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Li Ling was just an ordinary laborer, but what was not ordinary was his requests. Some asked him to enter the Eternal Night Valley to get a single flower, some asked him to steal a dragon"s nest egg, all of them were dangerous, but it was a family business that had been done for generations, so he had to do it. As for the most popular request, it must be the request to go to a witch.
"What"s this time... Love potion? You don"t have the ability to flirt with women that well?" And the most popular request was love potion. He didn"t like going to the witch"s house in the forest. The deserted forest was dangerous, and the witch himself was dangerous to his heart.
After he passed through the thorn bushes, bats, and many other creatures, he arrived at a medium-sized hut. In front of him was a drying rack of plants and other things with a sign that said "Do not touch." He glanced down and saw the fingers of a living creature that were dry and had a faint roasted meat stick. His hair stood on end. This place had never made him feel good. He knocked on the door to signal the people inside before opening it.
Inside were piles of stuff, a birdcage, and table with chairs four table. The dim lights in the cottage gave it a mysterious look. Currently, the witch only had three guests, two of whom were bill and coo, one looked like a half-snake and the other he couldn"t guess, and the other had long ears and was dressed like a witch. Before they turned their attention to the newcomers, including the crow in the cage. "Caw, caw, caw! Guests! Humans! Food!" Li Ling turned pale at the nonsense the bird kept babbling. "You foul-mouthed bird," the red-eyed man scolded the crow in the cage. "Don"t take it too seriously. This crow likes to tease people. Just think of it as a beast whose words cannot be trusted." The long-eared man rested his chin on his hand and looked at him with an exhausted gaze, while the crow laughed wickedly after it saw him scared. "They have the same bad personality as their owner," the half-snake man muttered softly, but it seemed like he heard. "You lazy snake! Watch out, one day I"ll catch you guys and make your lover cry!" The long-eared man threw his pointed hat onto the table before pointing at the half-snake man who had now changed from hugging the other to lying flat on the table. "Umm... I came to see a witch..." Li Ling said his business. He wanted to hurry up and get out of here.
"Xuan? Oh, he"s in the back looking for something." The pointed-eared man waved his hand, signaling for him to ignore it. After a while, he heard a commotion coming from behind him. "Eek! A ghost!" Everyone turned to the sound. "Caw! The witch is being haunted! muahahaha." "Shut up." The pointed-eared man flicked his hand at the animal in the cage before the crow wriggled and screamed, but its beak did not move. "He been gone for so long. So it"s turn out he go looking for that thing? I told him to throw it in the river a hundred years ago, but he didn"t listen." The pointed-eared man put his hat back on and sat down irritably. "I told you ,Tang Xuan is a soft-hearted person, but it"s a waste to throw it away. It"s better to keep it to use." The half-snake man rubbed his eyes slightly, while the red-eyed man sitting next to him gently brushed the hair that was covering his eyes. "But it"s so naughty! What if it breaks the contract someday?" Li Ling could only act small and let the inhuman creatures converse. "That guy lost the bet. The contract was stamped on both of them and they bet their lives on it. How can he tear it up?" The red-eyed man added, patting his lover"s head.
After a while, a loud voice gradually sounded like someone was approaching. "Hey, I told you to go home! Why are you hanging in my jar! And give me my hat back!" It turned out to be a tall man with two-tone hair being pushed from behind by the witch he came to find. The sound of beaded curtains banging was heard when the object passed through. "Well, by now my house must be turned into fertilizer. After being locked up by you like this for ages, can"t I even stay here?" The man lifted the other"s pointed hat high so that the other person wouldn"t be able to reach it and made a pleading face, but the other person didn"t fall for the trap. "Hey, you perverted ghost, get away from my brother!" The pointy-eared man jumped over the table to beat the ghost up, but was held back by two other men. "You stupid wizard... Did you forget that if you"re not their master, you can"t hurt spirits?" Tang Xuan, who was frightened, pushed the two-tone-haired man out of the way before hurriedly leading the pointy-eared man down from the table. "Tang Yun, come down. You"ll fall down. Come down slowly." Tang Yun, who saw the ghost being pushed away by his beloved master, sneered before getting off the table as Tang Xuan requested.
After handling everything, Tang Xuan took out his hat to dust it off before turning around and smiling at Li Ling who was sitting at a table far from them and seemed to have been forgotten by others. "Greetings,Mr. Li Ling. What do you want today?" Li Ling hurriedly searched for the order in her luggage. "Love potion... again." Hearing this, Tang Xuan sighed. "Human are human. They don"t even know the price and they"re still willing to take risks to lose something like an idiot." Tang Xuan walked over to pick up a plate and cut a bizarre-looking cake before handing it to the other ghost who sat there without saying a word. "Eat it, Yuuhime." The other person nodded. Then, Tang Xuan walked around behind him to get an equipment. "What do you mean..." Li Ling asked curiously. "It"s because the the other was out of love. Even though we can make the other person love other as we wish, the price is that the user will slowly fall out of love." Tang Yun conjured up a mist in the shape of a heart. At first, one side was full and the other was empty. Suddenly, both sides were full, but when time pass the other side slowly decreased until it was empty. "Because if user had truly loved them in the first place, they wouldn"t have used this method to get the other person. In the end, humans are just infatuated with each other, there"s no way that it"s true love." Tang Xuan added as he dropped the ingredients into a small cauldron on the table. "Just like me, I love Tang Xuan from the bottom of my heart." "Shut your mouth and keep Tang Yun the crow company,Yamato." Tang Xuan pointed at Yamato before the other"s mouth closed tightly. Yamato immediately pouted after being cast a spell on him.
Ling, who saw the event, although he came here often, never remembered the conversation, but he had seen this creature use magic many times. "Wait a moment, it"s almost done." Tang Xuan scooped up the liquid from the pot before carefully pouring it into a glass bottle, closing the lid, tying a rope around the bottle, and hanging a sign that the person had written by hand. After a while, Tang Xuan handed the bottle to Li Ling with a smile. "You heard our conversation, please don"t tell anyone. This is the price they have to pay when using love potions." He took it before flipping through the sign that the person had written.
"To our customer
Thank you for using our service. We hope we won"t see you again in the near future. May the moonlight protect you.
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It was a strange blessing, he thought to himself before glancing at the witch who was busy packing up. "Can it... be used on witches?" He had to cover his mouth when he realized what he had said. Every living thing in the room turned to look at him with the same gaze. Although the other person was initially stunned, he smiled. "If you use it and lose what you feel now, will you regret it?" Li Ling pursed his lips and considered what to say. The feelings inside were all mixed together. It was difficult to say it out loud, but it was bitter to swallow it back. "If I lose what I"m feel now... it"s better to keep it. At least I"m still love him like before." Tang Xuan"s mouth curved up into a faint smile. "Have a good trip." "See you, young hired hand." The half-snake man waved before his lover waved after him. Li Ling could only nod and walk out.
To this day, he didn"t know how many times he had said that sentence, but every time he went out of the forest, he always forgot. He didn"t know why, it was like a vivid dream but it was blurry, like it was covered by fog.