Mistaking My Wife for a Spirit Pet - Chapter 39

Chapter 39

She said, “I thought the Young City Lord didn’t want to.”

At this moment, she knew very well that what the little tiger said, “I’m not willing,” was the opposite of what she meant, so she also said the opposite.

Then, she was met with a glare.

Yu Shu slightly raised her chin and lightly snorted, “You begged me.”

The ending sound rose, and her tone was proud.

Nan Zhi couldn’t help but laugh. That was true. She had begged for it. Of course, the premise was—that the Young City Lord was soft-tempered, easily coaxed, and would easily agree.

So, she followed her lead, “Of course, I was the one who asked. It’s…” She paused for a moment and was stunned.

That wasn’t what she had begged for.

She had begged this little tiger not to hate her.

Nan Zhi looked at her again. She carefully looked at the person in front of her—her chin was slightly raised, and she occasionally glanced at her. The faint blush on her face reached the tips of her ears.

Was the Young City Lord’s appearance like this when she was annoyed?

Of course… not.

She couldn’t help but curve her eyes and said softly, “It’s because the Young City Lord is a magnanimous person and doesn’t hold it against me, and is willing to stay with me here for a few more days.”

“Who’s willing to stay with you?” Yu Shu gave her a light glance and said leisurely, “Can’t it be that I haven’t seen Nie Wuyou for a long time and want to catch up with her for a few more days?”

Nan Zhi’s eyebrows slightly rose. She said like this, “No.” Seeing Yu Shu’s gaze fall on her again, her expression was calm. “You can only assume that I begged the Young City Lord, and the Young City Lord is willing to stay for me.”

“Fine…”

“Just as you said, let’s just assume that’s the case.”

Her tone was a little unwilling, but her head was held high because of it.

Nan Zhi opened her mouth and then quietly pursed her lips.

She couldn’t find a more fitting word to describe Yu Shu at this moment. Not long ago, she heard from Nie Wuyou that she was leaving, but now—she raised her chin and said in an understated way, “Just as you said.”

How should she put it?

So contradictory.

So much so that Nan Zhi wanted to scratch her face, but she was afraid that her actions would be abrupt and scare this little tiger.

“That’s how it is.”

“So…” She paused for a second, and held out her hand to Yu Shu, continuing, “Do you want to go back?”

“Hmph.”

A light snort sounded. Yu Shu glanced at her.

Nan Zhi blinked. The next second, a warm feeling came from her palm. It was Yu Shu’s soft hand. She couldn’t help but rub it, and her gaze also shifted over.

The Young City Lord didn’t move.

She lowered her eyes. On a whim, she rubbed the concave ulna and quickly retracted her hand.

“Don’t do that, it tickles.”

The Young City Lord’s plea was also soft and delicate.

Nan Zhi quietly moved her gaze away and looked at the sky. In an instant—

A green light and shadow appeared in the sky. A beautiful green dragon flew through the swaying clouds.

Soon, the two of them landed.

Yu Shu clutched her chest and gasped softly. She was still in shock and patted Nan Zhi’s hand, saying coquettishly, “Do you have to provoke me?”

Nan Zhi felt a little wronged, but not much. She pressed her lips together. Just as she was about to argue, Nie Wuyou came out of the house and greeted them softly.

So, Nan Zhi’s ears softened.

The Young City Lord’s voice was already soft and delicate, and so was Nie Wuyou’s. It was completely different from the cold and hostile attitude she had before.

She was a little confused.

It seemed that the few friends the Young City Lord was close with were all very annoyed with her.

What about the Young City Lord?

She secretly cast a glance at her. By chance, the Young City Lord was also secretly looking at her. As for what Nie Wuyou said, she just perfunctorily said “Mm-hmm” twice.

“Pfft.”

The moment she laughed out loud, Nan Zhi instantly knew she was in trouble.

Nie Wuyou and Yu Shu both looked at her. It was easy to distinguish between looks of disgust and looks of shyness, but the Young City Lord cleared her throat as if to cover it up and interrupted, “What else needs to be changed on your silver needles?”

Nie Wuyou immediately came back to her senses. She didn’t look away anymore. She pulled Yu Shu’s sleeve and said, “Can’t you engrave some patterns? If the patient knows that the silver needles are beautiful and have flowers on them, wouldn’t they feel better?”

Yu Shu was speechless for a while and then sighed. Finally, she glanced at Nan Zhi and lightly pulled her sleeve back. “Okay.”

The two of them left just like that.

During this time, Yu Shu cast a look of apology at her, and then—

The silver bracelet on her wrist felt hot, as if it was being lightly caressed. Nan Zhi subconsciously looked up. Her eyes were confused.

At this moment, the Young City Lord lowered her eyes. Her fingertips lightly rubbed the bracelet on her wrist, and she didn’t know which of Nie Wuyou’s ramblings she had heard.

It was really hard to suppress her smile.

Just as Nan Zhi couldn’t help but laugh out loud, Nie Xin came out of the house at the right time and lightly nodded at her.

Nan Zhi’s gaze froze. She slowly walked forward. “How is she?”

Nie Xin calmly said, “Her spiritual mansion has a crack, and her cultivation has regressed greatly…” She paused for a second and then asked, “Have you heard of the Heart-Eating Parasitic Worm?”

Nan Zhi froze. The worm that Feng Zhiwei had hidden in her heart inexplicably appeared in her mind. She realized belatedly, “Is there something wrong with it?”

“It’s nothing serious. It’s just that her cultivation has regressed greatly and her lifespan has been halved.”

Nan Zhi was silent for a while. She hesitated and said, “You call that nothing?”

“She’s not dead, so there’s nothing wrong with it.”

Nie Xin: “I didn’t diagnose this. It was my senior sister.”

Nan Zhi’s brow twitched.

Senior sister? Was it the Nie Wuyou who was nagging Yu Shu to engrave flowers on the silver needles?

Quack doctor!

Thinking this, she bypassed Nie Xin and walked into the house, wanting to see the bird that Nie Xin said was fine.

The truth was not as Nie Xin had said. Her face was terrifyingly pale, and her hair color was a little blindingly white. She didn’t look fine at all.

Nan Zhi slowly walked over and then stopped.

“…Feng Zhiwei?”

She was awake, and her expression was a little dazed. Her gaze didn’t fall anywhere in particular.

“My hair is all white now, just like yours.”

Nan Zhi was slightly stunned. She didn’t expect Feng Zhiwei’s first words to be this. Out of sympathy, she said, “The ancient techniques of the Phoenix Clan are mysterious and unpredictable. Those old monsters will find a way.”

“They won’t.” The answer was definitive.

A moment of silence filled the air. Nan Zhi didn’t know how to respond to that.

After a while, Feng Zhiwei struggled to prop herself up. She turned her head to look at Nan Zhi, frowning. She opened her mouth several times but still didn’t say anything.

Nan Zhi sighed. She slowly walked forward and held her down. “I’ll go get Nie Xin. Don’t move.” After saying that, she immediately turned around and left, but just as she stepped over the threshold, a voice came from behind her.

“Nan Zhi.”

“Do you know where she and I met?”

Nan Zhi stopped. She slowly turned around. Looking at her appearance of having something to say, she subconsciously asked, “Where?”

The person lying on the bed said, “Xuanming Mountain.”

“Xuanming Mountain?” Nan Zhi frowned. A strange feeling rose in her heart. She walked closer again and asked from a superior position, “What do you want to say?”

Feng Zhiwei suddenly laughed. The corners of her mouth slowly curved up, as if in mockery. She shook her head and let out intermittent laughter.

She laughed for a long time until she clutched her chest and started coughing violently.

Nan Zhi was furious. She quickly poured a glass of warm water and handed it to her.

Feng Zhiwei clutched the quilt. Her fingertips trembled. She endured it for a long time. The moment she was about to take the warm water, her gaze fell elsewhere. Her eyebrows unconsciously furrowed, and she whispered, “Nan, Zhi.”

“What?” Nan Zhi subconsciously leaned in to listen.

“Clang.”

The crisp sound of porcelain falling to the ground.

Nan Zhi was pulled by her collar and stumbled forward. She quickly propped herself up on the side of the bed, looked up at Feng Zhiwei, and saw that her face was getting closer and closer.

This phoenix’s cultivation has regressed greatly, so she can’t be trying to fight again.

They were very close. Her thin lips were only a finger’s width away from her eyes, so Nan Zhi could only hold her neck up and ask, “What are you doing?”

“Nan Zhi.”

“You still haven’t realized until now—”

“That you like women?”

Nan Zhi was completely confused. She frowned and said, “What do you mean?”

Feng Zhiwei suddenly let out a cold laugh. She glanced outside the door and said in a very low voice, “It’s strange. Now I feel happy.”

It wasn’t strange.

She used to be very temperamental, unlike now.

When she learned that Nan Zhi had brought the tiger along halfway, she was able to remain extremely calm. When she learned that everything was caused by a ridiculous reason, she was able to laugh out loud.

“I hope you continue to be this way.”

All those unspeakable and sour feelings can all go to the side. Let someone else taste those feelings, such as the unspeakable sourness and the heart full of hatred. Thinking this, her eyebrows slightly rose. She looked at the person outside the door. Her hand also tightened its grip on her collar, and she slowly leaned in.

Waiting for a certain opportunity.

“Nan Zhi.”

Feng Zhiwei instantly let go of her hand. Her gaze drifted outside the door. And the person she had just been holding also turned her head belatedly and was stunned.

“Yu Shu.”

“Young City Lord?”

They said it in unison, but their feelings were completely different.

At this moment, she looked at the person outside the door with no fear. Seeing Yu Shu’s expression getting colder and colder, for a moment, she suddenly remembered that she seemed to have also received this kind of fearless gaze before.

When she was young, her temper was very bad. Whenever she saw something she couldn’t stand, she would fight with Nan Zhi as soon as she saw her. The matter of the dragon and phoenix being a bickering couple was spread far and wide in the Nine Provinces, but in reality, it was just a harmless little quarrel.

From when did she start to hit so hard?

That time at Xuanming Mountain, she was in an unstable state of mind when she came out of seclusion. When she saw Nan Zhi with the sword cultivator surnamed Ning, she couldn’t suppress her anger. She hit her hard that time, and Nan Zhi also fought back.

The result was that her unstable state of mind and serious injuries caused her to fall into a valley halfway out of the mystic realm, where she met Jielan.

After this incident, a strange hatred grew in her heart, which made her more thorough when she pulled out the dragon scale.

Now, Feng Zhiwei finally knew what she hated.

She hated that Nan Zhi didn’t like her.

But her hatred was useless now. The demon’s secret technique was superior, and it tricked her and Jielan into doing everything they should and shouldn’t have done. At that time, the hateful intimacy she saw was now something she herself was also doing.

So now, she thought maliciously—

What will this tiger do?

Will she fight as soon as they meet, or will she swallow her anger?

She watched Nan Zhi’s back as she left, and after a moment of stunned silence, she couldn’t help but let out a cold laugh. She guessed wrong again.

The relationship between Nan Zhi and Yu Shu was different from the one between Nan Zhi and her.

…

She really couldn’t catch up. Nan Zhi took two steps at a time. She went up and grabbed that slender wrist, and said dryly, “Young City Lord…”

But, her hand was quickly pushed away. She subconsciously looked up, and what came into her sight was Yu Shu’s somewhat cold expression.

Nan Zhi’s brow twitched.

She clearly saw Yu Shu’s lips open and close, and the words she uttered were exceptionally distant.

“You always provoke me, and then you come to coax me.”

Nan Zhi was suddenly stunned. Her heart was in her throat as Yu Shu spoke.

“I don’t want my emotions to be so volatile.”

“This time is different. If you don’t give me any explanation, we’ll truly stop… here.”

Admittedly, Nan Zhi felt that her mood couldn’t maintain her expression. She stared at Yu Shu, and quickly calmed down. She quickly asked, “What explanation?”

She didn’t understand.

She was fine when she left, so it couldn’t be that she got angry with her after one glance. She couldn’t guess what was on her mind.

“What explanation?”

She couldn’t help but ask again.

But Yu Shu seemed to have no intention of explaining. The disappointment in her eyes became thicker and thicker, and her eyebrows furrowed as well, as if she had no desire to talk to her at all.

Nan Zhi opened her mouth and then quietly closed it.

What on earth was going on?

“I’m truly stupid, but what explanation does the Young City Lord want?”

When she asked for the third time, Yu Shu frowned and looked at her. Soon, Yu Shu reached out, wrapped her arm around her neck, and hooked her collar.

It tightened.

Feeling the pressure and restraint, Nan Zhi subconsciously leaned back.

But her collar was pulled down abruptly. She was caught off guard and lowered her head, and was met with Yu Shu’s burning gaze.

She swallowed, and only heard that the voice, which was always soft and delicate, was deliberately lowered, one word at a time, “You didn’t hide just now, but now you are, is that right?”

Nan Zhi struggled to lift her head. She began to think about what had happened just now and now, and thought about Yu Shu’s words, but—

“Hiss…”

A sharp pain on her face.

Her eyes were full of shock. She just realized that Yu Shu was biting her face. The sharp pain was fine and dense, and she was not showing any mercy. She could even feel the tips of her teeth lingering on her face, but she didn’t move anymore.

“Nan Zhi.”

“You didn’t hide just now, but now you are.”

The force on her collar made her have to lower her head. A gentle fingertip was also pressing on the wound on her face. The words were clearly extremely oppressive, but Nan Zhi heard a different meaning in them.

Why was she so wronged?

She was instantly speechless. She wanted to say something, but it was all annihilated under Yu Shu’s complicated gaze. She could only say blankly, “I didn’t hide.”

The light in those eyes became even more disappointed.

Nan Zhi changed her words, “Okay, I hid.”

She became even more disappointed and just looked at her coldly.

“Why?”

“If you haven’t broken up with Feng Zhiwei, why are you here to provoke me?”

As soon as she said this, Nan Zhi felt the seriousness of the situation and also caught a hint of the reason for her anger. She tried to lower her voice. “What does this have to do with her?”

In an instant, the force on her collar disappeared. Nan Zhi subconsciously glanced at her hand. Her gaze fell on Yu Shu’s solemn face again, and she suddenly understood.

“Hiding or not hiding, is it because of this kind of thing?”

A stupid thing.

In fact, when her collar was pulled, she inappropriately thought of another thing.

“At that time, I was thinking—phoenixes love beauty. Many years ago, my spiritual energy accidentally affected her and knocked off one of her tail feathers, and I had to compensate her with the entire cave abode. And now, I’ve caused all of her hair to turn white. I don’t know what else I can compensate her with.”

But, after hearing this, Yu Shu’s mood didn’t get any better.

For example, she heard that they had known each other since they were young, were childhood friends, and that one was willing to provoke and the other was willing to take it. She heard the full extent of Nan Zhi’s guilt.

She didn’t feel better because of it. On the contrary, she felt worse.

Her lips were about to land on her face, and she didn’t even try to hide, and she could even say such a terrible explanation without any fear.

Yu Shu clenched her palm. She held it in again and again. In the end, she heard her own voice, which was almost cold and restrained.

“If you want to compensate her, you can use yourself to compensate her.”

Nan Zhi was stunned. She realized belatedly that every word of her explanation seemed to step on the edge of being a heartless and ungrateful person.

But how should she coax her?

She opened her mouth and lowered her voice, “Why would you think that?”

Time passed. After the hurtful words were spoken, Yu Shu felt even calmer. Her limited patience was also gradually disappearing. She also had no intention of continuing to have an eye-to-eye confrontation or say anything meaningless.

“I don’t want to be involved in the two of you.”

“If you have nothing to compensate her with, then use yourself to compensate her.”

After the words left her mouth, Yu Shu also realized that she had said too much, but when faced with Nan Zhi, who was constantly reminiscing about the past, her unspeakable emotions were truly uncontrollable.

The two of them just looked at each other quietly.

In the end, Nan Zhi couldn’t hold back first. Knowing that the Young City Lord was soft-hearted and not stubborn, she lowered her voice even more. “You’re confused.”

“To compensate, I can only forcibly demolish the cave abodes of my parents and the clan elders. After all, if they sell me out, they’ll have to pay some price. And as for to accompany—that can only be another phoenix or that fat raccoon cat, since we’re going to Fengxue Pass, right?”

If she hadn’t heard the faint trace of grievances, she would have misunderstood these words as a completely different meaning. She continued to explain.

“In the past hundred years, I’ve met her on a few occasions, but every time the phoenix zither would deafen me for half a year. Later, I heard that the phoenix zither was made by the Young City Lord, and now you’re planning to help her improve it…”

“Nan Zhi.”

Nan Zhi instantly shut up and listened quietly. Her lips opened and closed, and she heard Yu Shu’s complicated tone.

“I’m not like this with everyone.”