Demon King's Repayment - chapter 88

When arriving from Queqiu, Zhou Deyun accompanied her. Unexpectedly, when she went back, there were people from the Lou family.

Qiu Yueming deliberately got up from the bed and sent them all the way outside the gate of the Zhou house.

The Zhou family’s lady was originally a weak and charming woman. Just because there was a change of soul inside, the body was obviously thin and the waist was slender, but he stood at the door fence like that, straightened his thin back and twisted his eyebrows, giving people a kind of sense of extraordinary momentum.

He stared at Yuan Xiang with condensed eyes and stopped talking.

Yuan Xiang had lived in this world for more than ten years. As an ordinary citizen living in the hinterland of the country, she admired and respected the soldiers who were stationed on the border, fought on the battlefield and provided them with a comfortable life. This young and famous general Qiu’s prestige was often heard even in a small town like Queqiu. 

“The General Qiu Broke Through the Heavenly King Array”, “The White-robed Young General Shot a Halberd at the Gate” and other sections had even been compiled into poems, which were sung in operas and were known to women and children.

He was almost imprisoned in the backyard and tortured to death.

“You don’t have to worry too much. You just need to concentrate on taking care of the body to keep up with us.” There were many people so Yuan Xiang kept her promise, and didn’t mention his name, “As soon as the Chinese New Year gets over, we will go north. I will do my best for you.”

Qiu Yueming lowered his head and performed a fist ceremony commonly used among soldiers.

Saying goodbye to Dingzhou, they set sail going upstream along the Yuan river.

The green hills on both sides, the wide river and the blue waves and the light clouds, made people comfortable.

Yuan Xiang sat in the wing on the second floor, drinking tea with Mrs. Lou.

She gently turned the sapphire tea cup in her hand while looking out from the window, a little absent-mindedly. Mrs. Lou followed her gaze and saw a person standing against the wind on the tip of the bow of the ship, with fluttering clothes. His face was bright, like the moon.

“Is that person a demon?” Mrs. Lou asked.

“How did you know?” Yuan Xiang was a little surprised. She was born with yin and yang eyes but she may not be able to see through Nan He’s demon form with naked eyes.

“I don’t know how to say, he has that kind of temperament. He looks arrogant and indifferent, but in fact he is pure and soft. He doesn’t say what he wants and looks lonely.” Mrs. Lou smiled vaguely, recalling the past, “Always making you unable to understand how to make him happy.”

Wu Yuan on the window sill, licking his paws snorted after hearing that, “He wants something but doesn’t say it, isn’t he a fool? He is making himself suffer. Not all demons are like that. I have never been like that.”

“Yes, yes, our Ah Yuan is a charming and cute cookie,” Yuan Xiang used the apostle’s contract to talk to him in her mind.

Wu Yuan jumped off the window sill and meowed in satisfaction.

“Oh, what a cute kitten,” Mrs. Lou stretched out her finger and scratched the lynx’s chin, making the cat raise his neck and hum with comfort.

“When I was together with Ah Nu, the best thing was to make her happy.” Because she was about to arrive at Queqiu, Mrs. Lou looked a little excited and talked a lot, “No matter how angry she is, as long asI just hold her arm and say a lot of sweet words to coax her, she could immediately forget the unpleasantness that just happened. I really hope that this time I will have a chance to make her happy.”

To make him happy, Yuan Xiang subconsciously cast her gaze on the figure on the deck.

Nan He with his eyes closed had one palm raised on his side. With Yuan Xiang’s eyes which were naturally sensitive to Qi, she saw the stars in the sky drop wisps of starlight, gathering little by little in the centre of his palm. The starlight was overflowing and it fell on the deck one after another, spreading like flowing water, gradually coating the entire tall boat with a faint silver glow.

The boss of the boat was asking the crew with a look of doubt, “I have been rowing the boat for half my lifetime. This is the first time I have encountered such a situation. It is obviously windy and the boat is going upstream. But the boat has no vibrations as it is on the ground. It’s weird.”

The young crew member laughed and replied, “Isn’t it a good thing to have smooth and stable sailing? Boss, you are oversensitive.”

The little changes in the boat trip did not attract the attention of the young crew member. He looked enthusiastically at the distant deck. A young lady was walking toward the bow of the ship to her sweetheart.

Yuan Xiang came to Nan He while silently watching him gather star power in the blue waves and condense his body.

The long and narrow eyelids opened and the amber eyes turned around. There were faint stars and rivers inside, which seemed to hide thousands of thoughts.

“Xiao Nan.” Yuan Xiang was leaning on the boat’s back and the wind disturbed her temples, “I won’t be like them.”

“What do you mean?” Nan He was a little confused.

“I won’t let you wait till I grow old. I won’t make you wait for so many years just to fulfil a promise I failed to make.” She didn’t know why she wanted to say that, but she thought that she wanted to say it, “I would never be like that, I am not willing.”

Nan He looked at her for a long while then looked back, as if he didn’t want to respond to her words.

A pair of fluffy ears suddenly squeezed out from the edge of the black hat, revealing an unconcealable pink, shaking in the wind.

“No, don’t take it back, let me touch it first,” Yuan Xiang rubbed his hands.