Nonsense! How could my adopted son be a villain?

The scene before him was completely unexpected. Xu Lingguang frowned and, suppressing his discomfort, looked at the person on the bed.

He had a feeling of observing himself from a third-person perspective.

The person on the bed was clearly asleep, but not soundly. Underneath the thin eyelids, the eyeballs kept moving restlessly, and the hands and feet would twitch from time to time, as if they were immersed in a nightmare.

Why does Baili Qingyun appear in her dream?

Xu Lingguang glanced at Lan Jian, only to find Lan Jian frowning and staring at the person on the bed, his jaw clenched, his thin lips pressed tightly together, and an emotion that Xu Lingguang couldn't quite make out brewing in his eyes.

But based on Xu Lingguang's current understanding of Lan Jian, he immediately realized that the other party was very angry and was trying his best to suppress his anger.

Perhaps Lan Jian's reaction was too strong, which dampened Xu Lingguang's own emotions. Just as he was about to speak, a commotion came from inside the room.

—The person in bed woke up.

Xu Lingguang could only swallow his words for the time being and turned to look into the room.

The person in bed did indeed wake up and was now sitting up.

However, the other person was sitting in a rather strange posture. His legs were positioned in an odd way, while his upper body was upright without any obstruction. He brought his hands to his eyes and examined them repeatedly, with an extreme joy on his face.

Xu Lingguang frowned more and more as he looked at the person on the bed. He felt that although the person on the bed looked exactly like him, their behavior and demeanor were very different.

Moreover, it was shrouded in a strange feeling that made him feel awkward and uncomfortable.

Just as Xu Lingguang was wondering what was going on, the person on the bed suddenly spoke up: "It's done."

"At least all my efforts weren't in vain."

That tone...?

Why does this sound somewhat familiar?

Xu Lingguang's doubts grew, and just as he was racking his brains for a solution, the person on the bed lifted his clothes and got out of bed barefoot.

His movements and postures were completely different from Xu Lingguang's, possessing a very deliberate and affected elegance.

This elegance further reinforced Xu Lingguang's sense of familiarity.

He frowned, pondering where this sense of familiarity came from. Unexpectedly, a face that wasn't entirely unfamiliar suddenly popped into his mind.

He remembered who this expression resembled.

Like Baili Qingyun.

An unbelievable guess popped into Xu Lingguang's head, leaving him speechless. He turned to look at Lan Jian, whose forehead was bulging with veins, and stammered, "No, no, it can't be what I'm thinking, can it?"

So it turns out that Baili Qingyun wasn't after the owner of Qianjin Tower, but him?

Upon realizing this, Xu Lingguang felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end, and goosebumps rose on his arms.

"No... why did he suddenly target me?"

Xu Lingguang glanced again at the person in the room who shared the same face as him, and felt a chill run down his spine, along with a deep-seated sense of nausea.

So after Baili Qingyun realized she couldn't kill him, she actually wanted to possess his body and take his place?

Overwhelmed by an indescribable sense of absurdity, Xu Lingguang stammered, "No, is he sick?"

Lan Jian's eye twitched, and she finally reacted: "He wants to die."

His voice was unusually low, almost as if each word was squeezed out from between his teeth, making it seem even more unbearable than for Xu Lingguang.

Sui Chun in his arms was also very angry, and she pried hard at Xu Lingguang's arm with her paws: "I'm going to teach him a lesson!"

Fortunately, Xu Lingguang caught him in time, preventing him from actually jumping.

Baili Qingyun has only just entered her dream; she cannot alert the enemy so quickly.

Xu Lingguang took a deep breath, and after repeating "I'm not angry, I'm not angry" several times with a blank expression, he grabbed Lan Jian's hand and shook it, saying, "No rush, let's see what he's up to first."

Lan Jian gritted her teeth, grabbed his hand in return, and responded in a deep voice.

Baili Qingyun was clearly in a very good mood. After getting off the bed, he first summoned a water mirror as tall as himself.

He stood before the water mirror, carefully examining his new body, and was clearly very satisfied.

After examining himself in the water mirror for a while, he finally walked to the wardrobe with satisfaction, ready to choose a robe to change into.

To facilitate movement, Xu Lingguang's robes were mostly simple in style, and although the materials used were of the highest quality, they were not particularly ornate.

Baili Qingyun was clearly not satisfied. She frowned and looked around for a long time before reluctantly choosing the robe that Xu Lingguang had worn when he went to the banquet at Jinyaotang.

After changing his clothes, he went out looking relaxed.

The Star Crossing Tower was quiet and peaceful; the little ones were nowhere to be seen.

Just as Xu Lingguang was thinking how fortunate it was that no cubs had appeared, he saw Baili Qing leave the Duxing Tower and head forward.

The dream was clearly controlled by Baili Qingyun's will.

He left the Star Crossing Tower and went straight to the Green Prince's Mansion.

The people in the Qingwang Mansion were not surprised to see Baili Qingyun in a different body. They simply lowered their heads and knelt in fear to greet him, saying, "Welcome, Qingwang."

Baili Qingyun walked past the kneeling servants and subordinates who were there to greet her, and said coldly, "Go to the dark room."

Someone went to get the key to the dark room and led the way.

While Xu Lingguang was still pondering what Baili Qingyun was planning, he saw a row of metal cages displayed in the dark room.

The metal cage, no more than a cubic meter in size, was neatly arranged on the display stand, and inside were clearly the cubs that Xu Lingguang was glad hadn't appeared in his dream.

Upon seeing the cub curled up in the cage, even though he knew it was all fake, Xu Lingguang couldn't help but feel murderous intent.

He unconsciously clenched his fist, forgetting that he was still holding Lan Jian's hand. Because he clenched his fist so tightly, Lan Jian glanced at him.

Lan Jian's face hadn't looked good since she entered the dream, but seeing Xu Lingguang, who was usually good-tempered, so angry, she suppressed the burning anger in her heart.

He said coldly, "He may have the audacity to think about it, but he needs to be alive to actually do it."

Xu Lingguang gritted his teeth: "I thought his desire to possess me was disgusting enough, but I never expected there to be something even more disgusting."

After he finished speaking, he remembered that there was a little cub in his arms, and in a belated attempt to salvage the situation, he covered Sui Chun's eyes and said, "Don't look."

Sui Chun angrily shoved his hand away: "I'm so angry! He's ugly, but he has such a beautiful dream! After you're done, I'm going to weave him a nightmare! Let's see if he dares to dream like that again!"

The cubs in the cage were so lifelike; they had clearly suffered a lot of torture and could only curl up in a sorry state, licking their wounds.

Xu Lingguang felt a pang in his heart every time he looked at Sui Chun, so he could only cover Sui Chun's eyes and say to Lan Jian, "Shall we go outside and wait for him to come out?"

Lan Jian grunted in agreement, gave Baili Qingyun a dark look as she watched the little ones' "miserable state," and then went out with Xu Lingguang.

Baili Qingyun didn't emerge from the dark room for quite some time.

The two carried Sui Chun and followed. Xu Lingguang stared at his arrogant and unrestrained back and suddenly said, "Do you think you and Master Liuzhu will appear behind us?"

He felt that, given Baili Qingyun's personality, she would most likely...