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Jiang Huali was preoccupied with her own thoughts and did not notice Xuanqing's unusual behavior.
She took the two jade pendants, put them into a brocade pouch, and then stored them in her storage bag.
Whether the jade pendant serves as a carrier remains to be seen until experiments are conducted at the Time and Space Bureau.
"Can these two jade pendants be brought back to the Time and Space Bureau?" Jiang Huali asked the system in her mind.
The system quickly replied: "No problem, it doesn't consume much energy."
Jiang Huali was relieved and turned her gaze to Xuan Qing beside her, only to be pushed down onto his lap.
The other person placed one hand behind her back, grabbed her wrist with the other, and kissed her forcefully.
Before Jiang Huali could see his expression clearly, she was met with a pair of golden eyes.
...Isn't the honeymoon period almost over?
She was kissed in a daze, her open eyes were covered, plunging her into darkness, and her other senses were amplified infinitely.
"What's wrong with you?" Jiang Huali pressed against his chest, and with just a little force, easily pushed him away.
Xuan Qing felt a pang of sadness. When she mentioned "things belonging to an old friend," it was as if a crack had opened in his heart, and bitterness kept welling up from it.
"Who is that old friend of yours?" he asked in a low voice.
The two were so close that Jiang Huali looked into his eyes and found his reaction somewhat amusing.
She said helplessly, "Why is the vinegar flavor almost soaking into me?"
Xuan Qing, however, refused to let her off the hook and pressed on, asking, "Your old friend is named He Yuqing?"
Upon hearing this, Jiang Huali was completely stunned.
"What does this mean?" she asked the system in her mind. "Why does Xuan Qing know about He Yuqing?"
The system looked equally bewildered: "[I don't know.]"
Jiang Huali didn't know how to answer. Seeing her stunned look, Xuan Qing became furious. "What? Is it your former lover?"
Upon hearing that person's name, she became distraught. Could it be that she still couldn't forget him?
That makes sense; otherwise, why would she call out that person's name while unconscious? It seems that person often appears in her dreams.
Xuanqing chuckled self-deprecatingly: "Wasn't that jade pendant left to you by your father? How do you know its origin?"
Even the jade pendants came in pairs.
Xuan Qing leaned close to Jiang Huali's ear and whispered, "I tampered with Chen Qi's memories."
“I know everything. You should also have something called ‘system’ on you.”
He spoke slowly and deliberately: "You are not from this world, are you?"
Jiang Huali: "..."
Xuanqing continued, "Is your lover also from another world? Are you going to go find him after you leave me?"
Jiang Huali was at a loss for how to react. Although she had long guessed that Xuan Qing had touched Chen Qi's memories, she had not expected this scene to be like this.
Jiang Huali first asked the system: "[Let me double-check, will the Time and Space Bureau punish me if my identity is exposed?]"
System: [If it's just a matter of your identity being exposed, there's really no punishment. However, host, you should first think about how to explain this to him.]
After saying that, the system disappeared into the dark room.
After all, the two were in a position that was really inappropriate for children.
Jiang Huali hooked her arm around Xuan Qing's neck and asked, "How do you know about He Yuqing?"
She never mentioned it at all; there's no way He Yuqing could appear in Chen Qi's memory.
Xuan Qing's aura became much lower. He buried his face in Jiang Huali's shoulder and said reluctantly, "You kept calling his name in your dreams."
Jiang Huali tilted her head up and kissed him, coaxing him gently, "Can you let me get up first?"
Jiang Huali really hadn't figured out how to explain it to Xuan Qing.
After all, from a certain perspective, Xuanqing's guess was indeed correct.
A gentle kiss brushed across his lips, and Xuan Qing felt the restlessness within him. He covered Jiang Huali's eyes again.
Darkness returned, and Jiang Huali, puzzled, grabbed his hand and asked, "What's wrong?"
Xuan Qing remained silent. Jiang Huali's hand moved down his chest, and she suddenly realized that the sensation under her hand was a little strange.
Slippery and cold.
"Don't look at me," Xuanqing said, kissing the corner of her lips.
He was losing control. Even though he didn't want to scare Jiang Huali or show his jealous and cold side in front of her, jealousy and anxiety were burning him up like fire.
He longed to keep her by his side, to kill all her former lovers one by one, and to have only him in her eyes and heart.
It made it impossible for her to let go of herself.
Perhaps the passion period hadn't completely passed, which triggered the cold-blooded ruthlessness in his blood, causing him to uncontrollably reveal his true form.
Fearing he might frighten the person in front of him, he forcefully suppressed the restlessness of his blood, barely maintaining a human form in his upper body.
It was only barely manageable; horns gradually sprouted from the ground on his head, and the hard texture made him even more dejected.
She loved furry creatures, but he only had cold scales and horns.
Jiang Huali raised her hand and forcefully pulled down the hand covering her eyes.
She was momentarily stunned when she saw the person in front of her clearly.
Black horns grew on Xuanqing's head, and its eyes turned into beast-like golden vertical pupils. Black scales grew on the sides of its face and neck.
As my gaze moved downwards, a thick snake tail came into view.
It was extremely similar to his half-human state shortly after receiving the Xuanlong inheritance.
The snake's tail gradually coiled around her, bringing a chilling, suffocating feeling, but it quickly loosened its grip, as if afraid of hurting her.
Jiang Huali kissed his Adam's apple and comforted him, "Listen to me, I only have you, I won't abandon you to go find someone else."
Xuan Qing seemed to have regained some clarity and asked in a low voice, "Am I the only one?"
"It's only you, I swear to God..."
Even if it's broken into several pieces, it's still one person.
Jiang Huali thought to herself.
Before she could finish speaking, she was stopped by a barrage of kisses falling on her.
She had a bad feeling; Xuanqing seemed to be getting worse.
Sure enough, the next second, a chill ran through my chest.
Jiang Huali gasped, recalling the scene she had witnessed here before.
Could it be that my heat cycle has flared up again?
...
In the pitch-black cave, moonlight streamed in through a crack in the ceiling, illuminating one side of the central stone platform.
"Enough, stop..."
Tears welled up in Jiang Huali's eyes, and she let out a sob.
The continuous waves of pleasure had turned her thoughts into a boiling teapot, with only the gurgling sound of water audible.
Xuanqing pressed his palm against the smooth back of the person in his arms and coaxed, "One last time, it'll be over soon."
That's a lie.
Jiang Huali was tightly entangled by the snake's tail, and could only hold onto the tip of the tail with teary eyes.
How strange... She clung tightly to the arm of the person in front of her, rising and falling with their movements.
When Jiang Huali woke up again, she was already in the Demon Palace.
Feeling a bit tired, Jiang Huali turned over and found that there was no one beside her.
She put on her undergarments properly and sat up in bed, feeling an unusual sensation at her ankles.
Looking down, I saw a thin golden chain loosely tied to the bed, connected to a lock that was wrapped around the foot of the bed.
Jiang Huali tried to untie the chain, but to no avail. She then tried to sever it with magic.
It still doesn't work.
The chain looked thin, but it shimmered with light, suggesting it had been reinforced with magic.
She lowered the chain, lifted the bed curtains, looked at the lit candlelight not far away, and tentatively called out, "Xuanqing?"
The candlelight flickered with the ripples in the air, and the next second, Xuan Qing appeared inside the palace.
Seeing that Jiang Huali had woken up, he first took off his coat and hung it aside, then walked towards the bed and embraced Jiang Huali.
"When did you wake up?" He kissed the person in his arms.
Jiang Huali said, "Just now."
How did we get back?
“It wasn’t convenient in the cave, and you were too tired, so I carried you back.”
Jiang Huali recalled some unpleasant scenes, and her expression became somewhat indescribable.
Xuanqing seemed to see through her thoughts and chuckled, "Don't worry, no one saw."
Jiang Huali looked down, fiddled with the chain on her ankle, and asked, "What's this?"
Xuanqing placed his hand over it and said, "A little gadget to keep you from leaving."
Jiang Huali looked at him.
His eyes darted away slightly as he explained, "Wherever you want to go, I'll go with you."
"Does that mean I have to carry this chain with me wherever I go?"
Jiang Huali paused.
"You'll have to hold the other end of the chain?"
These words were enough to embarrass anyone, and Xuanqing grabbed her hand: "No..."
"What do you mean, 'don't you want to lock me up? Don't you want to keep me by your side?'"
Xuan Qing was speechless: "I..."
For a moment, an endless silence filled the space between the two.
Jiang Huali wasn't particularly angry, but she was a little annoyed that her personal freedom was being restricted.
Xuanqing is the first person in these worlds to take such a step.
Xuanqing suddenly whispered, "Soul-Locking Spell."
"What?" Jiang Huali looked at him.
“There’s a soul-locking spell on the chain,” Xuan Qing said, resigned to his fate. “I was afraid it would hurt you, so I had the spell engraved on the chain.”
"If you don't like it..."
Xuanqing grabbed the thin golden chain on her ankle, and with a surge of spiritual energy, broke the chain.
The flowing light above vanished in an instant.
"sorry."
Xuanqing Dao.
Seeing that the chain had been broken, Jiang Huali's tone softened slightly: "This is not a matter of whether I like it or not. No matter what, you cannot restrict my freedom."
Xuan Qing gazed at her, suppressing those chaotic, unbearable, and dark thoughts.
He hugged Jiang Huali and whispered, "I know I was wrong. You can punish me however you want."
Jiang Huali paused for a moment, then patted him on the shoulder and said, "I forgive you."
She increased the distance between them slightly, intending to explain to Xuanqing properly: "I am indeed not from this world, but I will not leave halfway. At least... I will stay by your side until my lifespan is about to end. Can you rest assured now?"
She avoided the topic of He Yuqing and the jade pendant because she didn't know how to explain it.
"Is what you said true?" Xuanqing asked.
"Absolutely true."
Xuanqing hugged her and said, "Then would you like to marry me?"
He placed a black gold token in Jiang Huali's hand, his eyes blazing.
My body and my heart are devoted to you.
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