Yue Jin and Fu Lingyi’s Daily Life (Part 2) [Side Story]
Yue Jin descended the mountain to travel and explore with Fu Lingyi. The two of them accompanied each other, finally realizing their wish to freely wander the myriad worlds side by side.
Lin’an City in Nanyang Prefecture was still the same as ever. Only the elder sister who sold mung bean cakes had changed, replaced by her young daughter. The child waved her tender arms, calling out her wares, making people unable to resist going over and buying a few extra portions.
“Let’s bring some for Shan Shi, Eyin, and the others to eat, and also Wu Ju. Should we also buy a portion for Yun Lingyue and her companion while we’re at it? We’re already in Lin’an City anyway.”
While counting the portions, Yue Jin asked Fu Lingyi beside her: “Mm, should we?”
Fu Lingyi smiled. “It’s all up to you.”
“Then let’s buy a bit more, treat it as supporting the business,” she said. She gently rubbed the little girl’s head. “Wrap up this whole row for older sister, okay?”
Yue Jin held the things securely and took Fu Lingyi’s hand with her other. But she saw that person pouting, full of unhappiness.
“Why didn’t you rub my head?”
She laughed, a little speechless, and deliberately teased: “You even get jealous of a child? I didn’t realize, A’Ling looks tall, but you’re actually much younger, aren’t you?”
Fu Lingyi didn’t speak. She gave her a casual, sideways glance, and held her hand even tighter.
Everywhere they went, she was marking her territory, worse than a child throwing a tantrum.
However, Yue Jin found it endearing.
“I can’t do anything about you.” She raised her hand and gave Fu Lingyi’s head, hair ornament and all, a vigorous rub, deliberately messing up her hair. “Satisfied now?”
“…Yue Jin!”
The two of them disregarded the stares of the people around them, instead acting freely and spontaneously, completely at ease.
After visiting Chongxiang Sword Sect , as they walked down the mountain road, Yue Jin suddenly stopped.
She had walked this road many times, but each time her state of mind was different.
There had been panic, bitter curses, and dread.
But the person who had made her feel this way was now standing right beside her.
She stood still and squeezed two words from between her teeth: “Carry me.”
Fu Lingyi pointed to herself, originally intending to tease, but seeing her very serious expression, she put away her smile.
She half-squatted down and carried that person onto her back. Without using any techniques or needing to fly on her sword, she just walked down step by step.
“Am I heavy?”
“Not at all,” Fu Lingyi said. She carried her very carefully, paying attention to avoid bothersome stones and not jostling the person on her back. “Light as a feather.”
Yue Jin quietly let out a “cheh.” “Saying that makes me feel like you’re just sweet-talking me.”
Fu Lingyi smiled. “Where do you want to go next? Do you want to go see the foreign lands? I heard there are red-haired foreigners there, though I don’t know if it’s true or false.”
“It’s true, I saw one when I was little.”
“You saw one? Where?”
Yue Jin buried her face in Fu Lingyi’s neck, her exhaled breath tickling her. “When I was very, very little, a red-haired older sister took me in for a while. She usually wrapped her hair in cloth, so you couldn’t tell. At that time I was too small and didn’t know anything. She taught me how to speak and forage for food, so that at least I wouldn’t starve to death even in peaceful times.”
Fu Lingyi fell silent. She rarely probed into Yue Jin’s past life, unwilling to open her old wounds.
“Later, she left. She said she was going home. But thanks to her, I was able to live on and meet you. Thinking about it now, meeting you that day was truly too wonderful. Could it be that I’m dreaming?”
Her voice grew smaller and smaller. Fu Lingyi gently shook her. “How could that be? I’m right here, A’Jin.”
These words were like a magic spell. Yue Jin heard them and felt her heart settle, nodding in a place the other person couldn’t see.
“I will always be here, always accompanying you, until the sky turns old and the seas dry up.”
The road down the mountain was neither long nor short, just enough for the two of them to lean intimately together, yet not enough to finish speaking a lifetime’s worth of sweet nothings.
Even after descending the mountain, Fu Lingyi still didn’t put her down.
“A’Ling, A’Ling, let’s also go to the foreign lands.”
Yue Jin seemed to have thought of something, and also seemed to have mustered some courage. “Maybe that older sister has already returned to her homeland. Maybe, I can still see her again and say thank you to her.”
“Alright,” Fu Lingyi agreed readily, adjusting her slightly higher on her back.
“You carry me there.”
“Huh? But these foreign lands are really far…”
Yue Jin straightened her face. “What, you’re not willing? You just said I was light as a feather.”
“…But there are so many people along the way… then who knows how the cultivation tabloids will spin it.”
“I know!”
Yue Jin hugged her shoulders, leaned forward, and gave her a loud, smacking kiss on the cheek, laughing brighter and more unrestrained than the current sunlight. “They’ll say the heart-eating Demon Lord and the proper, noble Master Sister of Chongxiang Sword Sect lived happily ever after! If those people dare not write it like that, the bad Demon Lord will find them one by one and beat them until they’re completely convinced!”
Author Note: The story of the Master Sister and the Demon Lord is complete! They lived happily ever after. Love and peace, and everyone should live well too~
Awww it ended, sad. But it was a lovey story. A very very lovely story.