Chapter Twenty: Being cruel to oneself is better than letting him get hurt

  Xun Qing has been feeling a bit uneasy these past few days, especially when he sees Fang Xiaoling's smiling face. He can't quite put his finger on what the feeling is, but ever since that day he returned alone from the teahouse, there's been a blank spot in his memory. All he knows is that whenever he sees Fang Xiaoling, the area near his heart on the right side of his chest starts to ache faintly.

  Fang Xiaoling was also very anxious, unable to monitor Zhang Zuoyan without being noticed, and had to entangle Xun Qing to accompany her. These days, if Xun Qing went out of the house, she would definitely be suspected by those people. Moreover, she had to let the servants secretly buy a few jars of bruise cream outside, creating a fake image of Xun Qing being seriously injured.

  Her few brain cells were all used up on this, and the poor little face had nothing but a stiff smile on it, with no other expression staying for more than a second.

  She had thought about giving Xun Qing a 'seemingly serious' external injury, but after hesitating for a long time, she still couldn't bring herself to do it...

  How embarrassing, I'm indeed a freak in the demon world...

  She sighed, shook her head and quickly cleared the eerie scene of Ah Liu pointing at her nose and loudly mocking her. She bit her teeth, silently bid farewell to her smooth arm, and with a burst of force, she stabbed herself, barely scratching the surface, but still...Damn it, who told her that scratching a little skin would hurt so much!!!

  The air still lingered with the smell of char and the sweet stench of blood, to be honest it didn't smell good at all. Fang Xiaoling sneaked a glance at her own miserable arm, then resolutely looked away, her right hand lightly pulling down the rolled-up sleeve, while her eyebrows were already knotted together, she could easily crush a mosquito to death.

  "Ugh......" From now on, this kind of self-inflicted behavior will never happen again!! Fang Xiaoling muttered to herself, but couldn't make a sound, and could only grit her teeth and bear it.

  However, this world is generally afraid of what comes next.

  The wind chime rang out, its clear and crisp sound piercing the air. Unfortunately, for Fang Xiaoling, this was not a good omen.

  "Auntie, if you continue to humiliate yourself like this, where will our demon clan put its face? To be honest, that Xun fellow is just average, why did you take a liking to him?"

  "A-Liu, you..." Fang Xiaoling stared at the woman who suddenly appeared out of thin air, her face filled with the words "disappear quickly", full of hostility rather than the joy of reuniting with an old friend.

  "Alright, alright, I don't have the slightest interest in that person you care about. I'm just a bit curious, so I came to take a look. After all, you actually used Xiao Ye~ I thought you'd never think of that guy again for the rest of your life?" The soft and gentle voice was easy to get along with, but unfortunately, hundreds of years of getting along had already exposed her extremely troublesome and vicious nature.

  Fang Xiaoling didn't plan on entangling herself with her for too long, she still had a play that hadn't been performed yet, and time was no longer allowing her to make detailed considerations.

  Alyu saw her slightly scorched expression, which added a bit of interest. The years of cultivation had been too dull, and it was rare to have the opportunity to find some fun, how could she let it go like this? "Auntie, is there anywhere I can serve? Just say it, I can do anything ~" After speaking, her lively eyes blinked slightly, and her index finger lightly pressed on her lower lip.

  And this damn action undoubtedly made Fang Xiaoling think of that damn vampire, instantly turning on dark mode. "A Liu, I currently have a big trouble at hand, I don't know..."