Chapter 579. Approve (2/2)

“Lass, are you sure that this creature won’t harm you?” Zhu Junyang had seen the little lass wear the stone for many years. Although she was quite thin, she had never gotten sick. Furthermore, all of her family members were quite healthy and strong. Her parents were in their thirties but they looked around ten years younger. Her godparents were in their forties but they were more energetic and lively than people in their thirties. Furthermore, her godparents managed to have the miracle of having a child in their old age and had given Xiaocao a younger brother. Even the people around her seemed to have health benefits. His lady mother was a perfect example. Was this truly all related to this little stone that looked so unassuming?

When Yu Xiaocao found out that her man was merely worried about her, she revealed an incandescent smile and hurriedly reassured him, “Don’t worry ah! It not only won’t harm me but it also gives me benefits!”

In her heart, however, she castigated the little divine stone for being a meddler. What was it trying to do by appearing so suddenly? It actually even changed forms right in front of Zhu Junyang. How was she ever supposed to explain something so unimaginable? Fortunately, Zhu Junyang was only worried about her safety and didn’t ask her more about the stone. Otherwise, she really didn’t know what she was going to do. Was it better to skim over this event or just tell him everything?

Should she tell him that the original owner of this body had died early and that she was a lonely soul from hundreds of years later that took over? Or should she tell him that her soul had traveled through the millennium with the help of the multi-colored stone for the sole purpose of meeting him? Zhu Junyang had quite a bit of courage, so he shouldn’t be scared by this, right?

[Psh! Being cautious is truly a good character trait but there’s a line between being cautious and being a coward ah! This divine stone has been observing silently for a long time. Although this fellow’s outer appearance doesn’t give one the confidence of reliability, his actual character is quite different. You truly hit the jackpot with this one ah!] The little divine stone couldn’t help but sigh over this. How did this lass manage to come across one of the only good men in this world? Was it because that it, as the divine stone, had brought her good luck?

“Do you dare to say that more clearly?” Yu Xiaocao couldn’t resist the urge to roast the divine stone a bit but didn’t expect that she would actually say that out loud.

“Are you...talking to this prince? Or are you talking to that fellow?” Zhu Junyang continued to long-windedly lecture again to take care of herself and avoid getting hurt by that ‘stone spirit’. ‘Stone spirit’ was the name that he had given to the little divine stone.

Yu Xiaocao apologetically waved at a hand at him to tell him to ‘wait a second’ and continued to listen to the little divine stone’s ‘earnest thoughts’.

[Since you’ve decided on this fellow, that means, in the future, you will be spending the rest of your life with him. Are you planning on hiding this secret from him for a lifetime? Do you think you would be able to hide it ah? This fellow is a lot more shrewd and astute than you, a feeble-minded lass! Do you really believe that he hasn’t sensed that something was off in all these years? In the past two years, you’ve become less and less cautious for the sake of earning money and lost your head. Do you really think he’s that stupid that he doesn’t suspect something? Even if I, this divine stone, didn't appear today, he’s already around eighty to ninety percent close to the truth at this point!] The little divine stone lightly sighed. It didn’t know whether it should consider itself fortunate or not for being stuck with this type of troublesome master.

On one hand, it was lucky that it didn’t encounter a master who had extreme ambitions and wanted to use its powers to snatch the throne. Although this little lass used it like a little hamster slowly accumulating wealth, she also used its abilities to benefit the common people of the Great Ming Empire.

Those medicinal pills and tonics had cured many people and also saved a bunch of commoners from ailments that weren’t easily treated in this medically backwards society. Furthermore, her high-yielding crops had benefited an even larger percentage of the people, allowing them to gradually pull themselves out of poverty and starvation. As for the variety of fruits and vegetables she grew, this all increased the diversity of options for the people’s diets in the capital. All of these things allowed the stone to gradually regain its previous cultivation while also obtaining a lot of merits and good karma.

It was as the Buddhists said, “Everything in the world has karma”. In this strange and desolate dimension, it couldn’t easily throw off its shackles. The more virtue it accumulated, the more it would end up helping it in the future. How could it not rejoice that it had been stuck with a kind hearted and foolish little girl ah?

As for the flip side, how should it describe it? In order to regain its cultivation, it could only help its master, who didn’t have much ambitions beyond earning money, in doing some small things here and there. The thing that affected its spiritual strength the most was helping its master in some way or another.

The more help it gave, the more it recovered. However, if it could only help its master with some trivial matters, how long would it take before it finally regained all of its strength and was able to break through the shackles and return to the dimension where the Goddess Nuwa lived ah? Just thinking about its snail-like speed made it want to cry bitter tears.

“Everyone says that men are fickle creatures, so who can guarantee that he won’t change in this lifetime?” Yu Xiaocao interrupted the stone’s silent lamentations and muttered in a slightly melancholy tone.

Having been unceremoniously ignored this entire time, Zhu Junyang was keenly able to hear her grumbles. Apparently, the little lass had been silently criticizing him this entire time with that stupid stone! He raised a hand and knocked on her forehead. His gloomy voice had a hint of solemness to it, “Don’t worry! There are so many men around you, staring at you as if you’re their prey. How could I possibly bear to change my mind? This prince will only recognize you in this life and I don’t have any room in my heart for anyone else!”

[1] xuanhuan - a broad genre of fictional stories which remixes Chinese folklore/mythology with foreign elements & setting