"Senior brother, what kind of demonic beast is this little white mouse?"
No woman could resist the allure of fluffy creatures. This time, Ziying had the "good fortune" to be allowed to walk alongside Liu Jiangfusheng. Her almond-shaped eyes seemed to have strabismus, constantly glancing at the little white mouse.
Hearing Ziying call it a demonic beast, the "Treasure Hunting Mouse" gently swept its tail, fluffy like clouds.
It squeaked and turned its head, staring at her, its white whiskers trembling dumbly.
Ziying took a deep breath. She, she really wanted to...
Her mind dizzy with cuteness, she momentarily forgot Liu Jiangfusheng's disposition. Her eyes welled up with tears, and she couldn't help but plead in a soft, pitiable voice, "Senior brother, why don't I take care of it for you? It's so small, it might be more suitable for a girl to raise, don't you think?"
She was desperately hinting.
If he was a man, he'd let it go and let her have it!
Liu Jiangfusheng heard this and seemed to ponder for a moment.
Ziying's eyes brimmed with false moisture, thinking she had a chance to soften his heart this time. Just as she was about to reach out and pet its cloud-like fluffy tail, she missed.
Liu Jiangfusheng sidestepped, a flicker of disdain crossing his face. His pure, beautiful eyes, like the splendor of March, looked at her, "Girls would like it?"
Although Ziying no longer had any romantic feelings for him, she still felt this man was too enchantingly handsome. Even with the coldest, most ascetic expression, anyone unfortunate enough to behold him could not escape his vibrant and alluring charm.
She stammered, "Of, of course, it's so cute."
Liu Jiangfusheng's slender, fair fingers gently stroked its scalp to its tailbone. The little white mouse stiffened slightly, then wiggled its little head, nudging his palm. The soft, warm touch was peculiar. His eyes curved slightly like the moon, "I think so too."
Huh?
What did that mean?
Was he agreeing, and why did he refuse her earlier?
Suddenly, she thought of a possibility and asked incredulously, "Senior, senior brother, you took it away without making a contract with it. Could it be that you want to give it to Sister Gu?"
As soon as Gu Yi was mentioned, the warm spring water in Liu Jiangfusheng's eyes instantly froze. Thinking of her in someone else's arms when he fell off the cliff, and her indifferent, unfeeling gaze when she looked back at him, hatred welled up in his heart. "I won't give it."
Phew, she breathed a sigh of relief. That's right, he clearly realized that being a lapdog had no future.
But then she heard him say indifferently, "However, this little white mouse is something girls like, and it's not appropriate for me to keep it. If she asks me for it, it's fine to give it to her."
Ziying: "..."
If it's not appropriate for you to keep it, why didn't you give it to me when I asked?
Also, what's the difference between your "won't give" and "giving away for free"? Is that tiny gap left to maintain your pathetic self-esteem?
Ziying felt a pang in her heart, but she was too cowardly to retort to the great demon king, this hypocrite, to his face. She could only complain madly in her mind.
She understood now. She had no hope of getting this little white mouse. Even if Gu Yi treated him badly a thousand times, this was the pet specially prepared by him for his beloved wife. No matter how envious others were, it was useless.
The "Treasure Hunting Mouse" looked up at Liu Jiangfusheng, who was a magnified version of himself, his features still as delicate as porcelain.
Give it to her?
But the "Treasure Hunting Mouse" was originally something she had put effort into sending to their side. He would turn around and give it back to her?
Gu Junshi mused, perhaps he didn't know the value of this "Treasure Hunting Mouse" yet.
The Treasure Hunting Mouse was a rare and precious beast that appeared once in ten thousand years in the cultivation world. It was not an ordinary demonic beast, so the talismans and restraints outside the cage could not stop it at all.
Because Treasure Hunting Mice were extremely rare, it had never found any of its kind. Perhaps feeling too lonely, it had associated with the demonic beasts imprisoned in the beast pens and stayed in the enclosed space beneath Laishan.
Gu Junshi had originally come to understand the progress, but she found that after her little darling husband and Ziying were teleported from below the "Heart's Question" suspension bridge to Laishan Ravine, they had inexplicably fainted for quite some time.
So by the time she arrived, she had basically witnessed everything that happened after they woke up.
Something had gone wrong with their storyline, deviating significantly from the original plot. Not only had her little darling husband not sparked any romance with the third female lead, Ziying, but they were so indifferent that they seemed unwilling to say an extra word to each other.
Originally, Ziying was supposed to take a liking to the little white mouse. The arrogant male lead, wanting to please her, would have worked together to emotionally influence the Treasure Hunting Mouse to recognize its master, only to discover they had acquired a rare beast, a cheesy romantic plot. Clearly, that was not going to happen.
Even plots like hero saving the beauty, the male and female leads cleverly battling a tenth-tier beast together, and the precious beast holding the key, were all off track due to their current estrangement.
In order to maintain this plot without collapsing, Gu Junshi had to once again intervene as a behind-the-scenes manipulator.
She took the body of the fierce beast Hu Tao and released a wisp of her divine sense to control the Treasure Hunting Mouse to find the key for them. On one hand, she revealed to them clues about an evil dragon guarding the pass ahead, and successfully packaged and sent away the Treasure Hunting Mouse, who had been kind to them.
The Treasure Hunting Mouse played a significant role in the later stages, and her little darling husband would rely on it to sense rare treasures.
In the original plot, the owner of the Treasure Hunting Mouse was Ziying, but the current little darling husband clearly had no intention of giving the precious beast to her, which undoubtedly weakened the importance of the third female lead as a treasure-hunting tool in the drama.
Gu Junshi pondered for a moment and felt... it wasn't a big problem.
As long as the main plot didn't collapse, the other minor details could go as they pleased.
She had put the consciousness of the Treasure Hunting Mouse to sleep long ago, and her divine sense had taken its place to accompany them on their journey.
After leaving the beast pen was a brightly lit corridor, and beyond the corridor was another stone gate.
When they opened the stone gate, a wind of alternating hot and cold currents blew. In front of them was a peculiar dual-colored Yin-Yang pool. One side was icy crystal blue, and the other was fiery orange-red. They did not encroach on each other, nor did they mix.
In the middle of the Yin-Yang pool, a scaled beast with its tail coiled and its body lying down was submerged. It was about thirty feet tall and remained motionless in the pool, shackled by about a hundred giant iron chains hanging from the stone walls. Half of its body exposed outside the pool had turned into hard stone.
At first glance, it looked like a lifelike stone sculpture of a monster, but according to the information from the tenth-tier demonic beast earlier, this giant beast should be the "Ice Fire Twin-Headed Dragon" it had mentioned.
"Is it alive or dead?" Ziying asked uncertainly.
Liu Jiangfusheng ignored her. His gaze swept from the pool to the surroundings. He saw that besides the motionless Ice Fire Twin-Headed Dragon being unusual, there were ten ice coffins placed in the alcoves of the icy pool on one side, and ten stone coffins in the alcoves of the fiery pool on the other side.
Squeak~
At this moment, the Treasure Hunting Mouse jumped down from Liu Jiangfusheng's shoulder. Simultaneously, in the ice coffins, a pair of tightly closed eyes suddenly opened, and in the stone coffins on the other side, a pair of eyes with black pupils devoid of whites opened at the same time.