The cheat system is useless, but I have the strongest living dad.

Shen Yao slept soundly and peacefully until the afternoon of the next day, when she was awakened by the excruciating pain of her partner's seal tearing at her flesh.

She hissed as she opened her eyes—it hurt so much! She touched the contract mark; it was hot, so Feng Yu must be cutting flesh to treat her.

She felt heartbroken. The pain she felt from the seal was less than a tenth of what the other person was experiencing. How much pain her husband must be in right now!

Shen Yao really wanted to go and be with Feng Yu, but Feng Yu definitely wouldn't want her to see her cutting out flesh.

After a quarter of an hour, the pain at the seal disappeared. She sat up and prepared to get out of bed, only to find that her legs were tied together. To her astonishment, she saw that not only her legs, but also both of her wrists were bound with spirit ropes.

Two spirit ropes were wrapped around Tu Xiaoxiao's hands. Tu Xiaoxiao stood at the foot of the bed, tilted her head and smiled: "Sister Shen, did you sleep well?"

The smiling fox is terrifying. Shen Yao shrank back, asking, "Tu Xiaoxiao, what are you going to do?"

Tu Xiaoxiao pulled her back with the spirit rope, her fox eyes narrowing with a smile: "Nothing much, just a few questions I'd like to ask Sister Shen for clarification."

Shen Yao complained, "Just ask me a question, why are you tying me up like this?"

Tu Xiaoxiao leaned down, her smile undiminished, but it was anything but friendly: "I always feel that if I tie you up, you're more likely to tell the truth."

The fairy was speechless. Could it be that he couldn't get a title and went crazy on a whim?

"Ask away, I promise I won't lie." Shen Yao made the promise readily, but her tone was quite displeased.

Tu Xiaoxiao straightened up, looking down at him. Suddenly, the aura of the Demon Ancestor erupted. His smile vanished, and he asked his first question: "Who is Wang Xu?"

Shen Yao felt somewhat uncomfortable under his imposing aura, but she was very surprised when she heard the question: "Wang Xu? How do you know Wang Xu?"

Tu Xiaoxiao's tone was cold: "Who is he?"

Shen Yao tilted her head to the right, her eyebrows furrowed: "Jiang Ming's lackey."

There are no dogs in the world of cultivation, so Tu Xiaoxiao didn't understand: "What do you mean by 'walking the path'?"

Shen Yao: "He is Jiang Ming's confidant."

Tu Xiaoxiao had heard of Jiang Ming, the youngest son of Jiang Ye, the sect leader of the Immortal Clan's True God Sect, and the current head of the Wind God Hall.

It turns out that it was Jiang Ming who wanted to kidnap Shen Yao.

Tu Xiaoxiao: "Why did Jiang Ming arrest you?"

Upon hearing this, Shen Yao's slumped back straightened instantly: "He's chased us all the way to Longyuan City?!"

Tu Xiaoxiao only raised her eyebrows and didn't say anything.

"Damn it!" Shen Yao rarely swore, "I thought he had given up."

Tu Xiaoxiao's breath hitched for a moment. Her expression wasn't one of fear of being hunted down; this resignation was quite interesting.

Moreover, she had just been somewhat overwhelmed by her own aura, but the mere mention of Jiang Ming dispelled even the Demon Ancestor's oppressive presence.

No wonder Jiang Ming wanted to kill him even though they had no grudge against each other.

The male cultivators of the Immortal Clan are so petty; Tu Xiaoxiao looks down on all male cultivators of the Immortal Clan equally.

He softened his imposing manner, narrowed his eyes, and leaned closer: "You've got quite a few emotional debts, haven't you?"

"Pah! Pah! What bad luck!" Shen Yao said with disgust. "I have a grudge against him."

Tu Xiaoxiao pushed Shen Yao back, squeezed onto the bed and sat cross-legged, resting her elbows on her lap and propping her chin up as she ate melon seeds: "What grudge do you have? Tell me in detail."

Shen Yao didn't want to talk about it at all, and replied impatiently, "A blood feud."

Tu Xiaoxiao: "He wants to kill you?"

Shen Yao choked, and Jiang Ming's face clearly appeared in her mind. She shook her head to shake the image away and glanced at Tu Xiaoxiao: "No, not at all."

"Oh." Tu Xiaoxiao seemed to understand. "A blood feud, but he won't kill you, yet you want to kill him?"

Shen Yao remained silent for a while, her mind filled with countless thoughts. She recalled the Spirit Herb Sect, the tragic state of her master after his spiritual roots were extracted, the way Jiang Ming begged for her forgiveness, and the deep bond between Shi Bao and Jiang Ming, father and son...

She glanced at Tu Xiaoxiao's fox ears, faced her inner thoughts for the first time, hugged her knees and looked out the window with a melancholy expression: "Little white fox, I'm going to tell you the truth, but you can't tell anyone else."

Tu Xiaoxiao hummed in agreement.

Shen Yao took a deep breath and sighed softly, as if she had made a great decision: "Actually, I don't really want to kill him anymore, but he killed my clansmen and caused the death of my master, so I have to kill him."

Tu Xiaoxiao asked in confusion, "Aren't you a rogue cultivator?"

Shen Yao: "I went to the Spirit Herb Sect by accident and found a master there. But after only a few days, the sect was destroyed. My master took me and fled, hiding in the deep mountains and raising me with great care for half a year..."

She recalled the scene of her master transferring his spiritual root to her, her brows furrowing. After a long silence, she lightly concluded, "After my master died, I became a rogue cultivator."

Tu Xiaoxiao seemed to understand why Aunt Qin said she lived in hatred and forced herself to hate.

But the fact that she carries the burden of a blood feud yet doesn't want to kill Jiang Ming can only mean…

"you like him?"

Tu Xiaoxiao's question startled Shen Yao.

She thought of the scene in the secret room where Jiang Ming knew that the Qi Ling seal was with her, but said he couldn't bear to touch her. Her heart tightened, and she squeezed out a sentence through gritted teeth, "It's shameful that I had feelings for you."

She thought for a moment and then said, "But perhaps it wasn't love at all, just a moment of infatuation when I was blinded by emotion."

She suddenly pounded her head a few times: "Pah, pah, pah, what I just said doesn't count! It was all nonsense, just pretend I didn't say it."

"I only love Feng Yu, and I will only ever love him. No one can compare to him. He is the only immortal lord I have ever wanted to spend my whole life with."

Tu Xiaoxiao's fox ears were already drooping: "You really treat me like a pet."

"No, no." The fairy waved her hand, forcing an awkward smile: "How could that be? You are the dignified Demon Ancestor, Young Master Tu, please tone down your aura, I'm having some trouble breathing."

Tu Xiaoxiao withdrew her imposing aura and prepared to untie the ropes binding her legs, but suddenly remembered something, stopped her hand gestures, and asked her, "Is your father an Immortal Emperor?"

Shen Yao was slightly surprised: "You knew that?"

She thought to herself, 'My father is more than just an Immortal Emperor; he's a god, an avatar of a god! But I won't tell you, or it will scare you to death.'

Unfortunately, due to the limitations of his clone, her father only possessed the strength of a peak-stage Immortal Venerable. Now, because he helped her rebuild her spiritual root, he only has the strength of a high-grade Immortal Saint.

She didn't care about her private affair with Master Jiang of the True God Sect, but now that the Immortal Emperor had come to the demon race and was staying at the Tu family's residence, Tu Xiaoxiao was determined to find out the truth: "Your father is the Immortal Emperor, so why did your master hide you in the deep mountains for half a year? No matter how you look at it, your father should have come to save you early on and avenged you in the process."

“My father became an Immortal Emperor later.” Shen Yao had no choice but to lie again: “My father had been in seclusion for many years. After he came out, many years had passed. Later, in the secret realm, my father rose all the way to the rank of Immortal Emperor.”

Tu Xiaoxiao still couldn't understand it: "Then why didn't your father kill Jiang Ming to avenge you?"

Shen Yao experienced once again how tiring it is to lie! Once you tell a lie, you have to keep covering it up and come up with more lies to cover it up.

She sighed helplessly and wearily covered up the lie: "If you cultivate to the level of Immortal Emperor, you have a chance to become a god. My father cultivates the Path of Ruthlessness, so he can't get too involved in karma, and he can't get involved in his children's karma either."

After finishing the story, he secretly praised himself: 'My compulsory education wasn't a waste, and neither were the melodramatic novels I read; I'm really good at making things up!'