Beauties in Simulation Cross over into Reality-Chapter 147 - 132: He Must Write It, or He’ll Be Buried With This Old Lady
Twenty years passed in the blink of an eye.
During his twenty years in Demon Suppression City, Xiao Mo had already become a Cultivator of the Jade Realm.
In those twenty years, Xiao Mo had lost count of how many members of the Demon Race he had killed.
Xiao Mo only knew that the Profound Ice within the piece of Amber hanging from his waist had already melted by half.
Also during these twenty years, waves of Xiao Mo’s students had come and gone, one after another.
Two of Xiao Mo’s three most prized disciples—Li Man and Zeng Songshi—had temporarily left Demon Suppression City to gain experience in the World of Ten Thousand Laws.
Xiao Mo was very happy they made this choice. One must not only read ten thousand scrolls, but also travel ten thousand miles, and more importantly, exchange ideas with various scholars of the Confucian School.
He wrote a letter for the two of them, telling them to present it at Bailu Academy.
But Xu Yuerou did not leave Xiao Mo.
Not only did Xu Yuerou not leave, she even became Xiao Mo’s assistant.
Xiao Mo didn’t think much of it. ’It’s nice to have someone to help out. When I’m too busy writing my book, I can have Yuerou help teach the children.’
’I just have to pay her a salary.’
Over time, the people of Demon Suppression City also came to call Xu Yuerou "Mr. Xu."
After her older sister married, Xu Yuerou bought a courtyard home next to Xiao Mo’s. She took it upon herself to look after his daily needs, allowing him to focus more on his writing.
Xiao Mo refused several times, saying it was inappropriate.
But Xu Yuerou was insistent, and Xiao Mo could do nothing about it.
The book Xiao Mo was writing, *Knowledge and Action Combined*, had reached its final stage, which was also the most difficult part.
Many times, Xiao Mo would sit in a daze in his courtyard for days on end.
One day, as Xiao Mo was painting in his courtyard, Xu Yuerou walked in carrying a box of pastries.
"Teacher, have some pastries. I just made them. I added some Osmanthus Moon Spirit Flower to help you relax."
Xu Yuerou placed the pastries beside Xiao Mo and poured him some tea.
"Thank you, Yuerou." Xiao Mo nodded. Without standing on ceremony, he picked up a flower-shaped pastry and took a bite.
Xu Yuerou looked at a painting on a nearby easel and asked in surprise, "Did you paint this, Teacher?"
"Yes," Xiao Mo said with a small smile. "I really don’t know how to start the final part of *Knowledge and Action Combined*, so I decided to just set it aside for a few days. With nothing else to do, I’ve been trying my hand at painting. But it’s been too long, my skills have grown rusty. If my senior sister saw this, she’d probably scold me."
"She wouldn’t," Xu Yuerou said, shaking her head. "This painting of yours is beautiful, Teacher!"
Xu Yuerou gazed at the woman in the painting.
It was an ink wash painting. The woman in the picture wore a long dress, her sleeves rolled up, as she hung laundry to dry in a courtyard.
Although the Teacher had only painted the woman’s profile, Xu Yuerou could still imagine her complete, devastatingly beautiful face.
Within the woman’s charming, almond-shaped eyes was a hint of innocence.
Even though she was hanging laundry, Xu Yuerou could feel that the woman’s eyes were filled with the person she loved.
"Teacher, who did you paint?" Xu Yuerou asked curiously. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎
"That’s my wife," Xiao Mo said with a smile.
"Eh?" Xu Yuerou was startled. "Teacher, you have a wife?"
"Mhm." Xiao Mo smiled and nodded, his gaze fixed on the woman in the painting. "She’s waiting for me to return, but I can’t go back just yet."
"Your wife must be a very gentle person, Teacher, right?" Xu Yuerou asked.
"Yes, she is very gentle. But in front of me, she’s always like a little girl, a bit silly, as if she’ll never grow up."
"That must be because she loves you very much, Teacher," Xu Yuerou said.
"Why do you say that?"
"Teacher, when a woman loves someone with all her heart, no matter how clever she is, she won’t be able to bring herself to grow up," Xu Yuerou explained.
"Hehehe, you’ve never even been in love, and yet you understand these things," Xiao Mo teased.
"Teacher... I’m a woman too..." Xu Yuerou grumbled.
"Hahaha, alright." Xiao Mo set down his brush. "Speaking of which, the City Lord has introduced you to quite a few young men. I thought some of them were pretty decent. You didn’t take a fancy to any of them?"
"No." Xu Yuerou poured Xiao Mo a cup of tea. "There was no one I liked."
"Then what kind of man do you like?" Xiao Mo asked curiously.
"I like..." Just as Xu Yuerou was about to speak, her eyes twinkled. "Someone as refined, as handsome, and as learned as you, Teacher."
"That would probably be quite difficult," Xiao Mo said, boasting unabashedly.
Xu Yuerou’s eyes curved into crescents. "And ideally, someone like you, Teacher—sometimes thin-skinned, and other times thick-skinned."
"AHEM..." Xiao Mo coughed a few times and tapped her on the head. "Still teasing your teacher, are you? Go on, shoo. Go to the City Lord’s Mansion."
"Why would I go to the City Lord’s Mansion?" Xu Yuerou asked, confused.
Xiao Mo shook his head. "The City Lord said she’s short a clerk to handle official business. I recommended you."
"But Teacher, if I leave, who will take care of your daily needs?" Xu Yuerou asked, worried.
"It won’t be necessary," Xiao Mo said with a smile. "After you leave, I’m going into seclusion. I’ve been writing *Knowledge and Action Combined* for so many years; it’s time I finished it."
...
"Seclusion."
In the City Lord’s Mansion of Demon Suppression City, He Yeye couldn’t help but chuckle when she heard what Xu Yuerou said.
’That guy could have gone into seclusion anytime, but he just had to pick now of all times.’
"Lord City Lord, what do you mean?" Xu Yuerou asked, not understanding.
He Yeye hopped onto the desk and tossed an urgent report to Xu Yuerou. "Take a look."
Xu Yuerou took the letter, opened it, and her eyes trembled.
He Yeye jumped off the desk, walked to the window, and gazed in the direction of the Great Wall of China.
"In the twenty years since the Human-Demon War began, although the Demon Race has been charging our lines every day, they’ve never gone all out. That’s because they were worried that some of the Demon Kings and Demon Emperors in the Demon Race’s World would take advantage of the chaos to cause trouble."
"But now, they’ve sorted out all the issues in the Demon Race’s World."
"According to a message from our spy embedded in the Demon Race’s World."
"In half a year at most, they will launch an all-out assault from the Great Wall of China, Longhuang Island, and the Sword Pavilion."
"Whether or not we can hold them off all comes down to this."
"I... I’ll go inform the Teacher," Xu Yuerou said urgently.
"Are you trying to destroy his Great Dao?"
He Yeye shot Xu Yuerou a look.
"Since he chose to go into seclusion, it means he’s trying to finish that book in one final push. If you disturb him now, that momentum will be broken, and he’ll probably never be able to finish it."
"Besides... he *must* finish it..."
He Yeye’s eyes narrowed.
"If he can’t forge this path..."
"...he might end up being buried along with this Demon Suppression City, and along with me."
