Chapter 97: First Meeting The first time we met was...

Three years later.

The carrier bird flew over the snow-covered mountaintops and delivered the letter from the imperial city to the wooden house.

The charcoal in the wooden house was burning hot, and tea and wine were boiling on the stove, blocking out the cold outside.

Mu Xingchen was lying on the inside of the couch, lazily reading the contents of the letter. After a moment, he turned around and frowned at Li Jing who was sitting by the stove, saying, "The letter said there's news about Sister Fengxue."

Li Jing poured the hot wine with one hand and agreed calmly, "Yeah."

Mu Xingchen sat up instantly and said with a serious expression, "She gave birth to a daughter!!! She actually gave birth to this child???"

"Um."

Mu Xingchen glanced at him speechlessly. Without saying a word, she put on her clothes and stood up from the bed.

“Go back to Kyoto!!!”

"good."

It was a sunny day with white snow. It was winter and the sun rarely came out, so it was excellent weather.

At this moment, Fengxue was playing with the children in the Shangshufang, and Mo Fei was quietly writing memorials on the dragon chair.

——"Sister Fengxue!" Upon hearing the voice, everyone in the room suddenly stopped.

Mo Fei stopped writing first, raised her head and looked out the door indifferently.

A cold and obscure look flashed in Fengxue's eyes, and she slowly put down the child in her arms.

The next second, golden light filled the sky.

It's been three years since we last met, it feels like a lifetime ago.

"Miss Mu." The eunuch outside the door said respectfully.

Mu Xingchen looked at the wind and snow in the house. After not seeing her for three years, her brows had indeed become colder, just like the word "wind and snow".

"Sister Fengxue..."

Before she could finish her sentence, Feng Xue interrupted her and asked in a cold tone, "Where is the master?"

Mu Xingchen turned around immediately and called out, "A Jing."

The next second, Li Jing walked out from behind her. His face was very pale and he showed almost no emotion.

Fengxue's face was also extremely gloomy.

Mu Xingchen sighed. She sat down next to the child, teasing him while jokingly saying, "Sister Fengxue, are you still blaming me after all this time? I already told you there was a misunderstanding."

Fengxue ignored her and turned around and took the child away.

Li Jing frowned slightly and said in a cold voice, "Feng Xue."

Fengxue paused, she turned her head and her face became even colder.

"My Lord, I really don't understand." A cold smile played across her lips. She looked at Mu Xingchen and demanded, "Do you know why I blame you? Do you know why I hate traitors so much?" Her eyes began to turn red. "You don't know anything, so you don't care."

She put the child down, covered her ears and said, "When I was ten years old, the Lord saved a man in the Colosseum. His name was Lin Ya. We have always regarded each other as best friends, friends who shared life and death. Back then, we were not as wary of others as we are now."

"But three years later, he betrayed the Lord and led us into Hongya Skull. You don't know what that place is, do you? It's filled with the corpses of demons, and the sky is filled with evil spirits and resentment. We were trapped there for two whole years. You don't know where the Lord's evil spirit came from, do you? I'm telling you, it came from this!"

Mu Xingchen was stunned.

"Wind and snow!" Li Jing scolded with narrowed eyes.

Feng Xue's eyes were red as he spoke, "I was about to tell you! The Master was on the verge of death more than ten times. I could barely detect his breath every time, but he managed to pull through. He was only thirteen at the time. You don't know how painful and terrifying it is to have evil spirits and resentment entering the body. An ordinary person would go crazy if they were to experience even a little bit of it, but Hongya's skull was filled with it all! When we left two years later, it had truly become a ruin. There was nothing left, not even corpses."

"From then on, I was just like my master, always wary of those in my body, always on guard, and never dared to trust anyone again. But Mu Xingchen, I thought about everyone but it was you! Since those two years, our personalities have almost changed drastically, our hearts are as cold as iron, and he has never been so open-hearted! But you did the same thing as Lin Ya." She looked at Li Jing, her eyes full of confusion, "I don't understand why you..."

Mu Xingchen's face turned pale. At that time, she was just playing with him.

Fengxue shook his head sarcastically: "Forget it, you don't understand."

Mu Xingchen closed her eyes. How could she not understand? She understood it too well, so she would not trust anyone, and that was why this happened.

"Enough!" Li Jing said coldly, "You don't need to interfere in what happens between me and her."

Feng Xue's face turned cold, and her eyes became more and more red. "What happened between you and her? Because I wanted my people to live a life of honor and I wanted the Yuegan tribe to avenge its previous shame, I didn't hesitate to kill the person I loved most, and yet you disregarded your own status and risked your life to be with her. Li Jing, you really don't deserve to be the king of the Yuegan tribe."

Mu Xingchen's face turned pale.

"You're right." Li Jing interrupted Mu Xingchen coldly.

Mu Xingchen turned around abruptly and looked at him. He looked at Fengxue and repeated what he had just said: "You are right, I am not worthy. So I will bear the price for all the sins."

Mu Xingchen's heart skipped a beat, her face pale as she said, "Li Jing!"

Fengxue closed her eyes: "Just like Zong Bei a thousand years ago, the price he paid for his death was only thousands of years of infamy. What else was there? He made the demon race suffer for thousands of years." After she finished speaking, she sighed, "Forget it, you are not Zong Bei, so you didn't end up like him. Forget it." She sighed again.

Xu Cen was standing at the door holding some snacks, and no one knew when he had returned.

As soon as the child saw Xu Cen, she ran over and staggered, "Uncle Cen."

Mo Fei shook her head, and her eyes darkened. A bystander can see things more clearly.

She looked down at the imperial edict she had just written and said meaningfully, "That's all."

After a long sigh, she raised her head and said, "Fengxue, since you can understand that they are not the same two people from a thousand years ago, you should also know that now is the best choice. Now that I have taken this position, I will never let your Yuegan tribe fall into the situation before. In the past three years, the court officials have tried every possible means to make me choose a concubine and a queen, but I have no spiritual power and can only live to be a hundred years old at most. The risks of giving birth are also very high. So if you don't mind, I can adopt your daughter as my adopted daughter. From now on, your daughter will be the Crown Princess."

Fengxue's pupils shrank, and she said in disbelief, "You!"

Mu Xingchen lowered his head and smiled. Xiao Su and Feng Xue's daughter, Mo Fei was still too advanced.

Mo Fei smiled and said, "In this way, the thing you are worried about will never happen again. How about it?"

Li Yu was shocked and asked, "Your Majesty, are you serious?"

Mo Fei nodded, her eyes gradually darkening. She didn't care in the first place. If it weren't for revenge, who would care about this position?

"Ayu, having a child is definitely not in my plan."

Li Yu sighed deeply. Her young lady's health had indeed never been good since her cultivation was abolished.

She stepped back: "Yes, Miss."

Fengxue smiled, picked up her daughter in her arms, and coaxed her without hesitation: "Yue'er, call me Queen Mother."

Feng Yue, who was only three years old, smiled sweetly at Mo Fei and said, "Queen Mother."

A quarter of an hour later, the news of the establishment of the Crown Princess spread to everyone. Xiao Su's subordinates even rushed over overnight, and the matter was set in stone.

After leaving the palace, Mu Xingchen covered his heart with his hands and suffered severe heart pain.

In the carriage, she leaned on Li Jing's shoulder and tilted her head to ask in a deep voice, "What will you do if I still choose to stand against you this time?"

Li Jing lowered his head and chuckled, "You won't."

Mu Xingchen raised his head suddenly: "What if I can do it?"

Li Jing hugged her, put her in his chest, and sighed softly.

"Then use whatever means necessary, no matter what method you use, whether it's the self-torture trick or building a cage for you yourself." He rubbed Mu Xingchen's chin, his eyes darkening. "In the end, it will all be useful." After saying that, he lowered his head and rubbed Mu Xingchen's hair, saying lovingly, "But the self-torture trick is more effective now."

Mu Xingchen laughed out loud, her eyes turning red as she laughed. She withdrew her hand from his pulse. It turned out that the Demon King Zongbei, besides bearing a thousand years of infamy, would only live a hundred years in the afterlife, while cultivators could live up to a thousand years.

This is the price he paid.

After returning to the capital, they completely disappeared from the world, leaving only some rumors among the people.

For example, the eldest daughter of the Mu family changed her name to Mu Xingchen in order to get rid of the entanglements of the Mu family. For another example, the first genius on the current genius list is named Mu Xingchen. But if we talk about the most widely discussed topic, it is the love affair between Mu Xingchen and Li Jing.

One hid his cultivation and betrayed his family for love, and the other was seriously injured and used himself as bait to be surrounded by a hundred thousand troops on the battlefield, perfectly reproducing the peerless love between the demon king Zong Bei and the head of the Qingfeng family, Qingfeng Yuan.

Gradually, countless stories about the two people were circulated among the people, and opera troupes were invited to perform them vividly.

A few years later.

On the top of the snowy mountain, Mu Xingchen and Li Jing sat on a tree branch. She leaned on Li Jing's shoulder, yawning lazily and taking a nap.

"Brother Jing." She raised her eyelids lazily.

Li Jing raised the corners of his lips slightly and said, "Hmm?"

Mu Xingchen slowly opened her eyes and cleared her head. The moment she opened her eyes, she saw a snowy scene in front of her. It was incredibly beautiful. She turned her head to look at Li Jing and immediately exclaimed in admiration: "It's true that the vast land is not as beautiful as you." She raised her hand and touched his chin, "No wonder I always fall in love at first sight."

Li Jing smiled, and he leaned close to her ear and asked provocatively, "If you are so obsessed with me, why did you push me away last night?"

Mu Xingchen's eyes bulged instantly. She raised her head and said in shock, "You've turned into a snake day and night. Who can stand this?"

Ever since she seduced him once, he has hardly recovered his human form in bed.

Li Jing couldn't help laughing and asked, "Who do you blame?"

Mu Xingchen's face turned pink. She rubbed her forehead helplessly and leaned back on his shoulder resignedly.

Blame her.

"Oh right!" Mu Xingchen sat up suddenly. "Did you also deliberately plan our first meeting?"

Li Jing slowly raised the corners of his mouth. It was the first time they met.

"yes."