[I guessed it right! I said Yuan would be in this year's yearbook!] Fat Cat shouted crazily in the group, [You are a bunch of scumbags, none of you guessed it right!]
[Black and Red: Where did you go to place the bet? What are the odds there?]
[Group leader: Yes, the casino was very excited to see this. The casino here opened a betting site some time ago, and I bet a hundred dollars.]
【Black and Red: ...How much did you earn? 】
[Group leader: Of course it’s a lot! Otherwise why would I send out red envelopes? ]
Yuan Yuanyuan was watching the discussion in the group with a confused look on her face. She originally wanted to come over to ask what was going on, but when she came over she found that they were already chatting, and Fatty's little Kou was so excited that he sent a big red envelope for the first time.
She glanced at the red envelope she received, and couldn't help but exclaimed, "Oh my god!" She quickly asked in the group, "Are you guys... actually still gambling on this kind of thing?"
[Black and Red: I wanted to make a comment... but I couldn't bring myself to do it. I never thought that Yuan would be included in the yearbook.]
[Group leader: This is a very embarrassing behavior, understand? Wasn't Yuan's voice a traitor a while ago very loud? At that time, he was almost a disgrace to the monsters, and so many people wanted him to commit suicide to atone for his crime. This time, he was directly included in the yearbook. In just one hour, the outside world must have changed.]
[Quanquan: How amazing is this yearbook? I know it's amazing, but can you give me a specific example?]
[Black and Red: Hmm... give me an example? How can I give you an example? You've got me stumped by my question. Let me think about it...]
[Group leader: You told her so much but she has no idea. I'll just say this, if you join this, you will bring glory to the monsters. Is this example enough?]
Yuan Yuanyuan on the other side of the screen was shocked when she saw Fatty Cat's reply.
To win glory for the monsters?
She even suspected that she had seen it wrong, but the words on the screen were written exactly like that, so there was no way Yuan Yuanyuan could deceive her.
Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the fat cat's avatar on the screen, her fingers moving wildly, typing out a bunch of things.
【Quanquan:... What the hell? ! ! What? What? To win glory for the monsters? What's going on? What the hell, isn't it just this yearbook?】
[Black and Red: That yearbook is recognized by all monsters and humans. Even humans read it. There are tens of thousands of monsters in the monster world, and most humans can only know a few of them in the yearbook every year. The monsters in the yearbook are carefully selected...]
[Group leader: You can just say that this thing is for humans to see and to scare them. I thought they wouldn't put Yuan up there. It seems that they haven't had a big monster to show off for so many years, so they got mad and suddenly one appeared, so they quickly drew him up there to help out.]
[Black and Red: Hey, but if we do this...]
[Group leader: We were all scolding him a while ago, but now he has become some kind of monster Yuguang... Hey, what do humans think? Are they deliberately slapping us in the face?]
[Black and Red: Who knows... They have the final say, but now, the human side should recognize Yuan. It's quite sad to think that such a big demon world now has to rely on an old demon with a bad reputation to hold the scene.]
【Group leader: Haha. 】
[Black and Red: Don't act so gloating... You're afraid that others won't notice. Are you the type who will get beaten up if you go out like this?]
Yuan Yuanyuan watched the conversation between Heihongse and Fat Cat vaguely. In the end, the two of them were completely immersed in fighting pictures and sending each other emoticons.
Heihongse scolded Fat Cat for being scheming and too sinister, while Fat Cat scolded Heihongse for being stupid. Anyway, the two of them were so excited about hurting each other that they had no intention of continuing to discuss the matter just now...
She turned and looked at the students' website to see if there was anything introducing this, and then she found a very short introduction.
[Monster Yearbook - a yearbook published by the demon world and recognized by the human world.]
[Contents included: major events, major monsters, communication talks, etc.]
【This yearbook will be distributed to various monsters around the New Year.】
Yuan Yuanyuan flipped through the yearbook at hand again. What was written on it was similar to what was written here. When she flipped through it for the second time, she discovered something interesting.
That petal...is definitely not just for monsters to see, because the last page of it has something similar to a partner printed on it.
On the partner list, Yuan Yuanyuan saw the names of several Taoist sects... and even a government seal. To be honest, seeing this big red round seal on this kind of monster book really gave her a feeling of time traveling.
Holy shit...are humans so arrogant? They even want to get involved in something like this?
Yuan Yuanyuan sighed in an ambiguous tone, although she was inexplicably a little excited in her heart... She turned on her phone again, and the fat cat and black and red finally ended the emoticon war and returned to the previous topic.
[Group leader: Look at the monster above... Isn't this the most unfriendly one? ]
[Black and Red: What do you want to say? Do you want to say that he looks like a dog? ]
[Group leader: Please don't use the same old jokes from 800 years ago. What I mean is that his appearance is different from the bitchy look of other big monsters. Are you doing him justice by choosing such a pure picture?]
【Black and Red: That's right. He obviously has so many more bitchy pictures, why did he choose this one? It's like a minor. People will think we invited an underage monster this year.】
...Well, Yuan Yuanyuan couldn't understand this kind of aesthetics. The big monsters she met seemed to have a kind of mysterious aesthetics. Generally speaking, the more powerful the monster was, the more messy bits and pieces it had on its body.
Just like when we were in the tavern, if a monster came in with a big fur coat and deep monster patterns on its face, it would suddenly look like a cosplay of Seshoumaru...but they were all big, scary monsters. The smaller monsters were more plain and didn't have so many messy things on them.
So far, the only person Yuan Yuanyuan has seen who doesn't have any messy things on his body and who is very awesome is Si Qun...but his messy hair is quite non-mainstream, and ordinary people really can't do it like him.
Yuan Yuanyuan didn't have much stuff on her, and in the tavern they would often see some very young monsters who suddenly had something extra on them and would happily show it off to them.
Maybe it’s because the dean was too strict when she was in school. Sometimes Yuan Yuanyuan felt like her neck was going to be broken when she thought about having to wear so many messy things on her body. It’s tiring enough to carry so many things when she does cosplay, but these people actually wear like this every day.
Although she had heard that this thing was very cool, she still had no idea how cool it was. She was so exhausted after reading it that her eyes hurt so much that she was immersed in a very metaphysical atmosphere.
So Yuan Yuanyuan thought about it for a while, then hesitantly locked the door and went back home to sleep.
Before she left, she left another note on the door next to the note "We'll meet by chance" which read "If you want to see the owner, just tell him what you want to say, don't be secretive."
…
Yuan Yuanyuan slept like this for a whole day. When she woke up, she looked out the window silently. She was troubled for a long time and didn't want to get out of bed.
She slept like this from the first day to the second day of the New Year...It's just getting dark outside now, and the news broadcast should be about to start.
Yuan Yuanyuan wanted to stay in bed for a while, but she saw a new group of monsters suddenly appeared in the sky outside. So she forced herself to get up from the bed and wake herself up.
The Hundred Demons Festival... She got it from Fat Cat a few days ago. It will probably be on the fifth or sixth day of the Chinese New Year. She is not prepared at all now. She just knows the exact day.
Yuan Yuanyuan climbed up, rubbed her eyes, stretched, and looked down. There were actually a lot more monsters there, and it seemed even more lively than the first two days.
It seems like the monsters are getting more and more active... maybe this is just a warm-up? Will the monsters become more and more active until the fifth day of the Lunar New Year?
Yuan Yuanyuan thought so. She packed up and went back to the shop to see if there was anyone waiting at the door.
When she got there, she found that someone had actually left something there, but it was not a stranger, but someone she knew.
"Tang poetry?"
Yuan Yuanyuan picked up the small box on the ground. Tang Shi's name was written on the box in a very formal way, using traditional Chinese characters and a small symbol.
As she looked at this, she suddenly remembered something that happened a few days ago... Tang Shi took a lot of photos for her from the square over there, and she felt that those photos were very familiar.
She didn't remember why it looked familiar at the time, but she remembered it later. It turned out that the packaging of the boxes was what made her feel familiar.
The packaging of these boxes was exactly the same as the one that Si Qun gave her... They were all thick boxes made of various materials, with a seal on it. On the seal, her name was written in traditional Chinese characters, and there was also a symbol drawn on it.
Perhaps the only difference is that the powder box has "Yuan" written on it, while this one has "Deng" written on it.
Yuan Yuanyuan looked at this talisman. She had seen the symbol of that talisman before... in Tang Shi's homework book.
At that time, she thought that thing was very beautiful and thought it was a signature, so she practiced it secretly. Tang Shi came over and told her that this was their family symbol, which was abstracted from the shape of a cow.
This thing...was given to her by Tang Shi?
Yuan Yuanyuan felt inexplicably flattered. She took the box and walked into the house.
"Dad! Dad! He took it away!" Tang Shi, who was lying on the upstairs and watching secretly, suddenly turned around and shouted.
"Has it been taken away?" Tang Shi's father took a look from above and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Dad... why didn't you let me tell him about the gifts in the square? Do you know how poor the boss is?" Tang Shi asked.
"That boss... well, his status in the city is quite complicated. If he doesn't move, then he can't move." Tang Shi's father said.
"Wow... Although I don't quite understand what you said, I don't realize it's amazing. But to be honest, being a big monster is really miserable. Dad, didn't you tell me to study hard to become a big monster, and then let other monsters pay tribute to me? Why do I find that being a big monster is more pitiful than not being one?" Tang Shi asked.
"Don't be mean to me." Tang Shi's father tapped Tang Shi on the forehead, "Hurry up and memorize the book. I don't think you are a monster or not."