Mistaking My Wife for a Spirit Pet - Chapter 41

Chapter 41

Her breath sprayed on the side of Nan Zhi’s face. Nan Zhi’s limbs were stiff. At this moment, Yu Shu was sitting on her lap, and her eyes were deep.

“Nan Zhi.”

“You’ll remember it, right?”

The second reminder made Nan Zhi snap back to her senses, and she met Yu Shu’s gaze.

Love was sparkling, but now it wasn’t. There were sparks in the person’s eyes, and the words she clearly spoke were like pieces of jade falling to the ground.

She opened her mouth, and when her voice stopped at her lips and tongue, she paused. She was then surprised to find a slight itch in her throat.

She was surprised to find Yu Shu’s voice inexplicably echoing in her mind.

You’ll remember it, right?

Such a simple sentence echoed in her mind again and again.

After a long time, her back was stiff, and her voice was hoarse. “I remember.”

At this moment, the person sitting on her lap softly said, “Mm,” and lowered her eyelids. There was no more to follow.

And after Nan Zhi adapted to the body temperature on her legs that didn’t belong to her, the person in front of her suddenly looked up and said softly:

“Nan Zhi.”

“I want to kiss you now. You won’t hide, right?”

Her tone was a little less aggressive than it was a moment ago, and her voice was soft and gentle. This time, Nan Zhi was truly stunned.

Meeting the person’s gaze, and hearing the soft words enter her ears, she vaguely realized that the little tiger knew about all the times she had seemingly avoided intimacy.

How could she not know? She had clearly looked so unhappy before, but it was clearly because she had pretended not to see it.

“I…” The word “sorry” was stuck in her lips and tongue, and her fingertips also clenched until they were white. Her spirit was on a tightrope, but after noticing the beautiful, misty eyebrows slightly furrowed, she stiffly changed her words. “I won’t hide.”

After she finished speaking, a familiar fragrance entered her nose, and a slight itch came from her lips.

The tight line in her mind broke.

A soft touch covered her lips. This time, the little tiger didn’t bite her anymore. The little tiger closed her eyes and gently took her breath away.

She couldn’t refuse Yu Shu’s intimacy after taking those spiritual mountains. That was her previous thought, but now—

Their breaths intertwined, and she felt that she was wrong.

The smoke from the incense burner curled up. As she was immersed in it, Nan Zhi closed her eyes.

But the next second, the feeling on her lips disappeared.

She opened her eyes in confusion.

Yu Shu was leaning on her shoulder. She lowered her gaze, blushing. Her lips were delicate and beautiful, and she was breathing softly.

“Drip.”

“Drip drip.”

Even though it was quiet here, Nan Zhi felt that she not only heard the soft breathing by her ears, but also Nie Xin and Nie Wuyou’s whispers outside, the chirping of the Mountain-Returning Sparrows on the branches in the courtyard, the wind blowing toward the Yaoxian Valley, and even further—

The sound of spring water dripping from the back mountain.

But when Nan Zhi calmed down, she realized that she couldn’t hear a sound that far away.

It was clearly her heart that was dripping like spring water.

“Young City Lord.”

It was as if her voice was taken away. Nan Zhi inexplicably called out to her.

And the person who was called upon, she softly looked up. Love was sparkling, but now it had turned into the softest pool of water in her eyes.

She stared at her without blinking. She opened her lips nervously.

“Nan Zhi.”

“You won’t lie to me, right?”

Compared to before, there was no hint of aggression. Instead, there was a hidden nervousness in a corner she didn’t know about.

“No.”

Nan Zhi knew in her heart what it meant to not hesitate to answer, when she used to have to think about what others said before answering, but she still emphasized again, “Never.”

Evidently, the serious words made Yu Shu laugh out loud. Her eyelashes trembled. Her face was clearly red and hot, but she still pretended not to care and snorted proudly, “I don’t think you would dare.”

In the past, Nan Zhi had met too many people who said the opposite of what they meant, but at that time, she always did what they said they wanted, but now, she lowered her voice and did what Yu Shu wanted in her heart. “Young City Lord, you’re using the wrong word. You should replace ‘dare’ with ‘will not’.”

Yu Shu snorted again. She raised her chin, and poked her shoulder with her finger, saying coquettishly, “I’m not going to argue with you about these words.”

Being poked on her shoulder, Nan Zhi couldn’t help but curve her eyes. She cooperated and asked, “Then what do you want?”

Yu Shu sat up straight. She slightly lowered her chin, looked at Nan Zhi for a moment, and then suddenly said, “Do you know that I have an object for scraping fish scales?”

Scraping fish scales?

Nan Zhi’s mind slowly filled with confusion. After tasting it, her smile slowly faded. She said haltingly, “That object of yours, it’s not for me…”

Yu Shu nodded seriously.

Nan Zhi: …

She was angry, but she was just a childish tiger when they first met. Now she came up with the idea of scraping fish scales?

“I’m lying to you.”

“Not long after you left Spring City, the Mountain-Returning Sparrows came to report bad news, and Song Cai bought this object.”

Nan Zhi: …?

“So you have to go back to Yulin City with me.”

Nan Zhi was confused. “Young City Lord, what’s the connection between these two things?”

Yu Shu pouted. She glared and got angry. The Mountain-Returning Sparrows had returned to Tianshan, and Song Cai had also chased after them not long ago. Now…” She paused for a second, and then, in front of the dragon, she said something else, “So you have to go back with me.”

Upon hearing the news that Xuanming Mountain had collapsed, she—

And Nan Zhi, she was thinking very seriously. They all left, and it seemed that Yulin City would indeed have fewer opportunities in the future. The theory of auspiciousness… If I use this method, it’s a bit far-fetched.”

With that, Yu Shu became a little annoyed. She knew that she wasn’t being clear with her words, and she also knew that Nan Zhi was seriously thinking and answering.

But she was still a little angry.

So she snorted, and slightly raised her chin. She poked Nan Zhi’s shoulder again and again, and said without a good reason, “How is it far-fetched? Green dragons and white tigers, haven’t they always been a symbol of auspiciousness?”

Nan Zhi laughed. After she laughed, she suddenly had a flash of inspiration. She caught the unruly hand.

Yu Shu tried to pull it back. When she failed, she asked softly, “What are you doing?”

Nan Zhi looked up, holding back her laughter. “But the Young City Lord said before that ‘a fight between a dragon and a tiger doesn’t sound good’.”

Yu Shu: …

She had said that.

But that was clearly a rejection she had made because she had previously thought that Nan Zhi had a fiancee and was still trying to flirt with her. But now—she was Nan Zhi’s fiancee now.

She was losing the verbal battle, and she didn’t want that. So she stiffly pulled her hand away and pretended to be unhappy. “If you don’t want to go back with me, then don’t.”

Nan Zhi’s eyelids twitched. She suddenly felt like a scholar meeting a soldier. “What are you talking about? We’ll go back now.”

“Oh, we’re not going back now.” The person who was just now making a scene glanced at her, her eyes full of resentment.

Nan Zhi knew that Yu Shu was looking at the teeth marks on her face. She asked, “Why?”

“You said Feng Zhiwei brought you out, you said you can’t just leave her, you begged me to stay here with you for two days.”

When she said “you” three times, Nan Zhi felt terrible.

Because she suddenly realized that for Yu Shu, who had nothing to do with Feng Zhiwei, her requests and actions were not those of a good person, but rather… a honey-tongued, heartless person.

It was no wonder that Yu Shu was so unhappy after entering the Yaoxian Valley.

She opened her mouth and said in a low voice, “I’m sorry…”

Yu Shu quietly looked at Nan Zhi and said, “You don’t have to be sorry. If you want to, you don’t have to care about these things.” She lowered her eyes and continued, “Xuanming Mountain collapsed. She brought you out. Staying for only two days is not enough.”

She was unhappy.

She still didn’t know why Xuanming Mountain collapsed, and she still didn’t know what happened between Feng Zhiwei and Nan Zhi.

“We’re not in a hurry to go back. I just want to… in the future, if you’re going somewhere, you have to take me with you.”

That’s all. Nan Zhi thought of their childhood friendship. If Feng Zhiwei were to show her kindness again, things would probably change very quickly.

Just thinking about these things made her feel annoyed until now.

But the next second, she wasn’t so unhappy anymore.

Nan Zhi wrapped her arms around her waist and softly answered, “Okay.”

For some reason, her emotions, which had been fluctuating multiple times today, started to sway again, and this time was different from before. Because she realized that she had been sitting on Nan Zhi’s lap in this position for a long time.

She had also kissed the dragon she had wanted to kiss for a long time.

So she closed her eyes again and put her lips on hers. This time, she also kissed her easily.

She wasn’t pushed away again.

It was a quick peck. After they separated, she quietly looked at Nan Zhi. Her heart was still beating fast, which made her lower her bottom line. “You can stay as long as you want. I’ll stay with you.”

Nan Zhi’s eyelashes trembled. The warmth on her lips made her voice hoarse.

All she could think of were the scenes of the little tiger not being able to handle grievances and making a fuss whenever she was unhappy. How could she be like this now? It was no wonder that those friends couldn’t stand it, because she knew from the very beginning that this tiger was a precious pearl no matter where she was.

A precious pearl couldn’t stand being wronged.

But to this day, she still didn’t understand why she had received the favor of Yulin City’s precious pearl.

Yu Shu and her friends were all in the highest positions in the Nine Provinces, especially Yulin City. That was why she was met with cold glares, and why she received those shocked gazes when they were seen together in front of others. That was why she still couldn’t figure it out.

And when she remembered all of Yu Shu’s emotions today, she felt a little bad.

So she put her hand on Yu Shu’s chest and slowly cast a spell with her spiritual energy.

Yu Shu’s face turned red again. She stiffened her body and asked, shyly but trying to sound natural, “What’s wrong?”

Nan Zhi lowered her eyes and didn’t answer. But in her heart, she thought—

The Dragon Clan has a tradition of giving a Protective Dragon Scale to the person in their heart. But her Protective Dragon Scale was gone, and only her heart bl00d was of any use.

Even if the magical artifacts the little tiger refined were powerful, she was still worried about what would happen in the future. But she had interfered with her friend’s fate before, which led to three detriments and five shortcomings, and she could no longer see into others’ fates. Only this heart bl00d could lessen the unpredictability of those accidents.

The heart bl00d, which was enveloped in the Dragon Clan’s aura, slowly disappeared into Yu Shu’s chest with a light blue glow.

At this moment, Yu Shu realized that something was wrong. After she realized what Nan Zhi was doing, her expression instantly changed, and she started to struggle. “Nan Zhi, I don’t want it!”

But.

Nan Zhi, who was two major realms higher than her, held her in her arms and did what she wanted to do.

Soon, Nan Zhi let go of her hand. Yu Shu’s eyes also turned red again, and she held back her tears several times.

“Why don’t you want it? The future is so long, and there are so many unpredictable things. An extra layer of protection will reduce the unpredictability.”

Yu Shu clenched her palm. Feeling the strong stinging pain, she said, “Why are you doing these things? There are so many powerful people in Yulin City protecting me. Who needs your protection?”

The words were very harsh. The dragon was obviously stunned for a moment. After a while, she said with a very ugly expression, “I’m sorry… I gave you something useless again.”

Yu Shu’s agitated emotions instantly died down. She looked at Nan Zhi with red eyes.

She couldn’t bear to say anything too harsh, so she asked in a low voice:

“Do you not want to stay with me for too long?”

“Your lifespan has been cut, your Protective Dragon Scale is gone, and your heart bl00d is also gone.”