Chapter 72 Two soft yet icy lips suddenly pressed against mine…
Upon seeing that the person who came was Yu Qingzhou, Li Xiao, who was extremely excited just a moment ago, immediately lost his temper.
It took him a long time to manage to stammer out, "You...you mustn't misunderstand."
"What misunderstanding?" Yu Qingzhou looked quietly at the hesitant boy, seemingly puzzled.
"that is--"
Li Xiao wanted to say that he hadn't bullied Chang Li, but he felt that emphasizing it would seem like he was protesting too much. He then glanced behind Yu Qingzhou, but didn't see Shen Yingxue, before speaking again.
"Isn't Daoist Master spending time with your Senior Sister Yingxue? Why do you have time to bother with me?"
If Chang Li were still there, he would definitely pinch his nose and pretend to say, "Oh dear, what a strong sour smell! Whose vinegar jar has been overturned?" Then there would be a chaotic chase and fight.
But Yu Qingzhou clearly didn't have Chang Li's sense of smell. He neither sensed Li Xiao's bitterness nor heard the complaints in her words. Instead, he slightly raised his eyebrows.
"My senior sister has her own things to do. With her abilities, she doesn't need my company."
"..."
Li Xiao listened to Yu Qingzhou's methodical answer and couldn't help but feel speechless.
Almost everyone here could see the ambiguous relationship between Yu Qingzhou and Shen Yingxue, but the fact that it was only separated by a thin veil had not been exposed yet, and Yu Qingzhou's obliviousness was definitely a major contributing factor.
Li Xiao couldn't quite explain how she felt about Yu Qingzhou.
However, hearing Yu Qingzhou say that still brought a secret joy.
It was as if... as if the other party didn't care that much about Shen Yingxue.
"But shouldn't you be at this hour—"
Li Xiao was secretly pleased when he suddenly heard Yu Qingzhou bring up the topic to him, and he immediately felt something was wrong.
"Oh right! I suddenly remembered I have something important to do. Maybe we can talk about it later..."
Just as he was about to slip away, Yu Qingzhou suddenly grabbed his shoulder. She hadn't used much force, but he couldn't move.
After struggling to no avail, Li Xiao had no choice but to lower his shoulders and surrender.
"Not running anymore?"
"I'm not running anymore..."
"Then tell me, why are you here?" Yu Qingzhou released her hand, looked at Li Xiao indifferently, and asked calmly. There was not a trace of blame in her expression, but it made the latter feel immense pressure.
Li Xiao then turned his head away and said in a muffled voice, "It's just... I don't want to go to class anymore."
"Why?" Yu Qingzhou pressed.
"Why are there so many questions?"
Li Xiao kicked a non-existent pebble on the ground with some annoyance: "I just don't want to, I'm not willing. I'm not like you people, who spend all day seeking immortality or ascension to godhood. Anyway, whether I learn it or not, I have plenty of time to live. Why bother going to that damn school and wasting my time sitting among a bunch of short-sighted idiots?"
Did they bully you?
Yu Qingzhou's words abruptly silenced Li Xiao's complaints.
The latter paused for a moment, then suddenly raised his voice: "Tch, those nobodies dare to do that? If it were the old me, I would have taken them down in one go. It's just that... it's just that I'm too lazy to bother with them now."
But the further he spoke, the softer his voice became.
It's as if they're gradually losing their confidence.
Finally, under Yu Qingzhou's knowing gaze, Li Xiao lowered his head.
"...Can't I just not go? Or—"
Li Xiao paused for a moment, then looked at Yu Qingzhou with a hint of expectation in his eyes: "Master Yu, can you give me back my eyeballs?"
Ke Yuqingzhou simply shook his head.
“This is the sect leader’s intention,” he said. “Since you want to stay here, you must accept the corresponding guidance and corrections. This is also a necessary preparation for returning to human society.”
This wasn't the first time Li Xiao had heard this rhetoric, and he found it utterly tiresome.
What's even more annoying is the other party's businesslike attitude.
It's as if I'm some kind of garbage that needs to be sorted and disposed of.
"When did I ever say I wanted to return to human society? And—"
As Li Xiao spoke, he crossed his arms and slightly raised his chin to point out the fallacy in Yu Qingzhou's words: "Wasn't it Master Yu himself who brought me back back then?"
That's absolutely right.
It was Yu Qingzhou who forcibly brought him to this place against his will, but now it's as if Li Xiao himself begged to stay.
It makes absolutely no sense.
Upon hearing Li Xiao's accusation, Yu Qingzhou seemed to recall it seriously for a moment before slowly saying, "You're wrong. I remember very clearly that you were the one who chose to come back with me."
Hearing this, Li Xiao became even angrier and immediately pointed at Yu Qingzhou, saying, "Wasn't it because you made me choose between dying and coming back with you? Only a fool wouldn't choose that, right?"
Upon hearing this, Yu Qingzhou narrowed his eyes and smiled slightly: "Yes." He said these words with a gentle and refined expression, which was infuriating. "So I also think that you are not stupid, A-Xiao."
Upon hearing the young man's sudden address, Li Xiao, who had been so aggressive, immediately calmed down.
Only Yu Qingzhou would call him that here.
Like my deceased mother...
She murmured his name, Ah Xiao.
In the days before he came into this world.
Li Xiao thought that another reason he chose to leave with Yu Qingzhou was that she was the first person besides his deceased mother to call him by name.
At that time, Li Xiao lay on the ground, barely alive, the strong smell of blood filling his senses.
Ouch...
Their joints were cut off one by one...
His eyeballs were gouged out...
Unable to resist, they could only wait for their own death in a sorry state, just like the prey that had once fallen into their hands.
Li Xiao thought to himself, "This time I'm really going to die."
The feeling of blood rushing into his throat was disgusting. Li Xiao couldn't help but turn his head to the side, trying to make the death less painful. Just then, something fell off his body and landed on the blood-stained sand and gravel, making a soft, crisp click.
—Those are the keepsakes left by my mother.
Realizing that something was missing, Li Xiao, who had almost resigned himself to his fate, struggled to turn his head to an unbelievable angle and stare intently at the corner from which the sound had come, but unfortunately he still couldn't move an inch.
Just then, a spotless hand reached out and picked up the thing that had fallen to the ground.
It was a blood-stained jade pendant, of excellent quality, not the kind of exquisite object that would appear in such a desolate place.
He saw that his mother's belongings had fallen into the hands of the murderer who killed him.
Li Xiao was almost bursting with anger. His face was covered in blood, and he glared fiercely at the other person with his remaining eye, looking like he had died with his eyes open in despair.
"Give...give it to me..."
A hissing sound, like air leaking out, emanated from the broken throat.
The young man holding the sword glanced at the jade pendant, then at Li Xiao on the ground, and a look of indifference suddenly appeared on his face.
The former seemed to be looking at the boy's face for the first time, and suddenly leaned down to examine it closely.
As he got closer, Li Xiao realized that he wasn't the only one who had been injured in the fight.
Because he could clearly smell the scent of another person's blood, hidden beneath his own intense bloody stench.
Although it was only a little, it stimulated his senses exceptionally strongly, and even his brain, which was dazed from blood loss and pain, became a little clearer.
Before Li Xiao could figure out what was going on, the young man in front of him suddenly asked, "Li Xiao, is that your name?"
Li Xiao opened his mouth, but this time he was unable to utter a clear sound.
As his vision began to rotate, he heard the young man's calm voice again.
"You can either die like this, or obediently come back with me. Choose one."
"..."
As if sensing that Li Xiao was no longer able to answer, the young man added, "If it's the former, blink once; if it's the latter, blink twice."
Finally, with her last bit of strength, Li Xiao blinked twice before falling into a coma and losing consciousness.
In the dim darkness, he vaguely felt himself being carried on someone's back.
A strong, powerful back, and a faint fragrance lingering at the nose, seeping out little by little through the warm skin.
Li Xiaoming knew that the person carrying him was the same human who had almost killed him, yet he still couldn't help but feel a strange sense of comfort.
Perhaps it's because this is the first time since birth that someone has treated me with such intimacy.
Twice, Li Xiao groggily opened his eyes and saw a section of the back of the young man's neck peeking out from under his tied-up black hair.
With one of the most vulnerable parts of a human being so exposed to him without any cover, it was impossible not to want to take a bite out of him.
However, in the end, Li Xiao held back.
Firstly, reason told him that since the other party dared to do this, they must have other tricks up their sleeve.
Secondly, Li Xiao was actually somewhat reluctant to let the other party go.
I wish I could just keep walking like this forever...
Li Xiao then closed his eyes again in a daze.
He had lost too much blood and was freezing cold. As his consciousness blurred, he instinctively began to nudge the opening of the young man's shirt with his head, making the once neat collar a little messy.
The young man didn't pay attention.
To Yu Qingzhou, the boy on his back was more like a moving pendant than a human being.
—It's not his fault.
Yu Qingzhou had seen the other party's ghostly form before, and even setting that aside, the boy, covered in blood and grime as if he had just been dug out of a garbage dump, could not evoke the slightest pity in his heart.
Suddenly, two soft, cold lips pressed against hers, brushing against the area below her neck that should have been covered by clothing. This unexpected sensation sent a chill through her, a little itchy, a little... strangely tingling, like being stung by a poisonous insect.
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