Madam General, please run slower.

After Li finished dealing with the matters at the auction house, he also talked with Wei Xianchen about some matters in the pavilion. It was almost midnight when he returned to the general's mansion.

In the entire general's mansion, only the west courtyard was still brightly lit. Various cold dishes were placed on the stone table in the courtyard, and Yu Xun was sitting at the table, drinking wine intermittently.

"General, are you drinking first?" Li chuckled as he looked at the empty wine jug at Yu Xun's feet.

Yu Xun reached out and poured wine for Li, "I'm afraid that when I sober up I'll think your story is made up."

"Then the general needs to drink more." Li was amused by his words and clinked her wine cup with his. Not to mention, her experiences really sounded like made-up stories, absurd and ridiculous.

As the warm wine went down his throat, Li's mood also improved a lot. "I have several stories here. General, which one do you want to hear me start with?"

"Let's start from childhood." Seeing that Li really wanted to talk, Yu Xun became more alert.

"When I was a kid, it's such a distant memory." Li stroked the wine cup in his hand, his tone light, "When I can remember things, I followed an old beggar every day. I was too young at that time and I can't remember many things. I only remember that I was hungry for a long time after the old beggar left.

Later, should I say that I was lucky or unlucky? I awakened my dark spiritual roots when I was five or six years old. According to their judgment, I should be considered a genius. But do you know what a beggar with rare spiritual roots has to face?"

Yu Xun had not expected the story to start like this, and he continued to pour wine for Li, "Endless robbing and killing."

"Smart." Li snapped his fingers, his expression unchanged as if he was telling someone else's story. "I was still young at that time, and I couldn't control my spiritual power at all when I first awakened. The news of my awakening of the dark spiritual root spread out by accident.

Soon I was being targeted. Some people with good tempers would negotiate with me and offer money to buy my spiritual roots, while some people with bad tempers would directly send people to rob them.

I was also a stubborn person at that time. Although I didn't know what the spiritual root in my body was, the more they tried to get it, the less I wanted to give it to them. I managed to survive for a few years by hiding all the way. But then one day, I was tricked."

At this point, Li's emotions finally fluctuated a little. "I am really convinced. Not only did they chase after a child like me, but they also showed no martial ethics. They sent a dwarf beggar to pretend to be my peer, but when they failed to kill me, they directly burned down the dilapidated temple where I lived. Those grown men really had the nerve to bully a child like me."

Li looked at the food Yu Xun handed to him and ate it. "Well, I was pushed too far that time, and my spiritual power went out of control again. Anyway, the scene was pretty tragic."

Yu Xun thought of Li's strange dark spiritual power and understood the fate of those people, but he didn't know that the scene was much more horrible than what he imagined. There were minced meat and body parts everywhere, and the culprit was just a child who was as tall as a person's knee.

"It was also on that day that I met the Shadow Master." Li sighed, gulped down a few glasses of wine, and then continued: "He stopped the out-of-control spiritual power in my body and took me back to the organization. Later, when I was older, I learned that the organization was called the Shadow of Death, also known as the Shadow of Death, and it was a professional killer organization.

I had no idea what I was doing. I only knew that if I won, I would have food to eat, and if I lost, I would die. I started training with a bunch of kids my age. Because of my unique spiritual power, I performed well, and when I was a little older, I was taken to participate in the Ten Thousand Demon Cave. "

"The Den of Ten Thousand Demons?" Yu Xun couldn't help but frown. This name didn't sound like a good thing.

"It's about locking up a group of children and playing a killing game together. At most times, the number of children participating in the game can reach over 10,000, so it's called the Ten Thousand Demon Cave.

They would label us with numbers, and while we were fighting below, a group of dignitaries would be betting on who would be the winner who survived to the end. With no food supplies and having to fight for water every day, can you imagine how bloody that scene would be?"

That's the real cannibalism.

Yu Xun felt physically uncomfortable just thinking about it, and imitated Li and took a few gulps of wine before he could barely suppress the nausea in his throat.

"Only ten of us survived in the end." Li chuckled and poured Yu Xun more wine.

"Those who survived were given names, so I told the general before that my name is "Li" which means "killed", and that's the truth. After the names were given, the few of us who survived were considered to have truly joined the organization. We began to accept missions and travel around the continents. Only six of the ten people were left. Oh, yes, after I left, there were only five left."

"Gone? You successfully left the organization?"

"Yes, I am dead."

"You..." Li's frank tone made Yu Xun's heart ache. He couldn't help but hold Li's hand, but the hand that was tightly holding Li's was shaking uncontrollably.

Li chuckled and turned her wrist to interlock her fingers with his. "The Shadow of Death is called the Shadow of Death. There is no other way to escape except death. In fact, I thought I was dead at that time, but when I regained consciousness, I came here and became Qu Tangli, the foolish ninth princess of your Qianwu Dynasty."

"It must hurt a lot." Yu Xun felt like he was almost unable to breathe, and his heart seemed to be tightly grasped in someone's hand and could not be released.

"It doesn't hurt." Li shook his head. He no longer felt the pain after it had been there for a long time.

Yu Xun held Li's hand tightly and pulled her up. He put his other hand around her waist and pulled her into his arms, muttering, "Liar."

Feeling the slightly trembling body in her arms, Li also allowed Yu Xun to do this almost shackled action. She had already downplayed it enough. She skipped the bloody training process and cruel tasks, but how could she still scare people like this.

Li patted his back comfortingly and said, "It's just a made-up story, General, don't take it seriously."

Yu Xun didn't say anything, and hugged the man tighter. He was not stupid, and this "made-up" sentence was a lie to coax him.

"In fact, if it weren't for the general, I might not even be able to wake up from this body."

Hearing this, Yu Xun finally raised his head from the man's arms and met the smiling eyes. He felt very complicated, "You want to tease me again?"

"I'm telling the truth." Li reached out and pinched Yu Xun's earlobe again, "I was indeed awakened by the general's voice that day when I was unconscious."

"Me?" Yu Xun tried hard to recall his childhood, and did not remember any contact between him and the little princess.

Recalling that scene, Li couldn't help laughing, "The general was moaning in bed at that time."

Yu Xun: “!!”

Yu Xun was stunned for a moment, and after a moment he came to his senses and asked excitedly, "So you came into this body at that time? Then were you the one who got married to me?"

"Sorry, that's not me." This guy really knows how to grasp the key points.

Li took a few steps back and slightly increased the distance between them. It was too hot to hug each other in this weather.

Yu Xun saw Li's retreat as a sign of alienation. Yu Xun reluctantly withdrew his hand. Strictly speaking, the woman in front of him was not his wife, so his excessive behavior was indeed inappropriate.

Yu Xun felt very uncomfortable. Even if it was the "ex-husband" relationship, at least he still had the word "husband". It was better than telling him now that there was no relationship between them.