I'm bound to the World-Destroying Witch

Chapter 304. I'm sorry, Master.
An 8-year-old boy followed a 12-year-old girl to a place called Liuzhuang.

To Xia Feng's surprise.

This Willow Manor is not some aristocratic estate.

Or rather, it was just a facade of an aristocratic estate, but in reality, it was taking in nearly 10,000 orphans in an underground base!

According to Gong Changyi, the owner of Liuzhuang is named Liu Zheng'en, and everyone calls him Doctor Liu.

Unfortunately, this place was not the "home" that Xia Feng had imagined, and the atmosphere was very oppressive.

It's even more oppressive than a slum.

This place is full of children under the age of eighteen. They are dressed very cleanly and eat a lot of food, but everyone has a frown and a tense expression every day, as if something is driving them forward.

Although the atmosphere was strange, thankfully Sister Yi was there.

According to the rules of the manor, all the children were divided into two categories—masters and servants.

When a child whose identity is "Master" turns 12, under the guidance of Dr. Liu, they will leave the manor to find their "Servant" and bring them back to the manor.

The master and servant need to be paired up, eat and sleep together, and be inseparable for at least 4 years.

According to the "Manor Handbook," this process is called cultivating tacit understanding and ways of thinking, ultimately achieving "dual-house thinking harmony."

Xia Feng didn't understand what this meant, so he asked Sister Yi. Sister Yi just gently patted his head and told him not to think too much about it, saying that he just needed to stay by her side.

Xia Feng listened to Sister Yi and nodded seriously before snuggling into her warm embrace and continuing to sleep peacefully.

"Mr. Xia, you seem quite at ease." A cool, indifferent voice quietly sounded in Xia Feng's mind, startling him greatly.

Suddenly, a woman in a black dress sat cross-legged on a wooden chair in front of a desk, the dim light of the desk lamp illuminating her beautiful face.

"No, Miss Mu, could you please not be so frightening when you appear? It's giving me a heart attack!" Xia Feng thought to himself.

Now, a month has passed in the memory world, and Xia Feng has found that his mental strength is gradually returning to normal, his thinking is becoming more agile, and he can control the little Xia Feng's body to move around.

But he didn't do that, and let Xia Feng do things on his own.

Because if he interferes with any of Xia Feng's choices, it will inevitably affect or even severely deviate from the trajectory of the memory world.

That way, he won't be able to recall his lost childhood memories.

Fortunately, time flows randomly and chaotically in the world of memories. One moment it might be flowing at a normal pace, and the next it might be accelerating a million times, flashing by like a revolving lantern to the next day or the next week.
A month has passed in an instant.

"Miss Mu, won't your appearance like this attract Gong Changyi's attention?" Xia Feng noticed that the girl holding him slowly closed her eyes, completely ignoring the woman in the black dress who had suddenly appeared by the desk in front of her.

"Don't worry, she can't see me. You can think of me as—I am now in your memory world in a conceptual form, an intangible thing."

"Intangible things?"

Hearing this, Xia Feng's unease subsided slightly, and he breathed a sigh of relief and chuckled, "Oh ho, so that means you can't do anything to me now?"

He had initially worried that Mu Qingtong would do something bad and bully him when he was a child, but now it seems...
"If I wanted, I could materialize something and interfere with your world of memories," the woman in the black dress said calmly.

"..." Xia Feng's smug smile vanished instantly, and his tone became serious and sincere, "Miss Mu, I wasn't provoking you just now."

"Oh, really?"

"Yes!"

Xia Feng felt this was outrageous. Just how outrageous must Mu Qingtong's mental power be to be able to freely travel and descend into the memory world constructed by the nightmare?
It's important to know that over 70,000 people were pulled into the Nightmare World, which translates to over 70,000 memory worlds. Xia Feng's mental strength has now reached the initial Venerable level, allowing him to quickly control his childhood body within a 'very short time'.

However, to achieve the separation of consciousness from the body and form an adult physical form, one still needs a certain amount of mental strength to possess this ability.

In the nightmare world, mental strength reigns supreme.

According to Mu Qingtong's previous brief introduction, only those whose mental strength reaches the level of a sage are able to travel into adjacent memory worlds and observe the memories of others.

Someone like Mu Qingtong, who can not only travel between worlds at will but also condense physical forms at will, must have incredibly high spiritual power.

Xia Feng wanted to ask Mu Qingtong something else.

But then, his eyelids twitched, and he raised his youthful face, pursing his lips and stammering nervously, "Sister Yi, there's something I want to tell you."

"Hmm?" Gong Changyi blinked and raised her hand to rub his soft cheek. "Want to go out and see the world again? No, according to the rules, you can't leave the manor before you turn 12."

Xia Feng felt like his face was being squeezed and kneaded haphazardly by the girl's cool, soft hands.

The girl seemed to really enjoy playing with his innocent face like this, and only gradually stopped after he cried out in his childish voice, "Sister Yi, stop!"

In the past, Xia Feng wouldn't have cared, but now that Mu Qingtong was watching, he felt inexplicably ashamed.

"Miss Mu, could you turn your head away and not look?" Xia Feng felt uneasy being stared at by that eerie gaze, so he helplessly transmitted his voice.

"Mr. Xia, as my fiancé, you showed no resistance in another woman's arms. This is outrageous," Mu Qingtong said calmly, recounting Xia Feng's crimes.

"?"

Xia Feng was speechless and was about to retort, but then she chuckled and said, "Miss Mu, you're even jealous of a child?"

Mu Qingtong: "."

"Ugh~ Sister Yi, stop for a second, that's not what I wanted to talk about." Xia Feng pushed her away forcefully with her small hands.

Gong Changyi raised an eyebrow. This was the first time Xiao Feng had defied her. She gripped the boy's cheeks even tighter, her slender eyes curving downwards as she spoke softly and gently, "Xiao Feng, you're being naughty. Big sister doesn't like disobedient little brothers~"

Xia Feng keenly sensed the displeasure in Yi Jie's tone and immediately felt a little flustered.

He quickly lowered his struggling hands, looking down uneasily, "Yes, I'm sorry, Master."

Once inside the manor, the servants must address their masters as "masters," establishing a very strict hierarchical relationship.

However, Gong Changyi usually told him to call her Sister Yi, and not to be too formal, just treat her like a friend.

But he knew in his heart that the reason he was able to escape the slums and move into Liuzhuang, living a life of luxury and fine clothes every day, a life he never dared to dream of before, was all because of Gong Changyi.

It was Gong Changyi who reached out and pulled her from darkness into light, giving her everything and the feeling of home she had always dreamed of.

However, he didn't really understand what his feelings for Sister Yi were, but he just didn't want to lose her, and was even more afraid of losing her.

Fear of losing the only 'family member' in this world.

Xia Feng silently watched everything unfold before him. Memories surfaced in his mind, slowly merging with what was happening before him. He could feel the unease and panic he had felt as a child at this moment.

When I was a child, I seemed to be extremely, extremely, extremely attached to Gong Changyi.

(End of this chapter)