So she could only watch helplessly as Liu’s mother was poisoned to death, completely powerless to do anything.
After Xiaoman took human form, she went to approach Shen Linchuan in order to avenge Liu’s mother. She wanted Liu Tanghuan to watch helplessly as all the wealth and power she had desperately tried to obtain slipped away from her.
Xiaoman was filled with resentment, yet Shen Linchuan still fell hopelessly in love with her.
Later, Xiaoman found evidence that Liu Tanghuan and Qian Xiaohu had killed someone and sent the two of them to prison together.
Shen Linchuan also got divorced.
The two of them had gone through quite a bit of painful love, but in the end, they still lived happily together for the rest of their lives.
This human and this demon had originally been destined lovers. The reason Xiaoman received such severe punishment was because she had changed the fate of Liu’s father and mother.
They were originally supposed to die.
“By the way.” Xi Yu looked at Xiaoman. “You shouldn’t have been able to take human form this early. Did you encounter some kind of opportunity?”
Xiaoman blinked and spoke somewhat embarrassedly. “A long time ago, I heard other demons say that there was spiritual energy surrounding the Misty Forest that could aid cultivation. So I secretly went in and stayed there for a while. Later, the master of the Misty Forest discovered me and threw me out.”
“Not long ago, I saw the Golden Jade Bracelet on Weibo, and only then did I realize why there was so much spiritual energy there.”
Xi Yu paused, then laughed helplessly. “So that’s how it was.”
After all that, it turned out that Liuyun was the one who had set the changes in everyone’s fates into motion.
No.
It should be said that the master of the Misty Forest was the one behind it all.
Xi Yu left with Lu Zhixing after saying goodbye to the entire Liu family. They had just gone through life and death together, so they probably had a lot to say to each other.
After returning home, Xi Yu took a shower. By then, it was already three in the morning.
Xi Yu had just prepared to go to sleep.
Lu Zhixing came over from the balcony wearing pajamas.
Xi Yu’s eyelids drooped. “Why aren’t you sleeping yet?”
Lu Zhixing sat beside the bed and looked at Xi Yu. “You’re injured.”
Xi Yu raised his eyes, lifted the quilt to indicate that Lu Zhixing should get into bed, and said nothing more.
Lu Zhixing was different from other people. He could sense the changes in the spiritual energy within Xi Yu’s body, so he knew he could not hide it from Lu Zhixing.
However, rather than calling it an injury, it would be more accurate to call it backlash.
Whether it was using the jade-colored flower or Liu Tanghuan’s knife, if Liu’s mother wanted to save Liu Tanghuan, she would inevitably have to suffer serious injury, or even die.
Because only by allowing half the blood in Liu’s mother’s body to flow out could she gain Heaven’s recognition.
It was Xi Yu who had used his spiritual power to transfer the spirit fruit into Mrs. Liu’s body, allowing Liu’s mother to avoid paying such a heavy price.
But he had already said it before: Heaven had its own order.
If he forcibly protected Liu’s mother from harm, he would suffer the backlash himself.
This bit of backlash was nothing to him. At most, he would be weak for a few days.
Xi Yu considered himself not to be a kind person.
From the moment he first met Shen Linchuan and discovered demonic aura on him, he had not interfered.
All things in the world had their own karmic connections. He did not want to interfere with other people’s causes and effects.
Later, when Shen Linchuan forcibly took Liuyun away, he still refused to relent and give away his own belongings to save someone.
Later still, he vaguely guessed that the Liu couple had probably known all along that Xiaoman was a demon.
He did not say anything either, instead letting Xiaoman find the answer herself.
Although Xiaoman had done it unintentionally, she had allowed him to discover Zhuohua’s whereabouts.
He had given her the jade-colored flower and brought forth the choice between life and death, helping the family reunite.
That was merely his repayment.
At first, he had only wanted to save this mother and daughter.
Mrs. Liu’s injury had been inevitable. If she wanted to keep Xiaoman, she would have to pay a price.
But…
Xi Yu’s mind was filled with the image of Mrs. Liu shielding Xiaoman from the knife without regard for her own life.
At that moment, he had thought of his own mother.
That was why he had stepped in to protect Mrs. Liu.
Xi Yu was extremely exhausted. His spiritual energy was unstable and was leaking out from his body.
Lu Zhixing slipped under the quilt, and the spiritual energy spilling from Xi Yu’s body fluctuated as it seeped into his flesh.
Lu Zhixing held a piece of candy in his hand and placed it beside Xi Yu’s lips.
Xi Yu opened his eyes and laughed. “Where did you get so much candy?”
Lu Zhixing pressed his lips together and took advantage of Xi Yu speaking to stuff the candy into his mouth.
Xi Yu hurriedly held it in his mouth. His warm, moist tongue accidentally brushed against Lu Zhixing’s fingertip.
Lu Zhixing’s fingertip seemed to have been burned. He quickly pulled it back, then activated the spiritual energy within his body and condensed it into candy.
Using the same hand that Xi Yu’s tongue had accidentally brushed against, he put the candy into his own mouth.
Xi Yu stared at Lu Zhixing as he bit the candy apart and sucked on it with the tip of his tongue.
“You only have this much spiritual energy that you can control, and you use all of it to make candy. Do you really love eating candy that much?”
Lu Zhixing looked at Xi Yu’s brows relaxing after tasting something sweet, and his expression became somewhat cold.
He grabbed the quilt and abruptly turned his body away.
“Hey, hey, hey.” Xi Yu called out. “Why are you stealing my quilt?”
As Xi Yu spoke, he reached over to pull the quilt back.
Lu Zhixing said nothing and simply held on tightly.
Xi Yu was both amused and helpless.
In the end, he simply pulled up one corner of the quilt and covered his stomach before going to sleep.
Xi Yu really was a little tired.
He closed his eyes and quickly fell asleep.
A City had experienced a sharp drop in temperature over the past two days.
With Xi Yu’s spiritual energy damaged, he felt a little cold in his dream.
But that feeling of coldness quickly disappeared, because his entire body seemed to have sunk into a sponge soaked in hot water—warm and soft.
Lu Zhixing held him in his arms, applying a little strength with his palm.
He was not particularly careful.
Because Xi Yu was injured, what was called rest was actually equivalent to being half-conscious.
Lu Zhixing lowered his eyes, his black pupils filled with a deep, unreadable darkness.
He knew perfectly well that his Shizun’s backlash would only require a period of rest before he recovered.
But he was still unhappy.
He did not possess his Shizun’s soft heart.
By nature, he was cold-blooded and ruthless. In his heart, what happened to others had nothing to do with him.
He simply did not want his Shizun to suffer even the slightest injury because of someone else.
……………………..
Not because of anyone else.
Not even because of him.
Lu Zhixing lowered his head, and a sense of helplessness suddenly arose within him.
He could not use his spiritual energy to heal his Shizun.
His Shizun was injured, yet he could do nothing.
Lu Zhixing closed his eyes and buried his head in the crook of Xi Yu’s neck, gently breathing in the pear-blossom fragrance on his body.
Xi Yu’s sleep was very restless.
His dreams were filled with countless fragments of the past.
In his hazy state, he saw many scenes from long ago.
His mother’s severed arm, the white silk ribbon in her hand, and those gentle, sorrowful eyes.
“Mother…”
Xi Yu murmured softly.
Moisture seeped from his tightly closed eyes. His hand unconsciously gripped the collar of Lu Zhixing’s clothes, and his entire body tensed.
Lu Zhixing’s pupils flickered.
Mother?!
Wasn’t his Shizun a god born from the spiritual energy of Heaven and Earth?
Where had this mother come from?
Everyone within the Three Realms knew that the Star God Luanxing had been born inside the Yaochi Snow Lotus of the Ninth Heaven.
He had been born an immortal embryo, and after only a thousand years, he had attracted a heavenly tribulation.
He endured eighty-one bolts of heavenly lightning and ascended to become a High God.
Although that had happened a very long time ago, the story was still widely circulated throughout the Divine Realm.
A thousand years was merely the blink of an eye to gods and immortals.
No one had ever been able to ascend and become a High God within a thousand years of being born.
It was said that at that time, Shizun had still looked like a child of around ten years old, yet he had already been worshiped by all the immortals throughout the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands.
There were many rumors about Shizun.
Yet he had never heard anyone mention a mother.
Ever since entering Lanxing Hall, he had listened to all those rumors one by one and then asked Shizun to confirm them.
Shizun had told him which ones were true and which ones had been exaggerated.
But Shizun had never once mentioned anything about a mother.
How could he… have a mother?
Lu Zhixing suddenly thought of the first layer of the illusionary realm—the realm of suffering that no one had been able to see through.
Lu Zhixing had a strong intuition that what Shizun had not seen that day must have been related to the mother Shizun had mentioned.
Lu Zhixing gently patted Xi Yu’s back again and again, his movements filled with the intent to comfort him.
Gradually, Xi Yu’s body relaxed.
The tightly furrowed brows also began to smooth out.
Unconsciously, he buried his head against Lu Zhixing’s neck, as though only by doing so could he feel secure.
After a while, Xi Yu’s lips moved slightly, but no sound came out.
With his eyes closed, Lu Zhixing missed the two silent words Xi Yu uttered in his sleep:
“Zhixi.”
Xi Yu spent nearly half a month recovering before his body was considered fully healed.
During the first few days, Luo Chengan became anxious when he saw Xi Yu sleeping for an entire day at a time and barely eating.
He wanted to take him to the hospital.
Only after Xi Yu repeatedly assured him that he was fine and merely needed to sleep for a few days would he recover did Luo Chengan reluctantly agree.
But he pushed back his own schedule and insisted on staying with Xi Yu.
Xi Yu thought that since Luo Chengan was there, he should have Lu Zhixing go back.
After all, Lu Zhixing’s overnight stays had always been done secretly.
This was the mortal realm. It would ultimately be bad if other people found out.
But the moment he had this thought, Lu Zhixing clutched his chest and broke into a cold sweat.
It frightened Xi Yu so much that he immediately pressed Lu Zhixing down onto the bed.
Luo Chengan threw a fit and refused to leave.
Helpless, Xi Yu had him bring his little mattress in again.
They had already moved house, yet Luo Chengan had still brought his little mattress along.
During the half-month Xi Yu spent healing, it rained continuously in A City for half a month.
It had only cleared up over the past two days, but the temperature had dropped.
Early autumn had already arrived.
Shen Qing and Luo Yuan also knew that Xi Yu had not been feeling well lately.
But since Xi Yu had not said anything, they did not ask.
After hearing from Luo Chengan that it was nothing serious, they relaxed a little.
Shen Qing and Luo Yuan were very open-minded mothers.
Under normal circumstances, they would not enter Xi Yu’s room, especially without knocking.
But today, perhaps because she was too excited or for some other reason, Shen Qing directly pushed the door open.
At that moment, Xi Yu was holding a Joker and beating one of Luo Chengan’s 3s.
Luo Chengan wailed, “What crime did I commit for you to use a Joker Bomb to beat my three?!”
He had barely finished yelling when they heard the door open.
The three of them all turned to look at the same time.
Shen Qing had not expected Lu Zhixing to be there as well, so she immediately started to back out.
“You have a guest. I’ll come back later.”
Ever since Jiang Shuhe had moved here, the several children had been constantly visiting one another, so she was already used to it.
But Luo Yuan stretched out his neck.
When he saw Lu Zhixing, his eyes widened.
He put an arm around his wife’s waist and guided her into the room.
“Oh, what kind of guest is Xiao Lu? We’re all family. Look at how good the three brothers’ relationship is!”