Chapter 39

Chapter 39: Poor Little Fox~

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A bright moon slowly rose, casting pure white moonlight over Jade Lotus Peak.

Two beautiful figures were returning from afar.

“I didn’t expect you’d still remember that I needed to eat.”

Lin Muyu touched her round, full belly with a face full of smiles.

Since coming to this world, she had rarely eaten her fill, but this time she actually ate until she was completely satisfied.

All kinds of unknown delicious foods made by spiritual chefs, some of the dishes even contained spiritual energy within them.

After eating, Lin Muyu could feel her body becoming stronger, and the spiritual energy in her dantian becoming more condensed.

Of course, all the food was paid for by the rich lady Miss Su!

Rich lady, food, hungry~

“What are you grinning about? Come down quickly.”

Su Wanqing looked at Lin Muyu, who was grinning foolishly, with the expression of someone looking at an idiot.

“Yes, Senior Sister, I’ll come down right away.”

Having eaten someone’s food, Lin Muyu felt she should be more respectful toward Su Wanqing.

With a light leap, Lin Muyu returned to the front of her simple little house.

“Good night, Senior Sister, see you tomorrow~”

“Good night.”

After a simple farewell with Su Wanqing, Lin Muyu walked to her small house door with light steps.

Just as she was about to push open the door.

“Huh? What’s this?”

Lin Muyu looked at a tuft of white fur in front of the door, startled.

Since this place was on a lotus leaf, basically no animals lived here, at most only birds would fly by.

And this tuft of white fur was clearly not bird feathers.

So… something had gone inside?

At this thought, Lin Muyu’s heart immediately jumped to her throat.

She didn’t have any white-furred acquaintances, and something sneaking into her room in the middle of the night was definitely problematic.

‘I need to find Su Wanqing quickly!’

Without realizing it, Lin Muyu had gradually begun to trust Su Wanqing, she was so reliable.

Just as she turned and took a few steps, she suddenly thought of something and returned to the tuft of white fur, crouching down to examine it.

“Huh? Why does this look so familiar?”

Lin Muyu picked up the white fur and rubbed it carefully between her fingers. Hmm… this texture.

“Could this be from the little fox?!”

She felt it more carefully.

This texture was clearly from the little fox in the tower during the day!

“But why would the little fox be in my house?”

With questions in mind, Lin Muyu gently pushed open the wooden door.

What came into view was an ordinary-sized yellow wooden cage with various intricate patterns carved on it, extraordinarily exquisite.

And inside the cage was a fox curled up into a ball of white fur!

“Little fox, why are you here?”

Lin Muyu hurried to the cage and tapped it with her hand, asking the little fox with confusion.

The little fox heard the newcomer’s movement, and a flash of joy appeared in its narrow eyes as it quickly stood up.

It picked up a piece of paper with its mouth.

Lin Muyu took the paper with her hand and glanced at the words on it.

The writing on the paper was like elementary school chicken scratch, and Lin Muyu had to work very hard to translate it.

“This handwriting… is worse than my students’.”

After a brief complaint, Lin Muyu began reading carefully.

“Yu’er, Master thought about it and realized that after you entered the sect, Master hasn’t given you any gifts.”

‘That’s actually true. I heard other masters give entrance gifts? But this guy definitely forgot!’

“It just so happened that Master encountered a lost little fox on the road, so I’m giving it to Yu’er as a gift.”

‘Really that coincidental?!’

“This little fox is quite good at fighting. If you encounter someone you can’t beat, just let it go bite them!”

‘…This is a little fox, not a dog!’

“But if this little fox bares its teeth at you, don’t worry. Just knock its head and teach it a good lesson, it won’t fight back.”

‘The little fox is so cute, surely it wouldn’t do that? But if it really does, I do have experience educating small animals!’

“You can also ask it for anything you need in the future. It can handle things in Master’s place, and it’s even possible for it to transform into a fox girl~”

‘Could it be Doraemon Fox?’

“No need to thank Master. If you really must thank me, then wash yourself clean and come be my body pillow~”

‘…Never mind then. If this guy sleeps for dozens of days, wouldn’t I get all smelly?’

“Your most beloved, most mighty, most powerful, most amazing, most beautiful… Master, Xinlian.”

“…?”

Lin Muyu’s expression and heart were quite colorful after reading this note.

Especially the signature at the bottom, written with golden glittering letters for emphasis.

If she didn’t know who wrote it, she would have thought she’d encountered a narcissistic “elementary student.”

“Is this really my Master?”

Deep doubt flashed in Lin Muyu’s starlike pupils.

“Not only unreliable, but also very narcissistic…”

Looking at the last line of the note, Lin Muyu fell somewhat silent.

The first time she met Xinlian, she thought she was a powerful and mysterious venerable.

The second time she met Xinlian, she thought she was just an unreliable master who only loved drinking and sleeping.

And this time, she saw through Xinlian.

This was clearly just an unreliable narcissist!

However, what she didn’t know was that Xinlian really did have the ability to be narcissistic.

The little fox saw that Lin Muyu had finished reading the note, so it pitifully tapped the cage, begging Lin Muyu to let it out.

Before Lin Muyu could make any move, a pair of smooth hands suddenly embraced her slender waist, and a meaningful mature woman’s voice came from behind.

“Oh? Yu’er thinks your master is very narcissistic?”

Lin Muyu’s body immediately stiffened. She was very familiar with that voice.

Because it was her Master Xinlian’s voice!

The little fox saw the person behind Lin Muyu, buried its head, immediately curled into a ball, and trembled slightly.

“That, that, Mas-Master, you… came?”

Lin Muyu’s voice trembled slightly with a small stutter.

She regretted it now, forgetting that this was the cultivation world where speaking ill of the strong would be detected…

Sure enough, she was immediately confronted.

“Doesn’t Yu’er want your master to come?”

Xinlian’s tone rose, and the hand embracing Lin Muyu’s slender waist suddenly pinched the soft flesh at her waist.

Lin Muyu’s body immediately trembled.

If she said she didn’t want her to come, it felt like her waist would be pinched until it bruised.

So she quickly said:

“How could that be! Master, you can come to my place anytime you want!”

“Really?”

Xinlian’s eyebrows curved slightly as she satisfactorily released the hand pinching the soft flesh.

“Really!” Lin Muyu’s tone was certain.

‘No matter what, I need to appease her first!’

“Then your master won’t be polite. From now on, Yu’er will be your master’s body pillow at night!”

Xinlian naturally carried Lin Muyu to the bed, holding her like a body pillow in her arms, and began to sleep.

“?”

‘No way, she’s actually serious?’

‘I don’t want to be a body pillow!’

The restrained Lin Muyu’s face fell.

‘What to do, what to do.’

Just as she began to think hard about countermeasures.

The sound of peaceful sleeping came from behind her.

It seemed she’d have to be a body pillow again… wuu wuu wuu.

And not far away, the little fox in the cage was pitifully clawing at the cage.

“Hey, what are you two doing? Can you let this fox out first! This fox doesn’t want to stay in a cage!”

In the quiet night, only the long-sleepless Lin Muyu and the constantly wailing little fox remained.

Not far away, there was also another sleepless person.

“Senior Sister’s medicine can only suppress it for one month. After one month, the poison will erupt even more violently. What should I do?”

A trace of anxiety appeared on Su Wanqing’s cold face as she looked through the window toward another small house.

What was she thinking about in her heart?