Mistaking My Wife for a Spirit Pet - Chapter 17
Chapter 17
She was intimidating but with a red face and a delicate expression.
Such a person’s harsh words should not be taken seriously.
Nan Zhi suddenly laughed. Her gaze, without any malice, gently landed on Yu Shu’s face.
“Nan… Zhi.”
The Young City Lord was once again filled with shame and anger.
Nan Zhi knew when to stop. She returned to a serious tone. “The required material is in the Mermaid’s homeland. Will the Young City Lord come with me?”
At this moment, Yu Shu’s cheeks were still burning.
She didn’t want to agree to Nan Zhi at all, but she just couldn’t help but respond, as if possessed, every single time.
With a red face, she nodded.
Nan Zhi pursed her lips, holding back a smile. After glancing at the Young City Lord’s flushed face, she began to make hand seals.
There’s also a Calamity Crossing stage demoness in the West Sea now…
Thinking this, Nan Zhi cast one formation after another on her feet. Just in case, she also put on an Invisibility Talisman drawn by the old man Changling.
With the task completed, Nan Zhi smiled in satisfaction.
She waved at Yu Shu. “Let’s go. The formation is a little small, but at least it can hide our aura from a Calamity Crossing stage cultivator for half an hour.”
Yu Shu’s expression was conflicted. She looked at the formation at Nan Zhi’s feet more than once, her lips opening and closing, hesitant to speak.
How is this formation small?
If she were to stand in it, she would have to be right next to Nan Zhi.
Yu Shu clenched her hands, her heart in a mess.
Nan Zhi’s affection was too strong. She would even use any means necessary to get closer to her.
Yu Shu lowered her eyes. She took a breath, preparing to talk to Nan Zhi about this one last time.
She clenched her hand and called out, “Nan Zhi.”
“What is it?”
She looked up at Nan Zhi, trying her best to control her inexplicable shyness, and asked slowly, “When you think of a dragon and a tiger, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind?”
“A dragon and a tiger?” Nan Zhi raised her eyebrows in confusion. She didn’t understand why Yu Shu suddenly brought this up, but she still thought seriously. “The first thing that comes to my mind…” A thought suddenly came to her, and she remembered what Yu Shu had said not long ago. She immediately answered, “It should be dragon-tiger struggle?”
“So you think that too.” Yu Shu’s expression became indifferent. The waves made her voice sound ethereal. “So, don’t think about those things anymore.”
Nan Zhi: …
What am I thinking about? Why has she been bringing this up a lot lately?
Could it be that she guessed I was planning to find a way to sell the artifact that relieves stomach pain?
“…”
It’s not impossible!
Thinking this, her eyes became guilty and evasive. She tentatively asked, “So, so the Young City Lord already knows…”
Yu Shu nodded calmly.
Nan Zhi became frightened. The Young City Lord’s attitude has been better lately. If she starts tormenting her again because of this, it would be a nightmare—
It’s not worth it to lose a lot over a little thing.
She racked her brain and lowered her head to admit her mistake.
“I was wrong. It was my fault.”
Yu Shu’s expression didn’t change. She felt that Nan Zhi’s attitude wasn’t enough; it was too perfunctory.
Nan Zhi held up three fingers, her eyes gradually becoming serious.
Yu Shu’s expression changed slightly. A bad feeling welled up in her heart.
“I, Nan Zhi of the East Sea Dragon Clan, swear that if I ever have such a thought again, may I be struck by five thunder…”
“Don’t!”
Yu Shu felt that if she let Nan Zhi make that vow, she would regret it for ten thousand years.
Nan Zhi: …
The Young City Lord had thrown herself into her arms. The Young City Lord’s body was very warm. The Young City Lord’s heart was beating very fast.
Her body gradually stiffened. Time passed by little by little, so long that she felt this intimacy was inappropriate.
She couldn’t help but ask, “Young City Lord?”
Yu Shu clenched her clothes and slowly looked up.
Her eyes were filled with a warm mist. Her cheeks were flushed. Her plump lips were slightly parted, as if she was about to say something.
“You don’t need to make a vow.”
“Just don’t do it again from now on.”
Nan Zhi’s expression was stunned. A few emotions in her heart were affected.
The Young City Lord was very angry, so angry that her face was very red. The Young City Lord was a very nice person; she didn’t even need her to make a vow.
And yet, she had the dirty thought of privately selling the artifact that the Young City Lord had personally refined for her.
But… using the Young City Lord’s name as a gimmick could sell for a lot of money.
However, now that she had been discovered, she could only lower her head to admit her mistake and promise that it wouldn’t happen again.
“The Young City Lord treats me so well, but I had such a dirty thought.”
“It will absolutely not happen again in the future.”
“I’m sorry.”
Yu Shu’s beautiful eyebrows furrowed. An uncontrollable frustration arose in her heart because of Nan Zhi’s words.
What is she frustrated about?
She didn’t understand.
Yu Shu quickly retreated from Nan Zhi’s embrace. The frustrating emotion grew stronger with time. She quietly looked at Nan Zhi.
One second, two seconds.
Even more frustrated.
She gritted her teeth and blurted out:
“Yes, it was your fault.”
“Go over there and think about it on your own. Think about how you should view our relationship in the future.”
Nan Zhi’s expression was stunned. She didn’t understand why.
Yu Shu gritted her teeth, intimidatingly. “Go now!”
So frustrating, but what am I frustrated about?
Yu Shu’s expression gradually turned cold. She stared blankly at a floating seaweed. The frustration in her heart was overwhelming and hard to suppress.
After Nan Zhi left, she regretted it. She regretted speaking so bluntly, so bluntly that Nan Zhi hadn’t come back for half an hour.
All demons are proud. Nan Zhi liked her with all her heart, but she forced Nan Zhi to make a vow because of it and even drove her away with a cold face.
If she continued like this, even if Nan Zhi liked her, she might not be able to bear it.
Or, maybe she’s somewhere crying sadly…
The frustrating emotions surged. Now Yu Shu finally knew why her emotions were out of control.
It was regret.
She thought… if another fish swam past her eyes, she would give herself a way out—to go and coax Nan Zhi.
But a long time passed, and no fish swam by. Yu Shu’s heart began to get anxious until a piece of seaweed floated past her.
Her expression froze.
It’s a water creature, it can pass as a fish.
That should count, right?
…
Thinking on my own? No such thing.
The Young City Lord sometimes said things that people didn’t understand. Nan Zhi called it an illness, a disease that came with the Tiger Clan’s genes.
For example—
The Young Master of the Tiger Clan was a cross-dresser.
On the day she fought with Nan Yao, she was wearing a revealing dress she got from a Concubine Sect disciple, despite having a muscular body. It just so happened that Nan Yao looked at her one extra time in the crowd. Of course, this was also Nan Yao’s fault for having a foul mouth, which was why it escalated so badly.
And also—
A certain leader of the Tiger Clan from Floating World Mountain with a good business mind worked with his clansmen to open a cat cafe in the most prosperous part of the Nine Provinces.
This group of Tiger Clan members turned into cats, exposed their bellies, and let the cultivators who came by pet and cuddle them.
It was said that before they were discovered, this group of Tiger Clan members had already made a fortune and successfully knocked the Phoenix Clan off the wealth rankings.
All of these events, in Nan Zhi’s opinion, could be called the Tiger Clan having cat issues. The White Tiger bloodline was even more so.
So?
The Young City Lord wanted her to think about their relationship in the future.
It was nothing more than, let’s go our separate ways and be happy on our own.
I only wish to get the Mermaid Flower, get the hundred thousand spiritual stones and the Thunder Serpent’s bone, and then live a leisurely little life.
Thinking this, Nan Zhi’s thoughts were placed on the mission objective—the Mermaid Flower.
She walked away without any mental burden, quietly heading toward the place where the ten thousand mermaids cried that the Mermaid Young Master had mentioned.
“Ying ying ying~”
“Wuwu…”
The seawater rippled. The siren-like crying came with the waves, ringing in her ears.
She approached slowly, her movements cautious.
However—
Some scenes are probably forever etched in her mind and will never be forgotten.
The black seawater, filled with as many eyes as there were stars.
Blinking and sparkling, the eyes of the pure-blooded Mermaid Young Master were the brightest.
All the tears condensed into beads. They floated and sank in the deep sea along with the sirens’ crying.
Nan Zhi considered this scene to be a lifelong trauma.
She awkwardly forced a smile and floated away.
I don’t dare to look. I really don’t dare to look.
But… after only two steps, Nan Zhi stopped, her face overflowing with joy.
It’s the Mermaid Flower.
She walked over. Following the method of picking flowers that Yu Shu had told her, she picked the flower in a flash.
Nan Zhi smiled knowingly.
The Mermaid Flower, for which she had been running around for several months, was now in her hands. Now, it was time to go and find the Young City Lord.
Thinking this, she leisurely floated back to her original spot. But…
Why isn’t the Young City Lord here?!
Nan Zhi’s hair stood on end from the shock. A thousand bad thoughts appeared in her mind, including the scene of the entire Dragon Clan going to the border to mine.
She quickly walked. Before she arrived, her spiritual energy had already searched the area, but she still couldn’t find her.
Yu Shu, Yu Shu…
Where are you?!
She closed her eyes and expressionlessly cast a forbidden spell.
The golden spiritual energy spread outward from her as the center, dissolving with the water currents.
The spiritual energy spread to the southeast, northwest.
Nan Zhi suddenly stopped and turned around.
“Nan Zhi.”
Yu Shu stood not far away, her delicate eyebrows containing starlight. She gave a sweet smile, her voice soft and gentle.
Nan Zhi’s brows furrowed. Although the big rock in her heart had fallen, her anxious heart was still affecting her.
Yu Shu walked over slowly. Their eyes met. Her tone was better than ever before. “Please, don’t be unhappy?”
“…”
The Young City Lord was sometimes good and sometimes bad. Nan Zhi was very confused.
What’s the matter? Not long ago, she was yelling at me to think about our future relationship.
And also—
How can you tell that I’m unhappy?
She had gotten the Mermaid Flower and was very happy.
Nan Zhi’s brows were low, and she puffed up her cheeks, beginning to think about what cat issue the Young City Lord was having this time.
She didn’t get anywhere, only because the Young City Lord came closer and interrupted her thoughts.
Nan Zhi was too lazy to think. She hid the Mermaid Flower in her palm and didn’t follow Yu Shu’s words. “Young City Lord, look.”
Yu Shu lowered her head and only saw a fair hand.
There’s nothing there.
She looked up, her eyes full of confusion, and she looked at her gently.
Nan Zhi inexplicably wanted to laugh. The maliciousness was gone, and only the gentle Young City Lord’s expression was lively at this moment.
She looked just like a… confused, head-tilting cat.
But the one in front of her was a mischievous little tiger.
Nan Zhi thought that she would absolutely not be swayed.
So, she opened her hand, revealing the Mermaid Flower in her palm.
“Look.”
It’s the Mermaid Flower.
She had also thought about their future relationship.
The money and goods are settled. She wants to make a name for herself at the Immortal Sect Assembly and sell her talismans to make a fortune.
However, the little tiger’s reaction was very dull. Her eyes were unfocused, as if her mind wasn’t on this Mermaid Flower.
Nan Zhi spoke up to remind her, “Young City Lord.”
Yu Shu came back to her senses, her eyelashes fluttering. Her thoughts, like the floating seaweed, were swaying with the waves.
Nan Zhi really likes me.
After being rejected, she still suppressed the sadness in her heart and came to find the Mermaid Flower for me.
Yu Shu couldn’t help but be moved by this.
She tried to think carefully about the reason for rejecting Nan Zhi—dragons and tigers don’t marry.
Such a reason is too far-fetched.
She suddenly looked up. Nan Zhi was quietly looking at her. She didn’t know for how long.
She suddenly realized that this reason was not only far-fetched but also hurtful.