Chapter 641: Chapter 400 Su Xiaoxiao: I Originally Lived on Qiantang Mountain (Part 2)
Within the Taiching Four Mansions, a secluded and tranquil pavilion’s second floor.
Crack—!
The night rain and slanting wind battered against the firmly shut carved wooden windows.
Inside the room, the sound of knocking on the window would sotis be loud and then soft.
Occasionally chaotic, occasionally rhythmic.
As if soone was outside, knocking on the window shutters.
A little fox demon girl leapt barefoot from her bed, clutching her blanket, and scurried to the window where she cautiously pushed it open.
Spatter-splash—!
The sound of rain and thunder suddenly amplified, and the rainwater slanted inward.
Under the odd glares of her fellow young sisters peeking out from their beddings.
Su Xiaoxiao, in her pink bellyband, had a look of both fear and anticipation on her face as she carefully popped her head with its slanting hairdo out of the window to peer outside…
The fox girls: “…”
What in heaven’s na was this young lady up to?
They were full of question marks.
But before the fox girls could ponder further, they saw Su Xiaoxiao retract her head in disappointnt, biting her lip and with a look of dejection as she closed the window again.
The damp hair at the temple and bangs of the little fox demon stuck to her fair forehead.
But Su Xiaoxiao did not mind these things, sighing as she turned around to walk back.
So of her fox sisters couldn’t hold back their curiosity, even disregarding the need to pretend to be imrsed in “studying,” as they blurted out:
“Little… Xiaoxiao, what are you doing?”
The air quieted for a mont.
As Su Xiaoxiao walked back to the bed, tilting her head, she said:
“Who is, knocking on my window?” Her tone was both serious and puzzled.
“…”
The entire room fell dead silent.
Are you kidding? Is this the kind of stunt a silicon-based fox demon could pull off? How did our Qiantang Mountain Fox Clan get soone like you?
However, to so of the fox girls, Su Xiaoxiao’s out-of-the-blue remark sparked an entirely different feeling.
They unconsciously shrank further into their blankets, daring only to reveal a pair of eyes, gazing toward the window that Su Xiaoxiao had just opened.
Why does the atmosphere feel a bit eerie now…
Damn it, who would co knocking on the window in the middle of the night? Don’t scare us.
Little did Su Xiaoxiao know that the odd words she ntioned, inspired by Zhao Lang, stirred various thoughts among the fox girls.
The little fox demon returned to her bed with a look of dejection and curled up, listening silently to the slanted rainwater as it resud its tapping against the window.
She rembered, back at Zhongnan Mountain, how her courtyard was right next to Zhao Lang’s.
Sotis, when he got hungry in the middle of the night reading books, he would jump over the wall without taking the regular path, knock on her window, and call her, who loved to sleep in, to wake up and make him the newly learned Zhongnan specialty, sweet osmanthus cake…
Zhao Lang must still be the sa as before, staying up all night reading if not sleeping or checking the seamstress work with Xiaoxiao, and now if he ever got hungry in the middle of the night, what would he eat? Hmm, and what about those anxious monts? Without Xiaoxiao by his side, he must be suffering, right? No one to help air his little blanket for sleep, his life all in shambles… Su Xiaoxiao buried her little head deeper, feeling a sense of emptiness and unease in her heart.
Like a little kitten separated from its shovel-wielding guardian, lost and without its pillar, it would pace around in place, not daring to stray too far, waiting to be picked up again.
At that mont, one of the fox girls let out a gentle cough, breaking the weird atmosphere in the room.
“Ahem, it must be the rain. No one is knocking on our windows. Xiaoxiao, you should go to sleep early, stop making a fuss.”
“Oh.” Su Xiaoxiao replied quietly, thought for a mont, and then casually ntioned, “You guys should also sleep early, stop reading under the covers, it’s bad for your eyes. You can go to the desk instead.”
After these words, the air in the room once again fell into dead silence.
A fox sister grumbled with feigned annoyance:
“I had just fallen asleep when you, little rascal, woke up…”
“Yeah, Xiaoxiao, you can be so nervy sotis.”
“…How am I supposed to sleep with all this commotion…”
The fox girls each added a few words, then fell silent once more.
The room quieted down again.
One by one, steady and rhythmic breathing sounds slowly resud.
Who knows if they were genuinely asleep or still silently striving in their cultivation, contending to be the “studious” ones.
Speaking of which, a certain “slacker” fox demon was indeed too “anti-studious.”
The little fox girls in the room stayed up late, woke up early, diligently cultivating, dressing up beautifully before going out, and always kept an eye on their peers, always striving to be the best.
But Su Xiaoxiao, as long as she had no morning chores, would sleep until she naturally woke up, and only when the sun shone on her buttocks would she get up drowsily, clutch her blanket close, rub the corners of her eyes, and with a bare face go out to air the blanket, bouncing around to get so exercise… And then by evening, when the others were just starting their nightlife, she’d be yawning, turning off the lights and crawling back under her blanket to continue sleeping.
And what a waste of such a pretty face; since she arrived in the Taiching Four Mansions, she was rarely seen made up. Only when it seed she was going to et soone during visits to Du You City did Su Xiaoxiao dress up a bit more and wear light makeup before heading out.
What puzzled the fox girls the most was that this little miss had seemingly lost interest in n, especially scholars. Back on Qiantang Mountain, they rembered how she used to hold books on talented n and beauties, muttering about how she wanted to experience a grand love affair one day…
But now that she had co to Du You City, Su Xiaoxiao would spend her days cooped up at ho, reading strange books, occasionally writing and drawing, living a routine of going to the sa three places every day.
When she was on duty, if so n happened to pass by and took a few extra glances at her, and if by chance they “passed by” again for two consecutive days, Su Xiaoxiao would imdiately beco alert and either change shifts or ask for a few days off, staying well away.
So what was up with her?
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