Life: A Black and White Film (一生一世，黑白影画)

Chapter 11.2 - Persons Who Exist in Jambudvipa (2)

They were like a couple who had just started dating. When they returned from that obscure little town, they even brought back a bag of mangoes.

While Cheng Muyun was selecting the fruit, she had actually turned her back to him and curiously pulled out the object inside the embroidered protection amulet pouch, taking a look at it. It was about the size of a fingernail and rather irregular-looking, similar to the dried rootstalk of a plant. What was this thing? So bizarre.<>Copyright of Fanatical, hui3r[dot]wordpress[dot]com. Translated with the express permission of the author for hui3r[dot]wordpress[dot]com. If you are not reading this from hui3r[dot]wordpress[dot]com, the translation has been taken without consent of the translator.

They arrived back in the manor. The servants had let all of the peafowls out, and upon a quick count, she discovered there were five or six of them, three of them peacocks, the males.

"Too bad they haven't spread their feathers," she sighed.<>Please read this at hui3r[dot]wordpress[dot]com

Cheng Muyun could hear the disappointment in her voice. Walking up in front of one of the peacocks, he lowered himself into a half-crouch, scratched out a small stone from the dirt, and rolled it between two fingers.

Wen Han thought he would attack the peacock with the stone.

To her surprise, he made no motions that carried any form of attack, merely staring intently at that peacock with a dangerous type of look that was filled with threat and showed he was poised to strike at any time. The peacock halted its sauntering steps, motionlessly staring back at him as well.

Without any warning, he made a hissing noise at it.<>Please read this at hui3r[dot]wordpress[dot]com

The peacock's plumage fanned open with a whoosh, and then, screeching, it fled.

"See, it also thinks you are very beautiful." Holding the stone in his open palm, he smiled and straightened back up. "He spread his plumage for you to express his besotted admiration of you."

Wen Han had a wry expression. "It's obvious you frightened it."

Regarding this point, Cheng Muyun's words were unable to mislead her.

Back when she was in university and writing a paper for social science, she had studied many different animals. At the time, she had felt that peacocks were very interesting creatures.

Only when either of two feelings is present, when it is enamored by you or when it feels you are threatening its life, will it display its most fascinating and beguiling self to you.

In this moment, she realized, this also seemed to be Cheng Muyun's trait.

It appeared that Cheng Muyun did not intend on continuing to stay in that austere, little building that lacked any modern facilities. He went back with her to the white, modernly furnished, two-level, European-style villa.

On these estate grounds, there were many similar standalone villas like this one.

The servants and the several thousand workers responsible for the preparation work were busily getting ready for the manor lord's monastic induction ceremony that was taking place in a few days. There were simply too many guests. No one would pay any special attention to them.

To pay attention to this particular building's one, two, three, four, five, six—

Six guests.<>Copyright of Fanatical, hui3r[dot]wordpress[dot]com. Translated with the express permission of the author for hui3r[dot]wordpress[dot]com. If you are not reading this from hui3r[dot]wordpress[dot]com, the translation has been taken without consent of the translator.