Fourth Prince Xiao Yu suffers from a strange illness. When it acts up, he feels intensely ashamed and his heart becomes extremely humble. Even when his "moonlight" shines on him, he shrinks...
Chapter 319 The Mistress's Test
When the mistress looked at Xu Chuchu, Xu Chuchu was also looking at her.
This mistress is a little transparent like the mermaids outside, which shows that she has died once, but her lower body is not a fish tail, but legs like a normal person.
She looked to be in her thirties or forties, with her hair tied up in a high bun and her eyebrows raised high, completely different from the teenage girl she appeared to be.
"Are you looking at my legs?" The mistress raised an eyebrow. "I gave them fish tails to allow them to move freely in the lake. I can swim very fast without them."
Xu Chuchu nodded and said, "Hello, my name is Xu Chuchu. My friend and I came here to treat his arm. Please forgive me if it offends you."
The mistress nodded and said, "I saw it all. You blindfolded him and took him up the mountain. You rode a bird to pick herbs for him. You really paid a lot."
There was a hint of sarcasm in these words, mocking Xu Chuchu's devotion to men, but she wasn't angry either: "He only has one arm now, so it's normal for me to help him more. What's more, his arm was lost saving me."
"How naive," the mistress sighed. "It's a man's nature to betray, but different men betray at different ages. The more despicable ones are fourteen or fifteen, while the more ordinary ones are thirty or forty."
"It's normal for you to think this way." Xu Chuchu said calmly, "Because all you see here are despicable men and innocent girls who have been victimized, but not all men are like that."
"Of course I've seen more than just the examples before me." The mistress suddenly stood up and hovered in the lake. "How much better can the men out there be?"
Xu Chuchu thought about it and nodded. "You're right. There are too many cases of men having three wives and four concubines, abandoning their wives and children. An environment where men are respected breeds bad habits in men, and this can last for thousands of years. Women, on the other hand, are more concerned with their families."
"You knew that and yet you still talked back to me?" The mistress looked down at her.
"There are always exceptions to everything. Even fish in the water are not all the same." Xu Chuchu said, "I trust him and my judgment. If I'm wrong, I will bear the consequences myself."
"Your judgment is invalid." The mistress said, "Tianshan will judge him."
Xu Chuchu's heart sank: "What kind of trial is this again!"
Along the way, Tianshan has put them through many tests!
"You can't just take the gift from Tianshan whenever you want!" The mistress swooped down, waved her arms, and drew a circle in the water. A white light flashed in the circle, and then Xiao Yu's figure appeared.
At this time, he had a pair of healthy arms and was standing in a sea of boiling fire, looking around in confusion.
"Where did you take him?" Xu Chuchu tried to grab the mistress, but her hand passed through her body. "Why, can walking through a sea of fire prove his sincerity to me? Is that how you judge it?"
"Of course there's more." The mistress said calmly, "This is just the first level."
Xu Chuchu gathered his spiritual power and reached into the circle, but before he could touch Xiao Yu's clothes, he was bounced out by a huge force.
"Don't try to challenge Tianshan's power." The mistress glanced at her. "Don't you want to know how sincere he is to you?"
"I already know it, I don't need him to prove it!" Xu Chuchu was very angry.
For example, she would be willing to risk walking through fire for Xiao Yu, but that doesn't mean she would walk through fire for no reason to prove her feelings for Xiao Yu.
The same goes for the other way around!
The mistress said, "Don't worry. He will forget everything during the test. He won't remember that he is a fortune teller, what just happened, or why he came to Tianshan. He will only know that if he walks through this sea of fire, he can be with you."
She even called over two flat stone blocks and asked Xu Chuchu to sit down and watch together, but Xu Chuchu ignored her.
She took a few glances at the scene of Xiao Yu struggling in the sea of fire and couldn't bear to watch it anymore.
It's so torturous. How is this different from watching him being tortured?
He kept dodging the flames, but they still surged from the ground and the sides, leaving burns of varying sizes on his body.
The harm in the illusion is fake, but the torture is real.
After an unknown amount of time, Xiao Yu finally made it through the sea of fire. Just as he reached the end, he stepped into a world of ice and snow.
By this time his clothes were burnt to shreds, and his boots were completely burned away.
I don’t know what it feels like to step directly on ice with my burned feet.
Xu Chuchu would rather he was unconscious.
"This level is more difficult than the second level." The mistress explained to Xu Chuchu with great interest, "Why do I say that? When he entered the second level, he got a hint that he would see you after passing through the ice and snow."
"But just now, when he was crossing the sea of fire, he received the same clue. Now he will doubt whether he can really see you this time through the ice and snow. What if it is still a lie? What if there is a mountain of swords waiting for him behind? Is it necessary for him to make this sacrifice?"
"Many people give up at this stage. If they can just give up their loved one, they won't have to suffer anymore. Why persist?"
Xu Chuchu buried her head and didn't listen at all. She just wanted this moment to be over, and it didn't matter what choice Xiao Yu made.
She looked up from time to time and saw Xiao Yu's expression.
Determined, without a trace of doubt.
Maybe in his heart, no matter the second or third level, he can persevere for Xu Chuchu.
…
The ice and snow road finally came to an end.
"Alright? No need to continue?" Xu Chuchu said angrily, "Doesn't this prove his feelings for me? Are you really testing me, or do you enjoy torturing me?"
"Don't worry, it's almost over. There's one last level." The mistress smiled and said, "Open your eyes and take a look. There's no physical torture in this level."
Xu Chuchu looked up in annoyance and saw Xiao Yu standing alone on the busy town street.
Fortunately, his burns and frostbite have healed now, so he shouldn't feel any pain anymore.
"Since the beginning of Tianshan's awakening of the spirit, no one has passed this level." The mistress introduced it to her enthusiastically.
"What do you want him to do this time?" Xu Chuchu asked.
The mistress replied, "It's not about asking him to do anything, it's about seeing how he reacts."