Chapter 22 The Yandere Wants to Turn Akemi into His Doll...

Mingjian suddenly felt no longer sleepy. "Did it happen in the palace?"

“No,” Xiao Bumian smiled, “it was the betrothed of the Prince of Anling, the young master of the Zheng family. This morning, when his maid found him dead, his heart was gone, and his spiritual root was gone too.”

Seeing that Ming didn't react immediately, she subconsciously asked, "Husband?"

"Yes."

He smiled gently, "Young Master Zheng and the Crown Prince of Anling are both male merfolk."

Xiao Bumian tilted his head slightly, a hint of amusement in his eyes, and looked at Mingjian with a half-smile, "Or perhaps... Junior Brother thinks that the two men should become Daoist partners and perform a grand ceremony..."

He paused, then asked in a low, gentle voice, "Disgusting?"

Mingjian: "..."

Are you kidding me? He's already in a melodramatic BL novel. In the original story, he lost his life and his cultivation for Xie Linzhao.

“That’s not what I meant,” Mingjian sighed.

Xiao Bumian smiled gently, her fingertips curling slightly at her sides as she suppressed the strange feeling in her heart. "Don't you hate me, Junior Brother?"

Mingjian fell silent again. If he didn't explain, wouldn't Xiao Bumian think he liked him?

Do you want both a career and love?

Mingjian racked his brains, trying to come up with a sentence that wouldn't offend Xiao Bumian.

He said jokingly, "I wouldn't say I hate it, but I don't like it either. There can be love and friendship between men."

Ming met Xiao Bumian's gaze and forced a smile, saying, "Just like the two of us, we're friends."

The system crashed; it was only offline for a short time. Its recent server has been showing data errors. The system checked it but couldn't find anything wrong. It reported the issue to the main system several days ago, but hasn't received a response yet.

Unexpectedly, when it returned, it arrived at the scene.

System: [Don't give me the "friend zone" treatment!]

Mingjian: "..."

He rarely paid attention to the system, and besides, a short pain is worse than a long one. He decided to nip it in the bud. Who says that only romance can complete a mission?

Xiao Bumian even used him to enter the secret realm, and Mingjian didn't say anything.

"Friends?" Xiao Bumian's expression remained unchanged as he lowered his eyes and said, "So you're friends?"

He still prefers Mingjian to be his cat.

Mingjian looked at his smile but still felt uneasy. After thinking for a moment, she continued, "Yes, that's how friends are."

Xiao Bumian recalled the dream Mingjian had and chuckled softly, "I know."

So it turns out friends can bite each other's necks.

Seeing that he had nothing to say, and perhaps because he had just been given the "friend zone" card, he felt the atmosphere was a bit strange. He walked in front of Xiao Bumian, heading towards the city gate.

He silently counted the number of times he had said that Xiao Bumian and he were friends. It seemed that the yandere had little experience in relationships and his boundaries in relationships were very blurred. As long as he brainwashed him enough, one day Xiao Bumian would believe that they were friends.

Xiao Bumian remained silent, watching Mingjian walk further and further away, then frowned and pounded his chest.

It's a bit stuffy.

Has it been too long since someone killed anyone?

Half an hour later, Mingjian arrived outside the Zheng residence and showed the two guards outside the door the exorcist's token from his sleeve, saying, "The Exorcist Division is handling a case. Please announce my arrival."

The Exorcism Division is a sea purification division established by the merman royal family. It is dedicated to eliminating monsters in the sea and is highly respected by the mermen.

Upon seeing the token in his hand, the two guards immediately bowed and made way for him.

Ming Jian retracted the token and pointed to Xiao Bumian, who was following behind him, saying, "He came with me."

The guard nodded. "Please come in, gentlemen."

Seeing that Xiao Bumian was not in a hurry, Ming stepped forward, took his hand, and walked forward.

Xiao Bumian lowered his eyes, looking at the two holding hands, but said nothing.

The guards who led the way took them to a pavilion. "You two may simply push open the door and go in."

After speaking, the guard bowed and left.

Mingjian released Xiao Bumian's hand, pushed open the door, and saw many familiar people in the courtyard.

Shi Lian, Xue Ci, the troublemaker of the Thousand Machines Sect, and disciples of the Kunlun Sect were present. Xie Linzhao, however, was not seen.

The warmth of Mingjian still lingered in Xiao Bumian's palm. He lowered his eyelashes and rubbed his slender fingertips together.

"Mingjian, over here!" Suddenly someone put their arm around Mingjian's shoulder from behind. A hint of wariness flashed in Mingjian's eyes, but he relaxed when he heard Guzhi's voice.

Gu Zhi said, "I just made a bet with Song Heyu that you and Xie Hanwei might come."

"Who won?" Mingjian dodged his hand, feeling that Gu Zhi's strength was too great, and moved to the side.

“Nobody won.” Gu Zhi shrugged. “Song Heyu and I both guessed you would come.”

The word "you" is used very subtly.

Mingjian was speechless. He didn't know why the first person he saw when he woke up was Xiao Bumian. It was probably a second before he fell into a deep sleep that he was closest to Xiao Bumian.

Gu Zhi made eye contact with Xiao Bumian without realizing it, only to find that he was staring at her hands.

Gu Zhi: "...?"

He lip-read, "Are you sick?"

Xiao Bumian paused, chuckled softly, and lowered his eyes to hide the gloom surging within them.

The bone chain hidden in mid-air moved toward Gu Zhi's neck at an extremely fast speed. Just as the bone chain was about to pierce through his neck flesh, Xiao Bumian suddenly stopped looking at Ming Jian's face opposite Gu Zhi.

No, Mingjian is still here.

What if you see him clearly and are therefore afraid of him?

After all, Mingjian was one of the few people among so many who weren't afraid of him. Even though he had been giving him a fake smile since yesterday.

But Mingjian is still his cat, and it's only natural for a cat to throw a tantrum.

As the host, he shouldn't be too harsh.

It was Gu Zhi and the others who corrupted the cat; if anyone should be killed, it should be them.

If Mingjian is disobedient, just turn him into a marionette; there's no need to kill him. As long as he's still by his side, it doesn't matter if he can't speak.

Xiao Bumian suppressed the murderous intent in his chest, his face remaining unchanged as always, still bearing that gentle and refined smile.

The bone chains, which had not tasted blood for a long time, roamed around his body, trembling with dissatisfaction, before finally falling silent unwillingly.

Xiao Bumian lowered his eyes, unconsciously picking at his fingers until the tips were broken, and bright red blood seeped out from the wound, dripping onto the ground one drop after another.

The sword spirit leaped off his shoulder, its eyes fixed on the bloodstains on the ground, as if trying to lick them. Xiao Bumian tilted his head, the voice from his consciousness gentle yet brooking no refusal: "No."

The sword spirit shuddered, but still transformed into a stream of light and obediently returned to the bone chain.

Gu Zhi was still unaware that he had escaped a calamity. He felt a chill on the back of his neck and touched it before telling Ming Jian what they knew: "Song Heyu and I are also in the Princess's residence, but we are in the small courtyard in the southwest. Shi Lianlou and Jing are in the small courtyard in the north, and Lu Lingyue and the disciples of Kunlun Sect are in the west courtyard."

"Our identities in this secret realm are all exorcists. We already discussed this last night. This should be the secret realm of the merfolk from a thousand years ago. As for why we are exorcists, it is probably related to the demon we are going to eliminate. This demon is very likely the core of the time-travel array."

“Wait,” Mingjian interrupted him, “you discussed this last night, why didn’t anyone come to inform us?”

Gu Zhi looked at him with an indescribable expression, "...You and Xie Hanwei are at the sixth level of Qi Refining and the seventh level of Qi Refining, what difference does it make whether you're called that or not?"

Mingjian: "..."

This is so insulting, I'm so angry, I really want to beat up Gu Zhi.

He could probably poison himself by licking his own lips.

And even if you don't call him, at least call Xiao Bumian over.

However, after thinking about it, Akemi decided not to remain silent, since no one knew what the yandere was really thinking.

"Besides, haven't I already told you?"

Gu Zhi didn't feel guilty at all and readily admitted it.

Suddenly, he added, "By the way, we learned from Shi Lian and the others that the teleportation jade talisman seems to be unusable now."

Seeing that he didn't speak, Gu Zhi thought that Mingjian was frightened and comforted him, "Don't be too scared. Senior Brother Lou Jing is at the second level of the Golden Core stage, and Lu Lingyue is at the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage."

Mingjian wasn't scared or frightened. He looked at Lu Lingyue and asked, "Can Lu Lingyue, who is at the Nascent Soul stage, also enter the secret realm?"

Gu Zhi, however, was unsurprised. "He suppressed his cultivation to the Golden Core stage to enter, presumably for the treasure mentioned by the Yanling Sect. Many rogue cultivators do the same, so it's nothing unusual. However, our Jianming Immortal Mountain would never stoop to such behavior as suppressing high cultivation to the Golden Core stage to seize treasures."

Mingjian: "..."

He sighed, not daring to tell him that the Hanwei Immortal Venerable, whom he admired most, had also done the same.

Moreover, it seems that Gu Zhi and the others are unaware that in this world, cultivation levels are not suppressed by the merman ruins.

That makes sense; it's better if fewer people know about this. Lu Lingyue and the others are even less likely to bring it up themselves.

Besides a few familiar faces, there were also some cultivators standing with their swords in their hands in the courtyard. Mingjian made a judgment in his mind that these were probably rogue cultivators or disciples of other sects.

"My lords, I don't believe Zheng Lang is dead like this. He... he promised me just the night before last that he would wait for me to come and marry him," a sorrowful voice said.

Mingjian looked in the direction of the sound and saw a disheveled male merman slumped in a corner. His magnificent wedding robes were covered in dust, his hair ornaments had long since fallen away, and his pale face still bore traces of tears.

"Your Highness, please accept my condolences." Lu Lingyue sighed, squatted down, picked up the jewelry that Prince Anling had scattered on the ground, and put it back in his hands. "This was not what we wanted either. We only wish that Young Master Zheng will have a peaceful and smooth life in the next life. The most urgent thing is to find the person behind this."

"We finally managed to get the Mermaid King to grant us this marriage after so much trouble..." His voice suddenly choked, and he could no longer utter a complete sentence. He hugged his knees and silently shed tears, looking at the male merman lying on the bed.

The male merman was dressed in the same wedding attire as him, but his chest was empty, with only a hideous bloody hole remaining.

The room was deathly silent.

Once he stepped out of the courtyard, Mingjian felt that he could breathe again.

Song Heyu sighed, "They're a pitiful couple too."

Gu Zhi didn't seem to care. "This might have happened a thousand years ago. It's just an illusion. Why be so upset?"

"The word 'love' is the most difficult to understand. We are bystanders, but they are the ones involved. You may think it happened a thousand years ago, but it didn't happen to them."

Gu Zhi hated Song Heyu telling him these grand principles, so he took a few big steps forward, covered his ears, and didn't want to listen.

Song Heyu shook her head helplessly.

Xiao Bumian, who had been silent until now, suddenly asked, "Senior Brother Song, do you think they are in love?"

Song Heyu was taken aback, hesitated for a moment, and then nodded, "I guess so."

Xiao Bumian just chuckled softly and said nothing more.

Song Heyu: "Let's split up and look for clues. Gu Zhi and I will go and ask the maid who discovered Zheng Langjun's body this morning. Junior Brother Xie and Junior Brother Xiao will go and ask if there are any hidden secrets about the marriage between His Highness the Crown Prince and Zheng Langjun?"

When Anling Wang said that he had finally managed to get the Mermaid King to grant him a marriage, Song Heyu felt that something was off.

"Okay." Mingjian nodded in agreement.

Gu Zhi said, "I want to go with Meijian."

Song Heyu looked at him as if he were an idiot: "You don't want to."

After saying that, he pulled the person away.

Mingjian breathed a sigh of relief. Of course, in such a dangerous secret realm, clinging to powerful figures was the most important thing. Call him selfish if you want, but he had learned since childhood how to use the people or things around him that were most beneficial to him.

Xiao Bumian suddenly asked, "Junior Brother, would you like to go with Fellow Daoist Gu?"

Mingjian: "...?"

What's wrong with that yandere this time?

He skillfully pulled out a plain white silk ribbon to tie his hair from his Qiankun bag, and then a small celadon bottle. "Give me your hand."

Xiao Bumian blinked and obediently reached out his hand to him.

Seeing that some medicinal powder had been sprinkled on him, Ming frowned and asked, "How did you get hurt like this? Why is it still bleeding?"

The moment the powder touched the wound, Xiao Bumian's fingertips trembled almost imperceptibly. He looked down at Mingjian's focused profile, and the inexplicable irritation in his heart dissipated.

"Hmm..." Xiao Bumian raised her hand and shook the bandaged wound. The snow-white silk ribbon was tied into a crooked bow. It felt strange, but not unpleasant.

He lowered his eyes, his eyelashes trembling slightly, and after thinking for a moment, said, "Maybe he bumped into something."

Mingjian scoffed, disbelieving, "You're kidding me."

"If you hit a stone, shouldn't the stone break first?"

Xiao Bumian suddenly chuckled, straightened the crooked bow, and said, "I'm hungry."

Mingjian: "?"

At the wonton shop by the street, Mingjian ate wontons while cursing Xiao Bumian in his heart.

Why couldn't he have chosen a more opportune time to eat? Why did he have to eat while searching for clues? And wasn't this person supposed to not eat? Why is he suddenly eating again?

Mingjian was furious and wanted to hit someone.

Fortunately, the wontons tasted pretty good.

Xiao Bumian ate one and then didn't want any more. He rested his chin on his hand and watched Mingjian eat.

He recently found it very interesting to watch Mingjian eat.

He would feel very calm, much like he felt after killing someone.

He didn't know if others felt the same way about Mingjian, which is why everyone wanted Mingjian to be their cat.

I really want to turn Mingjian into a human doll as soon as possible, so that he will only listen to me. He won't have the chance to agree to be someone else's cat.

Xiao Bumian made a decision: he would make Ming Jian his possession before Ming Jian betrayed him.

It's okay if you can't speak.

He remembered that his mother seemed to have taught him something, but he had forgotten it, and he had to find what he had forgotten.

Mingjian felt a chill on the back of his neck as soon as he swallowed the last wonton.

He looked up, somewhat bewildered, and met Xiao Bumian's gaze, only to be caught off guard by a pair of deep, dark eyes.

Mingjian: "..."

I have a feeling that Xiao Bumian is brewing some big move again.

A note from the author:

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There will be a kiss in the next chapter, hehe [doge emoji]

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Jiang Qunyu transmigrated into a melodramatic cultivation novel and became the inner demon of the villain Wei Xun.

In the original novel, Wei Xun was a brilliant young genius of the Yunxiao Sect, but during a training exercise, he was injured by demonic energy while saving his fellow disciples, resulting in the destruction of all his meridians. He fell from grace, his fiancée broke off their engagement, he was bullied by his fellow disciples, and his family abandoned him. In the end, he became the infamous and mad Demon Lord, feared throughout the cultivation world, and was finally killed by the combined efforts of the main characters.

Of course, as a villainous inner demon, what good can come of opposing the protagonist? Naturally, it will also vanish along with the villain.

Jiang Qunyu: ...Whoever wants to be this damn inner demon can be one!

1.

Upon entering the sea of ​​consciousness, Jiang Qunyu trembled as she looked at the churning, scarlet demonic energy.

News is spreading that Wei Xun has slaughtered the immortal sects—this man has once again massacred the families he broke off his engagement with.

According to the plot, Wei Xun would crush his inner demon and use it as a sacrifice sword every time he turned evil, and he would have to kill him a total of seven times throughout the book.

Jiang Qunyu: Is it too late to apply for reincarnation now?

2.

When she was killed for the first time, Jiang Qunyu was very peaceful: "The sooner I die, the sooner I can be reborn."

When Jiang Qunyu was killed for the second time, she cursed and said, "Can't you fucking stab me somewhere else?!"

After being killed for the third time, Wei Xun suddenly grabbed his half-shattered consciousness and asked, "Why can you always come back to life?"

Jiang Qunyu sneered: "Of course, it's so I can see you get riddled with holes by the main characters in the future!"

The two loathed each other and tormented each other for a hundred years, but no matter how much Wei Xun hated Jiang Qunyu in his consciousness, he couldn't really get rid of him.

3.

Later, on the day of the final battle between good and evil, the protagonist pointed his sword at Wei Xun's heart.

In the critical moment, Jiang Qunyu instinctively rushed out to block the sword, and before her soul was scattered, she didn't forget to be sarcastic: "The seventh time... I can finally... go home... Wei Xun, you son of a bitch, now you've got what you wanted."

4.

When he opened his eyes again, two hundred years had passed.

Jiang Qunyu quickly changed his identity, but before he could even begin his carefree life, he was caught by Wei Xun.

"Jiang Qunyu," Wei Xun's eyes were bloodshot, "are you planning to abandon me again?"

“If you abandon me,” he said in a low, hoarse voice, “I will tear out your tendons, skin you, and brew your blood into wine to drink.”

Jiang Qunyu: ? ? ?

Wait a minute, how come this pervert is even crazier than in the original story?!

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Wei Xun initially hated the black mist in his consciousness, crushing it every time he saw it.

It wasn't until Jiang Qunyu's soul dissipated for the seventh time that his swordsmanship reached its peak, and he no longer needed to use his inner demons to consecrate his sword.

The usual noise was finally gone from Wei Xun's consciousness.

He thought he would be happy.

But in the years that followed, the long nights were lonely, the jade steps were cold, and the silver bells tied to the tassel of Wei Xun's Soul-Devouring Sword never rang again.

Later, in the netherworld, some heard that the Demon Lord had knelt before the Hall of Longevity for a hundred years, just to light a lamp to bring back the soul of that inner demon.