“Why so polite tonight?”
Deng Tianyu smiled, and drained the full cup of Peach Blossom Wine in one gulp.
“Was I?” The big loli Li Shishi’s starry eyes flickered a few times before she topped up his cup again.
Deng Tianyu, however, didn’t continue drinking. He brought out the now-steamed Fire Crab leg slices.
Then he took out a secret dipping sauce, divided it into three portions, and placed them all on the stone table.
“Ah-woo…”
The little fox, who had just been poisoned by the previous dish, couldn’t wait. She used her paw to snag a piece of Fire Crab leg slice, dipped it in the sauce, and put it into her mouth.
Instantly, an incredibly fresh and delicious flavor exploded on her taste buds, making her narrow her eyes in bliss, her furry tail wagging non-stop.
Just this one slice of Fire Crab leg was enough to heal all the damage from before.
“Yingying!” The little fox used both paws simultaneously, leaving afterimages as she quickly ate one piece after another.
Fortunately, the Fire Crab portions were generous. Otherwise, those few swipes would have completely wiped it out.
Seeing this, the big loli Li Shishi didn’t lag behind and immediately joined the fray.
The moment the Fire Crab leg slice entered her mouth, her beautiful eyes lit up. “Fire Crab meat is so deliciously fresh!”
Deng Tianyu sighed emotionally. “This is why so many cultivators like to go to Crimson Flame Mountain!”
It was also a good thing that Crimson Flame Mountain was filled with scorching Flame Snakes; otherwise, the Fire Crabs would probably have been eaten to extinction long ago.
“Senior Brother, let me toast you.”
While enjoying the delicacy, the big loli Li Shishi didn’t forget her purpose for tonight.
This was the first step to conquering Senior Brother. If the first step failed right at the start, how would she ever conquer him later?
Therefore, this first step not only had to be done well, but it had to be done without Senior Brother noticing a thing!
“Mhm.”
Deng Tianyu nodded and clinked his cup with hers.
“Yingying!”
Just as he was about to down it, the little fox Yingying beside him immediately raised her own cup with both paws, looking at him with a face full of anticipation.
Deng Tianyu smiled slightly, clinked cups with her too, then drained his Peach Blossom Wine.
After one cupful, Li Shishi’s pretty face was quickly smeared with a layer of alluring blush.
The little fox Yingying, having already had several cups to start with, plus this one, immediately let out a burp.
“Senior Brother, I toast you again.”
For her plan, Li Shishi refilled both her cup and Deng Tianyu’s and raised it again.
“Yingying!”
The little fox beside her wasn’t about to be left out. She also raised her cup, afraid that falling behind might make her miss out.
Deng Tianyu didn’t refuse, and once again clinked cups with the person and the fox, draining his own.
“Senior Brother, one cup to toast the moonlight, one cup to toast you!”
“Senior Brother, one cup to toast the past, one cup again to toast you!”
“Senior Brother, one cup to toast tomorrow, one cup still to toast you!”
“…”
As cup after cup went down, not only was Li Shishi’s pretty face bright red, her beautiful eyes were filled with a dazed, hazy look, and even the breath she exhaled carried the rich fragrance of peach blossoms.
Deng Tianyu looked at her with a strange expression.
What’s this? She’s drunk, and now she’s reciting song lyrics?
“One cup to toast the moonlight, one cup to toast the past?”
Clearly, at this moment, Li Shishi was thoroughly drunk. She probably couldn’t even remember her own surname!
But the big loli still remembered the plan to conquer Senior Brother tonight. It seemed to have become instinct.
“Shishi, you’re drunk!”
Deng Tianyu sighed deeply and stopped her from drinking any more.
Although a bit of Peach Blossom Wine wouldn’t really affect cultivators, drinking like this was still too much.
Out of three full barrels, nearly seven were already empty, with the remaining one nearly bottomed out, which showed how much they’d drunk.
“Hehe… Senior Brother, you’re joking. How could I be drunk… burp!”
“This cup toasts our seclusion-bound Shizun. Come on, Senior Brother~”
The big loli Li Shishi giggled coyly and raised her cup again, topping off “Deng Tianyu’s” cup as well.
“Ying~ ying… burp!”
The little fox Yingying raised her newly filled cup and swayed unsteadily as she clinked it with hers.
Clearly, she was also drunk — so drunk that the cup in front of her eyes seemed to have multiplied into several, and she kept missing her mouth.
“Drunk people always say they’re not drunk.”
“Hmm, drunk foxes are the same.”
Deng Tianyu shook his head helplessly. His True Essence surged, and he extracted the Peach Blossom Wine from their cups, drinking it on their behalf.
His alcohol tolerance was terrifyingly good. This little bit of Peach Blossom Wine didn’t even give him a hint of tipsiness.
“Eh? I haven’t even drunk it yet. How did the wine disappear?”
“Yingying (Puzzled)?”
The person and the fox looked at each other in confusion. Dizzy and disoriented, they couldn’t figure out what had happened.
“You’ve drunk, you’ve eaten. Time to go back and rest!”
Deng Tianyu scooped up the little fox, tucking her into his robes, and carried Li Shishi princess-style in his other arm, heading towards the room.
Entering the big loli’s chamber, he helped her take off her small, elegant shoes and gently laid her down. He pulled the blanket over her and was about to leave.
But unexpectedly, Li Shishi clung tightly to his arm, unwilling to let go, mumbling, “Shi~xiong, don’t go… I want to hear a story!”
“What kind of story?” Deng Tianyu paused and asked instinctively.
“Anything will do. Just like when Senior Brother coaxed me to sleep when we were little.”
Li Shishi was like a sticky little kitten, desperately burrowing into his arms, rubbing her flawless, delicate oval face against him.
Hearing her say this, Deng Tianyu couldn’t help but recall their childhood days.
Back then, Li Shishi was just as adorably silly, but she was full of energy every day and always loved clinging to him, begging for stories.
With no other choice, Deng Tianyu mashed together anime, TV shows, and novels from his past life, and told them all to her.
For example, “Grey Wolf, Who Could Never Catch a Goat,” “The Famous Detective Conan, Wherever He Goes, Someone Dies,” and “Wukong’s Fall to Darkness: Slaughtering Immortals and Annihilating Buddhas.”
Of course, Deng Tianyu adapted the backgrounds to fit this world.
For instance, Grey Wolf was the Wolf King of the Demon Race, Pleasant Goat was one of the goats from Goat Village in the Goat Clan, and the Wolf King could never catch the Goat Clan’s goats.
Conan was a famed detective of a royal dynasty’s Six Fan Gate, who was shrunk by a special pill. Wherever he went, murders occurred, but with him and his fiancée’s father there, they could always resolve them.
Wukong was a Great Sage of the Demon Race. Unwilling to become a chess piece in the games of two major powers, he was forced to fall into darkness, vowing to slaughter all gods and Buddhas of the heavens.
As his thoughts swirled, Deng Tianyu transformed into a professional storyteller and began weaving a tale.
“Then let me tell you a story called ‘Naraku’s Fallen Love for the Miko.'”
“Legend has it, in a certain unknown world, there was an immensely powerful innate spirit treasure called the Shikon no Tama…”
As he spoke, the scene gradually unfolded. Li Shishi was completely absorbed in it, her breathing rising and falling with the twists and turns of the story, sometimes holding her breath, sometimes quickening.
After a long while, the little fox in Deng Tianyu’s arms started breathing evenly. He was still narrating.
He didn’t notice that Li Shishi’s eyes were no longer dark brown, but a demonic red.
Listening to the warm, gentle voice in her ear, she simply snuggled against the chest of the person before her, greedily breathing in that familiar scent, revealing an extremely sickly smile.
