Li Wan Heng Jin
Heng Jin herself felt deeply disgusted and resentful of such despicable behavior and calculations.
They keep saying that demons are evil and must be killed, but in fact, they are more like evil demons if they agree to use marriage to destroy her.
At this moment, he couldn't even empathize with Heng Jin in his forgotten memory.
This self is too unfamiliar.
After calculating the past that he had forgotten, he continued to calculate the future that was about to happen.
Those who are highly skilled in the art of calculating the mysteries of heaven can usually calculate two certain future outcomes when they come to important decisions that affect life and death.
This time, Heng Jin saw two endings:
1. When the mission is accomplished, Li Wan must die. He has made the first contribution, and has a bright future and a respected position.
2. He and Li Wan died together.
This time, it’s not a dream.
You may dream of calculating destiny, but you will never see the outcome so clearly.
In both endings, Li Wan dies.
But you still have a choice about your own life...
While thinking for a long time, he had been standing on the wedding sedan chair which had already stopped, in a daze for so long that most of the guests looked over at him.
Heng Jin noticed from the corner of her eye that she was secretly pinching her knuckles with her hands folded neatly, and her long red nails had left a crescent-shaped red mark on her fair skin.
His carelessness unintentionally put her in an awkward situation.
In order to silence the gossips of the spectators, Heng Jin got off the bridal sedan first, and then personally helped her down from the sedan. Under the watchful eyes of many people, he slowly and gently adjusted the hem of her skirt, and then took her hand and walked side by side to the front of the wedding hall.
On the long Magpie Bridge, Heng Jin deliberately walked very slowly.
He sent a telepathic message to her, "Wanwan, we can't get married."
She stiffened for a moment, but soon regained her composure and continued to walk forward with dignity.
She replied through telepathic communication, "Why, you still can't stand the prejudiced discussions about the separation of immortals and demons? Heng Jin, where do you put me? I've endured everything. To become your wife, I was willing to sever my past in the demonic realm and marry you alone in this celestial realm where I'm considered an alien, enduring all the scorn and abuse. From now on, your tiny temple is the only place I can stay, and I haven't retreated. You didn't tell me on the way to the wedding, but now, right before the wedding, you tell me you can't marry me? What do you think of me?"
Heng Jin had intended to explain to her the moment she asked the first question in a tearful voice. However, when he heard her express her grievances, he suddenly realized something was wrong.
Although in the memories that he remembered clearly, he did not know Li Wan very well as someone he loved, but he knew when he first met her that Li Wan was definitely not a woman who would succumb to love and confine herself to a small world to take care of her husband and children. She had huge ambitions that she wanted to realize.
Heng Jin communicated with her through telepathy, saying, "I don't know how to explain all this to you in a few words, but the fact is, I married you out of a plan to kill you. Therefore, breaking off the engagement and leaving now is the best outcome."
"Break off the engagement? Do I still have room to break off the engagement? What is the Emperor planning now? Once I break off the engagement, will the Heaven have the perfect reason to declare war on my Demon Realm?" She said to him through telepathy.
With a "click", a water stain about the size of a fingernail appeared on the upper of her pointe shoe.
Heng Jin cast a spell to see her through the red veil.
The tears in her eyes flowed across her delicate and beautiful face, gathered at her chin, and dripped onto the surface of her shoes. Soon, several similar water stains appeared on the surface of her shoes.
He blocked out the outside sounds, and at this moment, the only sounds in his ears were the plop of her tears and the sound of her sobbing and sniffling.
Heng Jin's heart was in a knot.
I have almost walked halfway across the Magpie Bridge. If I go a little further, there will be no room for regrets.
Heng Jin once again communicated with her, saying, "Break away from the engagement. Continue to marry me, then return to the demon world as a widow and marry again. Both options will save your life, so choose one."
She was silent and just kept crying without any other reaction, which made Heng Jin as anxious as an ant on a frying pan.
"Hurry up and choose, Wanwan! It's too late! Choose one quickly! Both choices will save your life! Choose one quickly! Please, choose one..."
She didn't say another word until the wedding ceremony was over and the newlyweds entered the bridal chamber.
After all the necessary ceremonies were completed and the wedding wine was drunk, they were the only two left in the room, and she did not give him an answer.
She sat on the edge of the wedding bed and kept wiping her tears. Heng Jin lifted her veil, and seeing her red eyes and tear-stained face, Heng Jin immediately knelt at her feet.
He had no memory of their love, so he didn't even dare to make the intimate gesture of wiping her tears.
He tried his best to slow down and soften his tone, trying to make it sound gentle and patient. "Wanwan, this is the only choice left."
He took out a small and exquisite jade-carved fairy mountain ornament and placed it in her palm.
"Here are all the keys to the secret room. You've been to Qiwu Mountain. All the precious things I've accumulated in my life are there. These are the only things I can leave you. I'm sorry for putting you in such a difficult position by marrying me... I'm sorry, Wanwan."
She remained silent.
Heng Jin continued, "Perhaps this sounds absurd to you and you don't believe it, but I still need to explain it to you clearly. I have no memory of falling in love with you or plotting against you. After two nightmares of losing you, I woke up in my wedding attire, not even knowing who I was marrying. And then the Heavenly Monarch arrived, giving me this dagger with the corpse-dissolving poison, and asking me to take your life."
As she spoke, Heng Jin took out the dagger and placed it in the palm of her other hand.
"At that time, I still didn't know what had happened. It just felt like a dream, with many memories missing. That's why I kept confirming and testing your identity on the way to the wedding. I calculated the secrets of heaven and learned what happened in my forgotten past. Even I couldn't believe that I would be so despicable as to use marriage to calculate a woman. The fact has happened, and I can't deny my mistakes. I know that the damage I have caused you is irreparable. I don't expect your forgiveness, I just hope that you can live safely."
She was silent for a long time, and the grievance and sadness in her eyes slowly dissipated, gradually becoming indifferent and hateful.
She asked calmly, "So, when you agreed to be my friend, and then later expressed your feelings, clinging to me like a dog-skin plaster and buying my poison cake, you were already planning today's plan?"
"No, no!" He denied it excitedly, and quickly explained, "No, Wanwan. In the memories I have, I like you very much, I really like you, but it's just that I like you. You don't like me. You only want to marry Cha Suxun. Even though I can see that there's no possessive love in the look you give him, you still won't marry anyone but him."
"What do you mean by 'widow'? Are you planning to die as an atonement? There are only you and me in this bridal chamber. If you die, the biggest suspicion will fall on me. The Heaven Realm can still use this as an excuse to declare war on the Demon Realm. How can I believe that this is not another of your schemes?"
"I know from the words of the Heavenly Lord and the divine predictions that I signed a life-or-death agreement with my divine consciousness before this, and I will definitely kill you. They are well aware of my death, and you can use this to protect the Demon Realm and yourself. I will not kill your Wanwan, I won't."
Li Wan snorted sarcastically, "Then I should be thankful that you like me?"
"Wanwan, I don't mean that. Even if the bride tonight wasn't you, but a woman I didn't know, I would do everything in my power to help her escape. Even if she committed a grave offense, she shouldn't have been murdered by me to deceive her into marriage."
"When the memories of our love resurface in my mind, they feel as unfamiliar as those of other people. I inexplicably put on my wedding dress and married you. And when I heard you say we couldn't get married, I felt so aggrieved and sad that I couldn't control my tears. My situation is somewhat similar to yours. It's not that I didn't choose, but I was controlled and couldn't choose at all. It wasn't until just now that I broke free from this bondage."
This time, after listening to it, Heng Jin fell into a brief silence.
"What's the last memory you have?"
"I was chasing the insect-toad demon and ended up in a dark place. I saw a young man. He didn't say anything, just looked at me and smiled. Every time I approached or attacked him, he would distance himself from me again. Then, my mind gradually began to lose clarity and my consciousness gradually blurred. After I fainted, I opened my eyes and was trapped in some memories of the past, unable to escape. Then, I fell asleep in the memories, not knowing whether it was a dream or reality, and I was wearing a wedding dress. What about you? What was your last memory?"
"My last memory is of you disappearing while chasing the Insect and Toad Demon. I went to the place you were last seen, touched your lost hair ornament, and entered a dark place. The young man you saw in the darkness must be Xie Yuan, because it was after talking to him that I passed out and started having nightmares. When I woke up, I was wearing wedding clothes and married you. On the Magpie Bridge, when I heard you talk about the humiliation you suffered for marrying me, I suddenly realized something was wrong."
"Why is it because you realized something was wrong after hearing what I said?"
"Because, the Li Wan I know has enormous ambitions. You would never confine yourself to a small world for love, taking care of a husband and children, and relying on others for your life. You would never sever your ties with the Demon Realm and Heqi just because you like a man."
The coldness and hatred on Li Wan's face faded a little, her eyes became brighter, and her consciousness became clearer.
"Don't think you know me well."
"I didn't say such big words." He looked up at her and said sincerely: "But I want to know you better."
Li Wan avoided his gaze and said, "Let's think of a solution."
Heng Jin, on the other hand, felt relaxed and comfortable. She stood up and took off the heavy phoenix crown and pearl hairpin for her, and with a distressed look on her face, she cast a spell to wipe away the red marks on her forehead caused by the phoenix crown.
"Who chose this crown? Why didn't you cast a spell to reduce the weight? Does it hurt?"
"You still care about whether my forehead hurts? Shouldn't the most important thing right now be to discuss how to solve this problem? What if all this is true? What if, even if it's fake, you really die?"
Heng Jin pulled her to sit beside a table filled with dried fruit snacks, peeled the dried fruit for her and poured her tea.
"Don't worry, if you die, you die. Even if you are a god, you will die one day. If you can marry your loved one before you die, it can be considered a worthy death."
Seeing that he had returned to his previous slick and frivolous way of speaking, Li Wan knew that he had his own plans, so she felt relieved and leisurely peeled the dried fruits on the table.
Soon, small hills of dried fruit shells piled up on the table.
That night, Heng Jin made her bed and cleared away all the things that had been scattered on the couch.
He opened the window and reached out to feel the weather outside, then returned to the couch and spread out two quilts for her.
After tidying up everything, he said, "Go to bed, it's late."
"Sleep?" Li Wan's eyes widened in shock as she glanced at the red bed. Her mind was filled with all sorts of random thoughts. "How am I supposed to sleep like this?"
Heng Jin turned around to explain, but when he saw her eyes, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
He walked up to her in silence, ignoring her move to lean back and distance herself from him. He slowly reached out his hand, moved closer to her hair on her face, and pinned up a strand of her hair that had fallen down.
Seeing that she didn't curse, Heng Jin's heart was pounding. Risking being beaten to death by her, she "accidentally" touched her burning cheek when she withdrew her hand. At the same time, she stared at her eyes intently, observing the emotions in her eyes.
Kneeling down at her feet again, Heng Jin looked up at her and asked, "How else can we sleep? Or rather...however Wanwan is thinking about sleeping, that's fine. I'll listen to Wanwan."
Li Wan, seeing through his guess, was furious and said, "Of course I thought I'd sleep on the bed and you on the floor! What else could I have thought?"
He knelt straight, the distance between them quickly shortened, and his smile grew wider.
"Even though it's always so obvious that you're lying, I'm willing to pretend to believe you."
"Just talk, why are you so close? You, get up, you keep kneeling. I don't think we can just kneel and talk casually, right? I'm engaged, stay away from me."
Heng Jin clutched the sleeves of her wedding gown tightly in both hands, leaned in closer, and asked in a tone of feigned grievance, "We've worshipped heaven and earth, drunk the wedding wine, and lifted the veil. The ceremony is complete, and I'm officially your husband. So, the Demon Lord is just going to pretend nothing happened, disregard his responsibilities, and abandon me like a worn-out shoe?"
"You! You...you have no shame! How can you be considered my husband who was married to me? Besides, I'm a woman. No matter how you look at it, it's not the Emperor who's been hurt. I'm the one who should be held responsible, right?"
"Of course I am willing to take responsibility, but now, it seems that you, Demon Lord, are the one who is unwilling to take responsibility."
"This is all fake. Maybe Xie Yuan is behind this. How can we talk about whether we should take responsibility or not?"
"What Xie Yuan is up to is just speculation. What if we are actually experiencing reality right now?"
His shoulders slumped sadly, his brow furrowed in worry, and he looked extremely pitiful.
"I know I was born ugly. The Demon Lord always likes handsome men. It's only natural that he doesn't want me. It's just that I didn't give up and talked too much."
"Stand up and talk. You're not ugly, you're quite pretty. If this were real, since I agreed to marry you voluntarily, it's all my own fault. I will take responsibility for you. I won't abandon you, but only if we agreed to it voluntarily. However, you schemed against me, so I will never be sincere to you in this life!"
Heng Jin calculated the secrets in front of her, "It seems that the Demon Lord did agree voluntarily. What are his plans now?"
"Calculating the secrets of fate only proves that I did agree to it voluntarily in the past, but it doesn't mean that this is reality, not fiction."
"I also calculated the destiny on the wedding chariot and saw two possible outcomes. You might dream of calculating destiny, but you won't see the outcome so clearly. So, this is very likely not a dream."
"Two endings? What did you see?"
Heng Jin truthfully told Li Wan the two endings she had learned from calculating the secrets of heaven. After hearing this, Li Wan's relaxed smile disappeared from her face and she couldn't help but look worried.
He assumed she was worried that both of her outcomes would be fatal, so he comforted her, "Don't worry too much. Everything is in our hands. The will of heaven is constantly changing based on our current choices. This outcome is not predetermined by fate, and no one in the world has the ability to predict what fate has already determined. Believe me, Wanwan, I will do my best to change your dead end."
"I'm a little worried about myself, but I'm also worried about you as a friend."
"Wanwan, don't worry about me. It's my fault for harboring such harmful intentions in the past. I deserve to die. But now that death is imminent, seeing my cherished wish come true and receiving your concern, I'm a little reluctant to die."
Heng Jin used a joking tone to express her true thoughts.
"I don't understand. Just because you like someone, are you willing to give up everything and die alone for the one you love? You only need to kill me, and the life and death agreement you made with your spiritual consciousness will not be fulfilled. You can still enjoy countless wealth, power and status. If it were me, I would kill you without hesitation."
"Perhaps when Wanwan finally realizes what it means to love me, she'll understand why I'm acting this way today. Even without calculating your guilt or apology, I'm willing to sacrifice my life for you. To Wanwan, I'm nothing more than a friend. There are many things in your heart that are more important than me. You'd choose to kill me without hesitation. This is perfectly normal, and there's nothing wrong with that. Even if you deeply love me, you'd still choose to kill me without hesitation. This is also perfectly normal, and there's nothing wrong with that. My choice is my own, and has nothing to do with you. You don't have to feel the slightest bit of a burden about it. I hope that you, who have always devoted yourself to me, when the day truly comes when life and death comes, will prioritize yourself and choose life without hesitation."
Heng Jin didn't want her to overthink it and feel burdened, so she changed the subject and said, "Don't think about it anymore. It's late. Let's go to bed first. You sleep on the bed. I'll tidy up the couch next to you and we can sleep."
Just as he was about to stand up, the numbness in his legs from kneeling for so long made it too uncomfortable for him to stand up. When he fell back without being able to support himself, Li Wan quickly grabbed his collar.
There was no hug like described in the storybook. It was so rough that it seemed like the action that would only occur when questioning angrily.
Heng Jin stared at the collar of her clothes, which was tightly grasped by her hands, and was speechless and couldn't help laughing.
Let alone how long the pursuit is, right now, just making her open to love is still a long way to go.
"Aren't I tired of holding on? Get up!"
Heng Jin cast a spell to dispel the numbness in her legs, using the force to stand up. She asked, "When Cha Suxun was about to fall, did you grab his collar like this?"
"My A-Cha wouldn't be as stupid as you!"
"You haven't answered my question yet."
Li Wan stood up and walked around him, then sat back down beside the couch. "Don't you have a maid here to help you wash up?"
"Yes, you can summon me at will, but you have to answer my questions first. Otherwise, I don't mind pestering you with questions while they help you wash up."
"I've already answered you. Ah Cha is not as stupid as you!"
"Then let me ask this another way. If it was Cha Suxun who was about to fall, what would you have done to prevent him from falling?"
Li Wan knew he was being jealous again, so she deliberately angered him by exaggerating, "I'll hug him, very, very gently, and take advantage of him, taking the opportunity to fall into his arms and kiss him. After all, he's so handsome, how can I let him fall into my hands? I've already answered the Emperor. Is he satisfied? Can you please go away and stop bothering me?"
"I'm not satisfied, but I can listen to you and get out of here."
Heng Jin rolled aside and called the fairy servant, and asked Xiang Yao by the way. When she learned that there was no trace of him, Heng Jin went to Xiang Yao's room under the pretext of changing clothes while she was washing up.
After careful observation, he did not find anything unusual in his room. He tried to cast a spell to summon Xiang Yao again, but still to no avail.
Heng Jin became anxious and quickly sent his men to look for him.
When she returned to the bedroom, she was already lying down.
Outside the bed were the folded bedding and pillows she had reserved, and even the small table on the couch had been folded up on the chair beside it.
When Heng Jin tiptoed to the couch and took away the bedding and pillow, she realized that she was still awake.
"Did you prepare these?"
Heng Jin was afraid of disturbing her sleep, so he moved very quietly from the beginning. Therefore, when he spoke at this moment, he unconsciously lowered his voice.
Seeing him lower his voice, Li Wan also lowered her voice and said, "Who else could it be? Your immortal servants? If I dare to trouble them to take action, I'm afraid that tomorrow there will be rumors that I, a fierce woman, drove my husband to sleep on the couch on our wedding night."
Hearing the word "husband" coming out of her mouth, Heng Jin felt itchy and wanted to hear it again greedily. In fact, he really did so.
He pretended not to hear clearly and asked, "You spoke too softly. I didn't hear what you said clearly. Please say it again and I will listen carefully this time."
"I say! Who else could it be? Your immortal servants? If I dare to trouble them to take action, I'm afraid tomorrow there will be rumors that I, a fierce woman, kicked my husband off to sleep on the couch on our wedding night."
After repeating it once, Li Wan saw his filthy smile and instantly understood. Although she didn't know what his purpose was, he was clearly pretending not to hear.
She said angrily, "Are you kidding me? You clearly heard it!"
He immediately dropped his smirk, lowered his stance, and sincerely admitted his mistake: "I was wrong, Wanwan. I did it on purpose, but I didn't mean to play a trick on you."
"You're still saying no? If you're not kidding me, what is it?"
"It's a rare opportunity to hear you call me husband. I acted impulsively and offended Wanwan. I know I was wrong."
Li Wan rolled her eyes, turned around, and slept on her side with her back to him. "Go away, go away! Even if you're pretty, you deserve to be beaten to death for saying such frivolous things. If you do it again, we'll both perish together!"
"Yes, thank you, Lord Demon, for not holding a grudge against me and forgiving me. The heavenly realm is different from the demonic realm. It's always colder at night. Remember to cover yourself with a blanket and don't catch a cold."
"Then find another quilt for yourself. Go away. I'm too sleepy to open my eyes. I don't want to talk to you anymore."
When Heng Jin looked at her just a moment ago, her two big eyes were still rolling around, and she looked very energetic, not like someone who was sleepy at all. However, she understood what she meant, so she followed her wishes and said no more, and went back to the couch to sleep.
He couldn't fall asleep even though he closed his eyes all night.
Gods do not need sleep like other creatures, and what's more, their loved ones are lying in their own bedrooms.
Fenghuang's eyesight was naturally clearer at night. The wedding characters posted everywhere and the red silk hanging were reminding him of the fact that he was married. The scene of them getting married in the hall kept replaying in his mind, making it even more difficult for him to fall asleep.
She seemed to be tossing and turning on the couch, unable to fall asleep. The subtle sounds of her constant turning over fell into Heng Jin's ears, very clear.
Marrying her was Heng Jin's most extravagant wish.
Now that it has come true, he only hopes that all this is just an illusion and not real.
After an unknown number of hours, Heng Jin heard her suddenly sit up, quickly lie down, and sit up again. She repeated this several times before she lifted the quilt.
There was a rustling sound of rummaging. Heng Jin was a little curious about what she wanted to do, so she didn't make any sound. She closed her eyes and pretended to sleep, listening carefully to the movement coming from her end.
Until he heard the wardrobe door being opened and closed, and Li Wan's footsteps approaching him, Heng Jin, who was curled up on the couch, dared not move even more.
She cast a spell to spread out the entire quilt and float it in the air, slowly drifting above Heng Jin, then slowly descending and covering him.
Yuanli turned around and prepared to quietly return to the couch, but Hengjin suddenly grabbed her wrist, which frightened Li Wan, who was already feeling guilty, and made her tremble.
"Don't be afraid, it's me."
Li Wan tried to break free from his restraints, but she couldn't. "Let me go!"
"Calm down, I'm not going to eat you."
How could Heng Jin, who had been trying every possible way to seduce her, miss any sudden "good opportunity"? Naturally, he would not let her go back to the couch and pretend to sleep easily.
"Men and women shouldn't touch each other! Don't you, Your Majesty, even understand this? Is your chamber built of ice? I'm freezing! Put me back on the couch!"
Heng Jin cast a spell to wrap the quilt she had brought to cover him around her, and then used his spiritual power to wrap her up and float her in the air, and then moved her horizontally to the couch where he slept.
He got off the couch and sat on the empty chair beside it.
"Are you still cold? Not only do I know that physical intimacy between men and women is forbidden, but I also know that it's not wrong for a couple to be intimate."
"Who is your spouse?"
"How can we not be husband and wife if we've already sworn to heaven and earth? Besides, if we really want to argue, it was the Demon Lord who just said it himself. If you agreed to marry me voluntarily, then you're serious and responsible for me and won't abandon me. Do I need to calculate the secrets of heaven in front of you again to show you whether you agreed to marry me voluntarily? However, this will take a lot of time and might delay your sleep. However, I don't mind you sleeping on my bed. After all, we're husband and wife. We can't always sleep on separate beds, right?"
"You bastard, you scoundrel! What on earth do you want to do?"
"I also want to ask Wanwan what she wants to do by visiting me so late at night? Is she attracted by my beauty and wants to take advantage of me? Or... is there something else in mind?"
"Who wants to take advantage of you for your beauty? If I could summon the Ice Soul, I would have stabbed you full of holes! Your kindness is truly taken for granted! It's like a dog biting Lu Dongbin! If I had known earlier, I should have left you alone and let you die of cold in this bedroom. I could have returned to the Demon Realm earlier!"
"Madam, are you worried about whether I'm cold? Why? Do you care about me?"
Li Wan waved to him to step back, and took the opportunity to quickly roll down from the other side of the couch, ran back to the couch, and pulled the quilt over her head.
Heng Jin returned to the couch, covered herself with the quilt she had brought for him, and smiled with a smile that could not be closed from ear to ear.
He casually took out a wooden bear hidden in a secret compartment of a nearby drawer, put it to his mouth and blew on it, and the bear's stiff body became soft and flexible.
When the wooden bear was placed on the ground, it seemed to come alive and ran towards Li Wan.
The edge of the couch was too high for the wooden bear to climb up, so Heng Jin had to cast a spell to help the bear climb onto the couch.
Li Wan naturally noticed the movement. She lifted the quilt and saw a wooden bear kneeling beside her pillow.
"Wanwan, you're starting to care about me, right? Even if it's just a little bit."
The first voice that Wooden Bear spoke was Heng Jin's.
"As a friend, isn't it normal to worry about whether the other person will freeze to death?"
"But, in the past that I have forgotten, I plotted against you. Why do you still care whether I freeze to death? Shouldn't you... hate me?"
"Of course I should hate you, but I don't know why, but I firmly believe that the Heng Jin who plotted against me is not the you I know."
After answering Heng Jin's question seriously, Li Wan resumed her scolding tone: "Hey! Don't let your imagination run wild. I don't care about you. Stop being so self-indulgent!"
"One day, you will realize that you care about me. And one day, when I ask you again if you care about me, you will say that you care about me."
"Where does your confidence come from, Emperor? If that day ever comes, it must be when I'm about to die. Because, when a dying man is about to die, his words are kind. When that day comes, I'm willing to mercifully tell you a few lies to make you happy."
As soon as she finished speaking, Heng Jin said, "Pfft, ptfft, ptfft, what are you talking about? You will definitely live a long life. If I have to wait until you are dying to hear you say that you care about me, then I would rather never hear that sentence again."
Li Wan laughed and said, "Emperor, you are a god, how can you be like a mortal? Saying 'pooh, pooh, pooh' and constantly talking about death will not affect actual death. Even a great devil like me knows this, so why is Your Majesty still superstitious?"
"Yeah, even a big devil like you knows this, how can I still be superstitious?"
The night was long and the two of them chatted idly. Li Wan fell into a deep sleep due to drowsiness, and Heng Jin could hear her even breathing.
After a long time, he controlled the wooden bear again and whispered in her ear very softly, "I'm not superstitious, I just care too much about your life or death."
The next morning, when the first rays of morning light shone into the bedroom through the cracks in the window, Heng Jin stood up, quietly tidied up the couch and bedding, put the small table and the cushion back in their original places, left a letter for her under the wooden bear, and then teleported out of the bedroom and went to the palace of the Heavenly Lord.
Xiang Yao had disappeared for a day and a night, and no trace of him could be found. It could only be that he had become his weak point, being used to hold him hostage.
Before seeing the Heavenly Monarch in her nightmares and calculating what he had done in his forgotten past, Heng Jin would never have suspected She Xiang at this level.
Sure enough, the Heavenly Emperor had obviously anticipated his coming. When the immortal messenger saw him coming, he welcomed him into the palace without even announcing the arrival.
The Emperor, who was reviewing the memorial, lowered his head and didn't even look at him.
Heng Jin knelt down to pay homage and said bluntly: "Lord of Heaven, Xiang Yao..."
He had only said the two words "Xiang Yao" and before he could finish the rest of the question, the Lord of Heaven angrily threw the pen in his hand at him.
"Why hasn't news of Li Wan's death come yet?! In front of everyone, you personally helped her down from the wedding sedan chair, even grovelling to straighten her skirt. You and your wife are so in love! You even had to personally summon the immortal servants who served her with washing! Does she have no mouth or hands? Or do you really treat her as your lifelong wife? I'm telling you straight, Xiang Yao is in my hands. If she doesn't die, Xiang Yao will die with you."
Heng Jin kowtowed and begged, "This matter is my incompetence, and has nothing to do with Xiang Yao. Please, Heavenly Lord, please consider our long-standing father-son relationship and release Xiang Yao!"
"Father and son? I've never had any children, and you, an adopted son without even a name, dare to talk about father and son with me? Father and son, that requires the child to be obedient, submissive, and respectful, for there to be father and son affection. And you, you dare to disobey me, so don't blame me for not talking about father and son affection. I am the Emperor of Heaven, and you are a divine minister. My will is your will. Whoever I want to kill, you must kill. Don't forget that this divine sword in your hand was given to you by me, to remind you to be the sword in my hand. If you don't do what I want, you will be nothing but an abandoned child."
Heng Jin's faith began to collapse at this moment. He looked up at the Emperor on the high throne in disbelief, then knelt on the ground, as if all his energy had been drained away. He felt listless and lost, and smiled sadly at himself.
"When the Heavenly Lord bestowed upon me this divine sword, he said it was out of fear that I would be unable to protect myself while on the battlefield. I truly believed him. So, this is what he meant. I was just foolishly hoping."
He took out the magic sword and placed it horizontally in front of him.
"Our entire clan has become a sword in the hands of the Heavenly Sovereign. Just because we dissatisfy the Heavenly Sovereign's wishes this time, will the Heavenly Sovereign turn against us?"
"Are you planning to become an enemy of the Heaven Realm, abandoning our long-standing relationship, and abandoning me! Are you choosing to live forever with that devil? Don't forget, you signed a life and death agreement with your spiritual consciousness. If she doesn't die, you will die! And if you die, she won't be able to live either!"
"She won't die." Heng Jin said affirmatively.
"The Heavenly Lord should know better than anyone that if I die, as long as Li Wan and Xie Yuan join forces, there will be no general left in the Heaven Realm to contend with them. Unless the Heavenly Lord personally leads his troops to annihilate the Demon Realm, there might still be a chance. This method will hurt the enemy by a thousand and hurt yourself by eight hundred. If the Heavenly Lord truly wanted to see countless casualties and the day of devastation, he wouldn't have considered using marriage to murder her, would he?"
The Emperor of Heaven was furious, but he didn't touch him. He only said, "You can argue with me here, but until you hear the news of Li Wan's death, you will never see Xiang Yao alive again."
After saying this, the Lord of Heaven cast a spell to reveal Xiang Yao, who was in prison.
At this moment, Xiang Yao's true form has been revealed. Nine chains made of immortal ropes mixed with the divine power of the Heavenly Lord have bound his nine heads separately. The thickest one is tightly bound around his chest where his heart is, so tight that it has sunk into his flesh.
When he was young, he had seen the Heavenly Lord use this kind of chain to bind prisoners.
No one survived.
The Heavenly Lord once told him about the magical effect of these chains. The magic of these chains did not lie in the binding, but in the magic on them, which could devour the prisoner's intelligence bit by bit.
Once they lack intelligence, no matter whether they are immortals, gods, demons or monsters, even if they escape from a disaster, they will eventually become useless.
After retracting the magic of revelation and turning to leave, the Heavenly Lord squinted at him from the side and warned him coldly, "The deadline is tonight. You will have to do it yourself."
The Heavenly Lord did not give him a chance to say anything more and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.
Heng Jin left the hall in a daze and went straight to Qiwu Mountain. She locked herself in the room where her parents had lived, closed the doors and windows, and curled up on the carpet beside the couch.
Xiang Yao is the only family his parents left him. They have been with him through thick and thin over the years and always stand firmly behind him.
If you compare Xiang Yao with your sweetheart.
He would choose Xiang Yao without hesitation.
Everything that happened last night is still vivid in my mind, especially the face full of grievance and tears when I lifted the veil, and his solemn promises, which are all lingering in my mind and cannot be erased.
——I just hope you can live safely.
——I won’t kill your Wanwan, no.
——Believe me, Wanwan, I will do my best to change your dead end.
—Pah, pah, pah! What are you talking about? You will live forever.
…
But the next day, he once again became a liar who broke his promise and wanted her dead.
It wasn't that he hesitated in his choice, but he didn't know how to go back and face her, so he simply ran away for a short time like a coward.
Since he was young, in order to gain the favor of the Emperor of Heaven and become the good boy that the Emperor of Heaven expected, and in order not to disappoint the Emperor of Heaven, he tried his best to do everything that the Emperor of Heaven taught him.
He was not a god who ascended to heaven through his own merits or was enlightened by Bodhisattvas and Buddhas. His position as a god was built up through killing.
In the end, it is impossible to escape the despicable side brought about by the seven emotions and six desires.
He stayed in Qiwu Mountain for a long, long time, until the breathtakingly beautiful sunset rose in the sky, and then he returned to his temple.
The orange, red and golden interweaving create a sunset cloud that is always so special and beautiful, just like when all the tribesmen fell to their deaths, the sky was filled with phoenix feathers stained with blood, like a bloody rain on a sunny day, unforgettable at first sight.
When she returned to the temple, she had already set up a swing under the huge sacred peach tree outside his bedroom.
She couldn't wait to pull him to sit on the swing to try it out. The swing was big enough for two people to sit on.
Although the swing ropes on both sides are far apart and it is inconvenient to grab one side with both hands, he is a god and his friends are not ordinary people either. They do not need to rely on grabbing the swing ropes to sit firmly and avoid falling.
"Why did you suddenly think of setting up a swing?"
"Sit closer."
Heng Jin obediently moved closer, and Li Wan sat down, gently swinging her legs on the swing, and the swing began to swing.
"Remember when we were friends, you told me about the swing your parents made for you when you were little? You said you loved riding on it, and the feeling of the wind on your face. But every time you sat on it, you'd be reminded of the grief of losing your parents and wouldn't dare to. I made this swing for you with my own hands. From now on, when you sit on it, the first person you think of will be me, not your grief."
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