Chapter 273: A one-day tour of the Demon Pill world, begins

Nezha seemed to half-understand this, yet he asked a question.

"What is love? Why lie to people?"

"Love? Love is when one person likes another person."

Nezha's pupils shifted slightly. "What is 'liking'?"

"'Liking'?" Tang An rested her chin on her hand and thought for a moment. "Based on my experience from watching so many palace dramas, ancient romance dramas, and 'domineering CEO falls in love with me' novels..."

"'Liking' is having your heart stirred."

"Having your heart stirred is... um..."

"Having your heart stirred means your heart beats faster. It means that the moment you see her, you can't help but feel happy. You get so nervous your palms sweat, and you find yourself swayed by her every emotion."

"Anyway, liking someone should be a mix of sweet, sour, bitter, and spicy."

In truth, she felt guilty saying this, because all her experience came from reading books and watching shows.

What it was really like, she didn't know; she had never experienced it.

Nezha listened to Tang An's endless stream of words, and the look of long-standing confusion in his eyes suddenly cleared.

He covered his heart and looked down at his own palm.

Then, his gaze turned toward Tang An.

In that moment, he felt as if he had stumbled into a whole new world.

It was also in that moment that his heartbeat seemed to skip a beat, followed immediately by a frantic fluttering like a startled deer; his mind was in chaos, yet he was overwhelmed with joy.

He seemed to understand.

"Anyway, that's the gist of it. Did you understand?"

As soon as Tang An finished speaking and looked up, she met Nezha's eyes.

In those eyes, there was excitement, happiness, a flutter of emotion, and a sincere radiance.

Tang An was familiar with this look. Wasn't that the look the male lead gave the female lead in dramas when he first fell in love?

Wait a minute...

Tang An suddenly looked up again, her heart letting out a series of explosions!

"What the hell?"

"It can't be!"

"No way, no way. He just understood the concept. He's looked at me like this before, right! Yes!"

"Right, he's just curious and learning what the male leads in her picture books look like. Yes! That's it!"

Tang An's heart went *thump-thump*. She panicked and wanted to do something to distract herself.

As a result, she dropped her pen, messed up her books, and almost twisted her ankle, falling flat on the ground.

Nezha grabbed her forearm, the smile at the corners of his mouth no longer hidden. It was even a bit mischievous, a secret, smug satisfaction of having succeeded.

"Master?"

Nezha walked closer to Tang An, and Tang An took a step back.

He walked forward again, and Tang An retreated again.

Until Tang An had nowhere left to retreat, backing into a tree, almost hitting her head.

Nezha's hand moved first to protect the back of her head, also pinning Tang An into a corner with no escape.

His eyes were filled with possessiveness and aggression, because he understood, and subconsciously, he wanted Tang An to understand too.

He didn't understand what it meant to take things one step at a time; he only knew how to follow his heart.

Tang An swallowed hard. She liked handsome men, and she had fantasized about the shameful scene of being pinned against a wall by a domineering CEO.

But... this was too shameful!

"Wu..." Before she could finish shouting, Nezha leaned over, his face magnified right in front of her.

"Master, your face is red."

What was going on? What did that mischievous smile mean? The 'secretly smug brother' had become the 'openly smug brother,' hadn't he?

Fine, so the little brat had learned to be bad and dared to tease her?

Tang An suddenly stopped dodging and lunged toward Nezha's face.

Nezha was caught off guard by Tang An and panicked, subconsciously taking a step back.

Tang An took another step forward, and Nezha, in his panic, retreated two more steps.

As a result, his retreat was too messy, and his heart was even messier. He stepped on some loose gravel and actually fell on his butt.

"Pfft, hahaha~ Is that it? You want to tease your master?"

As a tenth-level reader of romance novels and a loyal fan of all kinds of dramas, could she be intimidated by a kid?

Thinking of this, she walked up to Nezha, leaned over to look at him, and met his eyes, neither dodging nor avoiding, even acting quite cocky.

"With my charm, it's only natural for people, young or old, to like me."

"But don't you dare be obsessed with me, because I'm just a legend."

After saying that, she flicked Nezha on the forehead and went back to writing her picture book.

Nezha opened his mouth to say something, but Tang An shot him a sharp look, and he went silent.

Is this right? Is this right?

She hadn't just teased Nezha until he was smoking; he was practically on fire, okay!

Tang An ignored him, letting the little brat awkwardly knock on stones to the side.

That night.

Nezha watched the stars all night, but he couldn't figure out if Tang An had understood his meaning or not.

The next morning.

Tang An had just woken up when she saw Nezha returning with steamed buns.

Tang An always felt that Nezha was the same as before, yet it seemed like something was different.

Hmm, it seems the child has really grown up, hit puberty, and is becoming harder and harder to understand.

Whose daughter is so capable that she's hooked our Nezha into looking like this?

Sun Wukong saw this scene and covered his mouth to the side, laughing until he was practically convulsing.

Yang Jian looked down and pressed his lips together, afraid that if he laughed out loud, Nezha would jump up in a rage.

"Master, are we going down to the Bichu Kingdom?" Yang Jian changed the subject, opening the conversation.

"Bichu Kingdom?" After washing up, Tang An stuffed a large bun into her mouth. "That's the City of Children, or maybe it can be renamed Bichu City later."

She, Tang An, had come once again to expand the territory for the Great Tang.

"By the way, did you ensure the safety of those children last night?"

"Rest assured, Master. The children are fine. They were all safely returned to their respective homes last night, and I left Jiuyue and Xiaotian Quan to keep an eye on the palace's movements."

Sun Wukong also said, "Rest assured, Master. The children my monkey hair turned into—they won't be able to spot the flaw for a while."

Tang An took the Lie Kong Claw out of the Wealth Gathering Ring. "Since that's the case, before this tribulation officially begins, we need to go to one place."

Since she had obtained this treasure, she couldn't let its abilities gather dust.

"What place?" Sun Wukong knew it was time for the 'new way to play' that Tang An had mentioned before.

Tang An looked at Nezha. "Chentang Pass, but a different Chentang Pass."

"Chentang Pass?" Sun Wukong and the others said in unison, all of them puzzled.

A different Chentang Pass—how was it different?

"It's too long-winded to explain. My vocabulary isn't professional enough, and I can't explain this concept clearly."

"But I know that since the Lie Kong Claw is in my hands, it proves that the Heavenly Dao allows me to go to that small world."

"This is my first time playing with space-time travel, so I don't know exactly where we'll be transmitted, or what changes might occur during the process."

"If something goes wrong, remember to use the jade pendant magic tool to find me. You must, must come to fish me out."

As she said this, Tang An waved at the sky. "Master, you remember to fish me out too~"

She had to conduct an experiment, because this concerned whether she could return to the modern era.

Since the Heavenly Dao gave her this thing, it meant the Heavenly Dao allowed her to enter other spaces, or places similar to parallel worlds.

If she could return to the modern era, then in other words, her return to the modern era was inevitable. It was the Heavenly Dao indirectly giving her this key.

If this was true, then it meant that since she was born in the modern era, she carried the causality of the modern era.

Therefore, in the future, there must be things she needed to resolve in the modern era.

Of course, the premise of all her guesses was that the experiment had to succeed.

"Come on, disciples, our one-day tour of the Demon Pill world has begun." ===== CHAPTER 274 =====