Yuan Yuanyuan got up early the next morning, opened the shop door, looked at the sunlight outside, and thought about cleaning the shop.

She fetched a bucket of water, took a rag, a mop and a broom, and stood at the door with her hands on her hips.

There was a little monster on his way to school, who glanced over here when passing by. His eyes hurt because of the dazzle from Yuan Yuanyuan's imposing back, so he quickly turned his head back and pretended not to see it.

Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the store door which had become dirty due to the recent snowfall, washed the rag, then squatted down and wiped it vigorously.

The sun has risen. Monster shops in other places are usually open at night, but the nursery area is always open during the day. This is because most of the people staying here are children, so naturally it is not open at night like outside.

Yuan Yuanyuan felt quite happy staying here. Gradually, she seemed to have found some feeling from long ago. During the day, several other monster shops opened nearby. These shops were only visible to monsters, and they sold all kinds of messy things.

Yuanyuan's small clothing store looks inconspicuous here.

Before she was halfway through wiping, Yuan Yuanyuan suddenly heard two footsteps coming from behind her. She wiped the window that looked like frosted glass without turning her head. The people behind her were getting closer and closer. When they walked up to Yuan Yuanyuan, she threw the rag down and turned her head away.

She saw that one of the two people coming was Tang Shi and the other was a middle-aged man she didn't know.

"Boss!" Tang Shi saw Yuan Yuanyuan and waved at her. Yuan Yuanyuan watched her running towards her, then looked at the middle-aged man next to her and subconsciously thought that this should be Tang Shi's father.

Sure enough, when the middle-aged man came over and introduced himself, he said that he was Tang Shi's father.

Tang Shi's father looked at the man in front of him. His hands were wet, and there was a rag on the windowsill. His sleeves were rolled up, and he was wearing an apron. He looked particularly elegant...

Tang Shi looked disgusted when she saw Yuan Yuanyuan's expression. However, her father did not discriminate against Yuan Yuanyuan because of this honor. He greeted Yuan Yuanyuan quite formally, "Hello, I am Tang Shi's father. Thank you for taking care of Tang Shi these days."

"Ah...it's okay, it's okay." Yuan Yuanyuan was a little flustered. She looked a little inconvenient at the moment, so she quickly took off her apron and invited the two people into the house.

My parents came to look for me... What's going on? It feels like they are just like my elementary school teacher.

Yuan Yuanyuan complained as she went to make some tea. She had recently received a batch of good tea, which was given to her by the man in black robes. Yuan Yuanyuan didn't dare to drink a single sip, fearing that this stuff would have the effect of a truth serum.

But at this time, it is still quite good to entertain guests.

…

As a Taoist priest, he actually didn't worry about money. After being outside for so long, he finally understood why his sect never worried about money. It was because Taoist priests still had some abilities similar to cheating compared to ordinary people.

He was walking on the street when he suddenly heard a few little girls talking on the side of the road, "I heard that the next issue of Monster Chronicles will talk about the war back then..."

"I always feel that...Yuan was the decisive figure in that war. Otherwise, why would he be described in such a way?"

"It's very possible. I don't know when Yuan will appear again."

"I want to know where Fanning is now. I feel so sorry for Fanning."

He heard what the little girls said and stood still.

After a few minutes, he slowly continued walking, crossed a street, came to a coffee shop, ordered a cup of coffee, and sat down to drink it.

His eyes gradually moved to the bookshelf next to the coffee shop, on which were rows of comics. Fanning walked over and saw "Sleepman" as expected, so he took it down and started reading.

To him, comics are not just something. He can get a lot of information from them, which is sometimes often overlooked by others. But to him, he knows more, so he sees more.

Fanning really wanted to find this person named "Yuan" recently, however, he never met him again in City C.

After about a month, he finally understood one thing thoroughly.

The few times he met Yuan before, it was actually Ji Qiu who cheated on him...

...That's absolutely true.

When the male protagonist just starts out, he will always encounter things that ordinary people would not encounter in a normal environment, no matter how weak he is.

How come Prince Naruto meets Orochimaru, one of the Three Ninjas, when he takes the Chunin Exam? How come Xiaojie meets a man who can defeat the enemy Hakka family when he goes out to find a father? Even Chi-sensei can meet a legendary Pokémon when he just starts out...

These things seem very normal, after all, they are all "chance encounters" with great masters. But why don't ordinary people encounter a great master every day?

Before this, he had always been a novice Taoist priest. To the entire spiritual world hidden in the dark, he was just a rookie who had just mastered a few Taoist arts.

According to a very common path for a Taoist priest in his sect, he would probably become a formal Taoist priest at the age of thirty, perform some deeds of slaying demons and exorcising monsters at the age of forty, become a master of the sect at the age of fifty, and become an elder of the sect at the age of sixty...

And when he is seventy years old, if he is not dead by then... then he will meet the first big monster in his life.

And that big monster is most likely not a particularly powerful big monster, it is more likely that he was a little monster he knew when he was young and turned into a big monster. At that time, he was very old, and the big monster was in his prime.

This is the life path of more than 80 percent of Taoists, except for a few perverted monsters.

Yes. It is so difficult to encounter a big monster. In fact, most of the monsters in the monster world have already lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests and no longer appear. Only when he is seventy years old, maybe he can get a glimpse of a big monster.

He had only recently realized all of this. For him, the days before were very confusing, until the sect was destroyed a few days ago, which was like a heavy blow to him.

He felt that he had been unlucky ever since he was chosen as the male lead. Thinking about it this way, Ji Qiu actually gave him such a cheat, which was really... useless.

Hey, why is the male protagonist in the picture so handsome? Is this still him?

He stared at the picture of Fanning in "Demon Records" for a long time, and carefully identified it several times, but he couldn't realize that the person was himself.

Shit... He just felt uncomfortable for a while, why did the effect on paper look so childish...

While he was in a daze, a girl came over to serve him coffee. Seeing the comic in Fanning's hand, she suddenly smiled and said, "Hey, are you reading this too?"

"Ah... yes." He nodded.

"The protagonist of this comic is so handsome in the second volume. Don't be fooled by his unsophisticated appearance in the first volume. It becomes interesting later on." The waitress said, "I think he has become more and more handsome recently, especially after he prepared for revenge. His temperament is completely different."

...He listened to the waitress talking and nodded silently.

Although the waitress meant well, I always felt like something was not right.

Never mind. The public’s expectations are sometimes…very deep.

He silently complained in his heart, "When you read comics back then, didn't you want to see the protagonist being abused and then rising up? This is the price to pay, these are sins that need to be atonement, Amen."

So he opened the comic... and prepared to imagine more chuuni scenes.

Damn, I feel like Yuan's character has a higher fashion sense than him, like one person changing the outcome of a war, even though it seems a bit ridiculous, but this fashion sense is really unique.

I must defeat him, otherwise the protagonist will be outshined by the supporting actor in the next voting competition, which will be very funny.

He is just a lowly Taoist priest, so it's really hard for him to play such supporting roles and big bosses.

Let’s talk about Yuan first. The big monsters in the ancient times should have been raised in the deep mountains and old forests. No one knew where Ji Qiu dug him out from... If such a big monster stood in front of him, he would be scared to death every minute. Now it actually becomes his boss. He feels like he is the lamb that was forced to be sacrificed.

Maybe his only weakness is young ladies... If I'm not mistaken, he's a cross-dresser...

There are also those monsters without names, such as the male monster in white clothes who is very fierce in fighting. Although this person doesn’t even have a name now, he strongly suspects that he is also a big monster.

As a male protagonist, he seems to be lacking a gay friend...

If that powerful white-clothed monster really is his best friend, if you think about it carefully, it seems that it is not bad... Then the white-clothed monster can push the tower in the front, and he can be a chicken in the back and cheer for him.

…

Yuan Yuanyuan asked Tang Shi, "What is your father doing here?"

"Nothing, he just came to visit you." Tang Shi waved his hands, "I used to cause trouble to others... He was probably afraid that I would cause trouble again."

"...How much of a troublemaker are you?" Yuan Yuanyuan waved her hand and said, "Go upstairs and do your homework. I'll clean the first floor."

Tang Shi's father came just now, but he didn't do anything. He just sat quietly for a while, drank a cup of tea, and then left quickly. Yuan Yuanyuan didn't even try to keep him.

All he said to Yuan Yuanyuan was to thank her for helping to look after his daughter. Yuan Yuanyuan nodded as she listened, then poured him some tea and treated him to some flower cakes that she had bought from the monster stall next door.

Yuan Yuanyuan didn't take it too seriously. After all, it wasn't easy for her parents. A girl of her age always stayed at her place. If it were her, she would come over to see him too.

She swept the dust in the house, then leaned on the corridor in front of the door, looked at the clean house, and drank a sip of tea comfortably.

This tea was brought from the tavern...it was real good tea, with the aroma of fresh flowers.

She looked at the tree in the yard.

Ever since she almost learned the art of blindness a while ago... this tree has been bald by her.

At this moment, she suddenly felt something vibrate in her chest.

Yuan Yuanyuan took out the thing and found it was the small mirror that the white-robed witch had given her. She sent a message to Yuan Yuanyuan, "Please be careful, a group of people are heading towards you."

"Huh? What monster is coming? Do we need to fight?" Yuan Yuanyuan replied.

"Not really..." The woman in white seemed to be hesitant to speak, "He is a subordinate of a high-ranking elder in the city."

As she was speaking, Yuan Yuanyuan smelled an evil aura.

She turned her head and saw another monster walking in from the gate of her courtyard.

"Is that Yuan?" The monster looked down at Yuan Yuanyuan who was half lying in the corridor. "Please come with me."

Yuan Yuanyuan was a little confused.

She thought...is this the subordinate of that high-ranking official?

Just when she was thinking about whether to leave, Yuan Yuanyuan's chest suddenly shook again, and she took a quick look.

"If he asks you to go with him, please ignore him. That senior elder does not agree with us."

Yuan Yuanyuan thought to herself, do you guys still have factions when it comes to this stuff...

She raised her eyes to look at the monster in front of her, and gently moved her body to half-lean on the corridor.

Although I don't quite understand what's going on...but I'd rather not leave than go, because who knows where I'll be taken if I leave.

Her black hair fell around her ears. Yuan Yuanyuan was lying on her side, looking at the monster in front of her. She felt like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water.

She stared at him with dead fish eyes, using the same words she used when she refused a fight in high school, "If you have anything to say, just say it here. If you can't explain it clearly here, don't say it."

See? Although I was a little scared in my heart, I definitely didn't show it on my face.

Who the hell is fighting? In high school, only idiots fought.

…

When the Saturday issue of "Yoki" was updated, many people opened the comic and read the plot.

[Yuan, who has not been seen for a long time, appears in the comics again. He is not like the usual spies... He looks very leisurely. In the middle of winter, he is basking in the warm sunlight.

A monster with a wicked look was standing in front of him, his eyes were half closed, as if he was half asleep and half awake.

The wind blew gently, and his bangs swayed slightly, which seemed to wake him up and made him open his eyes slightly.

"Is that you? Please come with me."

"You...if you have anything to say, just say it here." He closed his eyes again, as if he didn't care about anything that happened. "If there's something that can't be explained clearly here, then don't say it."】