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

"I've seen you before, what's wrong?"

"Nothing much." Tu Shan Han Su pouted slightly, her long legs suddenly felt a little numb, she shivered, and couldn't help but frown.

Zhang Chen avoided eye contact.

Miss Fox rolled her eyes at him, withdrew her long legs, picked up a piece of paper, and began wiping it.

"Bear with it, this is training you," she scoffed.

"No, I didn't, those weren't..."

"Shut up." Tu Shan Han Su's face flushed red, and she stepped on him. "Of course I know what this is. If it were really Yang Yuan, you would have burned my legs off."

"Is it really that exaggerated..." Zhang Chen asked, stunned. "Then how am I supposed to continue the family line?"

"It's fine inside the body," Tu Shan Han Su explained. "Outside, it's the most domineering venom in the world; inside, it's a divine medicine that female demons flock to."

It's so astringent, but I don't know why it's astringent.

"Or, you can control it yourself, extract the yang energy from it, and make those smelly things no different from normal men."

Tu Shan Han Su pondered for a moment, then, as if no one else was around, picked up the tissue and smelled it... revealing a momentary dazed expression.

Zhang Chen stared at her in shock.

She paused for a moment, then stuffed the tissue back into her pocket.

"I'm assessing your physical condition," Miss Fox said. "It's the same principle as taking you to the vet for a urine test; a fox's nose is more sensitive than a dog's."

"Oh, thank you," Zhang Chen said, indicating his understanding.

"If you feel it's unfair, you can smell me if you want," Tu Shan Han Su muttered again. "At least I smell good."

"..."

Baby, how can you not laugh when you say things like that?

"Let's talk about it later."

Zhang Chen wiped the sweat from his forehead and tentatively asked:

"You don't have any objections to me going to see Lin Yinmeng?"

"What objection could I possibly have? Just remember that the only fairy you love is me. Live well for the next three years, and when the time is up, I will take you to Tushan."

"..."

Tu Shan Han Su sighed softly, "I can't stop you, you've always been like this."

Is it really that good?

"You said some monsters aren't smart, what's going on?" Zhang Chen asked.

"Do you know about the Cicada Demon?" Tu Shan Han Su asked.

"Know."

Do you know why they're so eager to sing loudly?

"mating."

"That counts as one. Are there any others?"

"Uh... make the most of your time? Come to this world without regrets, after all, you're going to die soon."

"Hmm." Tu Shan Han Su shrugged. "Isn't that stupid bird also making the most of her time to sing her song?"

Zhang Chen was suddenly stunned, and then he realized why Tu Shan Han Su didn't care.

"Is she dying?"

"What, she didn't tell you?" Miss Fox retorted. "I awoke once five hundred years ago and tried to persuade her once."

"She's really stupid, Zhang Chen." Tu Shan Han Su said this, her eyes revealing a touch of empathetic sadness.

Even the most loyal dog knows it can't wait in vain.

"But because of your words, she is sometimes in the north, sometimes in the south, sometimes in the Central Plains... Over a thousand years have passed, and she has probably flown over every inch of the sky in the Celestial Empire. Her spirit is almost exhausted."

"The books you wrote for the monsters were all sung into songs by her and spread far and wide, which changed the perceptions of many monsters and allowed monsters of all sizes to read and cultivate themselves."

"What did I say?" Zhang Chen asked.

Tu Shan Han Su remained silent, only covering her feet, which had just been defiled by Zhang Chen, and exhaling a puff of mist.

Suddenly, thunder rumbled outside the door, but instead of a downpour, a gentle drizzle began to fall, causing the mice in the yard to scurry about in panic.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak! This rain is so cold! So cold!"

The mice carried the sleeping rabbit into the house, and the little golden retriever and the calico cat also sneaked in.

Zhang Chen was taken aback, carefully observing the rain outside the door, activating his [Beast Eyes] to discern...

Although the difference was subtle, Zhang Chen could tell that what was floating in the air was not rain.

It was sleet.

But it's the sixth month of the lunar calendar now, the height of summer, where would snow come from?

"Zhang Chen, haven't you noticed that the weather got colder since you got home?" Tu Shan Han Su said, her eyes reflecting the swirling snowflakes.

Of course we discovered it, but no one would have thought it would snow in the summer.

At most, it might hail.

"She's getting weaker and weaker." Tu Shan Han Su got up and went to the door, reaching out to catch a drop of snow with her fingertips. "Before, it was heavy snow, but now it's mixed with rain."

"The supernatural power of larks after they become spirits is usually to pray for rain, because they love the freshness after the rain, especially the flowers that bloom after the rain, which can provide them with nectar to fill their stomachs."

"But there was one exception, who had learned the power to pray for snow. Wherever she sang, snow would fall in that place, regardless of the season."

"But supernatural powers shouldn't be abused like that."

"When I first met her five hundred years ago, she was a sweet and very likable woman. She was convinced that you would come to find her."

"When I see her now, her soul has been ravaged by thousands of years of lucidity and abuse of supernatural powers. Even though her appearance remains the same, her cultivation has long since deteriorated, and she has a morbid temperament. The slightest emotion will cause her heart to ache, and she will surely wail and cry blood at noon..."

Zhang Chen was stunned.

"What did you see of her today?" Tu Shan Han Su asked as she returned to the house.

"She's quite pretty, nothing unusual about her, maybe even a little clumsy..."

"It's an act," Miss Fox said.

"Her obsession with you has long since become pathological; she just wants to maintain composure in your presence."

"Do you know what she said when she saw me?"

"What?"

"Slut, bitch, and other nasty things like that, I forgot the rest."

Tu Shan Han Su sighed, took a sip of the vegetable soup, and said, "She comes from a scholarly family and has always been well-mannered and knowledgeable. She is not like this, spewing vulgarities."

"However, we cannot expect a dying person to abide by any morals or etiquette."

"This silly little bird just wants to spend its last days with you peacefully, so it chatters and acts fierce, saying bad things, thinking it can scare away other monsters."

"But I don't know what else she lost." Tu Shan Han Su rested her chin on her hand. "The last time I saw her, she was rolling on the ground, crying her heart out, saying she had lost something..."

"If you still have feelings for her, then help her get back together."

Zhang Chen nodded, silently shoveled down a few mouthfuls of rice, his throat throbbing as he struggled to swallow.

"Why don't you continue by asking me what you said to her that made her wait like this?"

Tu Shan Han Su picked up a spoon and fed him a spoonful of soup.

He drank his soup, swallowed his rice, and in the fleeting moment he looked up, he saw the snow falling outside the door. A sound flashed through his mind...

You have fulfilled one of Lin Yinmeng's thousand-year-old wishes.

[Triggering past events...]

More than a thousand years ago, you went to the capital to take the imperial examination, leaving Lin Yinmeng alone at home waiting for you.

[It takes three months to walk to Beijing, one month for the exam, and another three months to return home, totaling more than half a year.]

You thought that this period of time was incredibly long for a newly transformed bird, enough for her feelings for you to completely fade away...

Moreover, larks are not good at flying; long journeys are extremely difficult for them, and they become exhausted after flying only a few miles.

[But when you arrive in the capital and settle into the inn, you suddenly notice a bird with a broken wing outside the window being kicked around like a shuttlecock by children... emitting mournful cries.]

You intervened and saved the sparrow... Her feathers were disheveled, she contracted the flu, her cultivation was completely gone, and she was on the verge of death...

She gently pecks at your fingers with her beak, telling you of her longing for you.

As you know, relations between humans and demons are currently tense. Your cultivation lies in entering the court as an official, so you must settle things with this bird demon as soon as possible...

You cured her, but then you hardened your heart and told her to go home first, but she refused.

You said you would find a way for humans and ladyboys to coexist, but she refused.

You said that the temporary separation was for your future, but she refused.

[Having no other choice, you lied to her, promising to return to her when it snows next June.]

She's a silly bird; she doesn't understand that snow falls in June, she only knows that June happens every year, and so does snow... Well, she'll see you soon.

She believed it and went home to wait for you.

But he never got to see it again.

【…】

[Reward Obtained: Shared Fate (Body Root)]

[Note: Your lifespan can be shared with a free-spirited female demon.]

"Zhang Chen?" Tu Shan Han Su called out to him, "I'm asking you a question."

Zhang Chen responded with an apology, then suddenly felt a surge of appetite and picked up the soup to drink it down.

Tu Shan Han Su calmly watched him wolf down his food.

He wiped his mouth with his sleeve. "Actually, I still remember."

"Then you're quite the untrustworthy one," Miss Fox commented.

"Is it too late?" Zhang Chen asked. "Will my blood be of any use?"

Tu Shan Han Su shook her head. "It's too late. She's too special. Not to mention blood, even your yang energy isn't enough for her. It will only force her into pregnancy, and with her weak body, both mother and child will die."

"Is it truly beyond saving?"

"I don't know," the fox grumbled. "Whether you save them or not, you can't just stand by and do nothing."

Zhang Chen nodded, finished eating and drinking, got up and went out, then turned back to look at her after taking a few steps:

"Just saying, you wouldn't do that, would you?"

"Of course I'm not that stupid." Tu Shan Han Su leaned against the door, holding the calico cat in her arms to keep it warm.

"That's good."

Watching Zhang Chen leave, Miss Fox pursed her lips and cursed him as a heartless man.

The calico cat played with her hair, reminding her of something.

"Yes, I saw it."

Tu Shan Han Su lowered her eyes and plucked a single white hair from among thousands of black hairs.

It's normal for humans to have gray hair, but for monsters...

She stared blankly at her white hair for a while, then sadly tied it to her wrist as a keepsake.

"That heartless man... didn't even ask me why I felt so sympathetic."

She empathized because she wasn't particularly smart either.

To be precise, from the moment they fall in love with someone, they all become the biggest fools in the world.

They're all foolish in their own way.

"Fortunately, the one with more white hair is still that silly cat."

Tu Shan Han Su petted the cat for a while, watched the rain for a bit, put the leftovers in the refrigerator, and then went back upstairs to look through a parenting manual.

The TV upstairs was still on; it had just given an emergency broadcast of news about extreme weather in Ning'an.

She glanced at it and switched to The Legend of Zhen Huan.

Downstairs, the mice lined up inside the house, squeaking the slogan "Serve the mice" as they went out one by one.

The sleeping rabbit gradually woke up, looking around in confusion, while the little golden retriever licked its wet fur.

The calico cat stared intently at the newly arrived carp in the pond. Snowflakes fell on the water's surface and were eaten by the carp, who mistook them for candy.

The candy beans were eaten quickly.

The snow, which didn't belong to June, has stopped.