Offering Salted Fish To Master

Liao Tingyan suddenly sat up in the middle of the night and saw the peach blossom in the vase beside the bed. She stretched out her hand to shake Sima Jiao next to her and woke him up, “Do you remember the time you made me an otter?! Pretending that I’m a snake demon, were you teasing me?!”

Sima Jiao did not open his eyes and hissed in a dumb voice. He pulled Liao Tingyan back and pressed her on his chest, patted her back comfortably, with his face buried on top of her head.

Sima Jiao: “Sleep.”

Liao Tingyan shook her head frantically, shook Sima Jiao’s face, and finally woke him up. He had to let go of Liao Tingyan, spread out on the bed, pinched the bridge of his nose, and glanced at her sideways.

Liao Tingyan: Oh, it is really cool to wake people up in the middle of the night. Did you see the time? 

Sima Jiao: “You… Do you want to roll on sheets (m.xoxo)?”

Liao Tingyan let out a disgusting cry, “Uh-who wants to roll on sheets?!”

He sat up, “Okay, then I’ll do it.” He suddenly rushed to Liao Tingyan to press her on the bed, and then rolled around.

Liao Tingyan: “!!!” What are you doing?!

After rolling a few laps, Liao Tingyan blew and tossed the hair on her face, wondering if Sima Jiao’s brain was sick again. Rolling on the sheets in the middle of the night?

Liao Tingyan: “Excuse me, what are you doing?”

Sima Jiao: “Naturally rolling on the sheets.”

Liao Tingyan remembered the “fishing” incident a long time ago, and her face suddenly became a bit sullen. She pushed hard and rolled back with Sima Jiao’s waist, “Okay, come on!”

The palace guards outside heard the movement in the middle of the night, they thought with a subtle expression: Your Majesty and Concubine… Tsk Tsk, it was really intense.

The two rolled around twice as if playing, and rolled the blanket pillow on the bed. Liao Tingyan’s head hit the bed frame. Sima Jiao stretched out his hand to block the wall and stopped the naive game with his palm. Covering the back of Liao Tingyan’s head, he lowered his head and kissed her on the face, “Okay, go to sleep, okay?”

Liao Tingyan: “…” What was I doing just now? Why do you suddenly get dumber (sand sculptures) every time I get angry? Was this person poisonous?

Seeing her expression, Sima Jiao laughed. Liao Tingyan felt the vibration in her chest and itchy nose, she leaned against his chest.

After rubbing, Sima Jiao’s expression was not right. His fingers touched her clothes and pulled it apart, rubbing her neck, “Okay, I’ll go to sleep later.”

Then they rolled the sheets in another sense (xoxo). It was different from kicking the pillows and quilt. It was quiet and lingering. At that moment, Liao Tingyan doubted whether Sima Jiao was a real snake demon before, and the delicate and silent entanglement made people tremble and suffocate.

“Hiss——” She took a breath and grasped Sima Jiao’s shoulders, hearing his slight gasps and laughter.

“I remember, what did it have to do with my wish to see an otter?”

Liao Tingyan: “…” Pinched his a*s!

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After that, when Liao Tingyan asked him how much he remembered, Sima Jiao only said, “I remember everything that should be remembered.”

Liao Tingyan didn’t ask again, but just followed him like a shadow. Wherever Sima Jiao went, she would go. Sima Jiao occasionally deliberately went out alone, and then leisurely watched her run after him.

Liao Tingyan: “Ancestor! Don’t leave me too far!”

Every time she looked at Sima Jiao’s expression of “I really can’t do anything with you, a clingy little fairy”, she couldn’t help but say  loudly, “Ancestor!”

Sima Jiao unexpectedly liked to watch her turn into a grumpy salted fish. After seeing enough, he asked, “What?”

Liao Tingyan was so angry that she walked over quickly. She was just about to speak, but Sima Jiao picked her up with his hands and raised her up. Liao Tingyan almost gave him a hug. She laid on Sima Jiao and was held by him and walked toward the stone steps that still had a thick layer of snow.

Liao Tingyan returned to her original form after only three seconds of being irritable, and put her arms around his shoulders, “Aren’t you afraid at all.”

Still on the same road before, Sima Jiao hugged her and walked up, not fast or slow, “What is there to be afraid of?”

Liao Tingyan was silent for a long time, and then she started to talk as if talking to herself,  “In the beginning, you were trapped in Gengchen Xianfu. Later, you were able to get out of the trap, but I am afraid that you had paid a high price. I didn’t understand it at that time, but I want to understand now.”

“The time we escaped from Gengchen Immortal Mansion, you almost died. The effect of the pill that you ate was so good. If you think about it now, it will come at a price to completely heal. What was the price?”

“After that, you almost killed all the top cultivators of the Shi Clan and Gengchen Xianfu. To kill them, what did you sacrifice? Did your spirit fire get out of control from that time? In the Demon Realm for a few years, it was said that you were bloodthirsty, and often burned people to ashes for no reason, because you had no control at that time, right?”

He was in so much pain that he almost died, and he didn’t want people to see it a little bit. He always wanted to show his winning front.

“You told me, you said that the heavens are going to get rid of the Sima Clan, you are the last one, so you will definitely die.”

He struggled, and finally chose to give her his life. With his self-sacrifice, she almost lost him.

“You should have died. It was me. I forced your soul to be back. Your suffering should have stopped seventeen years ago…”

If that was the case, he would not become the current emperor, would not have such a devastated country, and would not encounter those endless disasters from heaven. If that was the case, she could protect him, but when he embarked on the road of cultivation again, without the spirit fire and the blood of Sima, could he still fight against the world?