Volume 1: Little Alpaca
You are so ugly.
At that moment, the little alpaca’s milky-voiced question impacted the eardrums of every person in the room.
Jiang Yuyao almost instantly looked towards Luo Mingyuan, her gaze complicated, clearly having already lost interest in a question like 「Why can the little sheep talk」.
Luo Mingyuan’s gaze was first astonished, then vacant, and finally after coming back to his senses, he became embarrassed little by little.
He opened and closed his mouth, his originally deathly pale face suddenly holding its breath until it was flushed red, and was stupefied for a good long while, only then did he subconsciously turn his gaze towards Jiang Yuyao, extremely embarrassed, yet he still tried hard to explain: “I, I did not, it’s not… I really, really heard it! I wasn’t having random thoughts, really…”
“Why are you in such a hurry to explain to your shijie?” In order to better divert attention, Yi Qiu heartlessly added a handful of fire.
Jiang Yuyao heard this, awkwardly stood up, and said: “I, I will go get you another bowl of congee.”
After saying this, she snatched the half-bowl of congee from Luo Mingyuan’s hand that he had not finished at all, frowned, lowered her head, and turned to run out of the room.
“You!” The youth glared at the little alpaca, somewhat annoyed.
Yi Qiu quickly shrank to You Yan’s side, rubbing against the back of You Yan’s hand: “Master, I am hungry, that congee is not filling, take me out to eat something!”
The big villain and the Grass Mud Horse are both lightbulbs1, the male lead is heavily injured, the female lead is taking care of him, what a good opportunity to be alone.
She has to quickly take You Yan away, and not affect these two developing feelings.
You Yan gazed at Yi Qiu, pondering for a few seconds, then chuckled lightly and rubbed her head, leading her away from Luo Mingyuan’s room.
On the way, You Yan casually formed a spell sign2, and erected a sound-insulating barrier around her body.
“Being so startled and jumpy just now, what exactly do you know?”
“Hm?” The little alpaca pretended not to understand.
What did she know? She knew a lot!
That Yi Bird3 is the Snake Mountain Goddess Yu Su, in the original text, she often flew to the Jade Sea4.
And that Jade Sea, is the place where the Fusang5 takes root and the Golden Crow6 rests.
In the novel, this Yi Bird proclaimed herself a goddess on Snake Mountain, but was in fact a demon, not a god. It was only that in her youth she had stayed in the Jade Sea for over three hundred years and was tinged with a bit of divine power, so after returning to Snake Mountain, she was worshipped as a deity.
It was once written in the text that she developed a love and admiration for the Golden Crow, and from time to time would go to the Jade Sea to gaze at it from afar.
And this love and admiration, made her jealousy towards the Fusang grow stronger day by day, so when she learned that the Fusang was following the Golden Crow to the lower realm to undergo a tribulation7, she could no longer suppress the resentment and anger in her heart.
In order to make it so the Fusang could never return to the Heavenly Realm, she could be said to have expended bitter heart and mind8, not choosing the means9, even to the point of not hesitating to be used by You Yan multiple times, finally ending up with an extremely miserable fate.
Since she is that vicious female number three who loves but cannot obtain, then it is very easy to explain why she did not kill Luo Mingyuan!
She likes him…
As for why she had to be so ruthless, considering that everything in this world has some discrepancies with the novel, Yi Qiu made a bold guess.
Yu Su was jealous that the Fusang could obtain the Golden Crow’s love, so she wanted to harm the Fusang and make it remain forever in the mortal world.
She endured the pain to harm Luo Mingyuan, perhaps only because she saw You Yan make a move, and only then decided to take the scheme and use the scheme10, attempting to use this opportunity to lead Jiang Yuyao step by step into the trap she had laid in advance. After completely forcing Jiang Yuyao into a desperate situation, she would then pretend to be innocent, and would only need a single sentence, 「Someone disguised themselves as me」, to easily frame You Yan.
After all, You Yan did indeed make a move, this point cannot be faked.
But as luck would have it, all of this happened to be seen by Chao Yun, who had secretly come down the mountain to look for Luo Mingyuan.
Luo Mingyuan is only a mortal now, but Chao Yun is still the Wood God Goumang11. This Yu Su was afraid of exposing her identity, and could only flee in a panic.
Chao Yun had come down to the mortal realm privately, so naturally she was also afraid of exposing her identity. She did not dare to take any action, and was also afraid that before Jiang Yuyao found Luo Mingyuan, Luo Mingyuan would be harassed by other demons again, so she used a magical art12 to seal that cave entrance.
All of these deductions, were so much a case of following the logic to form a chapter13.
After making such a deduction, Yi Qiu simply could not resist wanting to give herself a thumbs-up with both hands and both feet.
Clever, truly so clever.
Unfortunately, it was a rare moment of cleverness, yet she was unable to share her speculations with anyone.
At this very moment, faced with You Yan’s question, she could only play dumb and feign ignorance, saying: “Luo Mingyuan said he heard a woman’s voice, that tone was so hesitant and stammering, it is obviously a sign of a guilty conscience.
In my opinion, he just felt that his one life was about to end, so he had a hallucination!
That little pig trotter, his mouth says he heard a woman’s voice, but in the desolate countryside and wild mountains, where would there be a woman? I see, he clearly had an auditory hallucination of Jiang Yuyao’s voice and does not dare to admit it!”
You Yan lowered her gaze and asked: “From where does this statement come?”
Yi Qiu continued to spout nonsense: “When a person is about to die, the one they are thinking of in their heart is definitely the person they care about the most.”
Hearing this, You Yan was silent for a long time, then suddenly asked with a smile: “Before, when you thought I was going to kill you, what were you thinking in your heart?”
Yi Qiu could not help but be startled, and only came back to her senses after a good while. She abruptly turned her head away and stammered: “Th-that, how could I remember that, I was almost scared to death by you at that time, my mind was a mess, okay!”
“Were you also thinking…” You Yan said, her words suddenly pausing for several seconds. She extended a finger and gently flicked the little alpaca’s ears twice, only then did she continue, “I am still so young, have not even cultivated a human form, have not met a good person14, I do not want to die yet. Hm?”
When You Yan said this, her tone was light and floaty, and that 「Hm」 at the end was even more meaningful. The slightly raised final sound seemed to come with its own strange and weird tilde.
At that moment, Yi Qiu also did not know why, but she suddenly felt her cheeks become scalding hot.
*he thought, if an alpaca’s face had no fur, at this very moment, she would be blushing.
Strange and bizarre, she had clearly never thought about such a question, but hearing You Yan ask it like this, she always felt inexplicably ashamed.
“You you! Do not talk nonsense! I would never think about those things!” The little alpaca raised her head and tried hard to refute.
You Yan chuckled lightly: “It is best that you did not, you are my spirit pet.”
Yi Qiu muttered in a small voice: “What do you mean?”
“The meaning is, you are only allowed to follow me.” You Yan stopped her steps, held the little alpaca’s small head melon in both hands, her eyes curving into a smile, and said faintly, “If there is a day you want to follow someone else, I can give you two choices.”
Yi Qiu subconsciously swallowed twice, blinking her small eyes, and asked timidly: “Which two choices?”
The corners of You Yan’s mouth raised into a dangerous arc, the ten fingers holding the alpaca’s head used a bit more strength, and under her timid gaze, she moved close to her ear and softly spoke a sentence.
“You slaughter that person, or… I will slaughter you.”
Ah this…
As expected, the bird woman would not give the Grass Mud Horse any good options.
The little alpaca took a deep breath, widened her eyes, and shouted: “You Yan!”
You Yan: “Hm?”
“You, if you keep scaring me like this, you could easily lose me…” the little alpaca said, pouting angrily.
You Yan was silent for a moment, then suddenly let out a light laugh, rubbed the little alpaca’s neck, and got up to walk forward.
Yi Qiu let out a small whimper and hurriedly followed You Yan’s steps.
After a full meal, You Yan brought Yi Qiu to the side of the small creek in that quiet mountain forest from last time.
The day before yesterday, the little alpaca had run all the way down from the mountain and gotten covered in mud. Unfortunately, there was no place to wash, so she had to make do with being dirty for two days. At this very moment, she finally thrashed about in the cool creek water until she was clean.
The little alpaca after her bath, the fleece all over her body was stuck tightly to her skinny frame, not the least bit like her usual roundness, looking rather ugly.
While shaking the heavy water droplets from her body, she carefully walked towards You Yan at the side.
You Yan, at this moment, was leaning against a tree with her eyes closed, resting her spirit. Yi Qiu was afraid of disturbing her, and took every step extremely lightly.
Unfortunately, there were many small stones by the creek, and every step could not help but make a small sound.
Hearing the sound, You Yan opened her eyes.
She gazed for two seconds at the little alpaca before her, who had suddenly stopped in her tracks as if she had done something wrong, and then could not help but raise a corner of her mouth slightly.
Yi Qiu could not help but be startled.
This scene, it seemed as if she had seen it before, yet it was not quite the same.
The soaking wet, ugly little alpaca suddenly tilted her head, quietly gazing at the 「Master」 before her whose eyes were gentle, and for a moment she actually felt as if everything had returned to the very beginning.
She had only followed You Yan here to take a bath, had not met Luo Mingyuan, and had never known Jiang Yuyao.
Any Xianlu Sect, any Snake Mountain Goddess, all had nothing to do with them.
She was just a little alpaca, following her master out of the cold and grim Demon Realm, to come to this human world to bask in the sun.
If it were really like this, how wonderful that would be.
It is truly strange, clearly not much time has passed, but she suddenly did not want to return to her previous world so much anymore.
After all, in that world, there was no one who, upon seeing her, would reveal such a beautiful smile like You Yan.
You Yan: “You are so ugly.”
Yi Qiu: “……”
Is this the reason you suddenly smiled?
Damn it, my hooves are hard!15
Give me back my moved feelings!
Seeing the little alpaca’s facial expression gradually contort, the smiling intent in the bottom of You Yan’s eyes deepened a bit more.
Yi Qiu gritted her teeth in dissatisfaction, and seeing that her anger was not being taken seriously, she angrily walked to You Yan’s side and deliberately stamped a small footprint on her snow-white sleeve.
You Yan subconsciously reached out and rubbed Yi Qiu’s head, but found that it was not very comfortable, so she then pushed her aside.
Afterwards, she closed her eyes and said faintly: “Come over again after you have dried in the sun.”
Yi Qiu could not help but take a deep breath, her pair of round eyes were almost bulging out of their sockets from her glare.
“You Yan!” Yi Qiu roared fiercely.
“Hm?”
“You disdain me!” Yi Qiu was a bit fiercer than before.
You Yan opened her eyes, swept her gaze over Yi Qiu with great interest, and leisurely asked in return: “Have an opinion?”
After hearing this, Yi Qiu was instantly so angry she started stamping her feet on the spot.
How could she not have an opinion!
When she was fluffy, this bird woman would pat and rub her, but now that she has just had a bath and her fur is wet, she is instantly 「unworthy」?
In the future when she becomes human, who knows how this bird woman will disdain her!
No, she must resist!
Yi Qiu suddenly stood on the spot and took three deep breaths.
The next second, the soaking wet little alpaca suddenly scrambled and jumped onto You Yan’s lap, lying there like a mangy dog and refusing to move.
You Yan could not help but tremble, and after coming back to her senses, her suddenly clenched fists slowly relaxed.
She frowned and shouted: “Get down!”
But the little alpaca raised her neck, saliva flying everywhere, and shouted at her: “What! Have an opinion?”
You Yan: “……”
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