Chapter 120 Yu Qingzhou, you disgust me.
"Alright, look at you, you've scared the child."
Just as Li Xiao was feeling shaken, the tall, thin man who was called the sect leader suddenly spoke up.
Only then did the short, fat man belatedly let go, his gaze towards Li Xiao still filled with a chilling reluctance that sent shivers down one's spine.
God knows, he wasn't this terrified even when he fought the fiercest beast in that area for the first time.
Once freed from his shackles, the boy almost immediately retreated and advanced, trying to get as far away as possible from that nauseating fatso.
He instinctively wanted to get closer to Yu Qingzhou.
But then he remembered that if it weren't for Yu Qingzhou, he wouldn't be in his current predicament, and that's when he stopped in his tracks.
"Who are you, and what do you want to do to me?!"
Hearing Li Xiao's blunt question, the two middle-aged men, one fat and one thin, exchanged a glance, both seemingly surprised.
It was Yu Qingzhou who spoke first: "One must not be rude in front of one's elders."
The young man's voice was calm and composed, exuding an air of serene clarity.
Hearing this, Li Xiao became even angrier.
—What a joke! Does he even know who they are?!
Thinking this, Li Xiao looked at Yu Qingzhou with a hint of provocation: "Master Yu, you've finally opened your mouth. Anyone who didn't know better would think you'd suddenly become mute."
"How dare you!" Yu Qingzhou scolded in a low voice.
A few days ago, Li Xiao would probably have been stunned by that shout.
Unfortunately, things are different now.
That intense sense of betrayal instantly turned the boy's eyes bloodshot.
He glared at Yu Qingzhou and said fiercely, "So what if you want to be presumptuous? If you have the guts, kill me right now! Kill me in front of your two elders. Wouldn't that be doing justice for Heaven? In your opinion, demons deserve to be killed."
"..."
"You've actually wanted to kill me for a long time, haven't you? If it weren't for today, I would have died at your hands more than three times over. It's truly pitiful for Master Yu to endure humiliation until today. Hahaha, isn't it ridiculous?"
As Li Xiao spoke, he couldn't help but chuckle softly.
He burst into laughter and bent over.
Yu Qingzhou had long expected that Li Xiao wouldn't accept it easily, but she didn't expect the other party's reaction to be so strong.
He looked at the seemingly deranged boy with a sense of helplessness, and a feeling of unprecedented bewilderment suddenly welled up in his heart.
Because the people around him are always more rational than emotional... His senior sister is like that, and so is he.
Although the junior brothers and sisters below were close to Yu Qingzhou, they all stayed within the bounds of propriety. Even though they always addressed him as "brother" and seemed like children on the surface, they were actually more adept at reading people than Yu Qingzhou.
Therefore, Yu Qingzhou did not understand.
Why did Li Xiao act so impulsively?
If I were in their shoes, and I were constantly at the mercy of others without fully understanding their capabilities, I would never act rashly.
Or has Li Xiao already confirmed his safety from the attitudes of the other two people present?
Li Xiao was furious, but Yu Qingzhou looked completely indifferent, as if she hadn't heard a word he said.
My face felt hot, and something wet trickled down my cheeks.
Li Xiao casually touched it, and his hand was covered in glaring bright red blood. At the same time, a sweet and fishy smell rushed into his nostrils.
He... was bleeding?
It's like that empty eye socket covered with gauze.
No wonder, after all, Yu Qingzhou, that guy who doesn't keep his word, didn't even change his dressing today...
That's really awful.
So, has the wound reopened?
The blood seems to be flowing more and more... it's almost like... like a fountain...
Li Xiao could even hear the dripping sound of blood falling at his feet.
Looking down, sure enough, the ground was stained red.
"Yu Qingzhou..."
Seeing the boy's bloodied face, Yu Qingzhou belatedly realized that she had missed her usual time for changing the dressing.
—Did he simply forget for a moment?
Or was it something you never really cared about before?
At this moment, Yu Qingzhou had no time to think further.
Before her brain could issue the command, her body reacted. By the time she came to her senses, Yu Qingzhou had already run over and caught the boy who was staggering forward.
His hands and clothes were also stained with that sticky, hot, bright red blood.
He heard the boy call his name, as if squeezed from the depths of his throat; the voice was soft, but carried a vicious undertone.
Yu Qingzhou lowered her head again before she could hear what the boy said next: "You really disgust me..."
When I looked up, the boy's face was already deathly pale and his eyes were closed. The mottled bloodstains on his face were shockingly red.
It was only when Uncle Chang rushed forward to check on her that Yu Qingzhou remembered that Li Xiao needed treatment at this moment.
So he let his senior uncle take the boy away from his arms.
But Li Xiao's fingers gripped Yu Qingzhou's clothes tightly, refusing to let go, like someone grabbing their killer before death, using all their strength, until the very end.
Master Chang was also taken aback when he saw this.
"this……"
Yu Qingzhou glanced at it, then decisively drew his sword, and with a whoosh, it flashed with a flash of light.
Li Xiao's arm, which had been raised due to the pulling, fell back to its side, but she still held onto the corner of the fabric in her hand.
Yu Qingzhou did not leave.
Instead, they remained in the empty hall.
It was extremely quiet all around. His eyes fell on one of the chairs, and he remembered that not long ago, a boy had sat there, waiting for him to return with a bored expression.
In less than half an incense stick's time, everything changed.
The boy could still hear Li Xiao's vicious words echoing in his ears. He mustered his last bit of consciousness to say those words: "Yu Qingzhou, you disgust me."
She probably hates herself to the core.
"So be it," Yu Qingzhou told herself. "Whether it's good or bad, it all ends here."
Whether we meet again or not, we'll each go our own way.
Of course, if possible, Yu Qingzhou felt it was best not to see them again.
Little did they know that this was just the beginning.
From the day Yu Qingzhou met the boy, or perhaps long, long ago, before he was even born into this world, some things were already destined to be irreconcilable.
Ultimately, no matter how nicely you describe fate, it's still a part of destiny.
He couldn't escape his destined fate, just as he had to accept it.
Later, Yu Qingzhou learned from the sect leader that Li Xiao had a restriction placed on his body.
It allows a young man to escape from the enemy's clutches when his life is in danger, thus turning defeat into victory and killing the enemy.
It was originally a life-or-death situation between you and me.
However, if the person involved can accept the other party's willing blood sacrifice, it is equivalent to accepting the other party's submission. In this one-way supply relationship, the sacrificer must be absolutely loyal to the sacrificed.
Otherwise, they will suffer severe backlash, or even be endangered by death.
"He drank your blood, didn't he?" The sect leader asked, but his tone was very certain.
Yu Qingzhou acquiesced, but he still didn't understand. If the so-called restriction were to be activated, wouldn't he be the one who would get into trouble?
Why is it that Li Xiao is the one who has a problem...?
"Because that child only has half demon blood, and you gouged out his eye, this caused the blood-based restriction to go awry."
"So that's how it is..." Yu Qingzhou couldn't help but murmur to himself.
"Therefore, your senior uncle and I have discussed it and decided that you will temporarily act as the child's guardian. Let him continue to live as a human being, not as a so-called demon," the sect leader said solemnly.
Yu Qingzhou paused for a moment, then almost instinctively blurted out, "But Li Xiao... he probably won't accept it—"
What he didn't say was that Li Xiao probably wouldn't accept someone who disgusted him constantly hanging around in front of him.
As if sensing what Yu Qingzhou was thinking, the sect leader gently waved his hand.
“You don’t need to worry about that,” he said.
Seeing that Yu Qingzhou still looked confused, the sect leader laughed: "You've always been a clear-headed person, so why are you confused again? With that restriction in place, even if he wanted to hate you, it would be impossible. Besides, whether you like someone or hate them isn't always so clear-cut."
It's impossible to hate someone even if you want to...
Each word in this sentence is clear and unambiguous, but when put together, they suddenly take on a slightly intriguing quality.
He recalled Li Xiao's recent obedience and clinginess, her violent reaction when she realized she might be being used, and her subsequent coma.
It turns out that everything was traceable.
It's the effect of that restriction...
Yu Qingzhou gradually became clearer.
He nodded and bowed to the sect leader as usual: "Disciple Yu Qingzhou will certainly follow the sect leader's instructions and do his best to guide Li Xiao onto the right path."
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