Zhaozhao was reminded by Taotie, and finally remembered her forgotten cousin.
Thinking about how she had knocked her cousin out and erased her memory, she felt a bit guilty.
She wondered if her cousin had really forgotten everything...
The more she thought about it, the more uneasy she became. She ran out and dragged out Taotie, who was trying to shrink against the wall and sulk again. She asked him, "What did my cousin say? Is she very angry?"
Taotie thought about the faint noises he had heard from the phone watch just now and said, "She seems quite angry."
Zhaozhao's heart skipped a beat. She thought it was over. Could it be that her cousin hadn't forgotten? It shouldn't be. She remembered that she had learned the spell of erasing memories quite well. There shouldn't be any mistakes...
"I heard her scold Su Yuan for having ill intentions. She said he always sneaked you away secretly. She wondered what was going on in his mind," Taotie whispered the second half of the sentence mysteriously as he leaned close to Zhaozhao.
"..." Zhaozhao was speechless. "That's what my cousin said?"
"Yeah. What else could she say? Oh, and anyway, she sounded quite worried about you. Why don't you go back and check on her quickly," Taotie said. Take this little master with you too. This little master is really afraid of Lord Dragon's jealousy, Taotie added silently in his heart.
"Taotie, why do you always talk in such a roundabout way?" It scared the tree to death.
Taotie: "???" What did he do?
"Shall we go back and check, Zhaozhao?" Su Yuan's voice suddenly came from in front of the two who were having a secret conversation. It gave both the master and the spiritual beast a big scare.
"Then let's go back and check," Zhaozhao thought that since her cousin hadn't mentioned anything about the monsters to the Xuanmen, it meant that she had probably forgotten. So it should be okay for her to go back now. She was quite worried about her cousin.
Su Yuan nodded. Then he glanced at Taotie, who was still shorter than his waist, and casually asked, "You can go back by yourself, right?"
Taotie: " ... Yes."
Although the spiritual pet said he could, the master didn't agree. Zhaozhao picked up Taotie and looked at Su Yuan reproachfully. "How can you let him go back by himself? Can't he come with us? Look, he's still a child."
Taotie, a child who was thousands of years old, felt a bit embarrassed.
Su Yuan rubbed his forehead. "Zhaozhao, don't be deceived by his appearance. He's the fierce beast Taotie, not a child."
"No, no. Anyway, he's my spiritual beast. I want to take him with me," Zhaozhao's motherly love overflowed. She really couldn't leave Taotie in this form behind.
Fine. Persuasion was fruitless. In the end, Su Yuan had no choice but to take Taotie with them. On the way, he occasionally cast extremely unfriendly glances at Taotie.
Taotie wanted to cry but had no tears. Why are you looking at me, big brother? I don't want this either. Isn't it because you couldn't persuade her?
No one would probably believe it if it was said that Lord Yinglong, who had been away from the mortal world for tens of thousands of years and was as cold as a frost flower standing proudly on the top of a snow-capped mountain, would actually argue with a Taotie one day.
While Taotie was sighing, he even inexplicably felt a bit of honor.
This was probably the charm of the only Yinglong in the world!
This time, instead of using the magic formation, they chose the most ordinary way of traveling - driving.
In the human world, it was not allowed to use the monster's magic formation without an emergency or special situation. Otherwise, they had to report and pay a fee, in order not to scare the humans.
The traffic was extremely congested today. Su Yuan drove the car, stopping and going all the way. Zhaozhao sat in the passenger seat, chewing on soft candies and hugging a fluffy rabbit pillow, daydreaming.
Of course, both the candies and the pillow were prepared for Zhaozhao by Lord Yinglong a long time ago.
The cars in front stopped again. Su Yuan took the time to turn his head and look at Zhaozhao. "Do you feel carsick? Are you uncomfortable?"
Zhaozhao shook her head while chewing on the candies. She frowned.
"What's wrong? What are you thinking about?"
"I'm just thinking about the Chen family's affairs," Zhaozhao replied truthfully. She hadn't really thought about the Chen family's affairs since she woke up. It just occurred to her now.
"Is Old Master Chen dead?" she asked Su Yuan, turning her head.
Su Yuan had already received the news. He nodded and told her, "Yes, he died after you all disappeared."
"Su Yuan, Yu Chu killed someone to avenge her parents, and indirectly caused the death of Chen Jin, who liked her so much. Do you think she did something wrong?" This was what Zhaozhao couldn't figure out.
The monsters on Wutong Mountain were not good people. The concept she had been instilled with since childhood was "Don't offend me, and I won't offend you. If you offend me, I'll never show mercy." That was why she had so simply and neatly dealt with Song Changming after he threatened her.
But sometimes, it didn't seem so simple to directly apply what her senior brothers and sisters had said to explain things. She seemed a bit confused.
"She's both right and wrong. Outsiders actually can't judge this kind of thing at all. Zhaozhao, sometimes it's very difficult to understand someone's choice if you're not in their situation. You don't know how much inner struggle she went through before she reached this point. It's very hard to explain," Su Yuan said as he drove while looking at the road ahead.
"Chen Mingyue was the initiator. He deserved to die. But it's hard to say about Yu Chu and Chen Jin. Sometimes, loving someone too much actually has no solution," Su Yuan had lived for too long and had seen too many loves and hatreds. There were also many monsters who would do anything for so-called true love, but most of them didn't end well.
As an onlooker for many years, Su Yuan actually wasn't very touched by these things. He was analyzing it from a rational perspective for Zhaozhao, hoping that she would learn to love herself well before loving others, no matter who she would like in the future.
But Zhaozhao had a strange focus. "Does what you said mean that you won't love someone too much?"
Su Yuan smiled. He thought to himself that he wouldn't have before, but who knew he would meet you?
He didn't answer this question. He just said, "You'll understand in the future."
Okay. Putting this question aside, Zhaozhao then asked another question. "Parents are very important to humans, right? I've never experienced it, but I think it might be the same as with Master and the others!"
Su Yuan didn't know how to answer this question. He swallowed hard. After a long time, he said, "Maybe. I was born without parents. I've never experienced so-called family affection. I'm not sure. I'll take you to ask someone else another day."
"Ah!" Zhaozhao felt a faint sense of loss in her heart. Although it flashed by quickly, she still caught it.
Su Yuan had been unhappy just now. He seemed a bit sad and... lonely.
The car stopped downstairs of the Monster Management Bureau. As if he wasn't affected at all, Su Yuan got out of the car and opened the door for Zhaozhao. He protected her head as she got out of the car, and by the way, woke up Taotie, who was sleeping soundly in the back row.
"Let's go. Let's go in," Su Yuan held Zhaozhao's hand and walked inside. Taotie followed behind groggily. From a distance, they really looked like a family of three.
Zhaozhao wasn't as calm as Su Yuan. That sense of loss had been lingering in her heart, making her feel stuffy.
She held Su Yuan's hand tightly and said to him seriously, "Su Yuan, from now on, I'm your family. I'll treat you well. Then you'll also be a dragon who has experienced family affection."