Chương 65: New Nickname

Rong Jian waved his hand in front of her face. "Wifey? What's wrong?"

Shen Tianyu came back to herself and the present. "Nothing, I was just talking to Xue Lang." She answered.

Rong Jian frowned. "What's so important that you can't say it in front of me?"

"Is there a need? It's not like you could hear Xue Lang's response anyways either. Besides, it wasn't anything too important, just some idle talk. As contract beast and Master, it would most certainly not do to have a shallow relationship. And I do not like being a tyrant, it would be best if we could cooperate as equals rather than one ruling over the other." She countered. She grew up in the 21st century where democracy was the biggest and most popular governmental structure after all. Besides, she quite liked the idea of "even the poor and weak can have a say" model. That was true equality in her opinion. She had even implemented that model for her businesses. Naturally, she would try to implement it here in this highly patriarchal, one-sided world, even if it was just to make herself more comfortable here. "Anyways, can you not call me wifey?" She changed the topic.

The topic caught Rong Jian's attention and he abandoned the previous one immediately. It wasn't really important to him anyways. He was just jealous his wifey hid something from him but not the Snow Wolf. "Why not? You agreed to it before."

"No, I didn't, I just reluctantly gave up. But after careful consideration, I think it's still better to call me by a nickname or something like that if you want to sound intimate. Your current way of address will make others misunderstand. We're not even formally engaged. You might not be affected at all but my reputation will. Besides, it could bring unnecessary troubles with stupid brainless butterflies(3) and I don't want to deal with that." Shen Tianyu reasoned.

Not wanting his wifey to worry or bother with troubles, Rong Jian begrudgingly agreed. He wanted his wifey to be happy and eventually like him back. He wasn't in the mind of forcefully marrying someone. Though this could also be another facet of his possessiveness, he wanted her heart as well as her body. And forcefully marrying her before he had her heart would definitely be an obstacle to that. "Fine... then, what nickname should I call you?"

"I don't really care." She nonchalantly replied.

After thinking with his arms crossed for a while, Rong Jian's face lit up. "How about Tian'er?"

Curious, she asked him. "Why that? Usually, people make nicknames like that from the last character of their names right?(1) So I would be Yu'er."

"Because Tian'er is my sky and everything beneath it, so Tian'er fits just right.(2)" Rong Jian answered with a proud stance and a satisfied smile, nodding his head.

Unbeknownst to her, Shen Tianyu's cheeks flushed. "What's with that reasoning?! So embarrassing." 'He's such a playboy, being able to say such a cheesy line with a serious happy face.' She thought to herself. She managed to pull herself together. "Fine. I was that one that told you to pick. Then, call me that instead form now on."

Rong Jian nodded and started staring at her. He stared so much, Shen Tianyu thought he was trying to bore a hole through her. "What?" She couldn't ignore his stare filled with unrestrained expectation so she asked him.

"Tian'er won't give me a nickname?" He asked with a tilted head and slight smile on his lips. His gaze was filled with expectations, warmth and a hint of teasing.

"Guh. Fine then. Um..." She also started seriously contemplating a nickname for him. After a while of thinking, she let her arms down and looked at him dejectedly. "I can't think of anything."

Rong Jian's face brightened up, as if waiting for her to say that. "How about hubby?" He suggested enthusiastically.

Without a moment of hesitation or any warning, Shen Tianyu's hand slapped across his face. "Idiot!" She spat. "I shouldn't have asked you!" She then went back to thinking.

Rong Jian held his cheek that now had a five fingered hand print on it with an aggrieved face and whined to her but she didn't show any indication of hearing him. She completely ignored him and blocked his voice from her head so it was more or less like she never heard him.

Xue Lang put his paws over his eyes and laid it's head next to the Ice Crystal Shen Tianyu had put on the ground earlier with flattened ears. [These two... What are they doing?] He bemoaned in embarrassment at the two. Though he could be considered a hermit, he wasn't ignorant to how human relations between couples were. If an outsider saw this scene, what would they think?! If someone said they were a couple, it obviously looked wrong. How could a man be so subservient to a woman?! There are so many women in the world, if she was ignoring him, he should just let it go or his manliness would be called into question. Shen Tianyu obviously heard his thoughts but didn't show any indication of it.

After another half an incense stick of this scene, Shen Tianyu put her hands down again with a serious face. Seeing her face, Rong Jian also quieted down. "How about... Jian Lang?" She had initially wanted to call him Si Lang(3) because it sounded deadly in her opinion. But four was an unlucky number so she didn't want to curse him with bad luck. It would also be troublesome if other people thought she was, even if he was okay with it. So she threw that idea away. She ended up copying him and used his given name to make a nickname.

Though the nickname didn't sound like anything special, Rong Jian showed a delighted expression. "Alright!" He enthusiastically agreed. Now, he didn't have to feel inferior to that stupid Snow Wolf. Hopefully, in the future, she won't name other spiritual beasts like that. Even better if she could change that Snow Wolf's nickname so he didn't have to feel like they were similar even though they weren't. He didn't want to feel like he was sharing his wife, even if the other party was just a contract beast.

With that settled, the couple and third wheel wolf went back to cultivating.

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1: ('er) is an affectionate way to call some one, usually female to indicate closeness.

2: Tian=sky in chinese

3: It could roughly be translated as 4th husband. The "4th" is the position of the child in his family not the number of husband the wife has. Since he's the 4th child of his family, it's "4th" and Lang=endearment for husband. The roughly female equivalent is "Niang". Like Madam Yu from MDZS is called San Niang (3rd Wife)

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