Chapter 639: Bound to the Child-Bearing System, Becoming a Winner in Life Chapter 640: Background Rabbit Spirit (12)

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Main Character:

Shen Yao

Lin Xingzhi didn't know he had just walked a circle around the Gates of Ghosts.

At this time, he was still handling affairs in Jiangning City; the people at the Government Office were all shrewd, and even though they clearly knew Prince Jing hadn't come to do anything good, with the Floating Cloud City matter laid out before them, they all behaved with very low postures.

Lin Xingzhi:...

Lin Xingzhi truly had fire he couldn't vent; after all, what they did wasn't wrong, and in a sense, they were currying favor with the Emperor who was far away in Kyoto and unable to come.

"Lin An, take these to the Government Office and hand them to the Prefect there."

Lin Xingzhi raised his hand to rub his temples; after working in the office for several consecutive hours, his head felt quite dizzy and swollen.

Lin An respectfully agreed, turned around, picked up the processed account books, and left.

Squeak—

Shen Yao pushed open the study door with her pregnant belly, and seeing Lin Xingzhi supporting his forehead with both hands, eyes closed and silent, she hurried over and placed her hand on his shoulder.

The touch on his shoulder made Lin Xingzhi react instantly; he raised his hand and vaguely held it, "Why did you come?"

"Lying down all the time makes my body tired, so I came to see you," Shen Yao smiled as she sat in his arms, her round belly very eye-catching.

Lin Xingzhi unconsciously revealed a smile, "Has the child been bothering you?"

Having entered late pregnancy, Shen Yao's fetal movements were obvious, especially when Lin Xingzhi gently placed his hand on her abdomen, the child interacted with him frequently.

Their two hands overlapped in one place; Shen Yao lowered her eyes, nodded slightly, then shook her head, "It's fine."

"Yao Niang has worked hard," Lin Xingzhi lowered his head to lean close to her, the apology in his words impossible to hide.

"Because I am pregnant, Xingzhi has worked hard all the way; how is it just me alone?"

They both had a sense of responsibility; after Shen Yao became pregnant, she received more comprehensive care, even occasionally slacking off to use demonic power to soothe the child compared to Lin Xingzhi.

The tenderness between the two made the surrounding atmosphere extremely harmonious, and also caused the appearance of certain people to be even more glaring.

"Who came to visit?"

After staying in the study for a while, Lin Xingzhi originally intended to support Shen Yao for late dinner, but unexpectedly a servant came to report that someone was kneeling at the doorway and refusing to get up.

Lin Xingzhi:?!?!

Lin Xingzhi glanced at his wife whose 'stamina was insufficient,' and had no choice but to forcibly suppress his anger.

He waved his hand to have someone go soothe them first, then returned to the residence with Shen Yao.

"Xingzhi"

Shen Yao learned from the system first that the person outside was the fox demon Hua Yue, and the other party was planning to take unconventional measures.

"Yao Niang"

Lin Xingzhi comforted Shen Yao not to worry, it was just a small matter, he would go and return quickly.

Shen Yao:...

It was just that she feared the other party had a scheme; Lin Xingzhi going there might not necessarily get a good outcome.

Wrapping both arms around Lin Xingzhi's arm to act coquettish and silly, Shen Yao lightly tapped in the blind spot of his vision, and the demonic energy she condensed stamped a rune onto Lin Xingzhi's back out of thin air.

The rune carried a light, but after flickering for a moment, it merged into his body and disappeared. This was the simplest Spirit-Locking Talisman, capable of locking a person's spiritual wisdom so they wouldn't be confused.

Shen Yao didn't know what the fox demon wanted to do? But demons acting had only a few methods.

Smiling, she released Lin Xingzhi's arm, and Shen Yao watched him leave.

On the other side, Lin Xingzhi, who had left the room, hurried to the doorway.

Around the fox demon Hua Yue had already gathered a crowd of commoners who came to watch the excitement.

After all, such a beautiful girl appearing at the door of a mansion of either rich or noble status must have an extraordinary relationship with the owner here.

Since ancient times, romantic rumors have been widespread.

The fox demon Hua Yue didn't understand this principle, but after thinking it over, she still had no better way to contact Prince Jing.

Even if she inquired through the channels of Jing Hong Guan, including the people inside Jing Hong Guan were intentionally or unintentionally telling her not to make useless efforts.

The fox demon Hua Yue was already hesitant, and with Jiang Sheng constantly urging and begging her, she finally thought she might as well take a risky gamble once—high risk, high reward; besides, she was a Great Demon, and in Jiangning City, her opponents could be counted on one hand, so no matter what, she wouldn't be harmed herself.

It was also at this time that the nature of a demon was fully exposed; the fox demon didn't think at all about Lin Xingzhi's outcome. The beautiful love in storybooks, placed in reality, was nothing more than this.

"Move aside, move aside!"

Lin Xingzhi exited from inside the door, looking at the fox demon Hua Yue with an indifferent expression.

"This Prince thought it was someone? The top courtesan of Jing Hong Guan kneeling at the door—what is this for?

If you have a grievance, you should report it to the Prefect."

Lin Xingzhi most detested certain people's self-righteousness; he only said he had already sent someone to invite the Prefect of Jiangning City, and the rights and wrongs would be known with one question.

The fox demon Hua Yue:...

"Your Highness"

Hua Yue's eyes glistened with tears, her body swaying, a posture of a weak willow in the wind that made everyone feel heartache.

Lin Xingzhi remained unmoved, standing on the stairs at the doorway without even glancing at her.

Affected!

Even if the fox demon Hua Yue was bewitchingly beautiful, it was impossible to make Lin Xingzhi's heart flutter.

This of course wasn't because Lin Xingzhi was such a saintly gentleman; it was purely that the fox demon's affected manner reminded him of those man-eating beauties in the Imperial Harem.

As one of the few remaining offspring of the Former Emperor, Lin Xingzhi had seen too many such venomous beauties; the top courtesan of Jing Hong Guan? If she entered the palace, she probably couldn't even last a month.

Seeing Lin Xingzhi's iron heart with no reaction, the fox demon Hua Yue had no choice but to continue her affected pretense, and incidentally cried with the air of pear blossoms bringing rain.

Lin Xingzhi:...

Lin Xingzhi's patience was exhausted; he only had the servants wait for the Prefect to arrive, while he turned and entered the courtyard to accompany his pregnant wife.

Seeing that Lin Xingzhi actually intended to leave, the Fox Yaoguai Hua Yue rose from the ground without a word, her palm gathering Yaoguai power as she lunged straight at him.

"Ah!!!"

Lin Xingzhi subconsciously looked back, only to see the Fox Yaoguai as if controlled by something, suddenly flung away out of thin air.

Bang!

She crashed heavily onto the ground and rolled several times; the Fox Yaoguai turned her head and vomited blood, her expression full of disbelief.

No, impossible!

How could the other party have a Spirit-Locking Talisman, and such profound Yaoguai power to fling her away!

The Fox Yaoguai, who had always been extremely confident in herself, suddenly felt a lingering fear; just now, she had nearly met with disaster!

No matter how loud the startled cries of the Wedding Guests around her, Hua Yue's only concern right now was her own life; she scrambled up from the ground, vomiting blood as she climbed into the Carriage at the side, not stopping until the Carriage disappeared into the streets and lanes.

Lin Xingzhi lowered his eyes to look at the patches of crimson bloodstains left on the ground; if not for the evidence still there, he would have thought everything that just happened was an illusion.

"Shut the door!"

Without further ado, Lin Xingzhi directly ordered the servants to shut the doors tight, while he considered whether to invite the masters from Ping An Temple to come exorcise the Yaoguai.

"Of course, this Yaoguai intended to attack Xingzhi; it is only right to ask the masters to drive it away."

With this big-mouthed System, it would be hard for Shen Yao not to know of Lin Xingzhi's ordeal.

Fortunately, she had left a Rune on Lin Xingzhi; otherwise, when the Fox Yaoguai's Yaoguai nature gained the upper hand, Lin Xingzhi, a mere mortal, would surely have suffered.

"Yao Niang, if we invite the masters, you here..." he worried Shen Yao would be implicated because of this.

Lin Xingzhi had not forgotten that his own wife was also a Yaoguai.

Shen Yao smiled and soothed Lin Xingzhi, "No matter; pregnancy will temporarily cover my Yaoguai Qi."

As long as Shen Yao does not actively leak her own Yaoguai Qi, not to mention the masters of Ping An Temple, even the high monks of Kyoto would not discover any problem.

Having received Shen Yao's repeated guarantees, Lin Xingzhi finally invited the masters of Ping An Temple to the door. Together with the Prefect who rushed over afterwards, they discussed a solution regarding the matter of the Jing Hong Guan's Oiran.

"Such a Yaoguai actually dares to act so arrogantly in Jiangning City; this old monk will certainly capture it and bring it to justice!"

The master of Ping An Temple had a violent temper; upon hearing that a Yaoguai had attacked the current King Jing, he jumped up and down demanding it be beaten to death.

The Prefect shared this sentiment; although he also liked the Oiran of Jing Hong Guan and often went there to listen to music and relax, when it involved the official hat on his own head, he naturally had to strangle the danger in the cradle.

The matter was thus settled; Lin Xingzhi, considering safety, temporarily closed his doors and did not go out. By the Prefect's order, the entire city launched a manhunt for the Oiran of Jing Hong Guan, claiming the Yaoguai harmed people and could not be tolerated.

Related notices were pasted all over the streets; by the time Jiang Sheng saw them, the sky had fallen.

Ah?!

He only had Hua Yue use her looks to help introduce him to King Jing; how did it stir up such a huge commotion!

The notice also said Hua Yue is a Yaoguai, a Yaoguai? Jiang Sheng turned and walked toward his Residence, his mind constantly recalling every detail of his interactions with Hua Yue.

Hiss

The more he thought, the stranger it felt; this, Hua Yue, the Oiran of Jing Hong Guan, most likely really is a Yaoguai!

"Jiang Lang"

Jiang Sheng's eyes widened as he looked at Hua Yue, who had appeared out of thin air in his room; his whole body went numb with fright.

How did this person/Yaoguai get in here?!

"Jiang Lang, save me, I'm not, I didn't mean to harm King Jing."

Hua Yue was somewhat at a loss right now; she clearly only wanted to use a Small Trick to help, not at all like what the notices posted, how could it, how could it be so serious.

Jiang Sheng:...

It would have been fine if Hua Yue hadn't mentioned it; bringing it up made Jiang Sheng feel a stifled breath stuck in his chest with no way to vent.

Just how stupid can you be!

Taking a deep breath, continuously exhaling to calm his mood, Jiang Sheng patiently soothed the emotionally unstable Hua Yue, "I know Yue Niang is not that kind of person.

It's just that King Jing is a current royal prince, while we are mere Commoners; we fundamentally cannot afford to offend him.

For now, the plan is for Yue Niang to leave Jiangning first."

After all, Jiang Sheng could hardly make King Jing leave; what sort of Platoon/standing does he have!

Hearing Jiang Sheng's analysis, the expression on Hua Yue's face still showed some hesitation.

She had lived in Jiangning City for a very long time; leaving Jiangning meant cutting ties with all that past.

And Jiang Sheng was still in Jiangning City; Hua Yue did not want to be too far from Jiang Sheng.

Jiang Sheng:...

Jiang Sheng's smiling face nearly couldn't be maintained; he thought, you're a Yaoguai and still want to stay close to me, is it with the intention of eating me anytime?

Humans' understanding of Yaoguai is one-sided and superficial; those like Lin Xingzhi are extremely rare; most are besotted and reckless when infatuated, but once their lives are possibly threatened, they want to put the Yaoguai to death.

Without even asking, Jiang Sheng had already categorized Hua Yue as an Evil Yaoguai (although Hua Yue indeed cannot be considered a good Yaoguai); on the Surface he acted like it was all for her good, but actually in his heart he was calculating how to shake her off.

Of course, before shaking her off, it would be best to squeeze her value dry.

'Look, this is the true face of men; framing you to death isn't enough, they still want to crush your bones and boil them for soup.'

The System kept following the Fox Yaoguai to observe the aftermath; the Fox Yaoguai's contact with the scholar naturally wasn't missed either.

Seeing the Fox Yaoguai, satisfied and trusting the scholar, choose to temporarily leave Jiangning City, the scholar turned his head and began plotting to murder for money, wanting to obtain the Fox Yaoguai's gold, silver, and treasures.

'Wow, Host, this person is really disgusting!'

The System couldn't help but cry out; although the Fox Yaoguai held malice toward Lin Xingzhi, toward the scholar she was wholeheartedly sincere; moreover, today's situation was entirely caused by the scholar's forced demands; tracing to the root, it was still inseparable from the scholar.

The result? This scholar's two-faced act was so practiced it was astonishing; if not for the System knowing the whole story, one would suspect the scholar had done it on purpose from the start.

'But now it's not much different; the Fox Yaoguai is at a Disadvantage due to impulsive actions; one day if the scholar turns around and bites back, no one will seek justice for her.'

Of course, the fox demon's kin would surely avenge her, but by that time the fox demon would already be dead beyond dying; even if they took revenge, what difference would it make?

System:...

"Host, what should we do about this matter? The fox demon has left Jiangning City; the masters of Ping An Temple cannot possibly keep tracking her forever — most likely it will come to nothing."

"If the fox demon is smart, she leaves Jiangning City and cuts contact with the scholar, and perhaps she can save her life; if she remains obstinate and stays entangled with the scholar, then we will see the aftermath when we return to Kyoto."

The present outcome does not matter; what matters is that the future has already been fixed by destiny.

The matter of the fox demon Hua Yue has fallen into a predicament because the party involved has already left Jiangning City.

The masters of Ping An Temple led their disciples wandering through Jiangning City all day; the Prefect posted notices daily to gather evidence and sent men to patrol constantly.

One day, two days, three days...

The commoners of Jiangning City were harassed until complaints filled the air; the atmosphere on the streets was oppressive, and quite a number of hoodlums and rascals were thrown into the government office on charges of picking quarrels and provoking trouble.

In the end, it was other demons who bore the brunt of the anger that both Ping An Temple and the government office had nowhere to vent.

They had to give King Jing an explanation, after all!

They are all demons — arresting one is the same as arresting another; it does not count as a mistake.

Shen Yao stayed in the mansion to nurture her pregnancy, listening to the System gossip daily about events in Jiangning City, especially the unlucky demons caught by the masters of Ping An Temple, who suffered hardships that had nothing to do with them originally.

Shen Yao:...

In the end Lin Xingzhi still cancelled the arrest notices, saying only that time was pressing and it was truly a crime for one demon to affect the commoners of the entire city; "Let it be, then."

"The Prince is benevolent and kind," the Prefect breathed a sigh of relief — heaven knows how he had spent these days; to say he could not sleep at night would be an understatement.

However, even though the arrests ended, Lin Xingzhi still refused the banquet hosted by the government office on grounds of safety; the scholars and students of Jiangning City were disappointed when they heard, yet they also understood King Jing's concern.

Only the instigator of it all, Jiang Sheng, was so furious he smashed a whole set of the household's commonly used teacups!

King Jing does not attend the banquet — then what use is the invitation I expended so much effort to obtain?

Not daring to blame Lin Xingzhi for his anger, Jiang Sheng turned and pinned the crime on Hua Yue, who was no longer in Jiangning City; in his heart he was already scheming how to eliminate this trouble Hua Yue without anyone knowing.

Heavens have mercy — when Hua Yue left she even gave Jiang Sheng all the gold, silver, pearls and jewels she had saved up, calling it "financial support"; she turned hostile fast enough.