The Hehuan Sect Enchantress’s Short-Lived Spirit Pet 17

Chapter 017: Scared to Tears

Ji Zhu wished she could scratch her a couple of times. She had never seen such a lazy person!

It was one thing for her not to tidy up her own things and leave them in a mess, but to actually want a cat to help her clean up!

Just as she was about to bare her teeth, Jiang Bai suddenly stuffed another candy bean into her mouth and said with a smile, “The food I give you in the future will be your wages.”

The sweet candy bean melted in her mouth. Ji Zhu: “???”

She looked at the enchantress with a bewildered and shocked expression. Even Zhou Bapi wasn’t as good at exploiting people as she was!

(TN) : 周扒皮 (Zhōu Bāpí): A famously cruel and exploitative landlord character from a modern Chinese novel and subsequent film, “The Midnight Rooster Crow.” 

Jiang Bai rubbed her head, pressing her little ears down and letting them spring back up. She said slowly, “Otherwise, you’ll eat for free? I, Jiang Bai, don’t raise idle beasts.”

Ji Zhu: “…”

She took a deep breath and tried to force a smile at Jiang Bai.

When you’re under someone else’s roof, how can you not bow your head?

She understood, she understood it all.

But still—so angry ahhhhhh!

Damn enchantress! She’s even exploiting a weak and helpless cat like me! Truly inhumane!

Xia Ye’s junior sister took a bite of her chicken leg, tentatively pointed at Ji Zhu’s fluffed-up tail, and said in a small voice, “She looks like she’s about to be angered to death by you.”

“Is that so?” Jiang Bai raised an eyebrow and smiled faintly. “It’s fine. A little thing like her, if she dies from anger, I can still raise many more.”

Xia Ye’s junior sister was choked and didn’t dare to say anything more.

And Ji Zhu, hearing Jiang Bai’s words, almost ground her teeth to dust. She had never seen anyone as malicious as Jiang Bai!

She even bullies a little cat! And she doesn’t care if I live or die!

Hearing her say that she could raise many more if she died from anger, Ji Zhu was truly angry this time. She angrily shook her head to get rid of the mischievous hand on her head and ran to hug Qiong Yin’s calf instead.

Staying with Qiong Yin, she was in a happy mood and could live a long life.

Staying with the enchantress, not only would her life be shortened, but she was also worried that she would get breast nodules from anger.

But… do cats get breast nodules?

Ji Zhu lay on Qiong Yin’s lap, a little puzzled. Soon, she stopped thinking about it and instead yawned, starting to get sleepy again.

Qiong Yin’s hand stroked her gently, and she said with a warm smile, “Little Cat, it seems I’ve never seen you lick your fur.”

Ji Zhu was choked. She glanced at her fur. Although she liked her fur very much, she wasn’t a real cat. To ask her to lick her fur with her tongue, sorry, she really couldn’t do it.

“Your fur is getting longer and longer now. If you don’t groom it diligently, it will get tangled easily,” Qiong Yin’s fingers helped her smooth her fur. The soft and smooth fur brushed past her fingertips, as if stroking a piece of fine, warm jade.

Ji Zhu was speechless. She really couldn’t be diligent about that.

In the distance, Jiang Bai watched Ji Zhu angrily run to find Qiong Yin, and then watched their harmonious interaction, feeling that her candy beans might have been fed to a dog.

“Jealous?” Xia Ye’s junior sister said in a small voice.

A gentle smile appeared on Jiang Bai’s face. The mole at the corner of her eye added two points of charm to her already enchanting face. Her voice was light and soft. “Hmm? What did you say?”

Xia Ye’s junior sister shivered and smiled sheepishly, moving a little further away from Jiang Bai. She muttered in her heart, wondering why this person got angry so easily, and with a smiling tiger-like appearance!

Jiang Bai retracted her gaze and glanced at the little cat that was lazily flicking its tail. Her eyes turned slightly cold.

Such an ungrateful little thing, and I’m jealous?

How ridiculous.

**

Two days later, the group arrived in Wu City. They chose an inn with a relatively quiet environment to stay in, not planning to continue their journey for the time being, but to wait for Su Xin and the others to return.

During the wait, the others would go out to stroll and experience the local customs. Only Jiang Bai! She stayed in her room all day, and no one knew what she was doing. Even her meals were delivered to her room!

Ji Zhu stared resentfully at Jiang Bai, who was sitting by the window, her heart filled with indignation!

It’s one thing for her not to go out herself, but she won’t let me out either! Not even with Qiong Yin!

Ji Zhu felt that she was so angry that her heart was filled with exclamation marks condemning the enchantress!

Jiang Bai stared at the well in the courtyard, her heart hesitating. How badly was Su Xin injured to be delayed for so many days?

Moreover, there’s Xia Ye from the Medicine King Valley with her.

Seeing that she wasn’t paying attention to her, Ji Zhu tiptoed towards the door. Looking at the closed door, she was a little conflicted about how to open it. Biting it was definitely out of the question. As for her paws…

She turned her head to sneak a peek at Jiang Bai. Seeing that her attention was still outside the window, she tentatively stretched out her paw and scratched the corner of the door. The sound of her nails scraping against the door panel was faint. Ji Zhu’s heart tightened. Hearing no movement from Jiang Bai’s side, she forced herself to calm down and scratched again.

This time, she used a bit more force, and the sound of her paw slipping and scraping against the door panel was much louder. Ji Zhu was extremely guilty this time. She quietly turned her head to check on Jiang Bai’s reaction—Jiang Bai was already squatting silently behind her!

“!”

“Meow!” A ghost!

Ji Zhu was so scared she jumped up, looking at Jiang Bai with a terrified expression, completely unaware of when she had appeared behind her and how long she had been watching!

Seeing the little cat so scared that its fur stood on end and it jumped up, Jiang Bai propped her chin and looked disapproving. She frowned and said, “With such little courage, you still dare to run around?”

Ji Zhu was so scared that apart from the initial cry, she couldn’t make a sound. She could only stare at her with a dazed expression.

Jiang Bai’s brows furrowed. Looking at her dazed appearance, a trace of urgency flashed in her eyes. Could she have been scared out of her wits by me?

She quickly picked Ji Zhu up, her spiritual energy flowing through her body to check her condition. When she found that her courage was still intact, she breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time, she felt a certain indescribable complexity.

She couldn’t understand why Ji Zhu’s courage was so small. She had just suddenly appeared behind her. Besides, she was her master, not a villain. Yet, she had reacted as if she had seen a ghost.

Using her spiritual energy to slowly soothe her tense muscles, she sighed in her heart at how weak a thing she had raised. If this were on a battlefield, with her terrified and dazed appearance, she would have died countless times over.

The gentle spiritual energy flowed through her body, and Ji Zhu slowly came back to her senses. Looking at the enchantress’s beautiful and enchanting face, she suddenly couldn’t hold it in anymore and burst into tears, her eyes filled with tears, looking particularly miserable and pitiful.

Jiang Bai: “…”

Seeing her cry, Jiang Bai was instantly at a loss. She placed Ji Zhu on the table and took out a handkerchief to wipe her tears. But halfway through, seeing her crying so fiercely, she paused, and finally, she awkwardly withdrew her hand.

Making her own spirit pet cry didn’t seem to be something to be proud of.

Ji Zhu cried until she was sobbing. She lowered her head and wiped her tears on her paw, staring at the enchantress, feeling extremely wronged.

Anyone would be scared to death if they saw something appear behind them like a ghost! A suddenly enlarged face, Ji Zhu still felt a lingering fear just thinking about it now.

Seeing her like this, Jiang Bai touched the tip of her nose and finally took out a handful of candy beans and held them out to her. “Here, consider it compensation.”

Even with her malicious nature, she didn’t think that scaring her spirit pet to tears was a glorious thing.

Ji Zhu slapped her hand away. The dark brown candy beans rolled onto the floor like pearls, making a series of thudding sounds.

Jiang Bai: “…”

Her temper seems to be getting bigger and bigger.