Catastrophe Love
My best friend is a demon

BRAAAK!!

"Mr Princess!" An Xi dropped the new clothes she had prepared to drop into Xueyue's room when her eyes only found the room empty.

The twenty-three-year-old woman ran towards the room where Xueyue was bathing, but there she also did not find her master.

"Yes Gods. Where is Princess Xueyue?" he muttered in a trembling tone due to worry. With a hasty step, An Xi dashed back into her master's room, then out of the pavilion. The first thing he had to do was look for An Nan.

On the other hand, the old Grandma continued walking with limped footsteps looking extremely difficult and exhausted. Moreover, he walked using an old cane that was almost fragile. Xueyue was a little bored and felt tired as she had to follow the old granny's very slow pace. Not infrequently he would waste his breath several times because of his impatient feelings, but he also felt pity for the old grandmother's condition.

Suddenly the footsteps of the old grandmother stopped in front of a red stone gate that was mossy and not worth visiting. Xueyue frowned and stared fixedly at the red gate with mixed feelings.

A bit of a strange feeling engulfed his heart when he saw the red gate. Xueyue only saw the gate which was blocked by a high wall. Xueyue did not know why the old granny had taken her to a remote area on the edge of the royal village of Hou.

The old granny turned her head only to stare at Xueyue at a glance with a mysterious lightning, she waved her hand slowly in front of the red gate. And a strange miracle appeared after the old granny pulled back her hand.

Xueyue's footsteps involuntarily stepped back with a jolt of surprise. His eyeballs faded the horror as he stared at the gate it suddenly shook. And the next incident, the high wall that was at the end of the gate that he had previously seen disappeared in the blink of an eye. Replaced by stunning forest views with noisy bird chirping all around.

On the ground just below the gate, there was a lake filled with cold clear water suddenly appearing. And the surrounding conditions turned into a forest with many large, densely leafy trees.

Xueyue turned to her left right and back, circulating her gaze to all corners of the forest area. And again he must be surprised when he saw the situation behind him which was previously a residential area of the village, now also turned into a forest that is rarely pluralized by humans.

And right now, he was in the forest with only a strange old grandmother whose existence alone looked mysterious. Xueyue was a bit anxious. How will he come back later? He did not know the way home because he was new to this world.

"Grandmother.. Th-this, this.. This what? Why are we suddenly in a forest like this? Didn't we just be on the palace walls and enter the residential area owned by the citizens afterwards? Where are the things we've been through?" he asked with a slightly frightened voice. Even the fur on his back was now standing upright because of the goosebumps when he saw something that he had always considered an impossible thing to happen, suddenly happening right in front of his own eyes. It felt like he wanted to faint and assume that all this was just a fantasy dream.

"You'll know when we get inside the gate." Xueyue was a little skeptical of the old grandmother's words in front of her with her eyes narrowed involuntarily. But seeing that the old granny suddenly walked into the mossy concrete fence surrounding the gate, she could not help but be stunned in place.

In the next second, his eyes suddenly puffed out very wide because he was wide-eyed in disbelief with his lips wide open unethical.

"W-what, what the fuck is this?!" his screech as his index finger pointed at the old granny quivered, he looked at the old granny horror and his mouth gasped like an out of breath koi fish.

The thing he had only ever witnessed while watching fantasy dramas on television, where someone who had above average abilities was able to walk on water, was, now he saw it directly in front of his eyes.

Yep! The old grandmother was now walking on the water with the sound of a twinkle in the rhythm of her footsteps and did not sink. Xueyue could no longer speak. He did not know what he had to say to express his current feeling of shock.

All right, can he faint right now? It's too shocking, you know?

"Why? Don't you want to come in?" the old granny looked at Xueyue's hesitant and shocked expression. He then noticed the water under Xueyue's feet. Where the water was more or less as high as a calf. "Are you worried your clothes will get wet?"

"Of course not! But hey!! At any rate, this lake looks quite deep. Is there no bridge or boat to cross there?"

The old granny chuckled at Xueyue's spontaneous throw which she thought was very funny. And it made Xueyue's lips scowl and puff with a face bent sour because annoyed always in laughed at by the grandmother. "Try to walk on it."

Xueyue's? He was speechless in his place feeling like he was being played, "Are you playing me, Grandma? I'm not a creature like you that has strange mystical powers. W-where, how could I possibly walk on water?! You're kidding me, aren't you?!"

"Haha... How can I joke with you at such an important time? I said seriously. Try to walk on it. It'll feel like you're walking on a bridge made of glass."

For a moment Xueyue hesitated to stare full of watery seagrass in front of her. Was this lake in front of him just an eye trick? But, seeing how the ripples moving under the old grandmother's feet trembled, proving that the lake water in front of her was not something like a trick.

Long enough Xueyue hesitated with her agitated moving body. When he tried to bravely raise his right leg above the lake water, the next second he pulled it again. Sighing in despair, Xueyue stomped his feet with both hands clenched fist punching the air down.

"Grandmother, I'm not sure." her sulk coaxed with a pitiful expression.

"Are you an idiot? Even an old woman like me can do it!" this time the tone of the grandmother's speech was no longer subtle but rather irritated and frustrated.

"That's different! You're an old lady with a strange magic, where you can do everything with just one wave of your hand. Wuuss waass! And, walaaaa! It's a miracle!" reply Xueyue was insistent and did not want to lose. He even demonstrated the long gesture of the old grandmother's hand that was used to open the portal from the previous gate.

The old granny opened her speechless mouth shut for a while. Xueyue gasped for breath after concocting in a high tone, plus her emotions were peaking out of frustration.

The grandmother then sighed heavily, trying to calm her emotions that almost made the high blood rise. "Alright, alright. Had enough. Now try to step on that water. You're not going to fall. Can't you trust the words of an old grandmother like me? You can't possibly believe it because you even wanted to follow me here, right?"

"That-that's..." Xueyue could not argue with him. At the very least, he did have a sense of trust in the grandmother just because his curiosity was too high. "Heaven... I don't have a choice anymore. Oh God, please protect me, please protect me, please protect me."

With our mouths constantly praying, Xueyue stepped her feet with her legs shaking violently. Seeing how long Xueyue had dropped her soles on the lake water, the old grandmother grew furious.

Just as Xueyue was closing her eyes with her lips still comatose, the old grandmother with a blink of an eye moved and stood right in front of Xueyue. Anxiously the old grandmother grabbed the girl's wrist before her, and the next second pulled her inside and across the lake as fast as lightning.

Spontaneous, Xueyue who felt a touch on the skin of her hand opened her eyes and widened to see the figure of the old grandmother who had previously been far in the middle of the lake now right in front of her.

"God! Huh?! Eh?! AHH!!" Xueyue screeched as her body was drawn and fell within the lake with her eyes glaring at the horror.

The girl's body had almost been plunged into the water if only the old grandmother had not held back her weight so easily. "Eh? I didn't fall?" he murmured in wonder, when he felt his body still standing and not falling on the water. And he grew even more astonished when suddenly his eyes caught something that again out of his mind happened.

"I.. Floating in the water? And walk on it? Waaaah... It's amazing."

Cipak.. Cak, cak, cak!!

"Ahaha... I'm standing on the water! Haha.. I'm just like the people who have the science of lightening that body! Haha...!!" screeches, joys. And he continued to stomp his feet into the water with a spirit of jumping up and down full of happy laughter.

The old grandmother could only sigh, rolling her eyeballs tired of looking at the silly behavior of the boy beside her with a body that swayed along with the choppy water ripples. He was even currently standing with surging little waves swaying his body due to Xueyue's movements.

"Stop. Hey, kid!" the sweat is pretty loud. However Xueyue did not heed the warning and did not even hear it. He was still playing jumping on the water with his excitement. "BOY! STOP 'I SAID!!" he began to lose patience.

"Die!!" Xueyue scowled backwards with a body jolted in shock. Looking timidly at the old granny was full of vigilance.

"Haish...! My heart was tired." the old granny muttered softly, she returned to walking after feeling the waves generated by Xueyue's rough movements return to normal. "Fast to enter before it gets dark."

"Oh.. Okay." muttered Xueyue as he was. He was still watching the old granny with a cautious attitude.

The two then continued on their way into the red gate that was only two meters away. When Xueyue was about to step inside, she was startled by the figure of the old grandmother who had suddenly disappeared.

"Miss? Where are you?!" his shivering tone held back the feeling of fear and anxiety. But suddenly, his wrist was again forcefully pulled by the old grandmother's hand that only poked from across the gate.

"Eh?!" again, Xueyue was stunned. This time he was surprised by the sound of a waterfall falling so fast right in front of him.

Surprisingly, he could not see it while still outside the gate earlier.

"This is the gateway to the other realms of the outside world in this world. Where only the mythical creatures you've heard of live." explained the old granny beside him.

This time Xueyue was no longer too surprised. He just did not understand why suddenly the old granny was willing to explain things that should only be a personal secret?

The old granny stared fixedly at Xueyue for quite a while, trying to read the other expression that the girl was showing. "Are you trying to wonder why I told you about something that only I should have known?"

"Y-yes.. That sort of thing." Xueyue scratched her cheek that was slightly blushing in embarrassment.

"And how childish you are."

"Huh? Wh-what?! Oye! Grandma, anyone would also act like what I would do if for the first time to see such magical things?!" hardik Xueyue did not want to be blamed.

"Haha... You haven't changed, yes. Xuey." - xuey."

"What?!" Xueyue was stunned when she suddenly heard the voice of a man who was so close and sounded so familiar in her sense of hearing. He turned to the source of the voice, where suddenly appeared a large, horse-like white deer with long horns approaching towards him.

Xueyue stepped back involuntarily, and the next second, the deer's body turned into the figure of a man she had somehow gotten to know the figure. With narrowed eyes, Xueyue noticed the change from the deer to a human figure. And when the deer actually transformed into a Phoenix-eyed handsome man, Xueyue's eyes again had to feel pain from swerving so many times just from a feeling of surprise.

"YOU? ZHU GUANG?!"

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Just as An Xi was about to exit the pavilion area where Shen Xueyue was staying to look for An Nan, a loud announcement from a eunuch outside the pavilion gate rang out loud, saying, announcing the arrival of Empress Yun Xieya to the residence of princess Xueyue.

"How is this, how is this?" racau An Xi was getting cold sweat from anxiety.

It wasn't long before empress Yun Xieya came along with An Nan and was followed by the healer Mu Chen whom she already knew. Added two maids of Empress Yun's trust behind her.

"An Xi's! What's wrong with you? Why do you seem so anxious and anxious. And..." Empress Yun exclaimed, narrowing her eyes paying close attention to An Xi's messy appearance. Especially on the face of An Xi who was a little worried and scared. "You crying?"

"Thousands of mercy, Your Majesty the Empress!" An Xi dropped her body, kneeling on the ground with tears of regret. An Nan knew, what was going on this time. "Hambas... Not worth living. The servant deserves to die! Please forgive me!"

For a moment, Yun Xieya was slightly surprised by An Xi's attitude of begging for her forgiveness. But she knew something must be happening to her daughter right now.

"Wake up, An Xi. Calm yourself slowly, and try to explain what really happened."

An Nan quickly helped An Xi to re-establish her body properly, even though the maid was still sitting on the ground seething with a deep lowered look. Every now and then An Xi sobbed with fear that ensnared her heart.

"Prince Xue... Hiks, he just suddenly disappeared from his room again, Your Majesty. Servant scared.. If.." lf..." An Xi could not bear to say what she was thinking at the moment, she bit her lips so hard that it made her bleed. But the pain on his lips was nothing compared to his worry about his master disappearing again.

Yun Xieya did indeed feel some worry. But for some reason, his heart was not as worried as Xueyue suddenly fell unconscious for days.

"An Xi's. All this is not your fault." chirped empress Yun softly. An Xi and An Nan looked up at the glimpsed look on the face of their consort's spooning figure before pulling back their gaze to look down. "Since my son grew up, our attention, especially the King, has been very rarely seen" he added.

Empress Yun turned to the left, where there was a wisteria tree that grew very densely flowering with a violet color of white fusion at the end. Under the wisteria tree, there was a gazebo. There is a stone table with four chairs which is also made of natural stone as a place to relax. Empress Yun walked towards the gazebo under the wisteria tree, and sat down below it. While An Xi and healer Chen followed him, An Nan stepped into the pavilion.

For a moment Empress Yun circulated her gaze throughout the pavilion where her daughter lived with a look full of regret and guilt. Then he said as if monologuing, "Didn't he since he was ten years old, we've all rarely set foot in his pavilion again? Yue'er must have been lonely, and that was probably what made her want to see another world outside of the palace that attracted her more attention than continuing to be inside the palace. I understand his desire. Especially..." Empress Yun sighed heavily, her memory going back to the time where her daughter had for the first time had a friend.

If the boy had not been required to return to his native country, his daughter Xueyue would not have been lonely for almost four years. Unfortunately, the boy did not belong to their kingdom. The child is only entrusted by the old friend of the King to be educated as it should be, and will be returned after the age of the child finally growing up. He himself did not interfere much so he did not know the boys from other kingdoms.

"Do we have to call the boy back, Empress? Agar"

Empress Yun shook her head to cut off her brother's words. He felt that Mu Chen's suggestion would never be possible to succeed despite the King himself asking. "The child was the eldest son of King Song Qingdao. Of course he's a prince who might be crowned as a crown prince of the land of Shandian."

"I'm sorry servant, it has been presumptuous of the Empress." said Mu Chen bowed regretfully.Empress Yun only smiled blandly in response with a hint of pitiful piety.

"I could have begged the King to match them. Because after all, Xueyue was actually a woman. But unfortunately... I can't do it. I'm afraid something happened to my daughter." Empress Yun laughed at her slightly disadvantaged fate over her own line of thought.

"Empress, don't be discouraged. Someday, I'm sure that Princess Xueyue will find her true destiny."

"Destiny? Is that destiny?"

There was a kind of secret that Empress Yun had actually been hiding all along. As to why she didn't want to have a daughter even though she wanted to. But he chose to shut up. Although he has tried to make the identity of his daughter who is a woman in hiding, it does not rule out the possibility that the fate of his daughter is truly heartbreaking will happen someday.

"The Empress" Mu Chen's words were interrupted because she didn't know what she should say next as her master's solace. While... He realized that there was an impossibility to Xueyue's future destiny.

Without them realizing it, there was a fate that had truly awaited from Xueyue's birth over these many years. That fate also continued with the destiny that Empress Yun was worried about.

Empress Yun did not know what had happened in the outside world of Hou kingdom all along. That there would be a storm and happiness to come fetching the fate of his daughter.

That... Far beyond the territory of the Hou state and the unified Shandian state, there had been several countries that Empress Yun could never imagine even Xueyue herself would have been able to imagine for her true destiny.

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"Is my son conscious of his coma?" asked a middle-aged yet handsome and authoritative man to the desolate air. But without someone knowing, actually a figure with a typical shadow warrior dress is somewhere reporting the results of his mission in secret.

The man who was asking his shadow warrior was the number one person in the land of Hou, a King known by the name of Shen Jinglong. The man had eyes like Shen Xueyue, he had long bangs framing both sides of his face which made him still look so youthful despite his age of forty years and above.

As a King, Jinglong certainly had an oversized robe to him. It was a long white robe covering her luxurious black embroidered gold hanfu clothes. Closed with a thin dark orange strap in front of the chest.

Shen Jinglong's oversized robe is decorated with red fire motifs on the circular lower edge corresponding to his country name, with kanji from the word 'Fourth King' embroidered vertically on the back of the back.

The robe is a robe that has been passed down through generations. Starting from the era of the first generation King as evidence of his era.

"Hamba answered His Majesty's question. Prince Xue had come to a realization from his coma a few days ago. Right now Prince Xue has only been in his residence for a long time, Your Majesty."

Shen Jinglong took a deep breath, then exhaled slowly as if releasing the heavy weight he had been carrying. Both of his eyebrows knit with deep wrinkles, his facial features slightly conflicted. But the focus of his eyes was still on the bamboo parchment on his desk.

"Alright, you can return to your place." pause for a moment, "Yingzi Yi." call Shen Jinglong to his shadow warrior.

"Humba His Majesty."

"...Keep an eye on Prince Xue. I don't know why I feel like there's something wrong with her all this time."

"Clearly done!" yingzi Yi replied firmly. But he was in no hurry to leave his king's place.

"And... Get a Taoist priest to the palace. I want Prince Xue's residence checked."

"His Majesty's government will be carried out immediately. Is there any other mission His Majesty would like to give to the servant again, Your Majesty?"

"Enough. Go back to your place."

"good. Servant please retreat." after Yingzi Yi bowed as a sign of respect, she disappeared in the blink of an eye from her hiding place.

Although his existence was invisible to Shen Jinglong's sharp yet shady eyes, but Shen Jinglong knew every move of the shadow warrior he had been training in secret.

Shen Jinglong's premonition was bad when he heard that Xueyue had been found unconscious with a body as pale as a corpse. In fact, there are rumors saying if actually when Xueyue's body was found, her body was no longer alive because her body temperature was cold because it was frozen and no longer warm.

And it lasted for three days before he returned from the royal affairs that were carried out outside the province of Hou kingdom. Today, he had just arrived upon hearing that the prince of Xue was resting.

As a father, of course he wants to see the latest condition of his favorite son after he heard the news of his son being injured. However, upon hearing that his son needed a little time to rest, he decided not to meet him even though he could do so and there would be no holding him back.

Maybe, he should see his son tomorrow. There was already his Empress who was now guarding the prince of Xue. If Shen Xueyue woke up, then she would come to see him. But before that...

He had to let a Taoist priest come to give his blessing and see if there was anything wrong with the current build of his son. He was afraid that his son's soul would be exchanged for another. Moreover, he had heard of the term borrowing the bodies of corpses to animate a bodyless spirit using black magic.

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Xueyue still did not stop to pay attention to the figure of Zhu Guang who was now sitting opposite him with a very different appearance than he remembered. With such an intimidating and intense gaze, it naturally made Zhu Guang feel uneasy and misbehaved for a long time.

"Hey! Can you stop that look of yours? Aren't you tired of looking at me without blinking?" satirize the man with a lazy tone.

"Yeah!! Zhu Guang's! You're the one who made me want to look at you like that! Hinh...! You're really pissing me to death right now." his grunts crossed his hands in front of his chest and threw away his face, looking very upset with his lips continuing to grumble at his best friend.

Having previously surprised himself about Zhu Guang's true form, the man said that his death was actually planned by the man to bring his soul back to the past.

The thing that made Shen Xueyue even more upset was, why did she have to die in such a horrible manner? The shattered body, the contents inside his stomach came out in a mess, and continued to spit out blood that had a rusty salty taste. It was like the moment when a mouse was about to cross into the highway, but unfortunately hit by a car tire and made all his internal organs out splattered with pooled blood.

Just imagine how disgusting it is when you see it for yourself. Moreover, you who experienced it directly as the ill-fated rat.

"I'm sorry. Haha.." Zhu Guang said with a guilty expression but the next second changed with a sinless facial expression. It was added at the end of his apology covered in a laughable crisp laugh but sounded bad for Shen Xueyue's sense of hearing.

"The ckh!! Your apology is not sincere!" delicacy angry. And Zhu Guang chuckled softly still feeling funny.

When the agreement with the god of death was made, Diaghu Guang did not contribute to making a decision. His task back then was simply to collect the fragments of Xueyue's soul floating into the air before the soul completely disappeared.

Goddess Bai Huli had said that Princess Shen Xueyue's age in this world would end when she was sixteen. In contrast to Xueyue who lived in the modern era with a life age that lasted up to twenty-five years.

When the time comes, the soul in Shen Xueyue's body in the modern world will be pulled back to enter the body-changing cycle of the past. It's just that, as the payment of Xueyue in the modern world will not be revived due to the decision of the God of death who said that Xueyue's death in the modern world will be very tragic. It was already written on the death book of every Death God who was tasked with taking human lives. That was what caused Xueyue's body in the modern world to no longer be saved even with advanced medical equipment.

Goddess Bai Huli obviously could not refute and agree to the contract of the agreement. Zhu Guang was the prime candidate to oversee Shen Xueyue in the modern world along with his other companion, a white stork with a neck and black feathered tip with a red head. Yang Xueyue had just learned that the incarnation of the stork was her other good friend whom she knew turned out to be Lu Guan.

Today was truly the myriad of surprises that Shen Xueyue had received after she chose to follow the old granny whom she had just learned her name was Chu Yan's grandmother. An old woman who likes things about wooden dolls.

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To be Continued...