After deceiving the villain, I was forced to love him.

Amidst the towering flames, Lu Jian's entire fleet was forced to stop.

"That bastard!"

"They're worse than pigs and dogs!"

Some impatient individuals, including Zhou Baihu, disregarded Lu Jian's presence and began to hurl insults.

Despite their insults—calling him heartless, beastly, and like a wild dog—he could only fetch water to put out the fire while carefully defending against sneak attacks.

Then, some people were assigned to guard all the exits to prevent Wang Qingyan from escaping to another place.

But Wang Qingyan had no intention of escaping.

Amidst billowing smoke, flames approached from all directions, gradually forming an inescapable circle, with occasional explosions echoing through the air.

Exhausted and with nowhere to escape, the two could only sit under a huge sycamore tree, feeling the air growing increasingly hot.

"It's useless." Seeing Song Zhao and his own injuries, Baili Ce laughed.

They simply cannot survive unless they turn back.

"Shut up!" Song Zhaohe persisted.

Bai Li Ce suddenly intervened, "..."

Song Zhaohe stubbornly refused to look at her.

Tears welled up in her eyes.

"Didn't you notice that the wound on my back didn't bleed much at all?"

Even the blood she vomited just now wasn't a normal red color.

Song Zhaohe froze, his face even more pale than if he were injured and bleeding.

The next moment, he had to untie the "red ribbon" on his hand and return it to her...

"Don't let your emotions get the better of you," Baili Ce said, pressing down on his hand. While he was still relatively sober, he tied several knots in the "red ribbon" on his wrist, following the method taught by the shaman from the grasslands.

Wang Qingyan would not kill her easily, but once he made a decision, he never looked back.

"I initially let the Ancestral Gu leave because I was frustrated, but later it was because I was truly unworthy."

“Now it’s even more…” He used his fractured and deformed right hand to pull Song Zhaohe closer, “It’s not appropriate now.”

At a distance where they were almost about to kiss, Song Zhaohe saw the gray spot under her eye gradually widening.

As the "gray spot" expanded, Baili Ce's pain gradually disappeared. "You...see, I...don't...feel much pain at all."

Everything froze at that moment, yet Song Zhaohe could still hear her speak in a slow but extremely gentle voice—

"Song Zhaohe, you know that I would rather die in agony than live numbly."

She didn't want either Chao Sheng or Wang Qingyan.

Therefore, after killing Wang Qingyan, please kill her with your own hands.

"Okay," Song Zhaohe stopped insisting on returning the "red ribbon" to her, but also interrupted her next sentence.

He picked up his sword again and met Wang Qingyan, who was walking out of the firelight.

"You two are really in high spirits."

"Song...no...your mission...is...complete!"

"No, there's one more."

"I'll fight for your freedom."

"Clang!" Sparks and cold light collided, blood and killing intent flew everywhere.

Without the humiliation of rejection, nor the slightest resentment towards Baili Ce's impending transformation into a Gu poison, Song Zhaohe was knocked down time and time again, yet rose again and again...

From being unable to last ten moves against Wang Qingyan to eventually fighting to a standstill, he never gave up and never gave Baili Ce another glance.

Despite the vast difference in strength, he was still beaten so badly that he could no longer stand up.

"Bang, bang..." The explosions continued, but Lu Jian did not appear. Instead, screams of agony rose and fell.

Watching Song Zhaohe's tendons and ligaments being severed, and seeing all the joys and sorrows of being human gradually slip away from him, Baili Ce, who could no longer control himself, shed tears of blood.

"What did you do?"

He controlled Baili Ce to walk towards him, "Lime, tree lacquer, what do you think will happen?"

Lime generates heat when it comes into contact with water, and its destructive power is even greater than that of a raging fire.

When paint is heated to a high temperature and then suddenly cooled, it can form a hard shell on the surface of an object. If it cracks and splatters, it can easily burn off a piece of skin.

Lu Jian?

Even if he were alive, he would be Lu Jian, his body charred and covered in rotten flesh, living in pain for eternity.

As for you—

He grabbed Baili Ce and lifted him up!

"From now on, I will let you know what it means to be completely at my mercy."

"You...dad!" A flash of cold blade, and his left hand was also broken off.

"Swoosh!" Unexpectedly, a branch pierced Wang Qingyan's left eye, and when he stirred it, the eyeball came out.

"Ah..." Wang Qingyan twitched in pain and reflexively slapped Baili Ce away.

"Bang!" The latter crashed into a thick tree, then slowly got up, watching him scream in pain before approaching with a sly smile.

"Hehehe... I really underestimated you, Madam." In the depths of malice and chill, Wang Qingyan, his face covered in blood, thrust his sword forward.

"..." but she grabbed him.

He used his fractured and deformed right hand.

Wang Qingyan's face finally showed disbelief.

Bai Li Ce's smile froze. "It really is... thank you..."

Thank you for giving me a body like this.

"You..." Wang Qingyan tried to control it, refusing to believe it.

But they discovered that they couldn't control the Gu in her body at all!

impossible!

I watched her eat her meals every day!

"Crack!" Although he couldn't feel any pain, Baili Ce still felt a great sense of satisfaction when he saw Wang Qingyan's sword break into several pieces in his own hand.

How could he possibly lose?!

With a swift reach, if it can't have it, it will destroy it with its own hands!

"Thud..." In his eyes, Baili Ce's movements, though seemingly very slow, once again shocked him.

Grabbing Wang Qingyan's hand, she broke his fingers one by one, relishing his expression of excruciating pain. Suddenly, Baili Ce felt a pang of regret; she shouldn't have ingested those poisons, now she couldn't even feel how much suffering Wang Qingyan was in...

When the pain became unbearable and he knelt on the ground, Wang Qingyan realized that he had no more life force left in his body.

The sword wounds that Wuming and Song Zhaohe left behind, which he thought were harmless, including those old wounds, also began to crack open little by little, growing larger and larger.

Of course, the main factor was the little "thing" that the Heavenly Dao left in his body.

It was truly worth all those days and nights she waited; she had finally found his greatest support—

Its life force has been completely devoured.

"..." Bai Lize manually pulled up the corners of his mouth, making a super happy expression.

"Crack!" A foot was stomped on his leg bone. It was Baili Ce's first time using Gu, so he didn't know how strong the kick was. Anyway, he just wanted to grind it down hard.

There was another one, "Click..."

"Hahaha..." But Wang Qingyan laughed even more as the pain intensified.

"See, even you have a day when you hate me like this~"

Bai Li Ce tilted his head: ?

Seeing his babbling, I knew it wasn't anything nice, so I simply twisted his hand back inch by inch, "crack, crack, crack..."

Reflecting her utterly cruel yet oblivious appearance in his eyes, Wang Qingyan felt a deep joy, even the pain in his left eye's bloody hole subsided.

He thought for a long time, but still didn't know how to get revenge on Baili Ce so that she would never forget him for all eternity.

It wasn't until Lu Jian and his group spread a false rumor, claiming that the imperial court had captured a Gu King who had broken free from Chao Sheng's control, that he suddenly understood.

Since she doesn't care about the power of the morning, and is too lazy to give him even a little bit of hate or love, why not let her become another version of herself?

Like a life without destiny, from being spirited and envied by all, to becoming a walking corpse and hated by everyone, how wonderful it would be to suddenly wake up one day!

"Baili Ce, I will not die."

"I will live in your shadow forever, and even if you become a puppet, you will not be able to escape it."