Chapter 232 The most skillful form of taming is to let him put on his own shackles and regard them as a crown.
"The little birdman is really something!" She was just worrying about how to turn the pearls into handicrafts and sell them, but she never expected that the craftsman was right next to her!
Ao Bai, realizing Hua Li's thoughts, said: "...I really didn't need to call you."
"How could that be! You're an indispensable member of our Rockets team," the seafood wholesaler said, sitting up with a jolt. "Have some confidence in yourself."
Ao Bai: "Hehe."
She hadn't noticed anything while lying down, but as soon as she sat up, Huali immediately realized something was wrong: why was this bracelet so long?
Her puzzled gaze followed the smooth curve of the beaded chain upwards.
Only then did they realize that the other end of the chain was not hanging down, but was being gripped tightly by a hand with distinct knuckles.
The owner of the hand sat in the shadows beside her couch.
What's going on? It's not a bracelet, it's chains? She's been tied up?!
Karin: "!!!"
Although the little bird was unaware of everything that happened in the dream, how could this heartless creature dare to launch a sneak attack while she was asleep?
Fine, fine, so you're resorting to underhanded tactics instead of martial ethics, huh?!
*
Everything from the dream still lingered in Yan Xi's heart.
An indescribable, overwhelming love, like a torrent bursting its banks, with the power to destroy and reshape everything, carved a riverbed in his heart that only rosewood could lead to.
After three heart-wrenching confessions in his dream, the moment Yan Xi opened his eyes and saw the girl, his possessiveness reached an unprecedented peak.
He wanted to crush her, possess her, kiss her, embed her into his very bones, own her, and...
But the next second, the image of the girl's hesitant expression inevitably surfaced in his mind, the scene like a needle chilled to the bone, piercing Yan Xi's heart.
Why did she hesitate? Who else was by her side?
Immediately afterwards, two repulsive faces appeared.
First, there was the hesitant look on Hai Xin Island's Zhan Li's face as he looked at the girl, and then there was Li Yuan's bloodshot eyes as he tried to pull Hua Li away.
Oh, I almost forgot about those two disgusting things.
They could easily get close to her, share her smiles, and perhaps even... have stirred her heart for a moment?
No! Absolutely not!
A strong sense of crisis, like a venomous snake, strangled all of Yan Xi's nerves.
Coming to his senses, he instinctively transformed the pearls formed from his tears into the strongest chains and fastened them around the girl's wrists.
In this world, no one but him should ever dream of gaining her favor!
Even if it's forced, he will never let go!
Yan Xi stared fiercely at the cracked boundary ring on his wrist; the seal on his body had already loosened. If he struck while the iron was hot and threw the girl in front of him into the Abyss of Boundaries, all his previous plans would be a complete success.
But... how could he bear to do it?
However, we also cannot let her leave.
Otherwise, Zhan Li and Li Yuan will definitely entangle her again.
The best solution is for this body to remain with her, and for her to find the Book of the Goddess of the Luo River again, gather all the divine artifacts, and use their power to break free from this bondage.
This plan was troublesome before, but now it has become a reward for him.
The most important thing now is that if he wants to preserve this glimmer of light, he... must change his strategy and get a promise from Karin.
As for those two things, he has a million ways to get rid of them.
*
"A pearl bracelet!"
As the girl's surprised voice rang out, Yan Xi silently tightened his grip on the other end of her hand.
The time has come.
"Rosewood..."
As a soft sigh came, the beautiful mermaid slowly raised her face.
The luminous light of the pearl outlined his exquisite yet fragile features. The instant the girl looked over, glistening tears turned into broken pearls, rolling down Yan Xi's trembling, lowered eyelashes without warning.
Karin, who was just rolling up her sleeves, ready to fight: "..."
She looked down at Ao Bai and reached out her hand. "Wait, I was thinking it was me who was tied up, so why is he crying?"
"Heh." Ao Bai sneered and pulled a plastic bag from the small cloth pocket under his chin. "Aren't you going to return the pearl bracelet? Let's see what you do now."
Huali took the plastic bag and shook it open with a "whoosh." "Who would have thought this kid would play dirty tricks? He must have been up to no good again."
The next second, a voice filled with utter fragility rang out, enough to shatter even the hardest heart.
"Karin, if we meet again, you'll always be with me, right?"
Huali paused as she was about to put the plastic bag over her head, then suddenly realized something and looked up sharply!
"A little bird? A dream?"
Yan Xi's eyes were flushed with a startling red, and her voice trembled stubbornly, "Saying goodbye is for reunion, so after we reunite, let's not separate again, okay?"
"hiss--"
Huali leaned back tactically, "Ghost Dream was actually left behind!"
The pearl chain on her wrist brushed against the ground with her movement, but Huali swiftly caught it and instinctively pulled it back, saying, "Didn't you say that illusions wouldn't remain?"
"despair."
Several perfectly round pearls touched each other gently with her movements, making a sound so subtle it was almost imperceptible.
However, even with that tiny movement of just a few inches, the originally loose and drooping chain instantly became taut.
Receiving no answer, Yan Xi's lowered eyelashes trembled almost imperceptibly.
The next second, instead of resisting the pull from Karin's wrist, he sacrificed himself, slowly rising and climbing onto Karin's tatami mat, pulled by the chain.
Realizing something was wrong, Kaori instinctively backed away, only to find that the tatami mat was only this big.
There's no way out!
The young man's fishtail had transformed into legs long before the illusion shattered, and now his knees pressed down gently on the soft bedding beside her.
The brocade rustled under the weight, and the couch surface sank slightly.
Yan Xi did not straighten up completely, but maintained a submissive posture that conveyed both a sense of oppression and a strange sense of submission, and moved closer to her inch by inch along the pearl.
Huali, who had never seen such brothel tactics before, suddenly widened her eyes, her pupils filled with the innocent foolishness of a college student, and hurriedly said, "Just talk, why...why did you get on the bed?"
Knowing that the young girl would break the atmosphere, Yan Xi neither listened nor answered.
His silver hair swept across the other's hand as he moved, and the tears in his eyes were still clearly visible. However, his taut jawline and the Adam's apple that rose and fell slightly with exertion revealed the aggressive nature beneath the "innocent flower" facade.
“The illusion will not be preserved, but the Reincarnation Dial is in your body.”
Yan Xi finally stopped, placing his knee against Hua Li's side and his other leg on the edge of the couch, completely trapping the girl beneath him.
"Your spiritual power activated the Reincarnation Sundial, which transformed into golden light and shone down, rewriting the predetermined threads of cause and effect."
"Not only me, but everyone who participated in this dream will remember this forgotten past."
The young man's eyes were reddish at the corners, like a burning sunset. Crystalline tears broke free from his eyelashes, carrying a fatal weight as they fell straight down.
"Thud." It hit Huali's face.
"You still haven't answered me, will we break up?"
Karin gazed at the mermaid before her, who was clearly faking it, yet whose eyes held a deep-seated panic that even he himself probably hadn't noticed. After a moment of silence, she let out a barely perceptible sigh.
The hand that was not bound by chains slowly rose and gently wiped away the tears in Yan Xi's eyes.
"Little bird, what have you been saying from the beginning? Aren't we Team Rocket? Of course we won't separate." Besides, her star hasn't even lit up yet; she won't leave even if you tell her to.
But we really can't stay in Jieyuan any longer. We've been away for too long, and our friends must be worried.
Once she takes the little bird out, she needs to hurry and meet up with them.
Huali gently pulled one end of the pearl chain from his hand, slowly pushed the young man back to his original position, and said, word by word, "Little Bird, I actually already answered the question you asked before."
A hint of doubt appeared in Yan Xi's eyes, but he stubbornly stayed close to Hua Li.
The girl magically produced a snow-white seashell, and while drawing, she said, "You asked me last time if we could run away together, and now I'll answer you again."
"Here, this is the answer." The girl handed a seashell decorated with flowers, fish, and a cat's head to the young man whose pupils had constricted.
Huali smiled broadly and grabbed Aobai, who was furtively picking up pearls. She stretched out one hand and held Aobai's paw on the back of her hand with the other. Her smile was bright as she exclaimed, "Okay!!! Little bird, let's go together!!"
boom--
Yan Xi's mind went blank for a moment, and he suddenly clenched the seashell in his hand.
A full thousand years! A full thousand years! He has been wandering alone in this vast world for far too long.
He fell from grace to the abyss, failed his tribulation and was besieged by thousands, his soul torn apart by the Heavenly Dao's seal, and endured three hundred years of forced reincarnation in the Vast Ocean... until now, someone told him, "Sure, let's go together."
As the pearl fell to the ground, Yan Xi trembled and placed his hand on Ao Bai's claws.
“Yan Xi, my name is Yan Xi.”
The invisible rules were triggered, and the power of the source of the Word Spirit transformed into an invisible chain of contract that bound the two of them together as the two words were uttered.
The art of words, if one reveals their true name to another, is tantamount to handing over the key that can destroy and control them to that other person.
However, he willingly handed over these shackles himself.
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