"No!" Jiufeng smiled faintly, raised her hand to the cup filled with blood, and gently pushed it back. There was no desire to live in her eyes, and her cold voice was filled with gratitude: "Your Highness Jiang Jiang, thank you for your kindness, thank you for trying your best to find a way for me, but I don't need it."
Jiang Si was taken aback by his refusal and exclaimed softly, "You don't want to? You don't want to live anymore?"
Jiufeng closed her eyes slightly, nodded at her, tacitly agreeing with her question and confirming her thoughts: "What if I drink this cup of blood and live for another 3 to 6 months? I will still die. So, for me now, whether it is 3 to 6 months or 3 to 6 days, it makes no difference. You don't need to defy the heavens for me, and I don't want to race against the heavens."
"After I die, he may be sad, he may be upset, but it doesn't matter. He can live, for thousands of years, for 3,000 years, and for the next 3,000 years."
"Over countless 3,000-year periods, he will meet many people and find many foods. There will always be someone, there will always be a food, that can replace me and make him forget me, forget me, this disobedient food!"
"The world is vast, the stars are wide, and there are countless beings. No one is indispensable."
Sadness and sorrow are fleeting; in the torrent of time, all sadness and sorrow are like dust, not worth mentioning!
He wasn't very strong, but he pushed the blood-stained cup back. Jiang Si stared at him for a long time before saying, "You've changed, little chick, you've changed!"
He's changed, just like how she used to call him "little chick" but now calls him "little phoenix"!
Jiufeng blinked gently, the pale smile on her lips like a bubble, as if it would burst at the slightest touch, or vanish into thin air if left untouched: "It's not that I've changed, Your Highness Jiang Jiang, it's that I've let go!"
He let go, letting go of his identity and his obsession.
In the first half of his life, he was manipulated by others. He walked on the path paved for him by others. He seemed noble and pure, but in reality, he was full of stench. He seemed magnificent and disorderly, but in reality, he was filthy and rotten.
The source of his lifelong suffering, his lifelong obsession, and his tragic, laughable, and lamentable life all stemmed from the first half of his life.
He severed ties with the past and let go completely. Even though his life was short and he was about to die, he was not afraid of death. He would face death calmly and welcome its arrival with equanimity.
With a calm mind, letting go of the past and attachments, death is truly not scary, not scary at all.
Jiang Si, holding the cup filled with blood, laughed and said, "You put it down, you put it down, that's good, that's good, you look very good like this."
Jiufeng smiled brightly, "Thank you. I also feel that I not only look very good now, but I also seem to have strength. I feel like I can stand up."
He said he had regained his strength?
He said he could stand up.
A final burst of energy before death!
Jiang Si narrowed her eyes, put the lid on the blood-stained cup, listened into her own space, stood up, and held out her hand to him: "You said you can stand up now, come on, take my hand and see if you can stand up!"
Jiufeng placed his hand, with its distinct knuckles and clearly visible veins, on Jiang Si's hand, and with his other hand, lifted the blanket off his body.
He landed on his feet and, with the help of Jiang Si's hand, stood up: "Look, Your Highness Jiang Jiang, I really stood up! I really have the strength to stand up!"
Jiang Si smiled back at him: "Yes, you have the strength to stand up. Congratulations! You look great too!"
Jiufeng withdrew her hand and nodded heavily: "Thank you. Go outside and tell Shu Xubai that I'm going to change my clothes and then come with you off the spaceship to see the Earth you rebuilt!"
Jiang Si smiled and replied, "Okay, I'm going out!"
Jiufeng hummed in agreement, watched her leave, closed the door, and with a smile on her lips and joy in her eyes, walked into the bathroom with unprecedented lightness of footsteps.
"How is Little Phoenix? How is she?" Shu Xubai was right at the door, his ear pressed against it, but because of Jiang Si's spiritual power, even though his hearing was excellent, he couldn't hear what they were saying inside, nor could he see how far their treatment had progressed.
So… Jiang Si pulled the door and he almost fell in, but luckily he steadied himself, took a step back, and acted as if nothing had happened. He waited for her to come out and close the door before asking her.
Jiang Si looked at her nemesis: "It's just food, but you're more concerned about it than I am. I'm a little angry, and the consequences will be severe!"
Shu Xubai reached out and touched her forehead: "You don't have a fever anymore, you're not hot anymore, what's wrong with you? In my heart, you are my heart, my liver, my precious darling, my one and only, irreplaceable, and incomparable."
"Don't compare yourself to others. They don't deserve it. How is Little Phoenix doing? After your treatment, won't she live for at least another 100 years?"
Ginger shreds: "!!!!"
scumbag, womanizer, bastard!
He said she was his heart and soul, and he couldn't stop talking about Little Phoenix.
It's in a man's nature to be fickle and easily bored; she, as an old flame, has lost all her status and position.
"I'm asking you a question, what are you spacing out for?" When Shu Xubai saw that she didn't answer, he flicked her forehead with the hand that was touching her forehead, as happy as a dog wagging its tail: "Is it possible that the little phoenix can live for more than 100 years, but 200 years, or even 300 years?"
"Oh dear, I came back to find you, not expecting you to heal him and live for another three to five hundred years. I think living for one or two hundred years is enough. After one or two hundred years, I should hate his blood and I should have found new food."
“But if you treat him, it’s not impossible for him to live for another three or five hundred years. But I’m afraid that I’ll get tired of drinking his blood and I’ll get fed up with him. If I wave him away, what if he cries and refuses to leave? Should I keep him or keep him?”
Ginger shreds: "..."
His imagination is quite rich; no wonder he's a top-tier player among players, and a scumbag among scumbags. His hypocrisy is really damn captivating.
Jiang Si watched him lose himself in his own joy and imagination. Instead of pouring cold water on him or telling him the truth, she opened her mouth and asked him, "More than 3,000 years have passed. Is your vampire castle still there?"
Shu Xubai exclaimed, "My vampire castle?"
Jiang Si: "Yes, is your vampire castle still there?"
Shu Xubai was in high spirits because of the happy event. He was so happy that he was no longer worried about the little phoenix dying. His pair of red eyes returned to normal and looked as beautiful as if they were filled with scattered light: "I don't know, but it should still be there. My castle has two floors."
"The castle above was destroyed 3,000 years ago, but the one underground should still be there. What, are you eyeing the coffin in my castle?"
Jiang Si leaned against the spaceship wall and continued, "Yes, I'm thinking about your coffin. I remember you seem to have quite a few coffins, some made of golden nanmu, some of crystal, some of jade, some of fragrant wood..."
"Not many, not many!" Shu Xubai raised his chin, interrupting her arrogant tone: "Only a few dozen. If you need any, I have some in my space. I can get you one."
Jiang Si raised her hand: "Thank you for your kindness, but I don't need it!"
Shu Xubai gave a haughty snort: "You don't need me to ask you what to do?"
Jiang Si shrugged: "Curious!"
As a vampire and zombie king, he possesses various coffins that can preserve corpses from decay. If Little Phoenix dies within three to five days, it is highly likely that Shu Xubai will place her in one of his collection of coffins, where he will look at her every night and every day.
Just like there's a meme in the aesthetics of be: dying in the years we care about most, no one will be able to take my place, you will remember me for all eternity, you will never forget!
Little Phoenix knows how to train people and how to manipulate a person.
When he first hatched Bo Jichen, if Bo Jichen hadn't inherited memories of murdering his predecessors, he might not have been unable to tame him, and he might have loved him.
So… attraction is a wonderful thing, so wonderful that it seems unbelievable and hard to believe.
"Curious my foot, you're not going to lie in a coffin." Shu Xubai was as cheerful as a goofball, radiating joy, and his tone was light as he jokingly scolded Jiang Si: "If you have something to do, haven't you always just found a hole, lay down in it, and that's it?"
Jiang Si remained calm and composed: "Can't I change my style?"
"Alright, alright, here you go, a golden nanmu coffin. It can't be soaked in water, and ants can't burrow into it, so it can keep the body from decaying." Shu Xubai said, taking out a coffin, a large carved golden nanmu coffin, and shoving it in front of Jiang Si: "Come, come, don't say your brother doesn't love you. The golden nanmu tree used to make this coffin is 1500 years old. I searched for it for a long time!"
"If you get bored while lying down, you can invite little Agares to lie down with you. The space inside is so big that there's room for the two of you to fight like fairies!"
A Western vampire, holding an ornately carved golden nanmu coffin from the East, told her that fairies could fight inside the coffin. Indeed, the end of the universe is the East, and the end of the East is China.
Jiang Si pushed the coffin back, saying, "A gentleman doesn't take what others cherish. I was just asking casually. You can keep your own treasure. If I want to lie down, I'll just find a hole and lie down, unlike you who's so fussy."
Shu Xubai put away the golden nanmu coffin: "What do you mean I'm fussy about being poor? This is fussy about being rich. Elegant and noble vampire, existing in times of world destruction and chaos, how can you compromise yourself with a thin coffin? It rotted after only two days of sleeping in it?"
"This doesn't fit the image of a noble and elegant vampire, so I... the coffins I collect will not rot even if buried in the ground for three to five thousand years. They're incredibly sturdy."
Jiang Si gave a serious "hmm". It won't rot, it's very sturdy. If you put a person in there, it won't rot for 8 or 10 years. You can see the corpse and think of the person. You can lie together and hold hands. It's a way to remember them.
He had already thought it all out for them. If one of them died and the other couldn't bear to part with him, he would lock them both in a coffin, let him look at the corpse until he was disgusted, disgusted, and utterly destroyed. Then he would turn back into the old White, proud, arrogant, prickly, and without any attachment to anyone in the world.
Shu Xubai didn't detect her perfunctory attitude at all. Right now, all he could think about was the little phoenix living for three to five hundred years and accompanying him for three to five hundred years. That would make the long years much easier.
With a creak, the door opened.
Jiang Sishua straightened up abruptly and looked into the doorway. She saw Jiu Feng dressed in a black robe, just as she had when she first met him. His long black hair was loose and flowing down his back like a waterfall.
Her exquisite face was pale yet rosy, her narrow eyes held a smile like a pool of spring water, and her lips, once as red as cinnabar, were now pale and bloodless.
Jiang Si looked at him, thinking to herself, "A final burst of energy before death, that's really something else. It's something that can't be explained by science, making someone who's full of death energy and on the verge of death more normal than a normal person."
Shu Xubai scrutinized him carefully, his eyes gleaming with joy like starlight in the night. But when he opened his mouth, he was being sarcastic, his words full of amusement but not his true feelings: "Little Phoenix, I told you, you are my food. I will not let you die without my permission."
"Well, now you know how powerful I am, right?"
Jiufeng nodded slightly to Jiang Si and replied to Shu Xubai, "Yes, now I know how amazing you are. You are really amazing. From now on, I will believe whatever you say."
Shu Xubai's pupils constricted, and his excited wolf tail almost popped out. "It's good that you know how powerful I am. Let me tell you, you can search the heavens and the earth, traverse the starry sea, and scour the galaxy, but you will never find a master as powerful as me again!"
Jiufeng walked up to him and reached out to take his hand.
Shu Xubai was stunned for a moment, just like a wolf caught by the scruff of its neck by a hunter, forgetting to react, only seeing the hunter and forgetting to run away.
Nine Phoenix Hands were no longer icy cold, but warm like fire.
Shu Xubai's hands were ice-cold. He was a vampire, not human. His hands, his feet, and his body were all ice-cold.
He doesn't like things that are too hot, but the temperature in Jiufeng's hands right now is what he likes, what he cherishes, and what he wants to possess.
Jiang Si watched them silently, like a bystander, a wordless bystander, without uttering a single word.
"Why are you holding my hand!" Shu Xubai didn't shake off Jiu Feng's hand, feigning arrogance: "Let go of my hand, talk properly, and don't touch me."
Jiufeng looked at him, her long, narrow eyebrows slightly curved, her exquisite face as vivid as a painting: "You are my master, I am your food. If I don't hold you back, who else should I hold back?"
Shu Xubai snorted, his hand tightening slightly without his notice. The corners of his mouth turned up in a smile that wouldn't go away. Bai Ruyu, whose face had been dead for hundreds of years, had a slight blush on it, even the tips of her ears were red, and she looked as innocent as a big wolfhound. "I'm very happy and gratified that you have such awareness. Tell me, where do you want to go? I'll take you through fire and water!"
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