Chapter 57
Chapter 57
“You hit me again, you vile woman?” Mo Chen’s fists clenched. He desperately reminded himself that if Yun Jianyue slapped him, he would be fine, but if he slapped Yun Jianyue, she would drop dead on the spot. Then they would truly perish together.
In the end, Mo Chen endured it once more.
Yun Jianyue turned to Zhou Ruyan. “Sister, if I wanted to kill him, there’d be no reason to bring him back here for you. As a temporary employee of the Paranormal Bureau, I do have professional ethics.”
“Why would a temporary employee need professional ethics?” Lu Changxue shot back with perfect accuracy. “The main problem is that you have no ethics, Darling.”
Excellent. Yun Jianyue gave Lu Changxue a hefty slap across the nose as well, sending Lu Changxue back into the jade pendant with a series of pitiful whimpers.
Yun Jianyue continued maintaining her serious-person persona. “Given your situation, Sister, you and your husband should report this to the Paranormal Bureau. You have to trust the country. The country will stand up for every snake living on this land… Well, every person too.”
Zhou Ruyan clearly did not believe her. “If we report it, he’ll be arrested, won’t he?”
“It’s hard to say he won’t be. After all, he just attacked me, a public official.” Yun Jianyue pointed at herself.
If a ghost wasn’t going to be mouthy, then someone else would be. Zhou Benxin piped up, “Senior, aren’t you a temporary employee? How exactly does that make you a public official?”
That made three. Zhou Benxin also received a hefty slap across the nose.
Yun Jianyue shook her aching hand and continued, “Sister, your husband hasn’t actually done anything wrong yet. There’s still room to turn things around. Once he really does something wrong, there’ll be no undoing it. Mrs. Chu, you wouldn’t want your husband to lose his freedom as a monster, would you?”
“Can you turn my husband back into a human so I can discuss it with him?” Zhou Ruyan asked.
Yun Jianyue gave Mo Chen a meaningful look. Mo Chen truly did not want to cooperate with her, but when he saw her winking and gesturing at him, he decided that staring at her any longer might make him die of anger. He simply lifted the restriction on Chu Wenxu, if only to stop Yun Jianyue from making those faces at him.
The restriction vanished, and Chu Wenxu transformed back into human form in Zhou Ruyan’s arms. The tall man appeared abruptly, pressing Zhou Ruyan completely into the soft sofa.
Chu Wenxu hurriedly supported Zhou Ruyan, holding his waist and abdomen ramrod straight so he would not press on her belly.
The man on top, the woman beneath him, a handsome man and a beautiful woman entangled on the sofa…
Yun Jianyue covered her eyes, leaving a huge gap between her fingers as she shamelessly watched. “Sister, Brother-in-law, I know you two are very much in love, but could you hold off on that for now? Zhou Benxin is still a child!”
Chu Wenxu and Zhou Ruyan’s cheeks instantly turned bright red. Chu Wenxu, a thousand-year-old snake demon, actually scrambled off the sofa in a panic. It took him several minutes to look even remotely composed.
Zhou Ruyan sat up straight as well, sitting on the sofa with the demeanor of a proper lady. Her eyes, however, darted everywhere as she avoided looking directly at anyone.
“Are you really giving us one night to discuss this? Aren’t you afraid I’ll run away with my wife?” Chu Wenxu did not believe Yun Jianyue could be so kind. After all, he had just wanted to kill her.
Yun Jianyue pointed at Mo Chen. “You have a wife, and my husband has a wife too! Do you think you can run away with your wife while my husband won’t come after you with his wife?”
Chu Wenxu was left speechless.
“Besides, as a saintly person, I have to fulfill my duty and try to persuade you. The thing that told you killing me would help you save your sister-surely you don’t actually think it’s trustworthy, do you?”
Yun Jianyue continued, “Brother-in-law, the country is the backbone of every citizen… and every demon, monster, and ghost. You and Sister should think it over carefully. Which one is truly more worthy of your trust?”
With that, Yun Jianyue swaggered back to the guest room, flopped onto the bed, and fell into a carefree sleep.
The living room lights stayed on all night.
When Yun Jianyue woke up the next day, she found Mo Chen holding her phone and scrolling through short videos.
“You took my phone? You were snooping through my private information, weren’t you?” Yun Jianyue snatched the phone back, only to discover that Mo Chen was currently watching a video about trimming a donkey’s hooves.
Sure enough, no one could resist watching donkey hoof-trimming videos, not even the Evil God.
The Evil God crooked a finger, and the phone flew back into his hand. “A married couple is one entity. Your phone is my phone.”
Yun Jianyue: …
Sure enough, the words people say always come back to hit them. Sooner or later, they end up stabbing you in the back.
Just then, Zhou Benxin knocked on her door and asked her to come out for breakfast.
Chu Wenxu was just as respectable a househusband as he had been when they first met the day before. Wearing an apron, he carried breakfast to the table and helped Zhou Ruyan over to eat.
When he saw Yun Jianyue and Zhou Benxin, he smiled at them warmly.
Lu Changxue said, “I feel like we’ve somehow gone back to yesterday.”
Yun Jianyue immediately dug in. Once Zhou Benxin and Zhou Ruyan had both stopped eating, she swept up everything that remained.
After everyone finished eating, Chu Wenxu went to clean up the kitchen again.
Once he was done, Chu Wenxu removed his apron and said calmly to Yun Jianyue, “Should we go to the Paranormal Bureau in City A or City B?”
“Let’s follow the principle of proximity. I’ll call the bureau. My sister isn’t in any condition to travel, so I’ll have them come here and handle it directly.” Yun Jianyue did not care in the slightest about her colleagues’ well-being. She was only a temporary employee anyway, and technically belonged to City A.
An hour later, people from the City B Paranormal Bureau arrived.
After they saw the Evil God in the house, the entire City B Paranormal Bureau arrived within another hour.
In the end, everyone realized they couldn’t beat the Evil God. Since he was Yun Jianyue’s summoned beast anyway, they simply gave up on the idea of arresting him and focused on dealing with Chu Wenxu’s situation.
“We’ve basically learned the details of your situation with Ms. Zhou. If you don’t mind, Mr. Chu, could you cooperate with us while we verify whether you’ve ever killed anyone?” a Paranormal Bureau colleague asked.
They had a special magical artifact that could determine whether a monster or evil spirit had ever killed anyone. If it had, the artifact would refract red light, and the more people it had killed, the deeper the red would be.
If it had never killed anyone, the artifact would refract blue light. The purer and kinder the monster or evil spirit, the deeper the blue would be.
“Of course. Sorry to trouble you.” Chu Wenxu was extremely cooperative.
He infused the artifact with demonic power. It flickered with a faint blue light that was almost impossible to see.
He hadn’t killed anyone, but he wasn’t exactly a good monster either.
Chu Wenxu still wore that gentle expression. “I’m sorry. My nature really is quite awful.”
The Paranormal Bureau colleagues were practically losing their minds. What respectable monster politely admitted that its nature was awful?
Lord Evil God let out another disdainful click of his tongue. “Monsters are foolish too.”
For the sake of so-called love, Chu Wenxu had suppressed his instincts and refused to harm humans, even wrapping himself up in a gentle, polite exterior. If that wasn’t foolish, what was?
Yun Jianyue raised her hand high, looking ready to give Mo Chen another hard slap.
Mo Chen caught her by the wrist. “Are you ever going to stop? You’re not a monster, so why are you taking it personally?”
“It’s because of the way you talk. You always sound so punchable that I can’t help myself.” Yun Jianyue had neither reason nor shame on her side, yet she was completely self-righteous.
The Paranormal Bureau colleague asked timidly, “Um, Comrade Yun, can we continue?”
Yun Jianyue waved her hand. “Go ahead. Don’t mind us.”
Another hour passed before the Paranormal Bureau personnel hurried to the restroom for a secret meeting.
In the end, the Paranormal Bureau decided to confiscate Chu Wenxu’s illegally obtained identity card. Chu Wenxu would go to the Paranormal Bureau to submit the missing documents and obtain a legal identity card. Considering Chu Wenxu and Zhou Ruyan’s seven lifetimes of love, as well as Zhou Ruyan’s identity as a snake woman, the Paranormal Bureau would not force them to separate.
However, Chu Wenxu had still violated Paranormal Bureau regulations. To make amends, he would have to work as a temporary employee at the City B Paranormal Bureau for fifty years, without pay.
As for the Serpent Fetus endangering Zhou Ruyan’s life, Yun Jianyue shamelessly asked Mo Chen for a wisp of the Evil God’s Power.
Whenever the Serpent Fetus began to rampage, they would inject a trace of the Evil God’s Power into Zhou Ruyan.
Everyone got what they wanted. It was a happy ending.
After seeing the Paranormal Bureau personnel off, Chu Wenxu returned home. The moment he opened the door, a chainsaw that was already revving was thrust straight at him.
“Miss Yun?” Chu Wenxu reacted with astonishing speed and took a step backward. Otherwise, the chainsaw would already have disemboweled him!
Yun Jianyue smiled sweetly, like a devil. “Brother-in-law, I’ve finished playing the saint. Now it’s time for me to avenge the grudge I hold against you for trying to kill me. Don’t worry. You’re a thousand-year-old snake demon, so I can’t kill you. I’ll only take one swing at you, and then we’ll be even!”
Inside the house, Zhou Benxin was supporting Zhou Ruyan as they stood behind Yun Jianyue. Zhou Ruyan’s face was full of worry, and she hesitantly said, “Honey, maybe you should run. Yueyue looks pretty terrifying.”
“Of course, Brother-in-law, you’re perfectly welcome to run. The Evil God’s Power is still in my hands, so go ahead!” Yun Jianyue put on an expression of perfect reasonableness.
Chu Wenxu: “…My wife is still here. How the hell am I supposed to run?”
In the end, Chu Wenxu took one chainsaw strike from Yun Jianyue. Blood splattered everywhere, creating a horrifying scene. But the recovery ability of a thousand-year-old snake demon was no joke. He had completely healed in just over ten minutes.
In the end, Chu Wenxu was the one who cleaned up the pool of blood.
Yun Jianyue also played fair. After taking one swing with the chainsaw, she handed Chu Wenxu the Evil God’s Power, which had been stored in a bottle.
That fellow Mo Chen had mysteriously disappeared again at some point. Yun Jianyue couldn’t be bothered to worry about him. She drove back to City A with Zhou Benxin.
The evening of December 31.
Couples’ Lake at University A.
Yun Jianyue opened her New Year’s gift. The moment she saw what was inside the box, her proud expression-management system malfunctioned.
“So, Show-Off King, you traveled all this way to give me a New Year’s gift, and you brought me a duck?”
Not the kind of duck who worked in the sex industry. This was a real duck: a tiny, golden-yellow duck who looked weak, pitiful, helpless, and quacked.
The Innocent Show-Off King quietly blushed at the tips of his ears. “You don’t like it?”
Yun Jianyue was silent for a long time before finally giving him a polite answer. “This duck looks like something I’d really enjoy eating. It might just be enough to get stuck between my teeth.”
Si Wuming: “…It’s a monster. You can’t eat it.”
Yun Jianyue lifted the duck in her palm a little higher and stared eye to eye with the tiny duck. “A monster? This?”
The little duck said, “Quack.”
“It’s very powerful.” Si Wuming nodded seriously.
“I believe you.” Yun Jianyue nodded too, then casually stuffed the duck into the pocket of her down jacket.
Si Wuming fell into his usual silence. He had come all this way just to give Yun Jianyue a duck.
Looking at Si Wuming’s bright-red ears, Yun Jianyue couldn’t help letting out a long sigh. “Show-Off King, if you keep acting like this, I’m really going to start wondering whether you like me.”