After school, he was then offered himself to a succubus.

Chapter 115 I Just Won't Wear It (Seeking Monthly Tickets, Meow~)

"Are you here to buy birth control pills, young lady?"

"Hmm... is there one without any side effects?"

"How can birth control pills be without side effects?" the proprietress asked doubtfully. "Taking too many will always cause some harm to your body, especially since you look so young..."

"Take my advice, if you can wear a condom, then wear one. Don't listen to those guys, young people don't know any better, they get carried away and don't use any protection!"

"But... it's because I didn't want him to use it." Shen Nianxi gave an awkward smile.

The proprietress was taken aback and looked the beautiful girl in front of her up and down, a girl she had never seen before.

She's so incredibly innocent-looking, her smile is like she stepped right out of a TV show, so radiant... How can she have such values?!

"Well, sigh! I just tutored a young girl a few days ago. She's also from Nanjing University. She just turned 18 and she had to come to buy medicine."

"And then she asked me to buy fertility pills! I told her I only have preventative medications, not guaranteed ones, and she argued with me!"

"She's just as beautiful as you. Oh dear, the world is going to the dogs! How can you give yourselves away so young when you're both so lovely? Health comes first!"

The proprietress slammed her hand on the table, as if she had a sense that "humanity is doomed."

"Who is it that's so exaggerated?" Shen Nianxi asked curiously, completely unaware that she herself was also being exaggerated.

"The girl with a flower in her eyes, sigh, all I know is her surname is Jiang, nothing else. In the end, she bought a case of glycerin suppositories from me."

"Oh, Auntie, you don't have any medicine, so I'll be going now." Shen Nianxi couldn't remember who it was, didn't know them, and as long as it had nothing to do with Zhang Chen, that was fine.

"Hey! Wait a minute, wait a minute, Auntie's giving you two packs, okay? Safety precautions are essential!"

Finally, unable to refuse the proprietress's enthusiasm, Shen Nianxi reluctantly accepted the two packs of umbrellas.

The girl got into a jeep and crumpled the two small bags in her hands like Play-Doh.

She desperately needed to release her stress; if she could, she'd even beg Zhang Chen to let her stay on the floor all night...

Just die.

Rather than die from exhaustion, I'd rather die clinging to Zhang Chen.

"What did you buy?" the female driver in front of the jeep asked.

"It's nothing." Shen Nianxi put the item in her pocket, thinking that Zhang Chen didn't need it at all.

At least there aren't any models on the market that are that alarming.

If you really want to use it, you'll have to order it custom-made.

"Nianxi, the firefly demons have gathered at Moon Red Mountain. They are difficult to disperse. Today is an auspicious day for weddings, and there are many wedding banquets being held in front of the Matchmaker Temple on Moon Red Mountain. There are a lot of people. If we don't deal with this in time, it may cause some unintentional consequences."

"Let's hurry over there now. Has the Kitchen God arrived yet? Only real fire can drive away the fireflies. Although there will be casualties... we can't let the fireflies affect humans."

"We've arrived, but many monsters from all walks of life must have also secretly come along."

The female driver seemed to know a lot about this and continued to explain: "Firefly spirits are formed from the dust of heaven and earth absorbing the essence of Yang energy. Once upon a time, they were all the spiritual essence of the Pure Yang Daoist, who later released them into the wild."

"After they were freed, they became a kind of spirit. At first, the world was full of spiritual energy, so they could reproduce. But now, there is no dust in the world, only ash, so they can no longer continue their lives."

"Is it related to that philandering Taoist priest again?" Shen Nianxi rubbed her forehead. "Do those demons think that the firefly demon can lure him out? So they all came to join in the fun."

"Yes, that should be the case."

"You're overthinking it. Even the Heartless Taoist probably doesn't know about this. I suspect Chen Tianhe deliberately leaked the information; he has no idea where the Heartless Taoist is."

"But everything has a cause and effect. Ning'an City is his hometown. There are enough people and demons here, and enough karma has been accumulated. Even if he dies, his body will be dug out of the ground because of karma," the female driver said.

"Moreover, he did show up in Tushan last time."

"Did it really happen?" Shen Nianxi asked suspiciously.

"It has a human form, but it's uncertain whether it's the original body."

"Moon Princess, why do I feel like you're a lot like Lady Yuan You? Does she usually talk to you about these things?"

The female driver paused for a moment, "Um...yes, Lord Yuan You treats me like his own daughter."

Shen Nianxi nodded, her eyebrows furrowing slightly as she looked at the stunningly beautiful woman in the car's rearview mirror, whose face was so fair it was almost unbelievable.

The woman was a companion she had temporarily recruited in the north.

During this business trip, she met the Ghost Lady in the Northern Territory. They hit it off immediately and talked all night. During their conversation, Shen Nianxi was surprised to discover that this renowned Ghost King also wanted to establish an organization to replace the current corrupt company.

This is exactly what she agrees with!

But Miss Ghost still has a lot of work to do in the North. She is in charge of the Reincarnation Spring of the Netherworld. Originally, the Reincarnation Spring was supposed to close after the Bitter Love Tree died, and Miss Ghost could retire.

But who could have imagined that the Bitter Love Tree would be planted again, this time by Tu Shan Han Su in Zhang Chen's house, and Miss Ghost would have to continue going to work.

So, the like-minded Miss Ghost sent her maid, Tsukihime, back to Ning'an to lend her a hand.

For some reason, looking at the other person felt like looking at herself... Shen Nianxi felt that Yue Ji looked a lot like her; her features were like her own, matured by ten years.

Everyone she met assumed the other was her sister, but...

Shen Nianxi looked at her chest, her toes were visible when she looked down, then looked at Yue Ji... The car had just bumped a bit, and that big, soft thing... made her dizzy.

She even called her parents, who were on vacation, to ask them if they had any illegitimate daughters.

Looking at it now, it's impossible that she could be a blood-related older sister! The difference in size is like night and day!

Moreover, after looking at them for a while, their temperament is completely different. They may look alike at first glance, but you can tell they are two different people at second glance.

Although, Shen Nianxi did hope that ten years from now she could be as mature and charming as Yue Ji, that would be true womanhood.

She felt that all her efforts to seduce Zhang Chen were in vain, and she was just short of directly taking advantage of him. A large part of the reason was probably that her temperament and appearance were too youthful.

She's been beautiful since she was a child, but the downside is... she hasn't fully matured; she still has baby fat on her face and retains some habits from her elementary school days. She speaks in a childlike, soft voice, which Zhang Chen often accuses of being coquettish.

Moreover, her figure... she stopped growing much after junior high school, and I'm too lazy to even talk about her figure. Other girls have pear-shaped figures, but she has a pear tree-shaped figure.

In layman's terms, it's like having a steel plate. Occasionally doing yoga can only work on the buttocks, slim the legs, and improve flexibility, but the chest area just won't develop.

If she were a little shorter, she could be a fully-fledged loli, which might even better awaken Zhang Chen's animalistic instincts.

She's in a half-baked, half-baked state now, and she feels that Zhang Chen is losing interest in her.

Thinking this, the girl felt a pang of melancholy and pulled out a bottle of beverage to drink.

Suddenly, the car came to an unexpected and abrupt stop.

"What happened? Is there a traffic accident ahead?" Shen Nianxi was stunned, her forehead hitting the chair in front of her, almost choking.

"No... Nianxi, what's that in your hand?"

"Uh... Miss Hansu gave it to me. She's from Tushan. Do you know her? Her rice wine is delicious."

"She actually has something like this..." Tsukihime gripped the steering wheel tightly and accidentally honked the horn, creating a piercing sound on the road.

"What's wrong? Is this wine very precious?"

"This isn't wine." Tsukihime sighed, restarted the car, and drove through the crowded twilight.

Along the way, there was a long procession of wedding cars, and the festive atmosphere spread throughout the road.

Tsukihime drove the car a little too fast.

"What you have in your hand is both precious and not precious."

"what?"

"I can't really tell you what that is, can't you taste it?"

"It looks a bit like a mooncake, but not quite." Shen Nianxi also entered riddle mode.

"moon cake?"

"Yes, during the last Mid-Autumn Festival, Miss Hansu's family made some mooncakes and shared some with me."

Tsukihime nodded and reached behind her to ask, "Can I try some? I want to confirm."

"Uh... okay." Shen Nianxi wiped the bottle opening and handed over the drink.

The moment the two women's hands touched, Shen Nianxi paused slightly.

"Tsukihime, why are your hands so cold? It's not like a normal person's..."

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There wasn't even a pulse.

"It might be related to my cultivation method."

After replying, Tsukihime took a sip of her drink and almost burst out laughing in exasperation.

"Isn't it good?" Shen Nianxi asked.

"It tastes pretty good, but it's been sitting for too long. This kind of stuff only tastes good for the first hour after it's made. And if it's strong enough and of good quality, it shouldn't taste like alcohol. That fox is too stingy, making this low-quality stuff into wine and freezing it for you."

Tsukihime handed the drink back to her, saying, "How much did you drink? You should drink less of this stuff; it's addictive."

"Several bottles already..."

"It seems that the fox knows far more than we thought," Tsukihime said with a wry smile.

"What do you mean?"

"There are two possibilities. One, Daoist Chunyang has already returned and made contact with that fox a long time ago."

"The second possibility is that this fox is dying, and it's using up the essence it secretly absorbed over two thousand years... Many demons hibernate, you know?"

"I've heard that hibernation for monsters is roughly equivalent to seclusion."

"Yes, the fox needs these drinks as a way to replenish her energy during hibernation, and she almost never gives them away. Since she's willing to give them to you, it means she doesn't plan to go into seclusion anymore."

Shen Nianxi was stunned. For demons in the human world, if they are awake for too long, they need to go into seclusion for a period of time to recover their mental state.

If I give up seclusion, it's either because my lifespan is about to end, or because I want to commit suicide.

"Is it really that precious?" Shen Nianxi smacked her lips, suddenly hesitant to drink it.

"Drink it. If it's the first possibility, you'll have enough to make you choke to death later."

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"Just kidding, it's nothing. The fox just gave you a small bottle of soda, nothing dirty, and it's not very valuable."

Yueji sighed with relief, "But Nianxi, you actually have someone you like, right?"

"...I don't think so, it was just a physical relationship."

"Do you think I can't see what you're thinking? If I like someone, I like them."

Shen Nianxi was truly taken aback this time. "Yueji, the way you talk sounds a bit like how my mom used to scold me when I was little..."

"Oh...sorry, it's because Lord Yuanyou also disciplines me like this, so I learned a bit from him," Yueji said, trying to cover it up.

"It's okay, actually... I'm quite happy being bossed around by my mom. I haven't felt what motherly love is like in a long time..."

The two women fell silent, each seemingly preoccupied with their own troubles and sorrowful past.

The jeep drove up the hillside, but there was a traffic jam because there were too many wedding cars.

The sound of firecrackers echoed from the mountaintop to the foot of the mountain, and everything in sight was red.

"Actually, you don't have a biological mother. You are a yin body, which means you were born from a crack in a rock. So, you don't need to care so much."

Yueji parked the car and turned to look at Shen Nianxi.

"I had a guess." Shen Nianxi shrugged. "After all, I don't look like my parents, but they raised me for four or five years."

"Tsukihime, everyone needs a home in their life."

The girl with the high ponytail became depressed, looking out the car window at the dust kicked up by firecrackers.

"I don't want to be without a home."

"Since you have someone you like, just marry him, then you'll have a home." Yueji clenched her delicate hand, seemingly hesitant.

"...I don't like him." Shen Nianxi shook her head. "I don't want to trouble anyone."

Just then, a bicycle suddenly appeared out of nowhere in the traffic jam. A love knot was tied to the front of the bicycle, and a man and a woman were riding on it.

Yueji and Shen Nianxi were both mesmerized, never expecting that a bride would be transported by bicycle.

"Giggle giggle one"

A flock of geese happened to fly by overhead, though it seemed that some other birds were mixed in with them.

"Are you getting used to it?"

A crow landed on the Temple of the Old Man Under the Moon. Zhang Chen got off the plane first and reached out to help Su Qinghe down.

Su Qinghe hesitated for a long time, staring at Zhang Chen's broad palm, and did not put it down for a long time.

Too much intimacy is bad; she had already decided to live a life without love.

Moreover, this is the man Xiaorou likes... From an ethical and moral standpoint, it's utterly absurd.

Xiao Shuyao, however, was less reserved. She placed her hand in Zhang Chen's hand and was gently led down by him.

Seeing the excited expression on Xiao Shuyao's face, Su Qinghe wanted to dissuade her, but didn't mean to.

She already knew that only Xiaorou actually liked Zhang Chen, but why didn't Shuyao consider her sister's feelings at all?

After chatting with Mr. Kui in the library, Zhang Chen agreed to come to Moon Red Mountain to look after the "Firefly Demon," but the crow can only seat three people...

Su Qinghe could clearly see that Jiang Rou was jealous, but Shu Yao still insisted on taking a seat, and Zhang Chen, for some reason, called her along, leaving the infatuated Xiao Rou alone in the library.

That's really... immoral.

She had some understanding of Zhang Chen's extraordinary abilities and a vague concept of demons, which was not hard to accept, as the metaphysics she studied was not much different from these.

I never expected that there were so many kind-hearted monsters among them.

But even if Zhang Chen is extraordinary, how extraordinary can he really be? He's probably no different from those old Taoist priests in his family.

Surely we can't really be like the character in the book, right?

She hasn't started drawing the profile for "The Tale of Yichen" yet. Every time she picks up a pen, she has a nagging feeling in her heart, as if it's preventing her from putting pen to paper... She also can't confirm whether "The Tale of Yichen" is written based on Zhang Chen's image.

Ever since she arrived at the matchmaking agency in Ning'an and saw that magical tree, her mood has been stuck in a precarious, uncertain place, filled with regret.

My hands tremble when I draw, let alone sketch in profile.

Furthermore... Zhang Chen's image in her mind had begun to crumble—three whole days of blatant debauchery... the entire house was shaking, with women constantly crying for help and men hurling insults...

She also advised Xiaorou, why should a man who is fond of women and already has a spouse still be so stubborn?

But Xiaorou told her that being able to be a bedside maid was already quite good.

Helpless, Su Qinghe could only try to persuade him gently, and also put in a good word for Zhang Chen, asking him to let the girl go if he had no feelings for Xiao Rou...

Xiao Rou is someone I've known since she was little. She's kind, innocent, and always full of enthusiasm. She always says she wants to marry a god... but Zhang Chen is only a lecherous god, right?

"Aren't you coming down? The crows need to rest; they'll come back for us tonight." Zhang Chen stretched out his hand to her again. "I remember you're afraid of heights, right?"

Su Qinghe hesitated, but looking at Zhang Chen's handsome smile, her hand involuntarily reached out.

Skin to skin.

"I have a fear of heights... How did you know?" Su Qinghe withdrew her hand as if she had been electrocuted, and asked shyly.

"This goes back two thousand years, it's too long ago, let's not talk about it," Zhang Chen said with a smile.

"Two thousand years..."

Before Su Qinghe could finish speaking, Zhang Chen grabbed her hand and floated her into the courtyard of the Yue Lao Temple.

"Wow, what a handsome human!"

"But he's got women on his left and right...shameless, shameless!"

"Senior sister, I'm starting to want it."

"You lecherous rabbit!"

There were two rabbit demons sweeping the courtyard. When they saw Zhang Chen, they began to whisper among themselves.

He had taken over the Yue Lao Temple some time ago; it was a location that Shen Nianxi had acquired with a small amount of money.

Unexpectedly, this matchmaking temple in Ning'an has been passed down for two thousand years.

The Old Man of the Moon is still alive; he is said to be an old rabbit, and perhaps I have seen him somewhere before.

Now it's managed by Gao Quan, who's trying to make it look like an ordinary tourist attraction.

Recently, Gao Quan came up with a solution: he announced that the Yue Lao Temple would be accepting wedding banquets and ceremonies. People in Ning'an are quite traditional, and in just the last few days, weddings have been coming one after another.

In a few days, the rat army will be able to move in. The monster club should be full of different kinds of animals. Only the pet hospital and the tavern seem too low-class and lack any sense of style.

By the way, Xu Mianmian can also come and teach these rabbit demons a thing or two. Wild rabbit spirits really aren't as good as domesticated ones.

If Mianmian were to spend a few days with these female rabbits, she might start courting him when she gets home.

"I'm your boss. Have you made any glutinous rice cakes at the temple yet? Go make a few and pack them up," Zhang Chen said to the two rabbit demons.

"How many servings do you want, boss?" the rabbit demon said with a lewd smile. "I'm as soft as glutinous rice cake, how about you eat me first?"

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"You're all too old," Zhang Chen said.

"Two portions, one with brown sugar and one with peanut powder. I'll come pick them up in a bit."

Bai Nuoyan loves to eat glutinous rice cakes, and Tu Shan Hansu also liked to bring him here to eat glutinous rice cakes when he was a child.

The two rabbit demons put down their brooms, giggled, and ran towards the backyard.

Seeing this, Su Qinghe couldn't help but pull Xiao Shuyao up and whisper in her ear, "Shuyao, what you and Zhang Chen did in the room the other day... wasn't that also a monster?"

Xiao Shuyao thought for a while, "Probably, how could a normal person withstand it?"

"What about Xiaorou?"

"Everyone has their own ambitions, Sister Qinghe, let's not bother you any longer." Xiao Shuyao casually took out paper and pen to record Zhang Chen's thoughts, and said as she wrote.

"But Shuyao, don't you think you and Zhang Chen are getting too close?"

Xiao Shuyao paused, her pen still. "Yes, a little."

"You and Xiaorou are like sisters, isn't this a bit inappropriate?"

"...Sister Qinghe, I think you're overthinking it. Don't treat him like a human being." Xiao Shuyao stared at Zhang Chen, who was closing his eyes to sense the wind direction.

"He can't even be considered human, so the rule about men and women not touching each other doesn't apply. Besides, he didn't actually do anything to me, did he?"

"If he really were some kind of womanizer, we'd already have several children."

Su Qinghe really didn't know how to persuade her younger sister. "I still can't quite accept that Xiaorou likes a human who can have sex with monsters."

"You don't have to accept it, Sister Qinghe, just enjoy it."

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Su Qinghe sighed softly, and then saw a burst of fireworks drifting in from the sky, like fireworks rising into the air. Within the fireworks, there was a rough laugh: "Hahaha, Firefly Demon, my old man's true fire can finally be put to use!"

At this moment, Zhang Chen, who had been keeping his eyes closed, suddenly opened them and glared at the sky.

"Huh?! Who dares to ambush me! Ugh..."

The fireworks failed to launch and fell into some unknown corner of Moon Red Mountain.

The entire mountain trembled, startling beasts and causing birds to cry out.

Su Qinghe was stunned. The one flying in the sky was clearly a master; none of the Taoist priests she knew could fly...

But Zhang Chen only glanced at him, and the other person fell out in a sorry state.

"Let's go." Zhang Chen turned back and nodded at her. "We're in no-fly zone, so we'll have to climb to get up the mountain."

"Zhang Chen, who is that?" Xiao Shuyao asked Zhang Chen, just like a little reporter.

"Kitchen God," Zhang Chen said.

"The Kitchen God? Similar to the Kitchen God or the Kitchen King? He is in charge of people's food and protects the peace of the home."

"I don't know. All I know is that he's an old man who sets fires, and this is the first time I've seen him today."

"What do we do next? Where is that special firefly that Mr. Kui mentioned?"

"You can't see them. Fireflies are a bit like bacteria that have become sentient. Only some gifted children can see them."

Why?

"Perhaps it's because children have a different perspective."

"What's the difference?" Su Qinghe couldn't help but ask.

Zhang Chen led the two women to a pavilion. Looking down, they could see the entire mountain. Two weddings were being held at the foot of the mountain, three were being held on the mountainside, and one was being held at the summit.

There were many children playing around, chasing each other, not knowing what they were chasing. Occasionally they would stop and look at the air in mid-air, waving their arms and legs, innocent and carefree.

"See?"

"The difference between children and adults is that children will suddenly chase after joy, while adults will stop and appreciate the scenery," Zhang Chen said.

Xiao Shuyao suddenly realized, "They're chasing the Firefly Demon?"

"Um.

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Zhang Chen nodded. "Fireflies like to play with people, but they can also easily fall in love with humans. However, humans grow up and leave childhood behind, so they can no longer see the fireflies and are separated by life and death."

"Humans are powerless against time, and in fact, so are monsters."

A moment later, a petal drifted slowly by, with what appeared to be a glowing firefly on it.

Zhang Chen reached out and took it, understanding the voice of the Firefly hidden in the light.

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Su Qinghe stared at his profile, her heart racing, and suddenly she wanted to draw this scene.

She had assumed that Zhang Chen was like the amorous and lustful Zeus from Greek mythology, so she would instinctively resist him.

It turns out that divinity and immortality are worlds apart.

The former is looking down on all living beings, while the latter is experiencing the mundane realities of life.

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