Chapter 137 Chapter 137 "Are you cruel enough today...
Lan Qi was not angry even when he was beaten.
He simply asked, "Why, is it shameless to be in love with you? Then, the Changye Academy back then must have been filled with shameless people."
Due to the force, Jiu Zhao's palms were filled with a swollen, numb and hot feeling.
Her breathing gradually became heavier with each breath, and she no longer had the noble and calm demeanor of a goddess at the banquet.
"Don't talk about other things."
She exposed Lan Qi's pretense of ignorance and said coldly, "You know very well that's not what I'm referring to."
"What is that? Your Highness, please explain clearly. I am all ears."
Lan Qi was still smiling, as if he couldn't feel the pain of his body or Jiu Zhao's anger.
Against the backdrop of the increasingly obvious redness and swelling on his cheeks, the smile at the corners of his lips rose to a level that was particularly glaring.
Jiu Zhao looked away.
Afraid that he would lose his composure, he deliberately took a step back: "What did you dream about last night? Have you forgotten it?"
"My dream—"
Lan Qi dragged out the last syllable and looked as if he was looking back.
After a moment, he asked again, bewildered, "What's wrong with my dream? Even immortals and demons can't control their dreams, and Your Highness even cares about this?"
"What you dreamed about naturally has nothing to do with me! But when my spiritual consciousness withdrew, your dream pulled me in!"
Jiu Zhao glared at him, "You did this on purpose, didn't you?"
After hearing all her questions, Lan Qi finally revealed a look of sudden enlightenment: "Huh? When I was dreaming last night, were you controlling your spiritual consciousness to exit my mind? I had no idea you were being sucked in—but after all, it's not something I can control. The demons live in the Burning Sea, where resentment accumulates year-round, making them very susceptible to attracting obsessive demons. Perhaps your spiritual consciousness was mixed with distracting thoughts, which is why it was sucked in by the dream."
It's all bullshit!
Lan Qi's letter was full of nonsense, and before he even finished speaking, Jiu Zhao was forced to curse again.
But he was right about one thing.
These days, her mind is always thinking about things related to him.
Sometimes, I think about how much I and Father and Mother God owe him.
Sometimes, she would think of the past years that she and he had spent together.
Walk through the flowers and leaves and enter the peach forest.
With the ring on his hand silently guiding him, he was leading Lan Qi into a dead end that he had planned for a long time.
Thinking of this, Jiu Zhao's still embarrassed and angry mood suddenly fell.
She stared at Lan Qi for a moment without saying a word, then walked straight ahead.
"Hey, why are you leaving——"
The sound of boots rustling across the grass was heard, and the young man followed her without any hesitation.
Lan Qi put his hands behind his back slowly.
In contrast to Jiu Zhao, who tensed up and walked forward with his head held high, he lifted his long legs, his crown and robes fluttering, his posture as if he were strolling leisurely in the garden. There was a hint of strange and lingering sweetness in his tone: "Zhao Zhao, although you called me shameless, I am still very happy that you can feel my true feelings through dreams."
Shocked for a moment by his shameless and frank ideas, Jiu Zhao almost missed a step.
"How can you say this with such confidence? I'm going to marry Zhu Yan soon after the Spring Festival Banquet. Don't you know that?"
Lan Qi half raised his head and looked at the sky: "So what? I said before, I can't control my own dreams, and neither can you. Can the unexpected things that happen in the dream be attributed to betrayal and infidelity? Zhu Yan, who is about to become the crown prince and the prince's husband, is so petty?
"Besides your father, which of the Three Pure Ones God Emperors didn't marry into other tribes? He should understand that he can't force monopoly."
Is it an accident in a dream?
Jiu Zhao is clear.
Lan Qi certainly knew it better.
She was fed up with his pretending to be ignorant, so she just pursed her lips and walked towards her destination with all her heart.
However, Lan Qi seemed to be moved by himself as he spoke, his eyes flickering slightly: "In fact, I have thought about it carefully these few days. It is indeed my fault for asking you, a great goddess, to marry me. I have been trained according to the standards of your future husband since I was a child. I have a magnanimous heart and don't mind that you have someone else.
"How about we try a different approach? You can marry Zhu Yan normally, and just tell him about my existence. Then, you can stay at Burning Sea for a short time every year."
Such an absurd idea, expressed by Lan Qi in a serious tone, made Jiu Zhao feel as if he was still dreaming.
She couldn't help but turn her head to look at him. She saw that his face didn't show any displeasure at all, but was completely immersed in his "first wife's heart." "What do you think? It's okay to give him the title of first wife. I just ask that you keep me in your heart. As long as you agree, I will still offer the other half of the Phoenix Blood."
"What do you take feelings for?"
Jiu Zhao clenched his fists again in anger.
"Love is patience, love is compromise, love is letting you live happily without having to be in a dilemma. Isn't that right?" Lan Qi stopped looking at the sky and tilted his head to look back at her, his eyes calm. "If you only do it to satisfy your possessive desire and only care about your own happiness, then that is disrespecting your lover and feelings, isn't it?"
After becoming the Lord of Industry, Lan Qi not only became much more powerful, but also more eloquent than before.
His twisted logic left Jiu Zhao speechless. He quickened his pace and walked a few steps before saying, "No matter how much you talk, I told you long ago that when you betrayed me and chose Sanqingtian, there was no possibility between us anymore."
"The immortals and demons were enemies in the past, but now they are reconciled. Why is it no longer possible?"
As Lan Qi continued to question him, Jiu Zhao suddenly saw another figure that disappeared in the blazing Yuanchu fire.
In her youthful years when she knew nothing about worries, the name Lan Qi carried all her girlish thoughts.
If he had confessed his love to her and released his tenderness at that time, Jiu Zhao was afraid that she would have given up everything and followed him without hesitation.
But there are too many people and things standing between them.
Having witnessed Wu Zhu's willingness to die, how could she not know that Lan Qi's tentative words were a mixture of truth and pretense.
The young man's voice in her ears was still trying to weave a beautiful dream of love to trap her.
Jiu Zhao suddenly put away all his resistance and stubbornness, and calmly asked, "The book says that when a demon truly loves someone, all spells that can cause harm will be completely ineffective against that person. Although nightmare magic is mostly used for control, it can still harm people. If you truly love me, how can it still be effective?"
In the distance where the peach forest meets the banquet hall, heavenly music can be heard in the distance, endlessly, creating a peaceful and tranquil atmosphere of peace and happiness.
The divine emperor's array was treacherous and intricate, not only disorienting the forest dwellers and isolating them from the outside world, but also creating a layer of illusory sound and visuals, seemingly both real and fake, to numb their vigilance. With the peach grove dotted with flowers acting as a miasma, no one knew the murderous intent was about to descend.
The token ring continued to work, and a connection in the sea of consciousness reminded Jiu Zhao that the core of the formation used to ambush Lan Qi was about to arrive.
According to the instructions of the God Emperor, Jiu Zhao only needs to lure Lan Qi into touching the peach tree standing at the core in the name of picking peaches.
Even if he doubted her intentions in the end and tried to use magic to push him over.
Only the last step remains. There are always many ways to do it. The most difficult part of leading him accurately here has been completed.
Jiu Zhao, however, did not move his feet for a long time and walked the last ten feet of the distance.
She waited for Lan Qi's answer.
Hearing the moment of silence, he calmly responded, "Only by giving your whole heart, willing to sacrifice your life for it, will the spell be completely ineffective. Zhao Zhao, I always leave room for maneuver, and my love for you is not in conflict with it. Love that loses its rationality and self-awareness will only make people fear, retreat, and escape—"
"How could you know if Immortal Zhu Yan gave his all to love you?"
The last sentence should be a question.
Lan Qi said it with certainty.
It was as if he had always been a cold observer and could see clearly the feelings between Jiu Zhao and Zhu Yan.
A trace of discomfort flashed through Jiu Zhao's heart.
However, she quickly convinced herself.
"Whether it happened or not is a matter between the two of us, and it's not your turn to question it.
"All I know is that I've always hated people who deceive and exploit me. Zhu Yan has always been honest with me, which makes him much better than you."
"Yeah?"
Lan Qi smiled slightly.
Jiu Zhao read a hint of subtle sarcasm in his flickering eyes, "Shen Ji is right, I am meddling in other people's business."
He stopped talking.
His eyes moved left and right, as if he suddenly became interested in the surrounding scenery.
Soon, without Jiu Zhao's guidance, he walked towards the peach tree where the magic circle was buried.
Jiu Zhao's heart was tense to the extreme when he reached out and held a leaf that slowly fell from the branch.
Slowly closing her five fingers, she grasped the fallen leaf in her palm. Lan Qi turned around, his back completely facing her. His figure was tall and graceful, like a green bamboo. "Last night was the first time you saw the dream of my marriage to you in the bridal chamber. But before you saw it, I had it over and over again countless times.
"If I hadn't discovered the year before you were born that I was the vessel prepared by the God Emperor and God Queen for you to fuse with the Phoenix's true blood, perhaps we would have loved each other as in my dreams, growing old together. You wouldn't have had to experience the ups and downs of love, and you wouldn't have to end up like this with me.
"Zhao Zhao, do you know?
"On countless nights when you slept soundly beside me, I kept wondering, 'Have they ever told you the truth about how they used me?' Is it because you know I'll be abandoned sooner or later that you keep bullying and teasing me? I'd think, if only I could kill you.
"Later, you happily came to me with the marriage decree issued by the Divine Emperor, hugged me, and told me that you wanted to be with me forever.
"I finally understood that those outrageous behaviors were proof that you didn't understand love but wanted to express it.
“After understanding your love, I would think again, I might as well kill you.
"Then I'll kill myself.
"This will be considered revenge on the God Emperor and God Queen, and we can be together forever in the underworld."
…
“But I’m still too soft-hearted.
"In the end, it just made you spit out a mouthful of blood.
"A thousand years have passed, and you still let me go, and got into so many emotional entanglements with others."
Lan Qi's soliloquy towards the peach tree stopped here and he paused for a moment.
He spread out his hands, and the fragile leaves had been crushed into pieces by his knuckles, leaving only a sticky green juice.
When the other party looked back and turned around again, Jiu Zhao realized that Lan Qi had something more to say.
Perhaps something bloody will break this charming and soothing scenery, and the air lingering between the two people has become stagnant without them noticing.
There was something indescribable that made his pulse beat faster.
She unconsciously held her breath.
But Lan Qi smiled and asked: "What about you——
"Zhao Zhao, are you cruel enough today to use this thousand-hectare peach forest as my burial place?"
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