Zhu Huai was Liu Xiang's canary, a bird in a cage. He was just a little too handsome with broad shoulders and a narrow waist, not much like a pampered plaything. Normally, if Liu Xiang moved ea...
Chapter 47 It's You Who Made Me Complete Zhu Huai ate...
Zhu Huai had a meal of fresh lamb chops. He chewed the tender lamb meat thoroughly in his mouth, and after swallowing it hard, there seemed to be a hint of milky aftertaste. The meat was extremely tender and smooth, soft without a trace of mutton smell. After swallowing it hurriedly, he dipped it in fresh chive sauce to have another try to mix the different flavors.
It’s so nice to be able to eat so happily! Zhu Huai couldn’t help but show a satisfied expression on his face. He enjoyed his appetite and the joy that eating brought him.
Having inherited Lao Mo's cooking skills, he has been learning to make delicious meals since he was a child. Although Zhu Huai has no intention of working as a chef in a five-star hotel, he occasionally thinks about opening a small roadside stall, opening the door when he is in a good mood, and lying in bed when he oversleeps, letting time pass by, feeling cozy and comfortable.
Zhu Huai was eating with great concentration, and Mu Xiang was watching his human beside him, lending a hand from time to time. When Zhu Huai finished chewing the food in his mouth, he would put new food on his lips just at the right time. When he saw that he was thirsty, he would bring him water. He took care of him just the right amount.
But Mu Xiang was still sitting beside him without moving. Zhu Huai reacted belatedly and saw that it was a few tree roots sticking out from under Liu Xiang's robe, holding a bowl of lamb chops and waving it eagerly beside him.
Non-humans are really convenient. Zhu Huai not only doesn't feel scared, but rather a little envious. If Mu Xiang is allowed to go to the kitchen to cook, he can heat the oil in the pot while cutting vegetables, and he can also take care of countless stoves by himself. How fast will the food be served!
Thinking of Liu Xiang using several tentacles to support the pot and cook, Zhu Huai couldn't help laughing. Liu Xiang stared at him for a while and couldn't help but wrap a circle of tree roots around his body.
With a snap, Zhu Huai fell into Liu Xiang's arms, unable to struggle, like a black cat wrapped in a furry ball.
"What were you thinking about just now?" Liu Xiang said: "You kept staring at me, as if you were thinking about something bad..."
Zhu Huai coughed lightly and said, "I just think your roots and vines are very convenient."
So that's how it is? Liu Xiang knew Zhu Huai wouldn't deliberately deceive him. The dark shadow in his eyes faded, and he felt satisfied with his partner's honesty.
He said to Zhu Huai, "It's really convenient."
As they spoke, the tentacles stretched out under the clothes, and without the need for them to stretch out their hands or feet, they could roll Zhu Huai into a ball. He heard a small cry of surprise from him.
Zhu Huai quickly stopped Liu Xiang from demonstrating with his own hands how convenient these vines were.
He pulled his clothes straight, grabbed a piece of tentacle and flicked it, and saw that the vine curled up as if extremely aggrieved. When Zhu Huai touched it gently, it began to sway vigorously again.
Zhu Huai said, "Zhu Yingxue sent the Earth Element scales over here. He knows these are your scales. Prime Minister Liu, can you sense the location of the Earth Element?"
Mu Xiang said nothing, but just came closer and wanted to put Zhu Huai in his arms. Zhu Huai raised his eyebrows, took a step back, and instead stuffed a piece of lamb chop into Liu Xiang's mouth, blocking his mouth.
Mu Xiang frowned slightly and chewed all the bones together and ate them. Now it was time to talk about business. Liu Xiang could only give up the idea of getting closer to his partner and instead hugged Zhu Huai in his arms. Even if he couldn't touch him in the most intimate way, he had to keep in touch with Zhu Huai by other means and stick to him closely.
Zhu Huai suspected that Liu Xiang had skin hunger syndrome.
Really, he had solid evidence to prove this, but thinking that Liu Xiang seemed to have this tendency towards him, and since he was the only one who was harming him, Zhu Huai turned a blind eye and let him go.
Liu Xiang's hand was firmly on his waist. Zhu Huai heard him say, "My five internal organs left my body when I was young and have been suppressed beneath the Five Elements Formation ever since. But when the branch rebelled and the Liu family was in turmoil, it seems someone took that opportunity to dig out my five internal organs and steal them away."
"Then why don't you go and retrieve those internal organs?"
Only then did Zhu Huai know what had happened in the past. Liu Xiang did not tell him these things because he did not care. He seemed to have become a completely hollow man.
Liu Xiang's reaction was exactly what Zhu Huai had expected. He asked, "I have been sleeping. After waking up, I found that my five internal organs were disconnected. If I want to leave the Liu family's ancestral home, I must kill everyone in the Liu family."
His words made Zhu Huai frown slightly, and Liu Xiang continued to tell the bloody story: "I killed my parents and slaughtered that rebellious branch. The remaining Liu family members knelt on the ground and begged me to spare their lives.
Because the Liu family is still my family, and the Liu family members are still my family members."
"They are all my property."
Liu Xiang said calmly, "Of course I can destroy all of this. Perhaps it's because I've lost all five senses, but their prayers and despair don't bother me at all.
How can a person who has lost his heart hear those wailing cries?"
Zhu Huai suddenly felt that Liu Xiang's arms were a little cold, as if a huge hole suddenly appeared, and a cold wind that had been suppressed for who knows how many years blew out from it, making Zhu Huai shiver slightly.
Without hesitation, he hugged the person in front of him tightly. He saw Liu Xiang pause slightly, as if he felt that the human in his arms was feeling uncomfortable, and Liu Xiang's body temperature became warm again.
He held the person in his arms, as if a warm, beating heart that loved him was stuffed into his empty chest. His heart didn't care about him, nor did it have any connection with its original body. What did it matter if it was lost since he was young?
But now Liu Xiang felt the heavy weight, the strong emotions coming from Zhu Huai, as if he could understand another heart that did not belong to him but loved him. Zhu Huai was his heart, and when Liu Xiang hugged him, he felt as if he could feel the warmth of a human being.
Liu Xiang, the real ruler of the Liu family and the family's god of worship, recalled the past. The heavy rain fell on the ground like ink spots, dyeing the painting blood red.
They buried him in the earth veins, and when he turned into a divine fetus, they came to worship him, saying that he was the culprit of the sacrifice to the gods and died.
Liu Xiang knew that they should be his nominal parents, but now that he had become a god, he had no connection with them in reality. The last thing the couple did completely severed their family ties and also severed Liu Xiang's kinship.
The Liu family branch rebelled. They were afraid of this heartless and ungrateful god who had no intention of protecting his people, so they pried open the dragon vein formation while he was sleeping and stole his five internal organs.
After Liu Xiang woke up, he directly wiped out that branch of the family, or in other words, Liu Xiang almost slaughtered the entire Liu family.
He didn't understand what these people were trying to do. Prime Minister Liu had none of the compassion for ordinary people, the care for all things, and the tolerance and care for the Liu family.
Only the remaining members of the Liu family knelt in the rain, desperately praying to Him. The wailing sounds on the ground were like background noise, and not a single word could reach Prime Minister Liu's ears. Only one sentence could stop Him from wiping out the entire Liu family.
'Master Jishen, I know you don't care about the Liu family, but we are still your bloodline and your clan.
You can still enjoy the offerings of the Liu family. The Liu family is your property. We all kneel before you, Lord God, and beg for mercy...'
Prime Minister Liu stood there, his figure so large, yet his face could not be seen. All that could be felt from him was a murderous intent, enough to seize the entire Liu family in his hands and crush them to death.
The god they created with their own hands eventually turned into a butcher knife stretched towards the Liu family. One by one, the clansmen knelt on the ground and begged, the sound of their kowtows falling along with the sound of rain. They were pitiful, hateful, and sad.
"You will need a wife, Master Sacrifice God. We will find that wife for you. No matter how long it takes, no matter what happens, we will find you your pledge wife..."
Perhaps it was because of fear, or perhaps it was because of the promise they had made in the past, but until Zhu Huai appeared, the Liu family would look for suitable adopted sons and wives every once in a while and bring them to the Liu family.
But no matter how noble their status, or how high their position, or how beautiful and flawless their appearance, or how gifted they were, none of them could even enter the Liu family's ancestral home. What Liu Xiang disliked was not worthy of his attention. To this day, Liu Xiang had not recovered his five internal organs, and naturally, he had not obtained a so-called partner.
He went from initial anticipation to subsequent annoyance, and ultimately to indifference. What was the point of a so-called contracted wife? Even if she did show up, what would it matter? Could that person's presence change his current situation, transform him into the person he is today?
Liu Xiang, who was buried alone in the deepest part of the Liu family, closed his eyes and slept in the black coffin year after year. Even he himself did not think that anyone could make him change. Until Zhu Huai appeared, someone finally came to his side and woke him up from his sleep.
Liu Xiang looked deeply at the person in front of him. He did not say these things. The past flashed before his eyes. Those gray pasts turned into dust in front of the living human beings at this moment. In all the memories, only Zhu Huai's arrival was bright. He made Liu Xiang have seven emotions and six desires, making him feel happy, satisfied, joyful... jealous.
To some extent, Liu Xiang should be grateful to Him.
Everyone in the Liu family... should be grateful to Zhu Huai.
Liu Xiang thought indifferently, after all, if Zhu Huai didn't show up again, perhaps when he woke up next time, the Liu family would also be reduced to ashes and turned into dust, huh.
Zhu Huai exhaled deeply and said, "They deserve it. They created a god with their own hands, but they did it by squeezing your blood and devouring your marrow. They ripped out your internal organs with their own hands, and at the same time, they eliminated your feelings for them."
Zhu Huai simply couldn't understand this method. Even if one had to go through those things to become a deity, was it necessary to use such extreme means to treat Liu Xiang?
Prime Minister Liu and the Liu family originally had a relationship of shared prosperity. They already had a spirit who could be sacrificed to the god, but they were not satisfied and wanted to use the most extreme means to squeeze everything out of him.
The evil consequences created in this way can only be borne by the Liu family themselves.
Zhu Huai hugged the person in front of him tightly, his voice a little dull: "I will definitely bring all your internal organs back and make you whole again."
Liu Xiang said, "I don't need it."
"No, you need it!"
Zhu Huai raised his head and said disapprovingly, "You haven't really experienced or truly obtained those things, so you think that none of them are important.
But this idea is wrong. If you collect the five internal organs again, will you be able to leave the Liu family?"
Liu Xiang said, "I think so."
"That's right."
Zhu Huai said, "You will come back to life and become whole again. You will see a different, completely different world. You think those things are unimportant now because you have never had them."
Zhu Huai raised his hands and cupped Liu Xiang's face. He said, "You deserve those things, instead of being trapped here, thinking that this is the only way you can live. You should have the power to choose."
Liu Xiang's hollow chest, ribs, and even the cold flesh and blood, which he once thought were lifeless, all began to stir at this moment, as if they were about to turn into an endlessly growing and multiplying tumor, from which sharp bones and slippery blood vessels would grow, swallowing the person in front of him into his stomach, completely swallowing him into his belly.
It was as if only in this way could Zhu Huai belong to him completely.
How could he control this impulse? Liu Xiang was like someone who had gone insane. He had never been so excited before.
He seemed... seemed to be hugged tightly by Zhu Huai at this moment. All those things that he had not cared about before and that were once empty felt unprecedented warmth. At this moment, they all trembled, as if they were aggrieved about something.
Liu Xiang's legs had turned into tree roots, wrapping around the person in front of him layer by layer, trapping him tightly in his arms. He wanted Zhu Huai to stay here, only in his arms, and not go anywhere else.
He said, "Yes, you are right."
——He was indeed too tolerant of the Liu family.
If the Liu family made any more mistakes, he might as well just wipe out the Liu family and leave with Zhu Huai. How much happiness he would have with Zhu Huai!
As long as he could be with humans, it didn't matter whether they were from the Liu family or any of the five internal organs. He could throw away the useless garbage that had been restraining him, and just be with his adopted wife, experiencing unprecedented happiness.
He looked deeply at the person in front of him and heard Zhu Huai say, "As long as you find your five internal organs, you will be able to become whole."
However, the person who brought about all these changes, made him whole again and brought him back to life, was Zhu Huai.
He hugged the person in front of him tightly in his arms, feeling the hungry howl emanating from his chest. He suppressed the desire to merge with Zhu Huai, to make Zhu Huai completely his own, and said to the person in his arms: "I'll do as you say."
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At night, Zhu Huai found a quilt, sheets and pillows, walked into the secret room with a soft pillow in his arms, and sighed as he looked at his sleeping self.
A moment later, he was pulled in by a hand. Zhu Huai closed his eyes and hugged the pillow in his arms. He had already gotten used to sleeping in a coffin. Since he knew he was going to sleep here, why not make it more comfortable? People have to learn to adapt.
So the cold and hard black coffins were stacked up like a unique big bed. When Liu Xiang held him in his arms again, Zhu Huai turned over in the arms that completely covered him, lay on the comfortable sheets, and his brows relaxed.
Liu Xiang was hugging his adopted wife, while the human being he was hugging was hugging a pillow. A moment later, a mermaid's figure passed through the air. The small mermaid circled above, found a position, kicked away the pillow in Zhu Huai's arms, fell into his arms, hugged the human being and closed his eyes.
Then, the incarnation of the evil tree with hideous roots below the waist also came over. It climbed into the tall coffin, rolled in the soft bed sheet, and crawled towards Zhu Huai like a cat scratching the bed sheet. After messing up the quilt, it looked at Zhu Huai in front of it, and then kicked the pillow in Zhu Huai's arms with a vine!
With a "bang", the pillow fell to the ground. Mu Xiang's clone seemed to have driven away an annoying competitor. After turning around arrogantly, it made a nest on Zhu Huai's neck, wrapped his arms with vines in circles, and then slept in the crook of his neck.
Zhu Huai felt as if two heavy objects were pressing on him. His brows were furrowed, but his soul seemed to have been pulled away by some force through the contract, to a cold place.
But at that moment, Zhu Huai felt that the two little things on his body seemed to have reacted in some way, so that he did not fall to a certain position according to that force, but fell to a...dull and closed place.
He curled up his hands and feet, as if trapped in a cage made of flesh and blood, and heard the dull and powerful sound of his heartbeat coming from his ears.
The sound was very close. He opened his eyes, but could only see a sea of scarlet. All around him were sticky, soft silk threads, as hot as fire, falling on his body like a bunch of wriggling blood vessels, with a strange vitality.
He was completely naked, trapped in this mass of flesh and blood. He could not find a way out, nor could he see Xiangliu.
Xiang Liu...?
He wanted to call the other person's name, but he felt the "cage" beside him shrink and tremble at this moment, and then beat rhythmically. Zhu Huai looked at his bloody arm and his long and flexible legs that were stepped on the blood, which made them look particularly white.
At this moment, Zhu Huai was horrified and realized where he was.
He is in Xiangliu's heart.
Suddenly, a voice of communication came from my ears, as if someone was talking to Xiangliu: "Don't you want to consider it? Master Ghost."
"You rule the ghost den and become the uncrowned king of the ghost den, and we can assist you in killing the gods in the human world.
In this way, both the human world and the ghost world are under your control. Don't you want to destroy the shrines of the gods? They are rooted in the ghost world, which will affect your rule.
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The author has something to say: Zhu Huai: You should have the power to choose
Liu Xiang: My wife is right.
Liu Xiang: So I will destroy the Liu family now and go traveling with my wife
Liu family:?
Zhu Huai: ???
Liu Xiang: My wife is right! Absolutely right!