"Imperial Concubine, help me trim my toenails."
"Where's the nail clipper?"
"Don't you have teeth?"
"Fine. You're in luck this time. You're the first person fortunate enough to have your toenails trimmed with Emperor Zhou's saber. I guarantee I'll only need two slashes to leave them perfectly clean, with no future troubles."
"Hey, hey, I have a little knife. Use this."
"I don't know how. Trim them yourself."
"You don't even know how to do this? What use is there in growing up so big!" Murong Hui shook her head helplessly, handed the little knife to Ying Ru Shi, and drawled coquettishly, "Little Fox~"
"You're really impossible." Ying Ru Shi placed Little Vixen's cat paw on her thigh. Murong Hui had grown up spoiled from childhood and had almost no ability to care for herself. After knowing her for so many years, Ying Ru Shi had long since grown accustomed to looking after this sister who was only slightly older than her.
As soon as she finished trimming them, Murong Hui immediately hugged her foot to her chest. "All right, now it's my turn to trim yours."
Ying Ru Shi really had not trimmed her nails in several days. They had needed to seize every second of sleep along the way, and only after arriving at the Land of Gathering Demons had she found time to bathe, let alone tend to her nails. Murong Hui's filial gesture was rare, and Ying Ru Shi was rather gratified. She had just relaxed when she immediately tensed up again—because Yan Qing approached.
"The assassin didn't show up today," Yan Qing said. "I thought he would seize this opportunity... Could it be that he's already given up and left?"
Neither the White Mane Lion King nor the phoenix was an easy opponent. To deal