Wind Chime glanced at Sky Crow:

"May I?"

Tianya smiled and said:

"Of course, Xiaoxiao is a legitimate member of the Feng family and is the head of the family, Feng Xing, who personally appointed her as the chief steward of internal affairs. She is naturally qualified to become a part of your strength, young master."

He shook his head:

"No, I mean, how will this fusion affect her and me?"

"No, merging is not the same as devouring. Since they can merge, they can also separate. After separation, it has no effect on either of them."

Monsters can devour humans, spirit masters, or their own kind to gain power.

Half-demons, on the other hand, fuse, resulting in an extremely high power conversion rate, far exceeding that of devouring.

After confirming that there was no problem with the wind chimes, I decided to give it a try; there was no harm in trying.

I might need it tonight.

So he smiled, grinned, and stretched out his hand:

"Haha! Young Master! I'm here!"

Fengling reached out and grasped her small hand; it was icy cold, practically devoid of body temperature.

Following Tianya's instructions, the two of them closed their eyes.

When they opened their eyes again, the light in Fengling and Xiaoxiao's eyes shone brightly.

But Fengling's glow comes from the golden outer ring around her eyes, while Xiaoxiao's glow comes from the scarlet color of her pupils.

The next second, Xiaoxiao in front of me became distorted, and her body gradually became transparent.

They transformed into wisps of black mist, slowly drifting towards the wind chimes.

Feng Ling faintly felt a power flowing into her body.

After having tried it once, he felt it was quite simple, but just when he thought he was about to succeed...

Suddenly, a sharp pain shot through her soul, and Xiaoxiao and Fengling, who had been gradually merging, immediately separated.

Fengling covered her head and whispered, taking several steps back.

Tianya quickly reached out to stop him, preventing him from falling.

Xiaoxiao landed directly on the ground, her face contorted in pain.

"Ouch...that hurts, hahaha..."

The wind chimes were a little worried:

"Are you alright, Xiaoxiao?"

"Haha...it's nothing...haha~"

Xiaoxiao was laughing painfully on the ground.

That looked strange; it was clearly in a lot of pain, wasn't it?

But why is he laughing?

At this moment, the crow slowly spoke:

"Young Master, the fusion of two demons requires both to be of one mind and share the same goal."

"If I am not mistaken, you may still be somewhat averse to the demon race."

Fengling gritted her teeth; it wasn't so much rejection as it was that she couldn't accept it yet.

It wasn't directed at Xiaoxiao either.

After all, he had only just encountered demons today, and he was still not fully accustomed to them.

But how did the monster in that pit possess me today?

Although puzzled, seeing Xiaoxiao in so much pain, I suddenly felt a pang of guilt:

"I'm sorry, Xiaoxiao, I..."

"Hahaha...I...I was rejected and disliked by the young master, hahaha..."

Xiaoxiao, who was standing next to him, suddenly spoke up with a laugh.

She had already gotten up from the ground and was standing there, laughing and crying as she murmured to herself:

"Ha... Xiaoxiao got rejected again, haha..."

If it weren't for the two lines of tears on her face, Fengling really couldn't tell whether she was laughing or crying.

He said with some guilt:

"Xiaoxiao, I'm not looking down on you."

"Ha...it's alright, young master, Xiaoxiao is fine! Haha."

As she spoke, she wiped away her tears, grinned, ran to the side, squatted down, turned her back to the wind chimes, and chuckled softly.

Tears fell to the ground, the sound of dripping water echoing in the silent, dark space.

Seeing this, the eunuchs nearby quickly gathered around Xiaoxiao, looking her up and down with troubled expressions, unsure how to comfort her.

Wind Chime wanted to go over and comfort her, but Sky Crow stopped her:

"It's alright, young master, she'll be fine in a bit."

Is she...?

Fengling was puzzled; he felt that Xiaoxiao's emotional expression seemed a bit off.

Tianya glanced at Xiaoxiao squatting in the distance, lit a cigarette, and did the same thing as before.

He inhaled it all in one gulp, then coughed several times before whispering:

"She was pulled from a river by the head of the family more than 30 years ago..."

Upon hearing this, Fengling frowned, sensing that this was not a good story.

"On the day she was born, her biological father died in a car accident on his way to the hospital."

"Her mother found another man, but her stepfather disliked her for always looking gloomy and beat her every day to make her smile."

"Her mother didn't care about her either, and thought she was bad luck."

“She was forced to smile by her family since she was a child, but she couldn’t smile. So when she went to school, her personality problems came out.”

When Fengling heard this, his expression became a little strange. Even without Tianya saying anything, he could guess what would happen next.

"So she was ostracized and bullied by her classmates. Her hair was cut off as a prank by her classmates at that time."

"One afternoon after school, she stopped by the river for a moment as usual."

“Because if she goes back early, only her father will be home. If she stays for a while, her mother will come home from get off work. When her mother is home, her father will beat her less, or he will not beat her for her mother’s sake.”

"But that day, she met those who often bullied her by the river."

At this point, Tianya lit another cigarette, took a drag, and coughed incessantly.

After a while, he continued, his eyes cold:

“Those people snatched her backpack and her coat, saying, ‘If you can smile, we’ll give them all back to you.’”

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