Zhang Daoling's closed eyes moved slightly.
Cheng Ying smiled playfully, but that smile was filled with murderous intent, "As long as I am here, Taiyan will never be at peace."
The voice was not loud, but anyone who heard it knew that Cheng Ying was not joking. The indifference in her words made people feel frightened from the bottom of their hearts.
Zhang Daoling, who had been meditating with his eyes closed, opened his eyes after hearing these words.
Because he had not seen the light of day for a long time, his eyes had a light yellow-brown color, just like a rat hiding underground, emitting an eerie glow.
"I have said it before, everything has its destiny." His voice was hoarse and harsh, and very unpleasant to the ear, as if he had not spoken for a long time.
Cheng Ying had heard this sentence countless times. He laughed out of anger, "What a destiny! Since the laws of nature cannot be violated, why did I come here?"
Zhang Daoling repeated, "I said, in the dark, everything has its own destiny."
Cheng Ying laughed, narrowing his eyes slightly. His gorgeous and feminine face smiled coldly and evilly, "Okay, very good!"
Cheng Ying stood up from the chair, staring at the man in the iron cage with a cold gaze. His voice exuded a terrible murderous aura, as if it was crushed from between his teeth. "Zhang Daoling, you must live well! I want you to see with your own eyes how the way of heaven collapses and how Taiyan is destroyed!"
Upon hearing this, Zhang Daoling closed his eyes, and his whole body became like a clay sculpture, without any movement.
Cheng Ying clapped her hands. Not long after, an old servant came into the dungeon through the secret passage with a food box in his hand. He made respectful sign language gestures to Cheng Ying before placing the food box on the old wooden table.
Cheng Ying opened the food box, took out the snacks on the plate, crushed them and threw them into the corner of the stone wall. The sweet smell of the snacks filled the dark cell. After a while, squeaking sounds came from the cracks in the stone caves. After a slight and thin sound, a group of little things poked their heads out. They were very brave, as if they were used to being fed. They picked up the snack crumbs with their front paws and stuffed them into their mouths.
Cheng Ying looked at the rats and smiled sinisterly, "Living as a half-human, half-ghost, is this the destiny you believe in?"
Zhang Daoling naturally would not answer him.
Cheng Ying threw the last piece of dessert on the plate into the iron cage. The dessert rolled on the dirty ground for a while and stopped at Zhang Daoling's feet.
Cheng Ying wiped his hands with a handkerchief and said to the dumb old servant, "Keep a close eye on him. Since he wants to live, don't let him die. If he dies, I will have less fun."
The mute servant gestured respectfully and watched Cheng Ying's figure disappear into the corridor.
He glanced at Zhang Daoling who was standing motionless, extinguished the oil lamp on the stone wall, and disappeared on the stone steps.
In the darkness, a greedy rat crawled into the dungeon and moved very quietly towards the cake at Zhang Daoling's feet. Just when it touched the cake, the iron chain made a noise. The rat became very alert and tried to escape subconsciously, but was caught accurately by a pair of iron fists. It only had time to let out a sharp cry before it was smashed into a bloody mess.
The noise scared the rats living on the stone wall outside the iron cage and they all ran away.
Zhang Daoling had opened his eyes that emitted a faint light in the darkness without knowing when. He picked up the dead body of the rat on the ground with his hands that were restrained by iron palms and put it to his mouth.
The smelly blood dripped into his mouth, and his Adam's apple rolled greedily. After he had drunk all the blood, he opened his mouth, bit the flesh and blood, and ate it up voraciously.
In the end, only the indigestible fur was left and thrown on the ground.
Zhang Daoling then picked up the dusty cake on the ground, took a tiny bite, and stuffed the cake into his dirty clothes on his chest to use as bait later.
Zhang Daoling looked at the only ventilation hole in the dark cell, greedily observing the ray of light.
After the Lantern Festival, he was imprisoned here by Cheng Ying for three years.
These three years were really long. He had to eat raw meat and drink blood just to survive. Sometimes he would be in a trance, doubting that fate could not be violated, and thought he would not be able to wait any longer. Fortunately...
Cheng Ying and the person he was waiting for finally arrived.
Zhang Daoling showed a weird smile on his face. It is hard to defy the will of heaven, but man can conquer nature!
Cheng Ying, oh Cheng Ying, because of you, I, Zhang Daoling, have the destiny that I seek.
In the attic of Nianqu Tower, a mute servant brought in a basin of clean water. After Cheng Ying washed her hands, she lazily leaned back on the chair with a gloomy look on her face.
It has been almost three years, and he still can't understand why Zhang Daoling lied to him and made him wait in the Fahua Temple for ten years.
When the stinky Taoist priest approached him, he said in one sentence that he was not Taiyan, but a lonely soul from another world. This made Cheng Ying believe his ridiculous words, and she naively and crazily gave birth to that obsession and waited for several years.
In the end, it was all just a scam.
Although he knew it was just a scam, he was still unwilling to accept it and still had... a glimmer of hope.
After all, Zhang Daoling could see that he was a lonely soul from another world. Because of this, although Cheng Ying used all means to torture Zhang Daoling, she did not want to really take his life.
Cheng Ying raised his eyes to look at the angled skylight of the attic. A slender figure walked slowly towards him on the snow. He stood up from the chair, walked to the skylight, and looked down.
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