Demon King's Repayment - chapter 30

“Ah, this chestnut cake is really delicious. I miss the food of human beings.” Hui Teng ate tea and snacks gracefully and talked about the past.

After drinking a few cups of Yuan Xiang’s tea, she began to churn naturally, as if she had completely forgotten that she was still a prisoner at the moment.

“You should have known it?” Hui Teng said, “Since the Qi of the human world has become thinner, the demons have risen to the clan or split the spiritual world so gradually, many of the former members no longer stay in this world.”

“But among these many spiritual worlds, such as the Qingqiu where the fox family lives, the Zhongshan where our family lives, the capital where ghosts gather, etc., because the geography and the human world were adjacent to each other, the demons who have lived in it for a long time still like to often play in the world…”

At first glance, Hui Teng looked very cold and pricey but in fact she was very talkative and talked about the past of what happened to her fifty years ago.

At that time, Hui Teng slipped from her homeland to the world but was so dazzled by the prosperity of the world for a while that she forgot to return.

In her words, in order to save Qi in the world and make it easier to roam, she transformed herself into an ordinary girl with an ordinary appearance.

Yuan Xiang glanced at the glamorous woman who was sitting on the opposite side who was calling that an ordinary appearance shamelessly.

According to Hui Teng’s words, on a breezy and under the full moon, she, an ordinary girl, came outside and saw a dilapidated barren house and through a hole in the courtyard wall, she saw a pretty scholar studying hard under the moonlight.

The talented boy surnamed Li had a clean and gentle appearance, which was very different from the farmer that she saw along the way, which made the little snake spirit interested. So she seduced the gifted scholar by turning into a beautiful lady and had meetings on the bridge under the moon.

“No way?” Yuan Xiang didn’t expect that she could hear such a classical cliché story. She could almost guess the ending. “So not only did you agree to give him your own body, you also gave him a mountain of gold and silver to help the poor scholar. That kid made a fortune and became famous?”

“So what if he was a poor boy?” Hui Teng looked at Yuan Xiang with a very strange expression, “Human money has no meaning to us demon race. Why would I care if he was poor or not?”

Yuan Xiang raised a teapot to add tea to her cup, curious about this kind of human and demon love, “Then what did you like about him?”

Hui Teng raised her white neck in a dignified and elegant manner. On the contrary, what she said was completely non-human.

“Of course it’s his appearance and my greed for his body.” She said naturally.

Yuan Xiang almost knocked over the tea in her hand. If she hadn’t come from modern society, she would really be frightened by this unique snake spirit.

“So what happened later?”

“Later, I pestered him everyday. Of course, he also liked me very much. He stayed with me every night. We really had a very happy time.” Hui Teng recalled the past. Het face was not good at showing expressions. She only smiled slightly, “Unfortunately, although I was happy every day, he always had a lot of unhappy things. I have always wanted him to be as happy as in the past. But in the end it did not happen.” 

At the beginning of the story, Li Sheng was just upset about the lack of food, shabby clothes and dilapidated house.

These were all trivial things that could be solved by her raising her hands and of course she was also happy to make her sweetheart happy.

“Husband, husband, look what I found?” She showed Li Sheng a jar of copper coins she dug out under the deserted grass mound.

Li Sheng happily lifted her up and circled in the air, “Ah, you’re so kind and you always bring me good luck. You’re the blessing of my life. It’s my luck to be able to know you and stay with you forever. Even if our hair grows white we will not get separated ever.”

Seeing her beloved happy, Hui Teng was happy. The grass grew, the eagles flew, and everything around her was happily spinning in front of her eyes.

What did it mean by hair growing white but not separating? She thought to herself. Anyway, her hair won’t get white, did it mean that she and him would never be separated?

(Rein: Dummy, you’ve never seen any old people in that world?)

The two rolled around the wild grass and Hui Teng took out everything and his happy voice unscrupulously pushed down the weeds.

But as time went on, Li Sheng’s distress became more and more. Fortunately, it was not too difficult for Hui Teng. The snake clan already had the power to prosper. Even if she did not do it deliberately, just by living in Li Sheng’s house, the Li family prospered day by day.

As Li Sheng’s clothes became more and more sophisticated, the friends he met were either rich or extravagant, and his house turned into a sculptural building from the original hut, Li Sheng became increasingly dissatisfied with Hui Teng. He often said that she was not dignified, unsophisticated, and unable to help him.

So she began to learn human etiquette and imitated human behavior. She also tried to keep herself from talking, avoiding the servants in the family, so as not to make her sweetheart unhappy.

“Husband invited Shifu to teach me at home. I learned a lot of human things, such as flower arrangement and tea ceremony. These things were actually quite interesting. I have been learning very happily. Unfortunately, I don’t know why those female Shifus always left in anger.

(Rein: She’s precious.)