Chapter One Little Girl

  The bellyband, or camisole, has a subtle and implicit beauty that is the embodiment of classical elegance and aestheticism in Eastern culture. Li Rouyou had seen some realistic paintings of ladies-in-waiting and always thought that wearing such a camisole was much more beautiful than the lingerie advertisements that can be seen everywhere on the streets nowadays.

  He picked it up, wondering how this thing ended up here, then remembered that it must be Annan's. He had never seen her underwear before, but she didn't look like she wasn't wearing any either. It turned out she was wearing this one.

  "Bring it here." Annanshou's cheeks were flushed red, how could a servant touch the princess's intimate clothes?

  She leaned forward, stretched out her hand and snatched it.

  Li Rouyu saw her coming over aggressively and instinctively withdrew his hand, while the other hand reached out to block her.

  An Nan Xiu's entire body froze, her chest pressed against Li Luoyu's palm, and she felt a numbness spreading from her chest, as if she had been electrocuted. The heat emanating from Li Luoyu's scorching palm made her heart skip a beat before it began racing wildly.

  Her heart was racing so fast that she felt warm all over, her chest was hot, her neck was hot, the base of her ears was hot, and her cheeks were hot. Then, beads of sweat appeared on the tip of her nose. Her lips, which were as tender as a flower bud, opened in disbelief, revealing small, red tongue that trembled unconsciously.

  An Nan's eyes widened as she stared at Li Luoyu, her long eyelashes trembling, and blinked before realizing what was happening, that Li Luoyu had grabbed her small chest.

  The soft and fluffy thing in his hand, the kind that makes you want to squeeze it a bit when you hold it, felt like it wasn't small at all. Although it wasn't full due to age, the feeling of being full in his hands somehow triggered some memories for Li Luyu, making him blush bright red. Then he felt something poking against his palm and instinctively moved it around a bit.

  "Let go!" Annan Xiu could hardly bear it, but she was a strong-willed and spiritually resistant mage. After opening her small mouth to make a few almost inaudible, short hums, Annan Xiu came back to herself and shouted hoarsely at Li Luyu.

  For a moment, the room was filled with flashes of light.

  "Stop! Stop!" Li Rou yelled with a quivering heart.

  Electric light gathered in Annan Xiu's palm, on the verge of collapse at any moment, without any intention of stopping. The electric light was actually an unprecedentedly flashing brilliant light with strong energy.

  "Refrigerator! Refrigerator! Refrigerator!"

  Li Lu's forehead was covered in cold sweat.

  An Nanxiu's chest heaved rapidly as she forcibly suppressed the urge to burn Li Luyu into a cinder.

  As the lightning in Annanxiu's palm finally dissipated into nothingness, Li Luyu suddenly sat down, wiped his forehead, and found it was full of sweat. This day was really too exciting, earlier Annanxiu's move probably would have caused all the electrical appliances in the entire room to crash.

  Li Luyu raised his head, and An Nanxiu looked at him with a fierce gaze, like a cat whose tail had been pulled.

  Then... then... before Li Rouyu could speak, a line of tears flowed down from An Nanxiu's big eyes.

  Li Luoyou panicked, "Don't cry, don't cry, can't I just pay the electricity bill for you? Let's not have a refrigerator, we'll buy another one later."

  An Nanxiu raised her head and looked at him, the fierce look was gone, her eyes were brimming with tears, looking wronged.

  The little girl's expression changed in an instant.

  Which normal person can bear to see a little girl cry in front of him, let alone being the culprit himself? Li Luoyu quickly apologized and made amends. What could he do? He was the one who had wronged her, yet he couldn't even manage to make the little girl smile despite making her cry.

  "Let's go. We'll go downstairs and turn off the electricity." An Nan Xiu stopped crying, but was still a bit angry. Her mood had been bad all day, with ups and downs. She thought about how she came to this world without any support or power, and yet Li Luoyu even bullied her.

  Li Luoyu followed Annan Xiu downstairs with a nervous and fearful expression, who made him say that he was willing to be electrocuted? He had to keep his word, he couldn't afford to back down on the spot.

  The first time he was electrocuted by An Nan, it was quite frightening, his whole body was trembling, as if his skin had been scorched. However, he understood that most of it was a psychological stimulation, and after eating the Longevity Fruit, his body's resistance to such lightning had increased greatly. Later on, when he got electrocuted again, it just felt like a general pain, nothing more.

  They came downstairs and hid behind a small pavilion covered with green vines. There were no people passing by here at night, and those at home could not see what was happening here through the window.

  "Let's stop here." An Nanxiu directed Li Ruyi to stand in a good position.

  "Electric bar." Li Luoyu's neck was stretched out as if he was about to be beheaded.

  Annan Xiu didn't electrocute him, Li Luoyu closed his eyes for a moment and opened one eye to look at her.

  "Rourou, do you know what you did wrong today?" Annan Xiu's face was cold, but her face was still wet and not very intimidating.

  "I desecrated Her Highness's sacred and inviolable body." Li Rouyou confessed.

  "There's not a shred of sincerity in you. If you thought my body was sacred and inviolable, you've already desecrated it many times." Annan crossed her arms over her chest, thinking about how he had even spanked her before, another wave of shame and anger rising up, old scores to be settled along with new ones.

  "Please instruct, Your Highness." Li Rouyu's attitude was as proper as it could be.

  "If I were to return to the Tianyun Divine Realm, you wouldn't be able to follow me and become my attendant officer after all, so there's no way to punish you. So none of those things matter, and I've never taken them seriously anyway." An Nanxiu paused for a moment.

  Li Rouyu's body tensed up, getting straight to the point, had he unknowingly committed some kind of heinous crime?

  "But now I'm here with you, and it's written in your books that a girl's...you know where. An Nan's face turned red as she hesitated to say it out loud, "Only her husband and children can touch!"

  What book is she reading? Li Luoyu sighed, but indeed, it's not wrong for girls to have such thoughts. However... with what happened to Li Luoyu, in An Nanxiu's understanding and her unpredictable thinking, what kind of explanation would she give? Li Luoyu could only listen attentively.

  "So, you be my child from now on, and just call me Mom!" Annan Xiu hummed twice, somewhat reluctantly announcing her final decision.

  "Shock me! Kill me with electricity!" Li Luyu became even more agitated than An Nanxiu.

  "What's wrong with you, don't you want to? " An Nanxiu looked at him in incomprehension. Li Luyou was really getting on her nerves, he didn't even want to call out for his mom, something so simple, and she had let him off so easily.

  "I know you're a pick from the tree, I can understand that you don't comprehend the blood ties of kinship. I also know that you've never had any familial relationships. But before you ask me to call you mom, could you first consult with me about the specific meanings of words like 'mom', 'child', and 'husband', as well as their social relationships?" Li Luoyu calmed down, panting slightly, not from anger but from a sincere reverence for An Nanxiu.

  At that time, he was startled and thought that Annan Xiu didn't know where she saw the story of an ancient virtuous woman who vowed to marry no one. Who would have thought that she indeed lived up to being the eldest princess of the Annan imperial family, the youngest great sage in the history of Tianyun Shengjing who approached divinity... That was indeed a wise and powerful understanding and decision that only Princess Xiu could make.

  "That's all useless, just forget it. From now on I'll be older than you, so you have to listen to me." Annan Xiu wasn't as ignorant as Li Ruyu thought she was; at least she knew that a mother could command her son, and she needed this identity because Li Ruyu always treated her like a child, looking at her as a little girl. Annan Xiu felt that she must take advantage of this opportunity to reverse his mistaken mindset.

  "I have a mom." Li Rou rubbed her forehead with a headache, "So thank you, I don't need your maternal love."

  Li Lu can't afford it at all.

  "Do you have a mother? Where is she? I've never seen her." Annan Xiu didn't believe him, thinking that Li Luyu was deceiving her.

  "I didn't fall from a tree, how could I not have a mom?" Li Luyu knew that Annanxiu had already understood the concept of giving birth, but she hadn't included the necessary process of birth between mother and child in her understanding.

  "I don't have one."

  "You were picked from the tree, of course not."

  "Where is she?"

  The topic came back again, Li Luoyou had no choice but to pull her hand upstairs: "How do I know where she is?"

  "Go and bring her back, I'll let her give up mom's position to me, she doesn't dare to compete with me." An Nan Xiu was coldly smiling to herself, completely unaware that her small hand was being held by Li Luoyu's large one.

  "I can't find her, as long as you can find her and successfully threaten her to step down, go ahead and be a mom, whatever." Li Luyu was too lazy to continue entangling with her on this extremely speechless topic. It had been years since he last saw his mother, and Li Luyu couldn't get in touch with her, nor did she ever take the initiative to contact him or his sister. Of course, Annanxiu wouldn't be able to find her either.

  Annan Xiu was confident and asked Li Luyou for materials.

  Li Luoyu reluctantly rummaged through the trunk and found a photo from a dusty diary, "Here it is."

  The background is a vast sky, with white clouds rolling and flowing, surging as if rushing towards the face. In the distance, snow-capped mountains stand in groups, while nearby, broken rocks cover the ground. On a huge boulder, a woman stands there, standing against the wind, her clothes fluttering, gazing out at the setting sun.

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