Ha, Karma! – Chapter 6
by Little PandaLittle one, sister will give you another gift.
Fu Lianxue was walking around in Chu Zhaoquiu’s room, looking around.
She wore her hair in a ponytail, dressed in short sleeves and shorts, without any special effort in her appearance, simple and refreshing.
Chu Zhaoquiu sat on the edge of the bed watching her, her mind still on what had happened earlier.
βFu Lianxue had come in through the window.
At the time, she was standing in the room reading when suddenly she heard two knocks on the window.
She turned her head to see that charm demon who occupied her entire heart sitting on the half-open window, looking at her with smiling eyes.
The round moon outside became mere background to the person before her in that instant.
Then Chu Yun came knocking at the door.
Fortunately, Fu Lianxue had no intention of disturbing others and considerately stood behind the door, thus avoiding being discovered by Chu Yun.
Returning to her thoughts, Chu Zhaoquiu quietly watched Fu Lianxue.
She saw Fu Lianxue’s hand gliding along the edge of the desk, her five fingers long and graceful, transparent nail polish on her nails gleaming beautifully in the light.
Composed and at ease, free and unrestrained.
Fu Lianxue casually picked up the γRecord of Heaven and Earthβs Spiritsγ from the table.
Their kind, the demons, had always known that demon hunters possessed such a book, which contained information about them.
It wasn’t a difficult book to obtain, and they had all read it to some extent.
As for the information in it… one could only say it was incomplete, and it couldn’t be comprehensive anyway.
She found this copy opened to the page about charm demons, and couldn’t help letting out a light laugh, waving the book at Chu Zhaoquiu: “What are you doing, researching me?”
Chu Zhaoquiu didn’t deny it, responding with a straightforward “mm.”
Then asked: “So why did you come to find me?”
Hearing this, Fu Lianxue swung both hands and threw the book away: “Nothing better to do, came to cause you some trouble.”
Then she picked up the pen from the desk and threw it backward.
Next came the tissues, books from the bookshelf, pillow from the bed…
The entire room was made into a complete mess, as if bandits had raided it.
Yet the room’s owner just sat on the bed’s edge, completely unharmed.
Chu Zhaoquiu: “…”
She looked up at Fu Lianxue.
She sat on the desk, looking both mischievous and beautiful amidst the chaos.
“Is this what you meant by causing trouble?” Chu Zhaoquiu asked.
What childish trouble…
Fu Lianxue waggled her finger: “Hey, do not refrain from doing evil just because it seems small.” [playful twist on the classical saying “wu yi shan xiao er bu wei” meaning “don’t neglect to do good despite how small it seems”]
It might look childish, but cleaning up takes time.
Even if it only wastes three seconds, that still counts as causing trouble.
Fu Lianxue thought matter-of-factly.
Chu Zhaoquiu paused, her lips unconsciously curling up slightly.
What a twist on “wu yi e xiao er bu wei”.
Although Fu Lianxue had indeed caused her quite some trouble…
She looked at the items scattered messily on the floor, her brows already furrowing.
The fallen pillow would need a pillowcase, and the old one would need washing.
The books and pens would need to be cleaned before being put back in their places…
Fu Lianxue watched her every move, and noticing her frown, asked with a smile: “You have OCD?”
Chu Zhaoquiu nodded lightly and said: “A little.”
Fu Lianxue muttered: “Just like before…”
Then asked: “If you have OCD, why did you just sit there watching me throw things, not stopping me? You can even tolerate things getting dirty on the floor?”
“Why not?”
Chu Zhaoquiu stood up, got some wet wipes and cleaned each item one by one, then put them back in place.
She patiently tidied up the mess, saying as she worked: “You said I owed you a lot in the past, and you’re angry about it, so it’s only right that you take it out on me.”
Fu Lianxue was momentarily speechless.
This was different from the Chu Zhaoquiu of before.
The Chu Zhaoquiu from thousands of years ago also had OCD, but wasn’t this mild-tempered.
If it were the Chu Zhaoquiu from a thousand years ago standing here, she would definitely have angrily ordered her out with a stern face, forbidding her from touching her things again.
But the current Chu Zhaoquiu…
Fu Lianxue propped both hands on the desk, leaning her body while watching Chu Zhaoquiu organize the bookshelf intently amid the strong fragrance.
The current Chu Zhaoquiu had matured compared to before; time had tempered her, and that child from back then had grown up.
But then again, when she first met Chu Zhaoquiu, she was only sixteen or seventeen, and now she was twenty-three, so it was normal to be more mature.
“Tsk tsk, you really have grown up a lot,” Fu Lianxue said with a sigh.
Her sentiment suddenly made Chu Zhaoquiu think, “This person remembers everything about me.”
Chu Zhaoquiu couldn’t help but look at her and ask: “You still remember what I was like before?”
“Of course I remember, how could I not?”
“Then what was I like in your heart before?”
“You want to know?”
“Mm.”
“Then I’ll tell you.”
As Fu Lianxue spoke, she reached out to grab her collar, pulling them closer together, and whispered near her ear, her warm breath brushing past Chu Zhaoquiu’s earlobe: “βAbsolutely terrible.”
Chu Zhaoquiu was stunned for a moment.
Fu Lianxue’s voice continued: “Your face couldn’t make five different expressions, you were dull, boring, and arrogant, sometimes living as if you weren’t even part of the mortal world.
“Not a single good point about you, and in your sect, I hated you the most, absolutely despised you.”
Chu Zhaoquiu looked at her eyes speechlessly.
But she found her smiling, looking like a cunning fox, making it impossible to tell how much of what she said was true or false.
Chu Zhaoquiu pressed her lips together: “Was I really that bad before?”
Hearing this, Fu Lianxue smiled even more happily, like she was teasing a clueless child.
“Mm, very bad, and since you can’t remember, I get to decide now.”
Chu Zhaoquiu: “…”
“If I recover my memories, would you stop speaking to me calmly like this, and stop joking with me like this?”
“If you recover your memories, would we even need to talk?”
“?”
“We’d just fight straight away, a fight to the death, repay kindness with kindness, revenge with revenge!” [“you en bao en, you chou bao chou” – traditional saying meaning to repay both good and bad in kind]
“…”
They should probably stop discussing this topic.
Chu Zhaoquiu put the book back on the shelf and changed the subject: “How did you know where my home is?
“Did your agent tell you?”
Agent?
Fu Lianxue let out a scoff: “She would never tell me.”
Cheng Hanxi was afraid she would come secretly to take Chu Zhaoquiu’s life!
“But Hanxi isn’t the only one among my friends who knows where your renowned Chu family lives, right?”
Chu Zhaoquiu turned to meet her smug eyes: “So you just came by yourself, aren’t you afraid of getting caught?”
The Chu family was a famous demon-hunting family in the industry, with no shortage of cultivators in their clan.
No matter how powerful Fu Lianxue was, she was still a lone demon, and fighting against many would be dangerous.
She had drawn the curtains earlier precisely because she didn’t want Fu Lianxue to be discovered.
“So what?” Fu Lianxue tilted her head carelessly, “Would you call someone to catch me?”
Chu Zhaoquiu stared into her eyes and asked in return: “What do you think?”
Their eyes met, neither speaking.
Chu Zhaoquiu’s eyes were bright, and Fu Lianxue discovered for the first time that she had such bright eyes, even brighter than thousands of years ago.
Like the bright moon, like a clear mirror, so bright they seemed able to pierce into one’s heart.
Fu Lianxue didn’t quite like these eyes.
This feeling of being seen through was too uncomfortable.
Especially being seen through by Chu Zhaoquiu.
She avoided Chu Zhaoquiu’s gaze, jumped off the desk and said: “I think you would.”
Then turned toward the window: “So I better leave quickly.”
“Wait.” Chu Zhaoquiu suddenly called out to her.
“What?”
She crossed her arms and turned back, looking puzzled.
She saw Chu Zhaoquiu wiping her hands clean, then picking up her phone and walking toward her.
“Could you… give me your contact information?” Chu Zhaoquiu asked.
Fu Lianxue was stunned for a moment: “?”
She hugged her arms, looked down at the phone, then back up at Chu Zhaoquiu.
Two seconds later, she reached out and pushed Chu Zhaoquiu’s chest, looking serious: “What evil spirit is this, quickly leave this body, don’t make me hit you!”
Suddenly pushed, Chu Zhaoquiu: “…”
She grabbed Fu Lianxue’s wrist, speaking both helplessly and seriously: “It’s me, I’m not possessed.”
She just wanted the contact information of someone she liked, what was so strange about that?
Fu Lianxue: “…”
She yanked her hand back sharply, hesitantly sizing up Chu Zhaoquiu.
Come to think of it, Chu Zhaoquiu was quite scary like this.
This was Chu Zhaoquiu after all!
The Chu Zhaoquiu who had stabbed her with a sword back then!
The future heir of the demon-hunting family who made it her mission to subdue demons and eliminate evil!
Would someone like that ask for a demon’s phone number??
It was too unbelievable!
“Just because you want it, I have to give it to you? On what grounds?”
Fu Lianxue turned her face away, walking straight toward the window.
Then she heard the person behind her sayβ
“With my contact information, you can come find me anytime, and cause me trouble whenever you want, isn’t that good?”
Fu Lianxue’s feet instantly turned back, reaching out to take Chu Zhaoquiu’s phone.
“You make a good point.”
She couldn’t keep climbing through Chu Zhaoquiu’s window, it was too risky.
What if next time she came to cause trouble and the Chu girl wasn’t there? Wouldn’t that be awkward?
Besides, her time was precious too, okay?
She wonβt lose a piece of flesh giving Chu Zhaoquiu her contact information, and Chu Zhaoquiu couldn’t do anything to her anyway.
Having thought it through, Fu Lianxue smoothly completed the action of adding her as a friend.
Without looking twice, she put her own phone back in her pocket while returning Chu Zhaoquiu’s phone.
“Please keep your communications working, so I can conveniently trouble you anytime.”
What she said, she would definitely do.
Chu Zhaoquiu looked at the newly added friend in her list.
The profile picture was of a cream-colored munchkin cat sleeping with all four paws in the air.
She had seen this cat in person, at Fu Lianxue’s doorstep, just briefly.
She also knew the cat was called “Baobao” β she learned this from Fu Lianxue’s social media account today.
So this was definitely Fu Lianxue’s account.
This conclusion brought a trace of joy to Chu Zhaoquiu’s heart, her lips unconsciously curling up slightly.
She said: “Alright, I’ll wait for you to come find me.”
Hearing this, Fu Lianxue let out a scoffing laugh, then raised her arm.
“Little one, let sister give you another gift.”
As her words fell, she flicked her finger, and a clean whooshing sound passed by Chu Zhaoquiu’s ear, followed by the consecutive sounds of things falling to the ground.
Chu Zhaoquiu turned to look, only to see that the portion she had just tidied up was all lying on the ground again.
Fu Lianxue smiled wickedly: “See, this is your karma for provoking me.”
She left with a face full of smiles, her departing figure quite dashing.
Chu Zhaoquiu watched her leave dashingly, then slowly came back to her senses as she looked at the mess on the ground.
“…”
Between the two of them, who exactly was the twenty-three-year-old?
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