Chapter 20: Day Twenty of Slacking Off
“Scram,” Wen Ying slapped away the box child, “I wanted to ask this a while ago, why do you call me that?”
“Call you?” The box child tilted its head, thinking for a moment, “Master refers to…’Master’?”
“Naturally,” Wen Ying’s tone wasn’t good.
“Oh my, Master, you’ve even forgotten this!” The box child clearly had a mocking expression on its face, “It was Master who told me to call you that!”
Wen Ying crossed her arms, watching this brat, wanting to hear what else he planned to fabricate.
“In the beginning, I refused to call you that, but Master insisted,” the box child sighed dramatically, exaggeratedly spreading its hands in a helpless gesture, “What can I do? After all, Master, you’re such a…perverted person. Perverted and shameless…”
Enough was enough.
Wen Ying grabbed the brat by the scruff of his neck, stomped her left foot, and the next moment, they were already at the edge of a cliff on the top of an unnamed high mountain.
All Wen Ying had to do was let go to complete the task of throwing this brat away.
Not just throwing him away, but throwing him away completely.
“Waaa! Master, don’t—” The box child looked at the bottomless abyss beneath him and finally calmed down, “Master, Master, I’ll tell the truth! It was indeed Master who told me to call you that, you thought it was too old for me to keep calling you Grandma, so you changed the address…”
Grand…ma…
Wen Ying felt she should still throw this brat down.
“Master, Master, I’m telling the truth this time!” The child’s eyes welled up with tears, “Don’t throw me, this mountain is so high, it’s tiring to climb back up…”
This time, the tears were genuine.
Wen Ying glanced at the child and finally retracted her hand, putting the child down beside her.
It seemed the child’s words were indeed the truth.
But Wen Ying was certain that in the previous fifty-one cycles of reincarnation, she had absolutely never seen this box child. Even the box itself was the first time Wen Ying had seen it.
It seemed that although Wen Ying constantly reincarnated in this world, there were still many things she didn’t know.
Like Xiao Hei, and like this child before her.
Or…
Was the truth behind her reincarnation really just a system bug?
The child, having had a narrow escape, stood trembling beside her, continuously patting his chest to calm himself down.
“I knew Master wouldn’t really throw me down…” The child wiped away the tears streaming from his eyes with his other hand.
“Yes, high-altitude throwing is immoral,” Wen Ying nodded, “If you were to accidentally hit a spirit beast down the mountain, that would be a life, and it would be a sin.”
The child: “…”
“You say I’m your master, but didn’t you say you’ve been trapped in that stone wall for hundreds of years?” Wen Ying didn’t bother to waste words with the child, asking directly.
“Yes,” the child nodded, “Actually, I don’t know how I got in there. One moment I was still following Master, and then…when I woke up, I was already inside the stone wall.”
Wen Ying could tell that the child wasn’t rambling nonsense like before.
According to him, hundreds of years ago…she was already in this world?
Did he mistake her for someone else? Another…double? A white moonlight?
Or…
If the child hadn’t mistaken her, the reason behind it was probably more terrifying than Wen Ying imagined.
So, Wen Ying asked the child again: “Then how did we meet? You call me Master, what exactly is the relationship between us?”
“Master, you really forgot everything!” The child looked surprised, “When I was in the dungeon, I didn’t recognize you. When I did recognize you, I thought you were pretending not to know me because you disliked me again…”
Wen Ying frowned.
The box in the dungeon and the stone wall were clearly sealing this child away.
Although he was a child, his cultivation was not low.
“I was delivered by Master! The first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was Master! I originally wanted to call you Mother, but you didn’t look old enough, so I called you Grandma…but Master insisted that I call you Sister, and after I argued against it, Master finally changed it to Master…” The child began to gush about a meaningless past.
Wen Ying patiently listened to the child’s rambling for nearly a quarter of an hour, only understanding a few things.
This child was delivered by his “Master.”
His “Master” had magical powers and was more skilled than him.
Since birth, he had always followed his “Master” traveling around, but he didn’t know what his Master did; it sounded like they just traveled for fun.
What a long and pointless story.
Ultimately, he knew practically nothing about his master.
Wen Ying absolutely didn’t believe that his “Master” was a highly skilled magical practitioner who loved to travel and happened to be a midwife.
Wen Ying regretted it.
She would have rather listened to the nagging of the various elders in the Xun Xian Sect during this time.
Some courses that helped with cultivation were quite interesting.
“Okay, I understand,” Wen Ying interrupted the child after hearing him mention “the food here is also delicious” for the eighth time, “So, what do you plan to do next?”
“Huh? What next?” The child blinked, completely confused.
Seeing the child’s innocent look, Wen Ying suddenly had a bad feeling.
“You…aren’t planning on following me forever, are you?” Wen Ying narrowed her eyes.
“I’ve found Master, of course I’ll follow you!” The child smiled naturally, “Just like before!”
Wen Ying: “…”
“Oh, Master, don’t you think this outfit is a little inappropriate.” The child suddenly realized, “Oh well, there’s nothing I can do about it, I’ve been wearing this for hundreds of years…what if I revert to my original form, would that be better?”
With that, a beam of golden light flashed from the child’s body, and the next moment, the child turned into a small black cat, obediently lying on the ground, meowing.
Wen Ying:!!
Cat! She could handle this!
Wen Ying almost forgot what it felt like to pet a cat last time.
Since it was a cat…she could ignore the fact that this cat was that boy.
At this moment, Wen Ying finally understood what he meant by delivery.
Wen Ying picked up the kitten, stroking its fur while asking: “What’s your name?”
“Meow meow~”
Although the black cat was meowing in cat language, Wen Ying could understand unexpectedly.
It said, “My name is Xiao Hei! Master gave me that name!”
Xiao Hei…was indeed a name she would choose.
It seems she can no longer refer to the one in the dungeon as Xiao Hei.
Then she would call…
Wen Ying looked at the kitten in her arms.
She would call the one in the dungeon Da Hei.
…
Since it was a cat, bringing it back to Xun Xian Sect wouldn’t seem strange.
Just a spirit pet, nothing unusual.
When Wen Ying returned to Xun Xian Sect, it was almost noon.
The disciples and elders came out one after another, and the task panel popped up at this moment.
【”The Supporting Female Character in a Xianxia Novel” Task Four: Preemptively eliminate the suspicion of drugging Xu Tongtong and avoid acting like a lovesick dog chasing after Fu Shuangxue!】
It was about time.
It was the stage where Fu Shuangxue’s wounds were mostly healed, and Wen Ying, the supporting female character, was needed to push the relationship between Fu Shuangxue and Xu Tongtong.
But she, Wen Ying, was going to slack off!
Wen Ying slapped the task panel away.
Since it was noon, of course she should first—eat!
Author’s Note:
I like cats, and I like black cats, so I often write about cats haha~