Chapter 17: The Taste of a Vixen

Jing Yueqin, eyes bleary with sleep, pushed open the window and looked up at the sky full of stars, pondered for a full second, and reached a conclusion:

"It's night, time to sleep."

She yawned and was about to close the window when she suddenly noticed a poor little thing sitting under the window with knees hugged to her chest.

"Hmm?"

Hearing the movement, Yu Yu turned her head, stammered for a moment, and said:

"Yi... Senior Brother Ren went out, and he told me to come find you if I encountered any problems."

Went out?

Where could he have run off to in the middle of the night?

Jing Yueqin thought for a moment and then gave up on the idea of investigating further.

Anyway, the junior brother couldn't get lost; he would have to come home sooner or later.

"Then why didn't you wake me up?"

Yu Yu thought about the door she had just knocked on without any response, and said in a low voice:

"I just arrived."

Although only a short half-day had passed, Yu Yu had already grown a lot by this moment.

The world is cruel; acting spoiled is useless!

"Is that so."

Squinting at the young girl, Jing Yueqin didn't say anything more and closed the window.

Click.

Yu Yu did not leave, but remained sitting in the same spot, looking up at the starry sky.

Just when Yu Yu thought this night would pass just like this, the door to the side was slowly pushed open.

Creak—

Jing Yueqin, in black clothes and with red hair, walked out barefoot, sat directly beside the little girl, and hugged her knees to watch the sky with her.

The two unfamiliar senior and junior sisters sat quietly together like this, looking up at the sky full of stars above Luoyue Peak.

After an unknown amount of time, Jing Yueqin suddenly spoke:

"What are you thinking about?"

Hugging her knees tighter, Yu Yu shook her head and remained silent.

Jing Yueqin did not press her, but instead said:

"In the past, there was also a guy who watched the night sky all night long, and I asked him the same question. Do you know what he said?"

Yu Yu turned her head to look at Senior Sister, seeing a pair of gentle eyes like rippling water under the moonlight.

Jing Yueqin smiled, recalling the scene from back then, and chuckled:

"He said he was thinking of home."

Thinking of home.

Under this night sky, how many people want to go home but cannot return?

Yu Yu knew almost nothing about this Senior Sister, but at this moment, she only felt that the other person was so beautiful and gentle.

Even if this gentleness was not given to her.

Looking at the stunned Junior Sister, Jing Yueqin asked:

"Do you want me to send you home?"

"... Can I?"

"Of course, as long as you wish."

Yu Yu immediately wanted to agree, but fell into silence before the words could leave her mouth, and finally shook her head with difficulty.

Eh?

The rarely gentle Peak Master was a bit curious; how did the young girl who was just looking at the moon and missing her hometown suddenly change her mind?

"Can you tell me the reason?"

Yu Yu hugged her knees tighter and spoke in a low voice:

"... I caused trouble for my mother; she must still be angry with me. I will go see her after her anger fades."

This was not the entire reason.

Yu Yu had a vague feeling in her heart that if she agreed to Senior Sister at this moment, she might never be able to come back.

Although she didn't have much affection for this place, she didn't want to regret it one day in the future.

When she was very young, Yu Yu had already known what her future would look like.

She would be like her mother, taking in a live-in son-in-law one day, then giving birth to her own children, and repeating the cycle that had remained unchanged for thousands of years.

Before this, she hadn't felt there was anything wrong with it, nor had she thought about resisting anything.

At the very beginning, Yu Yu only wanted to go home, to return to her mother's side.

But after Yu Yu followed Ren Yidao for half a day, she felt her world had been completely overturned.

Here, she had seen Immortals flying in the sky stepping on clouds, seen rabbits bigger than oxen, and also seen a fox with eight tails...

Everything here made her feel a sense of novelty.

Thus, an unfamiliar voice sprouted in the depths of her heart:

"I don't want to live that kind of life anymore."

This was not a betrayal of her past life, but because she had already seen something better.

Yu Yu sat here watching the moon, not just missing her family, but also struggling with her own heart.

Fortunately, in the end, she reached an answer.

Stay here.

And once she had completely made up her mind in her heart, Yu Yu felt her body and mind become incomparably relaxed.

The relaxed young girl's mind became active again, returning to the quirky girl she was in the past.

Rolling her eyes, Yu Yu leaned toward her gentle Senior Sister and asked the question that had been weighing on her heart all day:

"Senior Sister, Foster... Senior Brother Ren, what kind of person is he exactly?"

The scene of that bright moon rushing toward him when they first met was truly too stunning, making it impossible for Yu Yu to forget it to this day.

It was even more impossible to reconcile that Immortal of the time with the young man who insisted on being her Foster Father later on.

One revealed wildness and arrogance in his bones, while the other's smile overflowed with undisguised wicked humor.

Which of these two was the real him?

And the Luoyue Peak Senior Sister didn't even think about it, speaking confidently:

"Him? He is a little fellow who loves to act spoiled."

"……Ah?"

Looking at her Junior Sister who had fallen into a daze, Senior Sister hummed in satisfaction twice.

Hmph hmph~

As expected, she is still young and unable to see through the essence of things.

He grows such a flashy tail, isn't it just because he wants people to touch it!

Tempting me every day yet refusing to admit it, what a little spoiled brat!

"Don't worry, you will understand in the future~"

Although she didn't know what Senior Sister was proud of, Yu Yu felt that the distance between her and her had closed quite a bit!

"Oh, oh oh."

Although she didn't understand anything, Yu Yu still chose to believe in the kind and gentle Senior Sister.

Senior Sister is truly both gentle and beautiful, much better than that stinky Senior Brother!

If Ren Yidao had not been busy taking revenge that night, he would definitely have repeatedly reminded Yu Yu.

Who was the most terrifying tumor of Luoyue Peak!

Who was the true Demon of the world of the Divine Path Sect!

But unfortunately, he forgot.

And what was even more unfortunate was that Jing Yueqin's hair today...

Was red.

And as Jing Yueqin watched Yu Yu gradually let down her guard, the corners of her mouth curled into an evil, charming arc.

"It's about time~"

She smiled and raised her hand, lightly tapping Yu Yu's brow.

"Come, come, come, Senior Sister will share some more good things with you! Some sensations you have never experienced before~"

What?

Before Yu Yu could react, she felt a taste she had never tasted before suddenly appear in her mouth.

"Mm?"

What is this taste?

Why does it feel like I've smelled it somewhere before?

It seems to be photinia...

"Hehehehehe."

Like a weird uncle who looked at a young girl's reaction with pride after telling a dirty joke, Jing Yueqin chuckled weirdly:

"How does the taste of a fox spirit feel?"

Yu Yu:?

"What fox spirit?"

Without giving Yu Yu a chance to continue asking, Jing Yueqin lightly curled her finger.

Three, two, one...

"It's coming~"

"What's coming, ah—"

The bewildered young girl suddenly hugged her body tight, clamped her limbs together, twitched violently twice, and then fell into a coma without even a groan.

Thump.

Her nose twitched, sensing the gradually spreading fragrance, and Jing Yueqin showed a satisfied smile at the young girl who had collapsed at the base of the wall.

"That's right, this is the taste of a fox spirit~"

……

……

Yu Mansion.

"Lord Ren, I beg you, don't, don't..."

In her sleep, Lady Yu turned over and muttered:

"Don't stop..."