Chapter 183 Night Question: "Leave me, you might as well just kill me."...

"Fishing lights, I miss you so much."

At the same time as she heard that sound, the man's hand was already on her waist, and his face was pressed against her neck, gently rubbing against her.

Jiang Yuhuo got up and used his spiritual power to light a candle.

Under the lamplight, the person's face was as pale as a ghost, their bright and beautiful features trembling slightly with pain, like a butterfly struggling with its wings stuck together, extremely fragile.

Jiang Yuhuo said, "Li Mengbai, let's break the contract."

Those misty, peach-blossom eyes stared blankly at her, then tears suddenly streamed down her face, flowing from the corners of her eyes into her hair. Li Mengbai just stared at her with those red eyes, silently weeping, without saying a word.

Jiang Yuhuo looked away.

"I have already spoken with the Emperor of Zhou about dissolving the alliance, and they have no objections. Therefore, the alliance is dissolved. The Li family members may leave. The Great Zhou will reciprocate all the gifts the Li family has given us..."

Before she could finish speaking, the person on the bed suddenly stood up, grabbed her waist, and threw her into a pile of brocade and silk.

"Let's not break the bond, okay?"

Li Mengbai knelt on the couch, holding her tightly, his tear-streaked face pressed against her waist. "I was wrong... I shouldn't have kept it from you. I'm sorry... You can hit me, scold me, you can do whatever you want to me, just don't break the bond with me."

"I swear, I'll never lie to you again. I'll tell you everything. Please forgive me this once, okay? I can't live without you..."

He sniffed and said in a trembling voice, "You need me too. The Li family will soon be entirely under my control. I can help you, help the Great Zhou... Haven't you always wanted to kill that emperor? I'll help you. I promise you, I'll make sure he suffers a terrible death. Together, you can kill whoever you want."

"No need."

Li Mengbai heard the calm voice of the person in his arms, "I don't need you, nor do I need the power of the Li family. Li Mengbai, all I want now is to break the bond with you. From now on, I don't want anything to do with you anymore, do you understand?"

Hearing such cold and heartless words, Li Mengbai finally couldn't help but burst out, "Why! Why can you just break the contract like that?! What did I do wrong? Jiang Yuhuo, why are you treating me like this? This is not fair to me."

After the intense outburst of emotions came an even more humble plea, "I didn't hurt you. I didn't know Li Shichuan would attack you at that time. I almost killed him. He tricked me with the puppet. I didn't mean to abandon you. And Li Ziying, I never told her about you. I don't know when she found out. If I had known, I would never have let her treat you like that... I love you. I want to be with you forever. How could I hurt you..."

"Don't leave me..." Li Mengbai followed her waist and slowly moved upwards until he met her face. "If you want to leave me, you might as well just kill me."

Li Mengbai's black hair fell loose, and large tears pelted down onto Jiang Yuhuo's body and face. His face was full of sorrow. "Please...please, Jiang Yuhuo, don't break the contract. You can't do this to me. You know how much I love you..."

Jiang Yuhuo turned her head to the side, took a deep breath, and tried to calm herself down. "Li Mengbai, get up. I have something to give you."

Li Mengbai ignored her and hugged her tightly, resting his head on her shoulder as before and nuzzling her cheek affectionately. "No, I want to kiss you."

"You're crazy..."

Before he could finish speaking, the remaining words were abruptly cut off by another pair of lips.

Jiang Yuhuo was furious. The anger in her chest seemed to be blocked by Li Mengbai's kiss at that moment, making her desperately want to vent it. She was about to push this uncommunicative person away immediately.

The moment her hand touched Li Mengbai's chest, a tear fell between their lips. The scalding touch made her hesitate for a second, and the tear was crushed and spread as their lips rubbed together...

Jiang Yuhuo shoved the person away abruptly, watching as Li Mengbai fell off the bed.

A slightly bitter and salty taste was detected on the tip of the tongue.

The taste of Li Mengbai's tears was so bitter.

She rubbed her lips hard a few times and said coldly, "What a madwoman!"

Li Mengbai lay on the ground, not getting up. Hearing her words, he couldn't help but burst into laughter. "Yes, I am a madman. But this madman only wants to love you, what's wrong with that?! You just want to use this as an excuse to get rid of him. You've actually wanted to break the contract for a long time, haven't you?" His laughter was vicious and sharp. "Let me guess, why are you so eager to break the contract? Whose arms are you running to? That slut, or that bastard?"

"Two shameless bastards!"

A loud slap echoed across the face. Jiang Yuhuo, enraged, slapped the man on the ground across the face, yelling, "Li Mengbai, do you know what you're saying?"

Li Mengbai remained lying on the ground, eyes closed, a mocking smile playing on his lips. "What? A few words of scolding them make you feel sorry for them? Do you even remember whose marriage contract you're wearing on your hand?!"

Jiang Yuhuo walked up to him, squatted down, and coldly looked down at him, watching helplessly as Li Mengbai struggled to his feet, not even offering a finger. He had only pushed him off the bed; why act so weak and helpless?

Li Mengbai's face was contorted with pain, yet he still refused to give up. His bloodshot eyes stared intently at Jiang Yuhuo, as if poisoned, as he uttered vicious suspicions, "Last night, your position was in the east the whole time. Did you go to Tianque and be with that vile fish? You didn't move at all all night. What did you two do?"

Jiang Yuhuo frowned, recalling the mark on her wrist, "You've been tracking me?"

Li Mengbai laughed sharply, but his face was streaked with tears. "How did he seduce you? With his body? He's nothing but a cold, fishy-smelling fish. What's so good about him!" He tilted his head back and kissed Jiang Yuhuo's face haphazardly, his hand reaching for her waist to untie her belt. "Try me. I'll make you feel good. Once you've slept with me, you'll never go looking for anyone else..."

Jiang Yuhuo was startled and quickly stepped back. In her panic, she pushed Li Mengbai and heard a crisp sound as Li Mengbai's head hit the floor tile.

Then, a series of snickers echoed in the silent bedchamber. "Hahaha... Jiang Yuhuo... What do I have to do? Tell me what I have to do for you to give me even a little bit of your love? I just beg you to give me a tiny bit of love..."

Why does it always fail?

Jiang Yuhuo looked at the chaotic and flamboyant people on the ground and said, "We were never meant to be together."

Li Mengbai suddenly looked directly at him, "Who says we can't go down the same path?"

Jiang Yuhuo was blunt, "You and Li Ziying's group have already put you on the opposite side of me."

“She is her, and I am me. You cannot blame me for her sins.”

"If I were truly angry, you would be dead by now. Do you think you're innocent, Li Mengbai?" Jiang Yuhu sneered, her eyes flashing with sparks. "I ask you, what is your relationship with the person who possessed Li Ziying? Did you know nothing about his actions? Do you dare say you were never involved?"

"You still have the same blood and spirit as him flowing in your veins!"

Li Mengbai chuckled, "So it was him who told you. Did he also tell you that this aura isn't exclusive to him?"

"What do you mean?"

Li Mengbai turned his head and looked up at the person in the candlelight. "Come here, I'll tell you."

Jiang Yuhuo remained unmoved. "Let's talk right here."

"You're wary of me?" Li Mengbai chuckled bitterly. "Heh, if you were to take a closer look at me, you'd find that there's nothing I can do right now."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Yuhuo sized him up. She noticed that Li Mengbai had been lying on the ground for a long time. Even if he was mentally unstable, he was still a young master from a prominent family, and he was usually very particular about his image and behavior. Lying on the ground for so long, it was probably not that he didn't want to get up, but that he couldn't.

She approached him, took his pulse, and was surprised to find that his blood and energy were almost completely depleted. Clearly, he had only been unconscious before they parted yesterday and had not been seriously injured.

What did you do?

Li Mengbai smiled but didn't answer. He simply pulled her hand and pressed it against his chest.

He pulled down his collar and put the hand inside his chest.

The skin is supple and slightly elastic, warm and smooth...

Realizing what he was doing, Jiang Yuhuo immediately pulled her hand away, her brows visibly furrowed with anger. "What are you doing?"

"Let me show you what I've done." He smiled, pointed to his body, and whispered seductively, "Inside."

Jiang Yuhuo shook her hand, stood up and turned her back. "I don't care what you did. You just need to tell me what that aura is all about."

There was no reply from behind for a long time.

Has he fainted?

Jiang Yuhuo called out, "Li Mengbai?"

"Okay, all done..."

Jiang Yuhuo turned around subconsciously, but froze on the spot the moment she saw it.

The person on the ground unbuttoned his clothes, revealing a chest and abdomen covered with numerous wounds of varying depths and sizes. The most gruesome wound was on his chest, which was almost deep enough to expose the bone. These wounds, scattered across his otherwise sculpted and jade-like body, made what should have been a pleasing sight to the eye incredibly terrifying.

"There are 215 openings in all the meridians of my body. I soaked in the pool and let the blood flow all night. You hate that smell, so I dispersed it and went to see you again. I wanted to see you, I wanted to see where you went..." The shirtless man smiled slightly, "Fortunately, he couldn't keep you, and you still came back."

Jiang Yuhuo squatted down and looked at the wound on his chest, feeling a chill run down her spine. "You're crazy... If you bleed any more, you'll die."

She helped Li Mengbai sit up, and the back of her clothes slipped down, revealing another hideous wound.

"I will die without you."

"You don't need to do this, and neither do I." Jiang Yuhuo's expression was indifferent, unmoved, as she silently used the mermaid pearl to heal his wounds.

Li Mengbai leaned weakly on her shoulder. "But I think it's necessary. With that aura around, you'll never accept me. You know? That's the aura of the Heavenly Pillar Marrow, the thing we stole from Tianque together back then. I dug it out of Situ Xin's heart."

He placed Jiang Yuhuo's hand on the deepest wound in his heart. "It's here with me. I've added a layer of protection to it, so it will never emit any scent again. Once the last drop of blood has drained from my body, I will be a brand new person... He and I will have nothing to do with each other anymore. I will never let you hate me again."

Jiang Yuhuo was shocked, not only by Li Mengbai's crazy actions, but also by the reasons behind them. She suppressed the turmoil in her heart and focused on finding the answer from Li Mengbai.

"What exactly is your relationship with him?"

Li Mengbai played with her hair and said calmly, "Twenty years ago, when I was four years old, I accidentally bumped into Li Yanluo and was punished by being locked up in the Li family's Netherworld Prison. That place was truly dark, utterly gloomy. I was locked up there all by myself, and at first I thought that only snakes, insects, rats and ants kept me company. I ate them, and they ate me. But soon, I discovered that there was another person in the Netherworld Prison. Well, not exactly a person, but a dark shadow. I couldn't see him, but I could hear his voice."

“He said he was an ancestor of the Li family, trapped by a barrier. In exchange, I helped him break the barrier, and he helped me survive in the Netherworld. When Li Shichuan remembered to release me, I took him with me out of the Netherworld.”

"After that, I didn't see him often. He would only come back once in a long while. But every time he came back, he was a little stronger than before. Sometimes I saw him as a dark shadow, and sometimes he had a body. It was only in recent years that he possessed Li Ziying. It was also he who guided me to obtain the marrow of the Heavenly Pillar."

“Everything I have said is true.” Li Mengbai stood up slightly and looked at the person in front of him. “Yu Huo, I have no deep connection with him, and I have never conspired with him to harm you.”

Jiang Yuhuo gave a cold laugh, "Heh, not a deep connection..." She lowered her head and sighed, "Twenty years ago, you let him out, and then seven years ago, he conspired with the emperor of Yong Kingdom to slaughter my entire clan. It was also he who stripped the spiritual veins of my Feathered Human body."

"Li Mengbai, it's not that killing someone with your own hands constitutes harm..."