Chapter 51: Worries Perhaps my birth was not supposed to happen...
Zhu Huan reached out to grab his hand, but was violently pushed away and fell to the ground.
Xie Tonghe glanced at her with a cold and piercing look, and even cursed at her without any manners, saying that she was a rotten person who was defiled by the demons, and he even threatened to divorce her.
Zhu Huan tried every possible way to explain, and swore with tears in his eyes that the child was his own flesh and blood.
"I have only ever loved you. No one else has ever touched me. Zhao Zhao is your child."
The family's reputation, a man's self-esteem, the long-forgotten friendship of childhood, the estrangement caused by years of separation, and the unproven blood relationship...all of these things completely distorted Xie Tonghe's heart.
He was unwilling to believe it and even disdained to verify it. No matter how many excuses he made, they were all pale and powerless.
In his heart, he had already determined that Zhu Huan was not complete, that Zhao Zhao was the evil offspring of the Demon Lord, and that the mother and daughter had brought shame to the entire Xie family.
In the end, he didn't even look at Xie Zhaozhao, but decisively turned his back, leaving only one sentence: "Shameless."
Zhu Huan was ordered to be locked up in the most remote and dilapidated backyard of the Xie Mansion. Apart from the servants who delivered food and clothing to him every month, he was not allowed to see any outsiders.
The servants were also gossipy, talking openly as if coming here was the worst misfortune they had ever had.
At first, Zhu Huan argued with them and refuted those unpleasant words, but later, she stopped arguing.
Because no one believes it, they don’t believe it.
Occasionally, Xie Tonghe would come to see her, but most of the time, he was drunk, verbally humiliating her and kicking and beating her at will, and every meeting ended in a bad mood.
The hatred in the eyes of her former lover was more biting than the cold wind of the Demon Realm.
Even after getting drunk one time, Xie Tonghe forcibly took her.
He was like the winner who stood at the end. He trampled on her last dignity and declared his ownership to satisfy the inexplicable competitive spirit in men's hearts.
Her life here was even worse than in the Demon Realm. Suddenly, she felt that it was ridiculous for her to persist in the Demon Realm.
Zhu Huan's heart died at this moment. She held Zhao Zhao in her arms, watching the sun rise and the moon set outside the window. In the cramped and dilapidated house, she spent day after day like this.
She was completely disheartened, all her love and expectations were completely shattered, and in extreme despair and pain, she chose to end her life once and for all.
Suddenly, she heard someone calling her in a soft and sticky voice.
Zhu Huan opened his eyes with great effort and met Xie Zhaozhao's clear and anxious eyes.
Her baby daughter's eyes were filled with uncontrollable tears, and she cried and asked her what was wrong.
Her fingers trembled, and the porcelain piece she used to commit suicide deviated an inch, then fell to the ground and shattered all over the floor.
She couldn't bear to do it. If she really died, her daughter would be taken care of by someone else.
Perhaps it was God's mercy that not only did she not die, but she also got the opportunity to awaken.
The blood of the dormant nine-tailed fox began to boil violently, and she accidentally broke through the restriction and truly possessed the nine tails.
Her body was filled with a power she was not familiar with, and although it was weak, it was enough to heal her injuries.
She wanted to resist and escape from this suffocating place with Zhao Zhao.
Mo Tu, who had been dormant for a long time, sensed the extra power in her and appeared in front of her again.
Looking at Zhu Huan's body covered with scars, there was no light in his eyes anymore.
Mo Tu raised the corners of his lips, leaned close to her ear, and offered her a helping hand with a loving look: "Come with me, I will help you get revenge and protect Zhao Zhao for you."
The man who initially dragged her into the abyss has now become her savior. It is absurd and ridiculous, but she has no choice.
Zhu Huan's eyes were filled with dead indifference. She approached Mo Tu for the first time, clutching his sleeves tightly with her hands and saying, "As long as we can leave here and stay safe for the rest of our lives, I'll give you everything."
Mo Tu raised his eyebrows and agreed happily. He put his hands on her waist and sighed, "I have waited for many years, and today it has finally come true."
Zhu Huan closed her eyes, hot tears rolling down her cheeks. In the end, she did not struggle and acquiesced to everything that happened.
A night of debauchery and plunder.
However, before the dawn broke, Mo Tu's enthusiasm receded like the tide.
Now that he had obtained the beauty he had been dreaming of, he lost interest after the challenge was gone.
Looking closely, she was just ordinary, except for the demon pill that had just condensed in her dantian.
Mo Tu only discovered yesterday that she was actually of the nine-tailed fox bloodline. Although the pure demonic power contained in her body was pitifully small, it was already a great tonic for the demons.
It's really... hard not to salivate.
This was the most naive fox he had ever seen. Not only was it tortured by the immortal cultivators, but it even had the delusion of believing in the demons. It was ridiculous.
So, when Zhu Huan was at her weakest and defenseless, Mo Tu acted without hesitation, cruelly taking away the demon pill she had condensed, draining her demonic power, and erasing her memory, as if he was just dealing with a useless toy.
He turned away without even glancing back at the dying woman curled up on the shabby bed.
What he didn't know was that the absurdity of this night had left behind the seeds of an evil fate.
A child who inherits the bloodlines of the human, demon and devil races and is destined to have a tragic fate.
Zhu Huan seemed to have had a long and complicated dream, with tears all over her face, but when she woke up she could not remember anything.
After she lost her demon pill, her health deteriorated day by day, and she finally fell ill in bed.
A few days later, a servant who was delivering food found her and asked a doctor to see her. The doctor found out that she was pregnant.
In the cage in the backyard of the Xie family, few people knew of Zhu Huan's existence, and there was no doubt that he was the child's father.
Although the Xie family was very disappointed with Xie Tonghe, they were still reluctant to give up their flesh and blood. After all, the wife he later married was still not pregnant.
With their tacit consent, Zhu Huan gave birth to the child, who was the boy that the Xie family had been waiting for for a long time.
They looked through ancient books and gave him a name that sounded elegant, Xie Yunqing.
Since Xie Yunqing was born, Zhu Huan and Zhao Zhao's lives have been getting better and better. The Xie family didn't want to make their only male child suffer, so they never fed them leftovers again, and there were many more servants in the room.
In order to make Xie Yunqing's status as the eldest son worthy of his title, Xie Tonghe even divorced his later wife and promoted Zhu Huan to the position of the first wife.
This warm family atmosphere is just an appearance. Xie Tonghe played the role of a loving father, but he couldn't keep up the pretense after a few years.
What happened later was exactly as what happened in the inner demon's fantasy world. The elder sister married far away and died tragically, and the mother died in tears.
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Xie Yunqing paused halfway through his words, and clenched the two jade pendants in his hands: "The Demon Lord said that my mother is still alive, but trapped somewhere."
Shen Wenji frowned and asked, "The Demon Lord threatened you with your mother?"
Xie Yunqing said noncommittally, "Pretty much. I couldn't help but talk back to him, which is why I got myself into such a mess."
Shen Wenji's heart seemed to be tugged at by something. Looking at his pale face, she was embarrassed to ask too directly, so she said tactfully: "Do you still want revenge now? The Demon Lord..."
"Of course I want revenge." Xie Yunqing was silent for a long time, then raised the corner of his mouth in mockery: "I hate him for destroying my mother, I hate the demons for hurting my sister, and I hate myself even more for becoming like this..."
“Sometimes I think that maybe my birth was a mistake that shouldn’t have happened.”
Shen Wenji gently hugged him and comforted him: "It's not true. Your mother and sister love you very much. They definitely don't want you to think that way. Everyone hopes that you can grow up safely and healthily."
He lowered his eyelashes, hugged Shen Wenji with his backhand, rubbed her gently and said: "The Demon Lord wants me to inherit the position of Demon Lord and stay in the Demon Realm completely. But I don't want to..."
"I don't want to be a demon lord, nor do I care about power. I just want to go home with you, whether it's staying in the Hehuan Sect or going somewhere else, as long as you are by my side."
The voice was filled with unconscious coquettishness: "I hope to be inseparable from you forever."
Shen Wenji smiled and raised his head, looking into his eyes: "It will come true. If you don't want us to do it, then we won't do it. I will take you home and see the prosperity of the world and the beauty of the four seasons."
Xie Yunqing looked at the seriousness in her eyes, and finally a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He lowered his head slightly and placed a light kiss on her forehead.
The lips were mixed with blood, but soft and gentle: "Okay, let's do it together."
As soon as he finished speaking, the severe pain in his abdomen made him groan, and his face turned even paler.
Shen Wenji quickly supported him, his eyes red again: “Don’t talk, take a rest first.”
She took out her storage ring, searched through it to find the magic medicine, and handed it to Xie Yunqing: "Eat some of this, it will help."
Xie Yunqing forced a smile and said, "These medicines only treat the symptoms, not the root cause. It's better not to waste them. I can bear it myself for a while."
"As long as it can relieve your pain a little, it will be useful." Shen Wenji was extremely stubborn and even forced the pill to his lips. "Don't worry about taking it. The pills I found are all common to immortals and demons. They will definitely not make you uncomfortable."
Xie Yunqing no longer refused. He opened his mouth, took the pill in, and swallowed it. A cool medicinal power slid down his throat, temporarily calming the restless demonic energy in his body and also healing some of his wounds.
He looked at Shen Wenji's cautious appearance and said gently, "Thank you, Wenji."
"What's the point of saying thank you between us?" Shen Wenji put the medicine bottle away and helped him adjust his posture so that he could lean more comfortably.
She seemed to remember something, stepped back from his arms, twisted her fingertips on the storage ring, and the demon bone with a dark red glow fell into her palm.
There was still a hint of coldness on the bone face, but it had a subtle warmth compared to when he was in the back mountain of Hehuan Sect.
"Xie Yunqing, look at this." She handed the demon bone to him, her voice hoarse with nervousness: "This is a red fox. I've checked its spirit sense. It's your demon bone, right?"
Xie Yunqing's gaze fell on it, his pupils shrank slightly, and his fingertips unconsciously raised, but stopped when they touched the bone surface.
His Adam's apple rolled and he sighed softly, "How did you find it?"
"Just after the eldest brother injured the red fox, it...it turned into this."
"Just now I heard you say that demonic power is beneficial to demonic energy."
Shen Wenji clenched the demon bone and handed it forward: "I think this is your demon bone. Maybe it can help you control the demonic energy in your body, or... or it can heal your injuries."
She knew that this idea might be ridiculous, but there was no other way at the moment. This piece of demon bone was connected to his blood and should not hurt him.
“Wen Ji, no matter what, this is a demon bone. You have witnessed my frenzy in the Fox Demon Cave before. I’m afraid…” He was afraid that it would backfire on her, but when the words came to his lips, he was interrupted by Shen Wen Ji.
"Don't worry about anything else, just try it first." She stuffed the demon bone directly into his hand, pressed her fingertips on the back of his hand, and forced him to hold it tightly. "No matter what the situation is, I will stay with you."
"I'm not afraid, and you don't have to worry."
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Zhu Huan’s story tells everyone that men are unreliable. Don’t have any illusions about them. It is better to rely on yourself than on others.
I hope everyone can stay away from bad men, find happiness, and be the heroine of their own life! [花][红心]
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