Chapter 179 – Don’t Make Marriage Sound as Casual as Dinner Plans

“Why would you need to run away?” Thor asked in confusion. “With your strength, don’t you dominate everything in Z City?”

“Don’t make me sound like a homicidal maniac!” Lin Xi said. “This has nothing to do with enemies.”

“Then what is it about?”

“Why so many questions? Are you unwilling to come with me?”

“I’m willing! A hundred times willing! I would love nothing more than to elope with you, Master. We can go somewhere no one will ever disturb us and grow old together!”

“Get lost!”

Those two words shattered Thor’s beautiful dream of growing old with Lin Xi. “What a cruel Master…”

Thor promised to investigate which city would be best.

Z City was out. A City, home to Drax the Destroyer, was impossible. C City and its pursuit of mechanical ascension could be crossed off the list. S City was still being rebuilt, so that was out too…

What kind of godforsaken parallel world is this? Lin Xi cursed inwardly.

That evening, yet another person came asking to join the fishing party.

Lu Yi sought out Lin Xi and asked to come fishing with them.

“You don’t want to fish. You want to eat fish, don’t you?” Lin Xi saw through her disguise at once.

This lazy Neko did not have the patience for fishing.

“Lin Xi, can you read minds? How did you see through me so quickly?”

“I can’t read minds. You’re simply too easy to guess.”

“Am I? Thor didn’t figure it out.”

Thor pointed out that she did not understand Lu Yi well enough to guess what she was thinking.

Lu Yi turned back to Lin Xi. “You know me so well. Sigh, I can’t hide anything from you anymore. Now that things have reached this point, marriage is the only possible conclusion.”

“What?!” Lin Xi stared at her. “What are you talking about? Are you confused again? Did you get sleepy?”

Lu Yi perpetually alternated between two states: sleepy and hungry.

“I’m not sleepy or hungry. Well, fine, I’m a little hungry.” She turned and told Thor to bring her the potato chips in the house.

“You silly cat.” Thor snorted. “Get them yourself. You know where they are. I’m not your Maid, and I have no intention of obeying you.”

Lu Yi said with perfect seriousness, “Thor, you dare offend the future mistress of this household? Didn’t you hear Lin Xi agree to marry me just now?”

Lin Xi: “…”

Thor: “…”

“When did I agree to anything?” Lin Xi protested.

“You didn’t object. Doesn’t that mean you agreed?” Lu Yi said.

Lin Xi gave Lu Yi a proper lecture. She had not failed to object-she had simply been too dumbfounded to respond!

“Boohoo…” Lu Yi balled her hands into tiny fists and pounded Lin Xi’s chest.

Lin Xi: “…”

“Stop pretending to cry. You haven’t shed a single tear,” Lin Xi threatened. “Keep causing trouble and I won’t take you fishing.”

Lu Yi switched moods in a single second. “Fine. It’s settled, then. You’re taking me to eat fish too.”

“We’re going fishing,” Lin Xi corrected. “If every one of us gets skunked and catches nothing, you’ll go hungry.”

Lin Xi and Yang Shanshan had already chosen their destination: a beautiful natural stream.

They were not only going fishing but camping as well.

They would embrace nature and spend two happy days having fun.

“I trust your fishing skills,” Lu Yi said. “And I want to eat fish you cook yourself!”

“No problem. Aside from me, Xinning, Xia Xun, and Shanshan are all great cooks. Only Shi Yu is a kitchen ‘Destroyer.'”

“I only want to eat yours.”

“That’s fine too.”

“I also want to sleep in your tent.”

“No… problem! Actually, huge problem!” Lin Xi rejected her outright. “Everyone brings their own tent. If you don’t bring one, you can’t come.”

Lu Yi: “…”

“But I don’t know how to pitch a tent.”

“I’ll help you.”

“You’re so nice.”

Lin Xi stressed, “Because we’re good friends.”

“I like you~” Lu Yi said with a smile.

“When I say I like you, I don’t mean that kind of like,” Lin Xi emphasized.

“There are different kinds of liking someone?” Lu Yi asked. “I don’t understand.”

“Don’t make a lifelong commitment sound as casual as making dinner plans!” Lin Xi gave her another serious lecture.

“Dinner plans aren’t casual at all.” To Lu Yi, deciding what and where to eat was far more complicated than getting married.

Thor, who had been standing nearby, was already furious enough to have smoke pouring from every orifice. “Lu Yi! You fish-stealing cat!”

“Am I?” Lu Yi asked.

Lin Xi: “…”

Thor: “…”

This silly cat did not understand what marriage meant at all!

Thor shook her head repeatedly and went back to her chores.

Lin Xi began patiently lecturing Lu Yi.

She had barely said two sentences when Lu Yi curled up beside her and fell asleep. “Sleeping Pill~ Love~”

Lin Xi was utterly defeated.

“Master! You actually let Lu Yi sleep in your bedroom!”

“Obviously. My bedroom is permanently off-limits only to you and Shi Yu.”

“You even carried Lu Yi like a princess!” Thor said enviously. “I can barely accept being banned from the bedroom, but later you have to carry me like that too!”

“Nope.”

“Why?!”

“Because Lu Yi is a Neko, and you’re a Giant Dragon. How could I possibly lift you?!”

Thor: “…”

“Starting today, I’m going on a diet!”

“Master, you can’t carry me, but I can carry you. So-“

“Nope,” Lin Xi said immediately. She had no need for Thor to carry her like a princess.

“It really feels like I’ve adopted a cat…” Lin Xi got to her feet, but Lu Yi caught her hand and murmured sleepily,

“Sleeping Pill, don’t go~”

“I’m going to wash up,” Lin Xi said. “I’ll come back when I’m done.”

“You don’t have to. I don’t mind.”

Lin Xi: “…”

Since Lu Yi would not release her long enough to wash up, Lin Xi could do it after she woke.

For now, she obediently served as Lu Yi’s Sleeping Pill.

Fortunately, the weather was not hot yet. In summer, this Neko-shaped furnace would roast her alive.