Retired Villainess Transmigrates into a Cannon Fodder

The Strongest Fox-Demon (62)

There was no further statement from the Jiang family. Zhuang Yulang and Bai Yi also maintained a superficial peace, but they talked less. Zhuang Yulang also began to consider moving to another place, not wanting to live in the same yard with Chu Xiang and Li Yufeng, lest there would be an embarrassment like that day again.

The more he acted this way, the more disappointed Bai Yi became. After all, she was earning all the money. He refused to coax her but spent her money confidently. Where did he get such self-righteousness?

Chu Xiang understood this point all too well. Demons’ way of thinking was similar to modern people, but this was the ancient times. When a woman marries, she must obey her husband and regard her husband as heaven, not to mention Bai Yi’s status as a mere orphan with no backing.

In ancient times, people paid too much attention to family background, and family ideologies were too serious. Even ordinary people were reluctant to let orphan ladies marry into their family. What was more, Zhuang Yulang was a scholar who would soon take an official post after passing the imperial exams brilliantly. Bai Yi, on the other hand, lacked the upbringing of a lady from a respectable family, lacked knowledge in housekeeping, was incapable of maintaining contacts, unable to attend banquets and lacked etiquette. She was simply unworthy of Zhuang Yulang.

No matter how capable Bai Yi was, Zhuang Yulang was still a native of ancient times, and a man in an ancient era without forward-looking views. He despised Bai Yi and thought that marrying her was her fortune. It was perfectly normal for him to enjoy Bai Yi’s sacrifices for granted; this was a common occurrence among many people.

Wasn’t this a mismatch of information? He didn’t know that Bai Yi was an extraordinary demon, so it was normal for him to think so. On top of that, Bai Yi couldn’t tell him the truth, and it would only be worse if she did. Hence, how could such a relationship be happy? The so-called “mortals and demons walk different paths” was often because of these.

Chu Xiang knew that Bai Yi was struggling at this stage, so she left enough space for her to be alone, leaving early and returning late every day to take care of her business. Her business was expanding rapidly and she was too busy now.

In a blink of an eye, it was time for the big exam. Zhuang Liu was wearing bright red clothes, grinning from ear to ear and very nervous, buzzing around Zhuang Yulang here and there. In contrast, Li Yufeng’s side couldn’t be any more ordinary. He and Chu Xiang were so leisurely, giving off the impression that nobody between them was taking the exam.

Zhuang Liu glanced at Chu Xiang, then at Bai Yi, who was sitting in a daze under the grape trellis with a fox in her arms, and swallowed all the words of dissatisfaction that reached her lips. She felt that Bai Yi had learned badly from Chu Xiang. She was not at all as well-behaved and sensible as before. Zhuang Yulang was about to enter the examination room, but she didn’t deign to step forward to help and say auspicious words.

Zhuang Yulang was also nervous. He got a poor ranking in the exam the last time. Now that he was famous, if he didn’t get into the top three, he would be a disgrace. At this moment, he remembered the “family heirloom” that Bai Yi gave him. He hesitated for a moment, walked towards Bai Yi, smiled and said softly, “Yiyi, I’m going to the exam today. When I return from a successful exam, I will marry you and welcome you into the family in a grand manner.”

He took the initiative to bow his head, and he still spoke nicely. Bai Yi thought she would be happy, but she found that she only felt tired. The problems between them were still not resolved head-on, and he still hasn’t promised her that he would never see Miss Jiang again.

She smiled casually and said, “Brother Zhuang, you will definitely pass the exam brilliantly.”

Zhuang Yulang felt relieved when he heard this sentence. Bai Yi was his lucky star, his noble person. If she said he would pass brilliantly, then that would definitely be the case.

Zhuang Yulang excitedly asked Li Yufeng to go to the examination room together. Chu Xiang and Bai Yi sent them off outside the examination room and watched them go in. Bai Yi asked Chu Xiang curiously, “Sister, is Li Yufeng really going to take the exam? How is his literary talent? I haven’t heard him reciting poems or anything of the like.”

Chu Xiang thought for a moment and said, “I really haven’t heard of his poems and essays, but I think he has a plan in mind and should be able to do it.” She looked at Bai Yi and said with a smile, “Don’t you care about your Brother Zhuang so much now? Seeing him enter the field, you don’t feel nervous at all. You are even concerned about others. Why? Do you feel happy when he said he’ll marry you earlier?”

Bai Yi murmured, “His attitude is strange. It’s as if I should be grateful and especially happy that he will marry me. It is his good fortune to marry me, okay? I find it weirdly unremarkable.”

Chu Xiang led her towards the teahouse and asked, “Have you seen Miss Jiang in recent days? What are your plans? You didn’t do anything, did you?”

“I did not. I’ve learned a lesson. I’m not going to take on humans at will. They are too fragile. I just went to see what she was like, on which aspect is she better than me.” Bai Yi snorted. “Anyway, I didn’t see anything worthwhile. That woman is two-faced. She beats her maid whenever she is unhappy. Although she wants to marry him, she also has to wait and see if he passes the imperial exam. She is much worse than me. I don’t know why Brother Zhuang wants to associate with her.”

Bai Yi was hugging a little white fox in her arms, totally confused and puzzled by this matter. Zhuang Yulang already had such a good fiancée as her. Why did he notice that not-so-great Miss Jiang?

“Didn’t you pretend to be Xue’er when Zhuang Yulang was alone? Didn’t he say anything?”

“He said something. It’s all because he wants to be the Number One Scholar. He took the Snow Lotus Pill and studied easily, so he should pass the exam without a hitch.”

Chu Xiang shook her head and smiled lightly. “That’s not necessarily true. Even the smartest people have to study hard, just like even the most gifted demons have to work hard to cultivate. He called on his friends all day long, so how could he have studied hard?”

Bai Yi’s brow knitted, and she found another disappointment in Zhuang Yulang. She gave him such a miraculous Snow Lotus Pill, but he didn’t work hard. He didn’t know how to cherish it. They were demons worked so hard to reach their current level of cultivation, and they looked down on those who while away hours. She suddenly found that she seemed to have never understood Zhuang Yulang.