"Do you want to go to Jiutian Han Palace?"

"Nine...Nine Heavens Cold Palace?"

In a misty bathroom that looks like a fairyland, next to a bathtub, two women of different status are having a strange conversation.

A stunning young girl with wet black hair, naked, stood in the barrel.

Warm drops of water flow through forests, snow-capped mountains and valleys.

In the bathtub, within the white steam, the shadows were vaguely pure white.

She was tightly holding the hot towel on the edge of the tub with one hand, and with the other hand she was grabbing the slender wrist of a little maid with missing teeth outside the tub, who had an expression of astonishment and confusion on her face.

Luo Xiu nodded and stared at the little fish.

The latter thought about this extremely strange question and shook his head.

Luo Xiu looked confused, "Why?"

There are actually women who have left the earth and do not desire to go to the Jiutian Cold Palace. This is also the belief of all the women who have left the earth in the Music Bureau.

Xiaoyu looked at the strange reaction of this extremely noble and beautiful girl, and said timidly: "Xiaoyu can't fly, and I'm afraid... afraid of heights. I don't even dare to go to the roof of the ship."

Luo Xiu asked, "What if you can fly? And... you are not afraid of heights anymore. If you have the chance to go to Jiutian Han Palace, do you want to go there?"

Xiaoyu's eyes lit up, but the next second she still said, "No."

"Why! Do you know that the Nine Heavens Cold Palace is the place we, the Li girls, have always dreamed of? It is the dream that has lingered for thousands of years for our ancestors!" Luo Xiu said hurriedly and blankly. After a pause, she murmured, "Those who ascend to the Moon Palace will have their bodies tempered by the moonlight, their souls condensed by divine aura, and all emotional ties and karma cut off. They will be immortal and free from worries..."

The little maid with missing teeth shrank back in fear, her eyes looking at the wrist being grabbed by the strange fairy in front of her. She bit her lip and remained silent for a while, then said truthfully in a low voice:

"I know. How could I not know? It's just that Xiaoyu feels that... the Nine Heavens Cold Palace that they often mention is too far away. And you see, the moon is white and looks cold and desolate. According to the legend, it is also desolate and cold. How lonely it would be to go there...

"Speaking of which, are there...are there fish up there? No, I guess we're not allowed to eat them. The fish raised in the Moon Palace must be more precious than the spiritual fish in Xingzi Lake. Ten thousand small fish are not as valuable as it. It, it will eat me. And once you go up there, you can never come down again. They talk about immortality...

"Doesn't that mean we have to stay there forever? Legend has it that all the goddesses who sneaked down were caught and brought back. Well, it's the same as the little fish. We have to stay on the boat forever, so we just moved to a higher and bigger place. But there are goddesses and fairies all over there, so there are definitely more rules than here, but it's not as lively as our Zuixianlou."

The little maid with missing teeth paused for a moment, looked up at Luo Xiu who was suddenly stunned, pursed her lips hard, and then mustered up the courage to say:

"I... I don't want to be alone. I want friends and fun. If I could fly... if I could..." In the diffuse mist, her bright eyes dimmed slightly, and she lowered her head to look at her mended toes. "But... how can I fly? I can't even swim as a little fish, and I'm so thin. If I grow wings and fly like a magpie, I'll need to eat a lot of meat..."

Seeing that the fairy with a slightly strange body and person in the tub seemed to be listening carefully, Xiaoyu couldn't help but feel a little bolder. She just felt that she was very kind, and the little girl started to chirp.

At this moment, the eyes of the stunning girl who went by the alias Luo Xiu were a mixture of relief and a certain kind of disillusionment with faith.

"The boatman's daughter... the Crescent Moon Girl... the Nine Heavens Cold Palace... the Moon Palace Goddess... so that's how it is, so that's how it is." Luo Xiu murmured, and fell back and sat back in the water, splashing water. She was also shocked and looked miserable. "They are... they are all just people on the boat. They just changed from a small boat to a big one. They can't escape the same fate. They are all people on the boat!"

"Boring, boring, really boring..." The next second, Luo Xiu's numb expression disappeared, and she smiled brilliantly again. She let go of Xiaoyu's painful wrist and said with a sweet smile:

"Wash away the crescents for me. All of them."

Xiaoyu and another maid were stunned. According to Yue Niang's instructions, they were asked to use the special method she taught them to wash away two spots of the fairy in front of them, leaving only one spot.

However, when the two girls thought of how Yue Niang had been extremely respectful and cautious in front of the strange fairy in the bathtub, the two maids looked at each other and responded and took action.

After one stick of incense.

The mist in the bathtub behind the screen had dissipated and no one was inside.

In front of the dressing mirror in the warm room, Xiaoyu and another maid were busy combing and dressing up the hair of a stunningly beautiful girl who had just taken a bath.

Suddenly, quiet Luo Xiu pressed down Xiaoyu's hand that was reaching out to take the jade hairpin.

She shook her head gently at him, then took out a butterfly hairpin that glowed faint green under the light, and inserted it into her beautiful and smooth black hair with a faint smile.

Feeling dead.

The stunning young girl, who was personally given the name 'Cicada Girl' by the current Queen Mother Dali, sat in front of the dressing mirror, quietly looking at the pure and beautiful face in the mirror, who was as beautiful as a man's first love.

She tilted her head slightly and said softly:

"If you don't want to go to Jiutian Han Palace, then do you have anything you want to do, anything you find interesting?"

The tone is calm and casual.

Xiaoyu was stunned for a moment before realizing that he was talking to her. He scratched his head and said, "Yes...yes."

She has a missing tooth and her speech is a little lisp:

“Well, there are two things I want to do.”

"One is to eat fish until I burp." Xiaoyu looked a little embarrassed, "The other is to get off the boat and walk on land. But Xiaoyu is not trying to escape, I just... I just want to climb up the mountain in front of me to see what's behind it. I heard that there are higher mountains behind, but if it's higher than this one, why can't Xiaoyu see it from the boat?"

Another little maid who was helping with her makeup burst out laughing and looked at Xiaoyu with a teasing and sarcastic look as she was daydreaming.

The little maid with missing teeth turned her eyes away, closed her mouth, and did not dare to look her companions in the eye. Her eyes were filled with frustration and inferiority.

"oh."

Luo Xiu ignored the two little girls and didn't say anything else. She silently looked at the beautiful face in the mirror, like an exquisite wooden doll that had learned to breathe, unable to conceal the numbness in her heart.

What does the joys and sorrows of others have to do with her? She can't even save herself.

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A barefoot, stunning girl in a red dress was running against the night wind.

There is a bright moon above my head, and figures are moving across the rooftops of Xingzi Town.

She was in high spirits, with her black hair tied into a high ponytail, and a simple red skirt that revealed her round, white shoulders. She strode forward with her slender, well-proportioned legs.

Daring and chivalrous.

At a certain moment, when Luo Xiu jumped onto the roof of a ten-meter-high mansion, the red sleeve on her right hand suddenly emitted light, like a leaky rice bag, leaking silver light.

The smoothness slowly covered Luo Xiu's entire body, making her shine, like a goddess descending from the Moon Palace, carrying a bit of moonlight, a walking crescent moon.

At this moment, if someone has sharp eyes, he will definitely see the strange phenomenon on the right cuff of the silk sleeve. There is a piece of white gauze faintly, as if it was cut from some clothes. There are dozens of handsome cursive characters on it, and words such as "the beauty from the north, with eyebrows and eyes as bright as the new moon" can be vaguely seen.

Luo Xiu, who was running silently at night, was tempered by the spiritual energy brought up by the poem "Falling Flowers". For a moment, she was like a goddess, leaving lightly.

Soon, as the buildings became fewer and fewer and they were about to leave the town, the stunning girl in the red dress and barefoot gradually slowed down her pace.

Soon, her slender figure stopped at a deserted house.

Luo Xiu stood quietly, looking at the refreshing view of the river and moon in front of her.

At a certain moment, she turned sideways and looked in the direction of Xingzi Lake. From afar, she saw a tall pleasure boat quietly moored in the center of the lake.

Luo Xiu whispered something to herself, and the next second, without any hesitation, she flashed and ran towards Xingzi Lake.

Only a few words were left in the howling night wind.

"Although we may not share the same sorrows and joys, we can still sympathize with each other despite having the same fate... That young master probably feels the same way towards me..."

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In a narrow and damp cabin, the flame of the kettle was shaking violently.

Because the night wind rushed in through the door that was suddenly opened.

A little maidservant with missing teeth was packing things in a panic and frantically. She stretched out her two thin arms, trying to gather all the delicious food on the ground into her arms and hide them from the figure that suddenly appeared behind her.

But unfortunately, compared with the dazzling array of food on the floor, her small body was simply insignificant.

Xiaoyu fell to the ground - she had just been happily rolling around among the snacks eating the delicious dried fish - she maintained that posture, hugging a bunch of snacks and the dried fish that she treasured as treasures, and turned back timidly, staring eagerly at the figure of the uninvited guest in front of the door.

"Fairy sister?"

After seeing who was coming, Xiaoyu breathed a sigh of relief. She looked at her own appearance and the delicious snacks on the ground, with an embarrassed look on her face, "You...you came here, are you hungry too?"

Luo Xiu did not close the door. She walked forward a few steps and looked around curiously.

Her eyes swept over the swaying flames of the live stove, the pile of snacks on the ground, mainly dried fish, the greedy little maid with missing teeth who was secretly eating, and finally fell on the slightly wet pink handkerchief.

Luo Xiu looked at the night sky outside thoughtfully, nodded slightly, and then said softly: "I'm not hungry, you eat, I... am not here to snatch food from you, and I won't tell anyone else."

"Oh." Xiaoyu responded weakly, looked at the beautiful girl in front of him who was wearing cool clothes, stood up and trotted to get a blanket, and handed it to Luo Xiu, "Fairy sister, what are you talking about when you come to see me? And why are you dressed like this? Aren't you cold?"

Luo Xiu took the blanket with a startled look, scratched it with her five fingers, lowered her head to glance at the old blanket that had turned white from washing and Xiaoyu's worried face, and pursed her lips, "Thank you, Xiaoyu."

The maidservant with missing teeth waved her hands, tilted her head and smiled, accidentally revealing her leaky gums, and quickly put on a serious face.

Inside the cabin, the stunning young lady who was a top prostitute not long ago suddenly squatted down. Her slender right hand, which had just been bathed in bright moonlight, stroked Xiaoyu's face, stared into her eyes and said seriously:

"I'm leaving now."

Xiaoyu was slightly startled.

"There is an interesting and unfathomable young man who gave me another life." Luo Xiu said calmly. Her fingers helped Xiaoyu tidy up the messy hair scattered on her malnourished face. Her fair palms helped the little girl wipe the corners of her lips that were stained with dried fish residue, and then she lowered her eyes:

"I came to you before I left because I wanted to ask you something."

Looking at the fairy sister who came to see her late at night, Xiaoyu wondered what she was thinking.

"What?" Her voice trembled subconsciously.

Luo Xiu stared into her eyes and strangely repeated the question she had asked Xiaoyu when she was bathing and dressing in the evening:

"Is there anything you want to do? Anything you find interesting?"

Xiaoyu held the dried fish snacks in his arms, looked up at her, and said truthfully: "Before tonight, Xiaoyu wanted to eat fish until he was full, and wanted to see what was on the other side of the mountain. But tonight, the handkerchief given to me by the noble man I met contained..."

She looked down at the snacks in her arms and on the ground. "There are so many dried fish. Little Fish couldn't help but eat some. Hiccup~ Um, I'm full..."

The little maid with missing teeth looked away and blushed, "I just don't know whether the noble lady gave the fish to me out of pity or forgot to take it away... But no matter which one it is, I want to see her again in this life, at least say thank you, and then return the handkerchief and dried fish to her, or repay her kindness..."

She paused, lowered her head, and said with a look of inferiority on her face: "Forget it, I don't know if you still remember Xiaoyu, but I think this handkerchief should be very important to you."

Luo Xiu looked quietly at the little girl with missing buck teeth and the pink handkerchief in her hand, listening without saying a word.

Xiaoyu looked down at the childish words and patterns on Xiaoqian'er's snack handkerchief, scratched his head in annoyance, and said to himself: "Xiaoyu shouldn't have accepted it. It would have been better if I had found the spring earlier. The nobleman may have been impatient to wait. It's all Xiaoyu's fault... I shouldn't have been greedy for the dried fish."

Luo Xiu suddenly interrupted:

"She gave it to you. This method of using clear spring water with a little spiritual energy to boil and then wash the handkerchief is a relatively old method. It can allow cultivators without spiritual energy to take things from the ownerless Xumi object that has lifted the restrictions. So...she gave it to you, you don't have to blame yourself."

Xiaoyu was stunned, holding the snack handkerchief and dried fish, nodded, and then was quiet for a moment, raised his head and smiled faintly, "Oh, but I don't know if the noble lady will come to Zuixianlou again."

Luo Xiu suddenly said, "Why don't you get off the boat and take the initiative to find her?"

Xiaoyu's body trembled, and he shrank back holding the dried fish handkerchief in his arms, "Go, where can I find it?"

The stunning girl in a red dress and barefoot stood up, looking down at Xiaoyu who didn't dare to stand up, and shook her head:

"Who is this noble person you met? Where is she? I don't know. But I know that if you don't get off the boat and wait passively, being a boatman who dares not set foot on land, then you will never meet her in your life."

"I...I..." Xiaoyu's body trembled even more violently. Her breathing became rapid. She looked up at the woman in front of her who seemed ready to leave at any time and said, "Can I see her...I..."

The face of the indifferent young noble lady appeared in the mind of the little maid with missing buck teeth again. She was so pretty and noble, and seemed to be a powerful practitioner. However, it seemed that this indifferent young noble lady, except for smiling and being gentle and considerate to the young nobleman, acted aloof and unfamiliar with other outsiders.

Xiaoyu clearly wanted to get close to him but felt a deep barrier between them. The difference in status was like a chasm, and it was also a difficult hurdle in her heart to overcome. It seemed that she even lost the qualification to repay the favor and return the handkerchief.

At this moment, the little maid with missing teeth showed a complex expression on her face, with inferiority, expectation, and fear...

Luo Xiu looked at her deeply and said, "Then wait until you grow up a little bit and feel that you can stand in front of her, then go and return the handkerchief to her. But the premise of all this is that you have to leave this ship first."

The little fish froze.

Luo Xiu turned around quietly and walked towards the cabin door.

Xiaoyu's voice suddenly came: "Sister Fairy, why are you helping Xiaoyu?"

Luo Xiu paused for a moment, "I didn't help you. If I had to say who I helped, it would be myself. From the beginning to the end, I was doing something that I found interesting and I liked, just like that young master."

After she finished speaking, she still walked to the door silently, turned around and looked at Xiaoyu calmly, gently stretched out a hand, and stepped over the threshold.

This little maid with missing buck teeth, whose mother was an ordinary brothel singer and whose father was the bastard of an unknown drunkard, curled up in place, staring blankly at the hand.

The night is quiet.

Soon, the stove in the narrow cabin was extinguished and it was plunged into darkness.

There was no one in the house anymore.

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