Yuan Yuanyuan got up early the next morning, opened the shop door, looked at the sunlight outside, and thought about cleaning the shop.
She fetched a bucket of water, took a rag, a mop and a broom, and stood at the door with her hands on her hips.
There was a little monster on his way to school. He glanced over here when he passed by, but his eyes hurt because of Yuan Yuanyuan's domineering back. He quickly turned his head back and pretended not to see it.
Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the store door which had become dirty again due to the recent snow, washed the rag, then squatted down and wiped it vigorously.
The sun has risen. Monster shops in other places are usually open at night, but the nursery area is always open during the day. Since most of the people who stay here are children, it naturally won't be open at night like the outside.
Yuan Yuanyuan felt quite happy staying in this place. Gradually, it seemed as if she had found a little bit of the feeling from long ago. During the day, several other monster shops opened nearby. These shops were only seen by monsters, and they sold all kinds of messy things.
Yuan Yuanyuan's small clothing store looks inconspicuous here.
Yuan Yuanyuan hadn't wiped halfway when she suddenly heard two footsteps behind her. She wiped the window that looked like frosted glass without turning back. The person behind her was getting closer and closer. When he walked up to Yuan Yuanyuan, she threw down the rag and turned away.
She saw two people coming, one was Tang Shi and the other was a middle-aged man she didn't know.
"Boss!" Tang Shi saw Yuan Yuanyuan and waved at her. Yuan Yuanyuan watched her running towards her, then looked at the middle-aged man next to her and subconsciously thought that this should be Tang Shi's father.
Sure enough, when the middle-aged man came over and introduced himself, he said that he was Tang Shi's father.
Tang Shi's father looked at the man in front of him. His hands were wet, and there was a rag on the windowsill. His sleeves were rolled up, and he was wearing an apron. He looked particularly strange...
Tang Shi looked disgusted when she saw Yuan Yuanyuan like this. Her father did not discriminate against Yuan Yuanyuan at all because of this honor. He greeted Yuan Yuanyuan quite formally, "Hello, I am Tang Shi's father. I'm sorry to trouble you to take care of Tang Shi these days."
"Ah... It's okay, it's okay." Yuan Yuanyuan was a little flustered. She looked a little embarrassed to see people in this state, so she quickly took off her apron and invited the two people into the house.
The fucking parents came over to look for me... What's going on? It feels like they're just like an elementary school teacher.
Yuan Yuanyuan complained as she went to make tea. She had recently received a batch of good tea, which was given to her by the man in black robes. Yuan Yuanyuan didn't dare to drink a single sip, fearing that this stuff had the effect of truth serum.
But at this time, it is still quite good to entertain guests.
…
As a Taoist priest, he actually didn't worry much about money. After being outside for so long, he finally understood why his sect never worried about money. It was because Taoist priests still had some abilities similar to cheating compared to ordinary people.
He was walking on the street when he suddenly heard a few girls talking on the side of the road, "I heard that the next issue of Monster Chronicle will be about the war back then..."
"I always feel that... Yuan was the decisive figure in that war. Otherwise, why would they describe him in such a way?"
"It's very possible. I don't know when Yuan will appear again."
"I want to know where Fanning is now? I feel so sorry for Fanning."
He heard what the girls said and stood still.
After a few minutes, he slowly continued walking, crossed a street, came to a coffee shop, ordered a cup of coffee, and sat down to drink it.
His eyes gradually fell on the bookshelf next to the coffee shop, on which were rows of comics. Fanning walked over and saw "Dream Man" as expected, so he took it down and started reading.
To him, comics are not just a simple thing. He can get a lot of information from them. This information is sometimes often overlooked by people, but to him, he knows more, so he sees more.
Faning really wanted to find this person named "Yuan" recently, however, he never met him again in City C.
After about a month, he finally understood one thing thoroughly—
The few times he met Yuan before, it was actually Ji Qiu who gave him a cheat...
… That’s absolutely true.
When the male protagonist just starts out, he will always encounter things in a normal environment that ordinary people would not encounter, no matter how weak the male protagonist is.
How come Prince Naruto meets Orochimaru, one of the Three Ninjas, when he takes the Chunin Exam? How come Xiaojie meets a Zoldyck when he goes looking for a father? Even Tomoya can meet a legendary Pokémon when he is just starting out...
These things seem very normal, after all, they are all "chance encounters" with great players. But why don't ordinary people encounter a great player every day
Before this, he had always been a fledgling Taoist priest. To the entire spiritual world hidden in the dark, he was just a rookie who had just mastered a few Taoist arts.
According to the path of a very ordinary Taoist priest in their sect, he would probably become a formal Taoist priest at the age of 30, perform a few deeds of slaying demons and exorcising monsters at the age of 40, become a master of the sect at the age of 50, and become an elder of the sect at the age of 60...
And when he is seventy years old, if he is not dead by then... then he will meet the first big monster in his life.
And that big monster was probably not a particularly powerful one, but more likely a little monster that he knew when he was young and turned into a big monster. At that time, he was very old, while the big monster was in his prime.
This is the life path of more than 80 percent of Taoists, except for a few perverted monsters.
Yes. It is so hard to encounter a big monster. In fact, most of the monsters in the monster world have already lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests and no longer appear. Only when he is seventy years old, maybe he can get a glimpse of a big monster.
He had only recently realized all of this. He had lived in a daze until his sect was destroyed a few days ago, which was like a heavy blow to him.
He felt that he had been unlucky ever since he was chosen as the male lead. Thinking about it this way, Ji Qiu actually gave him such a cheat, which was really... useless.
Hey, why is the male protagonist in this picture so handsome? Is this still him
He stared at the image of Fanning in "Demon Records" for a long while, and carefully identified it several times, but he couldn't realize that this person was himself.
Shit... He just felt uncomfortable for a while. Why did the effect on paper look so childish...
While he was in a daze, a girl suddenly came over to serve him coffee. Seeing the comic in Fanning's hand, she suddenly smiled and said, "Hey, are you reading this too?"
"Ah... yes." He nodded.
"The protagonist of this comic is so handsome in the second volume. Don't be fooled by his crudeness in the first volume. It's interesting to read on until you get to the end." The waitress said, "I think he's getting more and more handsome recently, especially after he prepared for revenge. His temperament is completely different."
… He listened to the waitress talking and nodded silently.
Although the waitress meant well, I always felt like something was not right.
Never mind, the public’s expectations are sometimes… very deep.
He silently complained in his mind, "When you read comics back then, didn't you want to see the protagonist being tortured and then rising up? This is the price, this is the sin that needs to be redeemed, Amen."
So, he opened the comic... ready to imagine more chuuni scenes.
Damn, I feel like Yuan's character's fashion sense is higher than his. Something like changing the outcome of a war by one person. Although it looks a bit ridiculous, this fashion sense is really unique.
I must beat him, otherwise the protagonist will be outshined by the supporting actor in the next voting competition, which will be very funny.
He is just a useless Taoist priest, and it is too difficult for him to play these supporting roles and big bosses.
Let’s talk about Yuan first. The big monsters in ancient times should have retired in the deep mountains and old forests. No one knew where Ji Qiu dug him out from... He would be scared to death if such a big monster stood in front of him. Now he actually became his boss. He felt that he was the lamb that was forced to be sacrificed.
Maybe this guy's only weakness is young ladies... If I'm not mistaken, this guy is also a cross-dresser...
There are also those monsters without names, such as the male monster in white clothes who is very fierce in fighting. Although this guy doesn’t even have a name now, he strongly suspects that this is also a big monster.
As a male protagonist, he seems to be lacking a gay friend...
If the powerful white-clothed monster is really his best friend, after thinking about it carefully, it seems that it is not bad... At that time, the white-clothed monster can push the tower in the front, and he will be a coward in the back and cheer for him.
…
Yuan Yuanyuan asked Tang Shi, "What is your father here for?"
"It's okay, he just came to visit you." Tang Shi waved her hand, "I used to cause trouble to others... He was probably afraid that something would happen to me if I got too hot again."
"… How much of a troublemaker can you be?" Yuan Yuanyuan waved her hand and said, "Go upstairs and do your homework. I'll clean the first floor."
Tang Shi's father came just now, but he didn't do anything. He just sat quietly for a while, drank a cup of tea, and then left quickly. Yuan Yuanyuan didn't even try to keep him.
All he said to Yuan Yuanyuan was just to thank her for helping take care of his daughter. Yuan Yuanyuan nodded as she listened, then poured him some tea and treated him to some flower cakes she bought from the monster stall next door.
Yuan Yuanyuan didn't take it too seriously. After all, it wasn't easy for her parents. If she had a girl of that age staying at her place all the time, she would have come over to see her too.
She swept the dust inside the house, then leaned against the corridor in front of the door, looked at the clean house, and drank a sip of tea comfortably.
The tea was from the tavern... and it was good, real tea, with the scent of fresh flowers.
She looked at the tree in the yard.
Ever since she learned the art of blindness a while ago... this tree has been bald by her.
At this moment, she suddenly felt a shock in her chest.
Yuan Yuanyuan took out the thing and found that it was the small mirror that the white-robed witch had given her. She sent a message to Yuan Yuanyuan, "Please be careful, a group of people are heading towards you."
"Huh? What monster is coming? Do we need to fight?" Yuan Yuanyuan replied.
"It's not..." The woman in white seemed to be hesitant to speak, "It's a subordinate of a high-ranking elder in the city."
As she was speaking, Yuan Yuanyuan smelled an evil aura.
She turned her head and saw another monster walking in from the gate of her courtyard.
"Is that Yuan?" The monster looked down at Yuan Yuanyuan who was half lying in the corridor. "Please come with me."
Yuan Yuanyuan was a little confused.
She thought... Is this the subordinate of that high-ranking official
Just when she was thinking about whether to leave, Yuan Yuanyuan's chest suddenly shook again, and she took a quick look.
"If he asks you to go with him, please ignore him. That senior elder does not agree with us."
Yuan Yuanyuan thought to herself, do you guys still have factions here
She looked up at the monster in front of her, then gently moved her body and half leaned on the corridor.
Although I don't quite understand what's going on... but if I can avoid leaving, I'll leave. Who knows where I'll be taken if I leave.
Her black hair fell around her ears in a scattered manner. Yuan Yuanyuan was lying on her side, looking at the monster in front of her, feeling as if she was a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water.
She stared at him with dead fish eyes, using the same words she used when she refused a fight with someone in high school, "You...if you have anything to say, just say it here. If there is something that cannot be explained here, then don't say it."
See, even though he was a little scared inside, he definitely didn't look scared.
Who the hell is fighting? In high school, only idiots fought.
…
When the Saturday issue of "Yoki" was updated, many people opened the comic and read the plot.
Yuan, who has not been seen for a long time, appears in the comics again. He is not like the usual spies... He looks very leisurely. In the middle of winter, he is basking in the warm sunlight.
A monster with a nasty look was standing in front of him, his eyes were half closed, as if he was half asleep and half awake.
The wind blew gently, and his bangs swayed slightly, which seemed to wake him up and made him open his eyes slightly.
"Is that Yuan? Please come with me."
"You...if you have anything to say, just say it here." He closed his eyes again, as if he didn't care about anything. "If there's something that can't be explained clearly here, then don't say it."