Ha, Karma! – Chapter 49

It seems she has profound Daoist skills.

Inside a room, two humans and one demon, three different trains of thought.

Ye Linlin was wondering why Fu Lianxue would appear here.

Fu Lianxue was wondering if Ye Linlin was the “daughter of a parent’s friend” that Chu Zhaoqiu had mentioned.

And Chu Zhaoqiu was thinking: She really doesn’t use the main door again.

Fu Lianxue, a great demon who simply refused to play by the rules.

However, Chu Zhaoqiu didn’t expect Fu Lianxue to come looking for her so early.

It was around 7:30 PM, the sky had just darkened. Judging by Fu Lianxue’s previous “visits,” this was surprisingly early.

Fu Lianxue even brought Baobao along.

She must have something to discuss.

Thinking of this, Chu Zhaoqiu decided to deal with Fu Lianxue’s matter first before chatting with Ye Linlin.

“Linlin, Miss Fu and I have something to discuss. Please go back to your room first. We can talk later, okay?”

Linlin?

Fu Lianxue subconsciously pricked up her ears.

What an intimate form of address. The relationship between these two is probably not simple.

Ye Linlin’s expression hadn’t yet returned to normal. She pointed at Fu Lianxue in astonishment: “You know each other?”

Chu Zhaoqiu nodded: “Mm.”

Ye Linlin suddenly felt puzzled: “Then why did she come in through the window?”

Fu Lianxue said matter-of-factly: “Her window was open, so I came in. What’s wrong with that?”

Ye Linlin: “…”

For a moment, she couldn’t find the words to retort!

Seeing this, Chu Zhaoqiu calmly gestured for Ye Linlin to leave.

If Ye Linlin stayed any longer, she would probably not escape Fu Lianxue’s “devilish claws”.

Ye Linlin looked at her, then at Fu Lianxue.

She had many things, many questions she wanted to ask, but seeing Chu Zhaoqiu’s expression, it seemed she wouldn’t be able to get her questions answered right away.

“Then Zhaoqiu-jiejie, be quick…”

She reluctantly walked out of Chu Zhaoqiu’s room.

Then she watched as Chu Zhaoqiu closed the door.

She actually closed the door… they hadn’t closed the door earlier!

Chu Zhaoqiu locked the door and turned to look at the demon stroking the cat by the window.

She heard Fu Lianxue’s voice, full of sarcasm.

“‘Linlin,’ even using reduplication, oh my, Miss Chu calls her so intimately~”

Fu Lianxue couldn’t say why she was being sarcastic.

She just wanted to be a little sassy!

But she heard Chu Zhaoqiu say:

“Her surname is Ye, her name is Ye Linlin.”

“Everyone who knows her calls her that.”

An awkward atmosphere instantly filled the air.

Chu Zhaoqiu saw that Fu Lianxue had fallen silent, not even looking at her.

After a while, Fu Lianxue slowly lowered her head in front of her, stroking Baobao, and pointing to the bed in the room: “Baobao, look, this is a bed, this is a chair, this is a table, and this, this is a nightstand.”

The innocent kitten meowed twice.

Fu Lianxue: “Oh, you learned it! Baobao is so smart!”

Chu Zhaoqiu: “…”

She couldn’t help but let out a chuckle.

“Why did you suddenly come looking for me, and bring Baobao too? Is something the matter?”

Fu Lianxue suddenly thrust Baobao into her arms, stroking the cat with a worried expression: “I have to work late tonight and might even stay out overnight. I’m afraid it’ll be bored at home alone…”

Then she looked up at her: “So, I’m troubling Young Master Chu to take care of it for one night. I won’t be coming over tonight. You can bring it home tomorrow when you go to my house to take care of the flowers.”

Then she took out a velvet bag: “I’ve prepared the cat litter, cat food, and its toys. They’re all in here.”

Chu Zhaoqiu looked at the cat in her arms, then at her.

“It seems I have no choice?”

Fu Lianxue nodded: “Mm-hm, you have no choice.”

She added: “What, you’re not willing? If you’re not willing, I’ll find a friend.

“My baby is so cute, plenty of people are willing to take care of it!”

She made a move as if to take Baobao back.

Chu Zhaoqiu quickly grasped her hand and coaxed her with a smile: “I’m not unwilling.

“I’m happy to help our great star.”

Fu Lianxue then smiled again and patted her shoulder: “Then I’ll leave it to our Young Master Chu. Get along well with my Baobao.

“Oh right, you also need to close this window properly, don’t let it run around.

“Alright, I have something to do, I’m leaving.”

Fu Lianxue kissed Baobao’s little face reluctantly, muttering about how she would miss it, how she would take it to work next time, and how much she loved it.

She loved her kitten the most.

Chu Zhaoqiu watched quietly, her eyes full of tenderness.

“Alright, Mommy is going out to earn money to buy cat food for Baobao. Baobao, be good with Jiejie.”

“Meow—”

“Good baby~”

Fu Lianxue turned and walked towards the window.

Just as she was about to leave, Chu Zhaoqiu grabbed her hand.

She turned back in confusion, inadvertently meeting a pair of affectionate eyes filled with expectation for her.

Expecting a kiss.

Even a light one on the cheek.

Fu Lianxue instantly understood, the corners of her lips curving upwards. She took the initiative to lean forward and kiss her cheek… and her incredibly soft lips.

For the sake of her taking care of Baobao, she would reluctantly give her a kiss.

This one was light and gentle, without a trace of desire.

Fu Lianxue looked at Chu Zhaoqiu with a smile in her eyes and whispered: “You’ve worked hard, Young Master.”

Chu Zhaoqiu held her hand, caressing her fingers, and softly said: “Be careful on the road, stay safe.”

Tender and affectionate, at this moment, they looked just like intimate lovers.

Fu Lianxue didn’t reply, heading for the window again.

Suddenly, she stopped, turning back to look at the locked door.

She seemed to be looking at the door, and also at the person outside.

She withdrew her gaze, turned, and left. This time, she was truly gone.

Chu Zhaoqiu stood where she was, looking at the window. After a long while, she finally came back to her senses and closed the window.

She opened the velvet bag Fu Lianxue had left.

It was a Qiankun bag [乾坤袋 | qiánkūn dài | magical bag that can hold more than its size suggests], capable of holding many things.

She took out cat food, cat litter, a litter box, a food bowl, toys… and a lint roller.

It was the lint roller she had used at her house.

Chu Zhaoqiu was stunned when she saw the lint roller.

She lowered her eyes to look at the kitten pawing at the toys at her feet, then picked it up, and they looked at each other.

A moment later, her eyes curved into a gentle and happy smile.

Fu Lianxue had started asking for her help.

She held the kitten in her arms: “Welcome to my home, Baobao.”

Although there would be cat hair in the room, she could tolerate it. She could ask someone to clean it tomorrow.

Baobao meowed while being attracted by the tassels on her hairpin, reaching out its paw to touch them.

She didn’t stop it. After setting everything up, she carried the cat to find Ye Linlin.

As soon as she opened the door, she saw Ye Linlin standing outside, seemingly having never left.

Ye Linlin looked at the cat that had appeared in Chu Zhaoqiu’s arms, then looked inside Chu Zhaoqiu’s room — she didn’t see Fu Lianxue.

She was stunned.

“Fu Lianxue left?”

“Mm.”

“Did you finish talking about your business?”

“Mm.”

“Then this cat…”

“She has something to do and asked me to take care of it for the night.”

“Then why, why did she climb in through the window?” Ye Linlin asked the crucial question.

What shocked her most was that Chu Zhaoqiu wasn’t flustered at all, as if she was already used to it.

— Ah, does Fu Lianxue often climb through Zhaoqiu-jiejie’s window?

Chu Zhaoqiu: “…”

She stroked the kitten in her arms and finally dismissed it with a smile, not giving an answer.

“Just get used to it.”

The unrestrained, unconventional great star was still too avant-garde for children.

“Didn’t you want to chat with me? Come in.”

Chu Zhaoqiu carried Baobao back into the room.

Ye Linlin was now full of questions, following closely behind, and asked: “That was the Fu Lianxue I know, right?”

Was that the Fu Lianxue she usually saw on all the major advertising boards?

Was that the incredibly popular singer Fu Lianxue?!

Chu Zhaoqiu sat down gracefully, holding the cat, and gently nodded: “Mm, it’s her.”

Baobao was particularly fond of her tassel hairpin, even trying to climb onto her shoulder to play with it.

She simply took off the hairpin and used it as a cat teaser, dangling it in front of Baobao.

Baobao finally gave up on climbing her shoulder and sat in her lap, reaching out its little paws to play with the tassels.

She watched with a loving expression, as if this was also half her child.

Then, she heard Ye Linlin exclaim in surprise: “What? So Fu Lianxue is also a demon hunter!”

Being close to Chu Zhaoqiu and coming and going freely in the Chu household, what else could she be if not a demon hunter?

Chu Zhaoqiu’s hand, teasing Baobao, paused.

Baobao bit onto the tassel of the hairpin.

She looked at the cat, thought for a moment, and decided to tell Ye Linlin about Fu Lianxue’s identity — there was no need to hide it. Who in the Chu household didn’t know what Fu Lianxue was?

“Linlin, Miss Fu is not a demon hunter,” Chu Zhaoqiu’s tone was calm and composed, “She’s a demon.”

Ye Linlin: “?”

For a moment, she suspected there was something wrong with her ears.

“A what?”

“A demon.”

Ye Linlin’s eyes widened instantly.

Fu Lianxue was a demon?

She was a demon, and she climbed through Chu Zhaoqiu’s window, and Chu Zhaoqiu didn’t blame her and even helped her take care of her cat?!

She hadn’t heard wrong, hadn’t seen wrong, right?!

Ye Linlin sat there in disbelief, her mind in a whirl.

Three seconds later, she suddenly stood up.

Chu Zhaoqiu saw that the cat on her lap was startled.

She turned to look at Ye Linlin.

Ye Linlin was looking at her intently, her expression righteous: “Zhaoqiu-jiejie, you’ve been bewitched!”

Chu Zhaoqiu was taken aback: “What?”

Ye Linlin said, word by word, earnestly: “You’ve been bewitched by that demon, that’s why you let her enter your room and barge into your house as she pleases!

“Demons are really up to no good. I’ll go get rid of her immediately!

“No, this is a big deal, I’ll go tell your grandmother first!”

She was filled with a sense of justice, ready to leave immediately.

Chu Zhaoqiu immediately stopped her: “Come back.

“Miss Fu is not the kind of evil demon you’re thinking of, don’t misunderstand her.

“You don’t need to look for Grandmother, Grandmother has always known that I have dealings with her.”

Ye Linlin stopped.

She turned back to look at Chu Zhaoqiu, meeting her serious and solemn face.

A moment later—

“It seems she has profound Daoist skills,” Ye Linlin said with a grave expression, “She even bewitched someone as powerful as Grandmother Chu!”

Chu Zhaoqiu: “…?”

The demon with profound Daoist skills: Is that how you listen to people?

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