Chapter 67 The Red Line is OK
(Sixty-seven)
Shen Changyi was truly too sinister. Xiao Huang clenched her fingers, but couldn't lie to Li Shanglu. "Yes, I scolded him."
"Don't scold him anymore." Li Shanglu turned his gaze to Xiao Huang, seeming to be particularly tolerant of him. "Now that the demon cultivator is dead, let's go back together."
After a short rest, she felt much more relaxed.
Hearing her words, Shen Changyi frowned and said softly, "Shang Lu, he is also a demon cultivator."
Although it is just a puppet, it is also a puppet of the demon cultivator.
They can't take Xiao Huang back. No one knows whether a second Qianxu will appear to control Xiao Huang. This hidden danger must be eliminated.
What's more, Xiao Huang even tried to replace the original body, which is really hateful.
"He's not a demon cultivator." Li Shanglu reached out to Xiao Huang, who immediately and knowingly passed the red rope into her palm. "Look, he's just Xiao Huang."
It's like this again.
Shang Lu seemed to favor any other Shen Changyi except him, but he had no such preference for him.
Zhu Xuan is, and Xiao Huang is too.
Chen Changyi stared at her intently for a moment, then forced himself to look away. "Even though Xiao Huang listens to you, you can't always guarantee he won't hurt others. Shang Lu, he's a demon with self-awareness, and his demonic energy will only grow stronger until he can't control it. There will always be a time when you're not by his side. What will you do then?"
For both public and private reasons, this demonic puppet should not be kept.
Hearing his words, Li Shanglu looked at Xiao Huang hesitantly. The other party pursed his lips and showed no intention of defending himself, as if he was still the wooden man as before.
"Then if you use your spirit to make a wooden figure for me in the future, will you still have Xiao Huang's memories?"
"No."
Hearing this, Li Shanglu paused for a moment and said decisively, "Then I don't want it."
Li Shanglu suddenly grabbed Xiao Huang's red rope, pulled him behind him, and whispered, "I want to keep him."
Shen Changyi always listened to her, but this time he shook his head and said in a deep voice, "Shang Lu, I said before, he has become a demon nurtured by the imbalance of good and evil. If time passes and you and I ascend, he will still return to my body. It's just a matter of time."
She had no way to keep Xiao Huang unless Shen Changyi chose not to ascend.
Li Shanglu looked at the calm Xiao Huang behind him, and his heart felt like it was being pierced by a thin needle.
She just suddenly remembered that every time she was chased by the evil cultivators, Xiao Huang always protected her in front of her, and never retreated even if his body was beaten to pieces.
Li Shanglu held his broken head and tried hard to fix it, but he could only watch Xiao Huang gradually stop moving.
No matter what, she will never forget those memories.
She had built a grave for Xiao Huang, just like the graves of his parents.
"Shang Lu, don't trust him. He's just doing it for his own selfish reasons. He can't stand me because you're nice to me." Xiao Huang said softly, tugging at the red string that connected them. "Besides, if Chen Changyi couldn't take good care of you, how could Qianxu have been led to Fangcao City if it weren't for him..."
"Shut up." Li Shanglu's face suddenly darkened and he interrupted him.
Xiao Huang was slightly stunned.
Shen Changyi's breathing also stopped.
Li Shanglu looked at him silently for a while, then raised his hand to straighten his clothes.
"You and Shen Changyi are the same." She said softly, "If he is responsible for that incident, you are also responsible. You have no right to blame him."
"Xiao Huang, go back."
"I don't need your protection anymore."
Chen Changyi looked at her hesitantly, his clenched fingers slowly loosening.
*
Li Shanglu and Xie Du went down the mountain together to visit the seriously injured Qiu Hanyu. Only Shen Changyi and Xiao Huang were left in Taiyin Mountain.
Xiao Huang sat in the night for a long time, silently watching the stars move by.
Shang Lu said that his protection was no longer needed, so his existence had no meaning.
During the time in Ming Zhouzong, Shang Lu would secretly comb Shen Changyi's hair when he was not around, dress him in Shen Changyi's old clothes, and hold his hand with a red rope while he went shopping.
He liked the way Shang Lu treated him, but he never thought about why Shang Lu treated him that way.
Now he seemed to understand.
Shang Lu didn't treat him as a piece of wood, but as Shen Changyi. In her eyes, he had always been the same as Shen Changyi.
She was secretly using him to practice combing her husband's black hair, something she had always wanted to do but was too embarrassed to do in front of Shen Changyi.
Dressing him in Shen Changyi's old clothes, it was as if they were still childhood sweethearts before they hated each other.
Holding his hand with a red string, she strolled around with him, buying clothes, choosing hairpins, and walking side by side on the long street from sunrise to sunset, because Shang Lu always wanted her husband to accompany her to do those things.
Her husband was always busy, busy exorcising demons and saving people, and he had very little time to spare for her. However, Shang Lu never accused him of doing anything wrong in exorcising demons and saving people, even though she had the right to say that.
So that's how it is.
He thought quietly that Shang Lu's gentleness towards him all came from her liking for Shen Changyi, so she would be nice to a wooden man.
He would never disobey Shang Lu's orders because of Shen Changyi's loyalty to his wife which was engraved in his soul.
They like each other, but there are always those little moments that let each other know.
"Shang Lu gave me an order that I must never hurt myself." Xiao Huang tilted his head to look at Shen Changyi and said softly, "You do it."
He wants to return to his original form.
In this way, he can also feel the love that Shen Changyi feels.
Chen Changyi lowered his eyes quietly, raised his hand, and lightly placed his fingertips on Xiao Huang's forehead.
"You should accompany her shopping more often."
"Talk to her more."
Xiao Huang said gently without any resistance.
"Don't always make her angry."
"When it rains, you need to shield her from the rain."
"Remember she's always waiting for you to come home."
The voice suddenly paused, as if choked.
"...Shanglu likes you very much."
"Don't keep denying it, and don't keep pushing her away."
The puppet's body gradually dissipated in the silent night, and the sound gradually became weaker until it disappeared.
Shen Changyi withdrew his hand, and his soul returned to his body intact. All the details of his experience with Shang Lu flooded into his mind.
It was originally a wisp of his soul, but he didn't expect it to develop self-awareness.
He looked up at the night sky that Xiao Huang had seen before and slowly closed his eyes.
He also felt Xiao Huang's love for Shanglu.
Although, not as much as him.
*
"Shanglu, are you okay?"
Li Shanglu looked at Qiu Hanyu struggling to get up from the couch, his mouth twitching slightly, and pushed her back, "You're injured like this, and you still care about me?"
That’s why people say that honest people are easy to bully and stupid.
Qiu Hanyu confirmed that she had no signs of injury and finally breathed a sigh of relief, tears streaming down her face. "If you hadn't come to save me today, I'm afraid I would have died at the hands of that demon cultivator. But if anything happened to you, I really don't know how I could make it up to you."
Li Shanglu subconsciously took out a handkerchief from his bosom and handed it to her, saying softly, "What are you trying to make up for? I didn't say you owed me anything."
Xie Du sat not far away, took a sip of tea to relieve the thirst in his throat, and glanced at them.
What a great relationship.
The Saint was treated much better than the Master, as she was able to make the Master's wife sacrifice her life to save him without having to make up for anything.
Li Shanglu left all the pills he had refined to Qiu Hanyu, hoping that Qiu Hanyu could get better soon. She had few friends in her life, and she didn't want another one to die.
After returning to Mingzhou Sect from Taiyin Mountain, Li Shanglu went straight to his soft couch as soon as he entered Shutong Pavilion. Just as he lay down, he heard the sound of two short legs coming from the second floor.
"Daddy, Mommy!"
It was clearly only one day since they last saw each other, but Li Shanglu felt that the voices of the two cubs were so beautiful that he had not heard them for a long time.
Little Persimmon and Little Orange jumped into her arms one after another, finding the most comfortable position to nestle in.
"Where did mother go today? She didn't come back at noon. Did you eat well?" Little Persimmon asked softly while hugging her. "I ate two meat buns that Elder Teng gave me, and I ate six oranges."
Li Shanglu looked at the cub on the other side in astonishment. Its soft body curled up against her neck. She quickly pulled the cub up and pinched its belly. "Silly girl, are you okay?"
Orange blinked and licked his lips, "I'm not full."
“…”
Li Shanglu was wondering how the orange's belly could fit six big meat buns when he suddenly heard the door creak.
She paused and looked up.
Shen Changyi stood outside the door, hesitant to step over the threshold.
He was the only one who came back, which meant... Xiao Huang had returned to his original form.
Li Shanglu's eyes darkened slightly and he turned his back to him.
asshole.
What self-aware demon, what demon caused by the imbalance of good and evil, all these high-sounding principles, in her opinion, Xiao Huang was right, Shen Changyi must have been jealous of Xiao Huang half of the reason why he wanted to get rid of him.
Xiao Huang would accompany her shopping and carry things, and saved her life twice. At the very least, she also helped Shen Changyi take care of the children, so she could barely be considered the wet nurse of the two children.
He has never hurt anyone except Shen Changyi, and it's not like Shen Changyi didn't fight back. How can Xiao Huang be a demon?
Shen Changyi took back his soul without any hesitation. At least he should let Xiao Huang stay with her for a few more days, right?
She just didn't believe that if Xiao Huang stayed with her for two more days, the mortal world would be destroyed.
At that time, Shen Changyi stared at her with a serious expression, as if if Li Shanglu insisted on keeping Xiao Huang, he would kill his own relatives for the sake of justice.
What was written in the storybook was indeed correct. Most of the righteous immortals were cold-blooded. If one day she accidentally did something wrong that was not beneficial to the people, she suspected that Shen Changyi would kill her in the same way.
"Phytolacca."
She deliberately ignored him and teased the two kids as if she didn't hear him.
Little Orange poked his head out from her waist and whispered, "Daddy, are you back?"
Li Shanglu touched the little face, took Xiaojuzi back, and forbade her to talk to Shen Changyi.
Shen Changyi didn't get a response from her, his body stiffened, he leaned down at a loss, and called out again, "Shang Lu, do you hate me?"
No one paid any attention to him. Little Persimmon and Little Orange glanced at Shen Changyi worriedly, but didn't dare to speak.
"Feel sorry."
His voice was very soft, and inexplicably sounded a little sad.
Li Shanglu turned around and looked at him dimly, "Do you know where you went wrong?"
Shen Changyi's eyelashes trembled slightly, and he whispered, "I shouldn't have visited the Lord that day, shouldn't have come back so late, shouldn't have failed to kill that demon until the very end, and shouldn't have let him escape from my hands..."
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
After he finished speaking, Shen Changyi looked at her in a daze.
Li Shanglu frowned and said coldly, "Have you forgotten everything your parents taught you? It's not your fault, don't blame yourself, and don't resent yourself—you didn't remember a single word?"
"I remember that." Shen Changyi pulled Li Shanglu into his arms and hugged him tightly, saying in a trembling voice, "But I can't forgive myself for you."
Li Shanglu struggled twice but failed to break free from his arms.
He held her so tightly, as if he was afraid that she would run away at the next second.
"I don't blame you. That incident wasn't your fault. I'll only say this once. The fault lies with those demons. You didn't do anything. Just like the so-called love calamity, it wasn't me who killed you, but the demon cultivator who controlled me."
She took a deep breath and patted his shoulder helplessly.
"Okay, I ignored you just now because I thought you got rid of my Xiao Huang, not because of this matter at all."
He still refused to let go and was extremely stubborn.
"What do you want..."
Li Shanglu was about to lose his temper when he suddenly paused, as if possessed by a magic spell, he understood what he needed.
"Shuhe."
She whispered softly in his ear,
"I swear, I will never hate you and I will never leave you."
Chen Changyi looked down at her in shock, his eyelashes still stained with tears, "Really?"
Oh, that’s what I really wanted to hear.
Li Shanglu sneered, "Fake."
Shen Changyi stared at her, "You've already made an oath, you can't change it."
"I didn't say I swore anything." Li Shanglu refused to let him have his way and sneered, "I'm telling you, Shen Changyi, you'd better be good to me for the rest of your life, otherwise I might leave you, don't want you, and even hate you at any time."
She is such a domineering woman, so what? Shen Changyi brought it upon himself.
However, Shen Changyi looked at her with burning eyes and whispered, "So, as long as I treat you well all my life, you will stay with me forever and love me forever."
Li Shanglu: “?”
She must have said something harsh just now, why did he take it like this?
The two cubs climbed down from the bed and hugged them.
"I will also be good to Daddy and Mommy for the rest of my life, so that we can be together forever!"
"Me too. I want to treat Mom better than Daddy does, so Mom will like me more!"
Li Shanglu was surrounded and hugged by them. After a while, he couldn't help but reveal a slight smile on his tightly pursed lips.
She pretended to be mysterious and said, "That depends on your performance and mother's mood."
Shen Changyi picked up the two cubs from the ground and whispered, "Shanglu is too mean to bargain with children."
If he hadn't said this, Li Shanglu wouldn't have remembered it yet. He actually dared to secretly say bad things about her when she was unconscious.
She stepped on Shen Changyi's boots, and seeing his pained expression, she felt relieved. "This kick is because you said something bad about me."
Li Shanglu stepped on it again.
"This kick is revenge for Xiao Huang."
Shen Changyi said aggrievedly, "Xiao Huang is originally me."
"You can't accompany me," Li Shanglu whispered. "I dare not trouble you, lest no one take care of the safety of the people of the world, and then you blame me."
Hearing her words, Shen Changyi put the two cubs on the ground and grabbed Li Shanglu's hand.
"What are you doing?"
Li Shanglu frowned and looked at him, but saw him slowly take out a red string from his sleeve and tie it around the knuckle of his little finger.
Shen Changyi handed the other end of the red string into her palm and said with a smile,
"From today on, I will only be responsible for the safety of you and the child."
With his great revenge accomplished, Shen Changyi no longer had to fight demons and seek revenge, nor did he have to leave his wife and children.
Their lives finally began to move forward.
"Shanglu, how is it?" he asked expectantly.
Li Shanglu looked at the red string, her eyes reddened. She stretched out her hand, tied the red string around her little finger, sniffed,
"It's okay."
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