Mistaking My Wife for a Spirit Pet - Chapter 38
Chapter 38
Thinking this, Nan Zhi acted on it.
And Yu Shu, she took two steps back. She quietly looked at him with lowered brows and eyes, as if she was determined to draw a line between them.
Nan Zhi’s lips moved. She gradually realized that something was wrong.
The little tiger was sometimes angry, but this time was different. The little tiger didn’t want to talk to her anymore, but why?
She tried to smile, and as usual, she changed the topic. “I heard that ten miles north of the Yaoxian Valley there is a hundred-foot waterfall. There is a cave in the waterfall called Hidden Water Cave, which is formed by transparent stalactites. Inside, there is a whole new world. The light and shadow of the flowers and plants and the flowing shallow water illuminate the stone walls in a colorful way. Does the Young City Lord want to see it?”
It was different.
The insects and birds were chirping noisily, but no one here wanted to talk to her.
“You probably don’t want to talk to me.” Nan Zhi paused for a moment. One second later, she asked softly, “But if the Young City Lord doesn’t want to talk to me, you have to let me know the reason.”
The insects and birds were still chirping. Time flowed slowly. Just when Nan Zhi thought the little tiger really wasn’t going to talk to her anymore—
Yu Shu’s gaze lifted again. Their eyes met.
Nan Zhi was stunned. She could easily see that as their gazes met, her expression froze and her eyebrows furrowed.
Yu Shu’s eyes were gentle, but Nan Zhi was rarely nervous. She quietly watched, watching her lips open and close.
She watched her say something contradictory with a cold expression.
“I don’t like you anymore.”
Nan Zhi’s brow twitched. She suddenly let out a laugh. She felt that this little tiger was so cute, and she just wanted to rub her head when she was acting so difficult and unhappy.
But her thoughts were very different from Yu Shu’s. In just a second, those beautiful eyes instantly turned red. Yu Shu also quickly turned around and walked to the teleportation array without saying a word.
Step by step, she walked faster and faster.
Nan Zhi watched for a few seconds in confusion. Then, she took two steps at a time and grabbed Yu Shu’s wrist.
“Don’t touch me.”
Her soft voice became sharp and thorny.
Nan Zhi couldn’t help it. Her thumb rubbed against the protruding ulna on Yu Shu’s wrist. She looked at Yu Shu’s wrist and subconsciously asked, “Why don’t you like me anymore?”
Yu Shu, who noticed her gaze, turned her head. She struggled to no avail and didn’t want to give in in front of this dragon. She sniffled. Her voice was full of grievances. “Don’t touch me.”
With that, Nan Zhi let go of her hand and asked in confusion:
“Why?”
“You’re suddenly leaving, and you’re suddenly saying these things.”
She knew in her heart that if this tiger wanted to, she could take out any magical artifact and subdue her. But now she was repeatedly saying “Don’t touch me,” with the corners of her eyes turning red from grievances.
So pitiful, and so cute.
So she repeated, “Why?”
The little tiger didn’t talk to her. Her expression looked even more wronged, and her reddish eye corners seemed to be a sign of tears.
Nan Zhi didn’t want to see this scene.
She didn’t want to at first, and even more so now, but her state of mind was completely different on both occasions. She raised her hand and touched the corner of Yu Shu’s eye. On a whim, she said softly, “Why? Don’t stop liking me, okay?”
“Slap.”
Her hand was slapped away.
Nan Zhi lowered her eyes to look. It was a little red. She hid her hand behind her back and said helplessly, “Okay, okay, I won’t touch you.” In the end, she lowered her voice again. “Young City Lord, are you really not going to Hidden Water Cave?”
“Even if you don’t like me, you’ll still like that scenery.”
“Do you just want to see that broken cave?”
Yu Shu finally talked to her, but it was with a question that she gritted her teeth at.
Nan Zhi pressed her lips together and didn’t dare to laugh anymore. She patiently explained, “Of course not. I just thought— the Young City Lord might like it.”
“I don’t like it at all!”
A fierce voice.
Nan Zhi wanted to laugh even more. She curved her eyes and looked at the angry Young City Lord. Her tone was a little regretful. “So that’s how it is. Then what does the Young City Lord like?” Her gaze paused, and she said mysteriously, “Phoenix Tree Mountain? But that place is overrun by Mountain-Returning Sparrows and the environment is bad, bad, bad. What about Fengxue Pass…”
“Can you wait two more days?”
“Wait for the Phoenix Clan to come, or for the Yuyin Sect to come.”
“Xuanming Mountain collapsed. She brought me out. I can’t just leave her. Is the Young City Lord willing to stay with me for two more days?”
A gentle and sincere explanation, but Yu Shu said:
“I’m not willing. I hate you.”
This time, Nan Zhi truly laughed out loud. She curved her lips and quietly looked at Yu Shu. After a while, she said, “Don’t hate me, okay?”
“Hmph.” She snorted softly.
Nan Zhi’s smile became even more obvious. She naturally held Yu Shu’s wrist and repeated, “Don’t hate me, okay? I’m begging you.”
“Begging is useless.”
“Then what is useful?”
“You have to swim in that waterfall once.”
Nan Zhi’s gaze followed the direction of Yu Shu’s fingers. It was the hundred-foot waterfall. She had good hearing and could even hear the sound of the water rushing.
Swim in it once?
Her gaze shifted,
She was filled with light in her almond-shaped eyes, as if she was certain that she wouldn’t go.
“Okay.”
When she finished speaking, a green dragon emerged from the dense trees.
“Nan Zhi—”
The green dragon was grabbing something.
Nan Zhi turned a deaf ear. She stared at the waterfall. The closer she got, she could even feel—
“Do you want to swim in it once?”
“Nan Zhi!”
Yu Shu’s angry voice came from behind. Nan Zhi held back her laughter and leaped into the water.
“Ah…”
Yu Shu exclaimed, but the next second, she stopped.
The water flowed, embracing her body like wind, frost, and rain. The coldness brushed past her, but her fingertips weren’t wet at all.
She lowered her head to look. That green dragon was soaking wet.
The fish swam, moving with the waves and water plants.
Her original intention was to lightly mess with this dragon, but this dragon forced her to experience the danger of jumping down a hundred-foot waterfall and the good show of fish and water plants dancing together.
“Whoosh.”
She jumped out of the water.
Water dripped from her skirt, but it wasn’t hers. It was Nan Zhi’s. She looked up. This person was soaking wet, and was smiling and asked her, “Young City Lord, are you satisfied?”
She was clearly supposed to be firm and cold to this dragon.
Yu Shu pursed her lips. Her emotions were more volatile than the water splashing down from the waterfall. She wanted to calm her mind, but the water droplets on her clothes in front of her were swaying and dripping.
So annoying.
“Wait, you’re wet…”
She wrapped her arms around Nan Zhi’s waist, pinched her, and then pressed her face against her wet clothes. Her voice was muffled. “Don’t move.”
The source of the waterfall was Fengxue Pass, and it also passed through Lengchuan, which could stabilize the magical artifacts that were refined. She had tried it three years ago. The water was very cold, and now she confirmed it again—
It was truly very cold.
Perhaps her mind was a little bit messed up from the cold. Her mood, which had been grumpy for days, calmed down just like that, so much so that she was a little reluctant to leave his embrace. She could easily feel Nan Zhi’s stunned gaze, but she didn’t want to say anything more.
All those questions, all that dissatisfaction, all that grievances.
Now, she didn’t want to recall any of those unpleasant things anymore.
“You’re wet.” Yu Shu pursed her lips. She looked at her own wet clothes unhappily and repeated, “My clothes are wet.”
Nan Zhi cooperated very well. Her tone of concern was a little fake. “Then what should we do? The water here is cold. If the Young City Lord catches a cold, how will I live?”
“Pfft.”
Yu Shu couldn’t hold back. Her depressed mood was swept away. She raised her chin slightly and let out a soft snort, “I heard that you have a very good relationship with Nie Xin. Just ask her to come over and prescribe some medicine.”
Nan Zhi also couldn’t hold back. She said softly, “Nie Xin’s medical skills are not as good as Nie Wuyou’s. Thank you very much for calling her over, Young City Lord.”
At this, Yu Shu let out a soft snort. She turned her head to the side and didn’t plan on talking to her.
Nan Zhi almost laughed out loud. She slowly walked closer and elongated her tone, “Hidden Water Cave? Are you going to see it? That place is full of stinky fish and rotten shrimp. The Young City Lord must have never seen a scene like this.”
Yu Shu glanced at her leisurely. She said in a bad mood, “How dare you even mention it?”
“I heard that the place is sparkling, but the light from the stalactites shouldn’t be like that…” Nan Zhi paused in her words and continued, “So, does the Young City Lord want to go take a look?”
Her eyes were full of anticipation.
And that little tiger’s eyes were leisurely. She let out a soft snort.
“Go, why wouldn’t I go?”
Nan Zhi suddenly smiled.
At this moment, her fingertips subconsciously moved. She tried her best to suppress the desire to rub her head, not a tiger’s head.
It was that she simply wanted to know—
How could the Young City Lord make that kind of sound?
She pursed her lips and smiled. “Let’s go.”
But just as she got closer, Yu Shu held her shoulder. She looked up in confusion and asked, “What’s wrong?”
Suddenly, a soothing spiritual energy gently embraced her.
She subconsciously looked at her shoulder. That slender and fair hand glowed, wrapping around her wet clothes.
“Cold.”
That Young City Lord said this.
Nan Zhi pursed her lips tightly. She suddenly felt that her mind was slow. So much so that she couldn’t say anything naturally at this moment, not even a thank you. At this moment, that hand was still on her shoulder, and she, on a whim, grabbed it.
“Nan Zhi?”
She suddenly came back to her senses and forced out a smile.
The Young City Lord was asking softly, “What are you doing?”
Nan Zhi took Yu Shu’s hand and naturally passed her spiritual energy over to her, also wrapping her around Yu Shu. But her fingertips subconsciously rubbed her, and she said softly, “Let’s go. Let’s go see how many stinky fish and rotten shrimp are in that place.”
She might as well say that she was being contradictory and couldn’t say the words to invite the Young City Lord to enjoy the beautiful scenery with her. She just said things in a twisted and stiff way.
But Nan Zhi felt that the Young City Lord would definitely go with her.
But—
Her shoulder sank, and Yu Shu’s body leaned on her.
She subconsciously rubbed her soft palm. The warm breath that sprayed on the side of her face lingered in her mind even after a few seconds.
Nan Zhi was stunned for a while. Her throat moved, and she said again:
“Let’s go. Let’s go see the sparkling things in that place.”
The Young City Lord’s eyes were clear. She pursed her lips and nodded.
But the reality was not as she had thought.
The rumors were fake. Hidden Water Cave really only had stinky fish and rotten shrimp, and the sparkling things were the lights emitted by a few lonely lantern fish.
Nan Zhi choked inexplicably. She was just joking when she said stinky fish and rotten shrimp, but what was with the cave full of stinky fish and rotten shrimp?
“What’s this? It stinks.”
Yu Shu’s disgust was obvious.
Nan Zhi was choked again. She quickly tried to salvage the situation. “This place isn’t good. How about we go to Fengxue Pass?”
Yu Shu looked up in confusion. “Didn’t you say we had to wait two more days?”
Yes, she still had to keep Yu Shu with her for two more days.
Actually, the biggest surprise on the way was seeing this little tiger at the entrance of the mystic realm, which was why she, on a whim, took her away with her.
At this moment, Nan Zhi also realized the reason for her whim.
As for Yu Shu, she naturally wouldn’t say anything.