Little Tree Demon

Wen Ran was unsure if he was really a pure soul or was merely faking it, so she tried probing, "Why did you lock us in the room if you saved us?"

She might as well ask since there was no longer any need to hide anything from him after he spotted them.

"I locked you in the room?" the young master in white asked, puzzled.

"We wanted to go out of the room and see the rest of the house when we woke up, but the door just wouldn't swing open when we tried opening it."

The young master had a look of surprise on his beautiful face. "That door doesn't swing open. It's slid open, like this..."

He stretched out his hands as if he was holding the door, and then slid them from left to right.

Wen Ran's eyes widened.

In all her years in that world, she could not believe that she had forgotten about the existence of sliding doors!

The young master asked again, "How did you get out then, if you can't open the door?"

Wen Ran was speechless.

She suddenly felt as if she was a monkey with her quick-witted escape earlier.

The young master was still waiting for Wen Ran's answer.

Wen Ran was astute enough to change the topic. "It's all thanks to you that we were saved after falling accidentally from the cliff that day. May I ask for your name, Young Master? we'll repay you for your kindness in the future."

"They all call me Young Master Bai. You may call me that too."

"Young Master Bai," Wen Ran addressed him courteously, "we will never forget your kind act of saving our lives. We will most certainly send you a gift of gratitude after we get out of here."

"Are you in a hurry to leave?"

Wen Ran observed his expression for a moment. His question sounded like he was just casually asking and his expression was simple and ignorant. She said, "Our family and friends must be very worried about our sudden disappearance. I fear they are anxiously searching for us right now, so we should not stay here any longer."

"You're different from the other girls I've met before," he said.

Wen Ran thought of the group of beautiful girls who had surrounded him not long ago and laughed dryly. "Is that so?"

He nodded. "They never want to leave. You and the sleeping girl are the only ones who wanted to leave."

The 'sleeping girl' he mentioned was Qiu Shui, who still remained unconscious on the ground.

"Those girls ... Were they all people that the young master saved?"

Young Master Bai nodded again and started to count with his fingers. "Miss Li sold herself to pay for her father's funeral expenses. I gave her some money because I felt sorry for her, and she then said she wanted to stay by my side. When Miss Wang was walking on the road one day and nearly tripped, I was quick enough to catch her and stop her fall. She said she wanted to repay me and would do so by devoting herself to me. Miss Zhao said that her heart disease was cured without the need of any medication because I walked past her, so she wanted to repay me for the great favor that I did to her..."

Wen Ran looked at him speechlessly for a moment before asking, "Didn't you reject them, Young Master Bai?"

"I did." He sighed at the mention of that. "But if I don't let them follow me, they'll cry and cry and cry. They look so sad when they cry and I can't say anything to chase them away. Is the outside world that scary? Why aren't they willing to go back?"

Young Master Bai could not understand those girls.

Wen Ran suddenly felt that the color white really suited him. She surmised that the scholarly-looking men she had met before had used the same reason to stay there.

Young Master Bai cast away his sorrow and looked around before asking, "You're so beautiful, Young Lady. Can I ask you a few questions before you leave?"

Wen Ran found it a little strange to be called beautiful by a man who could surpass any woman in terms of appearance. "What do you want to ask, Young Master?"

"What kind of person do beautiful girls like?"

Wen Ran blurted out without thinking, "Guys who aren't lunatics and look decent."

She did not mention qualities like being gentle, patient, knowledgeable, or ambitious. In fact, it was the first time he ever heard of such a standard, which refreshed his view of things.

Out of habit, he wanted to take out his notes and jot them down, but then he remembered that he had lost the notes that recorded his experiences.

He could only say longingly, "You're both so beautiful. I'm sure she shares the same thoughts as you."

"Who are you talking about, Young Master?"

"A kind lady." Young Master Bai's beautiful face blushed. "She saved me once."

"This lady you're talking about, does she like to wear red?"

The young master's eyes lit up."Yes, do you know her?"

His tone became a lot sharper at the end of his question, almost like a woman's voice. One could surmise that it was probably because his emotions had been stirred. It was not only his voice that had changed, but his personality too.

His facial features became more feminine and beautiful, and his figure became thinner. Wen Ran saw with her own two eyes how that charismatic man turned into a woman of absolute beauty.

The woman was the same one that the two scholars had been fighting over.

Wen Ran's guess was confirmed. As soon as she saw the large pear forest there, her first guess was that the owner of that place was the third male lead in the plot who was infatuated with the female lead.

It was a tree demon that had just undergone transformation and still remained inexperienced in the world. As a result, it was as innocent as a child.

When Qin Susu was still a young girl and Qin Wanwan had yet to bring her to the Immortal Ascension Mansion, she had seen a pear tree that was about to wither. She would occasionally water that tree from time to time and the tree was eventually saved.

Said tree was the third male lead after the first male lead and the second male lead, who were the young immortal lord and the demon lord, respectively. It was a little tree demon that could stimulate the maternal instinct of someone else.

Pear trees were hermaphroditic, and before he decided on a gender, he would constantly switch between the two different genders.

However, the girl of uncertain gender was asking impatiently, "You know her, right? Then you must know what kind of person she likes!"

Wen Ran's pounding heart finally calmed down when she faced the female tree demon. "I'm quite sure that the person she likes is a man," she said calmly.

He was enlightened. "I see. She likes men."

Tree demons would choose their gender when they first transformed, but since he was unsure if the girl he liked preferred a man or a woman, he had not been able to settle on a gender.

It would take pointers from men for a while, and then later from women. It was all for the sake of winning the lady-in-red's heart when he finally reunited with her.

That was also the reason why more and more young men and women went missing from Wind Moon City in recent days. The young men and women who disappeared were all good-looking, and the tree demon must have assumed that all beautiful people thought alike.