"A pair of kings!" Diablo, the Demon Lord, happily slapped the two kings onto the stone table.

Xia Xiang, Xuan Ming: ......

"What are you doing?! In Dou Dizhu, you have to play the smallest card first!" Xia Xiang slammed her cards face down on the table. "You're going to use your big move right away. That's not how you play."

"I don't want to play anymore. He's lost dozens of rounds and still can't learn." Xuan Ming threw down his cards. "I don't want to play with an idiot. I'm going home."

After Xuanming finished speaking, he left the Demon Realm immediately.

"Hey, hey—" Diablo, the Demon Lord, tried to stop him innocently, "I just wanted to play the big one first, so what? Are you guys sore losers???"

"If we can't play together anymore, I'm not playing either." Xia Xiang stood up and looked around. "Where's my little sweetheart? Call him out so I can see him."

"If he's alright, I'll let you go for now. But if he's missing a single hair, I'll kill you on the spot."

"Don't worry, after confirming that he really is your little lover, I've been taking good care of him," said Diablo, the Demon Lord.

"This is a powerful tool to keep you in check, and I can't bear to hurt it."

"Okay, I'll go see him." Xia Xiang nodded reluctantly.

"Don't even think about stealing him away, he won't be able to leave this demon palace." Diablo, the Demon Lord, sat there without moving and began shuffling the cards.

Xia Xiang walked and explored the entire Demon Palace before finally finding Ding Xiaoyu in the library.

"Jiuwu, did you miss me?" Xia Xiang gently hugged Ding Xiaoyu, who was impersonating Jiuwu, from behind and asked, "How are your injuries? Did that bastard make things difficult for you?"

Ding Xiaoyu gently closed the book, put it aside, and turned around to hug Xia Xiang.

"It's alright," Ding Xiaoyu said. "It's just that we can't go back for the time being. How are things in the Iron Dimension and with everyone else?"

"Everything is fine," Xia Xiang said gently, leaning against him.

Ding Xiaoyu: You really have to do it this way, right? Isn't this going too far?!

"Stay here for a while, I'll get you out of here," Xia Xiang said, her eyes welling up with tears.

"Okay, I'll wait for you," Ding Xiaoyu said, patting Xia Xiang's hair.

The two chatted for a while longer, reluctant to part, before Xia Xiang finally had to leave.

——

After leaving the Demon Realm, Xia Xiang went to the Gold Dimension and waited for Jiu Wu on the rooftop.

"Little Fatty, did you miss me?" Jiu Wu, wearing Ding Xiaoyu's school uniform, rubbed his face, which was almost stiff from having to keep a blank expression all the time, and walked towards Xia Xiang with a smile.

Xia Xiang nodded, freezing him in place, and took out a handful of fluorescent pens of various colors, starting to write and draw on his face.

"You jerk, that's too much, you're such a scumbag."

Although Jiu Wu couldn't move the whole time, he still looked at her with a lot of affection in his eyes.

"You're not angry with me anymore?" Jiu Wu asked.

“Yes, I’m not angry anymore.” Xia Xiang looked at her doodle with satisfaction. “They’re right. Giving up such a big forest for a flower like you would be incredibly stupid.”

"I will go back and announce that the leader of the Jiuwu Alliance has died from his serious injuries. Before his death, he passed the leadership to me."

Moxibustion Dance: ......

As Xia Xiang spoke, she stuffed a white handkerchief into his breast pocket, took two steps back, and admired her graffiti.

"Well enough."

"Then I went into the big forest to see if there were any other trees that looked good. It was that simple."

"Xiaoyu is just going to the Demon Realm to find something. She'll come back once she finds it." Jiuwu wanted to laugh at her sulking behavior, but he held it in.

Xia Xiang paused for a moment, then stubbornly said, "I didn't want to know, you don't need to tell me."

They were about to say something when the jade scroll suddenly appeared in front of them, glowing.

"You be careful too."

After Xia Xiang finished speaking, she released the condensation spell from Jiu Wu, then grasped the glowing scroll and disappeared from the spot.

——

"Xiaoyu, what are you doing alone on the top floor?" Wang Dadong asked, with Wang Yase standing beside him, also looking puzzled.

"It's nothing, I just came out for some fresh air." Jiu Wu quickly adjusted his facial expression and turned around.

Jiu Wu was somewhat worried. Her expression was terrible when she left. What was that scroll?

"Pfft—Hahahaha—"

Wang Da Dong and Wang Ya Se burst out laughing at the same time.

"Xiaoyu, what are you doing? Have you been under too much pressure lately?" Wang Dadong laughed so hard he could barely breathe, supporting Wang Yase's arm and back.

“I feel like I’ve seen this handwriting somewhere before,” Wang Yase said, wiping away tears of laughter from the corners of her eyes.

"Is there?" Jiu Wu was a little nervous. She took out a mirror and looked at herself, trying to wipe it off, but she couldn't get the stain off.

In the end, he remembered the handkerchief Xia Xiang had given him, which finally saved his face.

"You jerk, you've gone too far, you're such a scumbag." Wang Dadong recalled the words written on his face and said again.

"Xiaoyu, have you met someone you like? Is she a super pretty girl?"

"He's just a little rascal," Jiu Wu said dismissively while wiping his face.

"It must be really beautiful, otherwise, with your skills, I wouldn't be able to do that," Wang Dadong said with a satisfied expression, putting his arm around Ding Xiaoyu's shoulder.

"That's great, you've let go of that nasty Xiangxiang. I thought you'd like her for the rest of your life and end up alone."

"Cough cough—" Wang Yase was almost choked to death by Wang Dadong's bluntness, and quickly nudged him gently.

"What's wrong, you narcissist?" Wang Dadong asked. "Is it because I hit you too hard during practice and you haven't recovered yet?"

Then, with a teasing laugh, she asked, "Really? Are you even capable?"

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