Xiao Jingying's heart skipped a beat.

"You want me," Xiangyang looked at him, finally managing to say the question, "to be loyal to you?"

Although Xiangyang was referring to himself, it was as if he was asking him: Will you be loyal to me?

Xiang Yang didn't even wait for his reply. "Even vows of eternal love don't count. Xiao Jin wins. Let's just walk around like this, wherever we end up."

Xiao Jingying didn't say anything, but simply walked over and grabbed his hand.

Xiang Yang thus entered the imperial court. With Xiao Jinying as his backer, he immediately rose to the rank of sixth grade.

Besides managing his own trivial matters all day long, Xiangyang has also cultivated some hobbies, such as raising birds. Despite his young age, he acts like he's a lot older.

Xiao Jingying often visited him at his residence. The two would sometimes eat together, feed the fish together, and discuss some political affairs.

It must be said that only now is Xiangyang able to make Xiao Jingying talk to him about these things.

Xiao Jingying's ideas are often too extreme and biased, and some are even crazy and disregard the lives of others.

Xiangyang would often say a few words to him, even if he didn't sleep in his bed, he could still breathe warm air into his ear.

Xiao Jingying sometimes listened to Xiang Yang's ideas, and sometimes he didn't.

Xiangyang wouldn't interfere too much with him, because sometimes, if you're not ruthless enough, you'll just look like a fool.

"You can kill, but you can't kill without cause. Try your best not to harm the innocent," Xiang Yang said.

Xiao Jingying liked the way he lectured her, and asked him while propping her head up, "Why, Minghe, you're clearly not a very kind person either."

Xiangyang, fiddling with the fish food, casually made up a story: "I'm not kind, I'm afraid of ghosts, is that alright?"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Jingying's heart skipped a beat.

What does his fear of ghosts have to do with him killing someone?

Xiangyang's last sentence was rather vague: "Someone as wicked as you, with evil spirits haunting you every night, who would want to sleep in the same bed with you late at night?"

Although Xiang Yang spoke vaguely, Xiao Jingying heard him clearly.

He just stared at Xiangyang, his throat bobbing, then bobbing again.

After that day, everyone in the court knew that the "King of Hell" who killed people just to save trouble had actually learned to put in some effort and treat some unnecessary people leniently.

Xiao Jingying's antisocial index also began to decrease, changing almost every few days.

[Ding! Xiao Jingying's Antisocial Index: 0.006!]

When Xiangyang heard the system notification again, just as he was about to fall asleep, the veins on his forehead throbbed with anger.

"Switch to silent mode!"

The little darling obediently replied, "Okay~"

Xiao Jingying did a "great good deed" today.

His entire family in the capital was supposed to be executed, but he petitioned the emperor to pardon the children in his family who were under ten years old.

This move left the entire court speechless.

Despite their surprise, no one dared to believe in the "kindness" of the Prince of Langsi; everyone speculated that he must have had ulterior motives for doing this.

Little did they know that he was merely trying to curry favor with Xiang Yang.

Xiang Yang casually remarked that executing the entire family was too cruel, and he did just that, sparing the family's child a way out.

Even though he personally oversaw the execution of the child's father, mother, uncles, and other close relatives.

At noon today, while gently holding and playing with a one-year-old girl from that family, Xiao Jingying issued an edict to slaughter all of the girl's two hundred or so relatives.

Anyone who witnessed this scene would find it terrifying and eerie.

When Xiao Jingying climbed into Xiangyang's bed, Xiangyang pursed his lips and asked him, "So what do you plan to do with that little girl?"

Xiao Jingying thought of the little girl and found her to be incredibly cute, so he said to Xiangyang, "Why don't we raise her together?"

"..." Xiangyang felt that what he said was utterly absurd.

Even though his antisocial index was only 0.006%, his thoughts were still so abnormal.

Xiang Yang sighed and said, "Go and have someone remove all the birthmarks from that little girl's body, then find a well-off family far from the capital and have them raise her."

Xiao Jingying asked him, "Don't you like girls?"

"..." Xiangyang turned his head and looked at him, "When that girl grows up, if she doesn't kill me, I'm afraid I'll feel guilty."

Xiao Jingying held his finger, biting it as she laughed, "But you were the one who saved her life. If she kills you, then she's repaying kindness with enmity."

Xiang Yang knew that Xiao Jingying had been telling him all along that this little girl's life could not be spared.

Exterminating them completely is always the most effective method.

Xiangyang turned to face him and said, "Hey, so what do you think is the purpose of life?"

Xiao Jingying couldn't answer.

“People live to live,” Xiang Yang said, pinching Xiao Jingying’s cheek. “It’s never good to live your whole life with guilt.”

Xiao Jingying listened, pursed his lips, and said, "People live to live..."

"Um……"

People live in order to live.

Xiao Jingying kissed him.

Seeing that Xiang Yang did not refuse, Xiao Jingying asked him, "...Is it okay?"

Xiangyang said, "...Okay."

Xiangyang didn't want to live his whole life with guilt, nor did he want to live his whole life in fear.

He felt he was asking for too much.

Some things, you just can't let go of.

Then came the contradictions... the tug-of-war... until finally, he became just one of the most ordinary people among millions.

But Xiao Jingying is different from him.

Xiao Jingying is truly an extreme person.

But Xiangyang, an ordinary person, was given an order...

Change Xiao Jinying.

To turn him into a worldly person like himself.

Indulging in comfort...

Obsessed with the flesh...

Obsessed with love...

“Minghe…” Xiao Jingying bit his neck and said, “I love you…”

[Ding!]

Xiangyang's heart skipped a beat.

I don't know if it's because of what he said or because of the system display that appeared in my mind.

[Xiao Jingying's Antisocial Index: 0.000000000……000001%!]

Xiang Yang: "..."

Xiao Jingying followed Xiang Yang's instructions and removed all the birthmarks from the little girl's body. Then, he asked someone to send the girl away to a place thousands of miles away.