Chapter 634: Bound to the Birth System and Becoming a Winner in Life Chapter 635 Background Rabbit Spirit (7)

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Main Character:

Shen Yao

Thick night colors, all sounds silent

Lin Xingzhi stayed at Mei Yuan, listening intently as his subordinate reported on matters concerning Floating Clouds City.

"……Everything appears normal on the surface, but there are illegal transactions occurring in secret."

"Floating Clouds Inn, Floating Clouds Academy, Spring Wind Drunk……all have problems."

The more he spoke, the quieter his voice became; as one of the subordinates who accompanied Prince Jing out of the capital, Lin An rarely felt such unease.

After all, Prince Jing was famous for being easy to talk to; he was a kind man while in the capital, and never made things difficult for his subordinates after leaving the capital. The problem was that certain people in Floating Clouds City were overly ambitious and did things Prince Jing found unacceptable.

He silently cursed the government office here for being unreasonable—what was wrong with being honest? Now that they had offended Prince Jing, they could wait for the Royal Family to settle accounts with them.

After a long while, Lin Xingzhi spoke: "Where in such a large Floating Clouds City are there no problems?"

Lin An: ……

Cold sweat ran down his temples; Lin An licked his lips and dared not answer.

"Don't be afraid, it's not your fault. His Majesty sent me here to investigate the affairs of Floating Clouds City. Now that you've pointed out there are many problems, then, let's conduct a thorough investigation."

A few clear, light words landed, and Lin Xingzhi stood up and coughed.

"Your Highness," Lin An said worriedly.

Lin Xingzhi waved his hand. "It's nothing, just an old ailment."

His health had always been poor; this matter had arisen suddenly, and if it weren't for the fact that His Imperial Brother currently had no one available to use, he wouldn't have brought people out of the capital.

"You may go. You have many things to be busy with tomorrow," he said, an idle man.

Lin An bowed his head and withdrew upon hearing this.

Even Prince Jing, who was always gentle to others, had his own temper and nature. As a subordinate, the most important thing was to be obedient and know how to stay in one's place.

With only Lin Xingzhi left in the room, the cough that should have been suppressed suddenly grew louder.

The vibration in his chest was unbearable; Lin Xingzhi rested for a good while before recovering.

Exhaling with a faint bitter smile, he then helplessly shook his head. Just as he was about to lie on the couch and rest with his eyes closed, a snow-white rabbit with red eyes and no stray hairs suddenly appeared before him.

A rabbit?!

Whether it was the cough affecting his mind, or a small rabbit making him lower his guard.

Lin Xingzhi raised his hand and stroked the rabbit's soft fur, marveling that someone who had never been liked by small animals since childhood would actually have such a day.

Shen Yao, temporarily unable to resume human form: ……

"Where did you come from? A small pet kept by guests around here? Anyway, you don't look like a wild rabbit."

The white rabbit raised its three-lipped mouth and rubbed against the back of Lin Xingzhi's hand, thinking that if she dared to speak now, she might never regain her human form.

Lin Xingzhi unconsciously curved his lips into a smile. Because he was often ill, his skin was fair and his appearance was otherworldly. Now this smile actually gave him the look of an immortal under the moon.

Shen Yao felt that although she had unluckily turned into a rabbit, meeting such a beauty was truly lucky.

One had to know that among so many guests at Floating Clouds Inn, Lin Xingzhi's appearance was outstanding.

Hopping into Lin Xingzhi's arms on her short little legs, Shen Yao, completely smitten, couldn't help but rub and nuzzle against him. Anyway, she was currently in her true form, and wasn't afraid of anyone discovering her true appearance.

Lin Xingzhi: ……

Lin Xingzhi slightly lowered his head, actively bringing his entire handsome face close to the white rabbit.

Shen Yao: ……

Her heart unnaturally skipped a beat; the impact of such beauty was too fierce. Wow! She could do this!

"I'll call you Xue Ling," pure white as snow, with spirited eyes.

Lin Xingzhi didn't know why, but he actually felt some joy and excitement. Perhaps it was his former obsession? After all, someone who had been harshly rejected by small animals truly found it hard to resist their closeness.

By a twist of fate, after Shen Yao resumed her rabbit form, she stayed at Lin Xingzhi's place, eating and drinking for free.

Anyway, she was currently a rabbit, spending most of her time in Lin Xingzhi's arms. Occasionally she would hop out to eat and drink on her own; even if Lin Xingzhi's subordinates saw her, they would assume it was a small pet Lin Xingzhi had bought back because he felt lonely.

But it was truly strange. In the past, whenever Prince Jing encountered pets, they would reject his closeness. This rabbit, however, was foolishly foolish and didn't know how to hide.

Shen Yao: ……

If she knew she was being called foolish, Shen Yao would definitely jump up and kick those people's knees.

Simply bullying humans/rabbits too much!

If it weren't for watching the spectacle and being innocently affected, and being chased by a monk and a Taoist without letup, how would Shen Yao have resumed her rabbit form to hide and recuperate?

Truly, stepping out the door she could encounter a great calamity falling from the sky. This Floating Clouds City clashed with her!

Planning to leave Floating Clouds City for other towns after regaining human form this time, Shen Yao continued to bury herself in eating and drinking.

Mm

Not to mention anything else, Lin Xingzhi was truly rich. As expected of someone of royal birth!

These past few days Shen Yao hadn't stayed in vain; she already understood Lin Xingzhi's situation from childhood to adulthood. After all, on the premise that she didn't actively expose herself as a demon, Lin Xingzhi was even less likely to suspect that a rabbit had any problems.

Even every night he would hold the rabbit and complain about things he couldn't say to others.

Shen Yao ate melon while also having to soothe this beautiful little chatterbox. Truly pitiful. Indeed, royal family affection was scarce. With just a few people they could cause such a ruckus. If it were replaced by a royal family capable of bearing children, wouldn't it develop into a great brawl?

"The Former Emperor was muddleheaded, causing the court to be filled with smoke and haze. It was only after His Imperial Brother ascended that things gradually recovered clarity."

Lin Xingzhi lay on the bed, holding the white rabbit in his arms and raising his hand to stroke it. "This time I left the capital out of sheer helplessness. However, His Imperial Brother has always looked after me." Even for the sake of his future quality of life in the capital, he could not refuse.

After listening, Shen Yao rubbed her head against Lin Xingzhi's chin and neck. The slight itchiness made him unable to help but laugh.

The vibration in his chest was obvious, like sitting in a small boat rocking back and forth. Shen Yao shook her head, and finally leaned dizzily in Lin Xingzhi's arms. Forget it, forget it. The embrace of a beauty still made her happy.

What should have been a tender moment was shattered by Lin An's arrival, the room's warmth broken.

Lin Xingzhi rose, his aura radiating outward, all trace of his former gentleness gone.

"Your Highness."

Lin An buried his head low, wishing he could find a crack in the earth to crawl into.

"Speak."

Floating Clouds City was full of complex affairs; Lin Xingzhi could hide behind the scenes and slack off, but Lin An and the others were out before the public with troubles aplenty, and coming to find Lin Xingzhi now meant they were surely uncertain what to do.

"Someone in the government office committed suicide out of fear of guilt, so the investigation had to slow down; I fear, I fear someone is doing this deliberately."

After all, some things cannot stop, otherwise no matter how much they investigate there will be no gains.

This time they came ostensibly to handle the chaos in Floating Clouds City, but actually also to intimidate other scoundrels, not expecting to solve all troubles at once, as long as they could restrain themselves somewhat the trip would not be in vain.

"Do not be afraid, the investigation continues; if anything happens, this prince will personally resolve it."

Lin Xingzhi's title of Prince Jing was still very useful; among the Former Emperor's children, few remained alive, and he still had some influence among them.

Unless they wanted to lose their family's lives over this, very few would dare move against Lin Xingzhi.

Lin An bowed and withdrew at the word, and Lin Xingzhi turned his head to pull Shen Yao beside him into his embrace.

With her vision raised and her body lifted into the air, Shen Yao, already very accustomed to this, nestled skillfully into Lin Xingzhi's embrace, her three-part lips constantly rubbing against him.

Lin Xingzhi smiled, raised his hand to bring Shen Yao before his eyes and stroked her, "Truly obedient."

Shen Yao:...

Sometimes Shen Yao did not quite understand the behavior of those who automatically lowered their tone when speaking to small animals, but this did not hinder Lin Xingzhi from being a beauty.

"By the way, am I love-struck?" Shen Yao looked at the handsome face right before her eyes, unable to resist moving her three-part lips to kiss him.

"... Host, you only just noticed?" The system was surprised, thinking that these days the host had been as if possessed, never expecting Lin Xingzhi to have a succubus attribute; there had been no such person in those previous worlds.

Shen Yao turned her rabbit face and pressed tightly against Lin Xingzhi, "He really is good-looking."

Human instinct at work, no one could resist something excessively beautiful.

"Host, keep it up; looking at him, his health seems poor, probably not yet married."

The system's phrasing was tactful, after all, according to its analysis of the body data it scanned, Lin Xingzhi was not merely in poor health—this was clearly the appearance of an early death.

If not for meeting this love-struck host, Lin Xingzhi would never have offspring in this lifetime.

Oh, one cannot put it so absolutely; thinking of the ever-expanding Eighth Lady, the system muttered that perhaps some demon had been bewitched by beauty and taken a fancy to this handsome face.

"Cough cough, cough cough cough."

Lin Xingzhi turned his body and could not help coughing, until his subordinate delivered the medicinal soup on time.

"Take it away."

Spending all day with medicinal soups, his body smelled of bitterness.

Lin Xingzhi rarely threw a tantrum, his brow tightly furrowed, absolutely refusing to drink this bowl of medicinal soup.

As a subordinate, he naturally could not make a forceful demand, only tactfully persuade, but it was useless.

Finally the medicinal soup was taken away, and Lin Xingzhi held Shen Yao to bed to rest.

"I have been drinking medicine since I can remember; now I can no longer recall how long it has been."

Only knowing that bitterness never goes away, at midnight in dreams, alone one is especially sorrowful.

When he was young in the Imperial Palace he was not favored; his Mother Consort was of ordinary birth, and later when his elder brother ascended the throne, his days became somewhat better.

In his youth, Lin Xingzhi had once envied those healthy, unrestrained brothers and sisters; later when trouble occurred in the Imperial Palace, those brothers and sisters died or were exiled, only he, because of his health, was excluded from the start.

"Perhaps I should be grateful; to this day, I still live very well."

Even though his reputation among people in Kyoto was not high, when going out no one dared say anything disrespectful to him; he was Sheng Di's younger brother, Li Guo's Prince Jing, a single word could decide many people's fates.

Thinking this way, he was luckier than most people in this country.

A smile unconsciously spilled from the corner of his lips; Lin Xingzhi pulled Shen Yao forward a bit, and by the way buried his head against the white rabbit's soft fur.

Shen Yao:...

Shen Yao tilted her head, using a pair of ruby-like eyes to size up the young man before her who had closed his eyes and fallen asleep.

Beneath the corner of his eye one could still see dark discoloration; his face was thin and without flesh, stray hair and hair at his temples fell down, adorning one side of his jaw and the area around his neck and shoulders.

Shen Yao sniffed with her nose and sighed in her heart, "His illness is truly severe."

Such a beauty, to perish in the not-too-distant future is truly a pity.

Shen Yao, addled by beauty, simply helped out a little; she could not solve the root problem of Lin Xingzhi's body, but could alleviate his discomfort.

System:...

The system was dumbfounded; was the host truly somewhat abnormal?!

"Calm down, I cannot let the child have no father," Shen Yao said openly and aboveboard.

After all, her main mission was not yet complete; now meeting someone who was quite good in every way except poor health, paying an appropriate price was not a loss.

Otherwise where would she find such a high-quality match? Power, looks, and background—nothing lacking, and still single to this day.

System:...

The system found it somewhat difficult to refute, because there were not many royal family members currently in Li Guo.

The emperor currently on the throne had ascended only a few years ago, yet the Imperial Harem already had countless Imperial Consorts, and offspring numbering in the double digits.

Compared to him, Lin Xingzhi was practically a breath of fresh air; what was there to be picky about? People must accept some imperfection.

After his bodily illness was alleviated, Lin Xingzhi, already fallen into a deep sleep, did not know he was being discussed, and that even a wife had appeared.

After all, he was a patient who would not live long and had long given up the thought of marrying and having children.

Even the emperor in the palace would not deliberately make things difficult for him in this regard; who would have thought that just stepping out the door, everything would be there.

A new day; Lin Xingzhi changed his clothes and personally went out to receive the government office personnel who had been left cooling their heels for several days.

Shen Yao was left alone in the room; although Lin Xingzhi had thoughtfully prepared all the food and drink, she still felt empty and bored.

The rabbit that had been jumping in place returned to human form the next second; Shen Yao raised her hand and touched her cheek—yes, the familiar touch made her feel at ease.

"Host, how do you plan to come clean to Lin Xingzhi?"

The system watched the spectacle with a smug look, feeling that for something like turning into a living person, the ancients' acceptance was still too low.

"It depends on the situation," if the feelings were right, whether she was human or not was no problem; if the feelings weren't right, even if she was beautiful as a fairy, it was useless.

Signaling the system to put away its face that wanted to watch the spectacle, Shen Yao raised her hand and conjured a Water Mirror.

The person in the mirror, unseen for many days, still had a good complexion; though not stunningly beautiful, she had gained a touch of fresh and lovely grace.

Forming hand seals to cast the spell, Shen Yao appeared at Lan Yuan not far away the next second.

She had paid a lot of silver earlier, and this room was still her residence for now.

Calling the Floating Clouds Inn shop assistant to set a table full of dishes with color, fragrance, and taste, Shen Yao let loose her belly and stuffed herself heartily.

At Lin Xingzhi's place she was doing well, except the food was too monotonous.

After all, she couldn't expect Lin Xingzhi to understand the thoughts of a rabbit spirit.

Right now Lin Xingzhi wasn't here; the first thing Shen Yao did when she sneaked back was to worship her five viscera temple, and the Floating Clouds Inn shop assistants, seeing the God of Wealth appear again, couldn't hide the smiles on their faces no matter what.

Shen Yao:...

This is the charm of money! No one can stop it!

After a grand display, Shen Yao returned to rabbit form before Lin Xingzhi came back.

"Xue Ling, why do you smell somewhat fragrant?" Not incense in the traditional sense, but the aroma of food.

Hearing this, Shen Yao twitched her three-lipped mouth and rubbed against Lin Xingzhi's face back and forth.

Lin Xingzhi:... The taste is even stronger.

Lin Xingzhi, who had been busy with proper business all day and completely forgotten to eat, only now felt somewhat hungry, so he simply raised his hand to order dinner from the inn.

Yes, he had eaten to the point of being full, which was rare, and Lin Xingzhi did not refuse the soup and medicine he had to drink before sleep like before.

Shen Yao obediently nestled in Lin Xingzhi's arms; her pair of snow-white ears twitched, and she almost wanted to bury her whole head in the other's chest.

Mm, a beauty and a fine scene, truly making the rabbit intoxicated.