Xiao Su, in the prison, looked at the purse in his hand. Just a few days ago, he was sewing this purse by hand. At that time, his face was rosy and he was in a good mood. He was very excited, thinking that the Demon Lord would receive the purse he had sewn by hand soon. But the next second, he was slapped by the Demon Lord, and the purse he had not finished sewing fell to the ground.
Just as he was reminiscing, the stern-faced Uesugi Demon Lord appeared before him: "Xiao Su, everyone else had already left that day, why were you still in the Bright Moon Palace?"
Xiao Su immediately explained, "Please forgive me, Your Excellency. I was just momentarily bewitched."
"I heard that you told others that the Demon Lord had taken liberties with you. Is that true? Why would you say that?"
Xiao Su was terrified, and the next second his legs went weak and he knelt on the ground. He never expected that his momentary lapse of judgment would be known to the Demon Lord Uesugi.
"I'm sorry, I was just talking nonsense. The Demon Lord did not take liberties with me. I was bewitched. I—"
Suddenly, Uesugi Demon Lord spoke to someone outside, "Did you hear that?"
He looked outside and saw his younger brother walking over, looking at him with disappointment through the iron fence.
"younger brother!".
Xiao He walked in: "Brother, why did you lie to me? Do you know that I went to see the Demon Lord for you, and I was almost killed!"
Xiao Su, filled with regret, reached out to pull her younger brother back: "Ahe, I—"
Xiao He: "I just want to ask, were you forced to come here?"
Xiao Su looked at Uesugi, unable to lie, and could only shake her head.
Xiao He immediately shook off his hand and ran away. He should have realized sooner that his brother was not someone who did not know martial arts. Why didn't he run away? He had assumed that the Demon Lord was so wicked that he must have knocked his brother unconscious and forcibly taken him away.
Xiao Su collapsed onto the grass in the prison cell: "Ah He—"
He only told a small lie, yet he suffered such consequences; he only has himself to blame.
Lord Uesugi looked at the person before him, left with a single sentence: "Guards, keep a close watch on him, and await the Demon Lord's orders for punishment."
Xiao Su remained silent. He knew that this time he was probably really in grave danger. It was all his fault for being blinded by desire. He thought that if Xie Shanzhi, a mere demon beast, could catch the Demon Lord's eye, why couldn't he? He was no less capable than Xie Shanzhi. He forgot the Demon Lord's true nature. If he hadn't pushed open Xie Shanzhi's door that day and hadn't peeked at him, he wouldn't have discovered Xie Shanzhi's secret. It would have been too late by then.
Upon returning to the Demon Palace, Uesugi Demon Lord hurriedly apologized to the Demon Lord, saying, "It was all my fault for failing in my duties. Please punish me, Demon Lord."
Mu Wenxi waved his hand: "Forget it, let's cancel the husband selection month from now on. Keeping it will only cause more trouble."
Uesugi Demon Lord: "Demon Lord, please reconsider."
Mu Wenxi: "One is enough for me to play with. Having more would only cause more trouble."
Seeing that the Demon Lord's mind was made up, the Demon Lord Uesugi stopped mentioning the matter and instead spoke of Xiao Su: "Demon Lord, what should be done with Xiao Su?"
"Keep him locked up for now; Xiao He will come back."
Mu Wenxi stopped paying attention to Shangshan because she discovered Xie Shanzhi eavesdropping.
"What? You're here but not going in, just eavesdropping?"
Xie Shanzhi shook his head, looking somewhat dazed: "I was just about to go in, but I heard you talking, so I didn't go in."
Mu Wenxi: "Let's go."
Xie Shanzhi: "You just said you wanted to cancel the husband selection month... is that alright?"
Mu Wenxi: "Hmm, isn't one of you enough to have fun with?"
Xie Shanzhi: "I'm not joking."
Mu Wenxi ruffled his hair: "Okay, then you play with me."
She walked out of the hall, with Xie Shanzhi following closely behind. Under the cover of night, the two arrived at a small fishpond. The fishpond was shallow and was Mu Wenxi's favorite place to come to. He would often stay there all day watching the little fish swimming around.
Mu Wenxi: "Want some late-night snacks?"
Xie Shanzhi: "Hmm?"
With a wave of his hand, Mu Wenxi unleashed a burst of internal energy into the water. A fish was struck and leaped out of the water, which Mu Wenxi scooped up.
Xie Shanzhi then realized that eating late-night snacks meant eating fish: "I'll do it."
He took the fish from the Demon Lord and began to process it.
Mu Wenxi: "How do you know all this?"
Xie Shanzhi: "I learned this when I was a wanderer. In order to fill my stomach, I had to look for food everywhere. I ate rabbits from the mountains and fish from the water... But later I didn't have to look for food myself anymore."
Mu Wenxi didn't know what to say. She couldn't truly empathize, but she knew that those days must have been very difficult. All she could do was to be good to him in the best of her ability.
Mu Wenxi took the skewered fish from Xie Shanzhi's hand and started turning it over the fire. Looking at the flames swaying gently in the wind, she said in an extremely gentle tone, "From now on, you can eat whatever you want in the Demon Palace."
"Um."
"No one here will treat you badly anymore."
"Um".
Mu Wenxi handed the grilled fish to Xie Shanzhi, saying, "You can treat this place as your home."
Xie Shanzhi took the fish, his eyes burning brighter than fire in the pitch-black night: "Good."
The other demon lords soon heard about the cancellation of the husband-selection month, but everyone had different opinions.
Bai Bao Mojun stroked his beard and fiddled with the abacus: "This is a good thing. Not having to choose a husband means not having to pay money, which will save a lot of expenses in the future."
Soon the news spread not only throughout the Demon Palace but also throughout the entire Demon Realm.
Have you heard?
"The Demon Lord has canceled the month for choosing husbands, so we don't have to live in fear anymore."
"What are you worried about? It's not like you're the one who got elected."
"The Demon Lord has canceled the husband-selection month!"
Why?
"I heard that the Demon Lord has taken a fancy to someone and said that he can't live without him."
Who is this person?
"I heard from the young men who participated in the selection of concubines that her name was something like Xie Shanzhi."
A person nearby heard this and his eyes darted around: "Xie Shanzhi?"
The next second he vanished from the spot.
A man rushed back to his residence; it was the same person who had just disappeared: "Elder! Elder!"
The elder pushed open the door and looked at the person in front of him: "Why are you in such a hurry? What's the matter?"
The man, panting, said, "Elder, there might be news. I heard that the Demon Lord recently chose a demon husband named Xie Shanzhi."
"Xie Shanzhi? Shanzhi? Qi! It seems he's hiding there. He's quite capable."
The man asked, "Could it be a coincidence that it was an elder?"
Elder: "Whether it's a coincidence or not, we must go to the Demon Palace. Better to kill the innocent than let any clue slip by."
He made a hand gesture to send the message out.
The little wolf lying next to Mu Wenxi seemed uneasy for some reason, baring its teeth in a certain direction and occasionally lying down and sitting up.
Sensing his restlessness, Mu Wenxi gently stroked his head: "What's wrong?"
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