Marry First, Love Later With The White Cat Princess - Chapter 120

Observing the cat’s “insubordinate” posture as she pressed down from above, Liu Fenyun smiled and pulled her into her arms, teasing, “It seems Yiyi doesn’t want to be a ‘Pillow Princess’ tonight.”

Lian Yi shook her head, her face flushing as she lay against her. “Actually, I want to…”

“Aren’t you afraid I’m too drunk and might be too rough?” Liu Fenyun reminded her. “Let’s rest first. I’ll make it up to you another day.”

“No, if tonight passes, it won’t count as the wedding night anymore,” Lian Yi insisted, refusing to get off. “There would be no sense of ceremony.”

Liu Fenyun remembered that the cat had a very strong sense of ritual. After a moment of thought, she relaxed her body. “Fine, you do it then. I don’t feel like moving anyway.”

Lian Yi, however, indignantly pinched her cheek. “You can’t just stay still! You have to cooperate! If I wanted to take advantage of you while you’re down, I would have started already!”

Seeing her pouting expression, Liu Fenyun’s smile suddenly faded.

She leaned closer to the cat and took a deep breath. A thick scent of alcohol hit her. It turned out the smell wasn’t coming from herself, but from the cat. Realization dawned on her. “So you’re actually drunker than I am.”

“I’m not drunk, I’m perfectly sober,” Lian Yi muttered. “I’m not like you, collapsing after a few cups and needing someone to carry you back!”

Liu Fenyun didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. “How much ‘Cat Wine’ did you drink with the War Goddess and the others?”

“Monkey Wine” referred to fine spirits brewed accidentally by monkeys, since the War Goddess and her envoys were all cats, Liu Fenyun often jokingly called their creations “Cat Wine.”

Lian Yi held up a palm. Liu Fenyun instinctively thought she was going to swat her and closed her eyes for a few seconds. When she opened them, the palm was still in mid-air. She asked tentatively, “Five cups?”

“Five jars.”

Liu Fenyun couldn’t help but roll over, pushing Lian Yi back to the side. She reached out to rub the cat’s belly; sure enough, it was bulging.

“Little drunk cat.” She sighed, preparing to use magic to sober her up, when a sudden blast of wine-scented breath hit her face as Lian Yi unceremoniously pried her mouth open.

Lian Yi was acting reckless under the influence. Liu Fenyun felt as if the drunk cat had turned into a giant, heavy, clingy wine jar. No wonder the cat said she still wanted to be a Pillow Princess in this state, if she tried to “act,” she’d probably be too exhausted to get up.

Finally breaking free from the sticky, drunken cat, Liu Fenyun hurriedly touched her belly again. But before she could circulate her magic, Lian Yi grabbed her wrist.

“Why are you touching my belly?” Lian Yi glared at her. “The kitten is still developing, it’s not born yet. What are you in such a hurry for?”

Liu Fenyun: ??!

She thought for a terrifying second she had been cheated on. Startled, she sent her spiritual sense inward to check, only to find that Lian Yi wasn’t carrying any kittens at all. She breathed a sigh of relief.

But Lian Yi was convinced she was pregnant. Sensing that Liu Fenyun’s hand hadn’t moved, she grew even more annoyed. “Don’t touch it! If you rub it away, where am I going to get a new one!”

Before Liu Fenyun could explain, she received a bite on the arm.

A protective mother cat bites without mercy. Liu Fenyun felt a sharp pain and looked down to see blood drawn. Her head throbbed. “Stop talking nonsense. You aren’t pregnant. I already checked.”

They had agreed to wait until they reached the Future City to have kittens, and even then, they wouldn’t be carried naturally but nurtured in specialized containers. Why was this drunk cat so fixated on this!

The biting cat froze, looking up at her blankly.

“No kittens?” Lian Yi tilted her head, patting her rounded belly. She frowned. “Aren’t they right here? Don’t lie to me. If I’m carrying them, I have to protect them!”

Liu Fenyun: …

Should she try to make the drunk cat throw up first?

Realizing that logic wouldn’t work, Liu Fenyun played along. “I know, I know. They’re right here.”

Lian Yi glared. “Be gentler!”

“Okay, okay!” Liu Fenyun moved her hand away, only to have the cat grab it and press it back down. She looked at the biter in utter confusion.

“We haven’t named it yet.” Lian Yi’s gaze softened. “Better to name it early so we can call out to it and let it get familiar.”

Liu Fenyun’s scalp felt numb with awkwardness. On their wedding night, her drunk wife was rubbing a wine bloated belly and discussing names for an embryo that didn’t even exist?!

Since the cat wouldn’t let her dispel the alcohol, and she didn’t want to force it, she braced herself and asked, “What does Yiyi want to call it then?”

Lian Yi said without hesitation, “Liu Nianyi (Liu Yearns for Yi).”

Liu Fenyun: …

That was a very “token of our love” kind of name.

Fortunately, the drunk cat didn’t say much more before falling into a deep sleep. Holding the limp, cat-pancake like Lian Yi, Liu Fenyun finally managed to sober her up.

Lian Yi rarely blacked out when drinking, but this time she did. The next day, when Liu Fenyun intentionally brought up the “kitten,” Lian Yi showed no unusual reaction, only smiling with anticipation. “So, when are we leaving for the future?”

Liu Fenyun didn’t press further. She took out the Mortal Realm Guidance Compass gifted by the Goddess of Dreams. “I’ll go learn how to time travel now.”

While Lian Yi packed their luggage, Liu Fenyun went alone to find Qi Niao to ask how to travel through time safely.

Upon hearing her request, Qi Niao asked in surprise, “To travel safely, you just need precise positioning. Meng Wu gave you the guidance compass, so what’s the problem?”

“You are the Goddess of Time. Before you ascended, you were a Xuanmo, a magical beast born with the ability to traverse space time. Of course you think it’s easy,” Liu Fenyun rubbed her temples. “But I’m not! I only got to this world through the ‘Laws of Heaven’ forcibly swapping worlds.”

Qi Niao held the compass, pondered for a moment, and suggested, “How about I use this to take you through a few times so you can get a feel for it? Honestly, this is an innate skill, as easy as eating or drinking. I don’t know how to ‘teach’ it…”

Liu Fenyun gave a wry smile. “Let’s just try it then. I believe I’m a fast learner.”

Qi Niao found a quiet room and set up several barriers to prevent their divine essence from leaking. Once finished, she lightly tapped her foot. Instantly, a teleportation array spread out beneath them.

Liu Fenyun: ??? How did you do that? I didn’t see anything!

She stopped Qi Niao’s movement and pointed at the array. “How do you do that? I didn’t hear you chant or see any hand seals!”

She knew gods could tear through boundaries, but she had never tried. When she ascended years ago, the guidance officer had pulled her up from the mortal realm.

Qi Niao blinked, retracted the array, and frowned. “Isn’t it just… you tap your foot and the array comes out?”

Liu Fenyun: … My heart is complicated.

She finally understood why Qi Niao was designated as the Goddess of Time.

It had to be said that while Qi Niao was peerless in practice, she was a terrible teacher.

Seeing the confusion on Liu Fenyun’s face, Qi Niao said helplessly, “I can’t break down the magic into steps… Why don’t you ask the Goddess of Fate? She hasn’t returned to the God Realm yet.”

As she spoke, she teleported the Goddess of Fate, Duan Xuan, directly from the guest room to her side.

Duan Xuan wasn’t even fully awake. She was wearing a nightcap, half-open pajamas, and was barefoot on the cold floor, wearing the same confused expression as Liu Fenyun.

After waking up, Duan Xuan took the compass, examined it, and said casually, “This is simple.”

She then wrote a long string of incantations in the air using spiritual energy, the text was nearly as tall as a person.

Liu Fenyun asked suspiciously, “Are you messing with me? Can you really chant all that in the time it takes to tap a foot?”

Duan Xuan instinctively reached to push up her glasses, realized they hadn’t been teleported with her, and rubbed her forehead instead. “Why are you comparing yourself to an ancient beast ancestor who was born with time traveling abilities?”

Despite her complaining, she eventually broke down the spell for Liu Fenyun and simplified the incantation.

Liu Fenyun practiced several solo jumps, then dragged Duan Xuan, who was trying to go back to sleep, for more practice. She recorded the spells and details into her system until she felt confident.

“When do you plan to leave?” Duan Xuan asked before departing.

Liu Fenyun said, “I’ll go to the Kingdom of Zhuhuang first to visit some old friends and bring them some wedding candy…”

“I advise you to take Yiyi straight to the future and skip Zhuhuang,” Duan Xuan’s face suddenly darkened. “Recently, Zhuhuang has been at war with Shengkun City. After diplomatic compromises, to prevent unnecessary casualties, both sides have decided on a political marriage. It should be happening these few days.”

“It is taboo for gods to interfere in history outside of their missions. Currently, the history of the human realm no longer includes Liu Fenyun and Lian Yi. The Great Deity can grant Yiyi a blessing, but can also use it to monitor you. If you truly interfere, the consequences need no explanation.”

Hearing this, Liu Fenyun fell silent for a moment. “Since you’ve predicted we would interfere, the marriage partner from Zhuhuang must be the Seventh Princess, Sha Lanyi, right?”

“Knowing too much only brings trouble,” Duan Xuan warned coldly. “Her fate was sealed long ago. A divine envoy’s possession already changed her destiny once, it cannot happen again. Furthermore, this was her own choice. Anyone else in that position would have chosen the same.”

“I understand, don’t worry.” Liu Fenyun sighed, trying to lighten the mood. “You, whenever you enter ‘work mode,’ you become so heartless. Doesn’t it feel bad?”

“I’ve let things slide many times already.” Duan Xuan straightened her nightcap, self-deprecatingly saying, “You might not know, but I was recently warned by the Great Deity for being too lenient. Soon, I will have to undergo a trial myself. When that time comes, feel free to sit with the other gods and laugh at my misfortune.”

Qi Niao frowned, wanting to mediate, but Duan Xuan summoned a teleportation array. With her back to them, she whispered, “Jin Fei suffered divine punishment for changing a mortal’s fate, and her soul still hasn’t recovered. I am also protecting you…”

As the Goddess of Fate, she was meant to be heartless. If she sympathized with mortals out of personal bias, who would sympathize with her or her colleagues when they were punished?

Someone always has to pay the price for compassion.

The sour parting with the Goddess of Fate was just a small interlude. Both Liu Fenyun and Qi Niao knew she wasn’t a bad person, sitting in that position simply required a cold heart.

“Then I suppose I can’t go to Zhuhuang. Yiyi received kindness from the Seventh Princess, she wouldn’t be able to stand seeing her become a sacrificial lamb for the court.” Liu Fenyun smiled bitterly. “Please pass the wedding candy to Yu Qingyue and Luo Binglun for me.”

Qi Niao nodded. Seeing her looking dejected, she consoled, “Don’t be too pessimistic. Duan Xuan didn’t say Sha Lanyi would definitely…”

Liu Fenyun waved her hand to show she understood. When things are destined to be unchangeable, it’s better not to harbor too much hope, sometimes that leads to a better outcome.

Accompanying them to the future were Lian Yi’s two cat-demon subordinates. When Liu Fenyun bid farewell to Qi Niao and the City Lord of Kongmeng and returned to the palace, Lian Yi had already gathered the cats.

The cats bowed to Liu Fenyun and asked cautiously, “Lord Goddess, are you still returning to Zhuhuang?”

Liu Fenyun had intended to, but after hearing the Goddess of Fate, she said, “Not for now. If we go back now, we’ll disturb the people there.”

“Did something happen in Zhuhuang?” Lian Yi frowned.

“Yes, but gods cannot intervene. This is a matter that can only be handled by mortals.” Seeing her disappointment, Liu Fenyun reached out to stroke her head. “Have faith in the High Priest and Yu Qingyue.”

“…True, with them there, Zhuhuang will be fine.” Thinking of Luo Binglun and Yu Qingyue, Lian Yi felt relieved. She smiled at Liu Fenyun. “Let’s go then. We’ll have a chance to return later.”

With the divine essence clearing her head the night before, Lian Yi had fully recovered, waiting only for Liu Fenyun to take her home.

Liu Fenyun put the two cats into the medicinal garden space. After setting up the barriers, she took out the guidance compass and skillfully arranged the time-travel array. Lian Yi stood beside her, nervous and excited.

Finishing the long incantation, Liu Fenyun tapped the compass with her finger, injecting divine essence. White light rose from beneath their feet, quickly enveloping them.

“Time travel commencing. Beginning countdown…”

The system’s mechanical female voice rang in Liu Fenyun’s ear. As the countdown ended, the white light intensified, and a pulling force came from below.

Liu Fenyun held Lian Yi tight, closed her eyes, and covered Lian Yi’s eyes as well.

When she opened them again, the surroundings were no longer the palace of Kongmeng City, but the bedroom she had lived in for over twenty years.

Five days later, the bridal procession from Zhuhuang arrived outside Shengkun City.

That night, Sha Lanyi, dressed in her wedding robes, sat on the bed in the sleeping quarters. Wearing a red veil, she waited calmly and quietly for her husband to enter.

Though it was a political marriage, she had not seen her husband since entering the city.

However, before coming here, Sha Lanyi had prepared for the worst. She had died once before and did not fear death. Regardless of what happened to her after tonight, the war between Shengkun City and Zhuhuang would stop.

She had volunteered to come. Before leaving, she had found a successor for the position of Holy Maiden and said a proper goodbye to her mentor, Luo Binglun. Her mentor had tried to persuade her for days, but seeing her resolve, could only sigh and see her out of the city.

Sha Lanyi looked down at her hands, a faint smile on her face. There were no regrets in her heart.

Before long, the doors to the chamber were pushed open, followed by a light, quick set of footsteps.

“You must be hungry! I brought you some food. Eat quickly, don’t starve yourself.”

Before Sha Lanyi could react, the red veil was lifted by the newcomer.

It was a woman also dressed in wedding robes, though she wasn’t wearing a phoenix crown. She held a food box and was smiling brightly at her.

” I really hate those old fogies, worrying about showing their authority even during a peace marriage!” As the woman opened the food box and set out the dishes one by one, she rambled, “Being hungry is the worst. If they want to starve you, I won’t allow it!”

“And you are?” Sha Lanyi was stunned, not knowing who this person was.

“I am your…” The woman blinked, propping her chin in her hand as she thought for a moment. “I don’t know if you can accept the title ‘Wife Lord’? But I heard the fire god teachings in Zhuhuang forbid same-sex love. If you can’t accept it, just call me by name. I am Feng Jiyue, as in ‘clear breeze and bright moon’.”

For a follower of the fire god’s teachings, marrying a woman was indeed considered a great humiliation. But Sha Lanyi had known since childhood that she, like her mother, was actually attracted to women. To now be married to the Third Princess of Shengkun City felt like a blessing from heaven.

Shengkun City prioritized women, it seemed that was indeed the case.

Sha Lanyi nodded slightly, stood up to bow to her, and said softly, “This humble one greets the Wife Lord.”

(End of Main Story)