His mind recalled that a long time ago, he coaxed Lu Zhiruo to take him back to the Lu family.
Lu Zhiruo took out her childhood photo album and looked through it with him.
In the photo album of when she was three or four years old, there is a photo in which Lu Zhiruo tilted her head like this and smiled at the camera.
Yaya's demeanor and expression at this moment were exactly the same as Lu Zhiruo's in the photo. However, he only realized how much Yaya and Lu Zhiruo looked alike now that he had discovered the truth.
And now, the little girl who looked like Lu Zhiruo smiled at him innocently, but said that she had no father at all.
"You, how come you don't have a father?" Zhou Wenbai asked tremblingly, "I, I am your father. You and your mother Ruoruo look exactly the same..."
When Zhou Wenbo mentioned her mother's name, Yaya showed disdain: "Don't call me by my mother's name. You are not qualified."
After saying this, Yaya looked at Liu Hai and stopped pretending. She opened her big eyes, which were red from the chili pepper, and exposed Liu Hai's plan.
"When I saw you, I knew you listened to Bai Yiyi and were trying to deceive me together with Zhou Wenbo."
Liu Hai couldn't believe it: "How is it possible? We are both practitioners. I can't see your fate, so you shouldn't be able to calculate my fate either."
If they could calculate each other, wouldn't that be chaos? As long as they could calculate where the other party's chance was, they could destroy it at will.
Isn’t it just like cheating in the imperial examination?
“I couldn’t figure it out at first,” Yaya said, “but then I suddenly figured it out.”
She talked directly to Liu Hai and ignored Zhou Wenbai.
Zhou Wenbo spoke up himself, and said loudly in disbelief: "So, so you just let him torture me on purpose?"
Yaya blinked but still ignored Zhou Wenbai.
She only looked at Liu Hai and completely ignored Zhou Wenbai.
Liu Hai also realized that the little girl in front of him was not as easy to fool as he thought.
He cooperated with the Zhou family because he did listen to Bai Yiyi's advice.
Since they were all snake demons, they naturally had ways to contact each other, and he found Bai Yiyi easily.
Seeing that Bai Yiyi had no evil power and was not the kind of monster that would take human lives lightly, and that she had signed a contract with a little girl, and that the Zhou family was well off, Liu Hai thought that Bai Yiyi was doing very well, so he humbly asked for Bai Yiyi's opinion.
The answer he got was that he helped Zhou Wenbai gain Yaya's sympathy and at the same time exchanged with Yaya.
This is beneficial to both parties.
As for why she didn't support him in fighting Yaya directly, Bai Yiyi said that Yaya also had connections in the underworld, and they, the monsters, might be the stepping stones for Yaya to get connected with the underworld.
In other words, his son might have been sent to the underworld to suffer.
Knowing how powerful Yaya was, Liu Hai gave up on forcing a fight and chose to use strategy to achieve his goal.
But Bai Yiyi didn't say that this little Taoist priest named Yaya, who was young but very narrow-minded, was played together with Zhou Wenbo.
Then when they met, he deliberately acted vicious and said those unpleasant things. Didn't Yaya see through him?
Liu Hai is overthinking this.
All Yaya can see is what happened in the past. She can't see what each person's personality is like, nor does she know what others are thinking.
So now, Yaya, who didn't know what Liu Hai was thinking, asked anxiously: "What are you going to do next? Do you want to fight me? I've already used courtesy first, it's time to use force later."
Why did he feel like the other side was expecting him to fight?
But he had finally grown two small horns, and if he was killed in this fight, how could he turn into a dragon?
"You, you liar." Liu Hai was so anxious that his face turned red. "How could you lie to me? What do you have to do to let my son go?"
Yaya found it very novel to see Liu Hai suddenly change his attitude.
She said directly: "Didn't I say this at the beginning? I can't let your son go. He made a mistake and must be punished."
Liu Hai: "But we were really deceived. It was because the man said he had convinced my daughter and wife that I agreed to their ghost marriage. My son and I really didn't mean to harm anyone."
Yaya looked at Liu Hai suspiciously.
Just now Liu Hai was saying that one should obey his father at home and that marriage should be based on the parents' orders and the matchmaker's words. Now he has changed his words. It is really strange.
When Liu Hai met Yaya's gaze, he broke out in a cold sweat.
He stopped pretending to be so powerful and simply changed his face back to its original appearance.
Liu Hai's original appearance was very similar to the spirit of the snake demon that Yaya had caught, but Liu Hai's face was very young, which made the two look more like brothers than father and son.
"I've lived for seven hundred years, and I only got this little snake boy who can practice cultivation. Please be merciful and let him go."
"We can't release him now." Because Liu Hai's tone became better, Yaya also changed her tone and added, "We'll just lock him up for a few years, and then we'll release him later."
Liu Hai was stunned.
"Aren't we going to send him to the underworld and put him in the eighteen levels of hell, where he will never be able to be reborn?"
"No, he hasn't hurt anyone yet, why should I punish him so severely?"
Liu Hai gritted his teeth and said, "Damn it, I was deceived again."
This time, he was fooled by his own people again.
Seeing Liu Hai's angry look, Yaya asked again: "So let's fight? After the fight, you go and return the evil fruit to Yang Ziqin's father, and then you leave your lamp as my trophy, and then I will let you meet your son, and the matter will be resolved."
While Yaya was speaking, her eyes were fixed on the lamp.
Everyone can see the desire in the big eyes.
Only then did Liu Hai understand that the reason why Yaya's eyes lit up when she first saw the lamp was not because she saw her biological father, but because she was attracted to his lamp.
If this lamp could buy his son's freedom, Liu Hai would be willing to do so.
But it seems that it really doesn't work.
"Where did you keep my son?" Liu Hai said, "I want to be with him. I can give you this lamp, but you have to let me be with him."
"Sure." Yaya said, "Well, if you give me the light, we can also discuss changing the place where your son is being held."
The adult and the child began a friendly conversation, as if the mutual threats just now had never happened.
This scene stunned Zhou Wenbai, who was still under the light and still feeling the pain from the torture he had just suffered.
If the snake demon and Yaya can shake hands and make peace, then what does the pain he just endured count for? Is it his own fault? He wanted to speak unconvinced and try to make himself felt in front of Yaya, but as soon as he called out the word "Ya", Liu Hai and Yaya used magic to stop him from speaking.