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Mr. Lou was unaware of these developments and thought it was impolite for him to stare at the immortal. He tugged at his son's hair and then said with an apologetic smile, "He's been ill for so long, his mind isn't quite working properly. If I've offended you, I apologize on his behalf."
Li Zhaoyue's eyes were bright, and he smiled without saying a word. He just kept looking at Young Master Lou, and his eyes showed strong interest from time to time.
"That's easy. Are all the things I asked you to prepare ready?"
"Alright, alright."
"Ten days later, at midnight, everything will be solved."
"Thank you, Immortal."
In the woods, Mr. Lou kept kowtowing to Li Zhaoyue. She stood straight, and Ah Xu could only see her back.
The last shred of hope in his heart was extinguished. He felt something hot in his collar and took it out. It was the jade pendant. The patterns on it were intact and clear, and it had never been used.
"Once you summon me, the patterns on this jade pendant will disappear, and I will then be beside you."
He suddenly closed his eyes, endured the dryness in his throat, and resolutely threw the jade pendant to the ground. As if aware of something, Li Zhaoyue glanced over here, and he fled in panic.
call out--
A gust of wind blew by, and Li Zhaoyue had arrived at his hiding place. On the ground covered with dry bamboo leaves, an exquisite jade pendant lay quietly.
She picked up the jade pendant and looked around for a long time before returning to the bamboo forest.
Ah Xu covered his chest, poked his head out from the bamboo forest behind him, and slowly exhaled a breath of foul air.
"Was someone eavesdropping on our conversation just now?" It was Mr. Lou's voice.
"No, it's just the wind." Li Zhaoyue said lightly.
Immortal, another immortal. Ah Xu's eyes gradually blurred. If it wasn't that immortal, he and his mother wouldn't have been tricked into coming here. But everything that happened now proved that Li Zhaoyue was this immortal.
He and his mother actually saved their enemy.
And that jade pendant...
They are all lies, they are all lies!
He looked at the three people in the bamboo forest with hatred and ran out.
The sky filled with stars once again, and Ah Xu pulled himself out of his memories. He said in a deep voice, "Back then, with the Lou family incident, the mastermind behind it had calculated her personality and was ready to set her up. My mother and I were innocently dragged into it. I was young and didn't see clearly, but it's so difficult to truly not hate her."
He still remembered that when Li Zhaoyue had just taken him by her side, he resisted her approach all the time, and when practicing martial arts and magic, he always wanted to do it once and would never beg her a second time.
But Li Zhaoyue seemed to be blind to the rejection in his eyes. She stubbornly stayed by his side, gave him the utmost support, and silently digested all his malice.
"Maybe my mother also resented Li Zhaoyue before she jumped into the well, resenting her for being the driving force behind all this. But I understand that if it was really Li Zhaoyue who did it, my mother and I would not have lived that long." Ah Xu murmured.
"She has a mortal enemy, as I've told you. They were born at the same time, but their styles of doing things are completely different. Furthermore, this mortal enemy is particularly fond of stirring up trouble," Yue Jinhuan said. "That's why I'm particularly worried about her now. The balance of the mortal world has been disrupted, and it's hard not to think that it was that person who did it."
"That incident with the Lou family back then..." She paused, glanced at him worriedly, and seeing that he looked indifferent, she continued, "That person was behind it."
"She advocates destruction, which is completely opposite to Li Zhaoyue's philosophy."
"I know." Ah Xu took a sip of wine. "What we understand, she also understands."
Yue Jinhuan seemed to be awakened by his words. He sat up quickly, patted his head and said, "Doesn't that mean she wants to fight that person alone? That won't work. With her scheming, how can she possibly beat that person?"
Ah Xu also sat up, and a lot of the wine in his hand spilled because of this action. He lowered his eyes and looked at the water droplets dripping onto the tiles, silent.
"I still have to persuade her. I'll go first." Yue Jinhuan climbed down from the roof and hurriedly ran to Li Zhaoyue's house.
I don’t know if it was because of the alcohol or something else, but a blurry mist appeared in front of Ah Xu’s eyes.
Every detail of the past few years replayed before his eyes. Although Yue Jinhuan always said that Li Zhaoyue taught him kung fu so that he could go out and take jobs and make money, he knew in his heart that she just wanted him to protect himself.
I remember that he was still very resistant to her approach at that time, and Li Zhaoyue didn't know how to coax children, so he could only sit awkwardly in front of the door, from morning to night, just guarding him.
"Hey, kid, you haven't eaten all day, aren't you hungry?" Li Zhaoyue called from the door. Ah Xu's stomach rumbled at the perfect time because of her words, and Li Zhaoyue, who was separated by a door, heard it clearly.
He covered his stomach in confusion, but was unable to stop the sound from spreading.
She seemed to chuckle, and said helplessly: "I'm not a monster, there's no need to be so afraid of me."
"Didn't you say you would follow me for revenge? Why don't you even want to see me now?" Li Zhaoyue deliberately provoked him.
Hearing this, Ah Xu flung the door open, nearly knocking Li Zhaoyue, who was leaning against it, face-first onto the ground. With a lingering fear, she leaned against the doorframe and cursed with a laugh, "Little bastard."
Looking at the anger on Ah Xu's face, she raised an eyebrow and said deliberately, "Are you finally willing to see me?"
Ah Xu rolled his eyes at her, held out his hand, and said stiffly, "Food."
"Alright!" Li Zhaoyue clapped her hands with a smile, made trumpet shapes with her hands, and shouted towards the kitchen, "The little guy is willing to come out to eat!"
"Got it!" Yue Jinhuan's voice echoed. Li Zhaoyue turned around and saw Ah Xu half-hidden behind the door, only his eyes were exposed, staring at her gloomily.
She shook her head, patted him lightly on the head, and took advantage of his moment of distraction to forcibly pull him out from behind the door, carrying him to the kitchen.
"What are you doing! Let me go!"
"Don't yell, or someone who doesn't know would think I'm abusing a child."
For many days and nights afterward, she silently waited at his door, waiting for him to slowly emerge from the shadows. In the days after returning with Li Zhaoyue, Ah Xu would often have nightmares, dreams of the courtyard covered in red gauze, and the Lou family. Every time he woke up, he would subconsciously look out the window, always able to see Li Zhaoyue by the window.
She stood in the pure white moonlight, dangling a moon-white glowing ribbon in her hand, and raised an eyebrow at him and said, "Having a nightmare again, little brat?"
"Don't be so scared that you can't sleep and need my help."
He would always be furious, but miraculously, he would fall asleep again and never have that nightmare again.
He knew that Li Zhaoyue treated him very well, but he couldn't let go of what happened in the past, no matter what.
Ah Xu blinked the alcohol out of his eyes, gently put down the bowl, and nimbly jumped off the roof. He stood between the kitchen and the bedroom, looking towards Li Zhaoyue's room.
The lights were on there, and the shadows of Yue Jinhuan and Li Zhaoyue could still be vaguely seen.
"It's useless for you to tell me all this now. If I don't go and find her out, who will?" It was Li Zhaoyue's voice.
"You've been looking for her for so long, it won't take a moment, why are you in such a hurry?"
"Now the world has been messed up like this because of her..."
"You're doing this for Xu, right?"
A long silence followed. Ah Xu paused as if to leave, as if he wanted to turn back, but in the end he steeled his resolve and left.
Today, he was tasked with slaying a heinous demon. According to his employer, the demon had devoured an entire village and killed many members of the royal family. It was a truly wicked demon. Ah Xu had originally only accepted the mission, not questioning right or wrong, and hadn't paid much attention to it.
The demon didn't know how to hide its evil aura, so he found its hiding place in a dilapidated temple with almost no effort.
The moment he stepped through the door, he realized something was wrong.
The demonic aura here is too weak.
Logically speaking, a demon that had committed such a huge sin of killing would have a strong demonic aura. After consuming so many people, even if its own strength was weak, it would quickly ascend to become a great demon. The demonic aura of a great demon is extremely overbearing, but the demonic aura in this temple was clearly not enough.
"We meet again." A lazy female voice came from above, followed by a strange force. He only had time to take a step back before he was frozen.
The first thing that caught his eye was a shower of peach blossoms. A figure as red as a crabapple flower slowly emerged. She looked almost identical to Li Zhaoyue, but with a more charming expression. He could tell at a glance that it wasn't her.
"Who are you?" He was unable to move, but he managed to stay calm and asked sternly.
The woman chuckled, and a gust of fragrant air followed. He felt a delicate touch on his chin, and it was lifted up in a very frivolous manner.
"I know you and Li Zhaoyue have been looking for me for a long time. In order not to let your efforts go to waste, I came out on my own."
"Is it a surprise?"
Her eyes are more slender, and there is always a charm in her smile, like a flower with poisonous thorns.
He immediately recognized that this man was the mastermind behind the Lou family incident, the mortal enemy that Li Zhaoyue had been looking for.
She stretched out her other hand and ran her fingers across the corners of his eyes, the bridge of his nose, and finally stopped at his lips.
"So, you must have been chanting my name day and night for the past few years, trying to kill me?" Warm breath sprayed on her ears. Ah Xu suddenly closed his eyes and turned his head, with a resentful look as if he wanted to tear her into pieces immediately.
Very good, that's the expression.
She smiled, turned around, and her red dress fluttered. The dead leaves piled on the table flew all over the sky, like paper money scattered by the funeral procession.
The spell that held Ah Xu in place lifted. He staggered a few times, holding onto the pillar, and looked at her in confusion.
"Actually, you hate Li Zhaoyue more than me." She swung the red ribbon around her waist and looked at him with a smile.
Ah Xu did not answer the question directly and remained silent.
The woman continued, "I do have different philosophies from Li Zhaoyue, and I like to do the opposite of what she does. But, you guys got involved with her and saved her. I have no interest in mortals, so why did you insist on saving her?"
"So, this incident all originated from Li Zhaoyue. You have every right to hate her."
Her words were like sharp needles, peeling away the shackles he had put on himself layer by layer.
"Li Zhaoyue gave you a jade pendant, didn't she? Didn't she tell you that if you used it, she would help you fulfill a wish, and that there was no need to exchange it this time?"
Ah Xu lowered his eyes and said nothing.
She let out a meaningful laugh and said, "She really kept her word. You also used the jade pendant."
At this point, Ah Xu suddenly raised his head and said in a hoarse voice, "I've never used the jade pendant. I remember it clearly."
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