Having found a demon, I've decided to raise her.

"Hey?"

Afu almost dropped the cup she was holding on the table, but caught it at the last second. She breathed a slight sigh of relief and gently patted her flat chest.

Such a flat surface is quite rare, it has a rare value... The older sister couldn't help but think of what her younger brother had said before, and she felt that it was very fitting for A-Fu.

A-Fu looked at her sister with slightly flustered gray eyes and said—

"Sister, why did you ask that?"

"Forehead……"

The older sister scratched her head and said—

"Because I have an ancient script here, and I don't know when it's from. If Afu cultivated from ancient times..."

"No, it hasn't been that long!"

Afu stamped her foot anxiously, her eyes filled with tears. Fu Jianxian had been completely reduced to a submissive maid in the house, someone anyone could order around and bully. She felt that this was a bit too humiliating.

Of course, having East 1 at the bottom is actually not so bad.

Dong Yi, the eternal god (and loser)!

Ah Fu bit her lower lip. What do you mean by cultivating from ancient times? That's too much. I'm not that old... Sure enough, every girl cares about her age.

The older sister quickly waved her hand, trying to comfort her—

"No, no, I just said it offhand. Um, what I meant was, see if you recognize these characters."

"..."

The young maid looked aggrieved, but still glanced over, examined it carefully for a few moments, gently shook her head, and said—

"I don't recognize it. If it's Small Seal script... ah."

Afu almost revealed her age and quickly covered her mouth. But her older sister had already heard her. She looked at Afu, winked, and laughed.

Afu explained palely—

"I... our school also has a system for writing in small seal script, so I need to learn a little bit..."

She deliberately tried to steer her sister toward the idea that she had studied it before, attempting to cover something up, but instead, her attempt only made things more obvious.

"Would someone as clever as my sister be fooled by her? Obviously not," she said to Afu with a smile.

"Perhaps I should be calling her Sister Afu?"

Calling her "sister" might not even be enough.

Afu's cheeks were flushed red. She covered her face and pressed her toes together, looking ashamed.

It's like someone who's old but still pretends to be young and calls others "sister," only to be exposed on the spot and then feeling so ashamed that they want to crawl into a hole and never come out again.

The ability to burrow underground does indeed exist...

The older sister couldn't help but chuckle, looking at her little maidservant, finding her truly amusing... It seemed she had been infected by Chen Ming's wicked personality.

Looking at Afu, the older sister thought he had played enough and said—

"Ah Fu is so diligent, he even understands the Small Seal script."

"elder sister……"

Afu breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed she didn't have to worry about being teased by her sister anymore, so she quickly slipped away.

The older sister then turned her gaze to another person...

That person should be older...

Lucifer noticed his sister and Afu's conversation early on. Realizing that his sister had turned her gaze over, he looked away from his notebook and met her eyes.

My sister said—

“Lucifer, you…”

"I do not know."

"Ok?"

You answered so quickly without even looking at it?

The older sister blinked.

Lucifer blinked one eye, revealing a perfectly shrewd smile, and said—

"I'm still very young and don't know anything about ancient scripts."

"..."

The older sister twitched her lips. It seemed she had shot herself in the foot. Lucifer was originally the most likely person to find out, but because of how she had bullied A-Fu just now, Lucifer didn't give her the chance.

But isn't it a bit shameless to say that you're "very young"?

Lucifer and his sister exchanged a glance, smiled, shook their heads, and said—

"Although I don't understand ancient scripts at all, many of these things come with special effects, which are intentionally designed to let people experience the process of deciphering them and then understand something."

"what?"

"It could be a law, a phrase, or even a prank."

Lucifer walked over to his sister, glanced at her a few times, and then said—

"Different people may have different results; sometimes, you just need to try slowly."

“...Lucifer is very familiar with it.”

The older sister squinted her eyes.

Lucifer smiled softly and said—

"No, I just said it casually. I don't understand it at all. After all, I'm not someone who has lived for thousands of years."

Clang, clang...

Poor Afu was startled by Lucifer again, knocked over the trash can, and blushed as he watched everyone laughing at him.

How did it all end up back to me...?

The unlucky maid puffed out her cheeks slightly and tidied the floor in a huff.

……

Time ticked by, second by second...

Cerberus had glass on her head, and every now and then she would swat it away with her hand, and the glass would lightly bounce up and slowly land on her head again.

I feel a bit dazed.

Raphael kept glancing at Chen Ming's room, seemingly waiting for him to come out.

I've been waiting for a long time.

The older sister was also a little puzzled. She looked up at the time and realized that a lot of time had passed quickly; it was almost afternoon.

She stretched and finished her work first.

"I'll go check on the situation."

Could it be that my own mother and my husband have died together? Why is there no sound at all? It's been so quiet for so long.

The older sister walked to Chen Ming's door.

Click, the door opened...

Bonus Chapter: Winter Solstice Tenderness

"That's all for the key points. I hope everyone studies hard and tries not to fail..."

The teacher slammed his hand on the blackboard and spent nearly two hours over two class periods reviewing the material, leaving the students below complaining bitterly.

In fact, the teacher was very responsible, teaching repeatedly and even using evening self-study sessions to explain knowledge points to everyone.

After all, it's not good to have forty students failing more than thirty times.

She didn't take it too seriously; her grades were usually pretty good, so there was no need to worry. She watched as the snow slowly began to fall outside, and it grew dark quickly.

Her long, flowing hair cascaded down her back, soft and beautiful.

She was wearing a brown coat, a black skirt, black tights, and a scarf, and her gaze was somewhat distant.

Today is the winter solstice.

It should be the coldest time of the year, but that's not actually the case. It's only minus five degrees Celsius now, far from the coldest time.

The coldest time was during her first year here, when it was snowing heavily. Coming from the south, she had no idea what to expect, and since she was renting a place by herself and had no roommates to remind her, she almost froze to death.

Of course, we have experience now and we take good care of keeping warm, so we can maintain a bit of style without getting cold.

"Want to go eat hot pot together?"

Hot pot is a really nice treat, especially when it's freezing cold.

But she smiled and shook her head, saying—

"No need, you guys go ahead, I have other things to do."

"Why do you always have something on your mind?"

"Stop talking. People aren't like you, a single dog. Look out the window."

The other students smiled and pointed outside.

Everyone looked over, and there stood a man in a black coat on the snow outside, waiting quietly.

Waiting for her to finish class.

She was inevitably teased by everyone, her cheeks flushed slightly, and she quickly packed her things into her handbag. Her black boots clicked on the floor as she ran away with small, quick steps.

The man looked at the snow scene outside, bent down and scooped up a handful of snow from the grass; it was relatively white and clean.

I always seemed to have a strange longing for snow, after all, as a southerner who had never seen snow before, it felt like a natural ice cream, romantic and gentle...

My first impression upon arriving here was that it was cold.

Then comes the dirt.