A Brief Prelude to the Main Plot

“How could you!…”

Bai Ze was completely stunned.

“Goodbye then, Granny!”

“No need to thank me.”

“The story was truly moving~!”

Li Miaosheng walked away.

Along the way, he casually stuffed the remaining two thousand four hundred yuan into the hands of the woman nearby.

This made the woman, who had been lowering her head in sorrow, freeze for a moment.

Soon after, two crystal-clear teardrops welled up and rolled from her eyes…

She gazed at the back of the young man as he walked away.

On the way back, Bai Ze continued to stare fixedly at Li Miaosheng.

She was very curious about how he knew the old woman’s words were fake.

He was just an ordinary mortal…

Fine!

Even if he practiced Daoism, he was still just an ordinary mortal who practiced Daoism!

“What’s wrong, Bai Ze?”

“You keep staring at me…”

Li Miaosheng noticed this, then tilted his head, looking at her with a sideways glance.

“It’s nothing!”

“I’m just a bit curious about how a mortal like you could tell that the old woman was lying…”

“Oh?”

“About that…”

“What’s there to not see?”

“She kept staring at the money in my hands, so naturally, I knew.”

“If she were truly a poor and kind-hearted person, I think… she would be more like that woman, silently crouching in the corner, not putting on an act or faking anything!”

He looked ahead, smiling faintly.

“Or rather, I should say… Bai Ze!”

“You were so flustered just now that your voice even cracked!”

“I didn’t expect that even the nighttime version of you, with your changed personality, could have such a cute side too~!”

“Hahaha~”

Li Miaosheng teased.

But being suddenly told this, the little loli Bai Ze immediately blushed on the spot:

“Hmph!”

“None of your biz—”

“No.”

“You didn’t hear anything just now.”

“Go die, mortal!”

After saying that, she turned her small face to the side… putting on a look that said she didn’t want to talk anymore.

It was already midnight.

A wave of drowsiness gradually crept into our protagonist’s head.

“Yawn~!!”

A loud yawn escaped his mouth.

“Forget it, forget it!”

“It’s already twelve o’clock, I’ll investigate that strange matter tomorrow!”

“It’s time to go back to sleep.”

After speaking, taking advantage of Bai Ze’s inattention, Li Miaosheng suddenly scooped her up in a princess carry.

This made her, who was already blushing, turn even redder.

Opening her large amber eyes wide, she scolded coquettishly:

“Mortal, what are you doing!”

“I am the divine beast Bai Ze.”

“Believe it or not, I can obliterate you right here and now!”

“Oh ho?!”

“You won’t do that.”

“I’m your big brother, after all.”

“That was personally acknowledged by the daytime you…”

“I don’t care!”

“The daytime me is just an idiot.”

“The nighttime me does not permit your insolence!!”

“Alright, alright!”

“(Chiming in~)”

“Hey!”

“Are you even listening?”

After that, the two of them returned to the small pavilion just like that.

Only, when he set Bai Ze down, she gave Li Miaosheng a loud slap across the face, saying:

“Pervert!”

“Beast!”

“Lolicon!”

“You won’t even spare an auspicious beast!”

But later on, she still obediently transformed back into her original form and climbed onto the protagonist’s shoulder to rest.

However, for some unknown reason, ever since that slap, he had fallen into a state of hyper-excitement.

“Ah~~ I can’t sleep.”

“I think I have insomnia…”

Li Miaosheng tossed and turned on the hard wooden bench.

His mind was a mess, thinking about one thing one moment and another the next.

His racing thoughts made it completely impossible for him to fall asleep.

Ultimately unable to sleep, he finally chose to sit up, staring blankly at the full moon in the sky…

Until… until a familiar figure appeared behind him.

“Hehe!”

“Is my little husband unable to sleep?”

“Do you want to make a baby with me?”

The bewitching words stimulated his every pore like cold water, making his already hyper-excited body even more restless.

Li Miaosheng was startled.

He slowly turned his head and said:

“Ah!”

“You…”

“Hm?!”

“Miss Fairy Fox…”

“Wrong, wrong, it’s ‘Wifey’!”

“My little husband is truly awful.”

“It’s only been a day since we last saw each other and you’re already like this, you need to be punished!”

As she spoke, Su Jiuli slowly approached him.

The moment she touched his back, she secretly cast a small spell…

Detecting the abnormality in his body, our protagonist was instantly stunned and said:

“What did Miss Fairy Fox do to me?”

“Why do I feel so hot all over, as if something is pent up inside and wants to
be released…”

“Well about that!~”

“It’s naturally a good. lit-tle. thing!”

She kept him in suspense, snickering as she stared at Li Miaosheng.

But in his eyes, this look was absolutely harboring ill intentions.

There was a high probability that this little spell was some kind of aphrodisiac…

Just as he was thinking this, his head grew dizzy a few seconds later.

He stood up and immediately hugged Su Jiuli.

“Miss Fairy Fox…”

“I-I’m sorry, I suddenly can’t control myself…”

“This isn’t what this humble one wants to do.”

“Ahhhhhh~~!”

‘Stop it, my rationality!’

‘Why am I having these kinds of thoughts about Miss Fairy Fox?’

‘Daoist cultivators are supposed to maintain pure bodies, aren’t they?’

He watched with his own eyes as his hand reached inch by inch toward her lower body.

But just as he was about to touch that soft area, Li Miaosheng instantly bit the tip of his tongue.

His hand coincidentally grabbed firmly onto Su Jiuli’s waist.

Because he used quite a bit of force, she couldn’t help but cry out:

“Ah~!”

“You’re so bad!”

After she spoke, Li Miaosheng could only pant continuously.

His hands hugged her even tighter.

“Huff~ Huff!…”

“I say!”

“Miss Fairy Fox, you’ve really gone too far, actually using such a despicable
spell.”

“Good thing this humble one bit the tip of my tongue in time, otherwise…”

Speaking up to this point, he paused, a faint flush appearing on his face.

“Otherwise what?”

“Today’s little husband is surprisingly cute!”

She tilted her head, coincidentally catching sight of that faint blush, and spoke her genuine thoughts.

“Shut up!”

“Otherwise…”

“Otherwise I might have defiled you…”

He grumbled in annoyance.

By comparison, Li Miaosheng felt that he was the one acting more like a woman being teased…

“Is that so?”

“Hehe!”

“Come on, come on~~!”

“Anyway, many lifetimes ago, you were just as shy…”

Su Jiuli continued to tease him.

Knowing that Li Miaosheng was about to let go, the situation had now reversed to her hugging him tightly.

This lasted for a full three minutes.

Three minutes later, under Li Miaosheng’s insistence on discussing serious matters, she finally let go of him reluctantly.

This conveniently allowed Li Miaosheng to see the nine white tails behind her swaying continuously, appearing exceptionally delighted.

“Ahem!”

“Comrade Fairy Fox!”

“Please be serious.”

“What we are about to discuss next concerns the issue of trust between us…”

“An issue of trust?”

“What’s there to discuss about that?”

“I am your wife, and you are my husband, that’s all there is to it, right?”

“No, no, no!”

“What I mean is!”

“Did you know from the very beginning that I would choose this path?”

“Then you whipped out that Immortal Realm Pass, and all those other messy events
were entirely within your expectations!”

As soon as these words left his mouth, Su Jiuli blanked for a moment, then
pretended not to understand:

“Oh my!”

“What is my little husband talking about!”

“Why can’t I understand a single word of it, whatever shall I do!”

“I’m still just a beautiful young maiden of a few thousand years, boo hoo hoo~…”

(Sticks tongue out~)