Chapter 22: Self-inflicted Calamity Due to Unsuccessful Flirting

  It turns out that arguing with an unreasonable woman, no, a female demon is extremely unwise. After nearly half a day of verbal abuse, Xun Qing has now become a big head and has been promoted to automatically categorizing all of Fang Xiaoling's requests as "good good good, buy buy buy..." in a shameless mode.

  However, Fang Xiaoling obviously didn't let him off the hook, she grabbed onto Xun Qing's sleeve as he was about to leave and scolded, "You can't be going out to buy medicine just like that?!"

  "...Xun Qing's brain had stopped working long ago, he tilted his head, with an innocent face looking at her, until she awkwardly withdrew her magical claws and looked down, silently reflecting on whether she was too excessive."

  "Uh, I mean," she scratched her nose, a soft pink flush rising to her face, "I'm a demon."

  Xun Qing stared at her big sparkling eyes, still out of it, "Huh?"

  Fang Xiaoling was so angry that she wished she could smash this wooden fish's head, grabbing his ears and shouting loudly, "I! Am! A! Demon!!"

  "Of course I know you're not human." Xun Qing still didn't get the point, looking at her slightly angry expression in confusion, wondering what he had done wrong again.

  Fang Xiaoling gritted her teeth, how could this sound so much like scolding someone, yet she couldn't quite put her finger on what was wrong... She took a deep breath, almost squeezing out the words from between her teeth, "You're going out with such fanfare, if others ask who got hurt, are you going to say it's me?! If they don't catch me and burn me to death with fire, that would be great!!"

  Xun Qing suddenly felt a lump in her throat, and finally realized the severity of the situation. She stammered, "Little auntie, I'll let my son secretly buy it for you, okay?"

  "Hmm!!" Fang Xiaoling turned her head and responded with a hum of her nose, but after waiting for a long time, she didn't see him react.

  She slightly turned back, one eye pretending to be closed while the other sneaked a peek upwards, only to accidentally meet Xun Qing's smiling eyes, and couldn't look away. Xun Qing's eye color wasn't deep, but rather a pure amber-like hue that was especially noticeable in the sunlight, rich and warm, making people willing to drown in them, unable to extricate themselves.

  "What's wrong, spaced out?" Xun Qing's lips curved up in a pleasant arc, his eyes narrowed comfortably, like a cat that had eaten its fill and was basking in the sun.

  Fang Xiaoling snapped back to reality, pressing down on her clearly racing heartbeat, and shot a glance at that certain someone who was starting to get arrogant. "Ah, yes... I love..." Her words trailed off as a tall, red-robed figure suddenly appeared in her mind, and before she knew it, a string of nonsense tumbled out of her mouth: "I love your eyes the most! In them, I see my own stunning beauty, like a celestial being... Ah, ah, ah..."

  The words were stuck in an eerie silence, Fang Xiaoling's hand grasped Zhang Saoyan's chin, and her words floated lightly as if possessed by a ghost. The distance between the two facing each other was less than a finger, truly staring at each other with wide eyes. Fang Xiaoling smiled openly on the surface, but in her heart, she scolded Zhang Saoyan like a pig, now this situation——what to do next...

  Look at Xun Qing, he seems to have not recovered from the shock yet, or else he would have slipped away by now...... Fang Xiaoling thought in a rather spineless manner.

  She said she'd leave, but in reality, Fang Xiaoling could only float. Who knew that after a long time, she was still spinning around in the same spot? She looked down at her hem helplessly and found that it had been firmly grasped by a claw.

  It's all over, this was the only sentence floating in Fang Xiaoling's mind.