"Slap!" Jiang Si slapped the back of Shu Xubai's hand that was lifting her chin. "Are you missing a screw or something? What are you doing, playing the wall slam game with me, acting out some domineering CEO scene? Are you sick in the head?"

Shu Xubai's hand was pushed away. He coughed lightly, feigning bravado, and said, "How can you be so unromantic? The classic wall slam is how all domineering CEOs act. Can't you even get into character..."

“I’m getting into character, yamete, no, I’m going to scream~~” Jiang Si made a dramatic “ouch” sound, then changed her expression in a second: “You old geezer, what kind of person are you? Playing the domineering CEO with me, you’re not confident enough to keep Little Phoenix, so I won’t laugh at you.”

Shu Xubai immediately reacted like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, letting out a sharp cry, jumping three feet high, his fur standing on end: "Who doesn't have the confidence to keep him? Who wants to keep him? He's a free man, he can go wherever he wants, what does it have to do with me?"

"You, you, you, stop talking nonsense here. The elegant and noble vampire lord can get any food he wants with just a shout. He is indispensable."

"Speak properly, why are you stuttering like that?" Jiang Si's lips twitched, she clicked her tongue, straightened up, and disdainfully patted off imaginary dust from her body: "You don't want to keep him, he's free, he can go wherever he wants, why do you care how long he lives, why do you care if he wants to find his former dragon partner?"

"You don't care anymore. Even if he dies tomorrow, it's none of your business. You can find countless better food than him. It's only natural that he would look for a dragon mate that he can hatch himself. Why are you in such a hurry?"

Jiang Si's words not only struck a nerve with Shu Xubai, but also stirred something within him, making him so angry that his eyes widened and his pupils almost bulged out. "You stinky zombie, do you want to fight?"

Jiang Si reached out and grasped Shu Xubai's hand that was pointing at her nose: "My dear Lao Bai, it's only because you're pointing at me that I can tolerate it. If it were anyone else, this hand would be broken."

Shu Xubai snorted and withdrew his hand, looking as if he would die if he didn't act arrogantly: "Hmph, it's only because I tolerated you, otherwise you would have died 800 times over."

"Alright, alright, stop with this nonsense." Jiang Si interrupted him impatiently, "Get to the point if you have something to say, otherwise get lost. I'm very busy and don't have time to listen to your rambling!"

Shu Xubai muttered under his breath, "You fierce, man-eating flower, anyone who falls for you is blind..."

Jiang Si glared at him: "You old geezer, say what you just said again, louder than I will!"

Shu Xubai immediately reached out and hooked her in his arms, pulling her close. He grinned, revealing two sharp little fangs: "Alright, alright, my dear baby, I was wrong, I was wrong. You're not a fierce man-eating flower, you're a cute little flower."

"Brother loves you, brother cherishes you, brother loves you, brother, give me a kiss..."

Jiang Si reached out and blocked Shu Xubai from pretending to kiss her face. She forcefully pushed him away from her, saying, "Stop talking nonsense and stop doing these sticky things. If you have nothing else to do, I'm leaving."

Shu Xubai turned around and came back, stubbornly arrogance, wanting Jiang Si to tell him about the little phoenix, but she just wouldn't say it, insisting that he ask her.

Having no other choice, Shu Xubai had to say, "Don't go. I just want to know how much longer the little phoenix can live. Is he looking for you to help him escape from me and go find his former dragon mate?"

Jiang Si looked at her arch-rival and asked, "What do you think?"

Shu Xubai was full of hostility and extremely impatient: "I'm asking you a question, don't ask me back, just say it directly, are you trying to get beaten up by beating me up like this?"

Ginger shreds: "!!!!"

With his terrible temper, anyone who likes him is doomed!

The little phoenix cares about him and feels sorry for him; is she blind or heartless?

"Speak up!" Shu Xubai urged impatiently when Jiang Si remained silent. "Answer my question quickly, don't make me ask it a second time..."

Jiang Si exhaled a breath of stale air, blew on her bangs, and, not intending to hide anything, truthfully told Shu Xubai, "You're right, your little phoenix won't live much longer, less than a year."

"You're right. Your little phoenix, to prevent you from being heartbroken after he dies, you want me to help him leave you now."

"I knew it, I knew it." Shu Xubai was good at finding the key point, and he always found it right away: "I knew he was a traitor. No matter how good I was to him, he would always think about leaving me."

"This heartless thing, just because he is my food and because I can't replace him as my food, he is arrogant and only wants to go out."

"What talk of death? With me here, how could I possibly let him die?"

“The contract between you two is broken!” Jiang Si reminded Shu Xubai: “Without the contract, you cannot share your life with him, so you cannot stop his death or his decline.”

"Furthermore, he no longer has a spiritual body. His spiritual body betrayed him and disappeared. He now has no spiritual power, and his physical strength is also average. He is not even as strong as an ordinary person. What can you do to save his life?"

Shu Xubai shuddered, his hands clenching into fists. The louder and more arrogant he had just been shouting, the softer he became: "He really is ungrateful. No matter how good I am to him, no matter how much I indulge him, he still can't forget his former partner who abandoned him."

“He’s dying. He doesn’t want to stay by my side when he’s dying, but he wants to go back to the partner who abandoned him. He’s such a piece of food, he deserves to die.”

Jiang Si gazed at Shu Xubai, "You've fallen in love, you've developed feelings for him..."

"Who would love their own food?" Shu Xubai suddenly raised his voice, coldly interrupting Jiang Si's words. His pupils narrowed, glowing with a ghostly blue light, and filled with hostility: "Don't be ridiculous. I am a vampire of noble blood. I can't bear to see him die, simply because he is my food, nothing more."

Jiang Si let out a heavy sigh, stepped forward, and approached Shu Xubai. She felt that some explanations were necessary to avoid misunderstandings and regrets: "Old Bai, he came to me and asked me to help him leave you because he sensed something was amiss..."

"If he wants to leave, he can leave. What does it have to do with me?" Shu Xubai interrupted Jiang Si before she could speak. "He's a free man. I didn't tie him down. He can go to whoever he wants and leave whenever he wants. It's none of my business. You don't need to tell me!"

Jiang Si's voice turned serious: "I don't need to tell you, but he only has less than a year to live. I still have to tell you what needs to be said. He's leaving you not to go find his former dragon partner, but because he doesn't want you to fall in love with him and suffer unbearable pain after his death."

"Hmph!" Shu Xubai chuckled, his smile wicked and disdainful: "Little zombie, you've had children and your husband has spoiled you so much that you believe whatever he says?"

"He doesn't want me to fall in love with him? What a joke! I'm a first-generation vampire, possessing the purest and noblest vampire bloodline. I can bask in the sunlight and live in the sun. How could I fall in love with food and suffer unbearable pain after its death?"

"This is the biggest joke I've heard all year, the best joke ever. Tell me, isn't it funny? Tell me, based on your understanding of me, do you really think I would be in unbearable pain if food died?"

Looking at his current pathetic state, Jiang Si hadn't thought he would be in unbearable pain before, but after seeing him like this, Jiu Feng's worries were justified. This hypocrite would even hit himself when he went crazy, and it was only natural that he would regret it, be in unbearable pain, and keep slapping himself in the face.

Shu Xubai urged Jiang Si impatiently, "Speak up! Do you think I would be in unbearable pain after food dies?"

Jiang Si raised her hands: "I refuse to answer."

Shu Xubai's eyes were practically spitting fire: "You must answer!"

Jiang Si frowned: "Alright, my answer isn't important. What's important is yourself, what you think in your own heart."

"He broke the contract between you. You can't share his life with him through the contract. He has less than a year to live. If you want him to live, you have to find his spiritual body..."

"What does his life or death have to do with me? It has nothing to do with me." Shu Xubai turned into a willful child: "Why should I find his spiritual body for him? I won't!"

Jiang Si nodded: "Okay, okay, if you don't want to look for me, that's fine. I have something to do..."

Before she could finish speaking, Shu Xubai turned and left.

Ginger shreds: "..."

This is outrageous!

I can't stand the truth and I can't understand lies!

His hair is so puffed up it's impossible to comb!

Forget it, what does it have to do with her? She'll laugh at him properly when he's in agony.

Jiang Si turned and walked away when she suddenly heard Shu Xubai's fierce and irritating voice: "How long have you been standing here? I never would have guessed that a great shaman of the Phoenix Clan would have a hobby of eavesdropping."

Jiang Si was about to leave, but stopped because of the old man's annoying words. She turned around and looked in the direction of the voice, and saw a bend in the road not far away.

Shu Xubai and Jiu Feng were at the bend, not on the straight road. Jiang Si stopped walking, crossed her arms, looked at the wall beside her, put one foot on the ground and the other on the wall, and became an open eavesdropper.

Jiufeng looked at Shu Xubai, who was furious and whose eyes were about to spit fire, but her expression remained unchanged. Her voice was calm and unhurried: "I have no hobby of eavesdropping. I came here to find you and heard you talking, so I didn't disturb you."

Shu Xubai grabbed Jiu Feng's chin and slammed him against the wall with a bang: "Who gave you the guts to eavesdrop on our conversation? And you think you're right?"

Jiufeng's head slammed against the wall, and the pain made him frown.

When Shu Xubai saw him frown, his heart tightened. He then despised himself and gripped his chin even tighter, as if he wanted to dislocate his jaw.

Jiufeng slowly reached out and grabbed Shu Xubai's hand that was gripping his chin: "Shu Xubai, I've lost my spiritual power and my physical strength is not good. You are too strong. I hit my head and back, and it hurts a lot!"

Shu Xubai's hand was grabbed by his hand, and she was startled as if startled by a stunt. She pulled her hand back abruptly and glared at him fiercely: "What does it matter to me whether you're in pain or die from the pain!"

Jiufeng smiled, took a step forward, leaned closer to Shu Xubai, stretched out her neck, and pulled at his collar to reveal her fair neck. "Yes, I have nothing to do with you. I am just your food. Are you hungry? Do you want to drink blood?"

Shu Xubai's eyes darkened instantly as he brought the fair neck close to his mouth, revealing his sharp fangs in the face of the tempting food.

When Jiufeng saw his fangs, her smile deepened slightly. She moved her neck closer to his mouth again, waiting for him to bite through her neck and drink his blood.

Unexpectedly, Shu Xubai bared his fangs but didn't bite his neck. Instead, he pushed him away, saying, "You're a dying food, your blood stinks. I won't drink it. Get lost!"

Ginger shreds: "!!!!"

How was that sentence said?

If you don't court death, you won't die!

If you can't speak, then bark like a dog!

If you can't learn to bark like a dog, then be a mute!

Jiufeng was pushed back two steps, barely managing to stand firm. She lifted her eyelids and stared directly at him. Compared to Shu Xubai's impatient and aggressive demeanor, his emotions remained calm and unhurried, as if he were stroking a feather: "You really won't drink?"

Shu Xubai waved his hand impatiently: "I won't drink it. You're a dying food. Your blood is disgusting. I feel like throwing up just from the smell of you."

Ginger shreds: "!!!!"

That was a rather hurtful remark.

The hurtful words made her increasingly convinced that Jiufeng's perception of the future was correct.

Because that old geezer doesn't cherish the present and says such hurtful things, when he dies and gets caught up in his memories, won't he be filled with regret and unbearable pain?

Despite his harsh and hurtful words, Jiufeng remained unmoved, neither angry nor annoyed. She straightened her collar and said, "I'm sorry, I misunderstood. I'm a little sleepy and I'm going back to my room to rest. Please feel free to do as you please."

Shu Xubai perfectly embodied the saying "If you don't court death, you won't die": "Go back to your room and rest, go back to your room and sleep, but don't sleep in my room, stay away from me!"

"As you wish, I won't stay in the same room as you. I'll go to the second floor!" Jiufeng's smile remained unchanged: "You can just throw away the things in your room later. Goodbye!"

Shu Xubai: "!!!!"

He just left like that, just like that!

Knowing perfectly well why he's angry, why don't you give in to him!

As long as he admits his mistake, tells him that he shouldn't have tried to escape from him because of death, and that he shouldn't have told others about things that happened instead of telling him, he will forgive him!

"Stop right there!" Shu Xubai roared, "Little Phoenix, stop right there!"

Jiufeng did not stop and continued walking.

Shu Xubai was completely ignored and instantly became furious. He took a few quick steps forward, grabbed Jiu Feng, and bent down to bite his neck, drawing blood. His pale lips were covered in blood as he said fiercely, "If you apologize to me and tell me you were wrong, I won't be mean to you, and I'll forgive you!"