Before our formal departure.
Si Zhiruo kept asking me if there was anything else we needed to bring.
I casually stuffed one of her pretty little dresses into the bag and then stared at the several walk-in closets overflowing with clothes. What else was there to take?
Toys?
Did Zhizhi even like playing with those things?
Whatever, I’d just stuff them in first and figure it out later. Regardless of whether they were useful, it was better to bring them than to regret it. Even if she didn’t like playing with them now, maybe she would when she grew up.
Wait, that wasn’t right. Could this long trip really last that long? It couldn’t possibly go on for several years; it should be resolved within a few months at most.
I stood in the walk-in closet, hesitating.
Since it was my first time traveling far away, I was more anxious than Si Zhiruo, though I couldn’t let it show in front of her.
Clothing, food, shelter, and transportation. Those four words needed to be handled properly.
I didn’t have to worry about transportation. I had already taken a top-tier super spirit boat from Su Liumeng’s small warehouse, one that could even support sailing across the Boundary Sea. Lodging could also be settled on the boat. If we didn’t want to attract too much attention, we could just live off the land—digging out a mountain cave would suffice for a place to stay.
While I was lost in thought, my daughter, her hair tied in a bun, suddenly appeared at the doorway. She held up a hair clip between her fingers and showed it to me. “Mama, look! This is the little hair clip Su Liumeng just gave me.”
“Is it pretty?” she asked.
“It’s quite nice.” I pinned the hair clip onto her. The rabbit pattern was very cute and showed a lot of thought.
Si Zhiruo hurried to the mirror in the closet and stared expectantly at her reflection. Once she was certain she looked beautiful, she spun around happily in place.
“Hmph, she always gives me these little trinkets.” She would always complain about Su Liumeng out of habit.
Even so, when she mentioned Su Liumeng, the coldness in her eyes had mostly vanished.
Most cultivators were eventually able to abstain from food. As for whether Si Zhiruo could, I had heard her mention it once or twice. She had already completed a half-step breakthrough to the final realm, so theoretically, she no longer needed any nutrition to maintain normal life functions.
However… she was still in her childhood.
Maintenance was one thing, but she still needed to develop. It wasn’t like she could stay this small for her entire life. Even if she could accept it, I couldn’t. I was looking forward to my daughter growing up into a stunning beauty who would captivate all six realms.
Therefore, food definitely had to be carried. As for the situation in the Ghost Realm, ancient records had descriptions, but no one knew exactly what it looked like now after so many years.
The name itself was self-explanatory. The Ghost Realm was, as the name implied, a place where basically only fierce ghosts lived. Ghosts were energy bodies and didn’t need to eat. If we encountered a vast, endless wilderness after arriving in the Ghost Realm, we would be stuck sitting there eating nothing but the wind.
This girl, Zhiruo, still had the temperament of a child. After worrying about what to pack for a while, she went back into the room to tease the succulents on the balcony.
Su Liumeng entered the walk-in closet and immediately noticed the worry in my eyes. “Don’t work too hard. You still have me,” she said, gently putting her arm around my shoulder.
“I’m not tired,” I replied, slowly shaking my head.
I was just a bit melancholic about my first long trip and hadn’t slept well the previous night.
Su Liumeng analyzed my words seriously. She handed over a spatial treasure. “You’ve been preparing things for the trip these past few days, so I prepared a set for you as well. Take a look and see if I missed anything.”
This time, I was truly surprised.
I poured my divine sense into the artifact. Inside were dense piles of food and drinking water. Besides that, there was a large collection of single-use defensive items.
Perhaps because we had been married for so long, I had almost forgotten that I had a partner I could rely on. If I said that out loud now, would Su Liumeng punch me?
I coughed lightly and took the initiative to give her a kiss. “Thanks, Baby.”
Getting married was quite useful after all. At least I didn’t have to toil away alone anymore.
Su Liumeng’s meticulous thinking had prepared things even more thoroughly than what I had just thought of. There was even a huge pile of snacks. Was she planning for me to eat snacks to relieve boredom when I had nothing to do?
“The Ghost Realm is different from our world. You must be careful after you leave.”
“Since I won’t be by your side, if there’s anything you can’t handle, talk to Zhizhi. She is your daughter, but she is also a powerful being who has broken through the realms. No one in the Ghost Realm should be a match for her.”
Su Liumeng rambled on with reluctance, sounding a bit like an old lady.
I stifled a laugh.
The way she was being — it was unexpectedly cute.
I looked at the young woman’s beautiful face and couldn’t help but daze off for a moment. I curled my lip. ‘Why am I acting like a fangirl?’
I condemned myself. I wasn’t… a hopeless romantic.
Suddenly, I moved my gaze away inconspicuously. Little did I know, all of this fell into Su Liumeng’s eyes.
“Why don’t you look a little longer?” Su Liumeng gazed into the galaxy within my eyes, eager to find her own reflection there.
I countered in a small voice, “No matter how pretty you are, I can’t keep staring.” I was afraid that if I looked a bit longer, I wouldn’t be able to bear leaving her, let alone leaving this place…
Su Liumeng’s gaze sharpened.
“Baby, do you know that every time you mumble to yourself, you look especially like an animal?”
“What animal?”
“A black-footed cat.”
“Isn’t that a protected species that’s banned from being kept as a pet worldwide?” I replied subconsciously. “Wait, who are you calling small in a roundabout way?”
I gritted my teeth and glared at her. “Am I small or not? Don’t you have any idea in your heart?”
Su Liumeng was stunned. How did the topic suddenly veer in this direction?
The young woman slightly straightened her back, refusing to lose. she could only respond dryly, “Well, it’s true that it’s not small anymore…”
I glanced at Su Liumeng. “I even think you’re small.”
I could be very vindictive. Who told her to gossip about me being short just now?
In reality, Su Liumeng hadn’t really thought that far ahead. She had just simply thought of the light meowing of a black-footed cat. The tiny wild cat killer always had a very special sense of “gap moe.”
Being hit head-on by Xinyan’s verbal blow, Su Liumeng was deeply hurt. Her footsteps even faltered a bit.
How was she small?
As expected, if the knife doesn’t cut you, you don’t know the pain.
So Baby was thinking about that aspect just now. Su Liumeng quickly found an excuse for Si Xinyan and understood it as a matter of course.
“It’s only this big, what can I do…” Su Liumeng explained weakly, terrified of being disliked by her wife.
Su Liumeng’s body in its normal state was indeed only that size. Unless she underwent a partial dragon transformation, she wouldn’t turn into a mature woman with a hot figure.
Even so, in front of Xinyan’s unreasonable cup size, she still seemed a bit lacking.
I tilted my head, watching Su Liumeng’s frantic defense. I subconsciously reached out my hand and, under her incredible and completely unexpected gaze—and as her body gradually stiffened—I directly gave her a couple of squeezes in a full-surround manner.
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‘Hmm, it’s soft,’ I summarized in my heart.
‘And… it’s not that bony.’
If Su Liumeng heard this, she would probably scream about the injustice. Heaven be my witness, she wasn’t an A; she was a B+, approaching a C size. How could she be “bony”?
As expected, no matter how stubborn a girl is, her chest is soft.
I silently summarized in my heart, ‘Unless… she’s skin and bones.’
Su Liumeng pulled on my sleeve, her eyes looking a bit aggrieved. “Baby, why have you stopped talking? You aren’t really disgusted with me, are you?”
“No.”
“I was just thinking about whether your mouth was stubborn.”
“My mouth is stubborn?” Su Liumeng let out an “ah” sound. “That shouldn’t be the case. I’m already so obedient. Even when I do something wrong, I immediately slide into a kneeling apology. How can I be associated with the words ‘stubborn mouth’?”
“True.” I looked at Su Liumeng and paused. “Next time you apologize, you aren’t allowed to kneel anymore.”
It was embarrassing. If word got out, people would say I was committing domestic violence.
I had said it several times, but Su Liumeng wouldn’t listen. It was a bit distressing.
“Hehe.”
“Who told me that you’re my only baby?” Su Liumeng could be incredibly clingy at times.
I looked outside. Little Zhizhi was rolling around on the carpet.
“You can have another baby.”
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