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“Though the rest of your life will be under my control, if you calm down and think about it, wouldn’t your future have been a miserable failure even without my appearance?”
“Perhaps by submitting to me as your master today, your previously dark life might see light again?”
Yino spoke meaningfully, reflecting on Liuli’s tragic death filled with hatred in the game.
Liuli didn’t understand what he was trying to express.
But at least she could vaguely sense that the tragic life Yino described truly existed.
In the world’s eyes, Liuli was the fearsome Evil Sect’s Holy Maiden, a rising star in the Full Moon Sect in recent years. Not only was she beloved by the Mother Goddess, but she also possessed half the bloodline of the ancient tree spirit. With proper cultivation, her future in the Full Moon Sect seemed limitless.
In people’s eyes, Liuli was free, able to do as she pleased in the Western Region. Within the Full Moon Sect’s territory, whoever she wanted dead would die.
But…
Did Liuli’s heart truly feel free?
A hundred years ago, she had broken the Azure Forest’s taboo out of kindness, saving several lost righteous cultivators in the forest…
Though Liuli was the elder sister, she had been more foolish than her younger sister.
Later, those righteous cultivators brought word of the Azure Forest back to the Great Dragon Dynasty.
Then, when humans invaded the Azure Forest, Liuli, as the one who brought about this catastrophe, not only avoided taking any responsibility but abandoned her sister and fled the Azure Forest alone.
In the end…
It was her younger sister Lily who bore all the karmic consequences.
Liuli had never known freedom.
She had always carried a mission of revenge, struggling in the Western Region all these years just so she could one day rescue her sister from the Azure Forest and take revenge on those ugly righteous cultivators.
But as her cultivation increased and she became Holy Maiden, her broadened perspective gradually made Liuli realize the absolute dominance of the righteous immortal sects. Later… Liuli gradually gave up her unrealistic belief in saving her sister.
She turned all her hope toward revenge instead.
She wanted to corrupt her sister so she would no longer suffer daily pain, then make all those righteous cultivators pay the price.
But…
Just as Yino said, even if Liuli’s plan succeeded and she killed countless righteous cultivators, wouldn’t her life still be a miserable failure without her sister? The mighty Full Moon Sect’s Holy Maiden, unable to save her only sister, and even having to corrupt and kill her own sister with her own hands. Liuli had already fallen this low.
Now that even her corruption plan had failed, defeated by Yino, what difference did it make if he took away her last bit of freedom for the rest of her life?
“So you want me to fall into complete despair, then submit to you like a defeated stray dog, letting you toy with me as you please…”
As her thoughts calmed, the hatred faded from Liuli’s eyes, but her contemptuous, mocking tone showed no intention of being polite to Yino.
Yino was right – her life was in ruins.
But that didn’t mean a stray dog wouldn’t bite!
After all, Liuli had nothing left to lose. She didn’t mind taking someone down with her before she died!
“Yino, you may corrupt my body, but you’ll never corrupt my heart–!”
“Even if you control my body today, for the rest of my life, as long as you dare turn your back to me, as long as I have even a shred of consciousness left, I’ll never miss any chance to stab you!”
The more Liuli spoke, the more twisted her expression became, her upturned rouge lips revealing sickness and madness. She said these things to make Yino live in constant fear of being killed by her for the rest of his life.
But just as Liuli’s smile reached its most deranged, her upturned gaze happened to meet the tree girl’s eyes in mid-air-
“?__?!”
For some reason, Liuli’s heart trembled, and even her deranged smile gradually faded.
But Liuli knew that Lily was imprisoned in the barrier, unable to see or hear anything.
Yes, Lily shouldn’t be able to see Liuli in such a wretched, manically laughing state.
Yes… That’s how it should be.
But why couldn’t Liuli let herself laugh freely anymore when looking at her sister’s face?
Looking at her sister’s face, she couldn’t speak those words full of hatred and killing intent, couldn’t show such a sick and deranged smile in front of her sister…
“Why aren’t you cursing me anymore?”
At some point, Yino, who had been silent throughout, began to smile too.
He gently lifted Liuli’s dazed face while releasing her, allowing her to stand straight instead of being pressed awkwardly against the barrier.
But having been bent over for so long, Liuli’s legs were numb and unsteady when she tried to straighten up. At the crucial moment, Yino thoughtfully supported her waist from behind, letting Liuli lean her weight against him.
Moreover…
Liuli noticed that this time Yino’s supporting hands were more proper, no longer embarrassing her by stroking her lower abdomen to catalyze the pattern, but carefully supporting her from an angle the treegirl in mid-air couldn’t see.
Yino was trying his best not to let Liuli’s sister see her in such a wretched state.
But Liuli didn’t understand what was happening.
Her sister supposedly couldn’t see anything, hear anything, or feel anything…
But why had both Liuli and Yino become more restrained, like a quarreling couple pretending everything was fine and harmonious in front of their awakening child?
“Lily…?”
At some point, Liuli blinked.
For a moment, while meeting the tree girl’s gaze, she seemed to sense changes in the other’s pupils. Liuli rubbed her eyes, but found that in that brief moment of inattention, the tree girl’s lips had curved into a gentle smile.
“Sister…”
The girl uncertainly tested her voice, unsure if the sister before her was real. Having gone so long without speaking to anyone, her voice was hoarse and stuttering with nervousness.
“Sister…”
“Please don’t be mean to Brother Yino…”
“The little deer says… though Brother Yino can be mean-hearted, he’s her number one best friend in the whole world…”
“Sister… though Brother Yino is a righteous cultivator, he’s not bad…”
“Sister, could you… spare him, and not kill anymore…”