Chapter 8

During lunch, the servant changed the chopsticks for Chu Jinglan once.

After lunch, the servants came to clear the dishes and found Chu Jinglan's expression was cold and angry. He didn't look like he was enjoying a delicious meal, but rather like he had swallowed a fly raw.

The attendant's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly asked, "Master, is the food not to your liking?"

Chu Jinglan frowned, as if he was suppressing some anger: "What?"

He really didn't hear clearly, because when the servant asked the question, the inner demon's flute sounded a long tune, and the tragic scene of thousands of birds flying away and hundreds of beasts disappearing was just like this. Chu Jinglan's ears were buzzing with shock and were about to explode.

Attendant: It’s over, the young master’s expression is so scary!

Fortunately, Chu Jinglan usually treats these servants well. If the young masters from other rooms lost their temper, they would have to kneel down and beg for mercy. The servant wiped the cold sweat from his sweat and said it again weakly.

This time Chu Jinglan heard it clearly. He tried to relax his frown and slowed down his tone: "...The food is very good. You guys can pack up and leave."

The servant did not dare to ask how the first pair of chopsticks broke. He quickly packed up his things and left. Chu Jinglan raised his hand to press his ears, but forced himself to hold back.

Covering his ears is like showing weakness to his inner demon, and he will never compromise with his inner demon.

Chu Jinglan pinched and loosened his fingers, pinched and loosened them again, and looked like he wished he could find a piece of tofu and knock it out, so he could turn a deaf ear to it and be done with it.

He understood music, and because he did, he felt even more uncomfortable. He listened for the whole afternoon, but couldn't figure out what tune the inner demon was playing from any of the notes... No, it couldn't be a tune, right?

Of course Chu Jinglan couldn't hear what was going on, because the music Xiao Mo was playing was not from this world.

Xiao Mo first practiced the introductory music score of this world, but found it difficult, so he switched to a common simple introductory song from the original world. Yes, it was Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

Xiao Mo had never learned to play any musical instrument, but he had a good memory. The simple score of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star was easy to remember, so he wrote it down the moment he saw it.

It's a pity that Xiao Mo blew up the song "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" into a gorilla, the kind that beat its chest and stamped its feet and roared in the rain forest. Unfortunately, only Chu Jinglan, an outsider, could hear it, so the embarrassment was limited.

The system has blocked the receiver, but the notification tone has not stopped, ding-dong-dong, reminding him that his mental attack was successful, extra points.

The song played at noon was heart-breaking, which was much more effective than harsh words. Chu Jinglan's mood was stable in the red and warm column and never dropped.

Xiao Mo was very happy playing the flute as he could practice and earn points at the same time: What a profit!

Xiao Mo had been playing for most of the day and was tired, so he stopped to rest for a while. He clearly saw that the moment his flute stopped playing, Chu Jinglan's expression, which had been tortured for a long time, became dazed for a moment, and then slowly relaxed.

There is a feeling of relief at having survived a disaster.

Xiao Mo's whole head was black. Looking at Chu Lan's shocked expression, he began to feel like raising his hand. He couldn't help but blew it again after being quiet for only two seconds.

As soon as the flute sounded, Chu Jinglan, who had just relaxed, was startled and his shoulders shook visibly.

Xiao Mo finally couldn't help laughing out loud: "Hahaha!"

Chu Jinglan realized that he was being controlled: "..."

Inner demon!!!

Chu Jinglan was so shocked that he could no longer bear it. He summoned his magic sword and started to chop!

Although he knew that the sharp sword could not cause any harm to the inner demon, Chu Jinglan was so angry that he didn't care whether it was useful or not, he just chopped it down!

Otherwise I’ll be driven crazy!

This time, Xiao Mo did not stay where he was and get hacked. He dodged by rolling in the air and nimbly flew to the beam. He looked down at Chu Jinglan and snorted loudly, "I told you to laugh at me at dinner time. I'm giving you a tooth for a tooth. You started it first!"

Chu Jinglan stood in the room holding a sword, his chest heaving. He laughed at his twisted reasoning: "A demon that suddenly appeared and wanted to kill people and take their bodies said that I was the first to attack?"

How can he have the nerve to do that?

Xiao Mo immediately sneered back: "Your inner demon was born because of your unstable mind! Do you think I want to be your inner demon? I don't want to be your inner demon at all!"

Forced to travel through time, forced to become a demon in his heart, he didn't even have a human form when he came out to bask in the sun, and was tied to Chu Jinglan. Xiao Mo had been holding a lot of grievances for a long time, and the grievances of a young man often turned into anger, which would explode at any time.

Two seventeen-year-old boys from two different worlds, full of thorns, collided with each other and disliked each other. Finally, they gave up their weirdness and temptations and had their first real quarrel.

From the source, they are both innocent, and it is not their fault to be tied together, but there are many reasons that cannot be explained, and many things that must be done. Even harmonious couples have awkward moments, not to mention two strangers who are suddenly closely connected.

Both of them got really angry.

"If you don't want to be a demon, then disappear now and give me peace!"

"If you have the guts, kill me right now. I won't fight back. Come on!"

Although Xiao Mo holds grudges, he does not remember trivial matters but only real hatred. Real hatred does not require quarreling but needs to be repaid with actions. Therefore, he has never had the experience of quarreling with others until he was red in the face. This is the first time; Chu Jinglan is even more needless to say. For the sake of his mother, he needs to endure in front of the elders of the Chu family. Even his anger is cold and restrained. He has never cared about his image so much.

It was the first time for both of them to have a complete quarrel with someone. They quarreled without any image or brains, relying entirely on the anger in their chests.

If the system had not blocked the receiver at this time, it would have been stunned and would have used a modern social buzzword to accurately describe the quarrel between the two of them:

Primary school students pecking each other.

Where is the supposed maturity at a young age and the supposed calmness and steadiness?

It's fake, all fake. It's just two young hedgehogs colliding and fighting each other, and the scene is quite spectacular.

Both of them were so angry that they were like puffer fish. Chu Jinglan's chest was heaving and veins on his hands were bulging. Xiao Mo was so angry that the whole fog ball had grown a circle larger and looked like it was about to explode.

Xiao Mo: “Ha.”

Chu Jinglan was shocked: “Oh.”

After throwing out many harsh words, the two of them ended their sentences with an interjection and turned their faces away. Chu Jinglan gritted his teeth and sat down at the table, while Xiao Mo snorted and leaned against the beam.

The chaotic house finally quieted down.

Both sides stopped talking at the same time. There was no sound in the room. Their heated heads gradually cooled down. They finally got their IQ back, and every word they had just said returned to their ears.

Xiao Mo: …

Did I just have an argument with someone? We had an argument without caring about anything. The things we said were…even elementary school students wouldn’t be so childish. Why did I have an argument with him?

Chu Jinglan: ...

He pinched his brows, not understanding why he suddenly lost his composure and engaged in a useless argument with an inner demon, arguing so irrationally.

It's a waste of time, it affects your mood, and... it's very childish.

Xiao Mo and Chu Jinglan both thought at the same time: ...How embarrassing.

The room fell into an eerie silence, with only the sound of Chu Jinglan's breathing, which gradually became steady and heavy.

For a long time, no one spoke and no one moved.

After a long time, Chu Lan in the room suddenly sneered in surprise.

The smile was very cold, but it was Chu Jinglan's mockery of himself.

He was actually affected by his inner demon to this extent. Yes, the source of the inner demon was in him. He used to think that he had a stable mind. It seemed that he lacked self-awareness and did not realize it at all.

You see, just a few words from the inner demon can make him so angry that he loses his mind. Well, it's because Chu Jinglan's cultivation is not good enough.

Chu Jinglan put down the hand that was pressing on his forehead, his expression cold.

——Once his mind and character are fully cultivated and his skills are sufficient, he will destroy the demon in his heart.

It is up to him to correct this mistake.

He had just calmly and cruelly calmed down in the murderous atmosphere when suddenly, a "Hello" came from above his head.

Chu Jinglan looked up expressionlessly. He swore that no matter what nonsense the inner demon said, it would not disturb his mood again.

Then he heard a sentence——

"sorry."

Chu Jinglan was shocked: “……?”

Chu's eyes widened in shock, and his expression, which was frozen by the ice, was wiped out by these words.

He couldn't believe it: "...what?"

The inner demon stopped talking, moved, and rolled back into the sea of ​​consciousness.

Chu Jinglan was shocked and doubtful. He thought he was hallucinating, but they were the only ones in the room, and the apology was particularly clear. Besides, in his understanding, his inner demon and he must be fighting to the death. Even if he was dreaming, it was impossible for him to dream that the inner demon apologized to him.

No one would believe that an inner demon would actually apologize to its true self for ten thousand years.

The cold aura around him became complicated and confusing. Chu Jinglan stood there thinking over and over but couldn't figure it out.

Could this be another new way for the inner demon to disturb people's hearts?

After Xiao Mo apologized, he immediately realized that something was wrong, so he slipped back into the sea of ​​consciousness.

He just calmed down and felt that there was really no need for him to lose his temper at Chu Jinglan. He did hate time travel and did not like Chu Jinglan's character, but time travel had nothing to do with Chu Jinglan. Although Chu Jinglan's character was terrible, she had not done anything to let him down.

The grievances and depression that Xiao Mo felt after traveling through time were not Chu Jinglan's fault, so after calming down, he apologized subconsciously.

But it wasn't until Chu Jinglan looked up in surprise that Xiao Mo suddenly realized something was wrong:

He has an inner demon, so wouldn't it be a destruction of his character if he apologized to the original body?

He was in a dilemma and immediately retreated back into his sea of ​​consciousness.

Xiao Mo returned to his sea of ​​consciousness and transformed into a human form. Thinking of his behavior just now, he paced back and forth around the dead tree in embarrassment and anxiety: Oh no, oh no, what will Chu Jinglan think when he hears that apology? It’s so weird for the inner demon to say sorry! !

Xiao Mo was upset and was about to pick up the system when his steps suddenly stopped.

As the cold moonlight shone through the sea of ​​consciousness, Xiao Mo had an epiphany in the absolute silence, and suddenly saw clearly things he had never seen before.

The system doesn't require him to not have a heart-breaking demon character, right?

As if his Ren and Du meridians were opened, Xiao Mo finally became completely sober and calm. He slowly sat down by the Moon Lake, put aside all distracting thoughts, and analyzed himself rationally.

Because of his resistance to traveling through books, he has been in a lot of confused emotions these days.

If you think about it carefully, it was because of these negative emotions, plus the naturally opposing identities of the Inner Demon and the host, and the fact that he could gain points by inflicting mental attacks on Chu Jinglan to help his cultivation, that he was able to smoothly integrate into the role of the Inner Demon from the beginning and acted very well.

It's actually very unfair to Chu Jinglan.

Chu Jinglan would have also gone through the tribulation of inner demons, and that inner demon would only be worse than Xiao Mo's, but this was not the reason for Xiao Mo's own actions.

From the moment he declared "I am your inner demon", he was too tied down by this identity. Wasn't that what he originally intended to do?

According to Xiao Mo's personality, if he has no grudge against someone but has a different personality from him, he will simply choose to distance himself from them. He will avoid contact with them if possible and will not cause trouble for them.

He would take the initiative to provoke Chu Jinglan in order to gain points. Threatening was the only way before, so he did this.

Xiao Mo discovered that, unconsciously, he seemed to be too submissive to his inner demon identity.

This is not good.

Xiao Mo looked down at the flute in his hand.

Xiao Mo tightened his fingers and made up his mind.

Now there is a way for me to maintain a peaceful life for Chu Jinglan while cultivating myself. It is time to put aside the barriers of identity and the world and have a heart-to-heart talk with Chu Jinglan.