It's not too much to say that a beauty is a little bit stronger

Xiao Huai stopped in front of Xuan Ji and looked down at her.

The moonlight shone through the broken window of the room and fell on him, making his figure look long and cold.

The red eyes glowed faintly in the shadows, like amber under the moon.

He stretched out his hand, his fingertips sliding through the air, and a black aura quietly spread, wandering around Xuan Ji.

"Tell me, what exactly happened between you and King Zhou?"

His voice was deep and contained some irresistible power, and every word he said touched people's hearts.

Xuan Ji looked up at him, tears sliding down her cheeks and falling on her bloodstained dress.

Xiao Huai's figure was facing the faint moonlight, half bright and half dark.

He looked like a god who came to bring her salvation; he also looked like a judge from the abyss, who knew the deepest secrets in her heart.

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Before entering the palace, she was just an ordinary girl. Although her family had some status, it was not enough to be envied.

Xuan Ji was born in an unremarkable manner, with dark yellow skin, slightly drooping eyes, and crooked teeth showing when she smiled.

Her ugliness made many people point fingers at her.

But she always has a longing for the world, especially a desire for love.

Her love story began with an unexpected encounter.

That year, the King of Zhou, who had not yet become king, passed by a village near her home and rescued a child who had fallen into the water.

The child was Xuan Ji's younger brother, and Xuan Ji stood aside in amazement at the heroic appearance of King Zhou.

From that moment on, her heart fell.

His every move was etched in her mind, becoming a dream she could not let go of.

From then on, Xuan Ji set her sights on the royal capital, hoping to one day be close to the man who saved her brother.

She was naive and didn't know that King Zhou's heart had already belonged to someone else - Concubine Yu, a woman who was completely opposite to her.

Concubine Yu is a woman of both beauty and talent. She is as cold as the moon, taciturn by nature, and rarely smiles.

However, King Zhou was captivated by her every smile and frown. In order to make her smile, he spared no effort and even played the piano and painted himself, just to get a slight curve on her lips.

The good times did not last long. Concubine Yu was weak and passed away soon.

King Zhou's world collapsed in an instant.

He became moody, spent his days drinking to drown his sorrows, and lived like a walking corpse.

Xuan Ji watched his depression from a distance and felt extremely heartbroken. She wanted to do something, but was powerless.

One day, when Xuan Ji was passing by Gechun Tower, a figure blocked her way.

The person who came was Jiang Fu.

"I can help you realize the dream you want." Jiang Fu's voice was low and full of temptation, "As long as you are willing."

Xuan Ji was stunned. She didn't understand what he said.

But the next day, when she woke up, the girl in the mirror was no longer the ugly girl, but a woman who looked almost exactly like Yu Fei.

She was ecstatic and came to the palace with full of hope, expecting to be favored by King Zhou.

However, what greeted her was not warmth, but cold murderous intent.

From the first moment King Zhou saw her, his eyes were filled with anger and rejection.

"Get out!" he growled, his clenched fists almost about to hit down.

Xuan Ji was trembling with fear, having no idea what was going on.

Just when King Zhou was about to attack her, Jiang Fu appeared.

He said calmly, "My king, she is the best choice. Only if you truly love her can your wish come true."

This sentence calmed the King of Zhou down, and from then on, his attitude became completely different.

He began to deliberately please Xuan Ji, and even went so far as to stage a farce of lighting beacons to trick the princes in order to please her.

Despite this, Xuan Ji knew clearly that King Zhou had no love for her at all.

All his behaviors were perfunctory and helpless, and the joy in her heart was gradually eroded by the false reality.

She gradually discovered that her body began to behave strangely.

The appetite becomes uncontrollable, especially the unspeakable desire for human blood and corpses.

She tried to ask the princes for help, but everyone who agreed to her request would die mysteriously the next day or become a black-eyed soldier loyal to King Zhou.

She finally understood that all her actions were under the surveillance of King Zhou and Jiang Fu.

Her requests and struggles were merely tools they used to test the loyalty of the princes.

Xuan Ji's heart was completely dead.

She began to resent King Zhou and wanted to end it all with her own hands.

But her body was restrained by some force. Whenever she tried to hurt King Zhou, her hands would tremble so much that she couldn't hold the weapon, and sometimes she couldn't even get close to him.

She looked up at the sky with a heartbreakingly sad smile.

It turns out to be false love.

The most heartbreaking.

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After seeing all this, Xiao Huai withdrew his hand.

At this moment, a deep voice sounded from behind him:

"What do you see?"

The moment Xiao Huai turned around, Jiang Fu's figure was very close. The four pupils in his heterochromatic eyes were shining with a deep light, as if they wanted to swallow him whole.

The cold breath almost froze the air.

Xiao Huai took a step back, secretly gathering strength in his fingertips, but at this moment, Jiang Fu suddenly reached out and grabbed his wrist.

"I knew you were different, Qinglan Hou."

Jiang Fu's mouth curled up in a strange arc, and his voice was low but aggressive, "You come too, and witness the birth of a miracle with me."

Xiao Huai struggled hard, trying to shake off Jiang Fu's hand, but that hand was like an iron hoop, tightly clamping his wrist with such force that his bones even ached.

The coldness in Jiang Fu's palm penetrated his skin and penetrated into his bones, like a poisonous snake slowly climbing up his nerves.

"Let go." Xiao Huai's eyes were as cold as a blade, but Jiang Fu seemed not to notice at all, and just increased the strength in his hands.

Xiao Huai's wrist gradually turned red, and bruises were faintly visible.

But at that moment, Xiao Huai didn't pay attention to the pain in his wrist, because he seemed to see something through Jiang Fu's four strange pupils...

That is a huge tree.

The outline is blurred, and countless twisted branches are wrapped around the trunk, as if wriggling with life.

The roots of the tree go deep into the earth and penetrate the entire world.

Xiao Huai had seen this tree before.

tree of Life.

Xiao Huai took a deep breath and looked directly at Jiang Fu: "Who the hell are you?"

Jiang Fu loosened his hand and laughed softly. The laughter seemed to come from the abyss, with a terrifying echo.

"Me?" He uttered the word softly, his four pupils contracted slightly, and an expression mixed with fanaticism and contempt appeared on his face.

"I am a being that you cannot stop."

A cold wind suddenly blew up, bringing with it a chilling atmosphere. The ground was covered with dense snake shadows without anyone noticing.

The snakes rushed towards Xiao Huai like a black tide. Suddenly, a snake leaped up, opened its sharp white fangs, and bit his leg fiercely.

The fangs dug deep into his skin, as if sucking his blood away bit by bit.