Chapter 102 Springtime Heart in Turmoil (Part 10) Tai Sui

"Suiyin, Suiyin, how can you eat any kind of filthy little demon?" The man's displeased voice came from a wave of heat.

Gu Lianzhou slowly opened his eyes and saw a man with a similar appearance to himself lazily leaning against a golden-red chair in the boundless crimson magma, a thin steel needle between his teeth that gleamed in the firelight.

Seeing him look over, the man bent his index finger and pressed it against his temple with a troubled expression. "It's okay to eat, but refining it is a bit troublesome."

He muttered to himself, "Why not eat some pure, powerful demons, like that fox from last time..."

Gu Lianzhou looked down at the rolling lava at his feet and did not feel any heat, so he tried taking a step forward.

"Boom—"

In an instant, a huge crack appeared in the ground, and magma several meters high gushed out, suddenly separating the two like a wall of crimson fire.

"I forgot to remind you." As the firefall cascaded down, half of the man's face was faintly visible behind the lava, but his voice remained calm and even slightly mocking: "It's not time to meet yet, so don't be too impatient."

The scalding liquid splashed everywhere, sending up thick white smoke. Gu Lianzhou frowned slightly and asked in confusion, "Who exactly are you?"

Why do these thoughts keep appearing in his mind? Why do they appear in his illusions?

And why is it called "Year Yin"?

"Are you a demon in your heart?" he asked in a deep voice.

"Ha." The man seemed to have heard something funny. He raised the corner of his lips, casually pulled the needle out of his mouth, and threw it into the lava. With a soft "sizzle," the needle tip instantly turned into blue smoke and disappeared.

He leaned back and sat up straight. When he looked up again, a crimson flame flashed in his right eye: "Who calls themselves a demon? Suiyin, you are me, and I am you. We are one."

“Your name is Gu Lianzhou, the eldest son of the Gu family of Tianshui, and you are also known as Suiyin.”

He paused, then chuckled softly, "Of course, people in this world more often call us... Tai Sui."

Tai Sui?

Is it the world-destroying demon god that my senior brother once mentioned?

As if sensing his thoughts, the man said with a helpless expression, "Yes, so you should hurry up and eat some great demons to help us reappear in the world as soon as possible, so that we can wreak havoc on this broken world."

Gu Lianzhou's brow twitched, and then he heard him continue, "It's obvious that this is Xuanming's malicious fabrication against me. How ridiculous that an honest and harmless demon god like me has become a scourge in the eyes of the world!"

Who is Xuanming?

Seeing that he was getting angrier and angrier, causing the surrounding lava to stir and splash high into the air, Gu Lianzhou reminded him, "Calm down."

"Forget it, it's all just empty fame, I won't bother with it." Sui Yin rested her chin on her hand, shrank back into her seat, and looked rather pitiful.

He looked at Gu Lianzhou, his gaze slowly shifting to his lower body, and asked in confusion, "If you like Senior Brother... why hurt yourself? Why not just eat him?"

Gu Lianzhou: "..."

Do you want to hear what you have to say?

“Your desires are really annoying.” Sui Yin rubbed his temples in annoyance. “Right now, all I can think about is that sorcerer surnamed Song. I’m really hungry. If you don’t want to do it, then I…”

A flash of malice suddenly crossed Gu Lianzhou's eyes: "What nonsense are you spouting?"

"But Senior Brother's taste is indeed very good, haven't you tasted it too?" Sui Yin didn't understand why he was so angry, so he simply raised his fingertips slightly and slowly injected the scene in the warm room into his mind.

Gu Lianzhou felt a sharp pain in his temples. In his blurred vision, his senior brother's face suddenly approached, and his disheveled appearance was clearly reflected in his amber eyes.

The next moment, he raised his hand to cover those bewildered eyes, and leaned down to kiss his senior brother's rosy lower lips.

Amazingly soft.

The sensation was incredibly real, yet he was still not satisfied, like a gluttonous beast, rubbing against those two pitiful lips, biting and licking, as if trying to unleash all his suppressed desires...

Until his tongue unexpectedly touched something wet, soft, and slippery, Gu Lianzhou's heart trembled violently, and he was then completely engulfed by an overwhelming wave of heat.

"I told you to reminisce, not to indulge in it. What on earth are you thinking? Why am I getting hungrier and hungrier?" Sui Yin shouted angrily.

Gu Lianzhou staggered, his feet landing on the scorching rocks. He raised his hand in disbelief and pressed it to his lips, his breathing erratic.

The warm touch lingered on my lips, like a thunderbolt cleaving through the chaos of memories.

He stood frozen in place, the sound of his own heart pounding like a drum echoing in his ears, making his limbs tingle.

What happened in the greenhouse that day... was it really true?

After a long while, he slowly raised his eyes, his gaze focusing with difficulty on Suiyin: "Is this what you call hunger?"

Suiyin, being straightforward, naturally didn't find anything amiss and nodded frankly, saying, "Otherwise what?"

Gu Lianzhou fell into a long silence.

He belatedly realized that he and Suiyin were truly one, with the same blood flowing beneath his skin and the same desire surging in his chest.

He suppressed those desires hidden deep in his heart, ashamed to mention them, while Suiyin could lay them bare without any restraint.

He didn't even understand basic human ethics and morality, and he didn't realize that his feelings for his senior brother were a kind of rebellion that was unacceptable to the world.

He... has no shame.

Gu Lianzhou swallowed hard for a moment, then lowered his eyelashes and whispered, "No matter what... we must not hurt my senior brother."

Suiyin lay back in his chair, gave a perfunctory "hmm" upon hearing this, and then let out a long yawn.

"It's almost time, you should go back now."

As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Lianzhou suddenly felt a surge of immense power flowing through his body, as if he had been tempered by a raging fire, and his five senses suddenly became clear.

"I've already told you, we need to eat more pure demon food so that we can return to the world as soon as possible..."

The sound of the year's yin gradually faded away until it disappeared completely.

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As the sky begins to brighten after the rain, water droplets silently slide from the tips of leaves, falling into puddles and creating tiny ripples.

Song Qiling stood quietly under the eaves, her gaze fixed on her junior brother's tightly closed door, her brows furrowed slightly.

Yu Qi carried the food tray out of the kitchen and saw that there was still no movement at the door. He couldn't help but mutter, "The sun is almost scorching hot, why aren't they up yet?"

As he spoke, he freed one hand to step forward and knock on the door.

"Wait." Song Qiling suddenly raised her hand and stopped him.

Yu Qi was taken aback, then turned his head in confusion: "If we don't wake him soon, the porridge will get cold. Brother Gu doesn't usually sleep this much..."

Song Qiling did not withdraw her hand, her gaze still fixed on the door, and she only shook her head slightly: "Wait a little longer."

She could clearly sense that an extremely strong demonic aura was faintly seeping out from the crack in the door, swirling and lingering.

Last night, my junior brother devoured the mountain demon because she was trapped in a nightmare. When he returned to his room, he was silent. Unexpectedly, after a night of torrential rain, the demonic energy was so strong that even the talisman she gave him could not suppress it.

This is no ordinary matter; what exactly happened inside his body?

Amidst the chaotic speculation, the wait felt exceptionally long, and the dripping water from the eaves made people uneasy.

About half a cup of tea's time later, just as Yu Qi was about to speak again, a creak was heard and the door was gently pulled open from the inside.

Gu Lianzhou appeared behind the door.

Although his clothes were neat, his long, dark hair was slightly disheveled, and his eyes held a hazy, newly awakened look. But upon closer inspection, there seemed to be a hint of weariness and dazedness that he couldn't quite conceal.

His gaze swept over Yu Qi and finally settled on Song Qiling's face, pausing for an almost imperceptible moment.

"Senior brother?" he called out, his voice low and hoarse, still tinged with the stickiness of someone who had just woken up.

Song Qiling nodded and carefully scanned him from head to toe.

Yu Qi, standing beside him, kept talking non-stop, sighing as he held the food tray: "Brother Gu, you're really something! I've reheated this porridge twice already. If you hadn't come out soon, I would have worn the kitchen down... And Song San wouldn't let us knock on the door. Good heavens, you're not sleeping, you're in seclusion!"

Song Qiling's eyelids twitched from the barrage of words, and she glanced helplessly at Yu Qi: "...You talk too much."

She turned to look at Gu Lianzhou, her tone softening slightly: "Junior brother, is there anything wrong with you?"

Gu Lianzhou looked up at the sound and shook his head almost instinctively: "No, Senior Brother, there's no need to worry."

As soon as he spoke, he paused slightly, subconsciously looking down at his outstretched hands.

A strange power was surging through my meridians, gentle yet turbulent, pulsating softly with my heartbeat, making my limbs and bones feel lighter and more abundant than ever before.

This feeling... is too good to be true.

Yu Qi continued rambling, "Brother Gu, you have no idea, Song San has been guarding your door for almost an hour this morning. I told him I wanted to wake you up, but he wouldn't let me..."

As he was speaking, an oil paper package was stretched out diagonally from the side. He weighed it in his hand; it was quite heavy and had a faint sweet fragrance.

It looks like some kind of food.

"I know you've been working hard, could you do me a favor and reheat the porridge?" Song Qiling handed the package to him. "Take this sweet potato snack and I'll take you to catch rabbits in the back mountain later."

Yu Qi's eyes lit up as she stared at the paper package, but she still muttered, "It's hot again? This porridge is almost cooked into mush..."

Despite saying that, she deftly took the paper package, picked up the food tray and walked towards the kitchen. "Let's make this clear first, I want to eat roasted rabbit. If Liu Dai asks, just say it was your idea."

"Alright, whatever you say."

As the cheerful footsteps faded into the distance and silence returned under the eaves, the gentle expression on Song Qiling's face gradually disappeared.

She stepped forward, her gaze sweeping over her junior brother's face, and lowered her voice: "After the dodder devoured the mountain demon last night, was there anything unusual?"

Suddenly meeting her concerned gaze, Gu Lianzhou's mind flashed back to the scene in the warm room. His Adam's apple bobbed slightly, and he awkwardly looked away, saying, "I'm really fine."

Song Qiling remained silent for a moment, then suddenly raised his hand to form a hand seal. A faint golden light emanated from his fingertips as he gently touched the space between Song Qiling's eyebrows.

Gu Lianzhou instinctively wanted to back away, but he stopped himself, letting the cool fingertips touch his skin.

The golden light entered his forehead, but it was like a stone sinking into the deep sea, bringing only a slight coolness. In an instant, it was silently swallowed up by the vast and unfamiliar power in his meridians, and he could not find out the source at all.

“Strange…” Song Qiling frowned and withdrew her hand, her doubts deepening. “Your demonic aura is so strong and lingering, why can’t we detect even a trace of its source?”

Gu Lianzhou lowered his eyes, his long eyelashes concealing the complex emotions churning within them.

How could he tell his senior brother that it wasn't the remnant demonic energy of a mountain demon, but rather... the power of Tai Sui?