Above the East China Sea, the waves surged; below the East China Sea, desolation reigned.
"If there is a next life... I will definitely, definitely not choose to meet you again." A smile appeared on the girl's pale face. She was already extremely beautiful, and this weak smile could easily touch people's hearts. The churning waves and the collapsed palace around her seemed insignificant at this moment.
The man in black held the girl in his arms, his cold expression unchanged, only a flicker of dark light in his eyes, but the speed of the movement was so fleeting that it seemed like an illusion. He gently wiped away the bloodstains from the corner of her eye and said with a puzzled look, "You could have come with me."
That way she won't have to die.
"And then? You expect me to see my family and people all dead in this shipwreck?" she murmured softly in a languid tone. "I remember... I remember the day we first met, we were collecting seashells together... no, you were watching me collect them... At that time, I thought, why does this man have to act so superior? It makes me feel like I'm just a naive child..."
He said, "You are indeed still a child."
Compared to his lifespan of thousands of years, she was just a little girl who was only a few hundred years old.
"That's why I often say you're boring..." she laughed, coughing up another mouthful of blood, but she didn't even have the strength to lift her hand to wipe it away. She asked casually, "I must look really ugly right now..."
"No, you are the most beautiful woman in the God Realm, even the women of the Demon Realm cannot compare to you."
This should have been a love confession, but when he said it in such a serious tone, you couldn't feel a trace of affection; all you could feel was that he was just stating a boring fact.
So she was unwilling to accept it, unwilling to accept that even though she had fallen in love, he still treated her with such indifference. She asked one last time, "Junyu, have you ever loved me?"
like?
What exactly constitutes love?
Junyu didn't understand. "I don't know."
"Then...why did you say you wanted to take me back to the Demon Realm?"
"I just don't want you to die."
She managed a weak laugh, as bright as her usual smile. "You're still so honest... Junyu, you often say I'm a child who never grows up, but actually... you're the child."
He said stubbornly, which was uncharacteristically true of him, "I will take you back to the Demon Realm."
"No... I will not go to the Demon Realm. I am a person of the God Realm, a descendant of the Dragon Clan. I will never... I will never agree to you turning me into a demon."
"This is the only way to save you." Her spiritual energy has dissipated, and she will soon die from weakness. But with the replenishment of demonic energy, things will be different, even though this method also foreshadows that she will transform from a goddess into a demon.
“Junyu…why are you forcing yourself?” she said slowly. “No one knows you better than me. You’re someone who doesn’t understand emotions, so…even if I died, you wouldn’t feel sad…you don’t need to force yourself…to show that you’re worried about me…”
He moved his lips, but she interrupted him first, "I still... I still prefer you to say to me coldly... 'Don't be silly...' Every time you say that, I can't help but want to be silly even more, like right now... I'm killing myself..."
A tear rolled down her cheek, and he wiped it away with his fingers. "You said you didn't like to cry."
"This is... the last time I'll cry in front of you, Junyu..." Her voice trailed off, "You hurt me so deeply... If there really is an afterlife, I still want to see you one last time. I want... I want to stab you in the heart... so you can taste the pain too..."
She finally closed her eyes and remained silent for a long time.
After a long, long time, the man in black, who seemed to have become a statue, said, "In the next life? I will... wait for you."
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