love triangle
"The master of the desolate land?"
Zhu Hehong nodded and said, "Yes, the desolate lands on the outskirts of the Demon Realm. The Lord of the Desolate Lands and I were originally engaged..."
Mo Zuili almost spat out his tea.
"The Lord of the Wasteland is your fiancé!"
Zhu Hehong remained calm and said, "That's not the case now."
Mo Zuili put down her teacup and couldn't help but laugh out loud. It turns out that the popular female supporting character in the original novel, who was called the next female lead by the readers, actually has a love interest!
Zhu Hehong continued, "He had a very handsome appearance, and the bloodline of a half-demon, half-immortal. I met him before my cultivation was sealed by the Phoenix Clan. Later, we got engaged, but before the wedding—"
Zhu Hehong slammed his hand on the stone table, making the teacup jump. He snorted coldly and said, "That Hua Fei was bored out of his mind. He bumped into him while traveling. Hua Fei liked him, so that day he led the dragons to surround the residence of the Desolate Lord. The next day he brought the man back to the Dragon Domain."
Mo Zuili pondered for a moment, feeling that something was amiss.
"So you...didn't stop it?"
Zhu Hehong laughed: "Stop? Ha, I had no idea! I was with the Phoenix Clan at the time!"
Mo Zuili picked up her teacup again, secretly covered her mouth, and widened her eyes, saying, "He didn't send you a message? He deliberately went with Hua Fei!"
Zhu Hehong gradually regained her composure: "Did he leave on purpose? Who knows? After he was kidnapped, I risked falling out with the Phoenix Clan and searched for him for half a year. In the end, I met the Ninth Princess, named Qingshan Yue, who was wandering around the Demon Clan."
She told me the Wasteland Lord was in the Dragon Realm. I went to the Dragon Realm to find him, and it turned out he was doing quite well.
The scene of the three confronting each other in the Dragon Realm still stings Zhu Hehong's eyes when she thinks about it.
"And then?" Mo Zuili pressed.
"Finally?" Zhu Hehong said calmly, "Hua Fei got tired of playing with him, absorbed all the remaining immortal power of his half-immortal body, and then returned him to me."
Mo Zuili clapped: "Brilliant. So you and the Lord of the Wasteland aren't still... entangled, are you?"
My teammate is a hopeless romantic; he'll be a liability when it really matters!
Zhu Hehong glanced at Mo Zuili and chuckled, "What are you thinking? I wouldn't go out of my way to be humiliated by Hua Fei, would I? I haven't even spoken to him yet, and he's already run back to the wasteland."
He betrayed me, he deserves to die. Hua Fei stole my love and provoked me, she deserves to die too!
Mo Zuili stood up and served tea: "Very good, that's the mindset you should have."
Zhu Hehong frowned and glanced at Mo Zuili, saying, "I've finished speaking. Now, let's talk about you, shall we? You seem to have lived in the Mo family since childhood and been raised as the young master of the Mo family. How did you suddenly come to know the Dragon Clan?"
“Well…” Mo Zuili sat down again and decided to bring up Qi Shuyan’s statement: “The third prince of the Dragon Clan has no divine consciousness since childhood. I communicate with him through divine consciousness. It was not until recently that his soul returned to its place and his body was awakened.”
Seeing Zhu Hehong's disbelief, Mo Zuili turned his teacup and said calmly, "If you don't believe me, go ask the Dragon Clan."
Zhu Hehong scoffed, "Ha, me going to ask the Dragon Clan? I..."
Halfway through his speech, Zhu Hehong suddenly realized something was wrong.
"You're still going to the Dragon Realm?"
Mo Zuili tossed the token given to him by Qing Shanyue to Zhu Hehong and said, "Look, the Dragon Domain is in dire straits right now. If you want to take revenge, now is the best time."
Zhu Hehong picked up the token and examined it for a while, then sneered, "I advise you not to believe Qing Shanyue's words."
Mo Zuili nodded in deep agreement: "I think so too. This person is unfathomable. I'm even considering whether or not to cooperate with her. According to you, back then..."
Before Mo Zuili could finish speaking, Zhu Hehong interrupted her: "Yes, she did it on purpose. She and Hua Fei have always been at odds. When she told me about the Lord of the Wasteland, she was just trying to use someone else to do her dirty work."
Mo Zuili pondered for a moment, then recounted her conversation with Qing Shanyue during their last visit to the Dragon Domain to Zhu Hehong in detail. Finally, she said, "I feel that her current state is not right. Hua Fei can be so arrogant, yet she has remained in hiding. Besides the factor of the mantis stalking the cicada unaware of the oriole behind, there are probably other things we don't know."
Otherwise, she wouldn't have given me the token and cooperated with me.
Zhu Hehong raised an eyebrow, tossed the token back to Mo Zuili, and the two exchanged a smile.
“It does seem like an opportunity.” Zhu Hehong finished laughing, then changed the subject and asked, “So, what is your relationship with that Third Prince of the Dragon Clan?”
Mo Zuili said frankly, "You could say we're in a romantic relationship, or to be more formal, we're engaged."
This time, Zhu Hehong almost choked on her tea: "You two? What about your senior brother? Aren't you and him..."
Mo Zuili was shocked: "My relationship with him is purely that of senior and junior brothers and sisters! How could you think that I have an ambiguous relationship with Shen Ling!"
Zhu Hehong was also shocked: "No way? The way he looked at you, his affection was so obvious it was almost overflowing, and you didn't notice at all? I thought you two had known it all along."
Mo Zuili's eyes widened, and she frowned as she pondered the look in Shen Ling's eyes. After a long while, she said, "Isn't that just ordinary camaraderie?"
Zhu Hehong sighed, took a sip of tea, and stopped dwelling on the matter. She said, "Forget it, let's not talk about this anymore. If you see him again, just ask him yourself. Did you and the Third Prince of the Dragon Domain meet before you went to the Dragon Domain?"
Mo Zuili shrugged: "It's a spiritual conversation, how can it not count?"
"What divine communication? We've clearly never met!" Zhu Hehong rolled her eyes, too lazy to argue with her. "So you're planning to use Qing Shanyue to support the Dragon Clan's Third Prince to ascend to the throne?"
Mo Zuili shook her head: "Of course not. First of all, let's not even talk about whether he has the strength to hold his position. Even if he could rise to the top, it wouldn't work. What would I do if he became the Dragon King?"
"I'm not yet a formal Demon King, just a young master of the Mo family. Can I possibly defeat the Dragon King?"
Zhu Hehong stared at Mo Zuili strangely: "Aren't you two supposed to be having an ambiguous relationship? Why are you always thinking about fighting with him?"
“You don’t understand,” Mo Zuili raised an eyebrow.
"Only when the two are evenly matched can they be considered ambiguous partners or engaged couples. If the difference in strength is too great, then they can only be called dependent and dependent, which is boring."
Zhu Hehong pondered for a long time before finally making up her mind and saying, "Alright, then tell me your plan."
Saying this is tantamount to agreeing to follow Mo Zuili's lead.
Mo Zuili said, "I'm still thinking about it. Before I come up with a detailed plan, I'd like to ask you, in your opinion, what is Qing Shanyue's level of ability? Or rather, does she have any hidden forces secretly helping her?"
Mo Zuili could never understand how Qing Shanyue could tell that she was the Phoenix Clan's Holy Maiden, given that the Dragon Domain had been closed for so long.
If it comes to bloodline, the demon race does indeed only believe in bloodline, but as a half-demon, plus the sealing mark given to me by Chu Qing, how could Qing Shan Yue see through me at a glance?
Moreover, he gave himself a token, telling him to resolve the trouble before going.
Qing Shanyue is very likely aware of his presence at the Phoenix Ruins.
"To be honest, she's unfathomable," Zhu Hehong recalled. "She's on good terms with many demon clans, and even has dealings with sects on the human side. If the Dragon Domain hadn't been closed off, you might have even seen her at the Phoenix Ruins during the demon clan's trial."
A strange feeling flashed through Mo Zuili's mind, as if she had grasped a key clue but it was still vague.
Mo Zuili frowned and pondered: "Which sects of the human race is she on good terms with?"
Zhu Hehong stroked his chin, saying uncertainly, "The Yu family, I suppose. The Yu family has always been close to the demon race."
They've always been close to the demon race...
Mo Zuili suddenly stood up: "No, it's not the Yu family! It's the Bo Xi Yi family!"
When the Yi brothers approached her, Mo Zuili felt that they were deliberately getting close to her on someone's orders.
At first, Mo Zuili suspected the Phoenix Clan, but later the Phoenix Clan exposed them, and the Yi family was cleared of suspicion.
Now it seems highly likely that it was Qing Shan Yue.
The Yu family is powerful and on good terms with the demon race, so there's no need for them to risk their lives for a ninth princess who hasn't yet ascended to the throne.
But the Yi family is different. The Yi family is known for its beast taming, has an excellent relationship with the demon race, and is not particularly powerful.
If Qing Shanyue comes to the door and sets out conditions, the two parties are very likely to reach a cooperation agreement.
Zhu Hehong raised an eyebrow: "You mean, Qing Shanyue had already set up a trap, waiting for you to fall into it?"
Mo Zuili lightly tapped the table with her fingertips and smiled, "It doesn't necessarily have to be me. If it's not me, it will be someone else. Or she can get information that the other princes don't know by cooperating with the Yi family alone, without looking for anyone else."
Zhu Hehong stroked his chin: "So, she really is quite capable."
Having guessed Qing Shanyue's next move, Mo Zuili suddenly felt relieved.
After getting up and stretching, Mo Zuili patted Zhu Hehong's shoulder and said with a smile, "Then things will be easier. Let's go back to the Phoenix Clan and have a fight. I've absorbed more energy than Huang Tianyao, so I still have some supporters in the Phoenix Clan."
Zhu Hehong exclaimed "Oh!" and said, "I thought you were also indifferent to fame and fortune and had no interest in the position of Demon King."
Mo Zuili paused, still hesitating about whether or not to become the Demon King.
She wanted to wait until she obtained the method to consolidate her cultivation, completely resolved the matter of the Dragon Clan, and left enough room for Zitui to make a decision before letting Zitui decide for himself.
At that time, if I were to aspire to be the Demon King, with the Dragon Clan's backup plan, I could easily defeat Huang Tianyao's forces.
If one does not wish to be a member, there is a way out: one can leave the Phoenix Clan at any time, return to the Mo Clan, and continue as the young master of the Mo Clan of the human race.
This can be considered a small compensation for having occupied my body for so long without any reason.
...
Mo Yuan did not object to Mo Zuili's decision to return to the Phoenix Clan.
She simply sighed and told Mo Zuili to prioritize her own safety and to come back to the Mo family if she encountered any problems that she couldn't solve, instead of trying to tough it out on her own.
Mo Zuili nodded in agreement, becoming even more certain in her heart that she must resolve everything properly before leaving, and absolutely not leave any mess for Zitui to clean up.
Upon returning to the Phoenix Clan, Mo Zuili and Zhu Hehong decided to sneak back without making a big fuss, catching Huang Tianyao off guard.
As for Shangguan Fu'er, no one knows her whereabouts now.
She was secretly knocked unconscious and taken away by Huang Tianyao, and is temporarily placed in the Mo family dungeon.
After packing up, Mo Zuili replenished the resources in her Sumeru Ring and immediately set off with Zhu Hehong to the Demon Clan.
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