Chapter 33 It turns out that entering a dream is only meaningful when one is fully conscious and awake.
Mingjian was dumbfounded.
No, can he even speak? He knew Xiao Bumian had been plotting against him all along, and now look what happened, he's finally shown his true colors.
Mingjian felt his head buzzing. Although he knew he was good-looking and often used his face, it didn't mean that he, an honest and upright cultivator, could be taken advantage of so easily.
He gritted his teeth and decided that once he woke up, he would definitely find a chance to beat Xiao Bumian up.
Seeing his reaction, Xiao Bumian's eyes curved into crescents, and she laughed so hard she fell onto the bed.
Mingjian: "..."
Screw you!
Fortunately, this yandere was only putting on a brave front; she didn't actually intend to strip Mingjian naked and throw him into the bathtub. She just cast a few cleaning spells on Mingjian and then went into the bathroom.
In his consciousness, Mingjian let out a long sigh of relief.
He thought to himself that Xiao Bumian was quite sensible.
He continued to wait listlessly in his spiritual sense, but his spiritual sense was too acute; he could even hear the sound of water in the bathroom clearly. He squeezed his eyes shut, pretending to be deaf.
The system asked in confusion: "Host, why has your heart suddenly become so fast?"
Mingjian simply pretended to be dead.
Finally, when the sound of water stopped, Xiao Bumian approached, still damp from the water. A cool, refreshing fragrance mixed with the warmth after the bath wafted over him, and Mingjian instinctively held his breath.
He casually draped a pale white undergarment over his shoulders, the lapel slightly open, his wet hair falling loosely over his shoulders.
The red lotus pattern on his forehead was now dazzlingly bright, making him look somewhat dangerous.
Mingjian couldn't help but tremble slightly, but Xiao Bumian chuckled and poked Mingjian's cheek with his fingertip, his warm breath close to hers: "The teeth marks here have faded."
Xiao Bumian hadn't bitten hard before, and the teeth marks on her face had already faded, but her lips were still throbbing slightly.
While he was still thinking, Mingjian suddenly felt a cold touch on his face.
Mingjian was stunned. Although he was unable to move, his senses were unusually clear.
Xiao Bumian gently bit his face with his canine teeth until the previously faint teeth marks became dark again, then he smiled with satisfaction.
Mingjian: "..."
never mind.
Seeing that one has completely given up the struggle, how can that not be a kind of progress?
People's bottom lines are meant to be broken. He used to get angry, but now he has a kind of "what's the use" attitude, and can even calmly comfort himself.
It's just a bite; it won't cost you anything.
Mingjian forced a smile.
The thought had barely crossed my mind when I felt a cool sensation on my lips again.
Mingjian: ? ? ?
"System, let me out!" he roared furiously in his mind. "Today I'm going to bite this damned bastard to death!"
Even if he couldn't beat him in cultivation, couldn't he at least bite him to death when he wasn't paying attention?
System: [Sorry, host, you cannot quit midway through the Memory Fragment experience.]
Mingjian twitched his lips, determined to bite this damn system to death.
"Hmm," Xiao Bumian patted his chest in surprise, his brows furrowing slightly, "Why isn't it beating as fast as before?"
He tilted his head to examine Mingjian, his long eyelashes casting a shadow beneath his eyes.
After a while, his eyes suddenly lit up, as if he had discovered something interesting.
It turns out that things only become meaningful when one is clear-headed and lucid.
"What a pity..." He sighed softly. Well, he had previously thought of turning Mingjian into a doll, but now it seems that the talking Mingjian is cuter.
As she spoke, she naturally slipped into the quilt, wrapped her arms around Mingjian with her hands and feet, rubbed her chin against the top of his head, and closed her eyes contentedly.
Ming lay there listlessly, letting Xiao Bumian do whatever he wanted with him.
Perhaps Xiao Bumian infected him, for Mingjian remained indignant for a while before his consciousness gradually blurred.
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"The master hasn't fed the little monster for two days. Could it be... that they really intend to let him fend for himself?"
"Who knows? I heard that a few days ago someone at the academy made fun of the eldest young master, which made him cry. The madam felt sorry for him, so she took it out on that little monster."
"Pah! She deserves it. Madam was already engaged to our master, but who would have thought she would disappear for a year without explanation and then come back pregnant. Not only was she pregnant, but she also gave birth. Although the master and madam are as loving as ever, I still feel disgusted. Something of unknown origin should be strangled as soon as it is born."
"Shh—" Another servant gestured to his lips, signaling to be quiet, and looked around in fear. "That monster can hear us! If we anger him, we won't even know how we died!"
The man's face turned deathly pale, and the food box in his hand clattered to the ground: "Quick, quick, let's go..."
The footsteps faded into the distance.
Inside the woodshed, the chains suddenly made a crisp clanging sound.
Xiao Bumian slowly opened his eyes. The moldy, dry grass was painfully rough, and tiny dust particles floated in the dim light. He tried to move his wrist, and the iron chains immediately rattled.
"Oh……"
He suddenly chuckled softly.
I was just thinking before bed about not keeping the cat with me forever, and then I dreamt about my childhood.
Xiao Bumian smiled and examined the shackles on his wrists with great interest.
He still looks like a seven or eight-year-old in his body, and he's very weak because he hasn't eaten for several days.
The chain of events cannot be broken.
But he never thought of leaving the dream world. If you think about it carefully, apart from the days when Mingjian held him while he slept, he hadn't slept for almost a thousand years, let alone dreamed.
This novel feeling made him feel excited all over.
Even in this dream, Xiao Bumian was not feeling well.
He lowered his eyes and stared at the crabapple blossoms falling outside the wooden window.
He thought lazily that it was mid-springtime.
Just then, a white cat jumped onto the window and met Xiao Bumian's gaze.
Xiao Bumian paused, but before he could make a move, the white cat jumped out of the window and disappeared from his sight.
After a long silence, Xiao Bumian smiled and said, "It's a cat."
It's a pity that Tanuki has been dead for many years, otherwise Tanuki and Mingjian could have gotten to know each other.
If Mingjian knew Xiao Bumian's thoughts, he would just smile and remain silent, because there was no need for them to know each other.
Damn it, how did he become a short-legged cat?!
Mingjian jumped out of the window, feeling utterly grief-stricken. Perhaps due to fragmented memories, the system didn't come with him, leaving Mingjian with no one to vent his anger on.
Enraged, he could only scratch and claw at the crabapple tree, leaving several fresh claw marks on the poor trunk.
I wonder where Xiao Bumian is?
Mingjian sighed.
The place was too unfamiliar to him, and Mingjian was startled when he opened his eyes.
It took him half a day to adjust before he realized that this was the human world more than a thousand years ago.
Moreover, the owner seemed to be of high status, as the house was very large with winding and meandering corridors.
I don't know if it's because he turned into a cat, but Mingjian got exhausted after walking only a short distance. This cat body is really too useless.
He simply jumped onto the roof and curled up into a snowball in the warm sunshine.
Forget it, I'll get some sleep and recharge before looking for Xiao Bumian.
He was sleeping soundly when someone suddenly hit him with a small stone.
Mingjian woke up immediately, his hair standing on end, and looked down. He saw a little boy, about five or six years old, dressed in fine clothes and jade belt, standing below, smiling and looking up at the eaves, holding several pebbles in his hand.
"Meow!" Mingjian hissed fiercely.
Stop throwing things! If you do, I'll bite you!
After Ming finished warning the child and saw that the child had behaved, he went back to sleeping.
The warm sunlight slanted down on him, making him feel very comfortable. Mingjian stretched happily, and just as he was about to fall asleep, another pebble hit him.
Mingjian: "..."
He was furious. He leaped from the eaves, his snow-white fur drawing an arc in the sunlight.
But after he jumped down, he froze on the spot. There was no other reason than that the child in front of him, though young, looked somewhat like Xiao Bumian when he grew up.
Could this be Xiao Bumian when he was a child?
Mingjian was stunned, unsure whether to bite or not.
Although the system had said that Xiao Bumian wouldn't have any memories of what happened afterward in the dream, the system had been unreliable more than once, so it was better to be safe than sorry. Biting him now might feel good, but if Xiao Bumian recognized him, he would definitely hold a grudge.
What if Xiao Bumian bites me back after I wake up?
It was clear that they were caught in a dilemma.
Just then, a maid came running over, "Young Master, Young Master! Madam is back. She says she wants to test your studies today. Let's go quickly."
Upon hearing this, Gu Guanlan stubbornly pointed to the eaves and said, "Cat."
The maid followed his gaze and saw only a few fallen crabapple petals swirling down; there was no sign of a cat.
"Young Master must be seeing things." The maid squatted down, picked him up, and coaxed him with a smile, "If you like it, I'll accompany you to the East Market later to pick out an even better one."
After the figures of the master and servant disappeared at the end of the corridor, Mingjian emerged furtively from behind a potted Podocarpus macrophyllus, disgustedly shaking his muddy paws. He hesitated for a moment, then tiptoed after them.
Mingjian followed the master and servant to the main courtyard, where a delicate courtyard was adorned with pale purple crystal tassels that refracted delicate halos in the sunlight. Behind the tassels, a graceful woman could be vaguely seen preparing tea.
The child broke free from the maid and rushed into the woman's arms, softly calling out, "Mother."
Liu Su lifted a corner and clearly saw the woman's face, whose eyebrows and features resembled Xiao Bumian's by three or four points.
Just as Mingjian was about to confirm that the child who was asking for a beating was Xiao Bumian, he heard the woman softly call out, "Guanlan, have you memorized all the articles the teacher taught today?"
Guanlan?!
Mingjian's ears drooped instantly, and his tail hung down listlessly. All that effort for nothing; it turned out he wasn't the Xiao Bumian from his childhood.
He wagged his tail, turned, and left.
After wandering around the mansion for most of the day, he pieced together from the servants' idle chatter that there were three young masters in the mansion. He had already met the eldest young master, Gu Guanlan, but had not yet met the other two.
"Could it be... that Xiao Bumian is the Second Young Master or the Third Young Master?" He squatted on the artificial hill and muttered to himself, his tail tip slapping the stone surface in frustration.
Well, it's getting late, let's find a place to sleep first.
The mansion was quiet all around, with only the occasional breeze carrying the fragrance of crabapple blossoms.
In a corner unnoticed by anyone, a white lion cat jumped into the kitchen.
Mingjian found some pastries to fill his stomach and was about to find a place to curl up and sleep when he suddenly remembered the child whose limbs were chained when he woke up this morning.
He was busy looking for Xiao Bumian at the time and didn't see the situation inside clearly.
But he seemed to hear some servants in the courtyard saying that the child hadn't eaten for several days.
Will they starve to death?
Mingjian inexplicably thought of the yandere who wanted to sleep after eating a fruit.
“…” Mingjian got up again, carrying the food box containing pastries in his mouth, and walked towards the woodshed.
He owes Xiao Bumian a debt.
In short, now even if he were to pass by a dog, he would question whether it was Xiao Bumian.
Even if it wasn't him, it doesn't matter. He only helped a child. If his master hadn't taken him in when he was a child, he would have starved to death long ago. Now that he's seen that child, it might just be a matter of life and death.
Let's just assume he's kind-hearted.
Not long after, Mingjian followed his memory to the courtyard he had seen that morning. He jumped onto the window, where the old wooden window of the woodshed creaked.
Mingjian lightly leaped into the room, and moonlight shone through the window cracks, illuminating the small, thin figure in the corner.
In the corner of the room, a small figure was curled up. Hearing the noise, it lifted its eyelids slightly, and a pair of clear eyes looked straight at it through its messy long hair.
His face was mostly covered by his long hair, so it wasn't very clear. Mingjian placed the food box in front of him, pushed it forward with his paw, and barked.
"Meow."
Eat up, eat up, or you'll starve to death.
He said.
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