At first, when he heard her mention her fiancé, he thought her fiancé was also a spirit creature like her. At that time, his acceptance level was 100%. Later, he saw that her fiancé was a human, but that human man seemed to be very good to the little fox. Although his acceptance level dropped to 50%, he could still accept it. Now that he knew the man had nothing, his acceptance level of her fiancé dropped directly to zero.
Rong Lan took a sip of the warm tea. "I never said I liked him."
Her answer was also extremely justified.
Si Mo was choked again. "Wait! If you don't like him, then why are you marrying him?"
"To fulfill the wish of the original owner of this body." Rong Lan sized up the suddenly irritable Si Mo up and down. "Moreover, why do you have so much hostility towards humans? Have you ever been betrayed by a human before?"
Si Mo suddenly calmed down and exhaled. "No. Since you don't like him, that's okay."
"Although the time we've known each other isn't long, I still want to tell you not to fall in love with a human! Human lives are really too short. If you fall in love with a human, you'll have to spend hundreds or even thousands of years to relieve the loneliness after his passing. It's too much of a loss." He said earnestly.
Rong Lan said, "You wouldn't have fallen in love with a human before, would you? That's why you have such a profound understanding."
If Si Mo had never fallen in love with a human, how would he know how sad it would be after the death of his beloved human? But looking at Si Mo's appearance, he really didn't seem like someone who had had a passionate love affair.
There might as well be the word "gossip" written clearly in the little fox's eyes. Si Mo rolled his eyes. "No."
Judging from the lifespan of his species, he was still an underage child. Falling in love at this stage would be considered puppy love.
Although it didn't really matter if he did have puppy love. His family wouldn't interfere with his romantic pursuits.
"Is there no spell in your world that can share lifespan with humans?" Rong Lan asked.
Rong Lan successfully confused Si Mo. He felt that the number of times he had been confused since he met the little fox was more than the total number of times he had been puzzled in the past thousand years. "What's the spell of sharing lifespan with humans?"
"It's just the spell of sharing lifespan with humans." Rong Lan plucked a grape and threw it into her mouth. "I don't know if I can use that spell in this world, but in the world I used to live in, there was such a spell, and I can use it!"
This spell was one of the spells that spirit creatures must learn.
Although the world she used to live in wasn't as developed as this one, it was still an era when spirit creatures and humans could fall in love freely.
It was said that this spell was developed by a great demon who couldn't be with his lover for a long time after going into seclusion. Unfortunately, the human his beloved didn't get to see the spell come out.
Si Mo said, "There's actually such a spell?"
His worldview seemed to have been impacted.
If there was such a spell in his world... that would be great...
"Can I... learn this spell from you?" Si Mo asked very uncertainly.
Rong Lan nodded. "Theoretically, there's no problem. As long as our cultivation methods are from the same source, it's okay. But to know if our cultivation methods are from the same source, I have to know how to cultivate first."
She cultivated by absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. If Si Mo also cultivated by absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, she could teach him the spells she knew.
Si Mo exhaled. The spell the little fox mentioned was extremely tempting to him. Even if the little fox didn't provide him with a place to live now, he would still teach her how to cultivate in a human body. "It's okay. Anyway, I can't go back now. I can just wait slowly."
"It's really good to have this spell..." Si Mo sighed.
Rong Lan lowered her eyes and chewed the sweet and sour grape in her mouth. "No spell can be simply described as good or bad. This spell was almost listed as a forbidden spell once."
Si Mo frowned and subconsciously sat up straight. "Why is that?"
"I heard it from my parents. They said that when this spell first came out, a little cat demon cast this spell on her sweetheart. However, her sweetheart wasn't a good person. After he learned that the little cat demon had cast the spell of sharing lifespan on him, he imprisoned the cat demon and told the national teacher of that dynasty about it."
As Rong Lan spoke, she took a sip of tea.
"That national teacher wasn't a good person either. Taking advantage of the fact that most people wanted to live forever, he incited the common people to go into the forest to court those little demons who had just entered the mortal world and didn't have strong discriminatory abilities, so as to deceive them into casting the spell of sharing lifespan on humans."
"Spirit creatures have always been curious about humans, just as humans are also curious about spirit creatures. It's very easy for little demons who have just entered the mortal world to be deceived by the sweet words of humans, right?" Si Mo's expression darkened.
Rong Lan glanced at Si Mo in surprise and nodded.
Just as he said, many little demons were deceived. They spirit creatures also liked to read storybooks and were extremely easily attracted by the legendary love affairs between humans and demons described in the storybooks. During that period, the deceived little demons all thought that their fates had arrived, but in fact, humans just wanted to use them to obtain a longer lifespan.
"Later, when the national teacher found that fewer and fewer spirit creatures could be deceived, he started to use despicable means to control the spirit creatures and forced them to cast that spell. Several kind - hearted great demons couldn't bear to see the younger generation being hurt and joined hands to kill the national teacher."
"After that, almost all the deceived little demons were rescued, and those humans with ulterior motives were all killed. Several great demons began to think about whether that spell was really suitable for all spirit creatures. Fortunately, after discussing, they still didn't list the spell as a forbidden spell. They just raised the conditions for casting the spell."
After finishing the story, Rong Lan exhaled. "But this was a bedtime story my parents told me, so I don't know if this story is really like this."
"It should be true." Si Mo still frowned tightly. "Why weren't humans afraid of spirit creatures in the world you used to live in? Did all spirit creatures not eat humans?"
"That's another story—"
Before Rong Lan could tell Si Mo this other story, the manager who had gone to get the rings knocked on the door three times and walked in.
The two of them tacitly shut up and didn't mention what they had just talked about at all.
The manager walked over with a tray and carefully placed the tray on the tea table. "Miss Bai, you can take a look at the design of this pair of rings to see if you're satisfied. If you are, you can also try them on with this gentleman to see if the sizes are suitable."
Hearing the first half of the sentence, Rong Lan thought it was normal, but what the hell was the second half of the sentence?