Till the End of the Moon- Epilogue 6

Su Su and Tantai Jin- On the matter of physique

One time, the demon realm held a banquet for the little princess Ah Mi. As the demon realm’s rulers, Tantai Jin and Su Su sat on top and entertained the officials. 

When the banquet had reached about the halfway point, the lord of the Xikan region came in late. 

He knelt on the ground and apologized, “Something had happened in the Xikan region, and that’s why I couldn’t come in time. Please forgive me.” 

Su Su was amazed every time she saw Lord Xikan. 

Lord Xikan’s real form is a gray bear and has lived for thousands of years. His real form has very smooth fur and is impressively large in stature. When a demon takes human form, their human form will more or less have some connection to their real form. 

After cultivating for thousands of years, most demons will make some beautifying adjustments when taking their human form which is why there really are no especially ugly appearances in the demon realm. 

Due to his real form’s large stature, Lord Xikan’s human form is also a large handsome man. 

With bronze-colored skin and exposed muscular arms, Lord Xikan is as big as two full-grown man. 

Su Su was a bit speechless as she looked at Lord Xikan’s one arm that was as thick as her waist.

Sitting beside her, Tantai Jin naturally noticed that Su Su’s gaze had lingered for an extra second on Lord Xikan. 

Tantai Jin raised his eyes, his demonic gaze falling on Lord Xikan, narrowing his eyes as he examined Lord Xikan thoroughly. 

Despite looking burley and appearing to be “without much thought”, Lord Xikan is actually very observant and knew with one glance at the Demon God that things were not looking good. 

His heart thumping wildly, he heard the person above ask with a lazy smile, “Xikan’s culture has indeed become more open now?”

Not understanding his meaning, Lord Xikan replied, “My Demon Lord is joking, Xikan had not changed in a few hundred years.” 

Lord Xikan heard the Demon God’s mocking voice, “As the mighty lord of Xikan, coming to the demon palace for a banquet, but could only wear clothes that can hardly cover your body. Is this how Lord Xikan is setting an example?”

Lord Xikan felt embarrassed but also wronged at the same time. 

They are demons, so naturally, they like freedom a lot more. Moreover, he is only exposing his arms. In Xikan, there are even little demons that go around only in their underpants. 

All the officials below are biting their lips to keep from laughing. They were all terrible friends so would not dream of speaking up for Lord Xikan. 

Eventually, it was Su Su who couldn’t sit idly by anymore and tugged at Tantai Jin’s sleeves. 

“Hey, don’t take it too far.” 

A strapping large man like Lord Xikan, standing in the hall in a fluster with a frightened and confused look, is a bit ridiculous and pitiful. 

Tantai Jin pressed his lips together, glanced over at Su Su, flicked his sleeves, and walked away. 

There was a lot of meaning injected into that single glance. It was rare for Su Su to see the hint of teeth gnashing and grievance in his expression. Seemingly wanting to choke her to death or throw a tantrum at the officials below but forcefully held himself back. 

She was both amused and curious. 

Since they have been married, Tantai Jin had given her anything she could possibly want so it is rare to see him being annoyed at her. 

After the banquet was done, Su Su didn’t rush to coax him but went and talked with little Ah Mi for a while. 

When she went back to her bedchamber she found that Tantai Jin had not returned yet. 

The palace maid looked at Su Su and said, “His Majesty is at the front, listening to the officials reporting on matters. He might not return to the bedchamber tonight.”

Su Su nodded, “Alright, then tell His Majesty that I will be sleeping with little Princess tonight.”

Palace maid, “…………..”

Su Su turned and headed toward Ah Mi’s bedchamber. 

The little palace maid turned around and said with a trembling voice, “Dddddmon l….” 

A black-clothed man’s fingers sunk into the pillar, watching Su Su’s departing figure, several more marks appeared on the pillar. 

Tantai Jin went back to the front hall with a stone-cold face and dealt with demon realm matters for most of the night. Calling over an attendant, he asked, “Has the queen returned?”

The attendant shook his head, “The queen is still in the Princess’ room.” 

“Is the Princess asleep?”

“She is asleep.” 

Tantai Jin threw down the pen, got up, and walked out.

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Little Ah Mi was quite happy to have Su Su there. 

Su Su had a lovely chat with Ah Mi before she coaxed her to sleep. 

Ah Mi hugged a cloth tiger with clenched little fists by her pink chubby cheeks. 

Su Su looked at her daughter with a smile, waiting for that person to come. 

Sure enough, midnight came, and a pair of strong arms swept her off her feet, and started walking out without a word. 

The beautiful blue epiphyllum flowers of the demon realm bloomed in the night, surrounded by dancing fireflies. 

Looking up at Tantai Jin’s exquisite profile, a smiling Su Su deliberately rubbed his face, “Aren’t you angry with me? Not angry anymore?”

He lowered his eyes and gave her a side glance. 

“Knowing that I am angry, you still left without a backward glance?” 

Laying in his arms, Su Su dangled a pair of exquisite jade-like feet “I haven’t seen you angry for a long time, so I kinda miss it.” 

Seeing his silent and pursed lips, Su Su suddenly covered her face with her sleeves and said sullenly, “It’s only been a few years and you are already angry with me. I might as well take Ah Mi with me back to Heyngyang Sect tomorrow.” 

Tantai Jin put Su Su on the swing, picked up the shoe on the ground, put it on her right foot, and coaxed in a low voice, “Su Su, I am not angry with you.”

Su Su moved a corner of the sleeve, “Then who are you angry with?”

A hint of subtle emotion appeared in his eyes, he paused, calmed himself down, and said nonchalantly, “I am not angry.” 

The more he is like this, the more curious Su Su is. She took his hand and said, “Let me see, please?” 

Tantai Jin refused softly, “No, it’s late, I am taking you back to our bedchamber.” 

She flew off the swing, “Then I’ll go sleep with Ah Mi.”

“Su Su.” Tantai Ji wrapped his arms around her waist and said in a low voice, “You really want to torture me like this?”

He turned the person in his arms around, picked up her dainty hand, gritted his teeth, placed it on his forehead, and closed his eyes. 

A piece of the past in Su Su’s memory appeared in front of her eyes. 

She looked at the memory that was in Tantai Jin’s mind with surprise. 

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It was actually a memory from 1,500 years ago. At that time, Su Su had escaped from Tantai Jin, bid farewell to Xiao Lin, and went to the extreme north to find the Abyss of Desolation. 

Who would have expected that on the way there she would pick up a Tantai Jin who was blinded in one eye with his tendons and ligaments broken in his whole body? 

“If you want to laugh then laugh.” Half of the young man’s body was buried in the heavy snow. 

Su Su said, “Shut up.” If she could, she really didn’t want to save a person who wanted to kill her every moment of every day. 

Su Su called the reddish brown horse over and turned back to him. 

Taking a deep breath, the girl summon the internal energy in her body, put her hand under the young man’s back, and picked him up in one breath. Light and easy, effortless. She clapped her hands and brushed away the snowflakes that had gotten on her from his body.

Tantai Jin “……….”

He is very tall, although thin, but he really can’t be counted as light in weight. To be so easily picked up by a fragile-looking girl, even without a love thread, a slight sense of awkwardness and embarrassment still filled his heart. 

The girl didn’t pay any heed to the young man’s gloomy expression and just laughed in amusement by herself. 

Laying on the horseback, his face became more and more sullen. 

Once they found a place to stay for the night, Su Su figured she needed to wipe the blood from Tantai Jin’s body and track down the ice needle in his eye.

Soaking a towel in hot water, Su Su wiped away the blood on his face. Tantai Jin looked at her with his dark eyes. The girl’s fingers brushed past his cheek. Tantai Jin subconsciously wanted to turn his head, but he forced himself to hold still. 

If his hands and feet were still intact, he would’ve coldly slapped her hands away that very moment. 

Too bad he can’t do anything now. 

Su Su treated his wrists and ankles, and wiped away the blood, before finally using some clean cloth to bandage his wounds. 

Tantai Minglang was quite calculating in his attack. Not only did he cripple all four of Tantai Jin’s limbs but he deliberately used the method that would cause Tantai Jin the most pain. 

Knowing that Tantai Jin is probably in extreme pain, Su Su tried to tend to his wounds as gently as possible. 

After all, she is not a pervert like him who takes pleasure in torturing others so naturally she would not try to make things worse for him at this moment. 

Su Su wrung out the now bloody towel and asked him, “Where else are you hurt?”

Tantai Jin pressed his lips tightly together, ignoring her. 

She looked down and saw that some areas of his clothes were darker in color. The young man wore black, which is a color that hides wounds easily. 

That place just happens to be his abdomen. 

Su Su was silent for a moment, then fearing that he would really bleed to death, she reached out a hand to untie his belt. 

Without the ability to move his four limbs, unable to move at all, he stared at the girl’s fingers and said coldly, “What are you doing?”

It’s one thing that the fragrance on her body is like that of acacia flower, but now she is trying to take off his clothes. (Google translated the flower name as acacia flower but I am actually not certain that’s the right translation. Anyhow, this particular flower in this genre is usually used for aphrodisiac purposes…so that kinda tells you what Tantai Jin thinks of Su Su’s smell.) 

Under the candlelight, the girl tilted her head to look at him and said lazily, “I am coveting your beauty. Isn’t this the perfect time while you are unable to move?”

Thinking of something, she grinned naughtily, put her hands on either side of his head, and looked down at him. 

“Tantai Jin, if you are scared, go ahead, and call for help. We are not the only two here. Xiaoling, her mother-in-law, and grandpa are all outside.” 

Tantai Jin stared at the delicate face above him. 

At that time, he had no love thread, so Su Su’s joke should’ve been harmless to him but when her hand parted his collar, perhaps it was the cold air on a winter day, the touch brought a tremble to his skin. 

Subconsciously, he felt a little nervous for no reason. 

Su Su glanced down, but she didn’t see any wounds. It turned out she had mistaken other people’s blood on him as his own. 

She paused, then nonchalantly pulled his clothes back in place. 

However, the moment she finished tying his clothes, she looked up to see a pair of stormy dark eyes. 

“What’s wrong?” She asked in confusion. 

He sneered coldly, closed his eyes, carrying a hint of hatred and disgust toward her. 

Not understanding what he meant by that, she said “Irrational.” 

There was only one bed in the room, and it was taken by Tantai Jin. That night, Su Su slept with her head on the table and spent a very uncomfortable night that resulted in a total body ache.

She didn’t know what the young man was thinking. 

Because of this misunderstanding, Tantai Jin had his eyes open all night, looking out the window at the snowy night. 

The young demon god, he has no self-esteem so naturally he has never developed a sense of inferiority but tonight, when Su Su pulled close his shirt right after taking one glance, it inexplicably reminded him of Tantai Minglang’s words on the boat two days ago. 

Tantai Minglang pressed him down with his foot and said with a contemptuous smile, “I heard that your mother Concubine Rou was the world famous number one beauty in Huaizho. Look at your weak and useless appearance, you might as well become a real princess and use your body to serve people.” 

Weak and useless. 

It was so easy for the girl to carry him onto the horse. And when she parted his clothes tonight and took one casual glance at him, she had then hurriedly pulled his clothes close, seemingly in disgust…

A feeling akin to hatred sprouted in the young man who is without love thread. 

The feeling wasn’t for the girl with her head on the table but it was for this body that can’t practice martial arts. 

That year, he was very pale. His skin had a morbid pale whiteness and was as thin as a bamboo stick. The empire of Daxia idolized fighters, so most men have strong muscular bodies, but he doesn’t. 

His abdomen was well-proportioned, with only a thin layer of muscle, fairer than that of women. 

He had suffered starvation for many years. All he ever focused on was trying to survive, never caring about the appearance of this body. 

The inferiority complex of the young demon god came very late and very faint, in the night of a village in the mortal world, hidden from everyone. 

As the sky lighted up, the beginning sprouts of these annoyance and inferiority emotions were all buried deep into his heart. 

Later, when he crawled out of the Ghost River and was left with almost nothing but a skeleton frame, he somehow was reminded of that night in the mortal world once he could start to regrow his flesh. 

The girl pulled open his clothes and then quickly closed it. 

Tantai Jin sneered coldly and put in quite a bit of effort when he was regrowing his flesh body. 

Unfortunately, the heavens would not grant his wish. The existence of demon gods has long transcended the laws of the world. 

Just as the bear demons and lion demons’ human forms are all on the strong burly side, the demon god’s body leans towards the lean and slender sort of beauty. 

He belonged in the camp of demons whose bodies had a bewitching beauty, very different from the sort like Lord Xikan. 

“………..”

Even after so many years, Tantai Jin still believes the type Su Su likes is the strong and muscular men of the old Daxia empire in the mortal world. 

For Demon God Tantai Jin, he naturally can make changes to his body, he can even take over someone else’s body but ultimately it is not his own nor can he stand to use someone else’s body to be with Su Su. 

After finishing this memory, Su Su opened her eyes and looked at the handsome Demon God in front of her with mixed emotions. 

The corner of Su Su’s lips really wanted to pull upward but was forcefully kept down by her. 

Tantai Jin pursed his lips, “If you want to laugh then laugh.”

After thousand-plus years, this familiar phrase brought her back to that snowy day with that young man who was obviously very bothered and annoyed but still pretended to be nonchalant. 

Unceremoniously, she leaned on his shoulder and burst out laughing. 

“Hahaha….”

Tantai Jin’s face became darker and darker, his body stiff. 

He was the one who told her to laugh but at this moment, the veins on his forehead twitched and he felt a rare sense of embarrassment. 

“So, are you envious of Lord Xikan’s type of body?” Su Su opened her arms and made an extremely exaggerated gesture. 

Tantai Jin remained silent. 

Su Su knew well enough in her heart of his thoughts. After she finished laughing, she said in all seriousness, “Let’s go back to our bedchamber.” 

The two of them walked a long way when Tantai Jin who had been silent all this time suddenly spoke disdainfully, “A god’s body can transform into all things, so what’s a mere Lord Xikan.”

After a pause, he glanced at Su Su and then said calmly, “If you like, I can reshape my body tomorrow.”

Su Su couldn’t hold back anymore, she threw herself into his arms and said with a smile, “I want to tell that young demon god, I had only wanted to see if he had any other injuries back then and felt a little shy afterward. How could he think that I would like Lord Xikan’s type or like those of Daxia?”

“Doesn’t he know, a god’s body, is the most beautiful existence in the world?”

All living beings have souls, and you, who has me in your heart, is the one that moves my heart the most. 

Tantai Jin lowered his eyes and saw Su Su’s bright eyes.

After a long time, his lips curved upward. 

“Hmm.” 

Both the young demon god and he, know that now. 

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