-term worker...", which made Yaizhen laugh.

"If dad doesn't agree, let's go together and elope far away."

"This would hurt your father's heart too much, no way..."

"When we get married and have children, we can come back. Dad won't be angry with us for so long... I'm so scared. Dad keeps urging me these days and even scolds me. I keep telling him that I don't like that man named Long. He's like a deep sea with no bottom, and I can't understand what he is thinking. I can only bluff and act coquettish. In fact, I am afraid of him... I would go crazy if I were alone with him for an hour, let alone entrusting him with my whole life..."

The man surnamed Long touched his nose, and innocently became a role in the play. He was met with uncomprehending looks from the audience who listened to the play, and looked at him as a "stick" for wielding mandarin ducks.

"So you are the bad guy who ruined their relationship!" Shenwa complained for the hero and heroine. After listening to the play several times, she had been gnashing her teeth about the third party for a long time. She never expected that the bad guy was right next to her.

"My surname is not Long, and I don't want to marry her, and I don't want to ruin their relationship." Yaizhen could only mutter, and he hit Ao Yong for no reason, so he was unlucky.

"...You have been the one who loves me the most since I was a child. My father's bodyguard has been away for many years, and my mother passed away early. Since I was born, you're the person who has been with me the longest. Your status is far superior to that of my parents. I love seducing you the most. Your neck, loudly saying "I want to marry Uncle Chu when I grow up" is not childish, it is what I regard as my biggest wish, but you're worried about your seniority, your age, and that my father will sever ties with you. You don't even think about how I feel. I rely on you for everything. You will give me whatever I want. But what I want the most, you can't give me..." Shenwa realized later and finally heard what was going on in the play. Who is the most important male protagonist? She couldn't help but exclaimed: "Chu, Chu uh uh uh..." Yaizhen covered her mouth, eavesdropped and dared to make a sound. Do you want to make the scene more confusing?

There was silence between the four of them. Shenwa was silent because her mouth was covered by a big hand, and her small voice was not revealed. There was no more conversation between the other two people. This made Shenwa suspicious, and she struggled in his palm to take a look through the cave window. Yaizhen stopped her and drew a circle with his index finger on the white wall. It was originally a stone wall. From the point where the fingertip touched it, it began to shake gently, like ripples, spreading and spreading again. The white wall turned into a wall of water. No need to stand on tiptoe, she can see clearly that there's a pair of lovers intertwined with their lips and tongues on the other side of the wall. In a passionate kiss, they are unable and unwilling to feel the changes in the stone wall. Humans cannot see the magic cast by Yaizhen. Wu Chengfeng and Chu Can only has each other in their sight.

"It turns out to be Wu Chengfeng and Uncle Chu, whom she always talked about...I always thought they were the maids and long-term workers of Wujiazhuang..." Shenwa was still shocked. Even though she had been dragged away by the scornful dragon, the two left but the scene before leaving was still vivid in her mind.

Why is Chu Can biting Wu Chengfeng's little mouth, following the same tactics that Yaizhen used to deal with her? Does Wu Chengfeng also have a mouthful of Qi-tonifying ginseng juice?

"No wonder she is opposed to the marriage, she already has someone in mind." Yaizhen didn't react much, after all, it was someone else's housework.

Shenwa’s steps are certain, watch him carefully. "You...you won't destroy them, right?"

"I can't marry her." He is still trapped in Wujiazhuang at this time. What is the reason? The "reason" was standing in front of him, asking him this stup*d question with serious eyes.

"But she's very beautiful." Shenwa is not very good at distinguishing between beauty and ugliness, but she often hears Wu Weiwen boasting that his beloved daughter has unparalleled looks and is one of the top beauties in the city. She thought... Wu Chengfeng should be considered beautiful. Right?

"Compared to the Di Human race, she's still far away from being 'beautiful'. I've seen many warblers and swallows from all walks of life, and the only ones that are better than the Di Human race females are ferocious beasts." Yaizhen told the truth, and you can't blame him for being conceited. The best beauties came from the world where he grew up. They are all naturally handsome men and beauties, with one or two exceptions. Those exceptions might be considered the best in a human city.

"Sister Qiongqi is beautiful, yes... There are many beauties like Sister Qiongqi in your underwater city, right?"

"A lot." He nodded.

"Really that many?" Shenwa's expression was a little strange.

"En."

"Yaizhen."

"Hhm?"

"Then... am I pretty?" It's not that she doesn't have confidence in herself, nor does she care about such trivial matters as beauty or ugliness. Lingshen is only more effective than medicine but not as beautiful in appearance, but she cares a lot about what she sees in Yaizhen's eyes. What kind of evaluation.

Yaizhen paused, as if he was unable to answer her question, but in fact he didn't expect her to ask.

Is she beautiful?

It's impossible to say that she is as beautiful as a fairy without conscience, but to deny that she is not beautiful, and she seems to be coquettish, she is too pleasing to his eyes, those eyebrows, those eyes, that nose, that mouth... There is nothing about her that he doesn't want. 

"You coughed and didn't answer? Is it so difficult to say it?" Shenwa asked. Pretty or not, it hurts to think about it for so long!

"It's not that I don't want to answer. The point is, you can't even be called a woman. What should I use as a standard to compare? A man's beauty is different from a woman's beauty. You asked me wrong." Yaizhen didn't want to say what was in his heart. 

"What if I'm a man?"

"Failed. A man should be tall, and his facial features don't need to be delicate. Red lips and white teeth would be too girly."

"Then... what if I'm a woman?"

He would drag her directly onto the bed, throw her down, tease her to his heart's content, taste her all over, and ask her to use her delicate body to compensate for the burning pain of his body that had been ignited but had nowhere to vent these days.

Yaizhen looked at her with a look that made her want to swallow Shenwa's fluid, but he hesitated to give her an answer. Her face began to heat up, and she really hoped to hear "beautiful" or "not bad" from his mouth. 

She hopes that in his eyes, she is beautiful...

"If I were a woman...do you think I would look good?" She tugged on his sleeve and asked again.

"Don't make such irresponsible assumptions, it will make people happy." Yaizhen's reply was to pinch her nose with two fingers, causing her pretty face to wrinkle into a ball.

"What? I'm just asking out of curiosity. How does it have anything to do with being irresponsible?" She ran away from his evil fingers, covered her slightly red nose, stuck out her tongue and made faces at him dissatisfied, annoying him to death. He refused to praise her for her beauty, and even refused to lie to her. She turned around and ran away in anger.

Yaizhen looked at her back with a smile. After a long time, he whispered his heartfelt comments.

"Your beautiful."

Even if we are enemies, the road will be narrow.

After Shenwa ran away from Yaizhen, she was so angry that she didn't want to go back to her room. She wandered around Wujiazhuang, watching the village's children practice boxing and sword dancing, and listening to the gossip of the village's maids. But her chest felt tight and everything felt boring. She finally decided to hide in front of a small fish pond in Wujiazhuang, soaking her bare feet in the water to calm her head. At that time, Wu Chengfeng, who had red eyes, was also hiding there. Their eyes met.

The two had quarreled a bit since the first time they met, but so far they haven't said a word to each other. Wu Chengfeng only regarded her as Yaizhen's sister, and since Yaizhen refused to leave, she just followed him to eat and drink for free. 

Wu Chengfeng wanted to turn around and leave, but she arrogantly believed that it was not her but the little freeloader who should leave, so she snorted and sat down on the flat rock by the pool where she liked to be alone whenever she was depressed.

Shenwa is different from Wu Chengfeng. She can't say that she like or dislike Wu Chengfeng - if Yaizhen would marry Wu Chengfeng, then she would be very annoying. However, these few times she secretly went to listen to the opera, she already fell in love with her. The infatuation of the hero and heroine moved her and she sympathized with her, which also affected Wu Chengfeng's impression in her mind. The bad side was much weakened. In addition, Wu Chengfeng loved Chu Can, not Yaizhen.

"Are you done crying?" Shenwa spoke first, looking as natural as if she and Wu Chengfeng had been friends for decades.

"How did you know I was crying?!" Wu Chengfeng was filled with tingling alertness and surprise.

"I just saw you, you were holding Chu, crying loudly——"

"You are shameless! Are you eavesdropping?!" Wu Chengfeng jumped up and barked.

"I heard it by accident at first... then I 'reluctantly' listened to the sequel a few times." Shenwa said frankly.

"What did you hear?!" Wu Chengfeng's pretty face turned red with embarrassment and anger.

"I heard a lot... You told him that you won't marry anyone who isn't him, that you'll ran away from home to get married, and that... Why are you holding your whip?!" Shenwa reacted quickly and stood up from the pool. She ran about ten steps away from Wu Chengfeng.

"I'll tear your eavesdropper's ears and mouth to pieces and see how you can listen and speak!" Wu Chengfeng thought Shenwa was teasing her, so she changed her face faster than turning the page of a book and whipped her. Fortunately, Shenwa had been prepared and ducked behind the rocks without suffering any pain.

"I won't tell anyone! I don't care who you like. That's your own business. Just don't like him..."

"Are you talking about the one with the surname Long?! I wish I could kick him out of Wujiazhuang!"

"Yaizhen doesn't like you either, let alone marry you."

"Ha! He doesn't like me?! If that's the case, why don't you get out of here?! Do you want to make money by staying here?!"

"You don't need to rush me, Yaizhen and I will definitely leave, but if we leave, will you be able to marry the man you love?"

"...I'm willing to do anything to marry him!" Another layer of shining tears appeared in his red eyes, and Wu Chengfeng stubbornly wiped them away.

"You love him that much?" Shenwa was in disbelief.

"Ever since I I can remember...he has always been by my side. When I was picky about food, he coaxed and fed me; when I was learning calligraphy, he held my hand and taught me stroke by stroke. Even when I had my first menstruation and thought I was seriously ill, it was he who blushed, clumsily and diligently explained the process that girls must go through when they grow up... I love him so much, not like a father or a blood relative, but like a woman loves a man. He's my father's step-brother and had always felt that he was too old for me. He tried to dissuade me and even encouraged me to meet with men my age."

Wu Chengfeng couldn't believe that she was sharing this with a stranger. Maybe she was desperate and helpless needed someone to vent to.

She continued to talk to Shenwa: "It's not my fault that I'm younger than him. My love for him is not hurting anyone. When I was young, all I wanted to do was to grow up faster, afraid that someone else might take him away from me. I was worried that he would not wait for me, and worried that he would marry and have children. Finally, I was old enough to marry, but he thinks he's not good enough for me..."

"What much older is he?" Shenwa asked.

"Twenty four…"

Wu Chengfeng knew that a lot of people would be against their marriage. She had hinted and asked "hypothetical" questions with her friends and they unanimously expressed their disaaproval.  

"Is it really that bad to marry an older guy?" Wu Chengfeng showed a very rare vulnerable side.

"Not at all, he's not much older than you." Shenwa forgetting differences between humans and demons and answered honestly.

If they think a twenty-four year age gap is too much, why don't they kick Yaizhen out of Wujiazhuang? He's thousands or hundreds  years old.

"...You are the first person to say that." Wu Chengfeng was a little happy, as if she had finally heard the validation she needed. "So you also think that I should fight for our relationship and not give up?"

Asking Shenwa about love affairs is more useless than asking a cow to play the piano. How can Shenwa know anything about it?

"Don't give up." It was a very irresponsible answer, and she didn't know that her random response would cause Wu Chengfeng to endure more hardships and setbacks.

Wu Chengfeng grinned widely, her face was beautiful, and her happiness was obvious. She put away her long whip and wrapped it around her waist. Her actions meant that she would not be reckless and hurt Shenwa again. 

"What about you? You also look resentful and distressed. I can be a good listener and let you vent your bitterness." Wu Chengfeng sat down by the pool, patted the stone beside her.

"Me? I don't have any problems." Shenwa shook her head.

"You're still denying it. As soon as I stepped in here, I saw a little girl with a pouty mouth and aggrieved eyes." Wu Chengfeng teased her.

"I didn't want to cry... I was just annoyed by Yaizhen, that stingy dragon. I just wanted to hear him compliment me on my beauty. Am I really not good-looking?" Shenwa asked.

"It's not that you're not good-looking but...does it matter whether your brother thinks you're pretty or not?" She heard that Shenwa was the adopted daughter of the Long family. She was not related by blood to Mr. Long. With her experience with love, Wu Chengfeng was not surprised that this adopted daughter had strange feelings for his non-blood brother.

"It's important!"

"I only care about whether Uncle Chu thinks I'm good-looking or not. I don't care how other people praise me or thinks of me."

"I hope that in the eyes of Yaizhen, I will not lose to the female creatures he saw."

"Your words and tone sound like a jealous woman."

"What is jealous?" 

"A jealous woman wants to have all the attention from her lover. She doesn't want him to look at other girls. He's only allowed to look at you. He's only allowed to say that you're beautiful. It's best that all women are worthless in his eyes. You are the only one. The only heavenly beauty."

This was the first time Shenwa heard such a thing, and it surprisingly describes how she currently feels. She herself had never thought deeply about why she was so angry with Yaizhen. She only complained that he didn't know how to say things she liked to hear, but she didn't realize that she would care how he would look at her.

Wu Chengfeng was right. She didn't want Yaizhen to look at other girls, she didn't like hearing him praise so-and-so for how beautiful they were, and she didn't like Yaizhen getting married to so-and-so... so that was called jealousy?

Shenwa was confused. The feelings she's experiencing now are different from the friendships of playing and making friends with flowers and plants in the mountains and forests, nor are they the feelings of living in Tianshan, enjoying the protection of Qiongqi and Tsukuyomi, and treating them as relatives...

"Why am I feeling like this?" Shenwa asked in confusion, fully expecting Wu Chengfeng to solve her problem. "Why do I have such weird feelings about a guy who wants to eat...want to hurt me? The man you like is gentle and patient with you. Yaizhen has no mercy. I asked him to let me go. Although he was not so cruel that he would not listen to my wishes at all, he knew very well that there was only one outcome if I continued to stay with him. He seemed not to care about my life or death at all - he clearly didn't care about that ox and that bird. When the bird wanted to catch me, he asked the dragon sword to protect me. Only because I'm precious and no one is allowed to touch me except him?"

"Uh... to be honest, I don't understand what you're talking about." Wu Chengfeng interrupted her muttering of ox? Bird? Dragon Sword?

"That's right, you don't understand..." Almost revealing her identity, Shenwa frowned and thought hard about how to correct her wording.

"Let me try to understand." Wu Chengfeng is a smart girl who can read between the lines. "In short, you care about a man who's not very good to you. You turn a blind eye to all of his shortcomings and defend him when someone tries to insult him. You know that he'll just end up hurting you but you still can't help but want to get close to him. Am I right?"

"How did you know all of this?! That's right, that's right -" Shenwa nodded repeatedly. "And then there's more. He's obviously not as good-looking as Tsukuyomi, but I actually think he's very handsome and special. He even attracts my attention more than Tsukuyomi. Is there something wrong with my eyes or is my head injured? He should be the person I fear the most, but when I'm in danger, I just want to hide behind him. I know that when I'm with him, I'll be safe. This is very strange because he's more dangerous and terrifying than anyone else. I should avoid him as much as possible, instead of always trying to get close to him, right?"

Wu Chengfeng blew the whistle. "Oh, you simply love him miserably!"

Shenwa felt as if she had been hit in the head by a huge stone hammer. She was dazed for a long time and had no idea where she was. Until a frequent stabbing pain hit her chest. She instinctively tightened the fabric around her heart. She couldn't breathe properly.

"It... it hurts..."

"What's wrong with you?!" Wu Chengfeng quickly supported the pale and swaying Shenwa, wondering why she was suddenly in pain. 

"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts—"

"Someone is coming! Come on! Come on -"