A short while later, the door to Bai Xiaoruo's bedroom was gently pushed open, and the always lazy fox demon maid walked in, yawning.
Bai Xiaoruo tilted her head back and glanced at her lazily, her voice slightly nonchalant: "How's it going? Have you sent everything over?"
The maid pursed her lips, her face showing some reluctance. After hesitating for a moment, she said, "It's been delivered... Miss, I just don't understand why we had to let that little white dragon get away with it? This is our territory, after all..."
Bai Xiaoru blinked her big eyes, her tone calm: "Otherwise what? Could you forcibly separate the two of them? That lecherous dragon came all the way from Beihai, isn't his only goal to have a taste of food? Let him eat and drink his fill and leave quickly, so he won't be hanging around in front of me every day, getting in my way..."
"..."
Upon hearing this, the maid propped her chin up, a mischievous smile suddenly spreading across her face. "Judging from this, Miss is already eager to get to base? She's starting to think everyone else is in her way..."
Bai Xiaoruo then realized that her words had been somewhat misunderstood. Her face flushed slightly, and she coughed twice, saying, "Ahem! You...you shouldn't think like that! I just don't want to see these two showing off in front of me every day, exchanging glances and making this palace smell so sour. It's so annoying..."
Seeing her stubbornness, the maid's smile deepened. She deliberately glanced at the nine large tails behind her and teased, "Really? So, Miss, you washed your tails so clean and fragrant. Who are you trying to please?"
"What? You're washing your tail because that bastard drooled on it yesterday... Never mind! Never mind, if you don't have anything else, go back to sleep and don't bother me while I'm sunbathing my tail!"
Seeing the other person's mischievous expression that said "I don't believe anything you say," Bai Xiaoruo was too lazy to explain anymore. She lay back on the bed, buried her slightly flushed cheeks in her arms, and continued to enjoy her sunbathing.
The moment sleep was mentioned, the maid reflexively let out a huge yawn, as if her brain had been instantly filled with boundless drowsiness: "Alright then, Miss, you can sunbathe for a while, I'm going back to sleep..."
She had barely stepped out of the palace when another maid with red fox ears walked in briskly.
Compared to the lazy colleague who seemed ready to fall asleep at any moment, this one looked much more capable and energetic, with clear and bright eyes. He was the one Shen Yunhao had secretly praised for his quick thinking.
“Miss,” the capable maid bowed slightly and said clearly, “Young Master Lei Yucheng of the Moon Devouring Clan is outside requesting an audience!”
"Lei Yucheng?" Bai Xiaoruo, who had just settled back down, sat up abruptly upon hearing this, her delicate brows furrowing slightly. "What does that little wolf cub want with me?"
The maid shook her head: "The other party did not explain their purpose, only saying that they had important matters to discuss with Miss in person."
"Then I won't see him!" Bai Xiaoruo refused without even thinking. "That kid is so annoying, he never comes to me with anything good..."
"This..." The maid hesitated for a moment, then said in a low voice, "But Miss, the other party... is already waiting in the side hall's reception room. If we just send them away like this, given Young Master Lei's temperament, I'm afraid he'll..."
"Then let him wait!" The little fox waved his hand impatiently, lay back down, and said lazily, "At the very least, I have to wait until my tail is completely dry. How can I face anyone with these tails dragging around?"
When a nine-tailed fox's tail gets wet, it cannot retract itself back into its body as easily as it would normally.
Bai Xiaoruo cherishes her tail very much and has never liked to use spiritual power or other methods to quickly dry it. So after each wash, she patiently waits for it to air dry naturally, which means that during this time she can only drag her tail when she walks...
The maid nodded upon hearing this and did not try to persuade her further: "Yes, Miss."
She turned and left, but a sense of understanding flashed through her mind.
In fact, among demons, especially when they meet with their peers, they are not as particular as humans. Even if they drag their tails when meeting guests, it is not a big deal. On the contrary, it makes them seem more casual and natural.
The Bai Xiaoruo of the past... at least, before she returned from Yunzhou, would never have cared about these details. That young master Shen really changed her a lot.
...
Meanwhile, in the guest room of Zhuli.
"You mean, there might be a problem with your identity, and you want me to go back to Yunzhou to investigate for you?"
Zhu Li stroked her smooth chin, her pale purple eyes gleaming with contemplation, her expression unusually serious.
Shen Yunhao sat opposite her and nodded, his tone deep and serious: "Yes. Actually, when I first heard these things, I was also shocked. It's hard to imagine... such a huge cause and effect would inexplicably appear on me."
"Yun Hao, are you sure that person... is that stinky fox's father, really some kind of visitor from another world?" Zhu Li was still somewhat incredulous. "How come I've never heard of such a thing before? Could it be some kind of higher-level spatial secret realm?"
Shen Yunhao shook his head decisively. "That's definitely not a secret realm, but a real, complete plane. Its structure and rules are far more complex than any spatial secret realm we know... It's difficult for me to explain these things in detail, but Bai Xiaoruo and her father did indeed travel from that plane. Including..."
At this point, Shen Yunhao paused, looked into the other person's clear eyes, and decided to tell the truth: "Including me, I also stayed in that plane called '21st Century' for a period of time!"
"What?"
As expected, upon hearing this, Zhu Li's eyes widened suddenly, and she sat up straight involuntarily, her face filled with shock. "Yun Hao! Could it be... that you are also from that so-called other world?"
“Actually… I’m not quite sure where I came from either.” Shen Yunhao frowned slightly, showing some confusion. “But judging from the logic of time and the affiliation of my soul, I most likely still belong to the Tianji Continent.”
Deep down, he preferred to believe that after being murdered by Gu Yantang on his wedding day, his soul somehow went to the 21st century, grew up there until he was twenty years old, and then returned to the Tianji Continent by chance.
Rather than simply awakening a memory of "another Shen Yunhao" from the 21st century that night.
"Thinking about it now, these bizarre time-travel phenomena I experienced are very likely related to my unknown origins and bloodline, so..."
Shen Yunhao raised his head and looked earnestly at Zhuli, "Sister Li'er, in the past, I didn't care where I came from, I only cared about whether I could walk peacefully with you all. But now, the consequences have truly fallen on my head, and I can no longer sit idly by and pretend that nothing has happened!"
It's crucial to understand my background and origins so that we won't be caught unprepared and helpless when the trouble Senior Ryuzuki spoke of truly arrives!
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