Chapter 189: Curiosity is the Beginning of Like
Looking at that blank space, ripples stirred in Kaisa’s usually placid, purple-gold heterochromatic pupils. How could this be?
He doubtfully raised his palm and tried again.
The result was the same.
—Shiguang Jieyin. Beneath the gods, all living beings have no secrets. How could he not see hers?
Could it be…
“Where is the scene?”
Su Miantang was also bewildered. As she looked at him strangely, she met the man’s profound eyes, which were thick with deep confusion. “Are you a god?”
Su Miantang: “…” Are you crazy? Why are you suddenly being abstract again?
“If I were a god, would I be played by you in the palm of your hand?”
Kaisa: “I haven’t started playing with you yet.”
Su Miantang: “…” Then thank you?
“The problem now is, where is the scene?”
“I can’t see it.”
“Why? Didn’t it work perfectly when you looked at them just now?”
Could he be wanting to play with her and deliberately saying this?
Kaisa furrowed his brows, seemingly pondering why this would happen.
Soon, he thought of another possibility.
“What is your pheromone grade?”
“…”
This time, the young girl fell silent.
Could it be because she was SSSS-grade, a higher level than him, so he didn’t have the authority to view it? But the Big Golden Retriever’s Double Pupil power and the giant python’s mind-reading both worked on her, and they were only SS-grade.
“D-grade.”
Kaisa’s frown deepened.
Why couldn’t he see a low-grade, ordinary beastman’s?
But he only agonized for a second before he stopped thinking about it. “What do you want to do?”
Su Miantang’s eyes lit up slightly, and a glimmer of hope rose in her heart again. “My active request for you to use Shiguang Jieyin shows that I wouldn’t lie to you, right?”
“Mhm.”
“Then I’m telling you now, I want to go out, out of Longyu.”
Out of Longyu?
So, her saying ‘captured by you’ and her late-night departure weren’t tactics to attract his attention and lower his guard, but the truth.
She was completely different from these females. She was the most special one.
“Were you planning to walk out last night?”
“Yeah, I…”
Wait!
“How did you know?”
“I cast combat power on you.”
So, her spinning in circles in the same spot last night was his doing?
Su Miantang watched him admit it openly, without his face turning red or his heart skipping a beat, completely unaware he had done anything wrong. She secretly gritted her teeth.
“At that time, there was a misunderstanding between us. Now that you know I’m not with them, could you trouble yourself to give me a ride and lift the Longyu restrictions along the way?”
“No.”
As soon as she finished speaking, she was rejected.
“Why?”
Kaisa: “Because…”
Because she was very special. Her sight was special, her hearing was special, her feeling was also very special. She seemed to have many mysterious places that attracted him. He was curious and wanted to figure out exactly what was going on.
And also because, the Longyu restrictions could not be lifted.
“Because I want to hear dry jokes.”
Su Miantang, “…” I have nothing better to do, why should I tell him dry jokes?
Is he planning to keep her here, like making people pretend to be flowers or music box dancers, treating her as a joke book to read?
“If you want to listen, I can tell them to you outside too.”
“But I don’t want to go out.”
“You…”
Before Su Miantang could say more, she saw him strike the two fainted females into the lake with a single palm to feed the crows and vultures. The terrifying scene made her break out in a cold sweat again.
Then, he slowly looked at her. That look seemed to ask: Do you have any more questions?
“…And one last thing.” The young girl, terrified he might have a stroke of madness and strike her into the lake too, gulped. “How many dry jokes do you want to hear?”
Kaisa paused for two seconds. “Starting today, you will tell me a dry joke every day. When I get tired of hearing them, I will let you go.”
“Really?”
Su Miantang raised the ends of her eyebrows, sparking a sliver of hope again.
“Really.”
“Deal, but…” she muttered to herself, “why does this sound so much like One Thousand and One Nights?”
“What is One Thousand and One Nights?”
“It’s a fairy tale.”
“Fairy tale?”
Kaisa looked like he had never heard of fairy tales.
Su Miantang kindly explained, “It’s about a long time ago. There was a king who hated females and had a brutal personality. He would marry a woman every day and kill her the next morning. He killed thousands of people until he met a smart and brave woman. To stay alive, she told him a story, stopping right at the most exciting climax, and continuing the next day. In this way, the king, in order to hear the end of the story, couldn’t bear to kill her. Finally, on the one thousand and first night, he was moved.”
While she told the story, her voice was gentle, clear, and carried a trace of delicate sweetness, like a spring flowing through the body, moistening every inch of dragon scales. Kaisa immersed himself in it, listening very seriously.
But at the end, she stopped.
He asked doubtfully, “And the ending?”
“The ending?” Su Miantang recalled the ending in the fairy tale and smiled faintly. “Of course, the king let the woman go.”
For some reason, Kaisa fell silent.
Fairy tales are fairy tales, reality is reality.
One Thousand and One Nights was simply too long. Disappearing for so long, who knows how worried the people around her would be. She had to find a way to get back early.
Su Miantang’s brain raced, and suddenly a flash of inspiration hit her. Making someone like you is hard, but making someone tired of you is easy. Just dangle in front of him every day and do things he hates.
Thinking this, her amber pupils swirled. “It can’t just be you with conditions. I have conditions too.”
“What condition?”
“Before you let me go, you are not allowed to use combat power on me, let alone… kill me.”
When she said the last two words, Kaisa’s brow furrowed slightly. “I won’t kill you.”
“That’s good.”
“Let’s formally introduce ourselves. My name is Su Miantang. Everyone usually calls me Susu or Tangtang. You can call me whatever you want.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Kaisa looked at her. “Mianmian.”
Su Miantang: “…” You really have a rebellious streak.
“Then should I call you Dadi like everyone else?”
“Kaisa.”
“It’s getting late. Am I going back to the side hall, or…”
“Stay in my harem.”
“Okay.” Su Miantang randomly picked a palace farthest from the main hall. “By the way, I want to buy some things. Does Longyu have any?”
Kaisa gestured to the two females kneeling quietly at the door of the Zichen Baodian. “Whatever you need, just tell them.”
“Then see you tomorrow!”
She waved at him and turned away. Her slender, vibrant figure gradually disappeared from sight. It took a long while for Kaisa to realize that he should probably leave too.
The two female servants, acting like robots, led the way. Seeing Su Miantang enter the grand hall, astonishment flashed through their eyes: Who is she? She actually talked to Dadi for so long without dying, and she’s the first person to move into the harem.
The next day, as soon as Kaisa opened his eyes, his daily routine of reading, cultivating combat power, appraising treasures, etc., didn’t enter his mind. These were the things he did day after day without change. But today, another voice popped up: Mianmian, go see what Mianmian is doing.
It sounded much more interesting than those dull tasks.
He got up and walked toward her palace.
Upon arriving, he saw the young girl had changed out of her gorgeous attire from yesterday. She was wearing only white clothes, her three thousand strands of hair tied high. She wore gloves and goggles, head bowed, seemingly researching something carefully. Her lively aura had also turned aloof. He couldn’t help but freeze.
“What is she doing?”
Don’t females all like researching clothes, jewelry, makeup, and the like? He thought he would see that, but the sight before him sent a strange ripple through his heart.
The females on either side of the palace replied, “She said she’s making spirit medicine.”
Spirit medicine?
Was it that tasteless block she gave him yesterday?
He walked over.
He saw some ordinary food ingredients and equipment.
“Didn’t you say they were brewed and extracted from nine hundred and ninety-nine rare Tianshan Lingcao?”
A dark male voice suddenly came from behind, giving Su Miantang a jump. “…” Oh no, I’ve been caught.
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