Mistaking My Wife for a Spirit Pet - Chapter 23
Chapter 23
Yu Shu lowered her eyelids and pursed her lips, quietly looking at the storage bag in her hand. For the first time, she realized—
Fifty thousand spiritual stones were heavy.
She didn’t lack these, but for some reason, her heart was moved.
Her eyes twinkled. She closed her hand, then looked up again, a smile on her lips. “Okay~”
Although she didn’t have this intention, it wasn’t a bad idea since Nan Zhi thought so. It sounded very good.
For some reason, Yu Shu was overjoyed. She put away the storage bag, then raised her hand and brushed away the frost and snow on Nan Zhi’s brow, asking softly, “Where did you go? How did you get frost and snow on you?”
Nan Zhi subconsciously leaned back. She grabbed Yu Shu’s hand and lightly coughed.
Yu Shu’s movements paused. She tilted her head. “Hmm?”
Nan Zhi let go of her hand, a forced smile on her face.
Where did I go?
I took the money and ran, but my mind was frozen awake when I passed through the Wind and Snow Pass.
While she was in mid-air, she suddenly realized that this was very bad. She even felt that if she just left like this, her future luck would also leave.
She rushed back overnight. The moment she saw Yu Shu again, she suddenly felt much more at ease.
The artifact was refined by Yu Shu, so no matter how many spiritual stones there were, they were just Yu Shu’s.
She couldn’t help but sigh in relief and showed a smile, replying, “I went to the Wind and Snow Pass.”
“…The Wind and Snow Pass. No wonder.”
Nan Zhi suddenly spoke, “So, Young City Lord…”
Yu Shu paused, her eyes filled with confusion.
“Something came up. I can’t go to Parasol Tree Mountain with the Young City Lord anymore.”
Yu Shu’s eyebrows furrowed immediately. Her emotions fluctuated. The emotional turmoil that had just calmed down was blocked by a feeling of frustration.
She forced a smile and asked, “Why?”
Nan Zhi avoided the question, her expression unchanged. “It’s a personal matter, but…” She paused for a second and added, “I’ve already called for my junior sister. She’s also a dual cultivator of talismans and formations like me. Her abilities are not inferior to mine. I believe getting the parasol tree essence soul without me will be no problem.”
Yu Shu’s expression suddenly changed. Her brows furrowed even more. She quietly looked at Nan Zhi without saying anything.
At this moment, she suddenly realized.
Nan Zhi had never known that the parasol tree essence soul was a pretense.
She never needed the parasol tree essence soul, so why would she need Nan Zhi’s junior sister to come?
“Nan Zhi.”
“What personal matter?”
Nan Zhi was slightly surprised. In her opinion, no matter how overbearing the Young City Lord was, she wouldn’t interfere with her personal matters.
Her eyes flickered. She mixed half-truths with lies. “It’s a secret matter of my clan. My junior sister will be here in half a day. It shouldn’t delay the Young City Lord’s time too much.”
Yu Shu pursed her lips. An emotion similar to disappointment, the opposite of joy, surged into her heart.
Personal matter, secret matter, important matter.
Since Nan Zhi said it like this, how could she delay her?
It’s just… she had heard before that the scenery of Parasol Tree Mountain was good. She was just disappointed that she couldn’t go there with Nan Zhi.
“Nan Zhi, you don’t have to call your junior sister.”
“We’re not going to Parasol Tree Mountain anymore.”
Nan Zhi was stunned and tried to explain, “My second junior sister, Su Qingyi, is a Nascent Soul cultivator. Although her talisman techniques are inferior to mine, her research on formations is much more powerful. The Young City Lord doesn’t need to change your mind.”
Junior sister, junior sister. Why would she need Nan Zhi’s junior sister?
Yu Shu’s lips parted several times, but the words on her lips were forcefully held back.
A sense of opposition suddenly rose in her. She didn’t want to tell Nan Zhi at all that the trip to Parasol Tree Mountain was only related to her.
“What’s the use of being a master of formations? Yulin City has countless powerful formation masters.”
When she finished speaking, Nan Zhi was stunned. After realizing it, Yu Shu forcefully softened her voice and said in a low voice, “I’m not being mean to you.”
“We’re not going to Parasol Tree Mountain anymore. It has nothing to do with your junior sister.”
Yu Shu closed her palm and lowered her eyelids. Her emotions were fluctuating. She softened her voice even more.
“This place is only a day away from Yulin City.”
“If you’re not going to Parasol Tree Mountain, will you take me back to the city?”
Nan Zhi’s expression froze. A familiar strange feeling surged into her heart.
In her opinion, with the Young City Lord’s personality, she would never explain to her whether she was being mean or not.
In her opinion, with the Young City Lord’s personality, she didn’t need to choose a day to bully her.
She also wouldn’t say the words “will you.”
After a moment of silence, as the Young City Lord’s expression became more and more droopy, Nan Zhi slowly replied, “Okay.”
It was visible to the naked eye that the Young City Lord’s eyes suddenly lit up. Nan Zhi’s emotions were a mess.
At this moment, the Young City Lord leaned over and wrapped her arm around Nan Zhi’s waist. “Then let’s go quickly. How about we try not to delay you?”
Nan Zhi subconsciously leaned back, but when she couldn’t avoid it, she realized she was trapped.
The warmth of the contact made a blush appear on her cheeks. Her fingertips couldn’t help but press against the hem of her clothes. She turned her head away and nodded.
Instantly.
An azure dragon appeared in the sky, riding the wind and flying through the clouds.
A clear dragon roar rang out. The azure dragon was in its element and flew even faster.
This place was not far from Yulin City, only a day away; this place was very far from Yulin City, after all, it was a day away.
The night clouds shrouded them. She was being patted on the back sporadically.
Very annoying.
The trip to Parasol Tree Mountain was not abandoned because of the fifty thousand spiritual stones.
After all, she gained those fifty thousand spiritual stones. How could she be so stubborn?
It was just—
After the West Sea, she thought that the “bad” Young City Lord would return to her original state, but she didn’t.
It’s not that she wanted to meet the “bad” one. It’s just that she really couldn’t handle the “good” one.
As for why she felt so uneasy, she couldn’t explain it for a while.
A day’s time was neither long nor short. Nan Zhi only remembered that when they flew to Gucheng, the Young City Lord patted her one thousand three hundred and sixty times. As for how many times the Young City Lord patted her when they flew to Yulin City, she had already forgotten.
Nan Zhi landed outside the city gate and quietly looked at the majestic city in front of her.
Yulin City was very much like a magnificent palace hanging in the clouds.
She couldn’t help but look to the side at the Young City Lord of Yulin City. Her brows twitched slightly.
Just now, when they passed by Yongcheng, it suddenly started to rain, and the Young City Lord’s body was covered in mist.
The look on her face of being unhappy with pursed lips made Nan Zhi think of something at an inappropriate time—
The little white tiger that was faintly visible in the bamboo forest in the mist.
She laughed. She couldn’t help but raise her hand and cast the Cleanse, Dry, and Look Radiant spells.
The Young City Lord was a beautiful little tiger again.
“All done.”
Yu Shu’s eyes lit up. She looked very happy again. Her eyes and lips curved. “How long will the clan matter take?”
Nan Zhi immediately felt guilty, since this was a reason she had fabricated.
She thought, how long will it take?
The Young City Lord’s eyes looked very expectant.
But what was she expecting? After this separation, their contract would be broken, and they would go their separate ways. It would be rare for them to see each other again, or perhaps never again.
Why would the Young City Lord say such a thing?
Thinking this, Nan Zhi couldn’t help but ask.
Yu Shu’s eyes were glistening. She didn’t know what she was thinking, but her eyes were filled with warmth.
Her voice was very soft. Each pause in her sentence had a rising tone. “I’m busy this time, so I won’t keep you. But, you promised to tour Yulin City…” Her voice paused, and it became a little shaky. “I… I’ll wait for you.”
“…”
Why is the Young City Lord like this?
It made her feel inexplicably guilty.
She was the one with the strange personality, ending the trip to Parasol Tree Mountain without any regard for the contract. But the Young City Lord was deceived by her and was even looking forward to her arrival.
For some reason, Nan Zhi felt even worse and suddenly felt regret.
She should have completed the trip to Parasol Tree Mountain perfectly, instead of fabricating a story and deceiving the Young City Lord.
She shouldn’t be so mean to the “good” one.
But what’s the use of feeling regret when things have already come to this?
Nan Zhi hid her regret in her eyes, hanging a forced smile on her face. “I don’t know when this matter will be resolved, but… if I finish, I’ll come.”
Since she chose to deceive her, she might as well deceive her all the way. Why go back and forth and make the relationship tense?
But… the Young City Lord seemed even happier.
After months of getting along, Nan Zhi knew exactly when Yu Shu was angry and when she was happy.
So, this time, Yu Shu was genuinely happy. Her eyes sparkled, and she was very joyful, a world of difference from the expression she had when Nan Zhi ended the trip to Parasol Tree Mountain.
Yu Shu was indeed very happy.
She had already let go of her frustration along the way. She was thinking about reuniting with Nan Zhi after she finished her clan matters.
Because the scenery in the Nine Provinces was not only good in Parasol Tree Mountain, but also in that Wind and Snow Pass that Nan Zhi mentioned, and so on…
Her mind was filled with the scenes of touring the Nine Provinces with Nan Zhi. She couldn’t help but look at Nan Zhi with a smile.
She looked for a long, long time. She was even more joyful and couldn’t hold back.
She couldn’t hold back the throbbing in her heart.
Yu Shu blushed and leaned toward Nan Zhi. After the familiar scent of seawater entered her nose, she closed her eyes.
A light kiss landed on the corner of Nan Zhi’s lips. It was only for a moment. She didn’t linger for too long. The moment she touched her, she quickly backed away.
After backing away, she looked up again and only saw that the dragon in front of her was dumbfounded, standing there in a daze.
Yu Shu smiled. She thought to herself.
Nan Zhi was amazing. She was very happy with how she seized the opportunity.
She actually had a lot more to say, but this dragon was too busy. She didn’t want to delay her anymore.
Seeing that the dragon was still in a daze and couldn’t come back to her senses, she stuffed the storage bag back into Nan Zhi’s hand and said with a smile:
“Alright, go be busy. When you’re done, you must come and find me.”
With that, her figure disappeared into the formation.
Leaving Nan Zhi, who couldn’t come back to her senses.
For a long, long time.
Nan Zhi came back to her senses. She slowly raised her hand and touched her fingertips to her lips. The moment she touched them, her fingertips trembled slightly and quickly separated.
She was stunned again. The storage bag in her hand was clutched tightly. She infused spiritual energy into it and was stunned again.
A lot of spiritual stones, a lot of materials, a lot of rare flowers and herbs.
The compensation the Young City Lord promised was all there. In fact, the items in the storage bag far exceeded the compensation and could not be compared with money.
Nan Zhi pursed her lips tightly, her expression serious.
Why was the Young City Lord like this?
Nan Zhi wasn’t so stupid as to not know what Yu Shu was doing, but she just couldn’t understand.
What did she do wrong to make the Young City Lord like her?
But after thinking about it carefully, all the strange things the Young City Lord had done started to make sense.
What she just couldn’t understand was—she had clearly never overstepped her boundaries.
Nan Zhi suddenly covered her face and sighed.
She was the only one outside the city. The Young City Lord, who had caused her so much worry, had already left. She didn’t want to foolishly stay there.
Soon, the azure figure disappeared outside Yulin City and appeared in a nearby body of water.
It was a lake of varying depths. The water was clear and secluded.
Nan Zhi was frustrated. She plunged into the lake and swam haphazardly, disturbing the fish’s original path.
She didn’t know how long it had been. She stopped disturbing the lake, lay flat on the bottom of the lake, and stared unblinkingly at the surface.
The sunlight passed through the tree shade and the lake surface, casting a ray of light into the water.
That ray of light happened to fall not far away. From time to time, a few fish would appear.
The first one danced with the water plants.
The second one swam around the first one. At this moment, the water rippled. They accidentally collided and kissed.
Nan Zhi: …
She was already frustrated. Seeing this made her even more frustrated.
She simply infused a wisp of spiritual energy, scattered the two fish that were touching, and closed her eyes.
She was still frustrated after closing her eyes. The bubbling sound of the two fish annoyed her ears.
She raised her hand and sealed her hearing.
After sealing her hearing, she was still disturbed.
The two fish swam onto her face, swaying with the water plants.
Nan Zhi: …
She was already frustrated. These two fish were even more oblivious than Lord Cat.
Nan Zhi couldn’t take it anymore. She angrily came out of the water and sat on a rock by the lake, dripping wet.
Drip, drip, drip. Her skirt kept dripping water. She lowered her eyes, staring at the dripping water, lost in thought.
At this moment, her communication jade suddenly rang.
She didn’t even have to think. It must be the Young City Lord. After all, ever since she got this thing, she had only contacted the Young City Lord.
Her face was expressionless, but her fingers were hesitant.
Finally, she picked up the communication jade, took a closer look, and laughed out of anger.
It was Ning Wan.
She almost forgot. She had also contacted this person.
Ning Wan said:
Shen Mian is a very good person. She agreed to marry Shen Mian.
Shen Mian is a very good person. She agreed to send the gold-inlaid pillars and the glass pendant over.
But—
She suddenly remembered the Young City Lord’s promise.
The Young City Lord promised that the glass pendant in Shen Mian’s room would definitely not be as beautiful as hers.
Thinking this, she started to feel frustrated again.
Nan Zhi felt that she and Yu Shu should part ways and never see each other again.
But this little tiger had to be so extra.