Mistaking My Wife for a Spirit Pet - Chapter 40
Chapter 40
“Forget it.” Yu Shu pursed her lips tightly and clenched her palm. After a long time, she let go of her hand, lowered her eyelids, and said in a low voice, “…You can do whatever you want.”
Nan Zhi’s brow twitched. She subconsciously grabbed Yu Shu’s sleeve. “Is my explanation not good enough? Is it…”
“There’s no dissatisfaction.” Yu Shu interrupted. Even though her unhappy emotions were clearly visible on her face, she still lowered her voice and swallowed all of her grievances. “So forget it.”
Her emotions were volatile, and her temper was getting worse.
It seemed that if she were to dwell on this matter any more, it would be considered making a fuss for no reason, but if she were to dwell on it less, there would be a cloudy feeling in her heart.
“I won’t hold it against you anymore.” Yu Shu turned her head away. Her gaze fell on the withered branches on the ground. After looking at them for a few seconds, she looked at the bloodshot face. She gritted her teeth, and her tone was stubborn. “But the pain on your face is what you deserve.”
Nan Zhi was stunned for a moment. Her fingertips unconsciously touched the wound. After a slight pain, she met Yu Shu’s gaze.
She was saying the opposite of what she meant. She was acting tough but giving in easily.
She used to think that this kind of personality was very interesting, but now… how could she just let it go after getting angry?
“Don’t forget it.”
Nan Zhi was inexplicably a little nervous.
Because in her perception, Yu Shu was still the same Yu Shu. The little tiger who would make a fuss over the slightest unhappiness when they first met. How could she be like this now, saying “forget it” with such an expression?
“Everything is based on the Young City Lord’s happiness. You can do whatever you want, Young City Lord.”
“Don’t forget it.”
No matter how many years she went back or forward, Nan Zhi was sure that she would never say something like this, but now—she nervously swallowed her saliva, and didn’t realize how sincere her words were.
“Nan Zhi, do you have to be this way?”
Nan Zhi was stunned. Her gaze fell on Yu Shu’s face. Her solemn expression was a little serious. The question she used to hear, “Do you have to provoke me like this?” began to overlap with her current memories.
She pursed her lips tightly and nodded seriously.
The next second, the almond-shaped eyes of the person in front of her glowed, and then they gradually moved closer.
Nan Zhi blinked. Her expression changed with the hand that reached out to her.
Her collar was pulled, and the force tightened. She made her breathing light and slow. Enduring the strong discomfort in her neck, as she looked at the person with an unclear expression, her face was rubbed by a soft fingertip. She couldn’t help but say, “Young City Lord?”
“Nan Zhi, if you…”
Nan Zhi frowned. She listened quietly.
“If you do this again in the future, I won’t want you anymore.”
“You should understand what I’m saying, right?”
Nan Zhi pursed her lips. She met her very serious gaze… The tone, which couldn’t even be called a threat, was so soft and gentle, so she answered with a firm tone, “I won’t.”
Visibly, the person who was just now sulking looked a little better. She let go of her hand, and her tone was awkward. “Does it still hurt?”
The restraint on her collar disappeared. Nan Zhi straightened her body. She thought about whether to say it hurt or not.
Until—
She met Yu Shu’s cold gaze, which contained a hint of something strange.
Nan Zhi avoided the question and said, “It’s bleeding.”
The fingertip came again. Yu Shu’s tone was not very good. She said the opposite of what she meant, “Then you deserved it.”
Nan Zhi suddenly smiled. She nodded and couldn’t help but laugh. “Yes.”
At this moment, she realized that this little tiger in front of her was easier to coax than she had previously thought. She pushed away Yu Shu’s hand that was on her face. Just as she was about to formally admit her mistake, a light cough came from the side.
Nie Wuyou leaned against a tree with her arms crossed. She said resentfully, “I just went to find a needle.”
The two of them looked over. Yu Shu quietly pulled Nan Zhi’s sleeve away, saying in a disgusted tone, “Don’t pay attention to her.”
At this, Nie Wuyou pretended not to hear her. She enthusiastically squeezed in and started nagging.
Yu Shu kept pulling Nan Zhi away, looking like she wanted to clear their relationship. “I didn’t agree to engrave flowers on all ten sets of needles.”
Nie Wuyou’s tone was shameless. “Oh, come on, you’ve already engraved them on ten-something needles, does it matter if there are ten or eight sets more?”
Yu Shu answered with certainty, “Yes, it does.”
Nan Zhi’s face was blank. She continued to listen to the two of them play a game between nagging and refusing.
In the end, Nie Wuyou started to act pitiful. “Can’t you have a little pity on me? That bird used up a lot of my medicinal materials and cost me a lot of my mental energy…”
As she listened, Yu Shu stopped, as if she had listened to it.
Nan Zhi also stopped. Then—
Her shoulder was punched. It didn’t hurt. She couldn’t help but turn her head, meeting Yu Shu’s dissatisfied gaze.
“It’s all your fault.” It was an angry accusation.
After the accusation, the person who punched her unhappily held out her hand. Nan Zhi looked down.
Her fingertips were abnormally red, and there were some new scars.
For some reason, her emotions became inexplicable.
The hands that were clearly as delicate as porcelain were now covered in many red marks on her fingertips.
Nan Zhi’s fingertips moved slightly. She wanted to touch them, but she was afraid of hurting her. She glanced at Nie Wuyou, who was clearly watching the show, and her gaze fell back on Yu Shu’s unhappy face. She said, “Let me do it.”
Yu Shu was stunned for a moment. Her original intention was to be coaxed, but she didn’t expect to be thrown off her feet.
After all, she couldn’t.
Nan Zhi curved her eyes. Her tone was—
So, in the main hall, under the confused gazes of the two, she calmly cast a spell.
A golden layer of spell formation appeared on the table, surrounding the silver needles with engraved flowers that were quietly lying there. Soon, the process of engraving flowers on the silver needles was recreated.
For a moment, everyone’s expressions were surprised. Even Nie Xin, who had just stepped through the threshold, stopped.
Nan Zhi cast another spell. A puppet with a similar figure to Yu Shu stood in front of the table.
Nie Wuyou couldn’t help but say, “…What is this?”
Nan Zhi avoided the question and stuck a paper talisman on the puppet’s body.
Seeing that the puppet was really doing the same thing as the light and shadow that was recreated, everyone’s expressions changed.
Nie Wuyou rubbed her chin. She sighed, “The Heaven-Tethered Sect really has a way of doing things.”
At this, Nan Zhi tilted her head and curved her lips at Yu Shu and Nie Wuyou.
And Yu Shu—
She leaned over, looking at the puppet and Nan Zhi with sparkling eyes.
At this moment, Nie Xin, who had been standing by the door, also came over. Looking at the scene of the puppet replicating the light and shadow, not many people who had left the valley were as surprised as Nie Wuyou. “This…” After her surprise, she quietly took out a stack of cloth that was obviously wrapped around silver needles and handed it over. She said naturally, “I get a share too, right?”
Nan Zhi: …
She thought that only Nie Wuyou was bored in the Yaoxian Valley.
The corner of her mouth twitched. She answered, “Of course.”
Nie Xin instantly became happy. After she became happy, she was a little embarrassed. Seeing the teeth marks on Nan Zhi’s face, she took out a medicine bottle and tried to make up for it. “Do you need me to put some medicine on you?”
As soon as she said this, the shameless person who was nagging about engraving flowers on the silver needles couldn’t help but cover her face. After covering her face, she opened her fingers and secretly peeked at Nan Zhi.
Nan Zhi said, “No need.”
She also secretly glanced at Yu Shu, who didn’t have much of an expression.
Other people didn’t know this look, but she knew it all too well. She had seen the little tiger’s possessiveness in action since she was a child, and also—
It was obvious where the teeth marks on her face came from!
To save her confused junior sister, she immediately grabbed the medicine bottle. Just as she was about to take it back, she saw Yu Shu reach out her hand. Her voice instantly got stuck. “What are you doing?”
“The medicine.”
Fine, as long as her bad temper didn’t act up.
Nie Wuyou was relieved. She handed the medicine bottle over and made up for her junior sister. “My mother made this. It can even remove the scars from a sword that pierces through a body, so I assume that…” the teeth marks, “will disappear in an instant.”
Yu Shu didn’t care about the exaggerated words. She took the medicine bottle and immediately pulled Nan Zhi into the inner room.
The inner room was decorated in a simple and elegant style, with a faint scent of medicine. The smoke from the lit sandalwood incense on the table spread out in circles.
After there were no more people, Yu Shu continued the conversation that was not finished a while ago.
The smoke from the incense swirled in her glowing eyes. She quietly looked at Nan Zhi and said softly, “You’re so amazing.”
“You’re wrong.” Nan Zhi raised her eyebrows. She didn’t accept the praise.
The emotion she had just built up instantly disappeared. Yu Shu looked at Nan Zhi in confusion.
“The spell of reversion and replication relies entirely on the Young City Lord. What does it have to do with me? The amazing one is clearly the Young City Lord. I have never seen any other refiner with this kind of skill.”
“…” This kind of boring skill was clearly a technique that most of the refiners in Yulin City knew.
Yu Shu’s face turned red from the excessive flattery. After blushing for a while, she said awkwardly, “You’re so boring.”
Nan Zhi was a little confused, but when she mentioned the reversion spell, she remembered the injured fingertips she had seen earlier. Thinking of this, she took the medicine bottle that was on the table and said, “Try Valley Master Nie’s medicine. I heard that the wounds will disappear and the scars will scatter in an instant.”
Yu Shu was stunned for a moment. She instantly remembered the main thing. However, before she could act, her hand was caught. She couldn’t help but ask, “Nan Zhi?”
Nan Zhi carefully spread the cool ointment on her reddish fingertips. Looking at the shallow knife marks, she asked, “Does it hurt?”
“…”
Yu Shu lowered her eyes.
A fair fingertip was on her finger, gently rubbing the ointment in. She even asked, “Does it hurt?”
It didn’t hurt much.
In fact, her original intention of leaving Nie Wuyou was to complain a little and hear Nan Zhi ask her a question like that, but… those glaringly intimate actions made her feel that the scratches on her fingertips hurt, and not just her fingertips.
Childhood friends, innocent childhood love. The duration of their engagement was even longer than her age.
Her mood became low. She couldn’t help but move her fingers.
“Ah, I’m sorry.”
The force on her fingertips became even gentler, and it could even be called ticklish, and there was also a light puff of air.
She trembled her fingertips again and couldn’t help but ask, “What’s the use of puffing air?”
Her tone wasn’t very good, because she still remembered the intimate actions, Feng Zhiwei’s provocative gaze, and the unsatisfactory explanation.
But—
Nan Zhi’s movements paused. She looked up. She wasn’t bothered by her tone and said softly, “If it doesn’t hurt, it should be useful, right?”
“…”
For a moment, Yu Shu felt that the past she had been thinking about didn’t exist anymore, so she softly said, “Mm.”
After that, her fingertips were wrapped in a gentle tickle and a warm breath.
She retracted her fingers, quietly looking at Nan Zhi. Noticing her gaze, Nan Zhi curved her lips and met her gaze.
So—
Her gaze fell on the reddish teeth marks, and her target also fell on the reddish teeth marks.
She leaned over, and her lips landed there. Her skin was warm and soft.
All the volatile emotions also settled down. But in the end, she wanted to confirm one more time, to herself and to Nan Zhi.
That confirmation turned into a low and husky voice:
“Nan Zhi.”
“What I said before, that if you do this again in the future, I won’t want you anymore, that sentence…”
“You’ll remember it, right?”