Hua Xiangwan was speechless.

She listened to his words, felt him kissing her tenderly and deeply, and couldn't help but clench her hands behind her back into fists.

She looked at the gods in the sky and dared not speak.

The Jade Sea Pearl swayed around her neck, reminding her not to sink, but she couldn't stop herself from enjoying the pleasure that the man before her brought her.

Xie Changji pulled the Bi Hai Zhu away, but Hua Xiangwan held it tightly.

The two of them were in a stalemate, and Xie Changji looked up at her.

After a long time, Xie Changji loosened his hand, but turned her over and refused to look at her.

She didn't know how much time had passed.

She was somewhat confused about time and place.

She only vaguely heard Lingbei informing her that everything had been taken care of.

She should leave, but she couldn't. She was entangled by him. Then she suddenly realized——

He is the evil demon who deceives people's minds in this world. He is disguised as the Son of God, but he is eating away people's hearts step by step.

"Thank you, Changji."

She had no choice but to look back at him. The man in front of her lowered his eyes, and Hua Xiangwan's eyes were slightly red. He urged in a hoarse voice: "Hurry up."

Xie Changji's hand around her waist suddenly tightened, and he lowered his head to kiss her.

Light and shadow intertwined, candles wept, they were like gods in the underworld, intertwined and entangled.

At the last moment, both of them were sweating profusely. Hua Xiangwan sat on the altar with her forehead touching his, panting and reminding him: "It's almost dawn."

"I'll take care of it."

Xie Changji panted and spoke, raised his hand to take out a coat from his Qiankun bag and put it on Hua Xiangwan, and said, "Wait a moment."

As he said that, he turned around and raised his hand to swing out a sword. The flying sword swept across the entire underground palace. The ground of the underground palace exploded instantly. Then the long sword hit the statue in the underground palace, and the statue shattered into pieces.

Hua Xiangwan looked up and saw statues collapsing one after another.

Xie Changji walked back to her, picked her up, and covered her with a coat before saying, "Let's go."

The ground was covered with rubble and the air was filled with dust. Hua Xiangwan leaned on his chest, feeling the space around them distorted, and closed her eyes tiredly.

After a while, Hua Xiangwan felt the surroundings light up. She smelled the morning breeze and heard Ling Bei say, "Young Master..."

Then the sound of kneeling was heard.

She opened her eyes in confusion and saw Ling Bei leading his men to kneel on the ground, not daring to raise their heads.

Xie Changji held her in his arms and walked calmly through the crowd. Hua Xiangwan then remembered her outfit. Although she thought she was very thick-skinned, she felt embarrassed at this moment.

She didn't dare look at Ling Bei, and buried her face in Xie Changji's arms, pretending to be asleep. Xie Changji carried her directly into the house and turned around to order: "Fight..."

Hua Xiangwan listened to his words, quickly stood up, and raised her hand to cover his mouth.

Xie Changji looked at her. After a moment, he understood what she meant. He pulled down her hand and said, "I'll get you some water."

After hearing this, Hua Xiangwan felt relieved. Although she still felt a little embarrassed, it was much better. She nodded awkwardly and replied, "Yeah."

Xie Changji got up and went to the purification room. Hua Xiangwan breathed a sigh of relief. She looked at the jade token of voice transmission in her hand which had been lit all the time. She raised her hand and made a wave. All the messy messages started to ring.

She first listened to Ling Bei's report. Ling Bei explained in detail the handling of the Wulong Sect. It was all according to their previous discussion. The souls of all disciples were imprisoned and the bodies were dissolved with corpse-dissolving water. At the same time, all traces of the attack in Hehuan Palace were cleaned up, but the traces of Wen Rong's previous attack were deliberately left.

Then came the news about Qin Yunshang. She sent Cheng Wangxiu back to Hehuan Palace and left immediately. She couldn't stay in Hehuan Palace for too long.

Then came the news about Hu Mian. She healed her wounds and went to bed first, and asked about Hua Xiangwan's condition.

finally……

It’s Xue Zidan.

"Ah Wan, Xie Changji recognized me as Yun Qingxu. He is now going to Wulong Sect to look for you. I'm running away first. You take care of yourself."

After hearing this, Hua Xiangwan's face looked a little unhappy. She got angry for no reason and didn't know whether to blame Xue Zidan or someone else.

She suppressed her emotions and quickly replied to everyone's messages. Finally, she heard Xie Changji coming out of the bathroom. Hua Xiangwan knew that he had prepared the water. Just as she was about to get up, she saw Xie Changji walk to the bed. Without saying a word, he just picked her up.

Hua Xiangwan froze for a moment, then quickly said, "I can walk by myself!"

"You're not feeling well."

Xie Changji affirmatively spoke up and carried her to the clean room.

She was only wearing one of his coats, and after he pulled it off easily, she was completely naked. At this time, the emerald pearl on her neck was particularly eye-catching.

Xie Changji's eyes fell on the Jade Sea Pearl, and he paused for a moment before he said, "Bathe, take it."

“No need.”

Hua Xiangwan waved her hand, stood up and stepped into the bathtub.

Xie Changji stood by and after thinking for a while, he also took off his clothes and stepped into the bathtub.

Hua Xiangwan was stunned for a moment, then looked at Xie Changji, who seemed to have no emotions at all, and said calmly, "I'll help you."

Hua Xiangwan was speechless. She looked at the handsome and ascetic face of the man in front of her, thinking about what happened in the evening - especially what she saw in her memory. She felt that she could not connect these things with the person in front of her at all.

She had many questions to ask, but she didn't know where to start. She sat in the bathtub while Xie Changji washed everything for her. She pursed her lips in thought, and finally spoke: "When did you start to doubt me?"

"In Yunlai, you ran away from your marriage, and when you came back I sensed the presence of the evil spirit."

"It was the person who captured 'Shen Xiuwen' who hurt me."

“So I had no doubts at the time.”

As Xie Changji spoke, Hua Xiangwan lowered her eyes and looked at the waves in front of her. Through the clear water, she could clearly see his movements.

"What caught your attention?"

"In the scroll fantasy, you met Qin Yunshang." Xie Changji reminded her, "After that, you inherited your mother's spiritual power. Thinking about what I saw in Xie Wushuang's body, I have a guess."

“But you didn’t show it.”

"That's just a guess." Xie Changji took the soap from the side and rubbed it on her body. "Besides, whether it's on you or not, what I'm going to do is the same, so I don't care."

"Then why did you come to Wu Gu Sect?"

Hua Xiangwan didn't quite understand: "Since you don't care, why did you have to come to the Wugu Sect to cause this?"

Hearing this, Xie Changji remained silent. He used the soap to scrub her body with more force. Hua Xiangwan could not help but urge him, "Speak."

"You want to drive me away."

Xie Changji suddenly spoke, and Hua Xiangwan was stunned. She didn't expect that her intentions were so clear, and the other party seemed to know everything. She said calmly: "You exclude me from everything. You asked Xue Zidan for help but didn't ask me. You even wanted to chase me away. The most important thing is-"

Xie Changji raised his eyes to look at her: "I have told you again and again that you should be safe and sound, but you still won't listen."

"I... where am I..."

Hua Xiangwan felt a little guilty, but Xie Changji calmly exposed her: "You arranged the assassination just to let people know that you couldn't have gone to the Wugu Sect last night."

The evidence was solid, and Hua Xiangwan dared not say a word.

Xie Changji continued, "You were injured, so you went to the Wulong Sect alone, and you even gave me medicine to exclude me. You scared me."

"Afraid... Afraid of what?"

Hua Xiangwan stuttered a little. Xie Changji looked at her and said in a slightly solemn tone: "I'm worried that something might happen to you."

Although she had planned everything carefully, he couldn't afford to take the risk.

Hua Xiangwan listened to his words and looked at the person in front of her, feeling a little confused.

If he had said these things when they first met, she would definitely think he had other intentions. But now that they have been together for a long time, even though he said these words that she thought Xie Changji would never say in his life, she had the illusion that "it should be like this."

After all, in the fantasy world of the painting, the seventeen-year-old Xie Changji and the Xie Changji who later accompanied her for half a year seemed to be not much different from the person in front of her.

"Then..." She hesitated, "You don't want to practice the Sword of Conscience anymore?"

"Um."

"Then you..." Hua Xiangwan said worriedly, "What should we do in the future?"

"I will stay by your side to ensure that the evil spirit does not come out of the world and resume my cultivation."

Hua Xiangwan didn't say anything. She looked up at the young man in front of her who was doing these chores seriously.

"Xie Changji," she didn't understand, "Is this really your choice?"

"You've seen my two hundred years," Xie Changji scooped up water and poured it over her body, "If you were me, would you have any other choice?"

"What if," Hua Xiangwan pursed her lips and lowered her head, looking a little embarrassed, "I will never like you again in my life?"

Xie Changji paused.

His eyes involuntarily fell on the blue sea pearl on Hua Xiangwan's neck. He wanted to ask something, but his intuition did not allow him to open his mouth.

Wen Shaoqing's words were engraved in his mind: a living person can never compare to a dead person.

It was like a curse, engraved in his world.

Shen Yichen was dead, so even his calculations seemed particularly despicable.

He lowered his eyes and said softly, "There's nothing I can do."

"One of the reasons why I became the Demon Lord was to revive Yi Chen."

She spoke truthfully, and Xie Changji poured water on her hair and pretended to be calm: "Yes, I know."

"You still want to stay like this?"

Hua Xiangwan stared at him. Xie Changji paused for a long time. He raised his eyes and said, "It's not my turn to choose."

If he had a choice, he would not have suffered for two hundred years, would not have changed his mind, and would not have left the realm of life and death.

But he met this person and he had no choice.

Hua Xiangwan looked at the person in front of her. She had been looking up at him for a long time. She was used to him standing on a high place and looking down at the world. But now he was right in front of her, like an ordinary person. She actually felt that it was a little unreal.

She felt inexplicably uncomfortable, as if her heart was being cut by a knife.

"You shouldn't like me."

She spoke in a hoarse voice.

If he didn't like her, he might have ascended to heaven long ago and left this messy little world long ago.

Listening to her words, Xie Changji remained silent. He looked into her eyes. After a while, he reached out his hand and gently pulled her into his arms.

She leaned against him and heard him whisper, "No, I should have liked you earlier."

"I think liking you is the most meaningful thing in my life."

"You marrying me," Xie Changji said with a smile, "is a gift from God."

"I appreciate it."

Hua Xiangwan said nothing. The two of them hugged each other quietly. After a long time, Xie Changji asked her, "Can you let me stay? You don't need to rely on the power of the ghost spirit. I can help you with anything you want."

"What if I want to go to hell?"

Hua Xiangwan leaned on his shoulder and looked at the shelf not far away.

Xie Changji listened to her inexplicable words, but he didn't think there was anything wrong with them. He just followed her words and replied, "I'll accompany you."

Together we fell into hell, together we squandered the world.

Hua Xiangwan listened to his words and closed her eyes.

After a long time, she finally said, "Okay."