The next day, the weather was sunny.

Deep inside the Kitahara residence, the sunny doll hanging under the eaves was swaying with a smile in the warm breeze and sunshine.

Inside the room, Xiao Kui, who was sitting upright and kneeling on the ground, withdrew her gaze from the sunlight under the eaves. She leaned lazily on a stool beside her, looking absentmindedly at Bai Liu, who was sitting upright in front of her with his back straight.

...Is this guy made of iron? After being soaked in the rain all night, he came to attend the sacrificial offering refresher course three hours later dressed neatly...

Right in front of us, there was a middle-aged man with two side mustaches and a gaunt and gloomy face. He was holding a book and reading it as he walked. He had a subtle and strange smile on his face: "Today we are going to teach you all the wonderful things of the sacrifices. It is a brand new course called "Love", or "Love"."

"The sacrifices are in their prime years, and should be full of fantasies about love. Is there anyone willing to talk to the teacher about what is the most beautiful love story in your imagination?"

No one answered.

Bai Liu lowered his head, Xiao Kui looked out the window boredly, and the other sacrifice was laughing crazily, with no light in his eyes.

The teacher was already used to this kind of situation. He just smiled and pointed to Sota, who was kneeling respectfully behind Bai Liu and serving her: "Sota, would you like to tell me what you first experienced and what you think the most perfect love relationship is like?"

The person who was pointed out turned pale, and cold sweat immediately broke out on his face. He raised his head nervously and answered in a low voice: "...I'm not sure."

The teacher drooped her eyelids and asked, "You really don't understand at all?"

Being stared at, Sota shrank his head. He swallowed and said in a lower voice, "...Yes, there is a fairy tale like that about a princess and a prince, right?"

The teacher leaned over to Sota and asked, "Very good. What kind of fairy tale is it?"

Sota stole a glance at Bai Liu's expressionless profile and stammered, "Prince, the prince would risk great danger every night, avoiding evil monsters to secretly look for his princess who was trapped in a god, no, not a very high place, and then stay there with him all night, hoping to rescue the princess."

Xiaokui, who had been looking out the window, moved her eyes slightly, and she turned to look at Sota and Bai Liu with some interest.

——Isn’t this the same drama that Bai Liu plays every night?

The teacher nodded in sudden realization: "So it's Tangled."

Sota was a little confused: "What Rapunzel?"

"It's the fairy tale you just told me." The teacher stood up and waved his hand as he walked. The servant beside him placed the fairy tale book on the table of Xiaokui and Bailiu.

The cover of the fairy tale book shows a girl with long golden curly hair falling from a tall building. Her face cannot be seen clearly, only her beautiful long curly hair falling outside the narrow window of the attic. Below is a man who grabs her hair and tries to climb up. He looks up at the girl hiding in the attic.

"A long time ago, there was a girl whose hair had powerful magic. As soon as she was born, the magic in her hair attracted a passing witch. The witch took the girl away and brought her into a dark forest full of monsters. She trapped her in a high-rise building and forbade the girl to go out. She used the magic in her hair to ensure her own strength."

"The girl grew up day by day in the high-rise building."

"Because she had never come into contact with anyone, she grew up innocent, beautiful and naive. She didn't know what the world was like and even thought it was a narrow, dark attic that never saw the light."

Sota was so distressed that he knelt on the ground and looked up at the teacher who was telling the story in a rhythmic voice: "And then! Did the White...Prince show up?"

"She appeared." The teacher turned around and continued slowly, "One day, a prince passing by found her. He was moved by the beauty of the long-haired girl and began to wait outside the attic day and night. The prince said to the girl -"

"Beautiful woman, please let down your long hair and let me climb up to see you."

"The girl who lived in the high-rise building had never seen such a handsome man before. She let down her long hair and the prince climbed up."

"They met secretly every night without the witch's knowledge. Finally, the prince wanted to take her away, but the witch found them. She separated them cruelly and sent the girl to a farther wasteland."

Cang was too anxious: "Bai, where is the prince? Didn't he drive away the witch?"

"The prince finally defeated the witch and brought back the long-haired girl." The teacher said the ending slowly, "The two of them lived happily together in the castle forever."

Sota let out a long sigh: "That's good."

The teacher looked around with her ring in her pocket and put on that hypocritical smile again: "Dear sacrifice masters, what do you think of this story?"

He looked at Xiao Kui and said respectfully, "For example, Master Xiao Kui, if you were the Rapunzel in this story, what would you do?"

Xiao Kui held her face in her hands and replied nonchalantly, "I will probably use my beauty to seduce this stupid prince, and then stab him to death with a pair of scissors after he climbs up, take off his clothes, put them on myself, and then turn into a prince and escape from the attic."

Sota was horrified: "This is no longer a love story, it's a horror story! And killing the prince randomly will result in the death penalty!"

Xiao Kui glanced at the frightened Sota and suddenly smiled nervously: "Yes."

"Even if I die, it's better than becoming a puppet that only grows hair for witches and is trapped in an attic for the rest of my life, right?"

Cang Tai pursed his lips and twisted his hands, then he lowered his head and calmed down.

The teacher was not surprised by Xiao Kui's answer. He turned to look at Bai Liu next to him and asked, "If Lord Bai Liu was the prince in the story, what would he do?"

Sota, who had just lowered his head, raised his head slightly again and looked at Bai Liu expectantly.

Lord Bai Liu is exactly the same as the prince in the story, so he will definitely give the same answer as in the story.

Bai Liu was silent for a moment, then he slowly raised his head: "If I appear in this story, I'm probably not a prince."

Sota was stunned.

The teacher obediently asked back, "What role would Bai Liu play in this story?"

Bai Liu said calmly, "I should be a monster in the dark forest, coveting the people above the tower day and night, waiting for the day when they fall."

Sota: QAQ

Why did it turn into a horror story again!!

"A love story between a monster and a princess?" The teacher stroked his chin, thinking, "It's the love story of Quasimodo and Esmeralda."

The teacher looked at Bai Liu and continued to ask, "Then Master Bai Liu is going to climb up to the attic in the form of a monster to rescue the beautiful princess and elope with her. The princess will definitely misunderstand you because of your appearance at first, but in the process you will impress the princess with your love, let the princess go beyond your appearance and recognize your heart, and then be with her?"

Sota: QAQ!!

As expected of Mr. Bai Liu, this version of the love story is so touching!

"No." Bai Liu looked at the teacher with dark eyes, "If he loves me because I love him, I will probably kill him."

Cang Tai's tears were so moved that they hung on his cheeks. He was stunned.

The teacher also asked: "Why?"

"If I have fallen in love with him, and because of this love I took him to elope from the tower." Bai Liu's face was emotionless, and his tone was as calm as if he was explaining a math problem, "but he only loves me because I love him, so if I want him to love me forever, I have to keep paying for it with my love, and this is not an equal transaction."

"And I couldn't control myself enough to stop the deal."

Bai Liu raised his eyes, his gaze was dark, as deep as the bottom of the sea and the sky: "In order to prevent me from losing more in this deal, when I am sure that he can only fall in love with me in this way -"

"Kill him."

As soon as Bai Liu said this, the whole place fell silent.

Even the teacher who had always had a fake smile on his face couldn't hold back anymore. He put his hands on Bai Liu's desk and asked with a forced smile, "It's not as extreme as Master Bai Liu said. Maybe the princess fell in love with you when you rescued her from the high building?"

"Isn't it natural for a princess to fall in love with the person who rescued her from the tall building?"

Bai Liu's eyes were calm and his tone was shallow: "Really?"

The teacher nodded affirmatively: "All love patterns are like this."

Bai Liu opened her eyelids and said, "So the princess only loves [the person who saved her]. No matter who this person is, even if it's not a person, but a monster like me, the princess will love it."

"What's the difference between this level of affection and a dog wagging its tail to its owner?"

Bai Liu suddenly smiled lazily: "A dog will also fall in love with the owner who gives it food, no matter who its owner is, a rich man, an office worker, or a homeless person."

"Every dog ​​wags its tail to its owner."

Bai Liu raised his eyes and looked into the eyes of the teacher who leaned over him. "This degree of [love] only depends on who becomes the dog's owner in the beginning, who climbs up to the princess's attic first. It has nothing to do with the person himself. It is just a short-term emotional feedback and reflection obtained through some inevitable psychological feedback mechanism."

"But this is the normal concept of love. You are being too extreme. The kind of relationship you want does not exist at all." The teacher took a deep breath to calm down, and then asked, "It's not okay for the princess to fall in love with you during the elopement process, and it's not okay for her to fall in love with you during the rescue process. Then, under what circumstances do you want the princess to love you?"

Bai Liu raised her head slightly: "I want him to love me in the [Tower]."

"I want him to know that I am a monster waiting to kill him with a knife at the bottom of the tower, but he is still willing to cut the strings binding him and jump down from the tower for me—"

The teacher stared at Bai Liu's eyes in a daze. Bai Liu's eyes were so dark that they almost absorbed all the light around them. Although they were without light, they were extremely attractive, as if they contained many strong emotions that mixed together and turned into black. When paired with his bland and exaggerated tone when he was narrating, there was a creepy sense of disharmony:

"——I want him to change from a god to a man for me."

Bai Liu turned his head and the teacher shook his head violently, finally coming to his senses from the thrilling feeling. He stepped back half a step in panic, clenched his fist and coughed, then forced a smile: "Master Bai Liu, you are asking too much of your princess."

"I don't love some Rapunzel." Bai Liu said in a flat tone.

The teacher was stunned: "You don't like Rapunzel, then who lives in the tower in your dark forest?"

Bai Liu turned his head and looked out the window quietly. Through the dense trees, he could vaguely see the shrine standing on the top of the mountain. After a while, he spoke softly, "A lizard with poisonous eyes."

"Lizard?!" The teacher was shocked. "Why is it a lizard?!"

Bai Liu lowered her eyes:

"I have no idea."

"But no matter what form he takes." Bai Liu propped up his chin, raised his eyes nonchalantly, tilted his head and smiled, "He is still something I love."

"Anyone who wants to save him from the tower where he is, touch his hair, or use his magic, I, the monster guarding down below, will kill them all before he is willing to jump down for me."

"I am always his only choice."