Eating

Lu Xing returned to Earth.

He glanced around and found himself sitting on a stone beneath a banyan tree beside the West Teaching Building, facing the passing pedestrians. In his hand was a half-eaten bag of biscuits, and beside him was a half-finished bottle of water.

The Fairy had learned to eat and drink. What a cause for celebration!

Lu Xing sighed in relief.

He had specially prepared the biscuits and water because he had roughly figured out the Fairy's personality. She would not take the initiative to speak to anyone, so if Lu Xing wanted to avoid coming back starving, he had to prepare food for her.

It was quite strange when he thought about it. Of the four people he had swapped with, two lacked basic common sense, yet he could not really blame them. After all, one cultivated immortality, while the other had lived in the Virtual World.

Instead, Lu Xing's mortal body had held them back, causing the Fairy to descend into the mundane world and forcing her to mingle with worldly life.

Carrying the Fairy's unfinished biscuits and water back to his dormitory, Lu Xing found his phone on the desk. After thinking it over, he still called Xiao Yu.

"I'm at work. Is something wrong?" Xiao Yu answered quickly.

"Sorry. Then get back to work first. I'll message you."

"Since you've already called, why are you dragging this out? Spit it out!" Xiao Yu urged.

So Lu Xing asked her, "Did I call you today?"

"No. Who did you turn into this time?"

She accurately guessed what he meant.

"I became the Cold Ice Fairy."

"She doesn't have a name? You've been calling her Cold Ice Fairy this tacky nickname all along!" Xiao Yu laughed.

"Unfortunately, I didn't get to ask. I can only refer to her as the Cold Ice Fairy."

Lu Xing was helpless too. Including the Fairy, half of the souls in the mirror claimed to have no names, so he could only silently label them: the Empress, the Purple-Clad Woman, the Blue Skirt Girl, and so on.

"Maybe it's a taboo in the cultivation world? I heard that if you know someone's name, you can put a curse on them!"

Xiao Yu guessed, having recently watched a Hong Kong movie from the nineties.

Lu Xing laughed. "A single snort from the Fairy could kill tens of millions. What kind of curse would matter?"

He was not boasting. The Fairy really could kill tens of millions with one shout.

"I was using it as a metaphor! Something like a curse," Xiao Yu muttered. "She didn't call me today. That's it for now. I'll come find you after work. I'll probably arrive around six-thirty, so come pick me up at the west gate."

She hung up after saying that, without standing on ceremony. After all, they had swapped bodies.

Lu Xing had no idea why she was coming. He had originally planned to use his meal card to eat, but since she was coming, he would wait until she arrived.

An hour later.

"Over here."

By the road outside the west gate, the rear door of a black sedan opened, revealing Xiao Yu's bright, dignified face. She smiled at Lu Xing.

Lu Xing remained calm, but the students passing by were dumbfounded. Quite a few people even looked over from afar.

Lu Xing did not get into the car immediately. He first asked her, "Aren't you getting out?"

"Get in. I'm treating you today."

"I'd feel bad about that. I should treat you instead."

"Do you have money?"

Xiao Yu glanced at him, amusement faintly flickering in her eyes. "You smashed someone's phone, and you still owe the counselor two thousand yuan."

"That wasn't me, okay? It was Little Jiang!"

Lu Xing sighed. Even a penny could stump a hero. He was a transmigrator, yet he was still so poor!

Xiao Yu laughed. "Get in. I'm treating you today, and I have something else to tell you."

Lu Xing nodded, walked around to get in from the other side, and sat beside Xiao Yu with an armrest between them.

"What kind of car is this?"

Lu Xing could tell from the decorations that it was an expensive car. The ceiling was dotted with little lights like a starry sky.

"You're a guy and you still don't recognize it? I thought all guys knew cars."

Xiao Yu still remembered how she had failed to recognize a BMW last time.

Lu Xing said, "I only know Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Audi. I haven't looked into the others."

As they chatted, the car drove into a restaurant parking lot. When Lu Xing got out, before he could even open the door, Xiao Yu's assistant came over and opened it for him.

After Xiao Yu got out, the assistant led the way in front of them. Xiao Yu did not need to worry about anything at all; she only had to come eat.

Lu Xing laughed. "Do you know what this reminds me of?"

"What?"

"Anne."

"That Noble Lady from the Magic World?"

"Yeah. She had seven or eight maids helping her get dressed. I just realized that when she came to Earth, she had to dress herself!"

Any normal person knew how to get dressed, but of the four people who had transmigrated into Lu Xing's body, three were not normal people.

"Seven or eight maids waiting on you?"

Xiao Yu looked at him with a strange expression.

"Not me. Anne!"

"Then she was seen by you too—"

Xiao Yu promptly shut her mouth. Her assistant and bodyguards were nearby, so it was not appropriate to talk about that.

As they spoke, the two entered the restaurant. The assistant had already arranged a table at the front desk, so Lu Xing and Xiao Yu simply followed her.

After taking their seats and ordering, Lu Xing looked over the menu. Thankfully, each dish cost only two or three hundred yuan, not the thousands he had imagined.

Everything about the Rich and Beautiful Woman's food, clothing, housing, and transportation was astonishing.

"What do you want to eat?"

"Anything. I can eat whatever, don't you know that?"

Lu Xing smiled.

Xiao Yu rolled her eyes at him, then pointed at the spicy rabbit heads on the menu. "Not only can you eat, you eat a lot too... Want one of these?"

"Sure."

"Do you drink?"

"Only at gatherings. Usually, I don't."

Lu Xing and Xiao Yu each ordered two dishes and a soup. While they waited, Lu Xing told her about what he had seen in the Immortal Realm.

In truth, he had merely climbed a mountain.

Xiao Yu listened in amazement. "That Fairy only had to shout once, and the wind and snow stopped?"

"After all, she's a Fairy who lives in an ice mountain."

"I can't understand it. Aren't other places better? Why live inside a cave?"

"Don't judge her by ordinary people's standards. Many things we consider common sense probably seem strange to her instead!"

"That makes sense."

Xiao Yu stirred her teacup a few times with her spoon, then suddenly looked up at him. "That Fairy... she's very beautiful, isn't she?"

"Uh."

Lu Xing did not know for a moment whether he should praise her or not.

If Xiao Yu had been an ordinary-looking girl who knew her own limits, Lu Xing could have freely praised someone else's beauty.

But Xiao Yu was also a great beauty. Beautiful women were all proud, and if Lu Xing praised someone else too much, it would make the person before him seem inferior.

Xiao Yu stared at him. "No need to answer. I can tell from your expression that she's the most beautiful woman you've ever seen!"

Lu Xing laughed. "Her face and figure are about as... big as yours."

He swallowed the word "big" after nearly biting his tongue.

He truly knew!

"But she's an immortal cultivator. Her aura is completely different from an ordinary person's. If you cultivated too, you'd be a Fairy as well!"

Lu Xing hurriedly finished.

"I don't want to be some Fairy. Besides, at my age... never mind."

Changing the subject, Xiao Yu said, "If I get the chance someday, I'd like to meet this peerlessly graceful Fairy too. Too bad she didn't even call me."

Lu Xing smiled. "I don't even know her name or what to call her. If I hadn't accidentally swapped bodies with her, even if I stood in front of her and shouted myself hoarse, she probably wouldn't pay me any attention."

"Her personality is that cold?" Xiao Yu grew even more curious.

"Not cold, but indifferent. No, that's not right either. Reclusive? Socially impaired? None of those are accurate. She's probably the kind of supreme expert who is invincible in the world. The stronger a person is, the more different her thoughts are from ordinary people's. The most fitting way to see her is as a Fairy of the Nine Heavens, someone who can only be admired from afar."

Lu Xing had vaguely figured it out. The Cold Ice Fairy was in that ice chamber neither to hide from enemies nor to cultivate. She simply lived there.

Just as a beautiful senior in the mirror had said, one could lie down and rest anywhere. Above or below heaven, throughout the Three Realms and Six Paths, everywhere was the same. Why insist on going anywhere in particular?

With her strength, even if she lay in the wind and snow, few could shake her, let alone approach her.