The Eternal Phoenix Queen

Eps. 4: Feng Shang in the Magic Garden

“I heard, you keep a woman in your house?” asked a shoulder-length haired woman to Shen Yi. The woman was wearing shoes with five centimeter heels, dressed in white and a similar blazer. His face was polished with a thin powder and his lips were pink.

However beautiful that woman could not make Shen Yi interested. Instead, he turned his face to the side, avoiding the stares that had bored him for several years. Shen Yi drank her coffee, trying to be patient with this woman.

“Can't I bring the person who saved my life?” Shen Yi replied to him with a question, making the beautiful woman sigh. For five years he struggled, but the people he pursued never looked at him even once.

“Oh, apparently he's your savior. Can I see him?”

“Don't ever think of teasing her just because of me!”

Jiang Li, the marketing director laughed at Shen Yi's reply. Not stopping there, Jiang Li tried to tease back Shen Yi by continuously asking.

“You brought it to which house?”

Shen Yi was troubled by Jiang Li's question. He immediately finished his coffee, picked up his cell phone and brought his briefcase.

“I'm busy. No time to answer your questions.”

The Jiang Li who was left alone by Shen Yi stared at the man's departure with the corner of her eyes. He put down his coffee, then leaned on the back of the chair. Shen Yi, was the person she had liked since five years ago. However, he never managed to get Shen Yi's heart, as the man was too busy taking care of the company and frequently traveled abroad.

Yesterday when news broke that Shen Yi had just returned after a business trip, suddenly people in her office were talking about a woman Shen Yi had brought home. Jiang Li came to make sure. She was not a foolish woman who would act recklessly.

Seeing Shen Yi's response earlier, Jiang Li became curious as to what kind of female figure Shen Yi had brought home. His assistant sent him a photo taken secretly while the woman was still in the office yesterday. Judging from his face, Jiang Li gave a small smile. He said, “Her formula is.”

Shen Yi walked into her study with Zhang Bi. Sitting with Jiang Li in the coffee shop was quite a waste of his time. If not for Jiang Li's hard work, Shen Yi might have long since mutated the woman to a branch company in another city. It's just that the board of directors loved Jiang Li too much that Shen Yi was not free to act on him.

“Master, check this out.”

Zhang Bi thrust out the surveillance footage inside Shen Yi's house. The camera works fine. Surprisingly, there was no record of what happened when Shen Yi's household was destroyed or who destroyed it. The camera only recorded the moment Zhang Bi escorted Feng Shang, after which nothing happened.

It is strange, Shen Yi thought. With a very sophisticated surveillance camera, it is impossible if the incident is not recorded. Could it be the ghost that destroyed it? No, ghosts are just a product of superstition born out of human fear. Shen Yi could not believe it.

“Show fountain pool parts,” pinta Shen Yi.

The surveillance cameras near the fountain only recorded when Feng Shang jumped into the pond and soaked there. There is no record of why the glass walls could break. However, one thing that Shen Yi was interested in was that Feng Shang had apparently been soaking for over four hours inside the fountain pond.

When Shen Yi was busy in her office, Feng Shang actually felt bored because there was no work. Usually when in the Nine Heavens Realm, he would go hunting evil demons when having some leisure time. Along with the other gods, he was always the best. Once hunting, the maharani often gets more than five demons and tames them, or sends them to the Reincarnation Pool in order to become human and do good.

Feng Shang had no idea that the sleeping magic he had applied to Shen Yi had made the man wake up bad luck. He thought the man would not leave, or was already gone. Feng Shang did not know that he applied sleep magic at one night, which made Shen Yi wake up at nine in the morning, two hours later than office hours. Does he care about the man's job?

To get rid of boredom, he took a walk around the house that had been cleaned. The contents of the house that was destroyed yesterday had now been replaced with new ones, displaying an atmosphere different to the one he had seen before he destroyed it.

He went around every corner of the house. Yes, this building is indeed a house, but it deserves to be called a palace for ordinary people. Shen Yi spent millions of dollars to build it. This house is only one of the many property assets he has, as well as his favorite house.

Shen Yi deliberately did not hire servants in this house on the grounds of wanting calm. Enough in the main house there is a servant. In this house, he could freely go home and leave. This was also the reason why he brought Feng Shang here.

“Man here is very noisy,” said Feng Shang when thousands of sounds entered his ears, causing a sickening sensation that made his head dizzy. Having the ability to hear sounds for thousands of miles turns out to be troublesome as well. Feng Shang sealed this ability, in order to feel comfortable.

Feng Shang found a garden whose flowers had already withered. Feng Shang stepped out his legs, then miraculously the withered flowers came back fresh and blooming. His wench was blown away, making Feng Shang recall his flower garden in Fengyun Palace. Surprisingly, Feng Shang actually sensed that a great power was stored in the garden.

It felt like a pent-up fire spiritual power. Since he was the fire phoenix, the element was very friendly with him. Feng Shang sat on a padded swing, inhaling the fragrance of the flowers and absorbing the spiritual power of the garden area.

So comfortable, he fell asleep.

“Miss Feng,” someone called his name after he fell asleep for an hour. Zhang Bi stood in the doorway while carrying a few packs of food.

“Ya?”

“Master Shen told me to deliver this. Maybe, Miss hasn't eaten since yesterday.”

Zhang Bi then placed the food on the table. Feng Shang smelled a unique scent, tickled his tongue and awakened his appetite. The food is then moved onto the plate. However, not Feng Shang actually fell silent when on the plate there were knives and forks side by side.

Even until Zhang Bi returned to the office, Feng Shang had yet to eat the food. Not not hungry, his stomach was already rumbling but something was holding him back from eating the food. Feng Shang instead left the dining table and went back to sleep on the flower garden swing until nightfall.

He saw Feng Shang was asleep on the swing. The surrounding flowers did not wither and bloomed beautifully under the moonlight. Shen Yi did not have time to take care of the courtyard of the house, leaving the ornamental plants abandoned. At once, yesterday the flowers were still withered and almost dead, why suddenly bloomed?

“Feng Shang?”

Feng Shang blinked his eyes. Shen Yi stood not far from the swing, looking at him like before.

“You're home,” said Feng Shang briefly.

“Why don't you eat the food?” ask Shen Yi.

“I don't know how to eat it.”

Feng Shangs answer made Shen Yi instantly stunned. So, this woman didn't eat just because she didn't know how to eat it?

Good Lord! What kind of woman saved his life? Yesterday he soaked for six more hours, now instead of eating on the grounds of not knowing how to eat it, who would believe it?

Shen Yi was forced to teach Feng Shang how to eat beef steak. Feng Shang had just found out that the function of an object called a fork was to hold the meat, while a knife was to cut it. How to eat like this of course does not exist in the Nine Heavens Realm – or maybe humans call it kahyangan.

“Mortal man's way of eating is really troublesome.” Feng Shang subconsciously took out his Celestial Empress style to the point of making Shen Yi look at him questioningly. Immediately, he corrected his words with the words, “I mean, why don't you give me some easy-to-digest food.”

Shen Yi threw her gaze to the side.

This strange woman, she should have sent it to her family yesterday. But, until now Zhang Bi still had not discovered the identity of this woman and where she came from. To such a person, Shen Yi had actually been patient enough.

“You don't remember who your family is?” ask Shen Yi. Feng Shang shook his head.

“Women like us have no family,” replied Feng Shang spontaneously.

“Women like us? I mean, you're from an orphanage?”

“What is an orphanage?”

Shen Yi paused her breath, she thought it was futile to ask him.

Feng Shang finished all his food. His stomach had never been this thick because in Fengyun Palace, Yue Ming had always reminded him that the Celestial Empress should not eat too much so as not to get fat and not to become a laughing stock in the Three Realms.

Feng Shang walked up to Shen Yi out of curiosity towards a magical object that the man had placed on the table. Based on the memories of Shen Yi that Feng Shang had seen last night, the strange object was named a laptop.

Feng Shang was startled and hit Shen Yi's shoulder as he saw a video clip of a xianxia romance drama telling the story of the gods. The footage shows a goddess kissing a god under a tree of life.

Getting a sudden blow, Shen Yi could not help but be confused.

“Why did you hit me?”

“No manners! Gods and goddesses are not allowed to be indecent! I have to punish them!”

The fiery Feng Shang made Shen Yi again stunned. Feng Shangs attitude made him stunned countless times. Shen Yi now thought that Feng Shang had already lost his mind from being stranded on Yonghe Island and thought he was the Heavenly Empress and this was the kahyangan realm.

“You are strange, indeed the god realm exists?” shen Yi asked later.

Feng Shang was eager to hit Shen Yi with all his might and send her to the Reincarnation Pool. “I should have let this man die,” Feng Shang said inwardly.

Shen Yi closed her laptop screen. Unique hobbies such as watching colossal dramas in the midst of his busy life are only known by Zhang Bi, perhaps now increasing Feng Shang. For a president of a big company, it was a joke that drew the laughter of many people.

That was why Shen Yi had always chosen this house to carry out her hobby. Somehow he was not uneasy when Feng Shang learned of his unique hobby. Shen Yi then went upstairs, preparing to go to sleep. Downstairs, Feng Shang was still sitting watching Shen Yi's laptop.

“I want to see how these indecent gods end!”

...***...