"You, you're going to school tomorrow! No! Starting tonight! I'll call your tutor later and tell her to come to the apartment tonight without fail." Song Yao was extremely angry. She didn't bother to tell Zhaozhao nonsense about giving up this idea. Trembling, she arranged Zhaozhao's schedule for the following days.
Zhaozhao looked embarrassed and hesitated to speak as she looked at her cousin.
Song Yao's heart skipped a beat. Her intuition told her that something bad was coming. She asked warily, "You don't want to go?"
"No." Zhaozhao shook her head, wringing her fingers and looking at Song Yao with her eyes. "I just want to ask, do I have to study in that small apartment?"
If she didn't want to go to the apartment, where did she want to go?
Alarm bells went off in Song Yao's mind. She flatly refused, "No way! Don't even think about it! I will never, ever let you live with Su Yuan. You must stay in the apartment!"
"Why?" Zhaozhao was very attached to Su Yuan now. Or rather, she was extremely eager to fall in love with him. She just wanted to spend more time with him.
What was that line in the TV drama? Oh yes! Two people should cultivate their feelings. Although they were both demons.
Song Yao saw all of Zhaozhao's little expressions. She thought that it would definitely be impossible to persuade her directly.
She had really worried herself sick for this innocent younger sister. Song Yao found another way and said, "Zhaozhao, you just said that Su Yuan doesn't want to fall in love with you now. Do you know why?"
"Why?"
"Because you're not reserved enough!"
"Huh?" Zhaozhao didn't quite understand. What did "reserved" mean?
"Girls shouldn't be too proactive. Men won't cherish you if you're too proactive. Do you understand? You should keep a proper distance from him. The more he can't get you, the more he'll want you. Then he'll get anxious, and when he's anxious, he'll come to you on his own initiative."
"Will Su Yuan come to me to fall in love with me like this?" Zhaozhao asked humbly.
Song Yao couldn't bear to hear the words "Su Yuan" and "fall in love" come out of Zhaozhao's mouth at the same time. She had a stress reaction.
She perfunctorily replied, "Yeah, more or less."
Got it! Zhaozhao clenched her fists. She thought that she had learned the true secret from her cousin. Now she seemed to be a tree that knew how to fall in love very well. She gratefully thanked Song Yao.
Song Yao inexplicably felt a bit guilty and waved her hand.
"Oh right, cousin, I just forgot. Where's the Reincarnation Bell now? Is it in the Xuan Sect or the Demon Administration Bureau?"
A look of uneasiness flashed across Song Yao's face. She cleared her throat and said, "It was taken away by Lu Chukong."
"Hmm?" Zhaozhao didn't understand. "Why did you give it to him?"
"It was originally their family's thing. According to him, it was something passed down from his mysterious master's ancestors. The deal he made with Yu Chu back then was also about this. But later, he was deceived by Yu Chu, and then Song Changming got involved." Song Yao shrugged and said indifferently.
"Alright, don't worry about it. We've checked the bell. It's useless now."
Hearing what Song Yao said, Zhaozhao nodded, but she felt that something didn't seem right. But exactly what...
Knock, knock!
There was a knock on the door. Su Yuan couldn't sit still anymore. He raised his hand and knocked on the door, asking outside if Zhaozhao was ready to go.
Zhaozhao came to her senses. She made a goodbye gesture to her cousin, then turned around and opened the door.
"Then, cousin, I'm leaving first."
"Okay."
After going out, seeing Su Yuan's hand that habitually reached out, Zhaozhao originally wanted to hold it, but suddenly remembered what her cousin had said. She retracted her hand and showed a smile to Su Yuan. "Let's go!"
After saying that, she ran forward on her own.
Su Yuan was stunned on the spot. Looking at Zhaozhao's cheerful back as she walked away, he made an empty fist. It felt so empty that it made him uncomfortable.
Barely suppressing the loss in his heart, Su Yuan took a step and followed.
Su Yuan led Zhaozhao to the finance department. She lay on the office desk in front of her and cheerfully asked the finance staff how much bonus she had this time.
The finance staff checked Zhaozhao's mission this time and, based on the mission rating given by the system, finally reported a number - 3,000.
Zhaozhao's bonus for this mission was 3,000 yuan.
Poor little tree demon didn't have much of a concept of money in the human world. She just thought the number sounded quite pleasant, so she didn't ask any more questions.
And Su Yuan behind her didn't care about this little bit of money at all. After all, in Su Yuan's heart, as long as he was around, Zhaozhao didn't need to spend any money. He would prepare everything for her.
However, the great Lord Yinglong only thought of Zhaozhao and ignored the fact that she was raising a "money - gobbling beast".
This led to the situation where Zhaozhao happily learned how to shop online under the guidance of the senior lop - eared rabbit. She bound her Alipay account. After the gluttonous beast coaxed her into giving it her phone to choose "tonics" on its own, when she got the phone back and stared at the balance of 0.65 yuan, she fell into deep thought.
"Is there something wrong with my phone?" Zhaozhao held the phone and seriously asked her colleague.
The lop - eared rabbit laughed when seeing her meager balance. "Hahaha, I didn't expect you, Zhaozhao, to be a 'moonlight clan'! Hey, wait, you haven't even received your monthly salary yet, and you've already spent all your bonus. Come on, let me see what you bought."
Two minutes later, the lop - eared rabbit also fell silent.
"You... your health is really good..." The lop - eared rabbit stared at the long list of items to be shipped and forced a smile. Then she kindly reminded, "But Zhaozhao, you can't eat all these, right? They'll expire. You'd better - "
"It's not for me. It's for my spiritual beast, the glutton. These aren't even enough for him to eat for two days." Zhaozhao explained seriously.
Oh, it's the glutton. That's okay then.
The lop - eared rabbit looked at Zhaozhao sympathetically, then patted Zhaozhao's shoulder seriously. "Zhaozhao, you'd better find some work to do. I think according to your spiritual beast's eating habits, you may not be able to afford it with just the salary from our Demon Administration Bureau."
Looking at the rapidly decreasing number in her Alipay account, Zhaozhao deeply agreed.
"But what should I do? Where can I find a job?"
This stumped the little lop - eared rabbit. Although it was said on the surface that demon civil servants were not allowed to have side jobs, everyone had always been a bit dishonest in private. But being dishonest was one thing, and she couldn't just tell Zhaozhao directly!
After much thought, the lop - eared rabbit quietly leaned closer to Zhaozhao and gave her a direction. "Maybe you can go to the territory of the demon world. Although you're human, you shouldn't be afraid of demons."
Zhaozhao thought that not only was she not afraid, she even felt quite familiar.
After listening to the lop - eared rabbit's description of the grand occasion of the demon world's market, Zhaozhao was tempted. She had been down the mountain for so long, but she had never been to a place where demons gathered. She was quite curious.
Zhaozhao was an action - oriented person. After work, she called the glutton and took a demon taxi to the demon world.
She not only completely forgot about Su Yuan but also threw the courses assigned by Song Yao out of her mind.
That afternoon, looking at Zhaozhao's empty workstation, Su Yuan couldn't help but think. Had he refused too straightforwardly before, so the little one didn't want to fall in love with him anymore?
The dragon's heart was conflicted and entangled, feeling as if it had been filled with several pounds of sour lemon juice, bitter, sour, and astringent.