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Wang Xiao looked coldly at the corpse lying on the bed, her expression indifferent. The holes all over the body had been cleaned up by Wang Yue, and the clothes had been changed. The only reason the body was cold was because it had just been thawed from the ice cave. She wondered if she should be grateful that she hadn't left the corpse in Wangchuan in the past, as it had come in handy today.

She kept this useless body so that she could always remember this hatred, so she dug out her flesh, cleaned it, and froze it.

She was about to leave for a while, and this corpse was perfect for her to lie here in her place. If someone else were to impersonate her, it would be easy for someone with such high cultivation as Aohen to see through it. However, her own body could make up for this shortcoming. It was just that the body was already dead, and it was different from when she was alive. So she made incense and lit it in the room. With the help of the illusion drug, she would not be easily discovered.

"You stay here, I'll be right back," Wang Xiaoxia instructed the Bad Guys.

"Alright, after all, it's a corpse and needs someone to watch over it, but you also need to be careful," the Bad Guy instructed.

"How have you been doing in the army these past few days?" Wang Xiaoxia asked again.

"Not bad. I've pretty much figured out which factions in the army are Aohun's confidants and which are spies from the Ghost Realm," Bad Guy replied.

Wang Xiaoxia nodded and then said:

"In nearly half a day, Cui Heng and the others should have reached the northern border. I should be going now."

“You just go ahead, I’ll keep watch over things here for you,” the bad guy said.

Wang Xiaoxia then left with peace of mind, hurrying off to the northern border.

She now possessed cultivation, so she managed to reach the Northern Territory before dawn. This place was covered in snow year-round, and unlike the gloomy cold of the Ghost Realm, it was bright and freezing. Even though she was now in demon form, she couldn't help but shiver when the cold wind blew.

Because of the heavy snow, the scent of Cui Heng and his group was diluted considerably. Furthermore, Wang Xiaoxia was not good at tracking, so it would take some time to find them.

Wang Xiaoxia wore a snow-white lotus-shaped robe with a large hood covering her head. From a distance, she blended into the vast expanse of white snow and was difficult to distinguish.

The place was all white and the same everywhere, so Wang Xiaoxia wandered around and lost her way. When she came to her senses, a gray-white, wolf-like beast was staring intently at her. She didn't panic. She began to gather her spiritual power and stared coldly into those gray-blue eyes.

This wolf-like beast was a Komainu, with two curved horns on its head. It was ferocious and man-eating. It was only a step away from Wang Xiaoxia, its mouth bared fiercely, revealing a set of sharp teeth. Its slender body was already poised to attack, and in just a moment it leaped into the air and pounced on Wang Xiaoxia.

Before Wang Xiaoxia could even reach out, a white light flashed, and the komainu was knocked to the ground and scurried away. A familiar scent wafted over, and Cui Heng immediately descended from the sky to stand in front of Wang Xiaoxia.

"Your nose is unusually sensitive," Wang Xiaoxia said, without showing the slightest surprise.

"Why did you come here? Are your injuries alright?" Cui Heng asked coldly, his eyes full of concern.

"Naturally, it's for the sake of shame," Wang Xiaoxia said bluntly, but remained silent about his injuries.

"I cannot give it to you because I am ashamed," Cui Heng replied outright.

"You found it?" Wang Xiaoxia asked again.

"No, but it will be soon," Cui Heng said.

Wang Xiaoxia ignored his words. She touched his face with her hand. The cold wind and snow made their bodies feel cold. She tilted her head up and kissed his slightly angry lips.

Cui Heng wanted to push her away, but he couldn't help but kiss her back. He shamelessly wrapped his arms around her slender waist. A sliver of light appeared on the distant horizon; dawn was approaching. Their lips lingered, their hot breaths mingling and turning into white vapor that melted into the cold air.

After a long while, Wang Xiaoxia reluctantly raised his head, reached out to stroke Cui Heng's dark hair, his eyes full of tenderness.

Cui Heng knew why she had come, but he still looked at her with a stern face.

“I cannot give you shame. I know you hate Wu Huan to the core, but back then he was in the same predicament and had no choice in the matter,” Cui Heng earnestly advised.

Wang Xiaoxia seemed not to have heard what Cui Heng was saying at all, and a smile still lingered on her face:

“Wu Huan used a puppet gu on me back then, controlling my body and making me kill all my blood relatives with my own hands. I still remember the way my mother called my name before she died. Do you know? The blood that splattered on my face was actually warm.”

After Wang Xiaoxia finished speaking, he still looked at Cui Heng with a smile on his face, and his smile became more and more unrestrained.

Cui Heng's eyes widened in surprise. He had never heard Wang Xiaoxia mention this part of his past before. It turned out that she was conscious back then, watching him kill his closest relatives one by one.

"I'm sorry, Xiaoxia," Cui Heng murmured, unsure of what else he could say or do.

"Cui Heng! So if you don't want me to give birth to a child with white hair all over his body and green eyes, then you'd better not give me the face! Or you can just kill me, so that no third person will know about what happened between us!" Wang Xiaoxia said with a smile, but his eyes gradually turned cold and his gaze became fierce.

Cui Heng suddenly hardened his expression, grabbed Wang Xiaoxia's arm with one hand, and a sense of humiliation at being deceived surged within him. He glared fiercely at Wang Xiaoxia and said:

"So you've been using me from the very beginning, haven't you?"

“Yes!” Wang Xiaoxia replied coldly.

"Did you marry into the demon realm and stay with me just to use me?" Cui Heng said, his eyes revealing an uncontrollable sadness.

Wang Xiaoxia simply smiled faintly: "Your Highness has lived for over a thousand years, does he really need someone to remind him of such a thing?"

Cui Heng looked at Wang Xiaoxia's face, as if she had suddenly become a different person. Before coming to the Northern Border, he had even prepared to let her fake her death to escape. For her sake, he was even willing to pin the crime of murder on Mu He. But now he realized that she would never go with him, and he was no longer sure if she even had him in her heart.

"Little one," Cui Heng murmured, his voice already pleading.

"Did you ever really have feelings for me?" He finally spoke slowly after a long while.

He lowered his eyes, looking pitiful like a child, as if afraid that the words he didn't want to hear would come out of his mouth.

Wang Xiaoxia's heart immediately softened. She wanted to rush over and hug him tightly, and say, "Take me away! Take me away from hatred and cruelty, and let us live a life that belongs to just the two of us."

But when she opened her mouth, she said, "Your Highness, now that you have my body, do you still want my heart?"

Cui Heng remained silent. Wang Xiaoxia looked at him and couldn't help but smile coldly. She pulled her wrist away from his hand and turned to leave, but in the distance she saw a graceful figure coming towards her.

But the more hurtful her words were, the more Cui Heng wanted her. He grabbed her arm and pulled her back into his arms. She tried to speak, but his lips silenced her. He reached out and untied her cloak. He wanted to have her, her body, her heart, and make her completely his.

Wang Xiaoxia stopped dodging and met his eagerness, giving him everything she had on the cold snow.

When the figure arrived, she saw the two people embracing and kissing from afar. The huge disappointment made her unable to face them, so she turned around and ran away as if fleeing.

On the frozen snow, Wang Xiaoxia and Cui Heng remained entwined until dawn. She sat on the ground, still nestled in his arms, and Cui Heng held her tightly.

"Are you really pregnant?" Cui Heng finally asked.

Sometimes he could no longer tell which of Wang Xiaoxia's words were true and which were false.

Wang Xiaoxia pulled Cui Heng's hand and placed it on her flat stomach, whispering:

"It's still too young. You'll be able to touch it in a few months. I just don't know if it will be a human or a dog."

She smiled at Cui Heng with ill intent as she spoke.

At times like this, all the scheming in her eyes disappears, and she becomes as innocent as a child.

Cui Heng knew she was teasing him, so he leaned down and put his ear to her lower abdomen, wanting to get closer to that tiny life.

“You’re the only one in the world who would dare call Bai Ze a dog,” he said with a laugh.

“I have no parents since I was old enough to understand things. My childhood memories are all spent in human cages, so I have never known what it is like to have parents,” Cui Heng said, lying in Wang Xiaoxia’s arms.

Wang Xiaoxia gently stroked his hair. Perhaps because Mu He was nearby, he did not reveal the changes this time. He still had long, black hair and dark eyes.

She felt sorry for his past. What would his situation be like now if someone else had saved him back then? She had imagined this more than once.

“In a few months you will become a father, and I will become a mother,” Wang Xiaoxia said softly.

Cui Heng smiled and snuggled affectionately into her arms.

“That faceless thing needs the blood of a mermaid to activate it. You are not a true demon. If you use it improperly, you will turn yourself into a mermaid with a blue face and fangs,” Cui Heng said again while lying in her arms.

"If I really turned into that, would you still like me?" Wang Xiaoxia couldn't help but tease, her hand still gently stroking his hair, like petting a puppy.

Cui Heng couldn't help but laugh at her, and said:

"That's not necessarily true, you're not good-looking to begin with!"

Upon hearing this, Wang Xiaoxia immediately lightly tapped Cui Heng's arm, feigning anger, but still smiling. Such a joke was more like a harmonizing agent in an intimate relationship.

The sky in the distance was already bright and clear. Cui Heng had been away from Cang Ze and the others for a long time. Although he was reluctant, he still had to part ways with Wang Xiaoxia.