Marry First, Love Later With The White Cat Princess - Chapter 117

Because of the time formation Qi Niao had left behind, when the two of them opened their eyes together, everything around them seemed to be frozen in time.

Liu Fenyun let out a sigh of relief when she heard the system notification. She had been dazed by the cat’s “cub coaxing” and had forgotten to set up a formation to slow the passage of time fortunately, she had a reliable friend by her side.

With a wave of her hand, she dispelled the formation and leaned over to check on Lian Yi’s condition. Lian Yi remained lying on her back, meeting her gaze with a smile.

“How do you feel?” Liu Fenyun couldn’t help but ask. “Is it comfortable?”

“My head aches a little, but it’s bearable.” Lian Yi blinked. “A-Yun, can you tell me about the side effects of Bujianchou (Sorrow B Gone)?”

Liu Fenyun nodded and explained it to her in as much detail as possible.

The primary side effect of Bujianchou was related to memory. Secondly, it caused slight damage to the sea of consciousness. To excise specific memories, one had to enter the sea of consciousness to guide the medicinal effects, if a non-cultivator accidentally consumed it, they would essentially face total amnesia.

As for other side effects, they were merely headaches, nausea, or abdominal pain, things that would vanish once the medicine wore off and could be ignored.

After listening, Lian Yi suddenly sat up. Before Liu Fenyun could speak, she leaned over and fell directly into her arms.

Liu Fenyun: “??!”

“Where does it hurt? Hmm?” she asked hurriedly.

“Headache,” Lian Yi said willfully, hugging her waist.

“I’ll massage it for you!” Liu Fenyun quickly began kneading her head, sliding her fingers into the snow white hair and applying very gentle pressure to the scalp.

Lian Yi obediently let her massage her head and ears. After a long while, she suddenly said, “I seem to have forgotten many things, yet it also feels like I haven’t forgotten anything at all.”

Liu Fenyun instinctively checked the Affection Panel. To her surprise, only the maxed out “Affection” remained; the “Blackening Value” column had completely disappeared.

“What is Lian Yi’s current Blackening Value?” she asked the system.

“Deeply sorry, the value for the subject mentioned by the Host has been hidden and cannot be viewed,” the system replied.

Liu Fenyun nearly jumped in shock. Being “hidden” didn’t mean it had disappeared in fact, it arguably made it harder to control. She stopped her hands, feeling a headache of her own coming on.

She had excised many negative memories for the cat, and according to the cat’s wishes, she had preserved the encounters where pain and warmth intertwined from when she first arrived in the Zhuhuang Kingdom. Logically, there shouldn’t be any more issues.

“So… did the treatment for the yandere tendencies fail?” she asked the system weakly. “But there shouldn’t be a problem with the prescription? Why didn’t the Blackening Value vanish, but was hidden instead?!”

“Not necessarily, Host,” the system gave an ambiguous answer. “Hidden does not mean treatment failure. On the contrary, it can be viewed as Lian Yi proactively stepping out of it herself.”

Liu Fenyun froze. “But it being hidden makes it even harder for me to read her mind…”

“But she doesn’t know you can see the Blackening Value,” the system reminded her. “The system panel is only bound to a God, and only a God can see its contents. Of course, the Medicine Garden space is an exception, as that was an open space you specifically requested to keep.”

Lian Yi, noticing the lack of touch, looked up in surprise. Seeing Liu Fenyun dazed, she leaned in and gently nudged her chin with her cat ears.

“Meow~” she let out a soft, tender cry.

Liu Fenyun snapped back to reality, wearing her trademark smile as she pulled her into an embrace and stroked her back. “Still feeling unwell?”

“It doesn’t hurt if you pet my fur,” Lian Yi teased coquettishly.

Liu Fenyun stayed with her in the clinic for another half-day, treating it as observation time. She felt the cat had become even clingier, which reminded her of the days before her ascension and her leisurely life in the God Realm.

That evening at dinner, Liu Fenyun brought the big white cat along to meet Qi Niao and the City Lord of Kongmeng, Fu Yao.

Qi Niao took the opportunity to pet the cat’s fur a few times and laughed. “It seems Yi-yi’s state has returned to normal. Perfect, the wedding is the day after tomorrow, there’s still time to prepare.”

“Is the date the day after tomorrow?” Fu Yao was slightly surprised. She was busy governing and expanding territory, so she didn’t pay much attention to such trivialities. “The little fox from Qingyan City hasn’t sent word either.”

“Oh, LiuLiu and the others hadn’t returned yet, so the little fox said it could be delayed. Even if it isn’t, the Fox Clan has time to organize a wedding,” Qi Niao said, placing a shrimp dumpling in Fu Yao’s bowl. “It’s no big deal, even the people involved aren’t in a hurry.”

Liu Fenyun gave a bitter smile. “Actually, I am in a hurry…”

She was in a hurry to leave this world to accumulate her tribulation time so she could return to the God Realm sooner and she was in a hurry to get a “cub” for the cat.

Lian Yi, nibbling on fermented rice balls, looked at Liu Fenyun upon hearing this, expecting her to explain the urgency. They had returned so early, and she still hadn’t guessed the reason. However, after speaking, Liu Fenyun just buried her head in her rice and didn’t say another word.

“If you’re in a hurry, go for a stroll in the city tonight. You’ll likely catch the little fox,” Qi Niao laughed. “That child loves the city fireworks. It’s just that she had no one to accompany her before, and the Old Fox wouldn’t let her out alone. Now that she has Yin Sa, she can run through the entire Demon Realm.”

Liu Fenyun quickly sped up her eating. Lian Yi put two pieces of sweet and sour pork in her bowl and followed suit, devouring her meal.

Fu Yao couldn’t watch any longer. “Why such a rush? Even if you see them tonight, you can’t marry until the day after tomorrow.”

“You have some nerve talking about others! Think about how rushed you were back then!” Qi Niao snapped. “My memories hadn’t even returned, and you rolled me up in a blanket, demanding I be your lady. You didn’t even want to go through the wedding process before the wedding night, did you forget how the court ministers couldn’t bear to watch”

Fu Yao immediately lowered her eyes in embarrassment, her wings tucking in. Beneath the table, she squeezed Qi Niao’s hand slightly, her crimson eyes meeting hers with a look of extreme grievance.

Wasn’t she just trying to soothe the newcomers? And she got scolded for it? Her dark history was even aired out by her own wife.

Fu Yao: I am so aggrieved.

Fortunately, Liu Fenyun and Lian Yi were both eager to leave the table. Neither cared about Fu Yao’s past; they finished their food, bid farewell, and took the Lotus Throne to the streets.

The streets were indeed holding a fireworks festival. Guided by the system map, Liu Fenyun quickly found Tushan Shuo and Yin Sa wandering around.

Tushan Shuo had just taken a candied hawthorn skewer from Yin Sa. She opened her small fangs to take a bite when she smelled a familiar scent nearby. She turned around, saw it was a friend, and her eyes crinkled into crescents as her nine fox tails wagged behind her.

“You’re back?” Tushan Shuo smiled. “Perfect. If we start preparing tomorrow morning, we can still make the wedding date.”

As she spoke, Yin Sa silently stood behind her, reaching out to support the fox tails to prevent them from sweeping into a nearby candied hawthorn stall.

Liu Fenyun nodded. The group found a place to sit where they could watch the fireworks and have some snacks while they discussed the wedding details. As they chatted, the topic shifted back to the human realm.

“The Zhuhuang Kingdom you were in before has been clashing with Shengkun City lately,” Tushan Shuo said, a hawthorn in her mouth making her cheeks bulge. “Those are both major powers in the human realm, and they belong to different races. When war breaks out, many small places suffer. Luckily you helped me bring Sasa home, otherwise, she would have definitely suffered!”

Liu Fenyun remembered that Yin Sa was once the guardian spirit beast of Shengkun City, and that Yu Qingyue had followed Luo Binglun back to the Zhuhuang Kingdom to serve as its guardian. The thought sent a chill down her spine. “If Yin Sa hadn’t returned to the Demon Realm…”

“She might have had to cross blades with Physician Yu and the Great Priest,” Lian Yi finished the thought. “Since that won’t happen now, A-Yun shouldn’t think too much about it! Miss Tushan, is there still time to take us to see the wedding clothes tonight?”

When they had settled on the wedding date last time, they had pre-ordered two sets of specialized “wife-wife” wedding robes. The Demon Realm’s view on gender was far less rigid than the human realm’s, weddings between two women or two men were not unusual.

“Mhm! Of course there’s time!” Tushan Shuo swallowed the fruit and nodded repeatedly. “We demons don’t need to sleep like humans do. If you want to see them, I’ll take you!”

The cities were connected by teleportation arrays, but flying artifacts could also be used. Lian Yi didn’t want them to spend money unnecessarily, so after leaving the city, she proactively summoned the Green Ghost Lotus Throne, which expanded in the wind to a size that could seat four.

Tushan Shuo had never sat on a flying artifact like this. She climbed on excitedly, while Yin Sa circled the throne, inspecting it closely with a soft “eh?” of surprise. “This artifact was actually forged from a spiritual plant? Such craftsmanship… I’ve never seen it in the human or demon realms. Could it be from the Upper Realm?”

“Just as you thought.” Lian Yi pulled Liu Fenyun up, stroking the ring made from the Green Ghost Lotus on her finger, smiling as if showing off. “It’s an engagement token from A-Yun.”

Liu Fenyun looked dazed upon hearing this. She was gently tugged by her sleeve by Lian Yi before she nodded and replied, “Yes, I gave it to her. But this ring is actually…”

She remembered that when the cat received the ring, she had specifically reminded her that engagement tokens needed a sense of “ritual.” Since Liu Fenyun hadn’t created a sense of ritual when giving it, the ring didn’t “count” as a wedding ring and was just an ordinary decorative ring.

“This ring is very practical, and the flight is stable,” Lian Yi interrupted, steering the conversation away from Liu Fenyun’s explanation. “You two will know once you experience it.”

She didn’t give Liu Fenyun a chance to explain and steered the Lotus Throne toward Qingyan City.

The night breeze brushed their faces as the green lotus petals surrounding the throne unfurled in the wind.

Feeling the wind, Liu Fenyun still couldn’t understand why the cat had suddenly changed her tune. Was it because she thought there wasn’t time to buy a wedding ring?

But that didn’t make sense, if the Fox Clan had a place for wedding robes, they surely had a place for wedding rings. When she walked through the palace in Qingyan City before, she had seen several fox demons wearing them!

Filled with confusion, Liu Fenyun watched as the Lotus Throne soared into the sky, bathed in moonlight, and slowly descended toward Qingyan City.

Although the city had a defensive array, Tushan Shuo possessed the Nine-Tails bloodline and could “scan” her way in. Thus, as soon as the throne touched the edge of the array, it slipped through smoothly, bypassing the gates and floating toward the inner city.

Inside the palace was a hall specifically for storing wedding attire. Once the throne landed at the designated spot, Tushan Shuo walked ahead excitedly, pushing open the hall doors herself to lead the way.

“You can try them on to see if they fit and if the accessories look good. If there’s anything you’re unhappy with, there’s still time to change it now~” Once they arrived, Tushan Shuo ordered her subordinates to fetch the robes and smiled at the two of them, revealing her tiny fangs.