“Could it be… that you fell head over heels for our Flower Fairy, and even willingly turned into a woman to give birth to a daughter for her?”
“Of course I did no—”
“That’s not it! Rongrong was born to Mom, and Mother was only found by Rongrong later, um… maybe a few months ago!”
The blushing Hua Yan had only gotten halfway through her hasty retort when Hua Xiangrong, who was sitting in Yun Xuechang’s arms with her eyes covered by a handkerchief, suddenly chimed in with her crisp voice:
“But Mom and Mother have a really good relationship! Mother loves Mom very much, and she loves Rongrong very much too! Auntie Fox, your guess was right!”
‘She was just calling me older sister a moment ago, how did I become an auntie in the blink of an eye…’
Su Feiyao looked at the obedient and cute pink-haired girl whose eyes were covered by a handkerchief, finding it inexplicably a bit funny in her heart.
‘Is it because I targeted Hua Yan? This little girl is actually quite clever.’
She didn’t feel offended in the slightest; instead, she found it even more amusing.
‘According to this, Yun Xuechang somehow got pregnant with Hua Yan’s child back then and gave birth to her, and the Xiaoyao Sword Sect didn’t even ask any questions? They even hid it quietly for so long?’
‘Did Yun Xuechang and Hua Yan only get together now because their relationship improved? Did they already have feelings for each other, or was it purely for the sake of raising the child?’
‘If there are feelings, what kind of feelings are they?’
The more Su Feiyao thought about it, the more excited she became, and her large reddish-brown tail couldn’t help but wag again.
Back then, she had heard that the Xiaoyao Sword Sect’s new Sword Head was descending the mountain to gain experience, so she used the opportunity of the Hehuan Sect’s Yinyang Platform Ceremony to trick her into coming to the Hehuan Sect.
She said it was to participate in the martial arts tournament, but in reality, she wanted to see if she could take this opportunity to play matchmaker for her—after all, intermarrying with other sects was one of the Hehuan Sect’s foundations for establishment.
But no matter how she or the other male and female disciples tried to seduce her, overtly or covertly, Yun Xuechang remained completely unmoved.
She was like a Jade Bodhisattva sitting in a temple, or an ignorant young child who knew nothing of the world, making it truly impossible to make a move.
As for Hua Yan, she just thought it was interesting and wanted to see who would win and who would lose if these two faced off, and whether someone would… change their gender on the Yin-Yang Platform.
The ending was obvious; Hua Yan lost, and the Young Master of the Hundred Flowers Valley was turned into a female body.
The matter should have ended there. But now, Hua Yan and Yun Xuechang had appeared together in front of her once again in such a dramatic fashion.
The story behind this couldn’t help but make the highly curious fox girl itch with anticipation. She genuinely wanted to see what Yun Xuechang, who was as pure as the white snow in the mountains, would look like after being tainted by mortal desires.
‘It must be extremely interesting.’
Her gaze shifted to Hua Yan beside her, who was glaring at her with a flushed face, both shy and annoyed.
‘I keep feeling that this “former Young Master” of the Hundred Flowers Valley seems to have feelings for Yun Xuechang. Now that they even have a daughter, things will still have to rely on her to work hard…’
‘Why don’t I add some fuel to the fire!’
“Oh my, it seems our Young Master Hua is still more affectionate towards the Flower Fairy’s handiwork~ But since the Flower Fairy’s hands are born so beautifully, it is quite normal.”
Saying so, before Hua Yan could jump up in a flushed rage again, she fanned her folding fan and turned to Yun Xuechang, who had been quietly listening from the side with a hint of bewilderment and curiosity in her eyes:
“Since that is the case, how about letting me compensate the Flower Fairy with some Cultivation Manuals? After all, I did indeed embezzle the Flower Fairy’s Spirit Stones back then and gave that artifact to Young Master Hua under my own name. My conscience is still a bit troubled by it to this day.”
‘Manuals?’
Hearing this, Yun Xuechang, who was already sitting upright, straightened her body even more, and the ahoge on top of her head suddenly stood up straight.
“Yan’er, may I?”
She turned to Hua Yan beside her and asked.
“If you want them, just ask her for them, you don’t need to ask me.”
Hua Yan shook her head.
In truth, she didn’t really care much about the price of that artifact—after all, she, Hua Yan, wasn’t actually short on Spirit Stones to buy artifacts.
She was just furious that she had been deceived by Su Feiyao, and that Yun Xuechang had also been scammed out of her Spirit Stones as a result.
She just couldn’t swallow this anger. That was why she came knocking on their door in a blazing fury the moment she heard the name of the Hehuan Sect.
‘If you really want to talk about it… that artifact was the first thing Xuechang ever bought for me! It was almost kept hidden by that jerk Su Feiyao!’
“It’s just that the manuals you offer must cover my compensation, plus the Spirit Stones Xuechang spent to buy the artifact from you back then. It has to be worth two portions.”
Saying so, she glared at Su Feiyao in front of her with an unkind expression.
“I will naturally do so.”
Su Feiyao nodded with a smile and agreed:
“Since that is the case, please follow me, Flower Fairy. After all, since these manuals are compensation for you alone, they can only be shown to you alone.”
“Tch, acting as if anyone cares about your little things.”
Hua Yan crossed her arms and snorted angrily.
Actually, she was telling the truth—for someone who practiced the Hundred Flowers Returning to One Manual, things like Cultivation Manuals were truly completely useless.
Only new and powerful artifacts could significantly and quickly increase her strength.
Hearing this, Yun Xuechang slowly stood up. She first gently placed Hua Xiangrong, who was in her arms, onto the futon and carefully straightened the hem of her clothes before following Su Feiyao out of the inner room.
“Come, Flower Fairy, these are the manuals I spoke of—they pertain to the usage of the Mother-Son Mandarin Duck Axes, and there is also a sample artifact from the Core Formation Stage.”
After bringing Yun Xuechang to another private room, Su Feiyao pulled out a manual and two strangely shaped artifacts.
The artifact was composed of two crescent-shaped steel blades, one large and one small, looking like Yin-Yang fish embracing each other.
It had blades all around, and the grip was located at the curved section where the two crescents intersected.
“This weapon is quite obscure. Cultivators who study it as an artifact are already extremely rare, and I wager only my Hehuan Sect has it. This should be enough to cover Young Master Hua’s compensation, plus your Spirit Stones from back then.”
“Alright, thank you, Daoist Friend Su.”
Yun Xuechang nodded and took the two items from her hands, her aloof red eyes sizing up this novel artifact with a hint of curiosity.
Just as she planned to turn around and leave to call Hua Yan and Hua Xiangrong to go back together so she could carefully study the usage of these Mother-Son Mandarin Duck Axes, Su Feiyao stopped her again:
“Flower Fairy, hold on a moment.”
The fox-eared girl smiled mysteriously and took out a few more items from behind her back:
“Actually, our Hehuan Sect is currently trying to expand into a new business and enter the publishing field, focusing on popular storybooks. These few volumes are our recent accomplishments~~”
Saying so, she stuffed the few books in her hands into Yun Xuechang’s hands.
Yun Xuechang looked down, only to see that the materials of these books were ordinary, with simple plain-colored covers, bearing only the thinly printed book titles—
“The Senior Sister Above”, “Beautiful Fairy Falls in Love with Me”, and “After Being Imprisoned in the Dungeon by the Paranoid Female Demon Lord”. These unfamiliar and somewhat weird book titles instantly caught her eye.
‘What kind of books… are these?’
Yun Xuechang, who usually only read various Sword Manuals and Cultivation Manuals, or occasionally flipped through Rongrong’s homework, blinked as she looked at these unfamiliar and slightly strange book titles.
“These are all good stuff. Flower Fairy, after you go back, you might as well read them carefully, what do you say?”
Su Feiyao covered her face with her small folding fan, her fox eyes narrowing into slits from smiling.