She clenched her small hands, words she could have said many times before now became awkward and shy. “Mommy, you’re really good to your daughter.”
She had never forgotten the moment Si Xinyan stood up, as if ready to fight the whole world.
At this moment, she finally understood.
Even if the whole world stood against her,
Her mother… would steadfastly stand by her side.
Halfway up the mountain, the two little maidservants had already fallen unconscious.
I looked at Chunqiao and the other and sighed. “Erase their recent memories.”
I didn’t want anyone to hear anything bad about my daughter.
“Yes, Mother.” Si Zhiruo raised her delicate hand. Black ghostly energy shot from her belly, passed through both their bodies, and returned.
Listening to the little girl’s voice, why did she suddenly feel more sensible and obedient?
“Still want some little rabbit meat?” Si Zhiruo asked eagerly.
I walked back to the stone where I had initially been sitting and plopped down. “Of course, how could I not eat it?”
“Unhappy people, unhappy things, are all gone now, so don’t let them affect your mood anymore.”
Si Zhiruo looked at the rabbit meat burnt on the charcoal.
“This one’s ruined, but there’s another.” I explained.
I took the rabbit meat off the fire and stuffed it into a bag.
Probably because I’d been a college student for so long, my first reaction upon seeing waste was to gather it all into a bag and dispose of it properly when going down the mountain.
Si Zhiruo quietly noted this small detail.
When eating out, leftover food must be put into a bag.
Within fifteen minutes, the two maidservants regained consciousness one after another.
I came up with a casual excuse and explained it to them.
Whether they believed it or not, I didn’t care—I believed it myself.
Chunqiao hesitated before saying, “Miss, I’ll continue roasting the meat.”
The two maidservants were smart and guessed something had happened.
Their mistress was awake and was one of the parties involved, but hadn’t spoken a word. As their maidservants, they had to pretend to know nothing.
Chunqiao and Chunlan resumed their tasks with smooth coordination.
Half an hour later, I munched on some wild greens, a faint bitterness lingering in my mouth. “Baby, can you check if this grass is safe to eat…?”
The little bundle put her hand near her mouth and suddenly spat out a mouthful. “Not poisonous, just tastes bad.”
Don’t ask how she knew it wasn’t poisonous.
Because she just took a bite too.
Since she didn’t get poisoned, it had to be safe.
Even if it were poisonous, it wouldn’t matter. The little one now held seven strands of source energy. In the past, she could easily cure nearly incurable cancers, so a little food poisoning was nothing.
As long as she didn’t want to, even the Heavenly King himself couldn’t make her be born a second earlier.
After eating to satisfaction, I was unusually silent.
“Baby.”
“He just said your birth goes against the heavens and that you’ll inevitably be punished by Heaven. Is that true?”
Si Zhiruo was thinking about how to answer. “Theoretically, yes. But Mom is different. She is a very rare blessed by Heaven. I’m Mom’s daughter, so I get a bit of that blessing too.”
“So, I just need to follow the infant’s instincts, keeping my true spirit dormant for a while, and I can avoid the heavenly punishment for this resurrection.”
“What do you mean by that?” I didn’t fully understand.
Si Zhiruo explained, “Basically, I’ll be like a normal newborn baby, only having the most basic instincts. My own true spirit and memories will awaken again when I speak for the first time.”
Every child has a moment when self-awareness arises.
Some realize it after a fall, others after waking from sleep, suddenly understanding they are an individual, a separate life form, and past memories begin to blur.
“You want to see Zhi Zhi soon, so you’ll have to teach me to speak properly.”
I thought about it carefully.
It seemed pretty soon, so I stopped worrying.
I spoke at seven and a half months; as my biological daughter with my bloodline flowing through her, she’d be even better.
A prodigious little ghost king infant—is that too much?
“When will your true spirit be dormant?”
Si Zhiruo bit her finger, “Mommy, don’t miss me too much. It’s kind of like a longer sleep, it’ll pass quickly.”
“I’ll tell you before the true spirit dormancy.”
“It should be before the actual birth, when contractions gradually start, and you have to avoid Heavenly Dao scrutiny.”
I murmured softly, taking out a handkerchief to wipe the grease from my mouth.
Still shouldn’t eat too much.
Rabbit meat probably had little fat and wasn’t very nourishing.
Si Zhiruo looked at me holding back my appetite with inexplicable pity and sadness.
It was all her fault—
If not for her, Mommy could eat whatever she wanted.
For the first time, Si Zhiruo felt a little resentment.
Resentment for growing so fast, already over six jin without noticing.
“Let’s go back.”
I waved my small hand, gathering the pile of garbage into a corner inside my spatial ring to be burned later.
The big elder’s spatial jade bracelet was huge.
It held over a hundred square meters, so there was no worry about polluting my belongings.
Originally, I planned to give it to Su Liumeng.
Since she went out more often, she would need to carry things more than I would.
Later, she secretly told me the big elder had also secretly gifted her a small spatial artifact, so I didn’t insist on giving mine to her.
Chunqiao and Chunlan ate a delicious wild barbecue meal with me, feeling very happy. They chattered nonstop, trying to cheer me up.
The two maidservants understood well that mood during pregnancy was very important.
“Miss, Miss.”
“May I ask for half a day off to handle some personal matters?” Chunqiao looked a bit embarrassed, nervously fiddling with her skirt. “I have some sisters in the Su family I want to say a proper goodbye to.”
“Granted.” I smiled. “Who knows when you’ll meet again next time.”
Seeing Chunqiao take leave, Chunlan hesitated to speak.
Noticing her expression, I generously said, “You can have half a day off too.”
“Half a day’s too short. How about a full day off so you can have a good reunion?”
“Yay!” The two maidservants nearly jumped for joy. “Thank you, Miss, for your kindness.”
Chunqiao was so happy she planted a kiss on Chunlan’s face.
Chunlan froze. “Sister Chunqiao, why did you kiss me?”
“I’m just too happy, what’s wrong with that?”
“Ridiculous!”
I ignored their playful bickering and, upon entering the Su family, followed the path from my memories back to the courtyard belonging to Su Liumeng and me.
The other servants were still busy in the yard. Upon seeing me, they respectfully bowed and greeted, “The servant pays respects to Miss.”
I casually acknowledged everyone and tossed the garbage into a nearby bin.
Su Liumeng was still nowhere to be seen inside the room.
I muttered, “Busy, huh…”
—
Time flew by.
In the blink of an eye, it was December 27th.
A clear, cold dragon’s roar suddenly came from the Su family’s back mountain.
Unlike any illusory sound, this was a true dragon’s roar and tiger’s cry. The legendary mythical creature descended again. After the only true dragon in the world had fallen, now another divine dragon capable of suppressing all living beings appeared.
The big elder looked at the scene on the back mountain, tears of joy welling up. “Good, good, good! Our little phoenix of the Su family! The Su family will continue to thrive.”
Su Liumeng did not immediately revert to her true form. She remained in her half-dragon shape as she left the back mountain.
She was preparing a surprise for her baby.
Su Liumeng explained the reason for leaving to the big elder.
The big elder did not restrict her schedule but said boldly, “Go ahead, go ahead, play for a few more years.”
“Young people who don’t like to play—can they even be called young people?”
Su Liumeng bowed and, filled with joy and hope for the future, set off with Si Xinyan and the two maidservants through the formation that would leave the small secret realm.
Inside the Su family, an ancient house.
A young girl listened to the servant’s report and frowned. “Oh? They’ve all left the ancestral residence?”
She had originally intended to ignore Si Yixin.
But the more she thought about it after returning, the angrier she got.
The more she thought, the less she could sleep, unwilling to accept it.
The girl flipped over in bed, her beautiful princess dress drawing a graceful arc in the air as she jumped down. “I’m also a new student at Qingbei University. What a coincidence! Father just told me to study there for two years.”
The personal maid whispered softly, “Miss, you just came of age a year ago. Those who go to university are already eighteen.”
Su Luo shot her a sharp glance. “If you can’t talk properly, then don’t talk. My grades are excellent. I’ve skipped grades consecutively, haven’t I?”
“Miss, you are absolutely right.”
The maid lowered her head obediently.
The Su family had three major heirs. After competing for the heir position, a relatively peaceful period followed.
After all, once they become heirs, no one kills each other.
Su Luo paced back and forth in her room. “I just remembered, is that annoying guy also living in the capital city?”
“Forget it, forget it, it’s none of my business. Ugly as he is, I’m too lazy to bother.”
The Su family possessed two top-tier cultivation manuals.
The other manual was not necessarily harder to cultivate but had more stringent conditions, and only a few met them.
Currently, only the last of the three heirs had not yet appeared in public and was cultivating.
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