Senior Sister Went Mad After My Fake Death Chapter 74

After listening to Tianli, Jiang Chunai and Han Xiao exchanged another glance, both tacitly agreeing not to speak further.
Or rather, not to continue this topic.
Han Xiao lowered her gaze and prompted, “Hurry up and eat. It’s going to get cold.”
Tianli pouted, seemingly unhappy that they weren’t taking her seriously. “Mother, were you even listening to me just now? I said, I want a little sister. Or not just one sister, lots of little sisters would be fine too.”
She had seen a snake lay eggs before!
How many could be in one clutch? The last time she saw it, the snake laid nine eggs!
In that case, wouldn’t she have nine little sisters?
At this thought, Tianli’s heart swelled with excitement. Nine little sisters, wouldn’t that be plenty for her to have fun with!
And so, she looked at Han Xiao with even more sincerity and fervor. “Mother! Please! When can I have a little sister?”
“Try this meatball first.” Han Xiao’s expression didn’t change as she repeated her earlier words. “If you don’t eat now, the food will get cold.”
Tianli shook her head. “No, no, it’s okay, Mother. Can you answer me first, please?”
Han Xiao didn’t move, only lifting her lashes slightly. “Eat first.”
Although her cultivation was now gone, her words still carried the air of the first disciple of the Immortal Lord, the City Lord of the Crimson Smelting City. A single glance and two simple words were enough to make Tianli obediently close her mouth and say slowly, “It’s okay, Mother. If it gets cold, I can make it hot again…”
After speaking, she carefully observed Han Xiao’s expression, but the latter showed none.
She only persisted, her attitude softening. “Eat first. After you eat, Mother will talk to you.”
“Okay!” Tianli replied happily. The reason was simple: although her mother was usually serious and expressionless, she always did what she said she would.
So she obediently opened her mouth, picked up a round meatball, and popped it in.
Tianli had originally intended to just force it down, to humor her mother so that she would agree to have a few more little sisters for her—
But the smooth, tender flavor in her mouth instantly made her eyes light up!
Her taste buds danced with deliciousness, leaving her mouth with no time for fancy words. So Tianli’s praise was simple and direct: “Mother, this meatball you made is so delicious!”
Only then did Han Xiao break into a smile. She turned her gaze to Jiang Chunai beside her. “Chunai, what do you think?”
“Mhm, anything my wife makes is naturally delicious.” Jiang Chunai tilted her head, meeting Han Xiao’s gaze, a similar curve appearing on her lips.
She had changed her form of address again. Most of the time, she still preferred to call Han Xiao “Senior Sister.”
Senior Sister was the spring scenery of the mortal world.
Han Xiao also smiled and chided her, “You ate first, but you didn’t say a single word of praise. Only when I asked did you tell me. This is clearly insincere.”
“If I had said it earlier, you would have been suspicious,” Jiang Chunai said softly. “In that case, I’ll have another one. This time, my judgment must be fair.”
With that, she picked up another meatball and put it in her mouth.
First was the touch of the delicate, smooth skin, slightly elastic. With a light bite, the savory juices within the meatball slowly seeped out, not greasy at all, only a pure, meaty fragrance spreading on her tongue. The fragrance seemed to be mixed with a faint scent of scallion and ginger, which perfectly enhanced the overall flavor.
“This meatball has such a good texture,” Jiang Chunai sighed sincerely, looking at Han Xiao, a deeper affection in her eyes.
If she were the one to make it, the meatballs could have a good texture too—after all, she knew immortal arts, she just wasn’t very good at controlling them.
But Han Xiao was different. Now, she could only rely on her own strength, personally pounding the meat, to make it so delicious.
Having received praise from her wife and daughter, Han Xiao finally relaxed, smiling as she said, “Since it’s delicious, you’ll have to grace me with your presence and eat more today.”
Jiang Chunai nodded quietly, while Tianli was even less reserved—if something is delicious, you should eat it all in one go. Isn’t that a matter of course?
So she began to eat happily. Sometimes she ate too fast, and Jiang Chunai had to advise her, “Alright, alright, A’li, eat slower, eat slower!”
“Yes, if there’s not enough, I’ll go make another batch,” Han Xiao added.
When she spoke, Jiang Chunai subconsciously looked up.
In that instant, she seemed to have returned to her childhood.
Back then, her mother would also sit beside her, telling her to eat slower, eat slower. Back then, the village wasn’t so desolate.
Fortunately, she now had a family again.
Called out by both her mothers, Tianli obediently stopped, paused for a moment, and then said, “Mhm, eat slower, hehehe.”
Then, she looked at Han Xiao, her eyes curving into a smile. “Mother is so good to me, you’ll even make more food.”
Han Xiao raised an eyebrow slightly. “Yes, Mother is good to you, isn’t she?”
Tianli nodded seriously and said, “Yes, Mother is good to me, but not the best!”
Hearing their daughter say this, the other two both cast curious glances at her.
Why would she say that?
Tianli sat up straight—even though there were still traces of soup on the corners of her mouth—and said seriously, “It’s mutual. Mother is good to me, and I am good to Mother. But, Mother isn’t the best to me. My other mother is.”
Han Xiao’s brows knitted slightly.
“Because I am the best to my other mother!” Tianli said with great conviction, looking straight ahead. “Even you, Mother, have to be ranked behind me.”
Jiang Chunai was so amused by her words that she covered her mouth to laugh, her eyes involuntarily drifting to Han Xiao.
Faced with such childish words, how would Han Xiao handle it?
For so many years, Jiang Chunai had never seen Han Xiao fly into a rage or become impatient like an ordinary person.
As she expected, Han Xiao’s expression remained calm and composed. She even stood up and took Jiang Chunai’s bowl.
She was going to get her another bowl of soup.
Jiang Chunai was slightly surprised.
“That’s right,” Han Xiao said calmly, holding the spoon while speaking in the gentlest of tones. “Tianli is very good to her mother. Her mother told you to practice your moves seriously, and you had me learn them all for you. Today I help you learn your moves, tomorrow will I have to help you copy your books?”
“Mother!!!” Tianli cried out in panic, quickly looking at Jiang Chunai with pleading eyes.
Th-this mother is such a bully!!!
Ahhh! All she said was that she was the best to her other mother!
What’s there to be angry about!
Forget it. If it weren’t for wanting them to have a few more little sisters for her, Tianli believed she would definitely not be suffering like this.
“Petty snake,” Jiang Chunai said, walking behind Han Xiao. She suddenly gave her a light push from behind, then quickened her pace to walk beside her. “Did our daughter say something wrong?”
Wasn’t what their daughter said the truth? Someone had been extremely ruthless. The power of that sword strike, just recalling it was painful.
Though her words were like this, blaming her Senior Sister, her hand had already taken Han Xiao’s, her eyes still brimming with a smile.
She didn’t want to bring it up again. Every time she mentioned that sword strike from the past, no matter how great the conflict between them, Han Xiao would immediately drop it and ask if she really still cared about it.
So Jiang Chunai didn’t mention it. She was afraid of making Han Xiao sensitive, and she preferred to focus on enjoying the present.
She turned her head to look at Han Xiao.
The atmosphere between them was such that a single glance could stir passion, a single embrace could spread sweetness.
Han Xiao knew she was coming and allowed her to hold her hand, saying casually, “When teaching a child, you must of course speak the truth.”
What is the truth?
Jiang Chunai suddenly wanted to tease her. She deliberately stopped in her tracks, only holding Han Xiao’s hand.
However, it wasn’t Han Xiao who fell toward her, but her who embraced Han Xiao.
Their long, thick eyelashes were so close they were almost touching. They could both clearly see their reflections in each other’s eyes.
“What’s the truth? I don’t know, why don’t Senior Sister tell Junior Sister?”
Han Xiao’s face was still as fair as jade, as cool as snow.
Was she really asking ‘Senior Sister to tell Junior Sister’?
The blatant calculation was written all over her face:
She wanted her to kiss her.
Han Xiao didn’t call her bluff. Instead, she simply leaned down and planted a kiss on Jiang Chunai’s cheek.
It was a very light kiss.
But Jiang Chunai pressed the back of Han Xiao’s head, her expression one of feigned ignorance, as if she still didn’t understand. “Did Senior Sister tell me? Why does Junior Sister still not quite understand?”
A lump moved in Han Xiao’s throat, and a deep color rose in her eyes. Her thin lips parted slightly as she said slowly, “Idiot junior sister.”
Why is she calling me names?
Jiang Chunai didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, but so as not to ruin the atmosphere—they were now by a river in the sect, the water dotted with the glow of clear lanterns, drifting with the current—she went along with Han Xiao’s words. “Mhm, mhm, yes, Junior Sister is an idiot, Junior Sister is slow. So can Senior Sister teach me again, please?”
Han Xiao looked at her. “How should I teach you?”
“Whatever I want to learn, can Senior Sister teach me?”
As the days passed, only Jiang Chunai became more adept and audacious, while Han Xiao remained the same.
She couldn’t stand being teased.
Han Xiao still held her ground. “We’ll see.”
“Just teach me one more time,” Jiang Chunai puffed her cheeks, looking pitifully at Han Xiao.
However, Han Xiao was dead set on the idea that Jiang Chunai was up to something and actually shook her head, refusing.
Unhappy, Jiang Chunai stood on her tiptoes and leaned in, her other hand hooking around the back of her Senior Sister’s head, branding her with a deep, lingering kiss.
Her kissing Han Xiao felt different from when Han Xiao kissed her.
To be fair, neither could be said to be superior, but Jiang Chunai was more proactive in seizing the opportunity to kiss Han Xiao.
Senior Sister’s lips, tongue, skin, and flesh were all soft, just as she herself had said.
“So soft,” Jiang Chunai murmured, her hand straying to restlessly stroke Han Xiao’s waist.
The entwined figures heated the surrounding atmosphere, suffusing it with ambiguity.
Senior Sister was soft, so soft that it felt like a single kiss would melt her.
She had to protect this soft-skinned snake well.
“Where is it soft?” In the brief pause as the air was stolen from her mouth, Han Xiao’s eyes filled with a liquid sheen. She gazed at her dazedly, somehow finding the space to reply.
Jiang Chunai was still lost in the intoxicating sensation, her hand stroking past her waist. “It’s soft here, soft there, soft everywhere.”
The storm-like intensity finally subsided, replaced by a series of light pecks. Little by little, she tried to feel the full extent of her Senior Sister’s tenderness with all her being
The once high and unreachable, cool and aloof First Disciple of the Immortal Lord.
What was so great about that?
Han Xiao thought this in a daze, her hand hooking around Jiang Chunai’s.
Those cool and detached appearances were merely a form of restraint.
And when that restraint was pushed to its limit, it would rebound, planting a different kind of attachment deep within her bones and blood.
It was a craving for life.
“Senior Sister… shall we go on a boat?” Jiang Chunai murmured, her lips brushing lightly against Han Xiao’s ear as she made the suggestion.
Han Xiao: “On a boat?”
There were indeed small, drifting boats on this river, but the largest of them could only hold three people. If they were to get on one, it certainly wouldn’t be for the proper business of crossing the river.
“Mhm, let’s go on a boat. This time, I’ll be the one to carry Senior Sister over,” Jiang Chunai whispered with a low laugh, adding, “Don’t hold a grudge against A’li anymore, okay? Besides, didn’t we already promise her?”
Having promised her, they still had to produce.
This request had certainly surprised them both.
“So we should go on the boat?” Han Xiao said after a moment’s hesitation.
She wasn’t sure if Jiang Chunai was using some kind of illusionary art at this moment, which would explain why she felt as if she were drifting in the clouds.
Light and airy, as if at any moment, she could fall into a boundless dream of romance.
In fact, Jiang Chunai did just that.
She brought Han Xiao to the riverbank, but they didn’t land on a boat.
When Han Xiao opened her eyes, she could only see, through the latticed window of a painted pleasure boat, the countless points of lantern light on the riverbank being pushed along by the waves.
This must be Jiang Chunai’s illusion, she thought.
Before her consciousness faded, she saw only Jiang Chunai, her amber eyes shimmering with a magnificent, strange light.
After that, they kissed in the middle of the river, weaving a tapestry of alternating cold and heat.
Han Xiao couldn’t see much clearly. She could only vaguely perceive the glittering ripples of the river, with waves pushing out, one after another.
As for the thousands of lamps and candles inside the painted boat, they too seemed to rise and fall with the waves, burning, burning with an even more ambiguous glow.
“Senior Sister…” Jiang Chunai murmured, gently licking her collarbone.
She loved to watch her, the way she unfurled for her. The sight of her moved by passion was too alluring.
There was just one thing Han Xiao couldn’t understand. She had stumbled onto the painted boat, and after an unknown amount of time, she could only feel a scorching flame burning within her, while her body was pressed tightly against something cold.
And there was another, even stranger place, entwining and enveloping her, bone-chillingly cold, yet wrapping around her with the heat of a blazing fire.
Her sensitive nerves contracted sharply, then instantly relaxed, almost to the point of spasming.
There was no one else on the painted boat. Outside, the waves pushed further and higher.
It was as strange as a pot of cold water being brought to a boil.
Someone was still kissing her.
Was it a person?
Han Xiao grew more and more confused. A person, most likely, would not have such a long tongue, would they?
To call it a person, it was more like a snake’s tongue.
A shared species, a single life, a single call.
They felt each other’s kisses.
What did Junior Sister’s kiss feel like? Like a spring breeze that blew open her tightly coiled limbs; on every lonely surface of water, a hundred damp lotuses bloomed.
Drip, drip, drip, drip.
She closed her eyes, only faintly sensing, listening to the damp sounds of water, the hissing of a flicking tongue, and the beat of her own heart.
…
If a diligent cultivator, sleepless in the dead of night, happened to wander to the riverbank, they might see two snakes, coiled and mating on a single small boat.
That was indeed a matter that required time.
Learning that her mother wouldn’t be going out for a while, Tianli’s mood was a mix of ups and downs.
When her little friend Lanxin came to find her a few times, she had to be evasive. She was usually out for seven or eight days every ten days, and if her mother found out, she would definitely be scolded, so she had to hide it.
Playing with Lanxin was already constrained, let alone anything else!
But despite her unhappiness, Tianli was actually happy about something—
That’s right.
The wish she had so sincerely made to her two mothers at the dinner table that time—they had promised, and they had delivered!
If she couldn’t go out to play with Lanxin, then so be it. She had to stay at home and wait for her mother to give birth to her adorable little sisters.
Although her mother was now a snake, she was still a beautiful snake.
Red and white, with the exact same colors as her own body!
Well, in parts.
She was exhausting herself for her little sisters, so it went without saying that her other mother, who loved this mother more than anyone in the world, was finding new ways every day to make food suitable for her to eat.
Because laying eggs required a snake’s true form, her mother had to appear as a snake for these two months.
Or rather, not appear before people at all.
Right now, Tianli was carrying a food box, intending to bring it in for her mother to eat.
She knocked on the door politely and said, “Mother, I’ve brought you something to eat.”
However, there was no movement from inside.
Tianli frowned slightly. Her mother had never been one to oversleep, and she always responded as long as she heard Tianli call from outside.
Why was there no reaction today?
With this strange thought in mind, Tianli knocked on the door again and called out loudly, “Mother, I’m coming in!”
To be honest, this was the first time Tianli had ever felt so nervous pushing open the door.
Because the date for her mother to lay the snake eggs was getting closer and closer…
She was about to have her own little sisters! How many would there be?
However, after entering the room, the furnishings were all as usual.
As usual was a good thing, of course, but the strange thing was, Tianli couldn’t see her mother anywhere.
“Huh? Mother? Mother, where have you gone?” Tianli’s heart suddenly dropped, and she searched everywhere for her mother’s trail.
A quick first search yielded nothing. Panicked, Tianli put down the food box and began to search meticulously.
Ever since her mother had been waiting to give birth, she had stayed in this small room. The room wasn’t large; no matter where she went, she couldn’t have gone far.
Where could Mother have gone?
Tianli looked left and right. As her gaze swept over the rafters, it paused for no reason, but then quickly moved on.
…How could Mother be coiled on the rafters! She was such a proper person, after all!
Although Tianli herself liked to coil on the rafters, her mother would absolutely never like to coil on the rafters and do something so secretive. Not only would her mother not coil on the rafters to do such a shady thing, her other mother wouldn’t either.
No, to be precise, her other mother especially wouldn’t!
The reason went without saying.
Tianli considered herself the person who understood them best in the world.
After a moment of wild thoughts, Tianli searched again, and finally, using her spiritual energy to sense, she detected her mother’s spiritual energy in a cabinet.
Tianli immediately became cautious. She carefully knocked on the sandalwood cabinet and whispered, “Mother, you’re in there, right? It’s A’li.”
There was no sound from inside the cabinet.
Tianli thought for a moment, summoned her courage, and knocked on the cabinet door again, saying, “Mother, I’m opening it.”
They were mother and daughter, both snakes, and with her spiritual sense, it was impossible for Tianli not to know that her mother was inside this cabinet.
She gently pulled open the cabinet door.
Her mother was indeed as beautiful as she had imagined, a mix of red and white. It was just that due to the pregnancy, her body was twice as wide as before. She was coiled up somewhat lazily and listlessly, only gathering her energy when she saw Tianli arrive, nudging her snake head closer to her hand.
Tianli didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. “Mother, I like dark places too, but why did you hide in the cabinet today?”
Perhaps pregnant snakes were just moody.
The red and white snake looked at her, her pupils still amber, tinged with a faint gold.
After a moment of looking into the snake’s eyes, Tianli quickly remembered her purpose. She hurriedly opened the food box, took out the food, and carefully offered it to her mother’s… flicking tongue.
After all, a snake was eating, so her mother hadn’t been able to eat delicate pastries these days.
She and her other mother had to take good care of her. According to her other mother, she herself had been an egg taken from this mother.
So this time… it was her mother giving birth to her little sisters.
However, when she brought the food to the snake’s mouth, her mother only glanced at it with annoyance and didn’t eat.
Huh?
Not only did her mother not eat, but she gave her one last deep look before coiling back on herself.
It seemed she really wasn’t going to eat and wanted to continue resting.
“Mother?” Tianli called out again in her clear voice.
At the same time, a voice appeared in her ear.
It said that there was no need to feed her.
She didn’t want to eat, and there was no need to bring her anything for the next ten days, not until she had laid the snake eggs.
So be it.
Tianli patted her own head and said, “Alright, I understand. I’ll go now, Mother. If anything happens, just call me like this, and I’ll come.”
After speaking, Tianli picked up the food her mother hadn’t eaten, put it back in the food box, and left.
This dead mouse, if a snake wouldn’t eat it, she and her other mother wouldn’t eat it either. She had to find a place to dispose of it.
As she walked out, Tianli’s mind was still racing: What was it like when she was born?
Was her other mother also like this mother, uninterested and hiding in a cabinet, not wanting to go anywhere or see anyone?
Tianli wanted to know, but she wouldn’t ask right now.
Her other mother was indeed someone who wouldn’t lie, but sometimes, for questions she wouldn’t answer, she truly wouldn’t answer.
Like this question, Tianli believed that if her first mother wasn’t present, her other mother wouldn’t tell her.
Then she would just have to wait until her mother laid those snake eggs! Tianli thought.
Ten days passed in the blink of an eye.
Han Xiao and Tianli had long prepared a warm, damp environment for the mother snake to lay her eggs.
Even though it was indoors, they had specially dug a small, slightly concave pit:
The walls of the pit were finely polished, smooth and regular.
The bottom was covered with fine sand, mixed with a small amount of crushed moss. It felt warm and damp to the touch, most suitable for life to sprout.
Han Xiao had Tianli cast a spell, filling the air with a fresh, watery vapor mixed with the scent of decaying leaves.
They both waited with bated breath for the new lives to arrive.
The closer it got to the time of laying, the more agitated the mother snake seemed to become. She didn’t want to see them, only coiling up by herself, nestled on the decaying leaves.
Han Xiao’s eyelashes trembled, her heart pounding ever faster. Tianli had never experienced this before either and just tugged on her mother’s sleeve, asking in a small voice, “Mother, was I born like this? Was my other mother not there watching over you?”
Han Xiao shook her head. “No, it wasn’t.”
“Then what was it like?” Tianli tilted her head. “Did you not want anyone to see you back then either?”
It wasn’t that she didn’t want anyone to see her.
At that time, Han Xiao had very much wanted Jiang Chunai to see her.
“No, I wished your mother was there.”
“Wished? So Mother wasn’t there?” Tianli’s eyes widened in surprise.
However, she didn’t get an answer from Han Xiao, because over by the decaying leaves, there was a sound:
The mother snake’s body trembled slightly, and her abdomen began to contract rhythmically.
Han Xiao’s and Tianli’s hearts leaped into their throats. They held their breath, their eyes fixed on the mother snake:
A single, crystalline snake egg slowly slid out, round and glossy. Against the backdrop of decaying leaves and sand, it looked like a precious pearl.
“It’s happening, it’s happening! It looks like there are two! Are they twins?” Tianli exclaimed in delight.
“That doesn’t seem to be the right way to put it,” Han Xiao said faintly.
They were snake eggs, after all.