Madam, I Am Really a Monster - chapter 8

Sun Bin was not obstinately stubborn.

If he were, I might have respected him more.

The Little Taoist, upright and righteous, could not persuade him, but the Fengyi Female Official, well-versed in human nature, told Sun Bin that if he kept a demon like me in his household, it would ruin his prospects.

If he didn’t believe it, he could try and see for himself.

He agreed.

It was their good fortune that, that very night, the Heavenly Dog Eats the Moon occurred.

I was a demon practicing Moon Worship Cultivation, and felt extremely unwell at the time, lazily lying in bed, unable to get up.

To outsiders, it was simply said that I had caught a chill.

In the middle of the night, Xiao Cui brought in a bowl of medicine for me to drink.

Dizzy and nauseous, I said, “Why drink medicine in the middle of the night? I won’t.”

Xiao Cui whispered, “Concubine, the Marquis personally went to get this medicine for you. You should drink it.”

I tried to refuse several times but couldn’t get out of it, so I forced myself up despite my exhaustion.

When I turned around, Xiao Cui was standing at the head of the bed like a ghost, staring at me.

She held a bowl of medicine in her hands, and the decoction faintly glimmered with golden light.

…Before the Ancestor of Qingyun Temple ascended, he left behind three Golden Talismans, capable of destroying great demons of heaven and earth.

It seemed that this time, the Taoist Nun Jingxu had gone all out.

Xiao Cui pushed the bowl forward: “Concubine, please drink it quickly.”

Judging by her look, if I didn’t drink it, she would have poured it over my head.

I could only take the bowl and drink it all in one go, then my expression changed.

Xiao Cui immediately became both nervous and excited: “Concubine, what’s wrong?”

I held it in for a long time before saying, “It’s so bitter.”

Xiao Cui: “…”

I asked her to bring me some clean water to rinse my mouth, then lay down again, frowning: “I’ve taken the medicine, don’t bother me anymore.”

She hurriedly agreed and helped me lie down.

Seeing that I had turned my back to her, she secretly used a mirror to look at me.

This was the right approach.

With the Heavenly Dog Eats the Moon and the Golden Talisman suppressing the body, no matter how powerful a demon’s cultivation was, one might be able to pretend nothing was wrong, but in a mirror that connects yin and yang, it would be hard to maintain a human form.

Unless the demon’s true form was human.

What Xiao Cui saw in the mirror was her former mistress, Ni Huan’s face.

Someone behind the door let out a long sigh of relief.