Don't pretend, everyone knows you're the villain!

The seemingly harmless yet deadly attack was Bai Fengming's silent counterattack.

Ling Yi had long known that Bai Fengming's death wasn't so simple, because he had witnessed everything Bai Fengming had gone through from an omniscient perspective. Some people are destined to be influenced by their environment, no matter how obedient and kind their nature may be.

Having grown up in the underworld, Bai Fengming's kindness and weakness are part of his nature, along with a part of his pretense. Every day he survives is not as easy as he imagines.

Weakness and vulnerability, along with a complete lack of ability, are the most prominent characteristics of victims, but they are also the bargaining chips used to lure perpetrators into a death trap.

Bai Fengming was someone who used his own life as bait. Even as he faced death, he was still acting, pretending to be unknowingly betrayed and to desperately crave his father's love.

However, the video of the adopted son colluding with rival gangs and causing the death of his useless son was sent to Bai Zanghai, the gang leader. For someone like Bai Zanghai, the seed of suspicion was sown, which destined the adopted son to never be given important responsibilities.

In addition, Bai Fengming's series of seemingly useless little plans before his death will be carried out one by one as promised. Each seemingly insignificant thing will eventually be connected and successfully destroy a person's career, sanity, and ultimately, life.

No one would doubt that these things stemmed from revenge by a dead victim.

Nie Shuyi was a little stunned, and occasionally felt that he had never known Bai Fengming.

Just like Bai Fengming's identity, the Divine Bird lineage is a legendary existence.

But no matter what Bai Fengming was like, he accepted it gladly. The other person was the child he brought back by chance, and the person he loved.

Bai Fengming raised her arm and wrapped it around Nie Shuyi's waist. The height difference made her petite body appear even smaller as she nestled in his arms.

The soft, gentle tone brought Nie Shuyi back to his senses.

"Godfather, don't let unimportant people and things affect you. I'm right here in front of you, so think more about me."

Bai Fengming didn't say the second half of his sentence: I won't let others influence us.

Months later, Bai Fengming's indifferent indifference to the female peacock's plea for help ultimately resulted in the death of the male peacock.

Nie Shuyi was more than happy about the death of one of his mortal enemies; he didn't go out and celebrate wildly.

Bai Fengming simply nestled obediently in the other's arms, her nonchalant attitude suggesting she hadn't taken it to heart at all.

Nie Shuyi was enjoying himself with Bai Fengming in his arms. He was content with his life and naturally had no desire to provoke anyone by selling swords.

Seeing that the host was following his own ideas step by step, 0561 kept quiet.

Until one day, when Nie Shuyi brought up the curse, Bai Fengming listened quietly with a calm expression. But afterwards, Bai Fengming stared at 0561 and asked with a light question: "Can I be reborn like a phoenix?"

0561 confidently assured, "The host is indeed a phoenix, without a doubt!"

"That's it."

He smiled as if he was relieved.

Bai Fengming murmured to herself, "Then I hope to love him with a completely new version of myself."

Nie Shuyi was so unguarded with Bai Fengming that he didn't even realize his food had been drugged.

Seeing that Nie Shuyi was unconscious, Bai Fengming moved him into the bed with great difficulty, knelt down on the ground, and devoutly kissed his lips.

"Godfather, I'm going to do something bad."

Peacock's revenge was just a hair's breadth away from being fully realized when Bai Fengming came to disrupt it.

The exquisite beauty that Bai Fengming couldn't hide in her eyes was the result of being immersed in Nie Shuyi's influence for a long time.

At this moment, the allure of her beauty was tinged with a cold light.

Bai Fengming glanced at the group of cubs, his tone casual.

"They haven't even taken human form yet, why are they in such a hurry to die?"

"It's all the fault of the evil dragon! The divine bird has gone astray, and our clan has no choice but to take responsibility!"

Their righteous indignation makes it seem as if they are truly heinous criminals. If that's the case, then they shouldn't have harbored any ill intentions towards the incomplete cultivation method in the first place.

After losing her husband, she would arbitrarily pin the blame on others and seek revenge.

“If no one takes the blame, you won’t survive. So I’ll take the blame.”

“You should blame me. It was my fault for not saving your husband, it has nothing to do with Nie Shuyi.”

Bai Fengming approached step by step, and the female peacock stared at him in a daze.

"Stop what you're doing, or you won't be able to withstand my revenge." When Bai Fengming said the word "revenge," his gaze fell on the group of cubs.

The presence of the children awakens the female peacock's rationality.

The spiritual energy was being transmitted through the scales, but to no avail.

The formation of the final curse is an irreversible result.

The female peacock broke down in tears, crying, "I can't stop, it's too late..."

The scales were obtained by the peacock when it fought with the dragon, and the curse was transferred using the husband's bones as a medium.

The painful ordeal experienced by the male peacock will eventually be repeated in Nie Shuyi.

This is retribution, retribution for Nie Shuyi's opposition to them, and retribution for Bai Fengming's refusal to help those in need.

Bai Fengming realized it too late. He had never been interested in secret curses before, but it was Nie Shuyi who inspired him to realize that the peacock, which was silently hiding, was not right.

"It's no use regretting it now. What will happen to your children?"

The female peacock knelt on the ground under the oppression of the phoenix, and the cubs were limp as if they were under great threat and about to die.

The female peacock kept bowing her head, tears streaming down her face like a burst dam.

"Let them go...please, please let them go."

Bai Fengming's downcast eyes seemed to show pity. "If you die, they won't be able to live either."

"Just let them go, that's enough."

Bai Fengming's Phoenix True Fire is deadly to peacocks. With the peacock's remains used to suppress the cave, whether these cubs can survive is up to fate.

Because even his own survival depended on fate, he couldn't care less about anything else.

Once the effects of the medicine wore off, Nie Shuyi began to suffer. His forced breakthrough without understanding was nothing but self-torture and self-destruction.

Male peacocks simply wait out the time until they die a painful death.

The dragon could not even maintain its human form; its consciousness was in disarray.

When Bai Fengming returned, he saw the ruined territory, with Nie Shuyi's overturned items everywhere.

0561 finally understood what Bai Fengming's previous question was about: a phoenix rising from the ashes...

It turns out that the question was already planned from the very beginning.

Bai Fengming hugged the dragon's body and patted it to comfort it, just as Nie Shuyi usually did.

"Godfather, you are all I have. Don't be afraid, I will save you."

His lips touched the dragon's body. A deep kiss, and his eyes welled with tears; his voice trembled with sobs, like a pitiful plea.

"Nie Shuyi, remember me, still love me, and don't go looking for someone else."

The phoenix's spiritual energy flowed into the dragon's body, absorbing the external things that had been disturbing the dragon's realm into its own body.

The rampaging cursed spiritual energy caused Bai Fengming to cough up blood uncontrollably. His cultivation level was still too low; he had only been in human form for a year? Two years?

It seems that every day I spent with Nie Shuyi felt like a lifetime.

When Nie Shuyi regained consciousness, all she saw was a pool of bright red blood, and the fading sound in her ears was Bai Fengming's lingering farewell.

"Godfather, wait for me, I want to come back to you."

"My good boy?! Fengming...! Ah—!"

The dragon's roar shook the entire area.

The phoenix spiritual energy within the dragon's body helped it stabilize its realm, making a breakthrough inevitable; it was only a matter of time.

Nie Shuyi couldn't care less about his own breakthrough; all he wanted to do was find Bai Fengming.

What happened to him? What happened? Why did it turn out like this?!

However, the search in a short period of time yielded no results.

Unable to suppress the breakthrough boundary, Nie Shuyi was forced to break through first.

0561 never imagined that he would be guarding an egg. In such a hot place, there were hardly any spirit beasts living here.

0561 couldn't make up his mind, so he thought, "Hey, the boss can hatch the egg!"

When Lingyi arrived, she looked at the egg and shook her head. "A new soul is being nurtured inside the egg. When the person wakes up, they won't remember anything that happened before."

"The soul needs nurturing; when the time comes, it will naturally break free of its shell."

"Then... what about the mission?" 0561 was confused; she didn't remember how to calculate it.

Lingyi silently reminded him, "Your mission progress is based on the villain's affection and corruption levels, not the host's."

Lingyi left, and 0561 was quite bored guarding the egg.

Nie Shuyi made a breakthrough, more than a month later.

After the breakthrough, I found that my perception of spiritual energy was much clearer. Nie Shuyi also had phoenix spiritual energy on him, so there was hope for the search.

After searching the nearby spirit beast enclosures without finding any, Nie Shuyi left the place where he had lived for tens of thousands of years.

A true dragon is a being that no one dares to provoke, no matter where it goes.

Nie Shuyi had been to forests, crossed mountains, and even searched through icy and fiery regions.

It has never stopped.

Fortunately, heaven rewards those who persevere, and a year later, the phoenix egg was found near the volcanic fiery region.

"Fengming... I've finally found you."

0561 originally thought he would have to stay a while longer, but the moment Nie Shuyi found Bai Fengming, all the mission progress was completed and he was even unbound.

0561 stared dumbfounded at its host, who was still an egg.

What's happening here?

Even after Lingyi retrieved 0561, 0561 remained bewildered.

"Boss, how did you get untied?"

"Mission accomplished. Before your soul was reborn, you had already prepared a way out. Bai Fengming only wanted Nie Shuyi to wait for him, not for you to wait with him."

"Alright, this mission was originally assigned to you at the last minute. Here's a vacation for you."

Upon hearing there was a holiday, 0561's eyes lit up.

"Zun Du Fake Du?"

Lingyi deliberately said, "It's fake."

0561 pretended not to hear, "Great, I knew it was true."

Nie Shuyi has been guarding the phoenix egg for decades. Every day, Nie Shuyi talks to the phoenix egg a lot and picks fresh fruit for it.

"Fengming, when will you call my name again... Godfather misses you so much."

One hundred years later, the little phoenix hatched, and this time the little guy didn't look any different from the other spirit beasts.

The time required for transformation is no longer an exception.

Looking at the child with the tear mole in human form, Nie Shuyi was filled with mixed emotions, but in the end, he still smiled.

Nie Shuyi patiently taught Bai Fengming everything, little by little, and was incredibly kind to him.

They took exceptionally good care of the person.

From childhood to adolescence, Nie Shuyi treated Bai Fengming with exceptional care and attention.

Until one day, when the little phoenix's spiritual energy became unstable, Nie Shuyi used his own spiritual energy to guide it.

The remaining phoenix spiritual energy within their bodies completed its fusion and convergence.

Bai Fengming had not fully recovered his memories; it was only because of the infusion of phoenix spiritual energy that he developed a desire for the person in front of him.

Nie Shuyi has truly been raising the child all these years, because Bai Fengming remembers nothing, and he has been very patient with him.

But Little Phoenix's teasing left him unable to resist.

The little phoenix kept calling out "godfather," making Nie Shuyi momentarily think that his phoenix cry had been remembered.

In the end, it was Ling Yi who intervened and restored Bai Fengming's memories after meeting Nie Shuyi, letting him forget the tragic memories of his previous life.

After regaining his memory, Bai Fengming kissed Nie Shuyi's lips. "Nie Shuyi, thank you for waiting for me all this time."

Nie Shuyi's actions were no longer restrained; his lover had finally returned.

No matter how much time passes, the love only grows stronger.